General conditions of sale for the website www.bottarga.it

The offer and sale of products on our website www.bottarga.it are governed by these General Conditions of Sale.

The products purchased on www.bottarga.it are sold directly by Blue Marlin S.r.l. (“the Seller”), with registered office in Zona Artigianale – Via Is Carrelis 1 – 09095 MOGORO (OR). Here you can find information regarding orders and shipments, refunds and the return of products purchased on www.bottarga.it. Remember that you can always contact the Seller by email at the following email address: info@bottarga.it

For any other legal information, consult the sections:

  • General Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Right of withdrawal.

1. Our trade policy
1.1 The Seller offers the products for sale on www.bottarga.it and carries out its electronic commerce activity exclusively towards its end users who are “consumers”.
1.2 When we talk about “consumer” we refer to any natural person who acts for purposes not related to his commercial, entrepreneurial or professional activity, possibly carried out. If you are not a “consumer”, we invite you to refrain from concluding commercial transactions on www.bottarga.it.
1.3 In consideration of its commercial policy, the Seller reserves the right not to process orders from parties other than the “consumer” or in any case orders that do not comply with its commercial policy.
1.4 These General Conditions of Sale exclusively regulate the offer, forwarding and acceptance of purchase orders for products on www.bottarga.it between users of www.bottarga.it and the Seller.
1.5 The General Conditions of Sale do not however regulate the supply of services or the sale of products by parties other than the Seller who are present on www.bottarga.it via links, banners or other hyperlinks. We advise you, before placing orders and purchasing products and services from parties other than the Seller, to check their conditions of sale, because the Seller is not responsible for the provision of services by third parties other than the Seller or for the conclusion of sales operations. electronic commerce between users of www.bottarga.it and third parties.

2. How to conclude the contract with the Seller
2.1 To conclude the purchase contract for one or more products on www.bottarga.it, you must complete the order form in electronic format and send it to the Seller, electronically, following the relevant instructions.
2.2 The order form contains a reference to the General Conditions of Sale and the Information on the Right of Withdrawal, and a summary of the information on the essential characteristics of each product ordered and the relative price (including all applicable taxes or duties) , the means of payment that you can use to purchase each product and the methods of delivery of the products purchased, the shipping and delivery costs, the conditions for exercising your right of withdrawal and the methods and times for returning the products purchased.
2.3 The contract is concluded when the Seller receives your order form electronically, after verifying the correctness of the data relating to your order.
2.4 Before proceeding with the purchase of the products, by transmitting the order form, you will be asked to carefully read the General Conditions of Sale and the Information on the Right of Withdrawal, to print a copy using the print command and to memorize it or to reproduce a copy for your personal use.
2.5 The order form will be archived in our database for the period of time necessary to process the orders and in any case within the terms of the law. You will be able to access your order form by consulting the My Order section.
2.6 Before proceeding with the transmission of the order form, you will also be asked to identify and correct any data entry errors.
2.7 The language available to conclude the contract with the Seller is Italian.
2.8 Once the contract is concluded, the Seller will take charge of your purchase order.
2.9 The Seller may not process your purchase orders that do not provide sufficient guarantees of solvency or that are incomplete or incorrect or in the event of unavailability of the products. In these cases, we will inform you by email that the contract is not concluded and that the Seller has not processed your purchase order, specifying the reasons. If the products presented on www.bottarga.it are no longer available or on sale at the time of your last access to the site or sending the order form, it will be the responsibility of the Seller
notify you promptly and in any case within thirty (30) days starting from the day following the day on which you send your order to the Seller, any unavailability of the products ordered. In case of forwarding the order form and paying the price, the Seller will propose an alternative product of equal value, or refund the amount you have already paid.
2.10 By electronically transmitting the order form, you unconditionally accept and undertake to observe, in relations with the Seller, these General Conditions of Sale. If you do not agree with some of the terms reported in the General Conditions of Sale, we invite you not to submit the order form for the purchase of products on www.bottarga.it.
2.11 By sending the order form you confirm that you know and accept the General Conditions of Sale and the further information contained in www.bottarga.it, also referred to via links, including the General Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy and the Information on the Right of Withdrawal.
2.12 Once the contract is concluded, the Seller will send you, by e-mail, a receipt of the purchase order, containing the information already contained in the order form (reference to the General Conditions of Sale and Information on the right of withdrawal, the relevant information to the essential characteristics of the product and the detailed indication of the price, means of payment, your right of withdrawal and delivery costs).

