Terms of Use - Legal Information

1. General Information

The website www.vliepa.com is operated by vliepa GmbH, Heidhausen 81, 41379 Brüggen, Germany.

Please read these terms of use and the legal notices ("Terms of Use") carefully before using our website. By using the website http://www.vliepa.com, you give your consent to these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use will also apply if you use the website http://www.vliepa.com or parts thereof via other Internet sites which allow the access to the website  http://www.vliepa.com either entirely or in parts.

2. Limitation of Liability regarding the Website, External Links

vliepa GmbH, its statutory representatives and vicarious agents do not assume any liability or guarantee for the topicality, content, correctness, completeness, and other quality of the information provided on this website. This also applies to any and all links to other websites ("External Links") to which this website refers to, either directly or indirectly. vliepa GmbH is not responsible for the content of a website which can be reached via such an External Link. Unless stated otherwise, vliepa GmbH does not support these other websites and therefore explicitly distances itself from any and all contents presented on these sites. This declaration applies to any and all External Links to external websites contained on the website of vliepa GmbH and to any and all contents of these websites to which these External Links lead to. vliepa GmbH reserves its right to make any and all connections to other websites subject to its explicit written approval and to revoke the consent to a link at any time.

Any and all liability claims against vliepa GmbH, its legal representatives or vicarious agents based on damages of pecuniary or non-pecuniary nature which were caused by the use or non-use of the offered information and/or by the use of outdated, flawed, incomplete information or information which is otherwise deficient in quality, shall be excluded in principle, unless vliepa GmbH, its legal representatives or vicarious agents demonstrably acted with intent or gross negligence.

3. Copyrights, Other Property Rights

© vliepa GmbH, Brüggen, Germany 2017. All rights reserved. Either vliepa or its licensors are the owners of any and all copyrights, database rights and other intellectual property rights to the contents of the website http://www.vliepa.com (as well as to the structure and the presentation of the website), including the underlying software code. This website does not grant any license to use the intellectual property of vliepa GmbH or third parties. Texts, pictures, graphics, sound, animations and videos as well as their arrangement on the website are protected by copyright and other protective laws. Any and all use or copying of the provided contents and data for any purpose other than the gathering of personal information is only allowed after the prior explicit written consent of vliepa GmbH and the written consent of the respective photographer, author and/or originator. In particular, the content of this website may not be copied, disseminated, modified or made available to third parties for commercial purposes. This also applies its integration into external websites and online services as well as to the storage or copying into data banks or on data carriers. In case of a breach, vliepa GmbH reserves its right to take any kind of legal steps, in particular, but not limited to, claims to cease and desist, to removal, claims for information and for damages. Please note that some of the pictures and texts contained on the Website are subject to third party copyrights. The right to academic quotation with a proper indication to the source remains unaffected. Please quote us by indicating our entire URL and the date of your access.

4. Trademark and Other Signs

Any and all logos presented on the website are legally protected trademarks and may not be copied, published or used in any other way without the prior consent of vliepa GmbH and/or its licensor. Likewise, any and all other trademarks which are mentioned on the website and possibly protected by third parties are subject to the provisions of the applicable trademark laws and rights of ownership of the respective registered owner without restrictions. To be specific, the mere mentioning does not mean that such trademarks are not protected by third party rights.

5. No Offer, Subject to Change

The information provided on this website does not constitute an offer for the conclusion of a contract. Any and all contents of the website are without engagement and are non-binding. vliepa GmbH explicitly reserves its right to change, amend or entirely delete parts of the pages or the entire content of the website without prior notice or to discontinue the publication either temporarily or definitely.

6. Misuse

By visiting this website, you undertake to refrain from any and all abusive use of the provided contents and services, in particular to refrain from circumventing security precaution and to refrain from taking any and all actions which could lead to damage to the servers or networks. Furthermore, you undertake to refrain from integrating the presented contents and services into other Internet offers or to use them for commercial purposes.

7. Extrajudical Settlement

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in extrajudicial settlements before a consumer arbitration board.

By reason of a legal requirement and regardless of our participation in such alternative dispute-settlement practices, we are obliged to inform you that the European Commission has introduced an online out-of-court dispute settlement scheme for consumers. The platform can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

Our email address is: info[at]vliepa[dot]de.