CONDITION OF USE

General Terms of Use

§ 1 Responsibilities of the User

(1) Normally, entries created by Users on the website will not be inspected by the Vendor. Should the Vendor become aware that a User entry is conflicting with this General Terms of Use or statutory regulations, such contents will be removed from the website without delay, and access to such contents will be denied.

(2) Exercising of all rights associated with the contents published by the User in a way that doesn’t infringe third parties’ rights is the sole responsibility of the User. User shall grant all rights for the spatially, temporally and content-wise unrestricted use and further processing of the contents made available by him/her on the website to the Vendor irrevocably and free of charge. Uses of the contents published by the Users’ other than said uses are only authorized with the consent of the User. Contents under no circumstances represent the opinion of the Vendor, and the Vendor doesn’t necessarily agrees with those.

§ 2 Prohibited Contents

(1) All Users shall be bound to avoid use of the offer of the website to publish contents or information that are

•    immoral, pornographic, racist or offensive in any other way,

•    irrelevant or published with the intention of misrepresentation,

•    violate third party rights, especially copyrights,

•    in conflict with any effective regulations in any other way, for example provide grounds for penalties,

•    containing viruses or any other computer program that are suitable for the damaging of software, hardware or can impede the use of computers,

•    surveys, chain letters or concealed advertisements, or

•    serving the purpose of collection and/or use of personal data of other Users, especially for commercial purposes.

(2) Should the Vendor experience the violation of the above provisions, he shall be entitled to whether amend or delete the content in question. In the event of third parties’ bringing claims for damages towards the Vendor in connection with such violations, the User responsible for such contents shall hold the Vendor harmless of any such claims.

(3) Unauthorized and/or fraudulent use of the Vendor’s POI-offer or violation of these Terms of Use (including the authorized uses) entitle the Vendor to temporarily or indefinitely deny User’s access to the Services. Vendor reserves the right to seek legal redress.

§ 3 Denial of Access

(1) If a User violates statutory regulations, third party rights and/or these General Terms of Use, or if the Vendor’s interests require, especially for the protection of other Users, Vendor may take the following measures:

•    Reprimand of Users,

•    Temporary or indefinite denial of access to services or parts thereof.

(2) Unauthorized and/or fraudulent use of the Vendor’s online offer or violation of these Terms of Use (including the authorized uses) entitle the Vendor to temporarily or indefinitely deny User’s access to the Services. Vendor reserves the right to seek legal redress.

(3) Vendor shall be entitled to indefinitely deny access to the active use of his website (indefinite denial of services), if User entered false contact information, especially a false or invalid email address, if User causes significant damages to other Users or if any other important reason exists to do so.

§ 4 Integrity of the System and Interference with the Website

(1) Users may not use any mechanisms, software or any other scripts in connection with the website that are suitable for interfering with the operation of the website, especially ones that enable the generation of (automatic) page impressions.

(2) Users may not take measures that can result in an unreasonable or disproportional burden on the infrastructure.

(3) Users may not block, overwrite or modify any contents generated by the Vendor, or interfere with the operation of the website in any other way.