This document contains the general terms and conditions on the basis of which the use of the web site and of the application ComicsFlow that provides a system for organizing and tracking the progress of any art project, like comics and illustrations. is offered by the Owner and Third-party Providers
To allow a complete understanding and acceptance of these terms and conditions, the following terms, in the singular and in the plural, shall have the meaning indicated below:
The Application hosts a platform managed by the Owner which allows the contact of Users interested in the Products offered by the Owner and Third-party Providers.
Therefore, Users can purchase Products supplied by the Owner and Products supplied by Third-party Providers through the Application. It is always clearly indicated in the Application whether the Product is supplied by the Owner or a Third-party Provider.
Should the Products be offered by a Third-party Provider, the Owner is not party to the relationship between the User and the Third-party Provider and therefore shall not be under any liability from such relationship. The Owner shall be considered only as a mere technical operator of the Application. Therefore, any contract entered into between Third-party Providers and Users is not subject to the Conditions.
The terms and conditions of sale of each Third-party Provider are published in the Application under “Third-party Provider’s Terms and Conditions".
The Application provides Users a system for organizing and tracking the progress of any art project. Choose a template (American comic, French comic, illustration for a children's book…) or create your own, add the number of pages and the activities for each type of page, and complete the project adding the start and deadline dates from the calendar. ComicsFlow will tell you how much work to do every day. At each step forward confirm the activities done and keep an eye on the status of the project, the interface will show you the progress state allowing you to focus mainly on the drawing..
The use of the Application implies full acceptance of the Conditions by the User. Should the User not accept the Conditions and / or any other note, legal notice, information published or referred to therein, the User shall not use the Application or the services related.
The Owner may amend the Conditions at any time.
The applicable Conditions are those in force on the date of transmission of the purchase order of a Product.
Before using the Application, the User is required to read the Conditions carefully save or print them for future reference.
The Owner reserves the right to change, at his own discretion and at any time, even after the User has registered, the graphic interface of the Application, the Contents and their organisation, as well as any other feature that characterises the functionality and management of the Application, communicating to the User the relative instructions, when necessary.
All Products offered through the Application are described in detail in the relevant product pages (quality, features, availability, price, supply and execution times, accessory charges, etc.). Some errors, inaccuracies or small differences between what is published in the Application and the Product may occur. Furthermore, the images of the Products shall be considered as a mere representation and do not constitute a contractual element.
Purchases of one or more Products through the Application are permitted both to Consumer Users and to Professional Users.
Purchases requests are permitted only to natural persons of legal age. For minors, any purchase of Products through the Application shall be examined and authorised by the parents or those exercising parental authority.
The offer of Products through the Application shall be deemed as an invitation to prepare an offer and the order sent by the User as contractual purchase proposal, subject to the confirmation and / or the acceptance of the Owner as described below. Therefore, the Owner has the right to accept or refuse the User's order or delivery request at its discretion. Accordingly, the User is not entitled to complain about the Owner’s decision for any reason.
The contract of sale of the Products is deemed to be concluded with the Owner’s acceptance of the User’s contractual purchase proposal or delivery request. The Owner shall inform the User of the acceptance by sending an order confirmation to the e-mail address indicated by the User. The confirmation shall contain the date of the order, User’s data, the characteristics of the Product and the information on its availability, the price or the manner in which the price is to be calculated, further charges and / or taxes, if any, supply and execution times, the procedures for exercising the right to withdrawal or its possible exclusion and the guarantee.
The contract of sale of the Products is not effective between the parties in absence of what is indicated in the preceding paragraph.
In the event that the Product is not available, the Owner shall inform the User the new terms of delivery and ask if the User intends to confirm the order. It is understood that the contract shall be deemed as concluded only with reference to the Products accepted by the Owner.
The User shall verify the correctness of the data reported in the order confirmation and immediately notify the Owner of any errors. The User shall keep a copy of the order, of the confirmation and of the Conditions.
To take advantage of the features of the Application, the User shall register and provide, truthfully and completely, all data requested in the registration form and accept the privacy policy ( https://www.comicsflow.com/privacy) and the Conditions.
The User has the responsibility to keep login credentials. The login credentials shall be used exclusively by the User and cannot be transferred to third parties. The User undertakes to keep them confidential and to ensure that no third party has access to them. Should the User suspect or become aware of any improper use or disclosure, he shall immediately inform the Owner.
The User guarantees that the personal information provided during the registration procedure is complete and truthful and undertakes to hold the Owner harmless from any damage, indemnity and / or penalty resulting from and / or in any way connected to the infringement by the User of the Application registration rules or the storage of the login credentials.
The registered User can interrupt the use of the Application at any time and deactivate his account or request the cancellation through the Application interface, if possible, or by sending a written communication to the e-mail address support@comicsflow.com.
In case of violation by the User of the Conditions or of the applicable legal provisions, the Owner reserves the right to suspend or close the User's account at any time and without notice.
The Application offers subscription Products. The features and methods of subscription are detailed in the Application.
In order to subscribe, the User shall follow the procedure indicated in the Application and provide the requested information. The subscription fees, if any, shall be charged on the specified date and with the frequency indicated at the time of purchase.
