Terms & Conditions

Sales policy

Prices for each product you order through deserres.ca are the prices displayed on the Website at the time of your purchase. All prices are in Canadian dollars.

Shipping and handling, and applicable taxes, are not included in the price.

Deserres.ca reserves the right to modify the prices displayed on its Website at any time and without prior notice.

Prices displayed on deserres.ca may differ from prices in physical DeSerres stores.

Products displayed on deserres.ca may differ from products in physical DeSerres stores, as selection may varay from location to location.

Payment methods and billing

We accept the following payment methods: Visa, Mastercard, Interac Debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Sezzle. All payment methods are confidential, and no information is shared with DeSerres. When you purchase a product on deserres.ca you may print a preliminary receipt. The confirmation email that you will receive shortly thereafter from deserres.ca also constitutes a preliminary receipt.

Accepting or refusing a purchase order

Receiving an order confirmation email from deserres.ca does not necessarily mean that deserres.ca has accepted your order, and does not confirm that deserres.ca is under obligation to sell the products included in the order.

Deserres.ca reserves the right, without any or further notice, to refuse to do business with a client and/or to establish limited quantities for any product included in an order.

Guarantees

The Quebec Civil Code and the Consumer Protection Act provide guarantees in the event of hidden defects and for the use of the goods sold. These guarantees also apply to the present sale. In no case does this guarantee minimizes or cancel the manufacturer’s legal guarantee, if applicable.

Out-of-stock products

An out-of-stock product is a product that is not available, making it impossible to fulfill a complete purchase. It is possible that the product is being ordered, not available, or recalled by the manufacturer. It may also mean that a product has been discontinued (in this case, you will be notified at a later date).

Deserres.ca displays all the products that can be ordered from its suppliers. Please note that the products are not always immediately available at DeSerres stores or in the Webstore inventory. In the event that deserres.ca must wait for an out-of-stock product to be made available by suppliers, your order may be put on hold before it is shipped.

Deserres.ca does not guarantee the availability of products displayed on its Website. Please note that orders for out-of-stock products that have not been processed by suppliers after seven (7) days will be cancelled. DeSerres Customer Service will notify you accordingly.

Deserres.ca is not responsible for any prejudices caused by any product being out of stock.

Product availability

Deserres.ca cannot guarantee the availability of merchandise displayed on its Website. However, if deserres.ca cannot ship one or more ordered products due to a stock shortage, you may choose to receive a partial order or to wait for the missing merchandise in order to receive a complete delivery.

In such event, deserres.ca will notify you by email when the merchandise becomes available.

Deserres.ca cannot be held responsible for any damages caused by any type of stock shortage.

Product description

DeSerres takes every effort to ensure that the product information displayed on the Website is accurate. However, DeSerres does not guarantee that a product description, or any other content on deserres.ca, is accurate, complete, reliable, up to date, or free of errors.

If you receive a product displayed on deserres.ca that does not correspond to its description, your only recourse is to return it to us in its original condition.

Prices

All prices on deserres.ca are displayed in Canadian dollars, and applicable taxes will be added. All orders, whatever their origin, are payable in Canadian dollars. Deserres.ca reserves the right to change its prices at any time. Products are always charged based on the price at the time an order is registered.

Taxes

Deserres.ca calculates taxes based on the address to which the order will be shipped. For orders shipped within Canada, the taxes will depend on the province. For example, for Quebec the taxes to be added are the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the Provincial Sales Tax (PST).

Payment

All purchases are payable by Visa, Mastercard, Interac Debit, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Sezzle. Your payment is routed for processing at Shopify Payments. The amount indicated must be paid using the procedure described during registration. The customer agrees to pay the total cost and fees related to the product purchased, including taxes. Deserres.ca may modify the price after proper notification to the customer. The customer alone is responsible for the actual payment for a product. The customer bears sole responsibility for the credit card payment for the service offered. Deserres.ca is not responsible for any payment problems that may arise through the use of Shopify Payments.

Studio DeSerres (Purchases for in-store courses/workshops)

Payment: full payment is required upon registration, taxes and materials not included in price, limited space

Registration cancellation or modification: you can modify or cancel your registration; contact the store hosting the course/workshop as soon as possible

Cancellation and refund: you can cancel and get a refund before the date of your workshop, or the first workshop of your course; contact the store hosting the course/workshop as soon as possible

Risks

All purchases through deserres.ca are accepted on the basis of a shipping contract. This means that any risks involving loss or ownership related to the merchandise are transferred to you when we hand off the merchandise to the carrier.

Security and confidentiality

Online shopping with DeSerres is secure. Your personal information, as well as information about your credit card, is transmitted electronically in encrypted form to ensure that it remains confidential. It cannot be intercepted, altered or decoded by a third party.

DeSerres and its partners comply with SSL encryption standards, ensuring that your transaction will always be transmitted securely. Your payment is sent for treatment to Shopify Payments.

DeSerres does not store any computer data about credit card information, from any transaction, and does not have access to your credit card number. For this reason, you must resubmit your credit card information with each new transaction.

