Exemption from Liability
1. Content offered at this web page
The content of this web page is exclusively for the use as a general guideline and means of orientation for the personal interest of the user. The user is responsible himself for any further usage of the information. It must be understood, that the information provided here is no legal-, business management-, tax- or other professional instruction or service provided by the publisher. Law and regulations are ever changing and can only be applied to actual, specific situations. Thus, the information provided cannot replace expert advice. The publisher will not be liable for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Any claims of liability against the publisher related to damage resulting to the use or non-use of the information provided or the use of incorrect or incomplete information are generally excluded. All offers are subject to alteration and not binding. The publisher reserves the right to chance the content offered in parts or in its entirety or to delete it without any special notice or to close down publication temporarily or permanently.
2. Person-related data
Person-related data are information that may be used to get to know your identity. This includes information like your real name, address, and telephone number. Information that is not directly related to your identity (e.g. favorite websites or number of users of a site) is by definition not person-related data. You can generally use the online content we offer without disclosing your identity. Should you want to register for a personalized service or order a product we will ask for your name and other personal information. It's up to you to forward this data. We store your data on specially protected servers in Germany. Access is granted to very few authorized persons only who are in charge of the technical, editorial or commercial content of the servers. In connection with your access our servers store security-related data that may potentially allow identification, like IP number, date, time and pages visited are stored. No person-related utilization will be made. We reserve the right of the statistical analysis of anonymous data.
3. Passing on of personal information to third parties
Should you order our products, we will use your personal information only internally and within our partner companies. We will not pass them on to third parties without your explicit permission. Should in the way of outsourcing data be passed on to service providers, they are bound to the BDSG and other legal data-protection regulations and this Exemption from Liability becomes part of their contract. As far as we are under the obligation of the law or a court decision to pass on your data to authorized bodies, we will do so. The contributions in discussion forums are public. You ought to check your information carefully before publication whether they contain any information you do not want to make publicly known. You must take into consideration that your posts are listed in search engines and will become globally available, independently from the content of our website. To get those listings deleted or edited is very likely not possible when operators abroad are concerned.
4. Right of withdrawal
Should you have provided us with personal data you can delete those at any time. Data for clearing- and bookkeeping purposes are exempt from this.
5. Cookies
For some part of our web content we use cookies, small files with configuration information to realize user functionalities. This is indicated where necessary. Some pages may contain advertisements of other companies or agencies. Any cookies here are beyond our liability. However, you can use our web content without cookies. Most browsers accept cookies as default, but you can deactivate that function or accept cookies only after previous notification. Please note that for some features of our Internet presence cookies may be necessary for correct functioning or display.
6. Children
Persons under the age of 18 should not transmit any personal data to us without their parents' or guardian's knowledge. We do not ask children for personal information nor do we collect such data and do not pass them on to third parties.
7. References and Links
As far as we refer directly or indirectly to links that are outside our responsibility, only the supplier of those linked pages will be liable for any damage done by the use or non-use of any information provided there, but not anybody who only refers to those published content through a link. We therefore dissociate ourselves explicitly from the content of those pages.
8. Copyright and trademarks
All trademarks and brands mentioned within this Internet content that are possibly registered by third parties, are subject to the rules and regulations of the relevant brand- and trademark law and the proprietary rights of their owners. Just because a brand or trademark is mentioned there is no reason to assume that such a brand or trademark are not subject to the rights of third parties.
9. Validity of this Exemption from Liability
This Exemption from Liability is part of the Internet content that refers to this page. In so far as parts or individual phrases of this text are not, not anymore or not entirely compliant with the current law, the other parts of the document remain valid.

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