A scraping noise spiked the silence. Patience gasped as fear tensed her body. At her feet lay the dress she had just unfastened and dropped to the floor. "There it is again," she warned herself, "the same noise I heard last night when I undressed for bed. It began three nights ago, always as I undress."

The noise stopped abruptly the moment she tilted her head to listen. She looked intently at the south wall trying once more to identify the source of aggravation, then she allowed her eyes to dart about the room looking for some promising clues. A flickering of candle flame interrupted her concentration and she stared at the commode next to her bed. "A draft," she recognized and glanced at the window. One shutter had blown open. She moved across the room to close it but hesitated as she reached the window to watch the turmoil of angry clouds flying landward over the English Channel.

Pushed by a freshening wind, a bubbling mass of grey and black clouds floated swiftly toward her, momentarily blurring the stars, then slashing them from view. Moonlight faded and the earth blackened. "Should I consider this darkening sky a bad omen for me?" she wondered. "Nonsense. You are too superstitious. It is only nature preparing to create sustenance for the earth of Castelamer."

The temperature dropped suddenly. What had been a warm summer day became within an hour a cool fall night. Patience shivered, closed the shutter, then returned to the foot of her bed where her nightgown lay. She was about to loosen her shift when she heard the scratching noise again.

"That noise!" she mumbled. "It sounds as if it is in this room, but I can't find what is causing it. I've looked everywhere. What is it?" The question was asked in desperation. Her right hand went to her neck in a gesture of frustration. She directed her eyes to the south wall once again. "There is nothing. I've searched every inch of those panels." Her conclusion evidenced despair and fear began to close in once more. Quickly letting her shift fall, she slipped into her nightgown and returned to the window. She adjusted the open shutter, leaving it slightly ajar. A brisk breeze that flowed through the opening carried with it a damp odor of rain. She breathed deeply, blew out the candle and crawled into bed.

Sleep was long in coming. Uneasiness nagged at her as she let speculative questions dart in and out of the recesses of her mind. She tossed and turned, buried her face in her pillow, stared at the ceiling, tried to think of her school lessons, but she could not prevent the jabs of concern from surfacing. "What is it that scrapes? Where is it? Is someone making the noise? Why always at bedtime when I am undressing?" It was the notion that someone might be disturbing her deliberately that created the most alarm. "But why? Who would want to do that?"

A roar of thunder disturbed the sleep that had finally replaced her anxieties. She became aware of a gentle rhythmic patter of rain, and it occurred to her that rain drops would be coming through her window. Reluctantly she arose, quickly closed the shutter and returned to bed. She was dozing when something startled her. Becoming alert she sat up, threw the covers from her and prepared to leap from bed. Shaking a trembling fear, she glanced at the window. The shutters remained closed. Rapidly she made a visual exploration of the room. All was in order. "You are not only silly but a bit daft to think anyone in this house would want to disturb your sleep," she told herself. "You know the sounds of storms. Go to sleep."

The admonition failed. She lay awake, conscious of every disturbing sound. A scraping noise, louder than the others alerted her. "It's the door!" She bounded out of bed, grabbed her robe, swirled it about her shoulders and hastened to the entry leading into the hall. Perspiration dampened her forehead. "Is someone there?" she called out. Her right hand went to her throat as she awaited a reply. No response. "It would be impossible for anyone to enter," she reassured herself. "The door is bolted." She checked to prove her statement but was startled to see that the bolt was not secure. "I'm positive I put that bolt in place!" Her fingers enclosed the door knob. It turned within her hand even though she had not gripped it! She shuddered, petrified. She fought an impulse to scream.

"It is your imagination," Patience cautioned herself. She let eternity pass as she tried to shed her terror. She directed her fingers to close about the knob. Slowly she turned it. Her hand, functioning automatically, pulled the door open slightly. She moved a step and peered out. The hallway was dark. She could detect no one.

