Terms & Conditions
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3. The cost of handling each Return amounts to a fixed amount of 9 Euros per returned product, which will be deducted from the total refund amount. The right to return products shall be deemed correctly exercised once the following conditions have been fully met: 4. For hygiene reasons, underwear cannot be returned in any case. Crystal earrings and jewelry are not returnable. Gemstone jewelry is non-returnable to ensure the high quality of the gemstones. Hats are non-returnable. Finally, sunglasses are not returnable as no possible damage to the lenses can be determined. Products by the designer Alexandra Tsoukala are not returnable due to sensitivity in the way they are manufactured; 5. The products must be returned, complete and unused, in their original packaging. Where provided any designer packaging such as authenticity cards, dust bags, leather tags, designer boxes and jewelry boxes and dust bags should also be returned as they are considered part of the product. If boxes of products when returned are damaged your return may not be accepted; 6. Do not use PRET-A-BEAUTE boxes (black or brown) as the outer packaging box for your return. The boxes (black or brown) are part of the products and if damaged, returns are not accepted. Return your order in exactly the same packaging as you received it including any gifts you may have received; 7. Your return must be accompanied by the Receipt. Returns not accompanied by the original receipt will not be accepted; 8. If you are returning more than one item from the same order, you should send them all at once: PRET-A-BEAUTE does not accept multiple returns from the same order, with products sent at different times or in different shipments. 9. Returns of items on sale, discounted products or products that have been purchased with a discount/ promotional coupon are not subject to the possibility of a refund except for the issuance of a coupon and credit for the purchase of other products; 10. Returns or exchanges are not accepted on Final Sale products, Made to Order products and products bought during BLACK FRIDAY sales. 11. Orders that contain a current gift offer are not subject to refunds other than coupon issuance and credit money to buy other products; 12. Items bought with the use of a store credit, that was the result of returned items bought using promotional codes, or items that were returned at the discretion of PRET-A-BEAUTE, cannot be returned. 13. If your order has been sent to a destination within the EU, all sales taxes will be refunded. For destinations outside the US, CAN and EU, customs duties and sales taxes are non-refundable through PRET-A-BEAUTE. You should try to contact your local customs bureau directly and by providing them all the return documents you should be able to recover these amounts. PRET-A-BEAUTE is not responsible in case the return is stopped at customs and the return liable for duties. PRET-A-BEAUTE's responsibility starts when the package arrives at our warehouse. If you have received an item as a gift, you may exchange it for a store credit to your PRET-A-BEAUTE account (you will need to register your details). The amount will be automatically deducted from your next purchase and will be valid for six months. Please be aware that you may need to pay any cost difference, additional shipping, taxes and import duties. Corporate gifts may only be returned by the original purchaser and within seven working days of initial receipt. Items should be received within 14 days from the day that the Return Authorization Number (RAN) was requested from PRET-A-BEAUTE. Items that are returned later than the time frame of fourteen (14) days from the day that the RAN was requested by you, will be accepted only at the discretion of PRET-A-BEAUTE and may only be refunded as a store credit. Moreover, RANs requested after 7 days of the delivery of the order will also be granted at PRET-A-BEAUTE’s discretion. All products sold by PRET-A-BEAUTE include an identification tag attached complete with a disposable safety seal. Please try on the products without removing the tag and seal. Returned products without the tag and seal will not be accepted. All jewelry should be handled with care and should be tried on without removing the identification tag that will be attached with the disposable seal. All jewelry should be returned in their original, undamaged box and cloth bag (if any) as this is considered part of the product. Jewelry that are returned without boxes or in damaged boxes may not be accepted and may be sent back to the customer. Earrings for pierced ears cannot be returned in any case, due to reasons of hygiene. All complaints will be dealt with sympathetically. Goods are classified as faulty if they are received damaged. Please note that items that are damaged as a result of wear and tear are not considered to be faulty. Any items that are clearly suffering from a manufacturing defect will be replaced immediately. However, we reserve the right, in the case of questionable complaints, to return the goods to the manufacturer for inspection in order to clarify whether the complaint is genuine. We will keep the customer informed of the progress of her complaint. This procedure may take up to 60 days. Faulty goods are considered as such, only if they are returned with all safety seals attached. In case that goods are returned broken without the products' original safety seal or with PRET-A-BEAUTE's safety seal broken, they will not be considered as faulty and will not be credited or exchanged. If you would like to exchange a faulty item, please be aware that we can only replace it for the same product in the same size, subject to availability. Where possible, we will offer to repair faulty items. It is free to exchange items for a different size. Shipping charges for return and shipping of new item apply. We will exchange any items provided they are returned unworn in perfect condition with all their original packaging intact within 7 days of dispatch. To exchange an item, simply specify the new size you require at the time of requesting your RAN and follow the same instructions with Returns, as specified above. Please note that we are only able to offer size exchanges. If you wish to exchange your item for an alternative style, we suggest that you return it for a store credit and purchase the new item separately. Special orders (i.e goods ordered in specially that we do not normally stock) cannot be returned. Please ensure that high value items should be returned via registered or recorded post and that they are insured. We cannot be held responsible for the loss in transit of returned goods. After PRET-A-BEAUTE has received products and checked that the products meet all requirements for return, you will receive an email that the returned products have been accepted. Refund will either be credited to the original purchaser’s credit card or to hers PRET-A-BEAUTE account and will exclude shipping costs (with the exception of faulty items or items sent by mistake), which we deduct to cover the cost of our shipping. Whatever form of payment you used (Credit or Debit Card), the refund