Terms and Conditions of Use

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Please ensure that you have read, understood and agreed
to the conditions listed below:

All rights concerning design or contents of this web site remain the property of Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG. Copying or downloading the web site or any part thereof is permissible for private purposes only, unless otherwise specified. Public or commercial use of any contents of the web site or parts thereof shall be strictly prohibited, unless the user shall receive express permission to act otherwise.

Inasmuch as the general public has access to the Internet, this enables unauthorised third parties to influence its contents. Consequently, the Internet may involve risks that are beyond our control. In using the Web Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG urges users to bear these risks and any possible consequences resulting therefrom in mind. Under no circumstances shall the company be liable for the general risks involved in use of online web sites. The Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG web site shall not be used for any activities which may result in the violation of a third party’s rights, infringement of laws or regulations or interference with other parties' use of the Internet in general or our web site in particular. We reserve the right to remove any insertions on the web site or other information originating from unauthorised sources should we have sufficient reason to believe that such insertions or information infringe on the principles of authorised online use.

Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG takes great care in selecting the information placed at the user's disposal. However, the company shall not assume any liability for the correctness of the information on its web site. This information shall be presented for marketing purposes only and shall not be considered binding. Nor shall any assurances be provided concerning its use or consequences resulting therefrom. This shall also apply to other web sites or web pages referred to by links or hyperlinks. Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall assume liability for external contents only in accordance with the legal regulations. The installation of links or hyperlinks leading to the company's web site, web pages or any contents thereof shall not be permissible without prior explicit consent.

These terms of use shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Germany. Any litigation arising from the use of this online service shall be settled before the courts of Hamburg, provided the other party is a commercial party.

Privacy / Data Protection Declaration

Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall treat any personal data confidentially and in accordance with data protection regulations. It is in the company's interest that web users be informed of the methods available for protecting personal data. As a company under private law we are subject to the regulations of the German Data Protection Act (BDSG), the German Teleservices Act (TDG) and the Teleservices Data Protection Act (TDDSG). Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG ensures that the data protection regulations are respected by itself as a company as well as by any external service providers.

Personal data includes any personal information about an individual person which may be used to reveal that person's identity. The German Data Protection Act does not distinguish between so-called "important" or "unimportant" personal data. Data (which may be publicly known) such as a person's name and address are personal data and are therefore equally subject to protection by law.
Persons using the Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG online service do not need to reveal their personal identity. Should a user register his or her name for a particular service offer (newsletter mailing list, participation in a contest or similar) only such data shall be requested as necessary for carrying out the service involved. Personal data shall not be used for any other purposes.

In the event that a person shall send us an application Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall ensure that all data shall be treated with utmost confidentiality and in accordance with regulations stipulated in the German Data Protection Act. We urge individuals to bear in mind, however, that online transmission of an application poses the risk of third parties viewing and possibly making unauthorised changes to the document.

The Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall use any personal data placed at the company's disposal for in-house purposes only and shall not transmit them to third parties without prior consent of the individual involved. We also wish to stress that no personal data shall be sold or leased to third parties. In the event that Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall make any personal data available to external service providers (order data processing), the latter shall be equally bound to the regulations of the German Data Protection Act and this Data Protection Declaration as well.

Should Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG be obliged by law or by court order to make personal data available to authorised federal or private institutions, it shall act accordingly. Furthermore, we shall reserve the right to forward personal data to third parties without prior consent in cases where this shall be absolutely necessary in the interest of protecting the company against criminal offence or such offence as shall be detrimental to the operability of the web site.

Children and adolescents under 18 years of age shall not be permitted to make their personal data available to us without the permission of a parent or guardian.

Individuals shall have the possibility to revoke personal data in the event that such personal data has been made available to Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG and it shall be deleted immediately. Such revocation may be sent to us by E-mail to info@lsh-ag.de. Should Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG be obliged by law to keep the data, then it shall not be deleted, but blocked for use, in the event of revocation by the individual involved. Thus, the data shall remain in our system but shall not be processed or used and shall be duly deleted on expiration of the retention period.

Cookies are small files which allow Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG to store specific, user-related information on the user's PC while the user is viewing the web site. Cookies assist us in registering the number of users accessing pages on the web site and number of times the web pages are accessed, and help in creating a more comfortable and efficient web site. Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG makes use of so-called temporary cookies which shall be deleted as soon as the user leaves the web site or in the event that a user has not made an entry on one of the web pages for a longer period of time.

The web site contains links to other Internet sites. Laurens Spethmann GmbH & Co. KG shall not assume any responsibility or liability for the contents of these sites nor for user data protection on these sites. It is advisable that users check the data protection regulations of other web sites prior to making use of their facilities and services.

For questions, suggestions or comments regarding data protection users are free to contact the data protection office in charge, PrivCom Datenschutz GmbH, Hamburg,
E-mail: info@privcom.de or
Tel + 49 (0) 40 / 48 40 90 10.