Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the "www.artofperfumery.com" website (the "Website") Terms and Conditions. Perfume Lab.com provides the services available on the Website. Your use of this Website is governed by the Terms and Conditions set out below. By using any part of this Website or placing an order on the Website you agree to be bound by our Terms and Conditions.

1. Use of the website

Art of Perfumery is a division of Perfume Lab.com a french registered company whose address is 35 Rue Pastorelli, 06000 Nice France, Siret No 45297050200012 TVA No FR09452970502

To be eligible to purchase goods on this Website and to lawfully enter into and form contracts on this Website you must be the holder of a valid debit/credit card.

You warrant that the personal information which you are required to provide when you register as a customer is true, accurate and current in all respects.You agree not to impersonate any other person or entity or to use a false name or a name that you are not authorised to use.
• Privacy
Please review our Privacy Policy, which explains our use of information you provide via the Website, so that you may understand our privacy practices.
• Language
This contract shall be concluded in English.

2. Placing an order and order acceptance

You place your order request for goods from the Website by clicking on the confirm order button at the end of the on-line order process. You will be guided through the process of placing an order by a series of simple instructions on the Website.

Once you have placed your order, we will send to you an acknowledgement. This is not an order confirmation or order acceptance from Art of Perfumery.

Unless we have notified you that we do not accept your order or you have cancelled your order in accordance with the Cancellation and Returns Procedures set out below, our acceptance of your order and the completion of the contract between you and us will take place when you receive an email from us notifying you that we have dispatched the goods ordered by you.

Our acceptance of your order will be deemed complete and received by you at the time and date of sending of the email, which time and date is specified on the email. The deemed time and date of receipt by you shall apply regardless of whether, for reasons outside our control, you have not received that email. We may not accept your order if an item you have ordered is out of stock, if we are unable to obtain authorisation for your payment or if we identify a product or pricing error. We reserve the right to reject any offer to purchase by you at any time.

If we are unable to fulfil your order following our order acknowledgement, we will contact you by email or telephone advising you of this. See Cancellation and Returns procedure set out in 9. below.

3. Description of products

We will take all reasonable care to ensure that all details, descriptions and prices of products appearing on the Website are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the system. Although we aim to keep the Website as up to date as possible, the information including product descriptions appearing on this Website at a particular time may not always reflect the position exactly at the moment you place an order. We cannot confirm the price of a product until your order is accepted in accordance with our order acceptance policy. (See 2. above.)

4. Payment

All prices indicated for products available via the Website are inclusive of TVA (where applicable) at the current rates and are exclusive of delivery charges. The total cost of your order is the price of the products ordered plus TVA and delivery charges as set out in the Delivery section of the Website. Payment can be made by any of the methods specified in the Payment section of this Website and payment will be debited and cleared from your account as set out in the Payment section of this Website.

You confirm that the credit or debit card that is being used is yours.
All credit/debit cardholders are subject to validation checks and authorisation by the card issuer. If the issuer of your payment card refuses to, or subsequently refuses to, or does not, for any reason, authorise payment to us, we will not be liable for any delay or non-delivery.

5. Passing of property

We will retain the legal ownership of the goods until full payment has been made by you and such payment has been received by us. Legal ownership of the goods will immediately revert to us if we refund any such payment to you.

6. Risk

Risk in the goods will pass to you on delivery to you.

7. Delivery

We will deliver the goods in accordance with the delivery option selected by you during the order process.

Any delivery timescales quoted to you are indicative only. Orders may be delivered in one or more delivery.

Art of Perfumery does not accept any liability whatsoever for lost or delayed delivery caused by any third party. As soon as you have received the goods, you will assume all risk in the goods. Upon delivery of the goods to you, we will also provide you with sufficient details to enable you to:
a) exercise your right of cancellation; and
b) address any intended cancellation or complaints to the correct place of business.