procedure will start within 30 days from when PRET-A-BEAUTE was informed of your decision to exercise your right to return the purchased products and once PRET-A-BEAUTE checked that the return was carried out in compliance with the above conditions. The time period for refunding the amount you paid for purchasing the returned products depends on the form of payment you used. Orders All orders are subject to acceptance and availability. PRET-A-BEAUTE offers products for sale that are in stock and available for dispatch from our distribution center. Occasionally, however, we may be waiting for shipments from our designer suppliers. Consequently you may from time to time be given the possibility of making an Advance Payment for certain items in which case you are able to make an Advance Purchase. This will ensure that you receive this item in priority once designer stock has been delivered to PRET-A-BEAUTE. PRET-A-BEAUTE will only take Advance Purchase orders for stock that has been scheduled for delivery by a designer/supplier. Your rights regarding Advance Purchase are the same as those for any other purchase at PRET-A-BEAUTE; alternatively you may simply choose to register your email address for notification of arrival of the selected merchandise not held in stock. If you have supplied us with your e-mail address, we will notify you by e-mail as soon as possible to confirm receipt of your order and e-mail you again or telephone you to confirm we have accepted your order. This email is not an acceptance of your order. Your order will not be accepted if it becomes apparent to us that there are material errors in the prices advertised on our website. If you have not supplied us with your e-mail address, our confirmation of order page at the end of our ordering process will act as confirmation that we have received your order. No contract will be formed until you receive confirmation from us that we have accepted your order, at which point we will take payment from your credit or debit card once we have checked your credit or debit card details. If there are any changes to the details supplied by you it is your responsibility to inform us as soon as possible. We reserve the rights, even after we have charged your credit card, if we find material errors in the order to return the amount of money to your credit card and cancel the order. At the point when we dispatch the goods the contract for our sale and your purchase of the goods shall be made and the contract shall be formed at the place from which our acceptance e-mail is sent to you or as verbally confirmed over the phone. Payment can be made by Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro debit cards, PayPal. Payment will be debited and cleared from your account upon receipt of your order by PRET-A-BEAUTE. You confirm that the credit/debit card that is being used is yours. All credit/debit card holders are subject to validation checks and authorization by the card issuer. PRET-A-BEAUTE insures each purchase during the time it is in transit until it is delivered to you. You will be asked to sign for any goods delivered at which point responsibility for your purchased goods passes to you. You can cancel or amend any order placed with PRET-A-BEAUTE, provided that the order has not yet entered the dispatch process. If you have registered in PRET-A-BEAUTE and have created an account, please visit your account and cancel your order. We may include hyperlinks on this Site to other websites or resources operated by parties other than PRET-A-BEAUTE, including advertisers. PRET-A-BEAUTE has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Web Site and is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-site pages nor are we responsible for the availability of such external websites or resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, including (without limitation) any advertising, products or other materials or services on or available from such websites or resources, nor for any damage, loss or offense caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with, the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such external websites or resources. Any disclaimers and exclusions or liability in these terms and conditions shall not apply to any damages arising from death or personal injury caused by the negligence of PRET-A-BEAUTE or any of its employees or agents or fraud. These disclaimers and exclusions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with EU Law. If any provision of these disclaimers and exclusions shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforce-ability of the remaining provisions. At our request, you agree fully to defend, indemnify and hold harmless PRET-A-BEAUTE immediately on demand, its officers, directors, agents, affiliates, licensors, and suppliers, from and against all liabilities, claims, expenses, damages and losses, including legal fees, arising from any breach of these Terms & Conditions by you or any other liabilities arising out of your use of this Site, or the use by any other persons accessing this Site using your Internet account. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you here-under. We will take all reasonable precautions to keep the details of your order and payment secure but unless we are negligent, we will not be liable for unauthorized access to information supplied by you. We process all your credit or debit card information using a secure payment service and do not hold or store your personal details on our servers. We will only use the information supplied by you for the purposes of fulfilling your order unless you agree otherwise. We would like to notify you of products and offers which may be of interest to you from time to time: if you do not wish to receive such notification please tick the box on the order form. You can correct any information about you or ask for information about you to be deleted by giving us written notice at the address, fax number or e-mail address shown on the website. Please note, that if we suspect that any order is placed or any payment is made fraudulently, we will use the information supplied by you in order to investigate. In addition, please see our privacy policy. There may be legal notices on other areas of this website which relate to your use of this website, all of which will, together with these terms and conditions from time to time will be changed and you should look through them as often as possible. This website, any content contained herein and any contract brought into being as a result of usage of this website are governed by and construed in accordance with EU Law. The parties to any such contract agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Greece. All contracts are concluded in English. Payments can be made by Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro debit cards, PayPal and in some countries Cash on Delivery. Payment will be debited and cleared from your account upon receipt of your order by PRET-A-BEAUTE. You confirm that the credit/debit card that is being used is yours. All credit/debit card holders are subject to validation checks and authorization by the card issuer. If the issuer of your payment