GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

Cruise Altitude 

E-MAIL: info@cruisealtitude.eu
WEBSITE: www.cruisealtitude.eu

Article 1 – Definitions

  1. Cruise Altitude: Cruise Altitude, established in Veemarkt 21-58 Zwolle, Chamber of Commerce no. 69059942.
  2. Customer: the party which Cruise Altitude has entered into an agreement with.
  3. Parties: Cruise Altitude and customer together.
  4. Consumer: a customer who is an individual acting for private purposes.

Article 2 – Applicability

  1. These terms and conditions will apply to all quotations, offers, activities, orders, agreements and deliveries of services or products by or on behalf of Cruise Altitude. 
  2. The parties expressly exclude the applicability of supplementary and/or deviating general terms and conditions of the customer or of third parties.

Article 3 – Offers and quotations

  1. Offers and quotations from Cruise Altitude are without engagement, unless expressly stated otherwise.
  2. An offer or quotation is valid for a maximum period of 1 month from its date, unless another acceptance period is stated in the offer or quotation. 
  3. If the customer does not accept an offer or quotation within the applicable time frame, the offer or quotation will lapse.
  4. Offers and quotations do not apply to repeated orders, unless the parties have agreed upon this explicitly and in writing.

Article 4 – Acceptance

  1. Upon acceptance of a quotation or offer without engagement, Cruise Altitude reserves the right to withdraw the quotation or offer within 7 working days after receipt of the acceptance, without any obligations towards the customer. 
  2. Verbal acceptance of the customer only commits Cruise Altitude after the customer has confirmed this in writing (or electronically).

Article 5 – Prices

  1. All prices used by Cruise Altitude are in euros, are exclusive of VAT and exclusive of any other costs such as administration costs, levies and travel-, shipping- or transport expenses, unless expressly stated otherwise or agreed otherwise.
  2. Cruise Altitude is entitled to adjust all prices for its products or services, shown in its shop, on its website or otherwise, at any time.
  3. The price with regard to services is determined by Cruise Altitude on the basis of the actual working hours. 
  4. The price is calculated according to the usual hourly rates of Cruise Altitude, valid for the period in which he carries out the work, unless a different hourly rate has been agreed.
  5. If the parties have agreed on a total price for a service provided by Cruise Altitude, this is always a target price, unless the parties have explicitly agreed upon in writing on a fixed price, which cannot be deviated from.
  6. Cruise Altitude is entitled to deviate up to 10% of the target price. 
  7. If the target price exceeds 10%, Cruise Altitude must let the customer know in due time why a higher price is justified. 
  8. If the target price exceeds 10%, the customer has the right to cancel the part of the order that exceeds the target price by 10%. 
  9. Cruise Altitude has the right to adjust prices annually. 
  10. Cruise Altitude will communicate price adjustments to the customer prior to the moment the price increase becomes effective.
  11. The consumer has the right to terminate the contract with Cruise Altitude if he does not agree with the price increase.

Article 6 – Payments and payment term

  1. Cruise Altitude may, at the conclusion of the agreement, require a down payment of up to 50% of the agreed amount. 
  2. The customer must have paid the full amount within 14 days, after delivery.
  3. Payment terms are considered as fatal payment terms. This means that if the customer has not paid the agreed amount at the latest on the last day of the payment term, he is legally in default, without Cruise Altitude having to send the customer a reminder or to put him in default. 
  4. Cruise Altitude reserves the right to make a delivery conditional upon immediate payment or to require adequate security for the total amount of the services or products.

