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TERMS & CONDITIONS

These Terms & Conditions govern the use of the OWCZAREK EDITIONS website and purchases made through our online shop.
Last updated: 8 October 2026

Terms & Conditions

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Last updated: 8 October 2026

These Terms & Conditions govern the use of the OWCZAREK EDITIONS website and purchases made through our online shop.

1. About Us

This website and online shop are operated by:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Marcin Owczarek
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

Enterprise number (KBO/BCE): 0541.776.573
VAT number: BE0541776573

Email: owczarek.editions@gmail.com
Telephone: +32 471 37 32 90

OWCZAREK EDITIONS is an independent publishing house and creative studio based in Belgium.

2. Scope and Use of the Website

This website provides information about our artistic work, publications and editions and enables customers to purchase physical and digital products, including art books, e-books, fine-art prints, artworks and collector editions.

By using this website or placing an order, you agree to comply with these Terms & Conditions insofar as they apply to you.

Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory rights available to consumers under applicable law.

3. Eligibility

You may place an order only if you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract.

If you do not have legal capacity to enter into a contract independently under the law applicable to you, the purchase must be made or authorised by a parent, legal guardian or other authorised person.

4. Products

OWCZAREK EDITIONS may offer:

  • physical art books;

  • digital books and downloadable files;

  • fine-art prints;

  • signed and numbered editions;

  • limited and collector editions;

  • original artworks;

  • other art-related publications or products.

The principal characteristics of each product are described on its product page.

For physical products, this may include dimensions, materials, paper, format, edition size and other relevant information.

For digital products, the product page will provide relevant information concerning file format, functionality, technical requirements, compatibility, interoperability and any applicable technical restrictions.

We make reasonable efforts to represent colours, materials and details accurately. Actual colours may vary slightly due to monitor settings, printing processes, paper, materials and lighting.

Minor variations inherent to printing, artistic production, handmade processes or natural materials do not necessarily constitute defects.

5. Signed, Numbered and Limited Editions

Some products may be signed, numbered or issued as limited editions.

A product does not lose the statutory consumer right of withdrawal solely because it is signed, numbered, limited or collectible.

Products genuinely made according to an individual customer's specifications or clearly personalised for that customer may fall within a statutory exception to the right of withdrawal.

This may include, for example:

  • a book containing a personal dedication requested by the customer;

  • a bespoke artwork commissioned according to individual specifications;

  • another product clearly personalised for a particular person.

Any applicable exclusion will be clearly communicated before the customer completes the purchase.

This does not affect statutory rights relating to defective or non-conforming products.

6. Prices

Consumer prices displayed on the website include applicable VAT where required.

Shipping charges are calculated separately and displayed before the customer completes the purchase.

OWCZAREK EDITIONS does not operate an automatic free-shipping threshold based on order value.

We reserve the right to change prices for future orders.

A price change does not affect an order that has already been concluded.

Obvious technical or pricing errors may be corrected where permitted by applicable law.

7. Orders and Formation of the Contract

Before placing an order, you can review the selected products and correct errors.

Immediately before completing the purchase, you will be shown the main characteristics of the order and the total amount payable. The final checkout action will clearly indicate that placing the order creates an obligation to pay.

When you submit your order, you make an offer to purchase the selected products. Our order confirmation email constitutes acceptance of your order. The contract is concluded when this confirmation reaches you.

We will provide confirmation of the contract and the required contractual information in a form you can retain, such as the confirmation email or an attached PDF. Where applicable, this includes the withdrawal information and model withdrawal form. Confirmation of consent and acknowledgement for immediate digital delivery will be emailed before digital supply begins.

Before a contract has been concluded, we may decline an order where reasonably necessary, including where:

  • a product is genuinely unavailable;

  • payment cannot be authorised;

  • an obvious technical or pricing error has occurred;

  • there are reasonable indications of fraud or misuse.

Once a contract has been concluded, cancellation is possible only where permitted by applicable law. If we cannot fulfil a concluded order and the contract is terminated, we will inform you promptly and refund all sums paid under that contract, including delivery charges, without undue delay. This does not affect other statutory remedies.

8. Payment

The available payment methods are displayed during checkout.

The total amount payable, including applicable taxes and shipping charges, will be shown before the order is completed.

No optional paid service will be added through a pre-selected option.

9. Physical Pre-orders

Products offered for pre-order will state their expected publication or dispatch period and the agreed delivery period before you place an order.

By placing a pre-order, you agree to the later delivery period clearly stated before purchase. We will inform you promptly if a delay is expected. An update to the production schedule does not, by itself, remove your rights if the agreed delivery period is missed.

The delivery and late-delivery rules in section 11 also apply to pre-orders.

For physical pre-orders, the 14-day withdrawal period expires 14 calendar days after the day you receive the goods, subject to the rules for separately delivered items in the Return Policy. You may also communicate a withdrawal before receiving the goods.

10. Digital Products and E-books

Digital products may include downloadable PDFs, e-books or other electronically supplied content.

The relevant product page will describe the digital format and important technical requirements or restrictions.

Where a customer requests immediate delivery of digital content before expiry of the statutory withdrawal period, immediate delivery will only begin after the customer has provided the required express consent and acknowledged that beginning digital delivery results in the loss of the statutory right of withdrawal.

Before digital delivery begins, we will email confirmation of the contract, your express consent to immediate delivery and your acknowledgement of the resulting loss of the withdrawal right. You can retain this email for your records.

More information is contained in our Digital Product Policy.

11. Shipping

Physical orders are dispatched from Belgium.

Shipping is charged separately and calculated according to the destination, parcel and available delivery method. The exact cost will be displayed before payment.

