Terms of sale

This document contains the general terms and conditions on the basis of which the use of the web site www.alex-jona.com, which provides an online platform to purchase jewelry articles and luxury gift items, is offered to the users.

1- Definitions

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:

  • Owner: Alex Jona, Via Bogino n. 8, 10123 Torino, JNOLLB70D30Z114U, VAT number 05568070014, certified e-mail address (PEC) jona@pec.it
  • Application: the web site www.alex-jona.com
  • Products: the goods provided to the user by the Owner
  • User: any person who accesses and uses the Application
  • Consumer User: the natural person who enters into a contract for purposes which are not related to his trade, business or profession
  • Conditions: this contract which governs the relationship between the Owner and the Users as well as the sale or supply of the Products offered by the Owner through the Application.

2- Detailed information on the Application’s offer

The Owner pledges to submit the Application to the Users willing to employ it under the following terms and conditions.

The Application provides the opportunity to browse and purchase the luxury items and gift articles as sold by Jona’s jewel gallery in Palazzo Balbo di Vinadio, in Turin, 8 Via Bogino, following the same tradition and principles to let anyone admire and acquire the result of the Owner’s passion for jewelry.

The goal is to provide an equally traditional and tailor-made service for a smart and comfortable online buying experience in the market of jewelry and luxury items, offering a set of accommodations designed for a trustworthy and reliable transaction.

In the online store one can admire and purchase ready-to-wear gold and silver jewelry, as well as exclusively handcrafted, unique quality articles, such as rings adorned with one of a kind gems, sophisticated design earrings and many more wonderful creations, finely crafted with great passion.

3- Scope of the Conditions

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 or request for the supply of a Product.

The fact that the Owner may not enforce strict adherence by the User to the Conditions, nor that he would act in accordance with the Conditions, does not imply and cannot be interpreted as a waiver or refusal to any rights or interests entitled to the Owner.

Sale conditions apply at the time of the purchase or the order transmission.

Before using the Application, the User is required to read the Conditions carefully save or print them for future reference. The Owner will not be responsible for any unlawful act committed by the Users through the Application.

The Owner reserves the right to change, at his own discretion and at any time, the graphic interface of the Application, the Contents and their organization, as well as any other feature that characterizes the functionality and management of the Application, communicating to the User the relative instructions, when necessary.

While using the Application, the User pledges to:

  • do not hide, conceal or mask in any way his own identity, nor even by making impossible to track any data published;
  • do not pretend to be or act as the Owner or any other subject or entity;
  • do not violate the laws of Italy, of the Country where he resides, or any other law applying to the activities conducted via the Application;
  • do not harm, damage, reduce, diminish or interrupt the functionality of the Application, the servers or the network connected to the Application, nor the access and/or the use of the Application;
  • do not violate security measures, procedure, politics and rules of the network connected to the Application, included those derived from netiquette;
  • do not unlawfully access, or try to unlawfully access, the Application and/or any system provided or owned by the Owner by using decryption systems, net resource scans, log in data mining, or by any means other than the interface systems provided by the Owner;
  • do not counterfeit or manipulate by any other means identifiers, includes URLs, with the intent of faking the source of whichever data transmitted through the Application;
  • do not commit violations of business agreements, accords, or partnerships, or of articles of international, European, state or local law, included through any attempt to threaten the security level of the any account or website connected to the internet, nor commit slanderous, defamatory, intimidatory, menacing or harmful and deceitful acts;
  • do not collect, memorize, store or handle personal data belonging to any subject or entity different from himself.

4- Purchase or delivery request through the Application

All Products offered through the Application are described in detail in the relevant product pages (quality, features, availability, price, delivery method, times and expenses, 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 and / or delivery requests of one or more Products through the Application are permitted to Consumer Users.

Purchases and / or delivery requests are permitted only to natural persons of legal age and capacity. For minors, any purchase and / or request for the supply of Products through the Application shall be examined and authorized 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 and / or a delivery request, 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 or provision 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 or by displaying a web order confirmation page. 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, delivery address, delivery times and costs, if any, the procedures for exercising the right to withdrawal or its possible exclusion and the guarantee.

The contract of sale or supply 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.

5- Prices and payments

For each Product the price excluding 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 and delivery costs which may vary depending on the destination, the chosen delivery method and / or 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.

All communications relating to payments are made using a connection protected by an adequate security system. The Owner guarantees the storage of the payment information with an additional level of security and in compliance with legal provisions on the protection of personal data.

6- Billing

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.