Article 7 – Consequences of late payment

  1. If the customer does not pay within the agreed term, Cruise Altitude is entitled to charge an interest per month for commercial transactions from the day the customer is in default, whereby a part of a month is counted for a whole month.
  2. When the customer is in default, he is also due to extrajudicial collection costs and may be obliged to pay any compensation to Cruise Altitude. 
  3. The collection costs are calculated on the basis of the Reimbursement for extrajudicial collection costs. 
  4. If the customer does not pay on time, Cruise Altitude may suspend its obligations until the customer has met his payment obligation. 
  5. In the event of liquidation, bankruptcy, attachment or suspension of payment on behalf of the customer, the claims of Cruise Altitude on the customer are immediately due and payable. 
  6. If the customer refuses to cooperate with the performance of the agreement by Cruise Altitude, he is still obliged to pay the agreed price to Cruise Altitude. 

Article 8 – Suspension of obligations by the customer

The customer waives the right to suspend the fulfillment of any obligation arising from this agreement.

Article 9 – Settlement 

The customer waives his right to settle any debt to Cruise Altitude with any claim on Cruise Altitude. 

Article 10 – Insurance

  1. The customer undertakes to insure and keep insured the following items adequately against fire, explosion and water damage as well as theft:
    1. goods delivered that are necessary for the execution of the underlying agreement
    1. goods being property of Cruise Altitude that are present at the premises of the customer
    1. goods that have been delivered under retention of title 
  2. At the first request of Cruise Altitude, the customer provides the policy for these insurances for inspection. 

Article 11 – Guarantee

When parties have entered into an agreement with services included, these services only contain best-effort obligations for Cruise Altitude, not obligations of results.

Article 12 – Performance of the agreement

  1. Cruise Altitude executes the agreement to the best of its knowledge and ability and in accordance with the requirements of good workmanship. 
  2. Cruise Altitude has the right to have the agreed services (partially) performed by third parties.
  3. The execution of the agreement takes place in mutual consultation and after written agreement and payment of the possibly agreed advance by the customer. 
  4. It is the responsibility of the customer that Cruise Altitude can start the implementation of the agreement on time.
  5. If the customer has not ensured that Cruise Altitude can start the implementation of the agreement in time, the resulting additional costs and/or extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Article 13 – Duty to inform by the customer 

  1. The customer shall make available to Cruise Altitude all information, data and documents relevant to the correct execution of the agreement to in time and in the desired format and manner.
  2. The customer guarantees the correctness, completeness and reliability of the information, data and documents made available, even if they originate from third parties, unless otherwise ensuing from the nature of the agreement. 
  3. If and insofar as the customer requests this, Cruise Altitude will return the relevant documents. 
  4. If the customer does not timely and properly provides the information, data or documents reasonably required by Cruise Altitude and the execution of the agreement is delayed because of this, the resulting additional costs and extra hours will be charged to the customer.

Article 14 – Duration of the service agreement 

  1. The agreement between Cruise Altitude and the customer is entered into for the duration of the agreed months, unless it results otherwise from the nature of the agreement or if the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in writing.
  2. If a fixed-term contract has been entered into, it will be tacitly converted into an open-ended contract at the end of the term, unless 1 of the parties terminates the contract with due observance of a notice period of 2 month(s), or if a consumer terminates the agreement with due observance of a notice period of 1 month causing the agreement to end at the end of the fixed term.
  3. If the parties have agreed upon a term for the completion of certain activities, this is never a strict deadline, unless specified explicitly otherwise in writing. If this term is exceeded, the customer must give Cruise Altitude a written reasonable term to terminate the activities, before it may either terminate the contract or claim damages.

Article 15 – Intellectual property 

  1. Cruise Altitude retains all intellectual property rights (including copyright, patent rights, trademark rights, design and design rights, etc.) on all designs, drawings, writings, data carriers or other information, quotations, images, sketches, models, scale models, etc., unless parties have agreed otherwise in writing. 
  2. The customer may not copy, sell, share with other parties or have copied the intellectual property rights without prior written permission from Cruise Altitude, nor show them to third parties and / or make them available or use them in any other way.