3. Guarantees and indication of product prices
3.1 On www.bottarga.it, products made or purchased directly by the Seller from other manufacturers and/or distributors are offered for sale.
3.2 The Seller does not sell irregular products or products of lower quality than the corresponding standards offered on the market.
3.3 The essential characteristics of the products are presented on www.bottarga.it within each product sheet. However, the images of the products offered for sale on www.bottarga.it may not correspond to the real ones due to the Internet browser and monitor used.
3.4 Product prices may be subject to updates. Check the final sales price before submitting the relevant order form.
3.5 Purchase requests from countries not included among those displayed on the splash page cannot be accepted by the Seller.
3.6 All products are equipped with an identification label. We ask you not to remove the label from the products purchased, as it constitutes an integral part of it.
3.7 The Seller, in the event of exercising your right of withdrawal, has the right not to accept the return of products that do not have the relevant label or that have been altered in their essential and qualitative characteristics or that have been damaged.

4. Payments
4.1 To pay the price of the products and the related shipping and delivery costs you can follow one of the methods indicated in the order form.
4.2 In case of payment by credit card, the financial information (for example, the credit/debit card number or its expiration date) will be forwarded, via encrypted protocol, to Paypal or other banks, which provide the relevant remote electronic payment services, without third parties being able to have access to them in any way. Furthermore, this information will never be used by the Seller except to complete the procedures relating to your purchase and to issue the relevant refunds in the event of any product returns, following exercise of your right of withdrawal, or if it becomes necessary. prevent or report to the police the commission of fraud on www.bottarga.it. The price for the purchase of the products and the shipping costs, as indicated in the order form, will be charged to your current account at the time of purchase of the purchased products.

5. Shipping and delivery of products
To find out the specific shipping and delivery methods for the products, access the Contacts section. At the bottom of the page you will find the item “Shipping costs”; please pay attention to what is reported in this section because the information contained therein forms an integral and substantial part of these General Conditions of Sale and, therefore, are considered to be fully known and accepted by you at the time of transmission of the order form.

6. Customer support
You can request any information through our assistance services: click on the icon located at the top right next to the cart, the Contacts item will appear. Click on Contacts where you will find all the information to send us an email or contact us by phone.