8. Acceptance

Upon receipt of the goods you must inspect the goods and you will be deemed to have accepted the goods unless you notify us that you have cancelled the order and/or you return the goods in accordance with the Returns Procedures. If no such action is taken, we shall not be obliged to accept any rejection of the goods at a later date. Your statutory rights are not affected.

If you have not received the entire order as detailed in the order confirmation email sent to you when an order is received please email us at sales@artofperfumery.com

9. Cancellation and returns procedures

Please note that you may cancel this contract if you give us notice by telephone or by email at any time before the expiry of a period of 7 working days beginning with the day after the day of delivery of the goods.
Your statutory rights are not affected.

10. Complaints

If you wish to complain about any matter in respect of the goods please contact us by email sales@artofperfumery.com

11. Accuracy of information

We attempt to be as accurate as possible when describing products on the Website; however, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we do not warrant that product descriptions, colours or other content available on the Website are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

12. Samples

Any products and services, and any samples thereof, we may provide to you are for personal use only. You may not sell or re-sell any of the products or services, and any samples thereof, you receive from us.

13. Intellectual Property

All content available on the Website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, data compilations, and software, and the compilation thereof (the "Content" ) is the property of Perfume Lab.com and Art of Perfumery our affiliates, our partners or our licensors, and is protected by European and international copyright laws.

The trade marks, logos, and service marks displayed on the Website (collectively, the "Trade Marks" ) are the registered and unregistered marks of Perfume Lab.com and Art of Perfumery our affiliates, our licensors or our partners, in the UK, United States and other countries, and are protected by European and international trade mark laws. All other Trade Marks not owned by us, our affiliates, our partners or our licensors that appear on the Website are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by us.

Except as set forth in the limited licence in Section 14 below, or as required under applicable law, neither the Content, the Trade Marks, nor any other portion of the Website may be used, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, accessed, modified, or otherwise exploited, in full or in part, for any purpose without our prior written consent.

14. Limited Licence

We grant you a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive licence to access and make personal use of the Website. Please note that you may not frame or utilise framing techniques to enclose the Website or any portion thereof without our prior written consent.

The limited licence set forth in this Section 14 does not include the right to:

  • modify or download the Website or its contents (except caching or as necessary to view content);
  • make any use of the Website or its Content other than personal use;
  • create any derivative work based upon either the Website or its Content;
  • collect account information for the benefit of another party;
  • use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising our name or the Trade Marks without our express written consent; or
  • use software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or take any other action that may impose an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Website for personal, non-commercial use only. A website that links to our Website may:

  • link to, but not replicate, our Content;
  • not imply that we are endorsing such website or its services or products;
  • not misrepresent its relationship with us;
  • not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, obscene, offensive or controversial, and may contain only content appropriate for all ages;
  • not portray us or our products or services, in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive or objectionable manner, or associate us with undesirable products, services, or opinions;
  • not use any trade mark without express written permission; and
  • not link to any page of the Website other than the home page. We may, in our sole discretion, request that you remove any link to the Website, and upon receipt of such request, you shall immediately remove such link.

Any unauthorised use by you of the Website terminates the limited licence set forth in this Section 14 without prejudice to any other remedy provided by applicable law.

15. Third Party Links

We are not responsible for the content of any off-Website pages or any other websites linked to or from the Website. Links appearing on the Website are for convenience only and are not an endorsement by us, our affiliates or our partners of the referenced content, product, service, or supplier. Your linking to or from any off-Website pages or other websites is at your own risk. We are in no way responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, off-Website pages or any other websites linked to or from the Website, nor do we assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, content, products, or services of such pages and websites, including, without limitation, their privacy statements and terms and conditions. You should carefully review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of all off-Website pages and other websites that you visit.