7- Material Products’ delivery methods

The material products and / or digital goods supplied on a material support shall be delivered to the address indicated by the User, in the manner and at the time chosen or indicated in the Application and reported in the order confirmation. Unless otherwise specified, the delivery terms specified in the order confirmation shall provide the period of time usually required to deliver the Product from the moment the courier takes charge.

In the event that it is not possible to provide the Products requested, a prompt notice shall be given to the User via e-mail, indicating the expected time of delivery or the reasons that make the delivery not possible.

If the User does not intend to accept the new term or the delivery has become impossible, he can request a refund of the amount paid, which shall be paid promptly with the payment method used for the purchase, within a maximum of 14 days from the date on which the Owner became aware of the refund request. Read more about return policies.

Upon receipt of the Product, the User is required to verify its compliance with the order as well as the integrity of the packaging. In case of evident damage to the packaging and / or to the Product, the User can refuse the delivery of the Product and may return it without any charge. Once the delivery document has been signed, the User cannot make any objection to the external characteristics of the Products delivered.

The Owner is not liable for damages losses and costs incurred as a result of the failure to execute the contract due to force majeure.

8- Right to withdrawal of Consumer Users from the purchase of Material Products

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 delivery of the Product, by sending a written communication to the e-mail address support@alex-jona.com, using the optional withdrawal form provided in the following article or any other written declaration.

In the case of separate delivery of more than one Product, ordered by the Consumer User with a single order, the term of 14 days for exercising the right to withdrawal starts from the day of delivery of the last product.

In case of withdrawal, the Consumer User must return the Product to the Owner, without undue delay and in any case no later than 14 days from the date on which he notified his decision to withdraw from the contract. The Consumer User shall only bear the direct cost of returning the Product, unless the Owner has declared to bear it.

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 Owner shall not reimburse the delivery costs if the Consumer User has expressly chosen a type of delivery different from the least expensive type of delivery offered by the Owner.

The Owner may withhold the reimbursement until the Product is returned or until the Consumer User has demonstrated that he has returned it, unless he has offered to pick up the Product himself.

The Owner may not accept the return if the Product is malfunctioning due to improper use, negligence, physical, aesthetic or superficial damage or alteration, tampering or improper maintenance or wear and tear or absence of integral elements of the product (accessories, parts, etc.). In such cases, the Owner will return the purchased Product to the sender, charging the shipping costs to the sender. Read more about return policies.

9- Exclusion of the right to withdrawal of the Consumer User

The right to withdrawal from the contract of sale or supply of the Products by the Consumer User is excluded relatively for the supply of Products made to the Consumer’s specifications or clearly personalized.

For more information, the User shall contact the Owner at the e-mail address support@alex-jona.com.

10- Optional form to exercise the right to withdrawal

The User can withdraw from the contract by using the following form, which must be completed in its entirety and sent to the e-mail address support@alex-jona.com before the withdrawal period has expired:

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: ____________________________________________________________________________

11- Material Products’ guarantee of conformity for Consumer Users

The legal guarantee of conformity, as provided for in Sections 128-135 of the Italian Consumer Code, is recognized for all the Products sold through the Application that fall under the category of "consumer goods", as regulated by Section 128, paragraph 2 of the Italian Consumer Code: any tangible movable items, also to be assembled, with the exception of i) sold by way of execution or otherwise by authority of law, also by delegation to notaries, ii) water, gas or electricity, where they are not put up for sale in a limited volume or set quantity, iii) electricity.

The legal guarantee of conformity is reserved only to Consumer Users.

The Owner undertakes to deliver the Consumer User Products in compliance with the sales contract. The Products are presumed to be in conformity with the contract if they:

are fit for the purposes for which goods of the same type are normally used

comply with the description given by the seller and possess the qualities of the goods which the seller has held out to the consumer as a sample or model

show the quality and performance which are normal in goods of the same type and which the consumer can reasonably expect, given the nature of the goods and taking into account any public statements on the specific characteristics of the goods made about them by the seller, the producer or his representative, particularly in advertising or on labelling

are fit for any particular purpose for which the consumer requires them and which he made known to the seller at the time of conclusion of the contract and which the seller has accepted.

Any faults or malfunctions caused by accidental facts or by the responsibility of the Consumer User or by use of the Product that is not in conformity with its intended use and / or with the technical documentation provided are therefore excluded from the scope of application of the guarantee of conformity.

The lack of conformity that occurs within 24 months from the date of delivery of the Product must be reported within 2 months following the date of discovery of the defect.