We will deliver within the delivery period agreed before purchase. Unless a different period has expressly been agreed, delivery will take place without undue delay and within 30 days after the contract is concluded.

For pre-orders, the later agreed delivery period will be stated before ordering.

If we miss the agreed delivery period, you may require delivery within an appropriate additional period and terminate the contract if we also miss that period. Immediate termination remains available where applicable law provides it, including where we refuse delivery or timely delivery was essential in the circumstances or was expressly identified as essential before the contract was concluded.

If you terminate the contract for non-delivery under these rules, we will refund all sums paid under the terminated contract, including delivery charges, without undue delay.

Further information is provided in our Shipping & Pre-orders Policy.

12. Risk During Delivery

Where OWCZAREK EDITIONS arranges the carrier, the risk of accidental loss or damage remains with OWCZAREK EDITIONS until the customer, or a third party designated by the customer other than the carrier, physically receives the goods.

Different rules may apply if the customer independently chooses a carrier that was not offered by OWCZAREK EDITIONS.

13. International Orders and Customs

Orders delivered outside the European Union may be subject to import VAT, customs duties, brokerage fees, customs-clearance charges or similar charges imposed by the destination country or carrier.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise during checkout, these charges are not included in the product price or shipping charge paid to OWCZAREK EDITIONS.

They are the responsibility of the recipient.

Customers are encouraged to check the applicable import rules in their country before purchasing.

14. Statutory Right of Withdrawal – Physical Goods

Consumers purchasing eligible physical goods online have a statutory right to withdraw without giving a reason. The withdrawal period expires 14 calendar days after the day you, or a third party designated by you other than the carrier, receive the goods.

If goods in one order are delivered separately, the period expires 14 calendar days after the day the last good is received. If a good is delivered in multiple lots or pieces, the period runs from receipt of the last lot or piece.

You may exercise your right of withdrawal using the “Withdrawal Form” link in the website footer. You may also notify us by email, use the model withdrawal form, or make another unequivocal statement communicating your decision to withdraw.

The conditions, return procedure, exceptions and model withdrawal form are explained in our Return Policy.

15. Partial Returns and Combination Sets

OWCZAREK EDITIONS accepts eligible partial returns of separately purchased products in a multi-item order within the applicable withdrawal period. We will refund the price of the eligible products returned.

A physical, non-personalised combination set sold as one product must be returned as a complete set, including all components supplied, when exercising a change-of-mind withdrawal for that product. We do not offer voluntary change-of-mind returns of individual components of such a set sold as one product.

Mixed physical-and-digital bundles and sets containing genuinely personalised goods are assessed separately under the applicable statutory rules. Any applicable exception will be clearly disclosed before purchase. Access to a digital component does not, by itself, remove statutory withdrawal rights that apply to physical components.

This does not limit statutory remedies where a component of the set is defective, damaged, incorrect or otherwise non-conforming.

The treatment of original delivery costs is explained in our Return Policy.

16. Refunds

If you validly withdraw from an entire eligible physical order, we will refund the purchase price and the cost of the least expensive standard delivery option applicable to that order.

If you selected a more expensive delivery method, such as express delivery, the additional amount is not refundable.

You bear the direct cost of returning goods for a change-of-mind withdrawal, provided you were informed of this before purchase. This does not apply where we must bear return costs under the rules on defective or non-conforming goods.

We will reimburse you without undue delay and no later than 14 days after the day we are informed of your withdrawal.

Unless we have offered to collect the goods ourselves, we may withhold reimbursement until we receive the returned goods or evidence that you sent them back, whichever occurs first.

We will use the same payment method as the original transaction unless you expressly agree to another method. You will not incur fees as a result of the reimbursement.

Further details, including partial returns, are provided in our Return Policy.

17. Legal Conformity Guarantee

Statutory conformity rights apply independently of the right of withdrawal.

New physical goods sold to consumers are covered by the Belgian two-year legal conformity guarantee from delivery. Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may be entitled to free repair or replacement, a price reduction or termination of the sale.

Downloadable digital content and digital services also benefit from statutory conformity protection, including applicable remedies and required updates. These rights are not removed by consenting to immediate digital delivery.

If a product is defective, damaged, incorrect or otherwise does not conform to the contract, please contact:

owczarek.editions@gmail.com

18. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all artworks, photographs, illustrations, texts, book contents, designs, logos, graphics and other creative materials appearing on the website or in our publications are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property rights.

Purchasing an artwork, print, physical book, digital book or edition does not transfer copyright or reproduction rights.

Purchasing a physical book, artwork, print or edition does not restrict lawful resale of that physical item. Copyright and reproduction rights remain with the rights holder.

Digital books and downloadable materials are supplied for personal use only unless another licence is expressly granted.

Digital files may not be reproduced, resold, shared publicly, redistributed, uploaded to file-sharing services or otherwise commercially exploited without written permission, except where permitted by law.

19. Customer Accounts

Where customer accounts are offered, customers are responsible for providing accurate information and keeping login credentials confidential.

We may restrict or suspend an account where reasonably necessary to address security risks, fraud, unlawful activity or serious misuse of the website.

This does not remove rights relating to orders already concluded except where permitted by law.

20. Marketing Communications

Marketing communications are sent only where permitted by applicable law.

Where consent is required, subscribing to marketing communications is voluntary and separate from accepting these Terms.

Marketing consent may be withdrawn at any time.

21. Website Availability and Changes

We may update, modify or discontinue website features, products or collections from time to time.

Products remain subject to availability.

Changes to the website or future product range do not affect contracts already concluded with customers or mandatory consumer rights.

22. Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law.