The subscription shall renew according to the methods and times indicated in the Application.
Users can deactivate the renewal of the subscription in the Application or by sending a communication to the e-mail address support@comicsflow.com or by changing the preferences of the payment method used.
For each Product the price including VAT, if due is indicated. If the price cannot be calculated in advance, due to the nature of the Product, the methods for calculating the price shall be indicated.
Furthermore, all possible taxes, additional costs which may vary depending on the payment method used shall be indicated. If these expense items cannot reasonably be calculated in advance, there shall be an indication of which expenses to be charged to the User.
The Owner reserves the right to change the price of the Products as well as any additional costs at any time. It is understood that price changes shall in no case affect the contracts already concluded before such change.
The User undertakes to pay the price of the Product within the times with and methods indicated in the Application and to communicate the information requested.
The Application uses third-party tools for processing payments and does not enter in any way into contact with the payment data provided (number of credit cards, name of the holder, password, etc.).
Should these third party tools deny payment authorisation, the Owner shall not provide the Products and cannot be held responsible in any way.
The User who intended to receive the invoice for the payment shall provide the Owner with the billing information. In this case, the User declares that the information provided is true and releases the Owner from any liability in this regard.
The Owner shall deliver the digital Products, including any digital Products supplied on material medium to the User, in the manner and at the time indicated in the Application and detailed in the order confirmation.
In the event that it is not possible to provide the digital Products within the aforesaid terms, the Owner shall promptly notify the User via e-mail, indicating the expected time of the delivery or the reasons that make the delivery impossible.
If the User does not intend to accept the new term or the delivery has become impossible, he can request the refund of the amount paid. The refund shall be paid promptly with payment method used for the purchase, within a maximum of 14 days from the date on which the Owner became aware of refund request.
The Professional User is not entitled to withdraw from the contract of sale or delivery of the Products. The User expressly acknowledges that the indication in the order of a VAT identification number qualifies him as a Professional User.
The Consumer User has the right to withdraw from the contract without penalty and without specifying the reason, within the term of 14 days from the date of signature of the contract, by sending a written communication to the e-mail address support@comicsflow.com, using the optional withdrawal form in the following article or any other written declaration.
In case of withdrawal exercised correctly, the Holder shall refund the payments received by the User. The refund shall be paid promptly with payment method used for the purchase, within a maximum of 14 days from the date on which the Owner became aware of refund request.
The User acknowledges and accepts to lose the right of withdrawal after the digital product has been downloaded or used.
The User acknowledges and accepts that the withdrawal from a subscription does not entail the return of the amounts paid for the Products already used or supplied.
The right to withdrawal from the contract of sale of the Products by the Consumer User is excluded relatively:
For more information, the User shall contact the Owner at the e-mail address support@comicsflow.com.
I hereby communicate the withdrawal from the sales or supply
contract relating to the following product __________
Order number:_______
Date of the order:
_______
Name and surname: _______
Address: ______
E-mail associated with the account from
which the order was made: ____________________
Date: __________
Consumer Users are ensured the guarantee of conformity, provided for by articles 135-decies and following of the Consumer Code, for all digital products sold through the Application, with the exception of the exclusion cases hypotheses provided for in article 135-novies of the Consumer Code.
The Owner is liable responsible for any lack of conformity that occurs within two years from the date of supply. Any lack of conformity must be reported by the Consumer User within twenty-six months from the date of supply or from the last act of supply. When the sales contract provides that the digital products are provided for a certain period of time, the obligation to ensure compliance remains for the entire duration of that period.
If the Consumer User intends to take advantage of the remedies provided for by the guarantee of conformity, he must send a written communication to the e-mail address support@comicsflow.com. The Owner shall will promptly reply to the communication of the alleged lack of conformity and shall will indicate to the Consumer User the specific procedure to follow.
For anything not provided for in this clause, the articles from articles. From article 135-octies to article 135-vicies bis of the Consumer Code and the articles of the civil code regarding the formation, validity and effectiveness of contracts, including the consequences of terminating the contract and the right to compensation for damage.
The User can upload Content on the Application, provided that it is not illegal (e.g. obscene, intimidating, defamatory, pornographic, abusive or for any reason illegal or in violation of privacy, the intellectual and / or industrial property rights of the Owner and / or third parties), misleading, or is not otherwise harmful to the Owner and / or third parties or contains viruses, political propaganda, commercial solicitation, mass e-mail or any other form of spamming. In the event of a dispute by a third party regarding any announcement or conduct related to it, the User assumes full liability and undertakes to hold the Holder harmless from any damage, loss or expense.
The User guarantees that the Contents are sent to the Application through his account from a natural person of legal age. For natural persons under legal age, the sending of Contents must be examined and authorised by the parents or by those exercising parental authority.
The User is the sole and exclusive responsible for the use of the Application with regard to the publication, consultation, management of the Content and contact between Users and is therefore the sole guarantor and responsible for the correctness, completeness and lawfulness of the Contents and its own behaviour.
It is forbidden to use an e-mail address that is not owned by the User, to use the personal data and credentials of another User in order to use his identity, or in any other way to declare false information about the origin of the Contents.
