General Terms and Conditions

1. Contractual Parties, Application of Terms & Conditions

Contractual party will be tanzhaus nrw e.V., Erkrather Str. 30, 40233 Düsseldorf.
Terms and Conditions apply to all contracts concluded between participants and tanzhaus nrw e.V. (hereinafter referred to as tanzhaus nrw).

2. Booking of Courses and Workshops, Termination of Contract

tanzhaus nrw announcements on the internet, on notice boards, posters, leaflets and the like are non-binding and expressly do not constitute any offer to enter into a contractual agreement. Booking of courses and workshops (contractual offer) will be conducted exclusively online via the tanzhaus nrw website and its online shopping cart as well as through the online booking form.
Following the selection of a course or workshop, the “Booking” button will redirect interested parties to the booking form. By clicking the “Checkout” button, one submits a binding booking agreement. Directly previous to submitting a binding booking agreement, participants may review and correct said booking, if necessary. The contract will be entered into with the reception of a booking confirmation via email.

If booking for minors, the consent of a legal representative must be provided.

Booking participants are bound to the booking for a fortnight starting with the receipt of the corresponding booking at tanzhaus nrw, insofar as no previous acceptance or rejection of offer has been issued by tanzhaus nrw.
Acceptance or rejection of the contractual offer by tanzhaus nrw occurs in text form (e-mail) by sending a booking confirmation.

If at all possible, participants should book shortly after course announcements due to limited participant slots for the courses.

Participants may access the tanzhaus nrw Terms & Conditions on the website https://tanzhaus-nrw.de/de . Additionally, they may print or save the Terms & Conditions statement as a document by using the intended function of their respective internet browsers.

3. Course Fees and Reductions

Information on fees for courses, workshops, or projects as well as for open class and advanced training events can be found in the respective current tanzhaus nrw programmes. For the individual conditions applying to reductions, please refer to the corresponding course offerings.

tanzhaus nrw offers the possibility to reduce the course fee according to a pursuant request at the time of booking. tanzhaus nrw offers the following course fee reductions for:

• Students under the age of 28
• Participant Düsseldorf pass holders or equivalent certification (in case of diverging certification, granting reduction must be agreed upon in each individual case by tanzhaus nrw)
• Frequent bookers, according to the conditions stated separately to the courses
• Siblings who enrol in Teens & Kids programme courses during the same calendar quarter

If tanzhaus nrw grants a reduction on booking, the appropriate certificates (enrolment certificate or student identification, passport, Düsselpass or comparable) must be submitted to tanzhaus nrw prior to the start of courses or at the latest when the corresponding course or workshop begins.
Failure by participants to produce the requisite certificates in time entitles tanzhaus nrw to withdraw any initially granted reduction and to issue an invoice for the full course fee without reduction.

4. Payment and Due Dates for Course Fees/Delayed Payment

The course fee is due upon reception of booking confirmation via email. It is payable within 7 business days, but at the latest two days before the course commences.

Relevant to the timeliness of payment is the receipt of payment transfer onto the following account:

tanzhaus nrw  e. V.
Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
IBAN: DE11 3005 0110 0044 0147 36
BIC: DUSSDEDDXXX
Reason for Payment: Invoice Number

Please state name and surname as well as the course number on the transfer.

5. Non-Attendance in Courses or Workshops

Not attending courses, course units or workshops does not exempt from any payment obligation.

6. Cancellation of Courses, Course Units or Workshops, Recission and Termination of Contract by tanzhaus nrw

tanzhaus nrw reserves its right to cancel courses and workshops due to failure to reach necessary minimum participant numbers or to rescind a contract.
tanzhaus nrw furthermore reserves the right to cancel courses and workshops due to reasons tanzhaus nrw cannot be held accountable for (for example failure of appearance by the course instructor, or higher power). This applies to both complete course and workshop offerings as well as to individual course units (lessons). Should the case occur, participants will be notified as soon as possible.

Should changes according to this clause or according to clause 8 occur, tanzhaus nrw will seek to notify participants immediately, either by text, e-mail, or by phone.
It is the participants’ responsibility to ensure availability through the above channels.
tanzhaus nrw may declare a recission or cancellation via text, by e-mail, via telephone, or verbally.

