1. Validity. The present general sale and supply terms and conditions (“General Terms”) shall apply to and be incorporated into any sales and supply agreement between BARKA S.r.l. (hereinafter, “BARKA”) and the Client (hereinafter “the Client”). The application of any different term and condition whatsoever, even if applied by the Client pursuant to reference made to its own purchasing or contractual provisions, is expressly excluded. Any modification to the General Terms herein, shall be endorsed by BAKA in writing, which will have the right to establish specific different conditions in each offer, and such specific condition will prevail over the present General Terms.
2. Offers, orders and completion of the contract. BARKA’s offers are not binding nor mandatory. The orders shall be valid only if issued in writing and sent to BARKA, also by telefax or by e-mail, to the addresses communicated by BARKA itself. The contract will be settled when BARKA will receive client’s order. After the order has been received, the order cannot be cancelled by the client, without BARKA’s written acknowledgement. BARKA reserves the right to reject the order by written communication to the Client sent within 5 days from order’s receipt.
3. Characteristics of the Products – Modifications. Any information or data relating to features and/or specifications of the Products contained in depliants, price lists, catalogues and similar documents, including BARKA’s website, are indicative and not binding for BARKA; the Client will observe the instructions for the use of the Products contained in the BARKA’s catalogues and/or website, which are binding for the Client.
4. Prices and payments. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, price has to be considered in Euros, for each unit of Product, net from VAT and net from packaging, custom, freight and transportation costs. Prices of the Products are indicated in the official price lists of BARKA, as updated from time to time. Contextually or afterwards the price list transmission, the Client may receive special selling conditions related to discounts, conditions and terms of payment and of goods returning, also contained in the order confirmation. Unless otherwise agreed, payment of Products must be done by cash at the time of delivery. Terms of payment are mandatory and therefore BARKA will not grant any discounts, reductions or rounded figures other than those indicated in the special selling conditions granted to the Client. Payment shall be due in total as agreed, even in case of delay in delivery or in case of damage or loss, partial or total, during the transportation, not depending by BARKA.
5. Delivery and transport. Except for otherwise indicated, the products are sold Ex Works BARKA’s factory. All costs related to the transportation of the products are born by the Client. Upon delivery to the Client, shipper, carrier or to whoever is in charge of the transportation and, in any case, when the Products leave BARKA’s factory, the liability of whole or partial loss of the Products is transferred to the Client. If the Client will not comply with any of the terms and conditions of the supply or sale, even in part, or if it changes its name and/or its ownership, or in case the Client delays payments, even towards other creditors, BARKA shall have the right to stop any delivery and to change the payment terms. The packaging of the Products has to be intended as standard packaging. Extra or special packing must be required in advance by the Client and has to be confirmed by BARKA in writing and could determine an additional price.
6. Warranty. BARKA gives a generic warranty for manufacturing fault of its products, for 12 months from the invoice date. The warranty consists on and is limited to the repairing or substitution of the defective component or of the single defective part, provided, however, that they prevent the correct Product functioning and provided also that they exist since the origin. The warranty does not cover and is not extended to defects or damages caused by the transport or caused by negligence in the use or by product direct or indirect manumission or caused by repairing, single components substitution, upkeeps made by non BARKA authorized subjects, or due to technical inexperience, or by way of any circumstances independent from BARKA will. The Client, pain the forfeiture of the guarantee, has to notify to BARKA the defectiveness or the defects eventually found, within 8 days from their appearance, and however not beyond 12 months from the invoice date. The Client has to verify the goods correspond to the law enforced in the goods destination country and it has to inform BARKA, in good time and however before the goods shipment, of the eventual changes to be brought. In this case, BARKA could reject the order or charge the heavier expense to the Client. Any damage to the Products or other personal or property’s damage due to any Client’s failure to comply with any BARKA’s use instructions will be exclusively born by the Client.
7. Goods Return. Except for specific cases accepted in writing, BARKA does not accept any goods return. Before any return procedure, the Client has to make a written claim and the good return has to be previously authorized in writing by BARKA. Cost and expenses of the return are born by the Client and the goods are carriage paid to BARKA’s factory. BARKA reserves the right to inspect the returned goods to verify the warranty applicability and, in case of verification of a fault due to BARKA, it will provide to substitute the defective products, or to issue a credit note, only if the warranty is still valid. On the contrary, the goods will be sent back to the Client with transport charges to be paid by the Client itself.
8. Claims and complains. The Client shall inspect the delivered products and notify BARKA, in writing, of any defects found or that may be found upon a preliminary inspection, or any other claim related to the products. If the Client fails to make such notification within 8 (eight) days from the delivery, the products will be deemed as finally accepted and in compliance with what set forth in the contract, provided, however, that the Client can report any not evident defect within 12 (twelve) months from the invoice date; in any case the notification of the defects must be communicated to BARKA no later than 8 (eight) days from the discovery thereof, and the Client sole and only remedy will be limited to the warranty provision as set forth above. It is understood that possible objections concerning part of the goods delivered or a single shipment of the same shall have no effect on the rest of the order nor on the payment of the goods already received and not promptly challenged.
9. BARKA’s Intellectual Property. The Client expressly recognizes that trademarks, commercial names or other distinctive marks on the goods are in the exclusive property of the BARKA and will not be altered, changed, removed or cancelled in any manner. The Client has the limited right to use trademarks, commercial names or other distinctive marks, as well as other industrial exclusive right or Know how (productive or commercial) associated with the goods - which nonetheless remain in the exclusive property of BARKA - to the limited purpose of the resale of the goods to the final consumer. Any other utilization of the BARKA Intellectual Property by the Client, if not expressly granted by BARKA in writing, will be considered an infringement of the exclusive rights of BARKA, and a breach of contract, and will be therefore prosecuted.
10. BARKA’s Industrial Property. The documents, drawings, data and information (both in written papers and on electronic support) which should be delivered to the Client, remain exclusive property of BARKA and constitute a support for a better representation of the product and are significant of the general performances of the product itself. The Client engages itself not to reproduce them, neither to disclose them to a third party, and he engages himself to undertake the proper precaution towards staff in order to grant the above protection.
11. Sales with property reserve. BARKA reserves the ownership of the products, paid by installments or deferred and the ownership will be transferred to Client only on completion of the entire payment, ex Section 1523 of the Italian Civil Code, provided however that all the risks connected to the products are transferred to the Client at the delivery date.
12. Governing Law – Jurisdiction. The sales contract shall be governed and construed in compliance with Italian law. The Court of Milano, Italy - shall have the exclusive jurisdiction in any dispute arising from or in connection with the sale or supply relationship, its agreement, performance or breach whatsoever.
13. Information on handling of personal data. Pursuant to article 13 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196 of 2003, BARKA informs that it will handle the personal data of Clients, suppliers, collaborators and persons who have voluntarily provided their personal data, directly or indirectly, by phone fax or e-mail. BARKA guarantees that the processing of personal data will be carried out in compliance with the fundamental rights and freedom, as well as the dignity of the interested part, with specific attention to privacy, personal identity and the right to personal data protection.