The Owner is unable to ensure timely control over the Content received and reserves the right at any time to cancel, move or modify the Content, which, at its discretion, appears to be illegal, abusive, defamatory, obscene or prejudicial to the right to author and trademarks or in any case unacceptable.
By uploading content to this Application, the user acknowledges that they are the rightful owner of the content or have obtained the necessary permissions from the owner(s) to upload it. The user retains all ownership rights to the content they upload, and the Owner will not claim any ownership rights or license the content to any third-party without the user's express consent.
The user grants the Owner a non-exclusive right to use the content solely for the purpose of providing the Application's services. This includes the right to transmit and display the content on the Application and to modify the content as necessary for technical purposes, such as optimizing the content for display on different devices. However, the Owner will not use, modify, copy, transmit, extract, publish, distribute, publicly perform, disseminate, create derivative works, host, index, store, note, encode, modify, or adapt the content in any other way without the user's express consent.
The content sent will not be returned, and the Owner will not be liable towards Users for the loss, modification or destruction of the transmitted content, except as required by law. Any personal information included in the user's content will be treated in accordance with the Application's privacy policy.
It is expressly forbidden, unless explicitly authorised by the Owner: i) the use of automatic announcement uploading systems, except those expressly authorised, ii) serial publication and / or management of advertisements for third parties by any means or method, iii) resell the Owner's services to third parties.
All the contents of the Application, including texts, documents, trademarks, logos, images, graphics, their arrangement and their adaptations are protected by copyright and trademark legislation. The Application may also contain images, documents, logos and trademarks of third parties which have expressly authorized the Owner to be published in the Application. Except for strictly personal uses, it is not allowed to copy, alter, distribute, publish or use the Contents without the specific authorization of the Owner.
The Application is provided "as is" and "as available" and the Owner does not provide any explicit or implicit guarantee in relation to the Application, nor does it provide any guarantee that the Application will satisfy the needs of the Users or that it will not have never interrupt or be error-free or free of viruses or bugs.
The Owner will endeavour to ensure that the Application is available continuously 24 hours a day, but cannot in any way be held responsible if, for any reason, the Application is not accessible and / or operational at any time or for any period . Access to the Application may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the event of system failure, maintenance, repairs or for reasons wholly unrelated to the owner's will or due to force majeure events.
The Owner shall not be held liable towards the User, except in the case of wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for disservices or malfunctions connected to the use of the internet outside of its own control or that of its suppliers.
Furthermore, the Owner will not be liable for damages, losses and costs incurred by the User as a result of failure to execute the contract for reasons not attributable to him, the User only having the right to a full refund of the price paid and of any additional charges incurred.
The Owner assumes no responsibility for any fraudulent or illegal use that may be made by third parties of credit cards and other means of payment, since he does not enter in any way in contact with the payment data used (credit card number, name of the holder, password, etc.).
The Owner shall not be held liable for:
In no case the Owner shall be held liable for a sum greater than twice the cost paid by the User.
The Owner shall not be held responsible for the failure or late fulfilment of its obligations, due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control due to events of force majeure or, in any case, to unforeseen and unforeseeable events and, in any case, independent of its will.
The fulfilment of the obligations by the Owner shall be considered suspended for the period in which events of force majeure occur.
The Owner will perform any act in his power in order to identify solutions that allow the correct fulfilment of his obligations despite the persistence of events due to force majeure.
The Application may contain links to third-party web sites / applications. The Owner has no control over them and, therefore, is in no way responsible for the contents of these sites / applications.
Some of these links may link to third-party sites / applications that provide services through the Application. In these cases, the general conditions for the use of the site / application and for the use of the service prepared by the third parties will be applied to the individual services, with respect to which the Owner assumes no responsibility.
The protection and processing of personal data will be in accordance with the Privacy Policy which can be consulted on the page https://www.comicsflow.com/privacy
The Conditions are subject to Italian law.
For Consumer Users, any dispute concerning the application, execution and interpretation of these Conditions shall be referred to courts where the Consumer User resides or has elected domicile, if located in the territory of the Italian Republic, without prejudice to the right of the User Consumer of going to court other than the "consumer court" pursuant to Section 66 bis of the Italian Consumer Code, competent for the territory according to one of the criteria of the Sections 18, 19 and 20 of the civil procedural code.
The application to Consumer Users who do not have their residence or domicile in Italy of any more favourable and mandatory provisions established by the law of the country in which they have their residence or domicile is reserved, in particular in relation to the term for the exercise of the right of withdrawal, after the return of the Products, in case of exercise of this right, the formalities of the communication and the legal guarantee of conformity.
For Users who are not Consumers, any dispute concerning the application, execution and interpretation of these Conditions will be referred to the forum of the place where the Owner is based.
The consumer user residing in Europe shall be aware of the fact that the European Commission has established an online platform that provides an alternative dispute resolution tool. This tool can be used by the Consumer User to resolve any dispute relating to and / or deriving from contracts for the sale of goods and the provision of services concluded online. Consequently, the Consumer User can use this platform for the resolution of any dispute arising from the contract entered into online. The platform is available at the following address: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/
Date 31/08/2022