Cautiously, silently, she stepped back into her bedroom, closed the door, slid the bolt into its holder and leaned against the wall. Her heart beat audibly in cadenced pumps. She felt faint. She got herself to the window and threw open the shutters. A light, moist breeze immediately bathed her face and she took a deep breath. Rain had stopped falling, clouds were clearing and the landscape lay in silence. It was the moment between night and day.

From the open window on the second floor of Castelamer, Patience watched dawn break, letting herself be calmed by the wonder of the scene as first light touched tops of hills, slowly filled vales, then illumined familiar objects in the garden below. In the clear atmosphere she could see the undulating landscape of Cornwall stretching inland from the English Channel toward Bodmin Moors. The serrated coast that wound a dizzy line toward Plymouth was fringed with white fuzz made by waves breaking rhythmically along the shore. In the foreground beyond the garden was Hythe Haven, a small natural harbor set within a spit of land extending from Bodacombe Bluff, the rising crest on which Castelamer had been built.

Feeling refreshed she returned to the foot of her bed, intent on discovering the source of her distress. As she turned to study each part of her room, her eyes embraced old keepsakes, a collection of knickknacks, a doll, books, the treasures a child collects. Each object contributed to a feeling of calm which was being restored gradually. The doll particularly gave comfort for it had been a gift from her mother the day before the boat accident, and it was still her dearest possession.

"How could anyone want to disturb this joyful room?" she questioned. Lovely linen fold paneling covered the walls from floor to ceiling. Patience enjoyed letting her fingers roam about deep carvings just to feel the wood some hand many years ago had turned from flat surface to splendor with the wielding of a knife.

"This room I shared with my sister," she mused. "Here we grew up together. We played house, discussed secrets and told each other wondrous dreams. She moved to her own room. `At fifteen you should be by yourself,' she admonished. 'And you, Patience, need to be more on your own.'

Her reverie was broken by a renewal of the scraping noise. "No!" Patience's heart beat increased to a frightening thump, thump, thump as fear took hold once more. She wanted to yell but her throat constricted. It could not produce a whisper. She wanted to move but alarm chained her to the floor. With the force of overwhelming determination, she took a step and then another until she reached the wall. Mustering what strength she had, she raised her arms and drove tight fists against the panel in front of her. They struck furiously again and again until she had no more strength to pound. She stepped backward exhausted and reached for her bed, falling onto it. Smothering her face in the covers, she wept.

She must have fallen asleep for bright sunshine flooding her bed awakened her. Rising quickly she washed her hands, bathed her face, then dressed for morning activities.

A knock sounded on the door. It opened before Patience could speak. It was Nancy, the upstairs maid who warned immediately, "Hurry, Miss Patty. You have breakfast awaitin' and Mr. Chivers will be here shortly for instruction. Penny is already at table. What a beautiful morning after that thunder storm last night. I wonder any one got any sleep. And the winds made all kinds of noises in the house. They liked to scared me out of my skin. Made me think someone was after me. Even Mrs. Battey said the same thing. That's all we talked about this morning. Hurry along."

"Good morning, Nancy. Let me get this locket on and I am out the door." Patience hastened along the hall thinking of Nancy's comments about the wind and feeling foolish for imagining the sound of scratching on the panels or the noises in the hallway. Down the back stairs she went and approached the breakfast room. She stopped abruptly, her hand clasping her throat. "The bolt! Nancy opened the door! That door was bolted." Before she could give it further thought, Mrs. Battey, the housekeeper, greeted her rather dolefully and added, "Penelope is not feeling well at all. Be gentle with her."

Although cautioned, Patience was not prepared for Penny's woeful appearance. Sitting down at table, she noted her twin sister had no color in her face and that she spoke without displaying any spirit whatsoever. That was not like Penny. Patience offered to do anything to help, but Penelope rose from the table saying she was not hungry and thought it best to return to bed.

