Legal Notice

1. Content

The author does not assume any liability concerning the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims against the author due to material or immaterial damage caused by the use or disuse of the provided information and / or by the use of incorrect and incomplete information are generally excluded, unless the author has acted with gross negligence or willful intent.

All offers are without engagement and subject to confirmation. The author expressly reserves the right to modify, amend, delete or temporarily or permanently cease publication of parts of the pages or the entire content without further notice. All offers are subject to change and non-binding. The author explicitly reserves the right to change, add or delete parts of the pages or the entire offer without separate announcement, or to discontinue publication temporarily or finally.

2. References and Links

A liability for direct or indirect references or links to other websites (“links”) which are not within the author’s responsibility will only occur if the author is aware of the contents and would be technically able and could reasonably be expected to prevent the use in case of unlawful contents. The author hereby expressly declares that at the time the link was set up, no unlawful contents were noticeable on the linked websites. The author does not have any influence on the current and future design, contents or authorship of the linked websites. Therefore, the author hereby dissociates himself from all contents of linked websites which were modified after the link was set up. This statement is valid for all links and references set up on our website as well as for external entries in the author’s guest books, discussion forums and mailing lists. The provider of the linked website is exclusively liable for illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents and especially for damage resulting from the use or disuse of this information and not the person who merely makes a reference to this publication via a link.

3. Copyright and Trademark Law

The author makes every effort in all publications to respect the copyrights of the used images, graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts and to use images, graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that were produced by himself, or to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that not require a license.

All brands and trademarks which are listed or maybe protected by third parties within the Internet offer and are unrestrictedly subject to the provisions of the single valid labeling law and rights of possession of the respective registered owners. The mere mention alone does not signify that brand names are not protected by third party rights!

The copyright for published material created by the author remains the property of the author of the pages. Copies or the use of such graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not allowed without the explicit consent of the author.

4. Data Protection

In case the option is given to enter personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, addresses) on the website, the user will disclose such information explicitly on a voluntary basis. The use of and payment for all offered services is also permitted without giving such data or by giving anonymous data or a pseudonym respectively, insofar as this is technically possible and reasonable.

5. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyze how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Please be aware that this website uses Google Analytics with the extension code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to guarantee an anonymous data collection of IP addresses (so called IP-Masking).

External links on the subject http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html , https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

6. Facebook Plugins

Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins

When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:

The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Facebook.

For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the Facebook Blocker.

7. Legal Validity of this Disclaimer

This disclaimer must be considered as a part of the website on which a reference is made to this page. Should parts or individual wordings of this text not or not fully correspond to the current legislation or not correspond to the current legal situation any more, the contents and validity of the remaining parts of the disclaimer remain unaffected.