Unless proved otherwise, any lack of conformity which becomes apparent within six months of delivery of the goods shall be presumed to have existed at the time of delivery unless this presumption is incompatible with the nature of the goods or the nature of the lack of conformity. After 6 months, the Consumer User must provide proof that the damage was not caused by incorrect or improper use of the Product.

According to the Section 130 of the Italian Consumer Code, in the event of a lack of conformity of the Product, the Consumer User has the right to restore conformity of the Product, without charge. To this end, the Consumer User can choose between repairing the Product or replacing it.

This right of choice cannot be exercised if the requested remedy is objectively impossible or excessively expensive. Furthermore, the Consumer User has the right to an adequate price reduction or termination of the contract, only if one of the following situations occurs: i) repair and replacement are impossible or excessively expensive; ii) the Owner has not repaired or replaced the Product within a reasonable period; iii) the replacement or repair has caused considerable inconvenience to the Consumer User.

In order to use the remedies provided by the guarantee of conformity, the Consumer User shall send a written communication to the e-mail address support@alex-jona.com.

The Owner shall promptly reply to the communication of the alleged lack of conformity and shall indicate to the Consumer User the specific procedure to be followed, also taking into account the product category to which the Product belongs and / or the defect reported.

12- Industrial and intellectual property rights

The Owner declares to be the owner and / or licensee of all intellectual property rights relating  

to and / or relating to the Application and / or the Content available on the Application. Therefore, all the trademarks, figurative or word and all other signs, commercial names, service marks, word marks, commercial names, illustrations, images, logos, contents relating to the Application are and remain the property of the Owner or its licensees and are protected by the laws in force on the trademarks and by the relative international treaties.

The Conditions do not grant the User any license for use relating to individual contents and / or materials available therein, unless otherwise regulated.

Any reproductions in any form of the explanatory texts and the Contents of the Application, if not authorized, will be considered violations of the intellectual and industrial property right of the Owner.

13- Exclusion of warranty

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 does not guarantee that the Application would satisfy any and whatsoever request made by the User, nor that its functioning would always be uninterrupted or bug free, and neither that any errors or bugs would be addressed, solver and/o corrected.

The User accepts the aforementioned limitation to the Application operability and acknowledges to secure and verify the full functionality of his operating system, terminal and resources connected to the internet which he wishes to employ.

The Owner will endeavor 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, nor in any geographical zone and/or region.

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.

In particular, the Owner excludes any responsibilities whenever the Application malfunction is due to:

  • unauthorized or wrong usage of the Application;
  • partial or failed functionality of the operating systems and/or resources connected to the internet by the User;
  • any fact or circumstance depending by internet or phone service providers;
  • internet, phone or terminal breakdowns, failures or downtimes;
  • any fact or circumstance not ascribable to the Owner or any of his employees;

unauthorized access to the Owner’s operating systems by the User or by any other person or entity;

force majeure events or in any case not depending by the Owner’s will.

14- Limitation of liability

The Application is employed by the Owner under his own personal risk and scrutiny.

The Owner and the Users are and act as different and separate entities. Acceptance of the Conditions does not imply any relationship, connection or agreement between them other than those herewith presented.

The Owner shall not be held liable towards the User, except in the case of willful 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, if he proves that he has taken all possible precautions according to the practice and knowledge available and to ordinary diligence.

The Owner shall not be held liable for:

  • any loss of business opportunities and any other loss, even indirect, possibly suffered by the User that is not a direct result of the breach of contract by the Owner
  • incorrect or unsuitable use of the Application by Users or third parties
  • the issue of incorrect documents or fiscal data due to errors in the data provided by the User, the latter being the only person responsible for the correct insertion

In no case the Owner shall be held liable for a sum greater than twice the cost paid by the User.

15- Force majeure

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.

16- Links to third-party web sites

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.

17- Privacy

The protection and processing of personal data will be in accordance with the Privacy Policy which can be consulted on the page https://alex-jona.com/content/privacy-policy

18- Applicable law and jurisdiction

The Conditions are subject to Italian law, and must be governed, interpreted, judged and enforced in any of its terms according to the current Italian law.

Any contract entered through the Application is considered legally binding, executed in Italy and subject to the Italian law. Any dispute arising will be exclusively limited to the Italian jurisdiction.

Should any article or clause contained in the Conditions be judged as void and/or invalidated by any court, it will not void nor invalidate the efficacy and the validity of any other article or clause.

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 favorable 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.

19- Online dispute resolution for Consumer Users

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 08/11/2021

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