Terms and Conditions
This translation is provided for the convenience of English-speaking readers and only the German text is authoritative or has any legal value. In the event of dispute between the English and German version of this document, the German version of this document shall govern.
Contracting Party
The party to the contract is INCREON GmbH, Robert-Buerkle-Str. 3, 85737 Ismaning, Managing Directors Christina and Armin Bastl, Katharina Graf, commercial register number (HRB) 130165 of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Munich. This company conducts all services on behalf of CDH eService GmbH, Am Weidendamm 1 a, 10117 Berlin, Managing Director Eckhard Döpfer, commercial register number (HRB) 84812 of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Berlin, which is the operator of the Internet platform.
By making use of the services of INCREON GmbH, Ismaning (hereafter referred to as “INCREON”) at the platform, you acknowledge and accept these General Terms and Conditions. INCREON performs all services solely on the basis of these General Terms and Conditions.
We do not accept terms and conditions of the Advertising Space Buyer (“Advertiser” or “Customer”) which wholly or partially deviate from these General Terms and Conditions unless we have expressly agreed to them in writing. These General Terms and Conditions are also exclusively in effect when we unconditionally perform our services with the knowledge of contrary terms and conditions of Advertiser.
These General Terms and Conditions are also in effect for future transactions between Customer and INCREON, including when the General Terms and Conditions are not expressly mentioned. By placing an order, Customer accepts these General Terms and Conditions.
General Definitions
In these General Terms and Conditions, “CDH eService” refers to the legal person which operates the Internet platform handelsvertreter.de.
In these General Terms and Conditions, “INCREON” refers to the legal person which operates all electronic services on the Internet platform on behalf of CDH eService GmbH, Berlin, the operator of the platform.
In these General Terms and Conditions, “Advertising Space Buyer” refers to natural or legal persons, corporations, or other private associations that act in the course of their commercial or independent professional activity and which have made an offer, or intend to make one, or which make or have made an order for banner advertisements. Further, “Advertising Space Buyer” refers to one who has entered oneself in the commercial agents-Directory on the platform.
In these General Terms and Conditions, “Reader” refers to the natural or legal person, corporation, or other association of persons which permits himself or herself to be advertised in the data supplied at the platform. “Customer” is every Advertising Space Buyer or Reader.”
Agreements
1. Subject Matter
Profile in Agents’ Directory
The subject matter is the provision of storage space for the storage of an entry in the Agents’ Directory. By registering, the advertiser consents to receiving information from the operator of the platform, CDHeService GmbH, the sponsors of the platform (Federal Association of German Associations for Commercial Agencies and Distribution (Centralvereinigung Deutscher Wirtschaftsverbände für Handelsvermittlung und Vertrieb e.V.)) including their member associations, and expressly also the company INCREON GmbH as the leading service provider. This information is sent by electronic mail (email) and does not contain any advertising, but contains information about new functions and enhancements on the platform and also about services and offers of the operator and the sponsors. The personal data that we process for sending these informational emails are not made available to other third parties. You can cancel the receipt of these emails at any time through the respective sender (operator, sponsor, or service provider) with effect for the future.
Public Profile
The subject matter is the provision of storage space for the storage of digital content. The contents can be accessed via the website. An accessibility of these contents is not guaranteed.
Advertisements
The subject matter is the possibility to register as a principal or manufacturer as well as the placement of an Advertisement (offer). By registering, the advertiser consents to receiving information from the operator of the platform, CDHeService GmbH, the sponsors of the platform (Federal Association of German Associations for Commercial Agencies and Distribution (Centralvereinigung Deutscher Wirtschaftsverbände für Handelsvermittlung und Vertrieb e.V.)) including their member associations, and expressly also the company INCREON GmbH as the leading service provider. This information is sent by electronic mail (email) and does not contain any advertising, but contains information about new functions and enhancements on the platform and also about services and offers of the operator and the sponsors. The personal data that we process for sending these informational emails are not made available to other third parties. You can cancel the receipt of these emails at any time through the respective sender (operator, sponsor, or service provider) with effect for the future.
2. Duties of INCREON and CDH eService
CDH eService guarantees an availability of its Internet Web servers of 97% as the annual average. Excepted from this are times during which the Web server is not available over the Internet owing to technical or other problems which are not in the sphere of influence of CDH eService (force majeure, liability or negligence of third parties, etc.).
INCREON is a broker of data. These data are transmitted by the Advertising Space Buyer and made available to Reader(s).
To permit the Advertising Space Buyer to access the entry in the Agents’ Directory at any time, Advertising Space Buyer assigns himself or herself a username and a password.
INCREON does not in any way assume any guarantee for the correctness and/or the legality of the data transmitted by Advertising Space Buyer. Advertising Space Buyer is responsible himself or herself for the content of the transmitted data. INCREON does not, as a rule, edit data transmitted.