OWCZAREK EDITIONS is responsible for non-performance and damage in accordance with applicable law. Where performance becomes impossible because of force majeure within the meaning of Belgian law, the applicable legal rules govern the parties’ rights and obligations.

This provision does not affect statutory consumer rights.

23. Complaints

Questions or complaints can be sent to:

owczarek.editions@gmail.com
+32 471 37 32 90

We will make reasonable efforts to resolve complaints promptly.

If you are a consumer and a complaint remains unresolved after you have tried to reach an amicable agreement with us in writing, you may contact the Belgian Consumer Mediation Service. Information about its eligibility conditions and procedure is available at https://consumerombudsman.be/.

Consumer Mediation Service
North Gate II
Boulevard du Roi Albert II 8, box 1
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Email: contact@consumerombudsman.be
Telephone: +32 2 702 52 20

If a complaint remains unresolved within a reasonable time, we will provide relevant information about out-of-court dispute resolution by email or another form you can retain, and indicate whether we are required or willing to participate.

This information does not affect your right to bring a claim before the competent court.

24. Applicable Law

These Terms are governed by Belgian law.

Where the customer is a consumer residing in another country, this choice does not deprive the customer of mandatory consumer protections applicable under relevant law.

The competent court will be determined according to applicable law.

25. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms & Conditions from time to time.

The Terms applicable to an order are those made available when the order was placed, subject to mandatory law.

Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 8 October 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how OWCZAREK EDITIONS collects, uses, stores and shares personal data when you visit our website, contact us or purchase products.

1. Data Controller

The data controller is:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Marcin Owczarek
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

Enterprise number: 0541.776.573
VAT number: BE0541776573

Email: owczarek.editions@gmail.com
Telephone: +32 471 37 32 90

2. Personal Data We May Collect

Depending on how you use the website, we may process:

  • your name;

  • email address;

  • telephone number;

  • billing address;

  • shipping address;

  • order information;

  • transaction and payment status;

  • information relating to returns or complaints;

  • communications you send to us;

  • customer-account information, if accounts are enabled;

  • newsletter and marketing preferences;

  • IP address;

  • browser and device information;

  • website usage information collected through cookies or similar technologies where permitted.

We generally do not need to receive or store complete payment-card details where payment is processed directly by a payment-service provider.

3. How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect personal data directly from you when you:

  • place an order;

  • create or use a customer account;

  • subscribe to a newsletter;

  • complete a contact or withdrawal form;

  • request a return;

  • contact us by email or another communication channel;

  • otherwise interact with the website.

Certain technical information may be collected automatically when you use the website through cookies and similar technologies, subject to applicable consent requirements.

4. Why We Process Personal Data and Our Legal Bases

We process personal data for the following purposes and on the following legal bases:

  • Orders and customer service: to take orders, process payments, deliver physical products and digital downloads, communicate about purchases and provide customer support. Our legal basis is performance of the contract, or steps requested by you before entering into a contract.

  • Statutory customer rights: to administer withdrawals, returns, refunds and conformity claims. We rely on performance of the contract and, where processing is required to meet statutory obligations, compliance with those legal obligations.

  • Accounting and tax: to issue and retain invoices, maintain accounting records and comply with Belgian tax and VAT requirements. Our legal basis is compliance with legal obligations.

  • Customer accounts, where offered: to provide and manage the account you request. Our legal basis is performance of the agreement for that account service.

  • General enquiries: to answer questions that do not relate to a purchase or prospective contract. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact our business.

  • Security, fraud prevention and legal claims: to protect our website, transactions and business and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in maintaining secure operations, preventing fraud and protecting our legal rights. We use this basis only where the processing is necessary and our interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

  • Newsletters: to send newsletters and promotional emails through Wix Email Marketing when you subscribe. Our legal basis is your consent. Any permitted marketing to existing customers without a separate subscription is subject to the conditions in section 10.

  • Website analytics: to understand website use and improve the website using Google Analytics. Non-essential analytics tracking is based on your consent.

  • Advertising and measurement: to measure advertising results and support relevant advertising using Meta Pixel. The collection and sharing of information through non-essential advertising tracking is based on your consent.

Information marked as required during checkout is necessary to process your order and, where applicable, meet invoicing requirements. If you do not provide the necessary information, we cannot complete the order or provide the requested service. Optional newsletter and tracking choices are not a condition of purchasing.

5. Wix and Website Hosting

Our website and online shop are hosted on Wix.com. Wix provides the website, e-commerce, customer-management and related technical infrastructure.

For website visitor and customer information processed on our behalf, Wix acts as our processor under its Data Processing Addendum. Wix and its service providers process the information needed to provide those services.

Wix privacy information: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy

Wix Data Processing Addendum: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy-dpa-users

6. Payments

We offer payment services through Wix Payments, Stripe and PayPal. The payment methods actually available for an order are shown during checkout.

Depending on the selected service, these providers process payment details, transaction information and information needed for payment security, fraud prevention and regulatory obligations.

Providers may process information on our behalf for some functions and as independent controllers for their own payment, legal, regulatory or fraud-prevention functions. Their own privacy information explains those activities.

Payment-card credentials are processed through the payment provider. We receive order and transaction information needed to manage the sale, such as payment status and relevant payment references. We do not ask you to send full card details or card security codes by email.

Further information:

7. Other Service Providers

We share information reasonably necessary for the relevant service with:

  • Wix, including Wix Email Marketing, for website operation, shop administration and email communications;

  • Wix Payments, Stripe and PayPal for the payment services selected at checkout;

  • Cooloff EU Withdrawal Button, operated by Eitan Plaks, for receiving and recording online withdrawals, and its email delivery provider Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.) for acknowledgement emails;

  • delivery and postal companies for physical deliveries;

  • accountants and professional advisers for accounting, tax, compliance or legal matters;

  • website, IT and security service providers for operating and protecting the website;

  • Google Analytics for consent-based website analytics;

  • Meta for consent-based advertising measurement and related processing through Meta Pixel.

