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Art. 10 Applicable law and competent court; out-of-court settlement of disputes - Alternative Dispute Resolution/Online Dispute Resolution


10.1 Contracts of purchase concluded through the Website are governed by what is indicated in these General Conditions of Sale and, as provided for, by the Italian Consumer Code.


10.2 Please note that in the case of a consumer user, for any dispute relating to the application, execution and interpretation of this document, the competent court is the place where the user resides or has elected domicile. In case of professional user, for any dispute relating to the application, execution and interpretation of this document is instead competent the Court where the Seller is located in accordance with what is provided in the Introduction.


10.3 The Seller informs the user who has the status of Consumer that, in the event that he has made a complaint directly to the Seller, following which it has not been possible to resolve the dispute thus arising, the Seller shall provide information on the Alternative Dispute Resolution body or bodies for the extra-judicial resolution of disputes relating to obligations deriving from a contract concluded on the basis of these General Sales Conditions (ADR bodies), specifying whether or not he intends to make use of such bodies to resolve the dispute itself.


10.4 The Seller also informs the user who is a Consumer that a European platform for the online resolution of consumer disputes has been set up (the so-called ODR platform). The ODR platform can be consulted at the following address http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. Through the ODR platform the consumer user can consult the list of ADR bodies, find the link to the website of each of them and initiate a procedure for the online resolution of the dispute in which he/she is involved.


10.5 In any case, the right of the consumer user to refer the dispute arising from these General Conditions of Sale to the competent ordinary judge, whatever the outcome of the procedure for the out-of-court settlement of disputes relating to consumer relations through recourse to the procedures referred to in Part V, Title II-bis of the Consumer Code, is not affected.

The user who resides in a member state of the European Union other than Italy, can also access, for any dispute relating to the application, execution and interpretation of these Terms and Conditions of Sale, the European procedure established for small claims, by Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 of the Council, 11 July 2007, provided that the value of the dispute does not exceed, excluding interest, fees and expenses, Euro 5,000.00. The text of the regulation can be found on the website http://www.eur-lex.europa.eu.