Stating your business address
Mentioning your business address is a legal requirement for distance selling and also a requirement to qualify for WebwinkelKeur. Mentioning a PO Box address is not sufficient. Required is to mention the address which is known at the Chamber of Commerce. Mention the address in an easily findable place, for example on a "contact" or "about us" page. Mentioning your address only in the general conditions or another "hard to find" page is not sufficient. The legal basis for this can be found in article 46c, paragraph 1 of the Civil Code:
'In good time before the distance purchase is concluded, the following information must be provided to the other party by all means adapted to the technique used for distance communication and in a clear and comprehensible manner, the commercial purpose of which must be unambiguously apparent:
a. the identity and, if the distance purchase requires advance payment of the price or part thereof, the address of the seller;
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