Cooloff processes your name, email address, order or contract reference, any message submitted, receipt date and time, and relevant order details where matched. Withdrawal records are stored within our Wix website. The acknowledgement recipient address and message content are sent through Resend. This supports handling withdrawals, administering the contract and meeting applicable obligations.

Cooloff processing information: https://cooloffapp.com/en/dpa/

Resend privacy information: https://resend.com/legal/privacy-policy

Where a provider processes information on our behalf, it is subject to appropriate data-processing arrangements. Some recipients act independently for their own legal or service-related purposes. Meta Pixel collection and transmission are addressed in section 11.

8. International Data Transfers

Our use of Wix, payment services, email delivery, Cooloff, Google Analytics and Meta Pixel can involve processing outside the European Economic Area, including Israel and the United States.

Wix.com Ltd. processes website visitor and customer information in Israel under the European Commission’s adequacy decision for Israel. Wix also uses group companies and service providers in other countries, including the United States. Its Data Processing Addendum provides for adequacy decisions or appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses, for relevant onward transfers. Details are available in the Wix Data Processing Addendum and published sub-processor list.

Stripe and Google describe transfers to the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework for covered transfers to certified entities, and Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.

Meta describes transfers of covered business-tool data to Meta Platforms, Inc. in the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Further information about its processing and international transfers is available in its privacy information.

PayPal processes information internationally, including in the United States. For relevant transfers within its corporate group, PayPal relies on approved Binding Corporate Rules. Its privacy statement describes adequacy decisions and Standard Contractual Clauses for other relevant transfers.

Cooloff’s operator is based in Israel, which is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision. Its email delivery provider Resend processes data in the United States. Resend’s Data Processing Addendum provides Standard Contractual Clauses for relevant transfers. Further information is available in the processing agreements linked below.

Provider information and safeguards:

You may contact owczarek.editions@gmail.com to request further information or a copy of the safeguards relevant to transfers of your personal data, subject to necessary redactions.

9. Customer Communications

We may contact customers in connection with orders, payments, shipping, digital delivery, returns, withdrawals, complaints, security or other matters necessary to provide the requested service.

These transactional messages do not require marketing consent where they are necessary to fulfil the contract or comply with legal obligations.

10. Marketing and Newsletter Communications

We use Wix Email Marketing to send newsletters and promotional emails to people who subscribe.

Subscribing is optional and separate from purchasing products or accepting our Terms & Conditions. Consent is not requested through a pre-selected checkbox.

If we send marketing emails to existing customers without a separate subscription, we do so only where the legal exception applies: we obtained the email address directly during a sale, the message concerns our own similar products or services, and we offered a clear, simple and free opportunity to object when collecting the address and in every subsequent message. For that processing, we rely on our legitimate interest in informing existing customers about our own similar products, subject to their rights and reasonable expectations.

Any non-essential technology used to track individual email opens or clicks requires the applicable information and valid consent before activation. Consent to receiving a newsletter does not, by itself, constitute consent to such tracking.

You may withdraw newsletter consent or object to direct marketing at any time, without charge, through the unsubscribe link in a marketing email or by contacting owczarek.editions@gmail.com.

We will stop using your information for direct marketing following your objection or withdrawal. We may retain the minimum information needed to record your preference and prevent unwanted further messages.

Order confirmations, delivery notices, refund communications and other necessary service messages are separate from marketing.

11. Cookies, Analytics and Advertising Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the shop and, with your consent, support analytics and advertising.

Strictly necessary technologies support functions such as security, shopping-cart operation, checkout and remembering privacy choices. Technologies are treated as strictly necessary only where they are needed for a service you request or otherwise qualify for the legal exemption.

Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors use the website. With analytics consent, it processes technical identifiers and information about devices, pages visited and interactions.

Meta Pixel helps us measure advertising results and support relevant advertising. With marketing consent, it can send Meta technical identifiers and information about website visits, interactions and purchase-related events. Meta can associate received information with other information it holds in accordance with its privacy information and your settings.

For processing covered by Meta’s joint-controller arrangement, OWCZAREK EDITIONS and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited are joint controllers for the collection and transmission of event data. We are responsible for the lawful use of the tool on our website, including information and required consent. Meta’s Controller Addendum describes the allocation of responsibilities. Meta is responsible for its subsequent processing under its own applicable terms. You may exercise applicable rights against either joint controller.

Meta Controller Addendum: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum

Meta privacy information: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Non-essential analytics and advertising technologies are activated only after you give the relevant consent. You can accept or reject non-essential tracking and choose between purposes through the consent banner.

You can revisit your choices and withdraw consent through the cookie preferences control on our website. Rejecting non-essential tracking does not prevent you from using the shop. Continuing to browse, closing the banner or accepting sales terms does not constitute tracking consent.

Our Cookie Policy explains the technologies and your choices in more detail. The cookie details accessible through our preferences control identify each technology actually used, its name and relevant domain or path, provider or recipient, specific purpose, category and lifetime. Cookie lifetimes are distinct from the periods for which providers retain information collected through those technologies.

12. Data Retention

We apply different retention periods according to the purpose and legal requirements:

  • VAT invoices, copies, accounting books and supporting documents: generally seven years under Belgian VAT requirements. For invoices and copies, the period starts on 1 January of the year following issue. For accounting books, it starts on 1 January of the year following closure; for other supporting documents, on 1 January of the year following their date. Where a specific applicable tax rule requires a longer period, we retain the relevant records for that period. For example, transaction records required under an applicable VAT One Stop Shop scheme are retained for its separate ten-year period.

