1. Content of Website

The author cannot guarantee that the information provided is up to date, correct and complete and of a certain quality. Any liability claim against the author that relates to material or non-material damage caused by the use or non-use of the information offered or use of faulty and incomplete information, shall be principally excluded unless such damage was demonstrably caused by deliberate and coarsely negligent act on the part of the author. 


All offers shall be subject to confirmation and non-committal. Author expressly reserves the right to change, amend, delete parts of the pages or the entire offer with no separate notice, or suspend the publication or withdraw it once and for all.

2. References and Links


For direct or indirect references to other websites ("Hyperlinks")beyond the author’s area of responsibility liability would only take effect if author was aware of the content and it would have been technically feasible and reasonable to prevent the use of websites containing unlawful content. 


Author hereby expressly represents that no unlawful content of the sites to be linked was recognizable at the time of linking. Author has no bearing on the current and future design, content or authorship of the linked sites. Therefore author hereby expressly distances itself from all content of linked websites that have been changed after linking. This statement shall apply to all links and references within the own website as well as to external entries in guest books, discussion forums, lists of links, mailing lists set up by the author and all other forms of databases the content of which being available for write access from outside. For any illegal, faulty or incomplete content and in particular damage arising from the use or non-use of such kind of information offered the provider of the site referred to shall be solely liable rather than the party referring only to the relevant publication through links.

3. Copyright and Trade Mark Law 


Author aims to pay regard to any copyright of photos, graphic representations, audio documents, video sequences and texts, use its own photos, graphic representations, audio documents, video sequences and texts or resort to license-free graphic representations, audio documents, video sequences and texts. 


All trademarks given on the website and possibly protected by any third party shall be subject unrestrictedly to the provisions of the applicable trade mark law and the property rights of the registered owner. The mere mention of the trademarks shall give no reason to conclude that they are not protected under third parties’ rights! 


The copyright of published objects created by the author itself shall solely remain with the author of the pages. No reproduction or use of such graphic representations, audio documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications shall be allowed without the author’s express approval.

4. Data Protection


If the website provides the possibility to enter personal or business data (e-mail addresses, names, postal addresses), such entries are disclosed by the user on a purely voluntary basis. The use and payment of all services offered shall be permitted, provided technically feasible and reasonable, even without the disclosure of such data or by indicating anonymised data or a pseudonym. The use of contact data published in the legal notice or similar, such as postal address, telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail addresses by third parties to send not expressly requested information shall not be permitted. Legal action will be reserved against the sender of so-called spam mails violating said prohibition.

5. Web Analysis

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. („Google”). Google Analytics uses 'cookies' being text files stored on your computer through which the use of the website by you can be assessed. The information on your use of this website (incl. your IP address) created by the cookie is transferred to a Google service based in the USA and stored there. Google takes this information to analyse your use of the website use, issue reports on the website activities for the website provider and render other services in connection with the website use and internet use. As appropriate Google may also transmit this information to third parties provided it is required by law and insofar as such third parties process these data on behalf of Google. In no case will Google link your IP address with other data of Google. You may prevent cookies from being created by certain settings of your browser software. It should be noted, however, if you do so, not all functions of this website may be available to the full extent. By using this website you declare your agreement with the processing of your data by Google as described above and for the purpose explained.

If and when Google Adsense, a web advert service of Google Inc., USA (“Google”) places ads on this website (texts, banners etc.) your browser may store a cookie that was sent by Google Inc. or any third party. The information stored by the cookie may be recorded, collected and analysed by Google Inc. or any third party. In addition to that Google Adsense uses for the purpose of information collection so-called “Web Beacons” (small, invisible graphics) the use of which allowing simple activities such as recording, collecting and evaluating the number of visitors on the website. The information on your use of this website created by the cookie and/or web beacon is transmitted to a Google service based in the USA and stored there. Google uses the information thus received to analyse the visitor’s behaviour with respect to AdSense ads. If appropriate, Google will also disclose such information to any third party provided it is required by law or such third party processes the data on behalf of Google. Your IP address will not be connected with other data stored by Google. You may prevent cookies from being stored on your hard disk and the display of web beacons. To this end select “Accept no cookies” in our browser settings (in Internet Explorer go to „Extras/Internet options/Data protection/Settings”; in Firefox go to “Extras/Settings/Data protection/Cookies”). For more information on Google’s data privacy policy visit the Google website.

6. Validity of this Disclaimer


This disclaimer shall be deemed part of the online offer referred to from this website. If parts or certain wording of this text are not, no longer or not completely in compliance with applicable law, the content and validity of the remaining parts of the document shall not be affected by it.