LEGAL NOTICE

Management Forum, a division of Handelsblatt GmbH
Toulouser Allee 27
40211 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 8874-3333
Fax: +49 211 8874-4000
Email: info@managementforum.com

Managing Director: Andrea Wasmuth

Registered office of the company: Düsseldorf
Commercial register number: HRB 85655

VAT ID No.: DE 114 127 780

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50354 Hürth

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Disclaimer

1. Content of the website
The author assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the completeness or quality of the information provided or for ensuring that this information is correct and up to date. Claims for liability against the author based on damages of a material or non-material nature resulting from the use or non-use of the provided information or the use of incorrect and incomplete information are excluded as a matter of principle to the extent that no provable intentional or grossly negligent culpability is present on the part of the author.
All offers are subject to confirmation and non-binding. The author explicitly retains the right to alter, supplement or delete parts of the pages or to temporarily or finally shut down publication without separate prior notice.

2. Referrals and links
In the case of direct or indirect referrals to third-party websites ("hyperlinks") that lie outside the sphere of responsibility of the author, a liability obligation would only come into effect in the event that the author possessed knowledge of the content in question and it would have been technically possible for him and reasonable to expect him to prevent such use in the case of illegal content.
The author hereby explicitly declares that no illegal content was discernible on the linked pages at the time when the link was set. The author has no influence whatsoever on the current and future design, content or authorship of the linked/connected pages. He therefore hereby explicitly distances himself from all content of all linked/connected pages that was changed after the link was set. This statement applies to all the links and referrals set in the author's website as well as to all third-party entries in guestbooks, discussion fora and mailing lists created by the author. The liability for illegal, incorrect or incomplete content and in particular for damages resulting from the use or non-use of information provided in this way lies solely with the provider of the page to which the user was referred and not with the person who merely refers the user to the publication in question via links.

3. Copyright and trademark law
In all publications, the author makes his best efforts to comply with the copyright of the graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that are used, to use graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts that he himself created, or to use licence-free graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts.
All trademarks and brand marks named within the website and, where applicable, protected by third parties are subject in full to the terms of the relevant trademark law and the ownership rights of the registered owners in question. The sole mentioning of a trademark on this website should not lead to the assumption that it is not protected by the rights of a third party!
The copyright for published objects designed by the author himself is owned exclusively by the author of the pages. Any reproduction or use of such graphics, sound documents, video sequences and texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the explicit consent of the author.

4. Data protection
If the website provides the option of entering personal or business-related data (e-mail addresses, names, addresses), the provision of such information by the user is explicitly on a voluntary basis. To the extent that this is technically possible and reasonable, the use of and payment for all offered services is also permitted without providing these data or by using anonymised data or by using a pseudonym. The use of contact data such as postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses published in the Legal Information or comparable information by third parties to send out information that has not been explicitly requested is not permitted. In the event of violations of this prohibition, we expressly reserve the right to take legal action against the senders of so-called spam mails.

5. Legal validity of this disclaimer
This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the Internet publication from which you were referred. If sections or individual wordings of this statement are not or are no longer legally compliant, this does not affect the content or validity of the other parts of the document.

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