Disclaimer
We cannot assume any liability for the content of external pages. Solely the operators of those linked pages are responsible for their content.
In addition we cannot assume liability for the content of pages describing products and activities of companies and institutions on this website.
We make every reasonable effort to ensure that the content of this Web site is kept up to date, and that it is accurate and complete. Nevertheless, the possibility of errors cannot be entirely ruled out. We do not give any warranty in respect of the timeliness, accuracy or completeness of material published on this Web site, and disclaim all liability for (material or non-material) loss or damage incurred by third parties arising from the use of content obtained from the Website.
Registered trademarks and proprietary names, and copyrighted text and images, are not generally indicated as such on our Web pages. But the absence of such indications in no way implies that these names, images or text belong to the public domain in the context of trademark or copyright law.

Protection of privacy
All data which are obtained via this website will be treated in accordance with the German law concerning protection of privacy (BDSG) and the information and telecommunication services law (IuTDB). Personal data will not be passed onto third parties without explicit permission from the person affected. Our understanding of "personal data" is information, which allows your identity to be determined, e.g. your name, address or telephone number.

Legal information
With the judgement from 12th May, 1998, the State Court of Hamburg ruled that inclusion of a link in a home page means that the owner of the home page may also be held responsible for the contents of the linked web sites. This can be prevented - according to the State Court - only by explicitly refusing to accept responsibility for these contents. We explicitly emphasise that we do not have any influence on the design and content of the linked web sites. We hereby explicitly refuse to accept responsibility for the contents of all web sites linked to our home page and do not accept their contents for ourselves.