Disclaimer / exemption from liability / data protection

Note about data protection

Personal details communicated in the context of this online offering shall of course be treated in strict accordance with prevailing data protection legislation. Personal data shall only be stored for the purpose of answering enquiries and/or some subsequent customer relationship. Your data shall not of course be communicated to third parties, unless this is required for business purposes or is legally required. Your personal details will not be offered for sale. 

For technically unavoidable reasons, the server automatically saves various sets of statistics which your browser transfers to the server. These are:

• browser type / version
• operating system used
• referrer URL (the previously visited page)
• host name of accessing computer (IP address)
• time of server enquiry.

As a general rule, the company is not able to assign any of this data to specific individuals. No merging of this data with other data sources takes place. 

Furthermore, devices known as cookies are used to make the website more user-friendly, faster, more effective and more secure. These cookies are small text files stored on your computer and saved by your browser.  Most of these cookies are ‘session cookies’. These are deleted automatically at the end of your visit. Cookies do not damage your computer in any way and do not contain any viruses. 

Due to the nature of this online offering, any information that you yourself enter will also be saved. This relates primarily to the Comments function, but also to the scope for contacting you via the details on the Contact form. All entries are made in a voluntary capacity and are not checked in nay way. It is not therefore possible to use pseudonyms etc. If a Visitor’s Book or Comments function is used, any comments made can then be viewed by every user of that web page.

Freedom of information

Whenever you so wish, you can ask what personal details about yourself are stored on this system. You also have the right to correct any inaccurate details and, subject to certain conditions, you have the right to block or delete data. If you should wish to exercise these rights, please notify us in writing. An e-mail on this subject would be sufficient. 

Copyright

The contents and works on these pages produced by the website operator are subject to German copyright legislation. Contributions from third parties are designated as such. No reproduction, dissemination, editing and all kinds of use outside the limits permitted under copyright legislation require the written consent of the author or issuing party in all cases. All tradenames mentioned here are the property of their respective owners. Tradenames are not expressly identified as such. However, the absence of a trademark or protected brand name symbol does not allow anyone to conclude that this is not a protected name, or a protected brand. Downloads and copies from this website are only authorized for private, non-commercial use. Links to this website are welcomed, provided that they do not contain any defamatory content. Our company strives at all times to observe the copyright protection of other parties, and/or to refer back to works produced by itself and to non-licensed works. 

Exemption from liability

The contents of this website were compiled with great care. However, no guarantee can be provided about the accuracy, completeness and correctness of contents, and this website is for presentation purposes only. That means that this organization cannot be held liable for claims relating to damages of a material or a intangible nature and caused by the use or non-use of information and/or the use of inaccurate and incomplete information, unless evidence can be provided of deliberate negligence or gross misconduct. All offers are subject to change without notice and are non-binding in nature. The service provider reserves the right to change, expand upon or delete sections of this website, or the entire offering without prior notice, or to terminate the publication on a temporary or a permanent basis. 

The website contains links to third party websites. This service provider has no influence whatsoever over the content of those other websites. For this reason, no assurance can be provided with respect to these third-party contents, and the relevant provider or operator of those web pages is solely responsible for their contents. At the time this weblink was set up, all pages were examined to ensure that they did not infringe any legislation. This examination showed that no legislation was being infringed upon by their contents at that time. However, in the absence of grounds to suggest an infringement of legislation, it is unreasonable to expect the contents of linked web pages to be monitored on an ongoing basis. If we are made aware of any links which do infringe legislation, these are removed immediately. 

As a service provider, the company is responsible in accordance with Art. 7, para.1 TMG for the contents of these web pages in accordance with generally applicable legislation. However, in accordance with Arts. 8 to 10 TMG, a service provider is not obliged to monitor third-party information transferred to or stored upon its system, nor to conduct research into that content to establish whether or not it may contain evidence of illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with generally applicable legislation shall remain unaffected. Liability of this type can however only arise from the time the service provider is made aware of a specific violation of legislation. If you should ever become aware of an infringement of legislation, please notify us immediately and we shall respond by removing the related contents without delay. 

Legal effectiveness of this exemption from liability / disclaimer

This disclaimer must be viewed as part of the Internet offering in which reference to this page is made. In the event that parts or individual formulations within this text fail to comply, no longer comply, or are no longer fully compliant with prevailing legislation, the remaining parts of this document shall remain unaffected in terms of their content and validity. 

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a website analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics also makes use of so-called cookies stored on your computer which enable an analysis of the usage of the website by you. The information generated by this (including your IP address) is transferred to a Google server in the USA and is stored there. Google then uses this information to evaluate your usage of the website to compile reports on website activities for the operator and to deliver other services associated with website usage and Internet usage. Google may also transmit this information to third parties where legally obliged to do so, or to the extent to which third parties are entitled to process this data on behalf of Google. Google shall, in accordance with its own statements, never link your IP address to other Google data. You can prevent cookies from being installed on your browser by using the appropriate setting. We would however point out that this action may prevent you from subsequently making full use of all functions on this website. In making use of our website, you declare your consent in regard to the processing of data obtained about you by Google and used in the aforementioned manner and for the aforementioned purpose.