Patience helped her stand up and noticed her sister's extended abdomen. "It is just bloated," came the explanation, but before questions could be asked, Mrs. Battey appeared. She motioned Patience away from Penny and then assisted the sick girl to her room.

Patience wanted to inquire about getting a doctor, but at that moment cook arrived with a tray. As the meal was finished, Nancy announced that Mr. Chivers had arrived.

Patience hurried to the school room where she was greeted by the tutor who, having been told Penny was ill, suggested a review rather than an introduction of new material.

Both had a jolly time testing one another.

Class over, Patience ran to Penelope's room but was told the sick girl was sleeping. She grabbed a shawl and hurried to the garden where the sun was bright and warm after the storm. A breeze off the Channel was brisk and stimulating. She found her favorite place on Bodacombe Bluff, a jagged cliff rising some one hundred feet above Hythe Haven, a small harbor snuggled within the curve of a cove protected by a spit of land jutting from Signal Bluff, a rising land opposite to Bodacombe Bluff.

Patience could identify the exact place in the sea beyond the spit where her father's boat was found. "Father was known as a fine sailor," she reminded herself. "People always said that Mr. Tatham was a master at sailing and gave his boat the utmost care. It happened on a Sunday. Seeing a gentle sea and feeling a sailor's breeze on his face, he talked mother into a sail. Off they went, gaily, arm in arm. They never returned or were their bodies ever found. The boat was located, a hole in the hull."

That hole continued to be a mystery and a source of considerable speculation. No one could reason how it got there. Even with the boat sinking so close to the harbor, nobody could understand why the Tathams did not swim to the spit since both were fine swimmers, but as some were want to say, accidents do happen and many are unexplainable.

Little was left by the Tathams in the way of material goods. What they had was sold to pay debts. A family in the north took their son who was seven while Patience and Penelope, then six, were taken by Mr. Tatham's cousin and his wife, Cecil and Anne Framsden, who inherited Castelamer shortly after the Tatham's deaths. They provided a tutor for classroom instruction, a seamstress to teach Patience needle work and sewing at which she became quite proficient, clothed the children and kept them in health.

Patience turned to face the great house which was the love of her life. The builder was a Norman who fought for William at Hastings and was awarded a land grant for loyalty. He had granite boulders pulled from the earth, shaped and sized, and then placed together to form the original part of the house, a massive entry two stories high, buttressed and topped with battlements. On either side of the entry were granite walls pierced with windows. He called his demi-fortress Castelamer, a corruption of "castle" for his adopted England and "la mer" in memory of his French sea. His descendants became one of the premier families of the west country, associates of the Gilberts and Raleighs, the Grenvilles and Drakes. Its members fought on Boswell Field for the Tudors, challenged the Spanish Armada for Queen Elizabeth and supported Charles II in his struggle to regain his throne.

During the sixteenth century, alterations were made in the original medieval house to modernize it. Two story Tudor wings were added. Each wing, identical to the other, was extended forward of the original granite building thus recessing the old entry which had been left intact. At the extremity of either wing a three story tower topped by a cupola and lantern was constructed.

Superb herringbone brickwork dominated the Tudor wing facades, a lasting tribute to the brilliant workmanship of bricklayers. At intervals, silhouetted against the sky, molded chimneys were stacked in twists and turns.

Patience liked to step gingerly to the edge of Bodacomb Bluff where it fell in a sheer tumble some one hundred feet to the beach below. She would get on her hands and knees then crawl to the very edge where she would stretch out on her stomach and gaze at waves crashing into a massive build up of boulders on the beach. The noise was loud and raucous as the sea rammed into the rocky barrier which protected a narrow strip of sand between the rocks and the base of the cliff. There was one opening among the rocks where waves could roll onto the beach unchallenged.

As she lay in solitude, she thought of stories she had heard of wicked men who, on stormy nights, posted lights on this bluff to guide an unsuspecting captain away from Hythe Haven and onto the boulders. When the ship floundered, these ruthless men would confiscate the cargo.