  • Routine enquiries unrelated to an order, complaint or legal claim: twelve months after the enquiry is resolved or the last substantive communication, whichever is later.

  • Customer-account profile information: for the duration of the account. When an account is closed, we remove profile information that is no longer needed within thirty days. Account closure does not require deletion of transaction records that must be retained separately.

  • Newsletter contact information: while your subscription remains active. Following withdrawal or objection, we stop marketing and retain only necessary consent evidence and suppression information. Consent evidence is retained for three years after withdrawal or objection, as applicable. The minimum suppression information is retained while we operate the relevant mailing list so that we can respect your opt-out.

  • Existing-customer marketing contact information used under the exception in section 10: up to twenty-four months after the most recent relevant purchase, unless you object sooner.

  • Google Analytics user-level and event-level information subject to our retention setting: two months, without resetting the user-data retention period on new activity. Automatic deletion follows Google’s monthly deletion process. This setting does not govern standard aggregated reports or processing by Google for its own purposes.

  • Withdrawal declarations, acknowledgement copies and associated order information: for as long as necessary to administer the withdrawal, refunds and applicable statutory rights, and to meet relevant record-keeping obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Where a record is part of required accounting or VAT documentation, the applicable statutory retention period applies. We retain only information needed for the relevant purpose.

  • Records concerning an ongoing complaint, security incident or legal claim: until the matter is resolved and any applicable period for enforcing or defending the associated claim has expired. Only information needed for that matter is retained.

Cookie lifetimes and further provider retention information for analytics and advertising are provided in the cookie details and the linked provider information. Meta’s subsequent retention and independent payment-provider retention are governed by those providers’ privacy information and applicable obligations.

Cooloff withdrawal records remain within our Wix site until deleted under the relevant retention rules; removing the app does not itself delete them. Copies held by Resend for email delivery have separate provider retention arrangements. Deleting a site record does not itself delete those copies. See Cooloff’s processing agreement and Resend’s privacy and processing information for details.

When a retention period ends, we delete or anonymise the information unless a specific legal obligation or unresolved legal matter requires continued retention.

13. Your Rights

Subject to the conditions of the GDPR, you may request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate information, erasure, restriction of processing and portability of eligible information.

Where processing relies on legitimate interests, you may object on grounds relating to your particular situation. You have an unconditional right to object to processing for direct marketing, including related profiling.

Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

You also have the applicable protections concerning decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Payment providers’ own automated fraud, risk or credit checks are described in their privacy information.

Send requests to owczarek.editions@gmail.com. We may ask for information reasonably necessary to verify your identity. We normally respond within one month. Where the GDPR permits an extension because of the complexity or number of requests, we will explain the extension within that first month.

You may lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, or another competent supervisory authority.

Belgian authority information: https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/ and https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/

14. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental loss, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

No online system can nevertheless be guaranteed to be completely secure.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, service providers, business activities or legal obligations change.

The current version and revision date will be published on the website.

16. Contact

Questions about privacy or personal data may be sent to:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

owczarek.editions@gmail.com
+32 471 37 32 90

Return Policy

RETURN POLICY

Last updated: 8 October 2026

1. Statutory Right of Withdrawal

Consumers purchasing eligible physical goods through our online shop have a statutory right to withdraw without giving a reason.

The withdrawal period expires 14 calendar days after the day you, or a third party designated by you other than the carrier, receive the goods. The day of receipt is not counted as the first day of the period.

If goods in one order are delivered separately, the period expires 14 calendar days after the day the last good is received. If a good is delivered in multiple lots or pieces, the period runs from receipt of the last lot or piece.

You may also communicate a withdrawal before receiving the goods. Exceptions for personalised products are explained below.

2. How to Exercise the Right of Withdrawal

To exercise your right of withdrawal, notify us of your decision by email, using the model withdrawal form below, or by another unequivocal statement.

Our contact details are:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

Email: owczarek.editions@gmail.com

You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online using the “Withdrawal Form” link in our website footer, available on every page. If you use this online function, we will send you an acknowledgement of receipt by email without undue delay, including the content of your withdrawal statement and the date and time of its submission.

You do not have to provide a reason. It is sufficient to send your withdrawal notification before the withdrawal period expires. We recommend retaining a copy of your notification and any confirmation.

3. Returning the Goods

Unless we have offered to collect the goods ourselves, you must send the goods back without undue delay and no later than 14 days after communicating your withdrawal. You meet this deadline if you dispatch the goods before the 14-day period expires; they do not have to reach us within that period.

Returns should be sent to:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

For a change-of-mind withdrawal, you pay the direct cost of sending the goods back, provided you were informed of this before purchase. This does not apply where we have agreed to bear those costs or where we must bear them under the rules on defective, damaged, incorrect or otherwise non-conforming goods.

For goods that, because of their size or nature, cannot normally be returned by ordinary post, information about the expected direct return cost will be provided before purchase where required.

4. Condition of Returned Goods

You may inspect the goods to the extent reasonably necessary to establish their nature, characteristics and functioning, in the same general way that you would reasonably be able to inspect them in a physical shop.

If we supplied the required withdrawal information before purchase, you may be responsible for diminished value caused by handling beyond what is necessary for such inspection. If we did not supply that information as required, you are not liable for diminished value under these withdrawal rules.

Handling beyond what is necessary does not, by itself, eliminate your statutory right of withdrawal. Any lawful deduction concerns the actual diminished value.

For books and fine-art products, please package returns carefully to avoid damage. We recommend a tracked and appropriately insured return method for valuable items.

