Terms of Service
All services offered by Knuddels GmbH & Co. KG., Ferdinand-Porsche-Str. 7, D-76275 Ettlingen, Germany, (Knuddels) through this website and through the Knuddels chat program (including but not limited to the services "chat", "guest book", "online forum", "email", "homepages", "photo gallery", "online games", and "special chat functions") are subject to the following Terms of Service (TOS).
By using any of these services, by registering a new account, or by using an existing account, you agree to these terms of service.
The terms of service may be updated from time to time without notice to you. It is your responsibility to review the most current form of this agreement to ensure that you agree to any revisions. Your continued use of our services after such revision indicates your acceptance.
Use and Behavior
Registered users must be over 14 years of age.
All information supplied through the registration form (including email address and age) has to be correct.
This site may at times contain information, content, features, language, opinions, information, suggestions, products, services, and references and other matters which are suitable only for persons over 14. Therefore this website, and any part of it, is only available to those who are over 14 years of age. This site operates in accordance with and complies with all elements of law, including data protection. By continuing to the next page or visiting, using, viewing the whole or any part of it, or having any involvement whatsoever with this website you are confirming that you are over 14 and will not misuse the website in any way and continue to use this site in accordance with and compliance with all elements of law. If you are under 14 years of age or do not agree to be bound or abide by this notice then you are not authorised to or visit, use, view the whole or any part of it or have any involvement whatsoever with this website and must leave the website immediately. We reserve the right to take action against those who do not.
You agree that when using one of our services, YOU WILL NOT:
- Publish, post, upload, distribute, or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, derogatory defamatory, infringing, improper, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material, or information.
- Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws or by rights of privacy of publicity unless you own or control such rights or have received all necessary consents.
- Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer.
- Download for distribution in any manner any file posted by another user of a forum that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices, proprietary designations, labels of the origin, source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying any of the bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, and/or other message or communication facilities.
For security reasons, we log all conversations that take place at via our services (both public and private) along with your computer's IP address. This information is enough for you to be identified and criminally convicted if necessary.
Removal of access and modification of information
You accept that we reserve the right to refuse or delete your membership and access of any or all sections of this website at any time at our own discretion. We do not need to give you a reason should we decide to do this. You agree we have the right to remove or modify any information submitted to this website as we see fit.
We will ban you if we feel you have broken any of our rules; there may not be a warning prior to a ban. Depending upon the circumstances, we may pass your information onto your Internet Service Provider or the police. We also reserve the right to ban anyone we suspect of being under the age of 14 regardless of fact.
Disclaimer of Liability
We do not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility whatsoever in respect of anything at all available in, on or from this website or linked to it. We do not endorse or recommend anything (including any products or services) which may be featured, used or referred to in or on this website. Any views, opinions or statements made or expressed in or on this website do not necessarily state or reflect ours and they cannot be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. Any links to other websites or information is simply for the convenience of users and we will not be responsible for the content or availability of these. We do not endorse or recommend anything (including any products or service) which are featured or used on those links to sites or information. In the same way neither do we endorse or recommend anything that comes in pop-up messages or advertisements while using this site.
In no event shall Knuddels be liable to anyone for any delays, inaccuracies, errors, or omissions with respect to the information or the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof, for any damage arising therefrom or occasioned thereby, or for the results obtained from the use of the content of messages.
You agree to any information you have entered on the site being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, we cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt or system failure that may lead to the data being compromised or lost.
Copyright
The idea, format, layout, and content of this website is subject to copyright and any duplication, copying or use in any way or all, some or any part of it will constitute a breach of copyright.
By submitting content to this website, you represent that you have a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content.
By submitting content to this website, you are granting Knuddels a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
Risks
You acknowledge that there are certain risks inherent to the use of our services. These include, but are not limited to, disclosure of confidential information (including personal details), the improper operation of the software and website (such as failing to function or to function correctly), and the risk that third parties directly or impersonating themselves as someone they are not, will contact you or attempt to contact you as a result of Knuddel's provision of and/or your use of our services. If you publish personal information, there is a possibility that third parties could harass you, attempt to contact you, or try to harm you. Therefore, it is important that you carefully consider before disclosing and publishing personal information and that you understand that any such disclosure and publishing are made by you at your own risk.
Without limitations to the generality of the aforesaid, due to the nature of internet, computers, data flow, and other technical and economical practicalities, our services as most computer data and internet applications, are vulnerable to various security issues and hence should be considered unsecured. By using our services and the internet in general, you may be subject to various risks, including among others eavesdropping, sniffing, spoofing, forgery, spamming, "imposturing", tampering, breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, electronic trespassing, hacking, nuking, system contamination including without limitation, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, causing unauthorized, damaging or harmful access and/or retrieval of information and data on your computer and other forms of activity that may even be considered unlawful. Information received or delivered on and through our services may be subject to other security or privacy hazards or may not reach its destination or reach an erroneous address or recipient.