DeSerres is committed to protecting your personal data and your private life. However, no security mechanism is perfect, and you should know that there is always a certain risk that the personal information you transmit to deserres.ca may be divulged through no fault on the part of deserres.ca and without your consent. Deserres.ca declines any responsibility in the event that such confidential information about you is divulged, except in the case of negligence on the part of deserres.ca.

Privacy Requests

All privacy requests relating to your Personal Information, including
those concerning access to, rectification of, restriction of, processing of, sharing of, or objection to the processing of your Personal Information, withdrawal of consent to handle your Personal Information, or the right to be forgotten, may be submitted in one of the following ways:

Data Protection Officer: 

Marc-André Choinière, IT Director

• By email: privacy@deserres.ca

• By telephone: (514) 842-6695 poste 7500

• By mail: 1265 Berri, Suite 1000, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2L 4X4

Please clearly indicate the information you are requesting, as well as any other requests you may have.

If you or your authorized agent sends us an email requesting that we take action regarding your Personal Information, or the right to be forgotten, the requesting email MUST come from the email address we have on file for you to verify the validity of the request, and also to protect your Personal Information. All other requests must be made in writing, or otherwise be verifiable as originating from you or your authorized agent. To protect your information, and because people may have the same name, we will only provide or delete Personal Information that we can verify is associated with your particular email address, or where we can reasonably identify the requestor. For your protection, we may request additional information to verify your identity. In most cases, we will provide the requested information, and correct or delete any inaccurate Personal Information. However, we reserve the right to limit or deny your request to the extent permitted by applicable law if: (a) complying with the request may present a threat to the personal safety, property, or rights of any other person or organization; (b) complying with the request may lead to a violation of applicable laws or regulations; (c) we are not required to comply with the request because of a legal rule or exception; or (d) you have failed to provide us with sufficient evidence to verify your identity. We will not delete Personal Information if that information relates to an ongoing transaction. Even after a request, we may also keep Personal Information if necessary to comply with applicable laws, or to protect a legal right or fulfill a legal obligation.

Databases

In certain circumstances, such as making a purchase or registering for a contest, deserres.ca may require that you provide your name, address, email address, and if you agree, other information. As much as possible, deserres.ca will provide you with a way to verify that any personal information you transmit is accurate and up to date. All information concerning payment of your order is external to the deserres.ca website. The information that deserres.ca collects enables us to open an account in your name, to process your orders, to contact you in the event that you win a prize in a contest, to personalize our interaction with you, and if you so approve, to occasionally send you personalized information about the Website and our products. Under no circumstances will deserres.ca disclose your personal information to its advertisers and/or partners. Moreover, deserres.ca does not sell its customer list. At any time, if you decide you no longer wish to receive information about the Website and our products, send us an email at newsletter@deserres.ca and we will remove you from the mailing list.

Links to other sites

Deserres.ca includes links to other sites that are operated by other businesses. When you click on these links, you leave the deserres.ca Website. Deserres.ca has no control over the operation of such external sites, and the fact that they are listed on the Website does not in any way engage the responsibility of deserres.ca. We recommend that you pay close attention to the privacy policies of such external sites.

Cookies

A cookie is a very small file that is stored on your computer by a website. The cookies stored by deserres.ca are harmless, since they cannot retrieve information from your hard drive. These cookies are only used to personalize your next visit to deserres.ca. This technology does not make any personal information about you available to deserres.ca. You can disable cookies at any time by modifying the configuration of your computer, however in the case of deserres.ca, cookies are essential to its operation.

Generalities

This agreement and the documents mentioned herein constitute the totality of the agreement between you and deserres.ca concerning the subject of the agreement. Failure by deserres.ca to insist on the execution of any part of this agreement, or to require compliance with it, must not be interpreted as waiving any clause or right. In the event that a competent court rules that a provision herein is null, invalid or non-executable, such ruling shall have no impact on other provisions of this agreement.

By choosing to browse deserres.ca, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement, and have read and understood those conditions. If you do not wish to be bound by these conditions of use, you cannot use deserres.ca for purchasing merchandise.

It is strictly forbidden to use any trademark or logo reproduced on deserres.ca, without prior written permission from the respective owners.

It is forbidden to download, display, publish, transmit, reproduce or distribute, in any way, information or any other element or derived work displayed on deserres.ca that is protected by copyright or by any other intellectual property right, without prior written permission from the owner of the right in question.

Deserres.ca and all of its contents are provided “as is”, with no guarantee, expressed or implied. Deserres.ca declines all responsibility and gives no guarantee of fittingness for a particular use, nor of reliability or accuracy for the items displayed on the Website. Deserres.ca and its administrators, management or employees cannot at any time be held responsible for any damage whatsoever that may result from an error or from information displayed on the Website. In the event that such errors or information are discovered, deserres.ca will notify its customers as quickly as possible. Please note that certain items and colours may be slightly different from the illustrations displayed on the Website.

Liability

Deserres.ca will not be liable for any default, in whole or in part, regarding its obligations toward you, nor for damages or losses you may sustain, if the default, damages or losses are the result of a fortuitous event or a circumstance that is beyond our control.

Should deserres.ca be held liable toward one of its customers, such liability will be limited to the amount paid to deserres.ca by the customer for the purchase of products through the Website.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the customer is entitled to all of the rights and obligations that a consumer may have by virtue of the applicable rules or laws.