All details communicated by the interested parties are utilized exclusively to fulfill activities related to BARKA’s business, such as the supply of products and services necessary, in particular:

• to register personal data and database processing of the company;
• to issue shipping papers, invoices and credit notes;
• to issue estimates and offers to present and/or future Clients;
• to request offers from present and/or future suppliers;
• for the management of ordinary accounting and VAT;
• to manage proceeds and payments;
• to process technical or commercial information regarding Client satisfaction on the quality of the services and products supplied, to improve Client orientation and necessities;
• to exchange information concerning trading, administrative, commercial activity of the company by phone, mail, courier, telefax, e-mail and via reserved areas of the BARKA’s web-site;
• to comply with the obligations set forth by law, regulations, Community law and civil and tax rules.

Personal data voluntarily provided to BARKA by Clients, suppliers, collaborators will be kept confidential. Upon necessity, personal data of the interested parts may be communicated to:

• all subjects legally authorized to possess access to such data;
• BARKA’s collaborators, within their duties and/or contractual obligations with same, related to the commercial relationship with the interested parts;
• post offices, shippers and couriers for the delivery of documents and/or goods;
• any persons and/or private or public entity (law, consultancy and tax firms, firms for the calculation and issuance of pay packets, juridical courts, chambers of commerce, labor exchanges or offices, etc.), whenever the communication is deemed necessary or useful to carry out BARKA’s business in the manner more suitable for the above mentioned scope;
• banks for the management of the proceeds and the payments deriving from the drawing up of the agreements. In such cases only the essential personal data will be disclosed, in compliance with the purposes they are communicated for.  The communication of personal data by whoever intends to start up a commercial relationship with BARKA, even though limited only to requesting information on BARKA’s activities and/or services, is non-compulsory, but the failure to do so may cause the interruption of the relationship or affect its regular development and legal and fiscal compliances. The data is kept at the head office of BARKA for the period of time foreseen by fiscal and civil law. The handling of personal data is carried out both by using paper support and data processing, in keeping with measures of protection to guarantee security and privacy. The holder of the handling of the personal data is BARKA S.r.l., Strada Padana Superiore n. 256/266, 20090 Vimodrone (MI), Italy, represented pro tempore by its sole director. The person appointed for the responsibility of handling personal data is appointed on a time by time basis by the holder of the handling. The interested part has the right to obtain confirmation of the existence of its personal data, even if not registered yet, and the communication of the same in a comprehensible form.

The interested part also has the right to ask for and obtain the indication of:

• the source of the personal data, the scope and the handling procedure;
• the reasoning applied in case of handling through electronic devices;
• the basic data for the identification of the holder, responsible persons and representative appointed pursuant to article 5, section 2, of Italian Legislative Decree no. 196/2003;
• the persons or category of persons to whom personal data may be communicated or may have access to the same as authorized representative for  Italy, agent or designate thereof.

• the updating, amendment or, whenever deemed opportune, the integration of the data;
• the cancellation, the transformation into an anonymous form or the impediment to use the data handled in violation of the law, including the data that does not need to be kept in relation to the scope for which the data has been gathered or subsequently handled.

The interested part has the right to, totally or partially, oppose:

• the handling of personal data regarding the same for legitimate reasons, even though linked to the purpose of the collection;
• the handling of the part’s personal data for the purpose of mailing advertising or direct marketing material, or to carry out market research or for infomercial communication. 

The above-mentioned rights may be exercised upon an informal request addressed  to the holder or one of the representatives, even through someone charged thereof. The request can also be forwarded by registered letter, telefax or e-mail.