Gerd Hoffmann
Legal, Copyright, Privacy

Terms & Conditions

1. LEGAL

1.1 General

By visiting or using our service, you are agreeing to these Terms & Conditions. If you disagreeing with any part of our terms and conditions you may not access or using our service. Please read them carefully to understand our Terms & Conditions.

1.2 Purpose of this website

These terms & conditions apply to this website, which is managed and maintained by the author. When preparing this website, the author is anxious to insure that the information was current and accurate, but we do not guarantee that it is accurate or current, or useful for your purpose now and in the future. The website is a non-commercial website.

1.3 Online-contents

The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected.

All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement to the user. The author reserves the right to remove this website from public view, either temporally or permanently.

1.4 Referrals and links

This website may contain links or references to other internet sites on the World Wide Web. The author provides such links or references for your information only, and is not responsible for the content of any site linked to or from this site. The responsibility for those sites belongs to their owner. The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to or from his pages.

If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the author who has linked to these pages. Furthermore the author is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guest books or mailing lists if provided on his page.

The author takes no responsibility about any damage incurred when the visitor uses any linked website. Use the linked websites at your own risk and according to the conditions which the website imposes.

The author provides such links for your convenience only, and does not mean that the use of the website, publicized merchandises or services is recommended. These links do not mean that any special relationship exist between the author and the owner of the linked website.

1.5 Newsletter

If you subscribe our Newsletter you are agree to our terms & conditions. The newsletter is a free service without any charges. No liability is accepted for any information or services which may appear in any other format. No responsibility is taken for any information or services which may appear on any linked websites.

We publish and provided this newsletter for our subscribers from our website for information purposes only. With the subscription to our newsletter you’ll receive news, stories and tips regarding our website content and photographic activities.

If you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter, you can do so without any obligations at any time. All of your personal data will be deleted.

1.6 Governing Law 

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

1.7 Legal force

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual formulations of this text are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

The terms & conditions might be change without any prior notice to the visitor.

2. COPYRIGHT

2.1 General

All material on this website including but not limited to text, images, audio, video, etc. (hereafter “content” of this website”) is protected by domestic and international copyright laws, international conventions and laws. Any duplication or use of diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted.

2.2 Copyright

The content of this website cannot be duplicated, reprinted, published or distributed in any way (magazine, book, or CD, DVD, websites etc.) without the prior written permission of the author. If you want to use images, videos or other content for you purpose please contact the author.

The copyright for any material created by the author is reserved by the author. All images, videos and other audio visual content of this webpage are copyright by the author if  not mentioned or indicated in other ways. The author intended not to use any copyrighted material for the publication or, if not possible, to indicate the copyright of the respective object.

2.3 Trademarks and Brands

Products, services, company’s names or brands published on this website maybe are the trademarks or brands of registered company’s. The use of such trademarks or brands, etc. without the permission of the rights-holder is strictly prohibited.

3. PRIVACY

3.1 General

The privacy of the visitors on our website has a high priority and will be respected in any case.

3.2 Data security

If the possibility of input for personal or business data (email addresses, name, addresses etc.) exists, the input of these data takes place voluntarily. Personal or business data will not share or distribute in any way to any other parties by the author.

3.3 Cookies

This website may use, store or set cookies from the visitors. If you following linked websites from the author’s website you may be use cookies from these websites. The author is not responsible for cookies used on any third-party website (like Vimeo, Twitter etc.) which may linked or referenced from the author’s website. Please check the third parties websites for more information about cookies.

3.4 Analytics and reporting tools

The open source software tools Piwik and Awstats are used to count the hints and countries accessed on this website only. No further analytics or reporting tools are used. No reports are generated or distributed for or to any other parties by the author.