General Terms and Conditions for Day and Weekend Events as well as Tours
1. Scope of Application and Definitions
1.1. These General Terms and Conditions ("GTC") apply, regardless of the method of booking, to all contracts for day and weekend events as well as tours ("Event") between Leitz-Park Marketing GmbH ("we", "us", "our") and the participant ("Participant", "you", "your", "Customer"). If, however, you have booked a day or weekend event that qualifies as a travel contract within the meaning of package travel law, our General Terms and Conditions for Travel apply. These GTC supplement the statutory provisions. Deviating provisions in the individually concluded contract take precedence over these GTC.
1.2. In the event that terminology is used in these GTC which resembles those of package travel law under §§ 651 a ff. German Civil Law (BGB) (e.g., "event" or "organizer"), this does not imply that a voluntary package travel contract is intended or accepted by us. Rather, a mixed-type contract is concluded between us, which pursuant to § 651 a para. 5 No. 2 of the German Civil Code (BGB) does not fall under national or European package travel law.
1.3. Any general terms and conditions of yours shall not become part of the contract concluded between you and us.
2. Conclusion of the Contract
2.1. Listings, descriptions, price lists or tables, as well as other promotions or advertisements of event-related materials on our part – including those that refer to a specific period and/or state a specific price and/or other services and obligations – do not constitute an offer in the legal sense. Rather, these are merely invitations to potential customers to submit an offer to conclude a travel contract with the corresponding content.
2.2. By booking the event, you are making a binding offer to enter into a contract with us. We are entitled to accept this offer within a reasonable period of time, at least three business days after receiving the offer. No specific form is required for the offer and acceptance. Please note: A confirmation that we have received your offer to conclude a contract does not constitute a booking confirmation and therefore does not establish a contract.
2.3. If we accept your offer to conclude a contract, we will send you a booking confirmation including a booking number and invoice in text form (excluding tours, in which case you will not receive a booking number and invoice). The basis of the offer and the acceptance, and thus the content of the contract, is exclusively the content of the current hotel and/or service description applicable to the participation period as issued by us and the content of the confirmation/invoice.
3. Payment
3.1 After conclusion of the contract, the full participation fee becomes due for immediate payment. Tours, which are pain on-site, are an exception.
3.2 If the customer fails to pay the participation fee by the agreed payment deadline, even though we are prepared and able to properly perform the contractual services and no statutory or contractual right of retention exists on the part of the participant, we are entitled, after issuing a reminder with a deadline, to withdraw from the contract.
3.3 Upon/after conclusion of the contract, we will send you the detailed program, which generally consists of an event description, the schedule, a list of services, as well as further information about the event. We are entitled to withhold delivery of the detailed program until the participation fee has been fully paid in accordance with the above provisions.
3.4 The payment terms are specified in the offer description.
4. Changes to Services Before and During the Event
4.1 Deviations in essential characteristics of services from the agreed content of the contract that become necessary after contract conclusion and are not made in bad faith on our part are permitted before the start of the event, provided that the deviations are insignificant and do not impair the overall nature of the event. The same applies to adjustments to the content and course of the event that correspond to the individual needs of the participants.
4.2 We will inform you immediately of any changes in services pursuant to Section 4.1 after becoming aware of them.
5. Withdrawal Before the Start of the Event by Us
5.1 If we are prevented from fulfilling the contract due to unavoidable, extraordinary circumstances, we may withdraw from the event by issuing a declaration of withdrawal immediately after becoming aware of the reason for withdrawal and before the start of the event.
5.2 If we withdraw from the contract in accordance with the provisions of this Section, we will refund any payments already made amount already paid by you without undue delay, but no later than within 14 days after the withdrawal.
6. Our Liability
6.1 Claims by participants for damages are excluded. This excludes claims for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, or from the breach of essential contractual obligations (cardinal obligations), as well as liability for other damages based on intentional or grossly negligent breaches of duty by us, our legal representatives, or vicarious agents. Essential contractual obligations are those whose fulfilment is necessary to achieve the objective of the contract.
6.2 In the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, we are liable only for the typical, foreseeable damage if this was caused by simple negligence, unless it concerns claims for damages by participants arising from injury to life, body, or health.
6.3 The limitations in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 also apply in favour of our legal representatives and vicarious agents if claims are asserted directly against them.
7. Complaint Procedure and Online Dispute Resolution
If you are not satisfied with the performance of the contractual services, you can contact our customer service at:
Leitz-Park Marketing GmbH
Am Leitz-Park 6
35578 Wetzlar
Germany
Phone: 06441-2080-119 | Monday to Friday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm
Phone: 06441-2080-400 | outside the stated hours
Email: visitleitzpark@leica-camera.com
We do not participate in out-of-court dispute resolution procedures. Nevertheless, we are legally required to inform you that such procedures are conducted by the following authority: Allgemeine Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle des Zentrums für Schlichtung e.V., Straßburger Straße 8, 77694 Kehl am Rhein, Germany, Phone: +49 7851 7957940, Fax: +49 7851 795794, Email: mail@verbraucher-schlichter.de.
8. Final Provisions
8.1 The place of jurisdiction is – provided you and/or the participants are merchants or legal entities under public law or do not have a general place of jurisdiction in Germany – our registered office in 35578 Wetzlar.
8.2 You and/or the participants are only entitled to offset claims against us if such claims are undisputed by us or have been legally established.
8.3 For the contract and all agreements entered into between you and/or the participants and us based on or in connection with it, only the law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is excluded, unless the application of the law of another country, particularly the home country of you and/or the travellers, is mandatorily required by law.
8.4 If any individual provisions of these GTC or of the contract, or parts thereof, should be or become invalid or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the other parts of the affected provision, of these GTC, or of the contract. An invalid or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a provision that most closely reflects the intent and purpose of the invalid provision, the GTC, or the contract.
Leitz-Park Marketing GmbH
Am Leitz-Park 6
35578 Wetzlar
Germany
Phone: +49 6441 2080-119 | Monday to Friday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm
Phone: +49 6441 2080-400 |outside the stated hours
Email: visitleitzpark@leica-camera.com
Version: May 2025