LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

Content of the on-line offer

The author makes no guarantee for the relevancy, correctness and completeness of the information provided on our website.  Liability claims against the author, cannot be made for the loss of material of any sort, through the use or non-use of information provided either flawed or incomplete respectively, if on the part of the author no proven pre-existing gross fault exists.  All offers are non-binding.  The author reserves the right to alter or change parts of or the whole offer without prior warning, to change, supplement, delete or adjust the final publication.    

References and links

In the case of direct or indirect references to external websites (“hyperlinks”), which lie outside the area of responsibility of the author and has no liability for checking the trustworthiness of the public area, a liability obligation would only come into force if the author has content knowledge and it would be technically possible and reasonable for him to prevent the use of unlawful content.  

The author hereby declares that at the time of the setting up of the links no illegal information was recognised on the linked pages.  The author has no influence whatsoever on the current or future design content or authorship of the linked pages.  He therefore hereby expressly distances himself from all content and all linked/connected pages that were changed after the linked was created.  This statement applies to all links and references set within the company’s own website as well as to third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and all other forms of databases set up by the author, the content of which can be accessed externally.  For illegal, or incomplete content and in particular for damage resulting from the use or non-use of information provided in this way, the provider of the page to which reference is made is solely liable, not the one who merely refers to the respective publication via links.

Copyright and trademark law

The author strives to observe the copyrights of all images, graphics, sound documents, video recordings and texts in all publications used, to use images, graphics, sound documents, video recordings and texts created by himself or licence-free property, sound documents, video recordings and texts.

All brand names and trademarks mentioned within the internet offer and if applicable protected by third parties, are subject without restriction to the provisions of the respectively valid trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners. The mere mention of a trademark does not imply, that it is not protected by the rights of third parties. Copyright for all material published and created by the author, remains solely with the author of the pages.  Reproduction or use of graphics, audio documents, video content and texts in other publications either electronic or printed is not permitted without the prior authority of the author.

Data protection

If there is the possibility to enter personal or business data (email address, names and addresses) on the website, the disclosure of this data by the user is expressly voluntary.  The use and payment of all offered services is permitted- as far as technically possible and reasonable- without providing such data or by entering anonymised data or pseudonym. The use of contact data such as postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses published in the imprint or comparable information by third parties to send information that has not been expressly requested is not permitted.  Legal action against senders of so called spam mails in violation of this prohibition is expressly reserved.

Data protection declaration for the use of Facebook plug-ins (like Button)

This website uses plug-ins from the provider Facebook.com, which are supplied by Facebook Inc, 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 in the USA.  Users of our website on which the Facebook plug-in is installed are hereby informed that the plug-in establishes a connection to Facebook, which means that it is transmitted to your browser so that the plug-in appears on the website.  In addition, data forwarded to the Facebook server through the use, which contains information about your website visits from our homepage.  For logged in Facebook users, this means that the usage data is assigned to the personal Facebook account.  As soon as you actively use the Facebook plug-in as a logged in Facebook user (e.g. by clicking on the “Like” button or using the comment function), this data will be transmitted to your Facebook account and published.  You can only avoid this by logging out of your Facebook account beforehand.  For more information regarding the use of data by Facebook, please refer to the data protection regulations on FACEBOOK.

Data protection declaration for the use of Twitter

Functions of the Twitter service are integrated on our sites.  These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.  By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users.  This data is also transmitted to Twitter.

We would like to point out that, as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Twitter.  For more information, see Twitters privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your data protection settings on Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings