Privacy Statement and General Terms of use
Privacy Statement
Data Security
We use technical and organisational security procedures to protect your personal information against accidental or deliberate misuse, loss, deletion or access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continuously upgraded and adapted to correspond with the current state of technical knowledge.
Links to other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practise of those websites.
Collection and Processing of Personal Information
Generally no personal data is collected while you visit our Website. Our web server routinely records the name of your internet service provider, the site you visited prior to ours, the pages you looked at on our site, your IP address, the transmitted data quantity and the date and time of your visit. Ensuring anonymity, statistical analysis is performed to guarantee system security and optimisation of our internet presence.
Furthermore, your personal data will only be collected if you choose to make it available for us , e.g. by use of our registering, use of our online application service, online order, a survey or similar.
Usage and Disclosure of Personal Information
All in line with the visit of our web presence recorded personal data are collected, processed and used in compliance with the relevant applicable personal data protection regulations with the only purpose being to fulfil our contracts and ensuring our legitimate business interests in view of consultancy and support of our customer and demand driven products.
Disclosure of personal data to third parties with respect to commercial nor non commercial purpose does not take place.
Requests for Information, Changes, Deletion
If you have questions or comments regarding data protection you may contact us directly.
We will respond, within a reasonable time, to your request. The ongoing development of the internet means that we may need to amend its privacy policy from time to time. We reserve the right to make changes at any time, as necessary.
General terms of use
1.General
Any and all use of our Website is subject to these Terms of Use. Our company reserves the right to amend, modify or replace these Terms of Use at any time. Upon logging-in, or where a log-in is not required, on accessing or using the Website, you accept these Terms of Use in their current version. Any use of our Website is at your own risk.
2.Accessibility of the Website
Due to the nature of the Internet and computer systems, we do not warrant that the site is continuously available. We additionally reserve the right to stop operating and/or providing this site, in full or in part, at any time and until further notice.
3.Use of our Website and the contents and information provided
All information made public will be provided for the user - unless stated otherwise - free of charge. Every user may use and document (download) the offered information for his or her own personal needs. Any other use or exploitation of the information, especially replication, alteration or integration in publishing or advertisement of any kind, is only permitted with the prior consent of our company or the owner of the information in question. We specifically draw attention to the fact that contents and information can be subject to protective rights; any such protective rights (especially names and trademarks) shall remain the property of our company at all times.
All information provided has been researched and compiled with the greatest care and to the best of its knowledge and belief and, where it originates from third parties, has been used without modification. However, every user shall be responsible himself or herself for checking that the provided information is correct, complete and up-to-date. Liability on the part of our company due to the fact that information is incomplete, not up-to-date or incorrect, as well as liability for any consequences of possible misinterpretation of the provided information by the user, shall be restricted to cases of gross negligence and intent on the part of our company.
In using the website, the user shall also always ensure that he or she does not through such use or related actions:
- cause damage to persons, in particular minors, or violate their rights of personality;
- offend common decency;
- infringe proprietary rights, copyrights or other rights of ownership;
- transfer contents with viruses, Trojan horses or other programming that might damage software;
- enter, save or send hyperlinks or contents that the user is not authorized to enter, save or send, in particular if these hyperlinks or contents violate obligations to maintain confidentiality, are unlawful, in breach of contract or simply deliberately incorrect; and/or
- disseminate advertising or unsolicited e-mails ("spam") or incorrect warnings against viruses, malfunctions or the
- like or incite persons to take part in competitions, snow-ball systems, chain letters, pyramid games or comparable
- activities.
We shall not be liable for damage incurred by the user due to misuse of the information offered.
4.References and links
In the case of direct or indirect references to external Internet pages ("links") that are outside the author's sphere of control, liability shall only be assumed if the author is aware of the contents and it would be technically possible and reasonable for the author to prevent its use if the contents are unlawful.
We expressly declare that no illegal contents were discernable on the linked page at the time the link was set. Our company has no influence on the current and future design, contents or authorship of the linked pages. Consequently, our company hereby distances itself expressly from all contents of all linked pages that have been modified after a link has been set. This applies to all links and references set within its own Internet offering and to external entries in visitors' books or discussion forums set up by the author or to damage resulting from the use or non-use of such offered information; the provider of the page that was referred to, and not the party that merely references the publication in question via links, shall be solely liable.
5.Software downloads
The use of any software offered by us for downloading shall be subject to the applicable license terms of the authorized provider or the vendor in question (license agreement). These terms are transferred as a file together with the software in question or can be obtained from the vendor/authorized provider of the software upon request. In principle, the software cannot be installed if the user has not accepted the provisions of the license agreement.
Unless otherwise specified, the licensed software is intended solely for downloading and use by end consumers and may only be used by end consumers. Other forms of use shall be prosecuted under civil and criminal law. It goes without saying that the rights of the user from any relevant compelling law shall remain unaffected within the scope of application of such rights.
We shall not assume any liability for damage caused directly or indirectly by the use of downloaded files.
6.Copyright and identification
The author shall endeavor to observe the copyrights of the graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts used in all publications, to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that he or she has created himself or herself or to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that do not require a license. All brand names and trademarks named in the Internet offering and if applicable protected by third parties shall be subject without restriction to the provisions of the valid laws on identification and the rights of possession of the registered owner. The conclusion that trademarks are not protected by rights of third parties cannot be drawn solely from their merely being named!
The copyright for published objects created by the author himself or herself shall remain solely with the author of the pages. Reproduction or use of such graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications shall not be permitted without the express consent of the author.
7.Important note on computer viruses
Although our company makes every effort to keep website free of viruses, our company cannot warrant that the website is free of viruses or accept liability if it is not. Before downloading information, software and documentation, the user shall undertake adequate security precautions and use suitable virus scanners for his or her own protection, as well as to prevent viruses from infiltrating our Website.
8.Regulations on use of passwords and responsibility for them
The user shall be solely responsible for protecting any password that may have been issued to permit use of specific areas of the website against misuse. If a user becomes aware of the fact that his or her password has become known unintentionally to unauthorized persons or third parties, or there is another risk of misuse, he or she shall inform us immediately. We will then take suitable measures to lock the password in question. Irrespective of this, however, our company shall not be liable for damage incurred from any misuse of passwords, unless such misuse was caused by gross negligence or intent on the part of our company. We shall also be authorized to revoke or restrict access authorization by locking the access data, without the need to give reasons for doing so.
9.Data protection
If there is the possibility of entering personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, addresses) within the Internet offering, this information is disclosed by the user on an expressly voluntarily basis. The use and payment of all the offered services is - where technically possible and reasonable - also permitted if such data is not specified or if anonymized data or a pseudonym is used.
10.Limitation of liability
We shall not assume any liability for consequential damage, in particular loss of prospective profits, loss of production, interruption to business operations or loss of data, unless there is compelling liability under law.
11.Place of jurisdiction / applicable law
Users themselves shall be solely responsible for complying with the relevant regulations of their national laws. Calling up or downloading information, software and/or documentation from the wbsite from countries where doing so is illegal shall be expressly prohibited by our company.
German law shall apply. The courts of Paderborn shall have jurisdiction and venue, provided such a place of jurisdiction can be permissibly agreed with the user.