1. Contents of Website
The author assumes no liability for the contents' quality, nor does he guarantee that the information provided is complete, correct, and/or up-to-date. Liability claims of a material or intangible value against the author, which are due to usage or non-usage of the information presented on the website, or respectively are due to the usage of erroneous or incomplete information, are hereby excluded, insofar as the author did not act demonstrably deliberately or with gross negligence. All offers are non-binding and subject to change. The author reserves the right to alter, supplement, or delete parts or all of the information presented on the website without prior notice. He also reserves the right to take the publication offline temporarily or permanently.
2. References and Links
In cases of direct or indirect references to other websites („Hyperlinks“) which lie outside of the author's responsibility, the author is only liable if he is informed about the contents of the website and it is technically possible and reasonable for him to prevent usage in case the website publishes illegal content. The author explicitly declares that no illegal content was visible on the linked websites at the time the link was set on his website. The author has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, contents, or copyright of the linked website(s). Therefore he expressly dissociates himself from all contents of all linked websites which have been altered since the links were set. This statement is valid for all links and references made within the author's own internet presence as well as for external comments made in the author's guestbooks, discussion forums, link lists, mailing lists, and in all other forms of databases with external writing access. Only the owner of the website is liable for illegal, incorrect, or incomplete content, and especially for damages resulting from the usage or non-usage of such information, whereas the owner of the website linking to such content is not liable.
3. Copyright and Trademark Law
The author aims to respect the copyrights of all graphics, sound documents, video sequences, and texts used in his publications, to use his own graphics, sound documents, video sequences, and texts, or to use unlicensed graphics, sound documents, video sequences, and texts. All trademarks and brandnames which are named on this website and protected by third parties are absolutely subject to the regulations of the respective copyright law and to the ownership rights of the incorporated owners. It cannot be assumed that trademarks are not protected by third parties simply because they are named! The copyright for objects created by the author remains with the author, even if the objects are published. Duplicating or using such graphics, sound documents, video sequences, and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not allowed without the author's explicit permission.
4. Data Protection
In cases where it is possible to enter personal or business data on our internet presence (Email addresses, names, postal addresses), then these data are entered explicitly voluntarily by the user. Usage and payment of all offered services is – insofar as it is technically and reasonably possible – also possible without entering such data, or by entering anonymous data, for example via a pseudonym. The usage of contact data such as postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers, as well as email addresses published in the imprint or in other places to send unsolicited information is not permitted. We reserve the right to take legal action against the sender(s) of such so-called spam mails in cases of violation of this prohibition.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analyzing service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", meaning text files which are saved on your computer and enable an analyzation of your usage of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website in order to generate reports about website usage for the website operator, and to render other services related to website and internet usage. Google may transmit this information to third parties, insofar as this is required by law, or the third parties process the data on Google's behalf. Google will under no circumstances combine your IP address with other data collected by Google. You can prevent the cookies' installation by making an appropriate setting in your browser; however, in this case we must inform you that you may not be able to fully use all of the website's functions. By using this website, you agree that the data collected about you by Google in the above-described manner can be used for the described purpose.
5. Legal Force of this Disclaimer
This disclaimer shall be viewed as part of the Internet presence referring to this site. Insofar as parts or individual phrases of this text do not, no longer, or do not fully comply with the current legal framework, then the remaining parts of the document remain unaffected thereby in content and in validity.
Use of Facebook Social Plugins
Our Internet site uses social plugins (“plugins”) from the Facebook.com social network, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins can be recognized by the Facebook logo (white „f“ on blue tile, or a „thumbs up“ symbol), or they are marked as a „Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and the appearance of the Facebook social plugins can be viewed here: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
If you visit a website belonging to our Internet presence which contains such a plugin, your browser will create a direct connection with Facebook's servers. The plugin's contents will be sent by Facebook directly to your browser, which will embed the contents into the website. We have no influence on the range of the data collected by Facebook using this plugin, and therefore inform you according to our state of knowledge:
By embedding the plugin, Facebook will receive the information that you have visited the according site of our internet presence. If you are logged in to Facebook, then Facebook can connect the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the Plugins, for example by clicking the „Like“ button or by making a comment, then your browser will transmit the according information directly to Facebook and save it there. If you are not a member of Facebook, it is still possible for Facebook to register and save your IP address.
To find out more about the purpose and the range of the data collected, and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights and setting options to protect your privacy, please refer to Facebook's data protection notice: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a member of Facebook and would not like Facebook to collect data about you using our internet presence, or to connect these data to your membership data, then you must log out of Facebook before visiting our internet presence.
