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Terms of Web Site Use

Thank you for visiting Choice Engineering Consultants International ("ceci"). Please take a few moments to read the following terms. Use of this web site means that you agree to those terms. Thank you!

Copyrights, Restrictions, Trademarks

All materials in this web site, including text, images, illustrations, logos, layout, audio and video sequences, executable files, and software of any type (collectively "Contents") are protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unless an explicit different marking is present, copyrights exclusively belong to ceci. Copyright © 1999 Choice Engineering Consultants International. All rights reserved. Material marked with one or more person’s names is subject to copyright of those authors and shall be treated the same way required for Contents.

You may retrieve Contents form this web site only if you agree to comply with the rules of fair use (Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act, United States of America Code 17). Based on these rules, you may download Contents from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices and, in addition, make sure that ceci is referenced as follows: Source: Choice Engineering Consultants Intl. at http://www.ceci.com. Except as specifically permitted above, UNAUTHORIZED COPYING, REPRODUCTION, REPUBLISHING, UPLOADING, DOWNLOADING, POSTING, TRANSMITTING OR DUPLICATING OF ANY OF THE CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED.

Product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

 

Privacy

All personal data submitted to ceci are used within the scope of ceci only. Under no circumstances such data will be made available to third parties. Data collected for joint projects with other institutions may underlay different regulations. In those cases, participants receive a special notification prior to submitting data and their explicit consent is required.

Off Site Links

Off site links are marked with outlink.gif (177 Byte). These links are included for convenience only. Please be aware that those web sites are not under control of ceci and therefore ceci can not be held responsible for contents and operation of those web sites. You access any such linked sites at your own risk. Nevertheless, if you encounter problems with web sites ceci is pointing to, please notify webmaster@ceci.com. If you would like to place a link to ceci on your web site, please use this button (right-click and save as 'ceci-button.gif'): ceci-button.gif (2 KByte)  Thank you!

 

Unsolicited Submissions, Invited Submissions

Although making contributions to this web site is greatly encouraged and your comments on this web site are very welcome, ceci does not accept unsolicited submissions of materials or ideas for its web site or any other area the material may be used for. Therefore, please do not make any such submissions to ceci without contacting ceci in advance and being invited to submit your material. If you omit the procedure stated above and do send a submission, it will immediately become ceci’s property, including take over of copyrights, without any financial or other liability to you. If your submission has been invited according to the above rules, you hereby waive and agree not to assert any moral or proprietary rights of any kind in any submission you make (whether copyright, trademark or otherwise) and you waive the right to receive any financial or other consideration or credit in connection with such submission, except for the authorship. You agree that any submissions you make may be used, copied, processed for typesetting and graphical presentation, published, distributed, transmitted, displayed and/or incorporated into this site without any notice or compensation to you.

 

Disclaimers and Limitations on Liability

ALL CONTENTS ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, ceci IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFECTIONS OR CONTAMINATION OF YOUR SYSTEM OR DELAYS, INACCURACIES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE OR WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTENTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ceci BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY CONTENTS AVAILABLE FROM THIS WEB SITE.

 

Other

This web site is operated and controlled by ceci from its administrative office in Hamburg, Germany. ceci makes no representations that materials in this web site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who may access or link to this site from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with any and all local laws, to the extent applicable. No Contents from this site may be downloaded, exported or re-exported into (or to a national or resident of) any countries that are subject to export restrictions issued by the European Union or any of its member countries or the United States of America. This agreement shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Germany. Legal domicile for any action you bring to enforce this agreement or any matters related to this web site shall be Hamburg, Germany. If any provision of this agreement is void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions of this agreement shall not be affected thereby. This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the matters contained herein, supersedes any separate agreement found in this web site, and shall not be modified except in writing, signed by the owner of ceci, Jan-Peter Lechner, Bismarckstraße 69 b, D-20259 Hamburg, Germany.

The above mentioned rules of privacy and any other rule relating to treatment of personal data as well as the web site itself are governed by the recommendations of the Administrator of Data Security under the state law of the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany. The German language brochure may be downloaded  from here (version January 15, 2002) or via the web site of the Hamburgischer Datenschutzbeauftragter outlink.gif (177 Byte). In addition the ceci web site fully adopts the recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C outlink.gif (177 Byte)) with respect to its Platform for Privacy Preference Project (P3P outlink.gif (177 Byte)). A compact version of the privacy policy stated above is being extended to each visitor via custom HTTP headers.

 


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Last reviewed on November 12, 2008