card refuses to authorize payment to PRET-A-BEAUTE, we will not be liable for any delay or non-delivery. We take all reasonable care to make our Site as secure as we can make it. To help ensure that your shopping experience is safe, simple and secure PRET-A-BEAUTE uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Furthermore, we will take all reasonable care, in so far as it is in our power to do so, to keep the details of your order and payment secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part we cannot be held liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures unauthorized access to any data you provide when accessing or ordering from the Site. After PRET-A-BEAUTE has received products and checked that the products meet all requirements for return, you will receive an email that the returned products have been accepted. Refund will either be credited to the original purchaser’s credit card or to hers PRET-A-BEAUTE account and will exclude shipping costs (with the exception of faulty items or items sent by mistake), which we deduct to cover the cost of our shipping. Whatever form of payment you used (Credit or Debit Card, PayPal), the refund procedure will start within 30 days from when PRET-A-BEAUTE was informed of your decision to exercise your right to return the purchased products and once PRET-A-BEAUTE checked that the return was carried out in compliance with the above conditions. The time period for refunding the amount you paid for purchasing the returned products depends on the form of payment you used: The refund time will depend on the card company’s policies. We would like to assure you, however, that the value date for the credit will coincide with the date of the original payment; therefore you will not suffer any interest loss; This Privacy Policy explains our policy regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. As we update and expand our services, this policy may change, so please refer back to it periodically. By accessing our Web site or using our services, you consent to our information practices.
Personal information means information that can be used to identify and contact you, specifically your name, postal delivery address, e-mail address, payment method (e.g., credit card or debit card) and telephone number, as well as other information when such information is combined with your personal information. NO CREDIT CARD INFORMATION IS STORED OR EVEN VIEWED BY PRET-A-BEAUTE. WE ONLY RECEIVE AN APPROVAL REFERENCE NUMBER FROM OUR BANK. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND, IF NECESSARY, CHANGE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION PRET-A-BEAUTE MAINTAINS If for any reason you are concerned that the personal information held PRET-A-BEAUTE is not correct, please visit the website and, after logging into the site using the "My Account" menu on the home page; your personal information will be made available for review and change in the "My Account" section. Only you or, upon your request, the Customer Care department, may access your personal data from the website using your password and User ID. Information may be changed online within My Details, Shipping Details, and My Preferences. If you prefer, you may contact us by email at customerservice@pret-a-beaute.com and we will amend your personal details. The PRET-A-BEAUTE Web site contains links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of personal information may differ from ours. While we endeavor to associate with reputable sites, PRET-A-BEAUTE cannot be responsible for the information handling practices of these other sites. You must be 18 years of age or older to order from PRET-A-BEAUTE. While individuals under the age of 18 may utilize the service, they may do so only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian and subject to our Terms and Conditions. You are responsible for updating and maintaining the truth and accuracy of the personal information you provide to us relating to your account. If you want to update your contact information or change your payment method, you should do so by visiting the My Account section of our Web site. You must be signed in to access Your Account. As you browse the PRET-A-BEAUTE site, cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive. (Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your hard drive for record keeping purposes.) In general, cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. If your browser is set to not accept cookies, you will not be able to use the PRET-A-BEAUTE site or service. Except as otherwise disclosed to you, we will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties without notifying you of our intent to share the personal information in advance and giving you an opportunity to prevent your personal information from being shared. PRET-A-BEAUTE collects personal information in several ways when you place an order, buy a gift voucher for a friend or register for a service offered by PRET-A-BEAUTE. If an order is placed with us, we need to hold personal information including your name, email address, phone numbers, home address and shipping address(es) so that we can process and fulfill your order. Additionally we may also obtain information as a result of authentication or identity checks. Sometimes we may ask for your telephone number. This number may be given to our courier for delivery services. These details allow us to process your order and to let you know the status of your order. PRET-A-BEAUTE takes information security very seriously and uses reasonable administrative, technical and managerial measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. For example, we utilize Secure Sockets Layering, an industry-standard protocol for certain of your transmissions to us, in order to encrypt the personal information that you send to us through the registration and sign up process. We store your email address and payment method information in an encrypted form. As we update and expand our services, we may make changes to this policy. You should check back for updates to this policy from time to time. If the changes result in materially less protection for your personal information than that provided in this policy, we will make reasonable efforts to contact you and obtain your consent to the changes. Like our Terms of Use, of which this policy is a part, your use of the PRET-A-BEAUTE Web site or continued use of our service after our efforts to contact you means that you agree to be bound by such changes. If you have questions concerning your account, please contact our Customer Service. If you have questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact customerservice@pret-a-beaute.com. By visiting PRET-A-BEAUTE, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions. Please email us ! If you have questions about any product appearing on our website or need help and advise, either for choosing gifts or buying something for yourself, our customer service representatives are always available to help you. If you have any query about your order our customer service representatives will be happy to assist you.
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