7. Participants’ Physical Fitness

When booking courses or workshops, participants or their respective legal representatives declare participants to be free of health defects or related concerns that would be sufficient to prevent participation in said course or workshop. Participants ensure to notify tanzhaus nrw immediately of any health complaints arising during participation in courses or workshops, to promptly terminate participation in said course unit or, respectively, not to commence participation at all. It behooves the participants to thoroughly check their health status before participating. Participants bindingly declare the absence of any health concerns preventing participation and that the physical fitness level complies with the demands, upon start of respective event.

tanzhaus nrw does not accept liability for participants’ health risks in the context of participation in courses or workshops as well as for resulting injury or consequential losses suffered in the process thereof.

Participation in courses or workshops as well as the use of related spaces are undertaken at one’s own risk.

Contractual partners’ or participants’ claims for damages against tanzhaus nrw are barred, except for malicious intent or gross negligence. This does not apply in case of culpable violation of life, body, or health.

The exclusion according to the preceding paragraph furthermore does not apply if tanzhaus nrw culpably violates obligations constituting the contractual essence (cardinal duties). These are duties that enable the contractual implementation in the first place and on whose adherence you may confide and trust.

8. Realisation of Courses and Workshops

tanzhaus nrw is entitled to freely determine the realisation of courses and workshops regarding time and personnel. Participants cannot insist on the realisation of courses offered insofar a deviation of the course offerings could not be prevented by tanzhaus nrw (for example due to cancellation, illness or otherwise hindered by unavailability of an instructor).

Participants will be notified of any deviation of course hours in a timely manner, if at all possible. 

tanzhaus nrw is entitled to predicate participation in courses and workshops upon personal and/or objective requirements.

9. Change in Participant Data

Participants are obligated to promptly transmit any change of data pertaining to contractual issues (name, address, e-mail address and the like) to tanzhaus nrw via text (with an email to the following e-mail address akademie@tanzhaus-nrw.de or via postal letter).
Costs incurred for tanzhaus nrw due to failure of transmitting said changed data immediately must be reimbursed in full by the participant(s).

10. Domiciliary Rights, House Rules and Conduct within Dance Academy Spaces

The house rules and fire protection regulations as put up at tanzhaus nrw take effect. Personnel and other authorised persons exercise domiciliary rights at tanzhaus nrw. Any directions issued by these persons must be followed under all circumstances. tanzhaus nrw is entitled to exclude participants under special conditions, for example when disturbing events or when in non-compliance with the house rules. In case of exclusion, tanzhaus nrw may still assert a claim for the payment of the full course fee.
Accompanying persons not taking part in the course programmes are not permitted.
Taking animals onto the tanzhaus nrw premises is also not permitted.

11. Right of Termination

tanzhaus nrw may terminate the contract on significant grounds in the cases of § 314 of the German Civil Code (BGB). Significant grounds may be constituted, but are not limited to, by the following particular cases:

• Conduct adverse to community during events despite a prior warning and threat of dismissal by instructors, in particular disruption of course operation through noise and nuisance or through malcontent or disruptive behaviour
• Defamation of any kind towards instructors, participants, or employees of tanzhaus nrw
• Discrimination against persons on the basis of their race,  ethnic origin, gender, religion or ideology, disability, age, or sexual identity
• Misuse of events for party-political or ideological purposes or for agitation of any kind
• Significant violations of house rules or fire protection regulations, in particular those regulations that are intended to ensure safe, unobstructed and undisturbed realisation of courses and workshops.

Instead of termination, tanzhaus nrw may also exclude participants from one or more event unit(s). tanzhaus nrw's claim to remuneration shall remain unaffected by such termination or exclusion.

12. Charging Up Against tanzhaus nrw, Cession and Transfer

The right to charge up against claims by tanzhaus nrw will be precluded, unless the countering claim has been determined by a court or recognised by tanzhaus nrw.
Claims against tanzhaus nrw may not be ceased or transferred.

13. Final Provisions

Text form requirement/ in writing requirement: Any agreements between tanzhaus nrw and participants that include changes, addendums or concretised issues pertaining to the contractual stipulations as well as specific assurances and arrangements must be laid down in text form/ in writing according to § 126 b BGB (via e-mail to akademie@tanzhaus-nrw.de or via letter to tanzhaus nrw e.V., Erkrather Straße 30, 40233 Düsseldorf).

14. User Dispute Resolution and Online Dispute Resolution

The European Commission platform for online dispute resolution may be accessed from this link:
https://www.ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr

 

tanzhaus nrw declares, in accordance with § 36 VSBG (Consumer Code) that it is neither willing nor obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer dispute arbitration board.

15. Taking Effect

These Terms & Conditions take effect on January 7^th, 2025, and supplant any previous provisions.