She was lost in musing when she thought she heard footsteps. Patience raised her head to listen but the noise stopped. She rolled over on her back to gaze at the heavens when all of sudden she found her eyes looking directly at the figure of Mr. Wyatt.

"Do not move, sweet child," he whispered, his eyes bright and eager. "Gently now. Stay as you are. You are a picture of heaven. Let me enjoy your loveliness."

Dudley Wyatt was a close personal friend of Mr. Framsden. He frequently was a visitor at Castelamer. He had the freedom to come and go and was entertained at house socials. Most often when he came calling, however, he was in private discussion with Mr. Framsden.

Prone as she was, Mr. Wyatt appeared to Patience as a giant. Actually he was of little more than average height and weight, but broad in the shoulders. There was the first suggestion of grey hair at his temples giving maturity to a handsome young face. His eyes had a green cast, and on this day they sparkled brightly in the sunlight. His mouth was in full smile, the kind a person uses to reflect appreciation. Fine white teeth added to the charm of his smile. Light brown hair was worn long. Usually he dressed in the latest fashion, but today he was garbed casually, wearing riding boots and a white shirt which was partially open at the chest.

He put out his hand to stay any move on Patience's part and began dropping to one knee. Without thinking she rolled quickly in the opposite direction and bounded to her feet while he was off balance.

"There, Patty, stay," he directed. "I want to spend a moment of this beautiful day with you. Tell me, what have you been thinking as you lay in the sunshine? Has it been of a young lover who chanced on Bodacombe Bluff, won your heart, and then carried you away in his arms? Tell me. Honest."

He extended his arm. She stepped backward to avoid his touch as he spoke amorously. "I could be that lover, Patty. No more longing for you. It could be real. Have you talked to Penny?"

Patience responded with a questioning tilt of her head when he spoke her sister's name and he immediately added, "Of course not. Innocent Patty. But not Penny. You think your sister was given her own room because you were old enough to be separated. A ha! Not so. She asked for her own room so I could visit her when it pleased her and that was often. I played with her. She was like a kitten wanting to be played with. We played often. Too often. That swelling which she wanted you to believe was a stomach bloating is my brat she is about to have!"

(Continues...)

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preigu betreibt einen Onlineversandhandel mit über 1 Mio. Produkten in verschiedenen Sortimenten. Das Kernsortiment besteht aus Büchern, Medien und Spielwaren. Ein gelungenes Einkaufserlebnis ist das Ziel einer jeden Bestellung bei preigu, denn der Kunde und seine Zufriedenheit stehen an erster Stelle. preigu setzt daher auf einen kompetenten Kundenservice, funktionierende Prozesse und schnelle Reaktion.

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preigu GmbH & Co. KG

Lengericher Landstraße 19
Osnabrück, Germany 49078

About Us

Legal website operator identification:

preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstr. 19
49078 Osnabrück
Germany

Telephone: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84
Email: mail@preigu.de

VAT No: DE 455 380 498
AG Osnabrück - HRA 209647

PhG: preigu Verwaltung GmbH
AG Osnabrück - HRB 221793
CEO: Ansas Meyer

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before consumer arbitration boards.

We are a member of the initiative "FairCommerce" since 30.11.2016.
For more information, see: https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/haendlerbund/interessenvertretung/faircommerce

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I. Standard business terms

§ 1 Basic provisions

(1) The following terms and conditions of business apply for all contracts concluded with us as the supplier (preigu GmbH & Co. KG) via the websites AbeBooks and/or ZVAB. Unless otherwise agreed, the inclusion of your own terms and conditions is explicitly rejected.

(2) A ‘consumer' in the sense of the following regulations is every natural person who concludes a legal transaction which, to an overwhelming extent, cannot be attributed to either his commercial or independent professional activities. The term ‘businessman' refers to every natural person, legal person or legally responsible partnership that concludes a legal transaction in pursuance of his/its independent professional or commercial activity.

