Imprint

Disclaimer

1. Content of the online presence

The author takes no liability for the up-to-date state, correctness or completeness of the information provided on our website. Any liability claims against the author of this website for any possible material or non-material damage resulting from using, or not using, the information provided, or from using any incorrect or incomplete information is generally excluded unless such damages are caused intentionally or due to a gross negligence on the part of the author. All offers are non-binding. The author reserves the right to change, extend, or delete the parts of the website or the whole presence, or to temporarily or permanently end its publishing.   

2. References and links

Liability obligations for direct and indirect links to external websites of third parties (“hyperlinks”) for whose content we have no responsibility could come into force only if the author had the knowledge of the content and it was technically feasible and reasonable to prevent the usage in case of an illegal content. The author declares hereby that at the time of linking there were no illegal contents recognizable on the linked websites. The author has no influence on the linked websites, their current or future design, their content, nor the authorship. The author thus distances himself from all the content of all the references and linked websites that was changed after the setting of a link. This statement applies to all the links and references included in the own internet presence, as well as for any third-party inputs in the therefore provided guestbooks, discussion forums, link directories, mailing lists and all other forms of data banks which can be accesses and changed externally. The provider of the linked third-party website, and not those providing only a link to an external website, is solely responsible for any illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents and especially for any damages caused by the usage, or not usage, of such a featured content.

3. Copyright and trademarks

The author of this website attempts to take notice of all the used pictures, graphics, audio files, video files and texts in all the published content, to use his own created pictures, graphics, audio files, video files and texts or to use license-free graphics, audio and video files and texts. All the in the internet presence mentioned and possibly through a third-party protected trademarks and labels are subject to the provisions of the respectively valid trademark rights and the ownership rights of each registered owner. It cannot be concluded upon the sole denomination that a trademark is not protected by the rights of a third party! The copyright for published, by the author himself created objects stays with the author of the websites. Any reproduction or usage of such graphics, audio files, video files and texts in other electronic or printed publications is prohibited unless explicitly permitted by the author.

4. Data protection

If there are any personal or business data submitted (email addresses, names, post addresses), the publication of these data is expressly voluntary on the user´s part. The utilization and payment of all offered services is enabled, when technically possible and reasonable, also without disclosing personal data, using anonymized data or a pseudonym. The usage of the within the imprint or comparable details published post addresses, phone- and fax numbers as well as email addresses by a third party for the transmission of not expressly requested information is expressly rejected. Legal actions against the sending party of the so-called spam mails shall be taken should this prohibition be infringed.

5. Google Adsense

This website uses Google Adsense, a web advertisement service of Google Inc., USA (“Google”). Google Adsense uses so-called “cookies” (text files) which can be saved on your computer and which enable an analysis of your usage of the website. Google Adsense also uses so called “Web beacons” (small invisible graphics) in order to collect information. The usage of the web beacons enables simple actions such as the recording of the user frequency on the website. The information created by the cookies and/or the web beacon about your usage of this website (including your IP-address) will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Google will use this information to analyse your usage of the website regarding advertisements, to create reports about your website activities and to compile advertisements for the website operator and to provide further services connected with the internet and the website usage. Google can also pass this information on third parties when this is prescribed by law or if the third parties process the data on behalf of Google. Google will not in any case associate your IP-address with other Google data. You can prevent the saving of the cookies on your hard disk and the display of the web beacons when you choose “accept no cookies” in the settings of your browser (in MS-Explorer follow “Tools > Internet options > Data privacy > Settings”; in Firefox follow “Tools > Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies”); however, we would like to point out that in that case not all the functions of our website may be entirely usable. By using this website, you show your agreement with the processing of the about you collected data by Google in the above described manner and for the above-named purpose.  

6. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a website analysis service of the Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, the text files that will be saved on your computer and that enable the analysis of your usage of the website. The information generated through the cookies about your usage of the website will be transferred to and saved (including your IP-address) on a Google server in the USA. Google will use this information to analyse your usage of the website regarding advertisements, to create reports about your website activities and to compile advertisements for the website operator and to provide further services connected with the internet and the website usage. Google can also pass this information on third parties when this is prescribed by law or if the third parties process the data on behalf of Google. Google will not in any case associate your IP-address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser; however, we would like to point out that in that case not all the functions of our website may be entirely usable. By using this website, you show your agreement with the processing of the about you collected data by Google in the above described manner and for the above-named purpose. 

7. Facebook

This website uses Facebook.com plug-ins, which are provided in the USA by the company Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304. The users of our website, on which there are Facebook plug-ins installed, are hereby informed that a connection with Facebook will be established by the plug-in, which enables a transmission to your browser and the plug-in will become visible on the website. Furthermore, using this website, data will be transmitted to Facebook servers including information about your visits on our website. The user data of logged-in Facebook users will be associated with your personal Facebook account. When you are logged-in to your Facebook account and actively use this plug-in (e.g. by “liking” a post or using the comment function), these data will be transferred to your Facebook account and published. You can prevent this by logging-out from your Facebook account. You can get further information about the data usage by Facebook in the data privacy policy of Facebook. 

8. Legal validity of this disclaimer

This disclaimer is to be seen as a part of the whole internet presence from which this site is referred to. Should a part of this disclaimer or any single expression of this text be not, not any more, or not fully according to the legal status, all other parts of the document shall stay valid and in their legal effect unaffected by these.