16. Submissions

We welcome inquiries or feedback on the products you use or might like to purchase; however, it is our policy to decline unsolicited suggestions and ideas. Notwithstanding our policy with regard to unsolicited suggestions and ideas, any inquiries, feedback, suggestions, ideas or other information you provide us (collectively, "Submissions") will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential. Subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy , by transmitting or posting any Submission, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, sell, assign, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display any Submission in any form, media, or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, alone or as part of other works. You also acknowledge that your Submission may not be returned and we may use your Submission, and any ideas, concept or know-how contained therein, for any purpose including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing products.

If you make a Submission, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control the rights to your Submission. You further represent and warrant that such Submission does not constitute or contain software viruses, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam". You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead us as to the origin of any Submission. You agree to indemnify us for all claims arising from your claims to any rights in any Submission.

17. Representation and warranties; limitation of liability

The Website is presented "as is". We make no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever, express or implied, in connection with these terms or the Website, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose, except to the extent such representations and warranties are not legally excludable.
You agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be responsible or liable (whether in contract, tort or otherwise), under any circumstances, for any

  • interruption of business;
  • access delays or access interruptions to the Website;
  • data non-delivery, misdelivery, corruption, destruction or other modification;
  • loss or damages of any sort incurred as a result of dealings with or the presence of off-Website links on the Website;
  • computer viruses, system failure or malfunction which may occur in connection with your use of the Website, including during hyperlink to or from third party websites;
  • any inaccuracies, omissions or misleading, false or deceptive statement in the content; or
  • events beyond our reasonable control.

Further, to the fullest extent permitted by law we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind (including lost profits) related to the Website regardless of the form of action whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall our maximum aggregate liability exceed one hundred and fifty euros (€150.00). Because some countries do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such countries, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless for any loss, damages or costs, including reasonable legal fees, resulting from any third party claim, action, or demand resulting from your use of the Website. You also agree to indemnify us for any loss, damages, or costs, including reasonable legal fees, resulting from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

19. Disputes

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the Website and any purchase by you of any goods from Art of Perfumery shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in the French Courts, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the International Chamber of Commerce. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgement in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise. To the extent arbitration is not permitted by applicable law, any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the Website shall be submitted to an appropriate court or other judicial body..

20. General

You acknowledge and agree that these Terms and Conditions, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between us concerning your use of the Website and any purchase by you of any goods from Art of Perfumery and Perfume Lab.com, and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements, or other communications.

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, then these Terms and Conditions shall continue to be valid as to the other provisions and the remainder of the affected provision. Any waiver of any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions by Art of Perfumery and or Perfume Lab.com shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and shall in no way affect the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

No failure to exercise and no delay on the part of either party in exercising any right, remedy, power or privilege of that party under these Terms and Conditions and no course of dealing between the parties shall be construed or operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights and remedies provided by these Terms and Conditions are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law. Time shall not be of the essence of these Terms and Conditions as regards any of the times, dates and/or periods mentioned herein.

Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between us.

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time and we encourage you to revisit these Terms and Conditions periodically to ensure that you are at all times fully aware of our Terms and Conditions. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the Website. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such Terms and Conditions.
We may, with or without prior notice, terminate any of the rights granted by these Terms and Conditions. You shall comply immediately with any termination or other notice, including, as applicable, by ceasing all use of the Website.

We reserve the right to refuse to supply goods to any person for any reason whatsoever, to withdraw any goods from the Website at any time and/or remove or edit any materials or content on the Website. We will not be liable to you or any third party by reason of our withdrawing of any goods from this Website whether or not such goods have been sold; removing or editing content on the Website; refusing to process a transaction or unwinding or suspending any transaction after processing has begun.

If you have any questions regarding these Terms and Conditions, please contact us by email at sales@artofperfumery.com

21. Governing Law

Your use of this Website and any purchase by you of any goods from this site shall be governed by relevant law as indicated by directors of Perfume Lab.com

Privacy Policy (Issued March 2005)

When you provide us with personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") through this Website, we respect your privacy.

It is important for you to understand what Personal Information we collect about you during your visit to this Website and what we do with that information. Your visit to this Website and the sale of our goods to you via this Website are subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.