§ 2 Conclusion of the contract

(1) The subject-matter of the contract is the selling of products .

(2) If an article is placed by us with AbeBooks or ZVAB, the activation of the page on AbeBooks or ZVAB shall involve the binding offer to conclude a contract under the terms and conditions contained in the article page.

(3) The contract shall become effective via the online shopping cart system as follows:
The products intended for purchase are moved to the "shopping cart". You can select the "Shopping Cart" using the appropriate buttons on the navigation bar and make changes there at any time.
After calling up the "Checkout" page and entering the required personal data and payment and shipping conditions, all order information is then displayed again on the order summary page.
Before submitting the order, you have the ability once more to review or change any information here (you may also use the "back" button on the Internet browser), or to cancel the purchase.
By clicking the "Buy now" button to submit the order, you declare your legally binding acceptance of the order which makes the contract effective.
(4) The execution of the order and the sending of all the details necessitated by the conclusion of the contract take place via e-mail, in a partially-automated manner. Consequently, you have to ensure that the e-mail address that you have deposited with us is the correct one, and that the receipt of the respective e-mails is guaranteed. In particular, you have to ensure that the respective e-mails are not blocked by a SPAM filter.

§ 3 Right of retention, reservation of proprietary rights

(1) You can only exercise a right of retention if the situation in question involves claims arising from the same contractual relationship.

(2) The goods remain our property until the purchase price is paid in full.

§ 4 Warranty

(1) The statutory warranty rights are applicable.

(2) As a consumer, you are requested to promptly check the product for completeness, visible defects and transport damage as soon as it is delivered, and promptly disclose your complaints to us and the shipping company in writing. Even if you do not comply with this request, it shall have no effect on your legal warranty claims.

(3) If a characteristic of the goods deviates from the objective requirements, the deviation shall only be deemed to be agreed if you were informed of the same by us before submitting the contractual declaration and the deviation was expressly and separately agreed between the contracting parties.

§ 5 Choice of law, place of fulfilment, jurisdiction

(1) German law shall apply. This choice of law only applies to customers if it does not result in the revocation of the protection guaranteed by the mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the respective customer's usual place of residence is located (benefit-of-the-doubt principle).

(2) If you are not a consumer, but a businessman, a legal entity under public law or an institutional fund governed by public law, our place of business is the place of jurisdiction as well as the place of fulfilment for all services that follow from the business relationships that exist with us. The same condition applies to situations in which you are not associated with a general place of jurisdiction in Germany or the EU, as well as situations in which the place of residence or the usual place of residence is not known at the time of commencement of proceedings. This has no bearing on the capacity to call upon the court associated with another place of jurisdiction.

(3) The provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods are explicitly inapplicable.

II. Customer information

Identity of the seller

preigu GmbH & Co. KG
Lengericher Landstr. 19
49078 Osnabrück
Germany
Telephone: 0541-580 72 84
E-Mail: mail@preigu.de

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before consumer arbitration boards.

Information regarding the conclusion of the contract

The technical steps associated with the conclusion of the contract, the contract conclusion itself and the correction options are executed in accordance to the regulations "conclusion of the contract" in our standard business terms (part I.).

Contractual language, saving the text of the contract

3.1 Contract language shall be English.

3.2 The complete text of the contract is not saved with us. Before the order is sent, the contract data can be printed out or electronically saved using the browser's print function. After the order is received by us, the order data, the legally-mandated details related to distance selling contracts and the standard business terms are re-sent to you via e-mail.

Main features of the product or service

The key features of the goods and/or services can be found in the respective quote.

Prices and payment arrangements

5.1 The prices mentioned in the respective offers represent total prices, as do the shipping costs. They include all the price components, including all the incidental taxes.

5.2 The dispatch costs that are incurred are not included in the purchase price. They can be viewed by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote, are shown separately over the course of the order transaction and must additionally be borne by you, insofar as free delivery is not confirmed.