5. Refund – Entire Order

If you validly exercise your statutory right of withdrawal for your entire eligible physical order, we will refund:

  • the purchase price; and

  • the cost of our least expensive standard delivery option applicable to the original order.

If you selected a more expensive delivery service, such as express shipping, the additional delivery cost will not be refunded.

For a change-of-mind withdrawal, you pay the direct cost of sending the goods back, provided you were informed of this before purchase. This does not apply where we have agreed to bear those costs or where we must bear them under the rules on defective or non-conforming goods.

6. Partial Returns and Combination Sets

OWCZAREK EDITIONS accepts eligible partial returns of separately purchased products in a multi-item order within the applicable withdrawal period. If you return only part of such an order, we will refund the purchase price of the eligible products returned.

Original delivery costs will be refunded only to the extent that the delivery charge would have been lower if the returned products had not been included in the original order. If the same delivery charge would have applied to the products you keep, the original delivery charge will not be refunded.

A physical, non-personalised combination set sold as one product must be returned as a complete set, including all components supplied, when exercising a change-of-mind withdrawal for that product. We do not offer voluntary change-of-mind returns of individual components of such a set sold as one product.

Mixed physical-and-digital bundles and sets containing genuinely personalised goods are assessed separately under the applicable statutory rules. Any applicable exception will be clearly disclosed before purchase. Access to a digital component does not, by itself, remove statutory withdrawal rights that apply to physical components.

This does not limit statutory remedies where a component of the set is defective, damaged, incorrect or otherwise non-conforming.

The direct cost of returning the products remains your responsibility for a change-of-mind withdrawal, provided you were informed of this before purchase. Return costs for defective or non-conforming products are governed by statutory consumer law.

7. Timing and Method of Refund

We will reimburse you without undue delay and no later than 14 days after the day we are informed of your withdrawal.

Unless we have offered to collect the goods ourselves, we may withhold reimbursement until we receive the returned goods or evidence that you sent them back, whichever occurs first.

We will use the same payment method as the original transaction unless you expressly agree to another method. You will not incur fees as a result of the reimbursement.

8. Signed, Numbered and Limited Editions

Signing, numbering or limiting an edition does not, by itself, remove statutory withdrawal rights.

9. Personalised and Bespoke Products

The statutory right of withdrawal does not apply where the legal exception applies to goods made according to the customer's individual specifications or clearly personalised for a particular person.

Examples can include:

  • a book containing a personal dedication requested by the customer;

  • a commissioned artwork created according to the customer's individual specifications;

  • another product clearly personalised for that specific customer.

This exception will be made clear before the order is completed where applicable.

This does not affect rights relating to defective or non-conforming products.

10. Defective, Damaged or Incorrect Products

The right of withdrawal is separate from your rights where goods are defective or do not conform to the contract.

If you receive an item that is defective, damaged in transit, incorrect or otherwise non-conforming, contact:

owczarek.editions@gmail.com

Please provide your order number and a description of the issue.

Photographs of the item and packaging may help us deal with transport damage efficiently but do not reduce your statutory consumer rights.

11. Model Withdrawal Form

Complete this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract. Use of this form is optional.

To:
MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium
Email: owczarek.editions@gmail.com

I/We hereby give notice that I/we withdraw from my/our contract for the following goods or digital content:

Goods or digital content ordered:

Order number:

Ordered on / received on:

Name of consumer(s):

Address of consumer(s):

Signature of consumer(s):
(only if submitted on paper)

Date:

Delete whichever wording does not apply.

DIGITAL PRODUCT POLICY

Last updated: 8 October 2026

This policy applies to downloadable e-books, PDFs and other digital content supplied by OWCZAREK EDITIONS without a physical medium.

1. Digital Products

Digital products are supplied electronically.

The relevant product page will identify, where applicable:

  • the file type;

  • basic functionality;

  • technical requirements;

  • compatibility and interoperability information;

  • any download restrictions;

  • any relevant technical protection measures.

2. Digital Delivery

Digital products may be made available by download link, customer account or another electronic delivery method indicated during purchase. The delivery method and any relevant restrictions will be disclosed before purchase.

Where immediate delivery is requested, access may become available shortly after successful payment, once the required express consent and acknowledgement have been obtained and confirmation in a form you can retain has been emailed before supply begins.

Where a product is supplied through a standard Wix Stores download link, that link is active for 30 days. Download and save the file during that period. If the link expires or does not work, contact owczarek.editions@gmail.com with your order number so that we can assist and resend the download link.

Expiry of a download link does not, by itself, remove your licence to a file already downloaded or your statutory conformity rights.

3. Immediate Delivery and Right of Withdrawal

Consumers normally have a statutory withdrawal period of 14 calendar days after the day the contract for downloadable digital content is concluded.

The statutory right of withdrawal for digital content not supplied on a physical medium may be lost once delivery begins, but only where the applicable legal requirements have been satisfied.

Before immediate delivery begins, you will be asked to:

  • expressly consent to delivery beginning before expiry of the statutory withdrawal period; and

  • acknowledge that by giving this consent you will lose your statutory right of withdrawal once digital delivery begins.

This consent is separate from accepting the Terms & Conditions and will not be pre-selected. Digital delivery during the withdrawal period will not begin without the required express consent and acknowledgement.

Before digital delivery begins, we will email confirmation of your purchase, consent and acknowledgement in a form you can retain.

If the required express consent, acknowledgement and confirmation have not been validly obtained or provided, this policy does not remove any withdrawal rights that apply.

If your right of withdrawal has not been lost, you may withdraw using the “Withdrawal Form” link in the website footer, by emailing owczarek.editions@gmail.com, using the model withdrawal form in our Return Policy, or making another unequivocal statement before the withdrawal period expires.