Article 16 – Confidentiality

  1. The client keeps any information he receives (in whatever form) from Cruise Altitude confidential.
  2. The same applies to all other information concerning Cruise Altitude of which he knows or can reasonably suspect that it is secret or confidential, or of which it can expect that its disclosure may cause damage to Cruise Altitude.
  3. The customer takes all necessary measures to ensure that he keeps the information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 secret. 
  4. The obligation of secrecy described in this article does not apply to information:
    1. which was already made public before the customer heard this information or which later became public without being the result of a violation of the customer’s duty to confidentiality
    1. which is made public by the customer due to a legal obligation 
  5. The confidentiality obligation described in this article applies for the duration of the underlying agreement and for a period of 3 years after the end thereof. 

Article 17 – Penalties 

  1. If the customer violates the articles of these general terms and conditions about secrecy or intellectual property, then he forfeits on behalf of Cruise Altitude an immediately due and payable fine of € 50.000 if the customer is a consumer and € 90.000 if the customer is a company, for each violation and in addition an amount of 5% of the aforementioned amount for each day that this violation continues. 
  2. No actual damage, prior notice of default or legal proceedings are required in forfeiting the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article. 
  3. The forfeiture of the fine referred to in the first paragraph of this article shall not affect the other rights of Cruise Altitude including its right to claim compensation in addition to the fine.

Article 18 – Indemnity

The customer indemnifies Cruise Altitude against all third-party claims that are related to the products and/or services supplied by Cruise Altitude. 

Article 19 – Complaints

  1. The customer must examine a product or service provided by Cruise Altitude as soon as possible for possible shortcomings.
  2. If a delivered product or service does not comply with what the customer could reasonably expect from the agreement, the customer must inform Cruise Altitude of this as soon as possible, but in any case within 1 month after the discovery of the shortcomings. 
  3. Consumers must inform Cruise Altitude of this within two months after detection of the shortcomings.
  4. The customer gives a detailed description as possible of the shortcomings, so that Cruise Altitude is able to respond adequately. 
  5. The customer must demonstrate that the complaint relates to an agreement between the parties.
  6. If a complaint relates to ongoing work, this can in any case not lead to Cruise Altitude being forced to perform other work than has been agreed. 

Article 20 – Giving notice

  1. The customer must provide any notice of default to Cruise Altitude in writing.
  2. It is the responsibility of the customer that a notice of default actually reaches Cruise Altitude (in time). 

Article 21 – Joint and several Client liabilities

If Cruise Altitude enters into an agreement with several customers, each of them shall be jointly and severally liable for the full amounts due to Cruise Altitude under that agreement. 

Article 22 – Liability of Cruise Altitude

  1. Cruise Altitude is only liable for any damage the customer suffers if and insofar as this damage is caused by intent or gross negligence. 
  2. If Cruise Altitude is liable for any damage, it is only liable for direct damages that results from or is related to the execution of an agreement.
  3. Cruise Altitude is never liable for indirect damages, such as consequential loss, lost profit, lost savings, interruption of activities, or reputational damage of the client or damage to third parties.
  4. Cruise Altitude is not liable for mismanagement of the client’s company or activities.
  5. If Cruise Altitude is liable, its liability is limited to the amount paid by a closed (professional) liability insurance and in the absence of (full) payment by an insurance company of the damages the amount of the liability is limited to the (part of the) invoice to which the liability relates.
  6. All images, photos, colors, drawings, descriptions on the website or in a catalog are only indicative and are only approximate and cannot lead to any compensation and/or (partial) dissolution of the agreement and/or suspension of any obligation.
  7. As per EASA regulations, the customer is responsible to ensure that the contracted or purchased services or products by Cruise Altitude comply with the applicable requirements, that any aviation safety hazards associated with contracted or purchased services or products are considered by the operator’s management system. When the customer is a certified operator, Special Operations (SPO) or Declared Training Organisation (DTO), Cruise Altitude shall carry out contracted activities under the approval of the operator.Cruise Altitude is not liable for modification, suspension, or loss of licenses or certifications of the client, audit findings results, regulatory penalties to the client, or enforcement actions of the client.