5.3 If delivery is made to countries outside of the European Union, we may incur unreasonable additional costs, such as duties, taxes or money transfer fees (transfer or foreign exchange fees charged by the banks), which you must bear.

5.4 You must also bear the costs arising from money transfers in cases in which the delivery is made to an EU Member State, but the payment is initiated outside of the European Union.

5.5 The payment methods that are available to you are shown by clicking the appropriate button on our website or are disclosed in the respective quote.

5.6 Unless otherwise specified for the respective payment methods, the payment claims arising from the contract that has been concluded become payable immediately.

Delivery conditions

6.1 The delivery conditions, delivery date and existing supply restrictions, if applicable, can be found by clicking the appropriate button on our website or in the respective quote.

Unless a different period is specified in the item description or our delivery conditions, the goods are delivered within 3-5 days after the conclusion of the contract (in case an advance payment has been agreed upon, after the payment authorisation).

6.2 If you are a consumer, the following is statutorily regulated: The risk of the sold item accidentally being destroyed or degraded during shipping only passes over to you when the item in question is delivered, regardless of whether or not the shipping operation is insured. This condition does not apply if you have independently commissioned a transport company that has not been specified by us or a person who has otherwise been appointed to execute the shipping operation.

Statutory warranty right

Liability for defects is governed by the "Warranty" provisions in our General Terms and Conditions of Business (Part I).

Information on battery disposal

In connection with the sale of batteries or the delivery of devices containing batteries, we are obliged to inform you of the following:

Batteries must not be disposed of with household waste.

You can either return used batteries that we carry or have carried in our range as new batteries to us at your own expense or return them free of charge to our shipping warehouse (shipping address). Alternatively, you can hand in the batteries at your local collection points.

As an end user, you are legally obliged to return used batteries so that they can be recycled or disposed of properly.

Used batteries may contain harmful substances that can damage the environment or your health if not stored or disposed of properly. However, batteries also contain important raw materials such as iron, zinc, manganese or nickel and can be recycled.

The symbols on the batteries have the following meanings:

The symbol of the crossed-out wheelie bin means that the battery must not be disposed of with household waste.

For batteries containing a certain amount of lead, cadmium or mercury, the following additions below the symbol with the crossed-out wheelie bin indicate the respective pollutants:

Pb = Battery contains more than 0.004% lead by weight
Cd = Battery contains more than 0.002% cadmium by weight
Hg = Battery contains more than 0.0005% mercury by weight

Information on the costs involved in accordance with Article 56 (4) of the EU Battery Regulation (Regulation 2023/1542) can be found at the ‘Batterie-Zurück (https://www.batterie-zurueck.de/de/bewirtschaftungvonaltbatterien/)' initiative.
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Right of withdrawal

Instructions for revocation

Right of withdrawal for the sale of goods

Revocation right for consumers
(A ‘consumer' is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction which, to an overwhelming extent, cannot be attributed to either his commercial or independent professional activities.)

Instructions for revocation

Revocation right
You have the right to revoke this contract within 14 days without specifying any reasons.
The revocation period is 14 days with effect from the day,

on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the products, provided you had ordered one or more products within the scope of a standard order and this/these product/products is/are delivered uniformly;
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last product, provided you had ordered several products within the scope of a standard order and these products are delivered separately;
on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last part delivery or the last unit, provided you had ordered a product, which is delivered in several part deliveries or units;

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Telephone number: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, E-Mail address: mail@preigu.de) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by post, or an e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached model withdrawal form for this purpose, which is, however, not mandatory.

You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online by clicking on a button labelled accordingly (such as ‘Withdraw from contract' or similar) on the AbeBooks/ZVAB website. If you use this online function, you will immediately receive a confirmation of receipt on a durable medium (e.g. via email) containing information on the content of the withdrawal notice, as well as the date and time of its receipt.

In order to safeguard the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification about the exercise of the revocation right before the expiry of the revocation period.

