General terms and conditions
Laurids Kern
Value Added Tax Identification Number: ATU76275914
Schoenbrunnerstrasse 30/26
1050 Vienna
support@yieldblue.com
These terms and conditions apply to all services provided by Yieldblue which are partly provided through www.yieldblue.com
All services provided by Yieldblue are only based on these general terms and conditions. By agreeing, the customer agrees to the general terms and conditions of Yieldblue.
Offsetting contributions are legally the purchase of emission reduction certificates stemming from our climate protection projects, these are no donations. The certificates are issued by our third party monitored projects. Your purchase of emission reduction certificates reduces more than the amount of carbon emitted by your activity and is essential to enabling our projects, reduce emissions, secure wildlife habitat and create jobs in the project regions.
Service
The main Yieldblue performance is the provision and decommissioning of a corresponding amount of CO2 reduction certificates on behalf of the customer which is carried out in Vienna, Austria.
Additional performance
As an ancillary service and of little economic relevance is the offering of the calculation of the carbon footprint as well as the issuing of a certificate in case of compensation.
Right of revocation
Consumers have a fourteen-day withdrawal.
You have the right to revoke from a contract within a period of fourteen days without giving reasons.
The period of revocation shall be fourteen days from the date on which you paid online.
The period of revocation for physical products shall be fourteen days from the date on which you or a third party you designate, which is not the carrier, has or has possessed the last part or the last piece.
In order to exercise your right of revocation you must inform us (Laurids Kern, Schoenbrunnerstrasse 30/26, 1050 Wien, support@yieldblue.com) of your decision by means of a clear statement (eg. a letter, e-mail). You can use the enclosed sample revocation form, but this is not required.
In order to maintain the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of the exercise of the right of revocation before the end of the revocation period.
Consequences of revocation
If you revoke this agreement, we will refund you all the payments we have received from you, including the delivery costs (except for the additional costs resulting from the fact that you have chosen a different type of delivery than the most favorable standard delivery offered by us ) Within a period of fourteen days from the date on which the notice of revocation of this contract has been received by us. For such repayment, we use the same payment you used in the original transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; In no case will you be charged for these repayment fees. We may refuse the repayment until we have recovered the goods or until you have proved that you have returned the goods, whichever is earlier.
Links
Yieldblue is entitled to carry out temporary or final violations of one or more of these provisions against the affected user without prejudice to any further legal action. If a user has been banned, he can e-mail support@yieldblue.com and ask for clarification regarding his suspension.
Website use
Yieldblue informs participants that they will be using the Internet at their own risk. By using the website, participants agree to the conditions of use specified in the disclaimer.
Copyright
All works, content and data published on websites belonging to Yieldblue are subject to Austrian and international copyright laws. Any non-authorized use requires the previous written consent of the author in question. Works, content and data may not be copied, changed, used or sent for commercial purposes or for the purpose of dissemination. This includes texts, images, audio and video elements. Copies or downloads may be made for personal use only.
Violations of the Terms
Yieldblue is entitled to carry out temporary or final violations of one or more of these provisions against the affected user without prejudice to any further legal action. If a user has been banned, he can e-mail support@yieldblue.com and ask for clarification regarding his suspension.
Privacy policy
All information relating the handling of customer data is regulated in the Privacy policy, which is published in the current version on the Yieldblue websites.
Choice of law and legal venue
Austrian law shall apply to any dispute arising out of or in connection with the legal relationship between participants and Yieldblue. The legal venue shall be the competent court of the first district of Vienna. In the case of proceedings against consumers, the legal venue shall be the competent court for the consumer’s place of residence.
Changes of GTC
Yieldblue may modify the GTC at any time. The current version is published on the homepage.
Miscellaneous
If any provision of these General Terms and Conditions should be found to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by a valid provision which most closely resembles the invalid provision in its legal and economical meaning and purpose.
Disclaimer
Yieldblue calculates CO2 offsetting exclusively on the basis of data provided by the customer. In particular, Yieldblue is not responsible for inaccurate, erroneous or incomplete customer data or for calculation errors resulting from inaccurate, erroneous or incomplete customer data. Yieldblue disclaims any and all liability for their accuracy or timeliness of the calculation basis.
Yieldblue is responsible for the proper use of the voluntary contributions to offset the amount of carbon it certifies as compensated. Yieldblue hereby excludes liability for slight negligence.
Yieldblue is liable for the proper and careful selection of climate change projects for CO2 Compensation, in particular with regard to the existence of internationally valid Certifications and standards and for the continuous monitoring of the existence of these certifications and standards.
Yieldblue shall not be liable for the accuracy of calculations made by the CO2 calculator nor for the actual reduction of a specifically quantifiable amount of CO2 emissions. In addition, Yieldblue shall not be liable for project operators’ activities nor for accurate and complete project auditing by independent verification entities. Yieldblue does not warrant that the information provided on the Yieldblue websites is up-to-date, accurate, complete or of a given quality.
It can not be ruled out that the actual CO2 emissions caused differs from the calculations.
Yieldblue explicitly reserves the right to change, complete or delete parts of the website or the entire website without prior notification or to stop publishing this information temporarily or indefinitely.