Article 23 – Customer Responsibilities

1. The Customer shall provide accurate, complete, and timely information necessary for the execution of the Services;

The Customer shall deliver to Cruise Altitude required materials, feedback, and approvals within a reasonable timeframe to successfully complete the activities.

2. The Customer acknowledges that failure to meet these responsibilities may affect timelines and outcomes.

3. Cruise Altitude shall not be responsible for delays, additional costs, or failure to meet deadlines or consequences on the certification caused by the Customer’s lack of cooperation or delayed input.

Article 24 – Expiry period

Every right of the customer to compensation from Cruise Altitude shall, in any case, expire within 12 months after the event from which the liability arises directly or indirectly. This does not exclude the provisions in article 6:89 Civil Code.

Article 25 – Dissolution

  1. The customer has the right to dissolve the agreement if Cruise Altitude imputably fails in the fulfillment of his obligations, unless this shortcoming does not justify termination due to its special nature or because it is of minor significance. 
  2. If the fulfillment of the obligations by Cruise Altitude is not permanent or temporarily impossible, dissolution can only take place after Cruise Altitude is in default. 
  3. Cruise Altitude has the right to dissolve the agreement with the customer, if the customer does not fully or timely fulfill his obligations under the agreement, or if circumstances give Cruise Altitude good grounds to fear that the customer will not be able to fulfill his obligations properly. 

Article 26 – Force majeure

  1. In addition to the provisions of article 6:75 Civil Code, a shortcoming of Cruise Altitude in the fulfillment of any obligation to the customer cannot be attributed to Cruise Altitude in any situation independent of the will of Cruise Altitude, when the fulfillment of its obligations towards the customer is prevented in whole or in part or when the fulfillment of its obligations cannot reasonably be required from Cruise Altitude . 
  2. The force majeure situation referred to in paragraph 1 is also applicable – but not limited to: state of emergency (such as civil war, insurrection, riots, natural disasters, etc.); defaults and force majeure of suppliers, deliverymen or other third parties; unexpected disturbances of power, electricity, internet, computer or telecoms; computer viruses, strikes, government measures, unforeseen transport problems, bad weather conditions and work stoppages. 
  3. If a situation of force majeure arises as a result of which Cruise Altitude cannot fulfill one or more obligations towards the customer, these obligations will be suspended until Cruise Altitude can comply with it. 
  4. From the moment that a force majeure situation has lasted at least 30 calendar days, both parties may dissolve the agreement in writing in whole or in part. 
  5. Cruise Altitude does not owe any (damage) compensation in a situation of force majeure, even if it has obtained any advantages as a result of the force majeure situation.

Article 27 – Modification of the agreement

If, after the conclusion of the agreement and before its implementation, it appears necessary to change or supplement its contents, the parties shall timely and in mutual consultation adjust the agreement accordingly. 

Article 28 – Changes in the general terms and conditions

  1. Cruise Altitude is entitled to amend or supplement these general terms and conditions. 
  2. Changes of minor importance can be made at any time. 
  3. Consumers are entitled to cancel the agreement in the event of a substantial change to the general terms and conditions. 

Article 29 – Transfer of rights

  1. The customer cannot transfer its rights deferring from an agreement with Cruise Altitude to third parties without the prior written consent of Cruise Altitude. 

Article 30 – Consequences of nullity or annullability

  1. If one or more provisions of these general terms and conditions prove null or annullable, this will not affect the other provisions of these terms and conditions. 
  2. A provision that is null or annullable shall, in that case, be replaced by a provision that comes closest to what Cruise Altitude had in mind when drafting the conditions on that issue.

Article 31 – Applicable law and competent court

  1. Dutch law is exclusively applicable to all agreements between the parties. 
  2. The Dutch court in the district where Cruise Altitude is established is exclusively competent in case of any disputes between parties, unless the law prescribes otherwise.