We will reimburse payments without undue delay and no later than 14 days after the day we are informed of your withdrawal, using the original payment method unless you expressly agree otherwise. You will not incur reimbursement fees.

4. Immediate Delivery Consent

Where immediate delivery is offered, the customer will be asked to provide express consent using wording equivalent to:

I expressly consent to the immediate delivery of the digital content before the end of the 14-day withdrawal period and acknowledge that once digital delivery begins, I lose my statutory right of withdrawal.

The consent option will be separate from general acceptance of the Terms & Conditions and will not be pre-selected.

5. Refunds for Digital Products

Once immediate digital delivery has begun after valid express consent, acknowledgement of the loss of the withdrawal right, and provision of the required confirmation in a form you can retain, a change-of-mind refund is not available where the statutory digital-content exception applies.

This does not limit rights relating to digital content that is defective, inaccessible, corrupted or otherwise does not conform to the contract.

6. Digital Conformity

Digital content must conform to the description and contractual requirements communicated at the time of purchase.

For digital content supplied in a single delivery or a series of individual deliveries, the Belgian legal conformity protection covers a lack of conformity that exists at supply and becomes apparent within two years of supply. Where a contract provides for continuous supply over a period, the applicable conformity protection covers that supply period.

If the content is non-conforming, you are entitled to have it brought into conformity without charge, within a reasonable time after we are informed and without significant inconvenience, unless this is impossible or would impose disproportionate costs under applicable law.

A proportionate price reduction or termination of the contract is available where legally justified, including where bringing the content into conformity is impossible or disproportionate, is not carried out as required, the defect persists, or the defect is sufficiently serious. For paid content, termination is not available for a minor lack of conformity; we bear the burden of proving that it is minor.

We will provide updates, including security updates, for the period required by applicable law. The expiry of a download link or consent to immediate delivery does not remove these rights.

If a digital product cannot reasonably be downloaded or opened, is corrupted, materially differs from the description or otherwise appears non-conforming, contact:

owczarek.editions@gmail.com

Please include your order number and a description of the problem. We will address the matter in accordance with applicable consumer law.

7. Personal-use Licence

Unless expressly stated otherwise, purchasing a digital publication grants the purchaser a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the purchased file for personal purposes.

Copyright remains with the rights holder.

Except where permitted by law, the customer may not:

  • redistribute the file;

  • upload it publicly;

  • resell copies;

  • share download links;

  • make copies available to third parties;

  • use the content commercially.

8. Technical Responsibility

Customers are responsible for ensuring that their device and software meet the compatibility requirements disclosed before purchase.

Where a technical issue results from a defect or non-conformity in the supplied digital content, statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.

Digital Products

SHIPPING & PRE-ORDERS POLICY

Last updated: 8 October 2026

1. Shipping Origin

Physical orders are shipped from Belgium by:

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

2. Shipping Charges

Shipping is charged separately.

The cost depends on factors such as destination, parcel size, weight and the available delivery method.

We do not offer an automatic free-shipping threshold based on order value.

The exact shipping charge for your order will be displayed during checkout before payment.

3. Order Processing and Delivery Periods

In-stock products are prepared for dispatch within the processing period stated on the relevant product page or at checkout.

Carrier transit estimates begin after the parcel has been handed to the carrier. The total agreed delivery period includes order processing and transport.

We will deliver within the delivery period agreed before purchase. Unless a different period has expressly been agreed, delivery will take place without undue delay and within 30 days after the contract is concluded.

For pre-orders, the later agreed delivery period will be stated before ordering.

If we miss the agreed delivery period, you may require delivery within an appropriate additional period and terminate the contract if we also miss that period. Immediate termination remains available where applicable law provides it, including where we refuse delivery or timely delivery was essential in the circumstances or was expressly identified as essential before the contract was concluded.

If you terminate the contract for non-delivery under these rules, we will refund all sums paid under the terminated contract, including delivery charges, without undue delay.

4. Delivery Methods

Available delivery options are displayed during checkout.

Delivery options may differ depending on destination, parcel dimensions, product type and carrier availability.

5. Pre-orders

Products offered for pre-order will state their expected publication or dispatch period and the later agreed delivery period before you place an order.

Pre-orders are charged according to the payment terms displayed during checkout.

We will inform you promptly if a delay is expected. A change to printing, binding, manufacturing or other production arrangements does not, by itself, remove your rights if the agreed delivery period is missed. The late-delivery remedies in section 3 apply.

For physical pre-orders, the withdrawal period expires 14 calendar days after the day you receive the goods, subject to the rules for separately delivered items in the Return Policy. You may also communicate a withdrawal before receiving the goods.

6. Orders Containing Pre-order and In-stock Products

Where an order contains both pre-order and in-stock products, the way the order is shipped will depend on the delivery option and information shown during checkout.

Where the products are shipped together, the later agreed delivery period for the combined shipment will be stated before purchase. Dispatch will take place in time to meet that period.

Where separate shipment is offered or agreed, additional shipping charges may apply if clearly communicated before purchase.

7. Delivery Within the European Union

Orders shipped from Belgium to destinations within the European Union are not normally subject to import customs formalities between EU Member States.

Applicable VAT will be handled according to the tax rules governing the transaction.

8. Orders Outside the European Union

Orders delivered outside the European Union may be subject to:

  • import VAT;

  • customs duties;

  • brokerage fees;

  • customs-clearance fees;

  • other destination-country charges.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise at checkout, these charges are not included in the amount paid to OWCZAREK EDITIONS.

They are the responsibility of the recipient.

Please check your country's import rules before ordering.

