Legal notice

2. Content of the online offering

The author endeavors at all times to update the website and to provide users with diverse and correct information. However, no guarantee as to the current status, correctness, completeness or quality of the information is provided. Claims for liability against the author relating to damage of a material or non-material nature caused by the use or non-use of the information offered or through the use of incorrect and incomplete information are fundamentally excluded insofar as there is no demonstrably intentional or grossly negligent fault on the part of the author. All offers are made on a non-binding, no-obligation basis. The author expressly reserves the right to amend, to supplement, to delete or to cease publication temporarily or definitively of parts of the pages or of the entire offering.

3. References and links

With direct or indirect references to third-party websites (“links”) that lie outside the scope of responsibility of the author, an obligation for liability would only come into force in the event that the author has knowledge of the contents and it would be technically possible and reasonable for the author to prevent use in the event of unlawful content. The author therefore expressly states that the relevant linked sites were free of illegal content at the time of linking. The author has no influence over the current and future design and over the content of the linked/tagged sites. The author therefore expressly distances themselves from all content on all linked/tagged sites that were changed after linking. This statement applies for all links and references set within this internet offering and for third-party entries in guest books, discussion forums and mailing lists set up by the author. The provider of the site to which the link relates is solely liable for illegal, incorrect and incomplete content and in particular for damage arising from the use or non-use of information offered of that kind, not the person who merely refers to the respective publication in the form of links.

4. Copyright and trademark law

The author endeavors to respect the copyrights of the images, audio documents, video sequences and texts in all publications, to use images, audio documents, video sequences and texts the author has created themselves or to make use of license-free images, audio documents, video sequences and texts. All brand figures and trademarks named within the internet offering and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the respectively-applicable trademark law and of the ownership rights of the respectively registered owners. No inference should be drawn solely from the mere naming that brand figures are not protected under third-party rights! The copyright for published objects created by the author themselves remains solely with the author of the pages. The copying or use of such images, audio documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the express consent of the author.

5. Legal validity of this exclusion of liability

This exclusion of liability is to be considered as part of the internet offering from which reference was made to this page. Insofar as parts or individual wordings of this text do not, no longer or do not fully correspond to the applicable legal position, this does not affect the content or validity of remaining parts of the document.

6. European online dispute resolution platform:

The European Commission has established a European online dispute resolution platform (ODR platform), at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. Consumers can use the ODR platform for out-of-court settlement of disputes from online contracts with companies resident in the EU.

7. Image rights

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