7. Right of withdrawal
7.1 You have the right to withdraw from the contract concluded with the Seller, without any penalty and without specifying the reason, within fourteen (14) working days starting from the day of receipt of the products purchased on www.bottarga.it.
7.2 To withdraw from the contract you must use the Return Form.
7.3 In this case, you will have to return the products to the Seller by handing them over to the courier for shipment within fourteen (14) working days from when you received the products.
7.4 The only costs you will be responsible for are those for returning the purchased products.
7.5 If you decide to use the courier indicated by the Seller in the Return Form, you will not, however, have to personally pay the costs incurred by you for returning the purchased products. Payment of the costs of returning the purchased products will be made, on your behalf, directly by the Seller, who will therefore free you from any payment obligation towards the shipper. In order to pay for the return, the Seller will deduct from the refund a lump sum equal to the cost previously incurred for the shipping and delivery of the purchased products to your home. Furthermore, from the moment the purchased products are returned to the courier indicated by the Seller in the Return Form, the Seller exempts you from any responsibility in the event of loss or damage to the products during transport.
7.6 If you decide to use a shipping company other than the one indicated by the Seller in the Return Form, you will instead have to pay the costs yourself for returning the purchased products. In this case, the cost previously incurred for delivery of the purchased products to your home will also be refunded, however, you will remain responsible for any liability in the event of loss or damage to the products during transport.
7.7 The Right of Withdrawal – in addition to compliance with the terms and methods described in the previous points 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 – is considered exercised correctly if the following conditions are also fully respected: the Return Form must be correctly completed and sent to the Seller within fourteen (14) working days of receipt of the products; the products must not have been used or damaged; the identification labels must still be attached to the products with the disposable seal which constitutes an integral part of the goods; the products must be returned in their original packaging; the returned products must be delivered to the courier within fourteen (14) working days from the date on which you received the products.
7.8 If the Right of Withdrawal is exercised following the methods and terms indicated in this paragraph 7, the Seller will reimburse any sums already collected for the purchase of the products according to the methods and terms established.
7.9 The sums will be refunded to you as quickly as possible and, in any case, within thirty (30) days from the date on which the Seller became aware of the exercise of your right of withdrawal, we will activate the reimbursement procedures, a once the correct execution of the terms and conditions indicated above has been verified, as indicated in paragraph 8.
7.10 If the methods and terms for exercising your right of withdrawal are not respected, as specified in this paragraph 7, you will not be entitled to a refund of the sums already paid to the Seller; however, you will be able to regain, at your expense, the products in the condition in which they were returned to the Seller. Otherwise, the Seller may retain the products, in addition to the sums already paid for their purchase.

8. Refund times and methods
8.1 After returning the products, the Seller carries out the necessary checks relating to their conformity with the conditions and terms indicated in paragraph 7. In the event that the checks are concluded positively, the Seller will send you, via e-mail, the relevant confirmation of acceptance of the returned products.
8.2 Whatever payment method you use, the refund is activated by the Seller, as quickly as possible and in any case within thirty (30) days from the date on which the Seller became aware of the exercise of your right of withdrawal after verification of the correct execution of your right of withdrawal and acceptance of the returned products.
8.3 If there is no correspondence between the recipient of the products indicated in the order form and the person who paid the sums due for their purchase, the reimbursement of the sums, in the event of exercise of the right of withdrawal, will be carried out by the Seller, in any case, towards the person who made the payment.
8.4 The Seller indicates which shipper for the return of TNT/BRT/SDA/POSTE ITALIANE products. The return methods will be formalized via email with all the details, in this way you can return the products to the Seller, without personally paying the necessary expenses. According to the methods and terms established for the exercise of the right of withdrawal, this method allows the Seller to directly pay, on your behalf, the costs of returning the purchased products, freeing you from any obligation to pay towards the shipper. This method also allows you to check, at any time, where each package is, freeing you from any responsibility in the event of loss or damage to the products during transport.
8.5 If you decide to use a courier other than the one indicated by the Seller to return the products, you will instead have to pay the necessary expenses yourself and you will be responsible for any liability in the event of loss or damage to the products during transport, according to the methods and terms established for the exercise of the right of withdrawal.

9. Privacy
9.1 You can obtain information on how we process your personal data by accessing the Privacy Policy.
9.2 Please also read, if you have not already done so, our General Conditions of Use because they contain important information on how we process the personal data of our users and on the security systems adopted.
9.3 For any other information on our Privacy Policy you can send requests to the following email address: info@bottarga.it or to the address of the Seller’s registered office: Blue Marlin S.r.l. – Zona Artigianale – Via Is Carrelis 1 – 09095 MOGORO (OR).

10. Applicable law and dispute resolution
The General Conditions of Sale are governed by Italian law and in particular by legislative decree 6 September 2005 n. 206, on the consumer code, with specific reference to the legislation on distance contracts and the legislative decree of 9 April 2003 n. 70 on certain aspects concerning electronic commerce.

11. Editing and updating
The General Conditions of Sale are modified from time to time also in consideration of any regulatory changes. Any new General Conditions of Sale will be effective from the date of publication on www.bottarga.it