We do not collect Personal Information about you, except when you provide it to us. When you submit your Personal Information on this Website, you will be asked to consent to the processing and transfers of your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you would prefer that we not collect any Personal Information from you, please do not provide us with any such information.

Except as otherwise disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we will use the Personal Information you provide us through this Website only for the purposes of processing your orders and responding to any comments or questions you have.

We may use the information you provide in aggregate (non-personally identifiable) form for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics and developing marketing plans. We may collect, store or accumulate certain non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of this Website, such as information regarding which of our pages are most popular and general website administration.

We may share or transfer Personal Information and non-personally identifiable information with or to our affiliates, licensees and partners to:
(a) enhance this Website;
(b) assist in the development and design of similar sites run by our affiliates, licensees and partners; and
(c) enable them to undertake marketing activities on our behalf.

Such affiliates, licensees and partners may be located in countries both inside and outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). Although countries outside the EEA may not require the same level of protection of Personal Information as countries within the EEA, we always demand that our affiliates, licensees and partners adhere to the same procedures that we follow ourselves with respect to your Personal Information, including this Privacy Policy. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties without your consent, except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

We may also use your information to tell you about our products, promotions and special offers that may be of interest to you, by email, mail or by telephone. We may disclose any information, including Personal Information, we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

Sensitive information is not sought through this Website. Sensitive information includes data relating to: race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or other similar beliefs; physical or mental health. If you do provide sensitive information, by providing that information you explicitly consent to us using it for the purposes for which it has been provided.

We will take reasonable steps to create an accurate record of any Personal Information you have submitted through the Website. However, we do not assume responsibility for confirming the ongoing accuracy of your Personal Information. If you advise us that your Personal Information is no longer accurate, we will, so far as practicable, make corrections.

We use cookies to administer our Website. We will not use cookies in combination with your Personal Information without your prior consent. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Click here to find out more about cookies (www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies).

Two types of cookies are used on this Website: session cookies and persistent cookies.

Session cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website. We use session cookies:

(a) to track the number of visits to the Website;
(b) to compile anonymous statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website such as details of the pages visited per session on the Website and the number of return visits to the Website (we cannot identify you personally in this way);
(c) to enable basic personalisation of the Website;
(d) to keep track of your current shopping session so that you may retrieve your shopping basket at any time;
(e) to remember if a user has signed out.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your internet browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Website if cookies are disabled. Please click here to find out how to disable/enable cookies (www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies).

We may retain other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf in relation to the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy. Examples include credit/debit card validation and authorisation agencies, data analysis firms, customer support specialists, webhosting companies, and fulfilment companies (e.g., companies that coordinate mailings). Such third parties may be provided with access to your Personal Information if needed to perform their functions, but may not use such information for any other purpose. Such third parties may be located in countries both inside and outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). Although countries outside the EEA may not require the same level of protection of Personal Information as countries within the EEA, we always demand that third parties adhere to the same procedures that we follow ourselves with respect to your Personal Information, including this Privacy Policy.

This Website may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect on this Website. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to from our Website or otherwise visit.

We implement various security measures to protect the security of your Personal Information, both on line and off line. Your Personal Information will be stored at facilities located across the world and not necessarily within the EEA. If you have any questions about security at our Website, you can send an email to info@artofperfumery.com

As we continue to develop our business, we might sell certain of our assets or be sold. In such transactions, user information, including Personal Information, generally is one of the transferred business assets, and by submitting your Personal Information on the Website you agree that your Personal Information may be transferred to such parties in these circumstances.

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy here. As we may make changes at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you periodically consult this Privacy Policy. Please note that our rights to use your Personal Information will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the time the information is used. If the preceding sentence is deemed to violate applicable law, the privacy policy in effect at the time your Personal Information was collected will apply.

We have taken great measures to ensure that your visit to our Website is an excellent one and that your privacy is constantly respected. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, please email us at info@artofperfumery.com