Rules for contributions

Your obligations as contributor

You ensure that your contributions and their content, as well as contained hyperlinks or other links and the content made available via hyperlinks or other links

1. do not breach statutory regulations or third party rights (particularly regarding copyrights and trademark rights); and
2. are not / is not of an extremist (in particular right-wing extremist) nature and do not show content that is pornographic, commercially erotic, violent or that glorifies violence, or is racist, discriminatory, harmful to minors or seditious, nor domains or content that incite criminal acts or amount to instructions for such acts; and
3. are not / is not used to disseminate malware or improperly operating botnets, to send spam communications or for phishing, for trademark and copyright infringements or piracy or fraudulent or misleading practices, or counterfeiting or other behaviour that infringes applicable law; and
4. are not / is not insulting and do not contain any defamation, libel or slander due to the governing law; and
5. are not / is not grossly untrue or grossly misleading and are not / is not used to disseminate false averments; and
6. are not / is not anticompetitive; and
7. are not / is not already published in the same area (e.g. in the same forum) of this web site (prohibition of duplicate postings); and
8. do not contain advertisements without prior written approval by us. This applies as well to so-called covered advertising, in particular the linking with the own homepage with or without added text, within the signature or within contributions. Homepage URL's and address or contact data may be published only within the user profile.

Moreover, you make and keep appropriate backups of your contributions. We are not liable for the loss of data or mistakes due to circumstances where your contributions are not available anymore entirely or partially or deleted or altered.

As user you covenant to check your contributions and topics before they are published, if they contain any information which you do not want to be published. Your contributions and topics may be recorded by search engines and thus become accessible world wide. We do not accept any claim to delete or correct such recordings by search engines.

You covenant to keep us free from any liability and indemnity claim caused by your infringements of the (legal) regulations of the obligations as contributor mentioned above and to incur all possible indemnifications from claims caused by these infringements.

Copyrights and licensing of your contributions

We provide you the possibility to decide by yourself about the governing copyrights and the licensing of your contributions within certain limits. You may indicate in your contributions which copyrights shall govern and which license shall be applied to your respective contribution. The indication of copyrights and licensing must be obvious and unambiguous and must follow the standards of this web site. You must choose copyrights and licensing in a manner that all users can use your contributions in this web site as intended by this web site without the risk of any infringement of the copyrights or the licensing, particularly you must guaranty that all users are allowed to view, download, store, print and copy your contributions for non-commercial purposes. You waive all rights and legal claims from copyrights and licenses precautionary, which otherwise result from such an usage by the users and us.

Please note: a selection of unusual copyrights and licenses may result in the circumstance that we cannot check reasonably, if the the preconditions mentioned above are met, and hence we have to reject your contribution.

If no copyrights are indicated as mentioned above, then the copyrights of Germany shall govern, to the extend applicable.

If no license is indicated as mentioned above, then the following license shall be applied to your contribution, to the extend applicable:

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA)

Direct link to the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode

Human-readable summary: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

We (the owners or operators of this web site) get your contributions always under the license mentioned above "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-SA)" governed by the copyright laws of Germany, no matter what copyrights and what licensing applies for the users of this web site or third parties. Each and every of your contributions includes also automatically an offer by you to us to use that contribution under that license. We accept your offer automatically, when we use your contribution beyond viewing, downloading, transmitting, storing, moving, deleting, printing and copying it, but latest before we alter or publish your contribution.

Your obligations as reviser

The goal of the revisions of contributions is to prevent the infringement of rights, laws or terms of use, as well as to achieve a minimum of quality, relevance for the topic etc.

In case you have been entitled by us to revise the contributions of other users, you covenant to not infringe the copyrights and licenses which are relevant for these contributions. We do not accept any liability from infringements of copyrights and licenses caused by you. You covenant to keep us free from any liability and indemnity claim caused by your infringements and to incur all possible indemnifications from claims caused by these infringements.

In case we and the governing copyrights and applied licenses allow you to alter or amend the respective contribution, you are bound to the obligations as contributor mentioned above if you do so. The governance of the copyrights and the licensing do not change by this. There is no legal claim to get your alterations or amendments checked by us and no obligation for us to do so. You shall provide the contributions for publishing in such a state and manner that they can be published without any further alterations or amendments.

These terms of use are protected by copyright laws.