Consequences of the revocation

If you revoke this contract, we shall repay all the payments, which we received from you, including the delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs, which arise from that fact that you selected a form of delivery other than the most reasonable standard delivery offered by us), immediately and at the latest within 14 days from the day on which we received the notification about the revocation of this contract from you. We use the same means of payment, which you had originally used during the original transaction, for this repayment unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; you will not be charged any fees owing to this repayment.

We can refuse the repayment until the products are returned to us or until you have furnished evidence that you have sent the products back to us, depending on whichever is earlier.

You must return or transfer the products to us immediately and, in any case, at the latest within 14 days with effect from the day on which you inform us of the revocation of this contract. The deadline is maintained if you send the products before the expiry of the 14 day deadline.

You bear the direct costs for returning the products.

You must pay for any depreciation of the products only if this depreciation can be attributed to any handling with you that was not necessary for checking the condition, features and functionality of the products.

Criteria for exclusion or expiry

The revocation right is not available for contracts

for delivery of products, which are not prefabricated and for whose manufacturing an individual selection or stipulation by the consumer is important or which are clearly tailored to the personal requirements of the consumer;
for delivery of products, which can spoil quickly or whose use-by date would be exceeded quickly;
for delivery of alcoholic drinks, whose price was agreed at the time of concluding the contract, which however can be delivered 30 days after the conclusion of the contract at the earliest and whose current value depends on the fluctuations in the market, on which the entrepreneur has no influence;
for delivery of newspapers, periodicals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts. The revocation right expires prematurely in case of contracts
for delivery of sealed products, which are not suitable for return for reasons of health protection or hygiene if their seal has been removed after the delivery;
for delivery of products if they have been mixed inseparably with other goods after the delivery, owing to their condition;
for delivery of sound or video recording or computer software in a sealed package if the seal has been removed after the delivery.

Specimen - revocation form

(If you wish to revoke the contract, please fill up this form and send it back to us.)

To preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Email address: mail@preigu.de :
I/we () herewith revoke the contract concluded by me/ us () regarding the purchase of the following products ()/
the provision of the following service ()
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Name of the consumer(s)
Address of the consumer(s)
Signature of the consumer(s) (only in case of a notification on paper)
Date

(*) Cross out the incorrect option.

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"Personal data" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Responsible person
Contact us at any time. The person responsible for data processing is: Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück Deutschland, +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, mail@preigu.de

Collection and processing when using the cancellation button
If you have entered into a contract via this platform for which a statutory right of cancellation applies, the platform provides you with a cancellation function (cancellation button) through which you can submit your notice of cancellation immediately.
When using the cancellation function, your personal data (name, email address, details identifying the contract or part of the contract you wish to withdraw from, and the time (date and time) of sending the notice of withdrawal) will only be collected to the extent that you have provided it.
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The platform operator collects your data on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, namely the legitimate interest in ensuring the general accessibility of the statutory withdrawal function on the platform. You will receive a confirmation email from the platform operator acknowledging receipt of your notice of withdrawal.
The data is then transmitted to us by the platform operator.
If the contact relates to a contract already concluded between you and us, this data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Otherwise, data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR, to fulfil a legal obligation to provide an electronic withdrawal function.
We use your email address solely to process your notice of withdrawal. Your data will subsequently be deleted in accordance with statutory retention periods, provided you have not consented to further processing and use.

Collection, processing, and transfer of personal data in orders
When you submit an order we only collect and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your order as well as processing of your queries. The provision of data is necessary for conclusion of a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will occur on the basis of Article 6(1) b) GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you.
Your data will be shared, for example, with shipping companies, dropshipping or fulfillment providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing, and IT service providers. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.

Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.
You can lodge a complaint with, among others, the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you may reach at the following contact details:

Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen Prinzenstraße 5 30159 Hannover Tel.: +49 511 1204500 Fax: +49 511 1204599 E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de

Right to object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.
If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms, or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

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Let Love be the Victor

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