9. Delivery Risk

Where OWCZAREK EDITIONS arranges the carrier, the risk of accidental loss or damage remains with us until the goods are physically received by you or a third party designated by you other than the carrier.

Different rules may apply if you independently choose a carrier that was not offered by OWCZAREK EDITIONS.

10. Damaged Parcels

We package books, prints and artworks carefully for transport.

If an order arrives visibly damaged, incomplete or incorrect, please contact:

owczarek.editions@gmail.com

as soon as reasonably possible.

Please provide your order number and, where possible, photographs of the external packaging and affected product.

Photographs help us deal efficiently with the carrier but do not reduce your statutory rights.

11. Incorrect Delivery Address and Undeliverable Parcels

Customers are responsible for supplying an accurate and complete delivery address.

If a parcel is returned because an incorrect or incomplete address was provided, or because the recipient failed to collect the parcel, the actual cost of reshipping may be charged where permitted by law.

This does not affect statutory consumer rights.

12. Returns

Information concerning returns and statutory withdrawal rights is contained in our Return Policy.

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COOKIE POLICY

Last updated: 8 October 2026
Version: 1.1

This Cookie Policy explains how OWCZAREK EDITIONS uses cookies and similar technologies on www.marcinowczarek.com. Read it together with our Privacy Policy, which explains our personal-data processing, retention rules, service providers and your rights.

1. Who Is Responsible?

MARCIN OWCZAREK – OWCZAREK EDITIONS
Marcin Owczarek
Eeuwfeestlaan 221/3
2500 Lier
Belgium

Enterprise number: 0541.776.573
VAT number: BE0541776573
Email: owczarek.editions@gmail.com
Telephone: +32 471 37 32 90

2. What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

Cookies are small files stored on your computer, phone or other device. They can remember information or recognise a browser. We also use related technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels. In this policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where relevant.

Some are set through our own website; others are supplied by service providers. Session cookies last for the browser session. Persistent cookies remain for their configured lifetime unless removed sooner.

3. Strictly Necessary Technologies

Our website is hosted on Wix. Technologies that are strictly necessary support requested functions such as website security, a shopping basket, checkout, account authentication and remembering cookie preferences.

These technologies do not require cookie consent only where the legal exemption applies. A technology is not treated as strictly necessary merely because a provider calls it essential. Optional analytics and advertising remain subject to consent.

4. Analytics

With your analytics consent, Google Analytics helps us understand website use and improve our pages. It can process browser or device identifiers, technical information, pages visited and interactions.

Google's information: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics cookie information: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11397207

5. Advertising and Meta Pixel

With the relevant marketing consent, Meta Pixel helps us measure advertising results and support relevant advertising. It can transmit identifiers and information about visits, interactions and purchase-related events to Meta. Meta may associate this with other information it holds under its own privacy terms and your settings.

Our Privacy Policy explains the joint-controller responsibilities for the collection and transmission of applicable Meta event data and Meta's subsequent processing.

Meta's information: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Meta cookies information: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policies/cookies/

6. Payments, Other Services and External Websites

The available payment methods include Wix Payments, Stripe and PayPal. Depending on the selected method and integration, payment providers may use technologies to operate the payment service, authenticate transactions and prevent fraud. Only technologies meeting the strictly necessary exemption operate without cookie consent; optional uses require the applicable choice.

Stripe: https://stripe.com/legal/cookies-policy

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/be/legalhub/paypal/cookie-full?locale.x=en_BE

If you follow an external link or complete payment on a provider's own website, that website has its own privacy and cookie information and controls.

Subscribing to our Wix Email Marketing newsletter is separate from agreeing to website tracking. Our Privacy Policy explains newsletter processing and any applicable consent requirements for individual email-open or click tracking.

We use Cooloff for the online withdrawal form. Its provider states that the app does not use cookies, local or session storage, analytics or cross-site tracking. The form and its acknowledgement emails still process personal information, as explained in our Privacy Policy.

7. Accepting, Rejecting and Changing Your Choices

Our consent banner lets you accept optional technologies, reject them or choose between specific purposes. “Reject All” is available alongside “Accept All”. Optional choices are not selected in advance. Analytics and advertising technologies requiring consent are not activated before the relevant consent is given.

Continuing to browse, closing the banner, making a purchase or accepting our sales terms does not give cookie consent. You can use the shop without agreeing to optional analytics or advertising.

Reopen the cookie preferences control on our website whenever you want to review your choices or withdraw consent. Withdrawal stops further consent-based tracking for the purposes you switch off. It does not affect processing lawfully carried out before withdrawal.

Choices are normally specific to the browser and device you use. Deleting browser data or using another browser or device may mean that you need to choose again.

8. Cookie Details and Lifetimes

The cookie details accessible through our preferences control identify each cookie or similar technology actually used, its name and relevant domain or path, provider or recipient, specific purpose, category and lifetime. These details should be read together with this policy before you decide whether to consent.

Cookie lifetimes are different from the period for which information collected through cookies is retained. For example, a Google Analytics data-retention setting does not determine a browser cookie's expiry. Our Privacy Policy and the providers' information explain the relevant data-retention arrangements.

9. Browser Controls and Your Rights

Your browser also lets you inspect, delete or block cookies. Blocking necessary cookies can affect login, basket or payment functions. Browser controls are additional options; you can withdraw optional consent through our website's preferences control.

For personal-data rights, international transfers and complaints, see our Privacy Policy. Contact owczarek.editions@gmail.com with questions or requests. You may complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority at https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/ or https://www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be/.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy and cookie details when our website or services change. The revision date and version appear above. Where a change requires new consent, we will ask before using optional technologies for that purpose.

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