Consumer Disputes

The European Union has created a website to support consumers in submitting their complaints about any dispute in which they are involved. In this context, the COMPANY provides all the information so that the costumer can exercise its right of complaint with an official entity, third party impartial to the process. So, if you were unsatisfied with the purchase of a product or service purchase from our website, or with the solution we presented to resolve a situation, you can access this official website https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr and expose your dispute.

All electronic messages sent during the access to the online store, including e-mails and messages via an internet browser, will be considered, for the purposes of the applicable law, as contractual declarations.Alternative dispute resolution is the possibility that all consumers have at their disposal to resort to official entities that help them in the resolution, or guidance of any conflict, before opening litigious processes in the courts. As a general rule, the procedure is as follows: the customer asks an impartial third party to act as an intermediary between you and the company, who is the target of your complaint. The intermediary can suggest a solution to your complaint, impose a solution on both parties, or bring the parties together to find a solution.

You may know the concept of alternative dispute resolution by another name: ‘mediation’, ‘conciliation’, ‘arbitration’ or ‘committee responsible for consumer disputes.

Alternative dispute resolution is, as a rule, less expensive, less formal and faster than the judicial process.

 

Suggestions for alternative dispute resolution entities:

Cniacc – Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo

https://www.cniacc.pt/pt/

Centro de Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo de Lisboa

http://www.centroarbitragemlisboa.pt/

Centro de Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo do Vale do Ave/Tribunal Arbitral

http://www.triave.pt/

Ciab – Centro de Informação, Mediação e Arbitragem de Consumo (Tribunal Arbitral de Consumo)

http://www.ciab.pt/pt/

Cicap – Tribunal Arbitral de Consumo

https://www.cicap.pt/