INCREON reserves the right to no longer make available to Readers transmitted data which are not within the bounds of public taste or which are illegal — also upon mere suspicion of such — and at the least to transmit them to security authorities. Services may at any time be expanded, shortened, or subjected to other changes.
INCREON further reserves the right to delete links to websites on other servers without giving any reason and without notifying the Advertising Space Buyer and to make entries from particular Advertising Space Buyers impossible.
3. Duties of Advertising Space Buyer
Advertising Space Buyer warrants that the data communicated by him or her are correct and complete. He or she further warrants to immediately inform INCREON of respective changes to the communicated data and upon the corresponding request of INCREON to again confirm the current correctness within 15 days from receipt. This applies in particular to the name and postal address of Advertising Space Buyer.
Should interruptions arise during the use of the server, Advertising Space Buyer will be informed immediately of these interruptions by INCREON or CDH eService.
Advertising Space Buyer is obliged to keep access data confidential vis-à-vis unauthorized third parties. In particular, username and password are to be stored such that the access to these data by unauthorized third parties is impossible, in order to rule out a misuse of the access through third parties.
The persons who use the contractually stipulated services with the knowledge and will of Advertising Space Buyer are not considered as unauthorized third parties.
Advertising Space Buyer affirms that he or she shall not post any content whose provision, publishing or use violates applicable law, is legally prohibited, is contra bonos mores or infringes on the rights of third parties (trademarks, rights to bear a name, copyrights, data protection rights, etc.). In particular, Advertising Space Buyer undertakes not to offer or permit offering any pornographic content and any services aimed at generating a profit and having as a subject matter pornographic and/or erotic content. For each case of infringement of one of the above provisions, Advertising Space Buyer undertakes to compensate INCREON a contractual penalty in the amount of 5,000.00 Euro, where each singular act will be deemed an individual infringement.
Advertising Space Buyer agrees to indemnify both CDH eService and INCREON from any and all claims of third parties which result from the illegality of content which Advertising Space Buyer has stored on the storage space subject to this agreement. The indemnification also includes the agreement to indemnify completely both CDH eService and INCREON from legal and accounting fees (e.g., court and attorney fees).
Advertising Space Buyer undertakes to design his or her entry, profile, or Advertisement, respectively, in the Agents’ Directory such that an excessive burden on the server; for example, through high-resolution images, etc., which require high computing power or an above-average amount of working memory is avoided. INCREON reserves the right to block from access by Advertising Space Provider or third parties database entries which do not meet the above requirements. INCREON will immediately inform Advertising Space Buyer of such a measure.
4. Blocking of Content
Advertising Space Buyer is under an obligation to mark content in his or her entry or Advertisement as own content while specifying his or her complete name and his or her address. It should be noted by Advertising Space Buyer that a further statutory obligation of identification may exist; e.g., when teleservices or media services are offered in the database entry. Advertising Space Buyer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless both CDH eService and INCREON from any and all claims which may be based on a violation of the obligations mentioned above.
INCREON is under no obligation to inspect the entry with regard to violations of law.
If and insofar as Advertising Space Buyer makes use of the storage space subject to this agreement contrary to the assurance for storing illegal content, both CDH eService and INCREON reserve the right to block access to this content over the World Wide Web through suitable measures.
If and insofar as the Advertising Space Buyer makes use of the storage space subject to this agreement contrary to the assurance for storing illegal content, both CDH eService and INCREON reserve the right to communicate the name and contact address of the Advertising Space Buyer to third parties, in order to permit official and legal measures against the Advertising Space Buyer.
5. Prices and Payment
Advertisements
Our offers are exclusively intended for natural or legal persons, corporations or other private associations which, when completing a legal transaction, act in the course of their commercial or independent professional activity. Therefore, all customers under Section 13 of the Civil Code of Germany are excluded from placing orders in our store and, as a result, from providing services.
The prices for Advertisements are fixed prices. The period of advertising selected by Advertising Space Buyer is the basis for invoicing.
INCREON GmbH reserves the right to change the prices stated on the platform with effect for the future. Periods of time which have already been booked remain unaffected by this. Should you not object within 6 weeks of being notified of the changed prices, the new prices are deemed to be accepted for the continuation of the agreement. Otherwise, the agreement ends.
INCREON GmbH will invoice the advertiser the contractually owed fee including the statutory value added tax (VAT) for the insertion period chosen by the advertiser unless the advertiser is based outside the territory of the EU (so-called third country). If the advertiser is a company based in the EU outside of Germany, ordering is only possible when a valid VAT ID number is provided. Without any such supplied detail, in accordance with the EU VAT regulation for electronic services in effect from 1 January 2015, it is assumed that the services are being purchased for private consumption, with the consequence that the applicable VAT at the location of the advertiser is to be charged. Because INCREON GmbH only supplies electronic services which are aimed at business enterprises, such an order will not be accepted and the ordering process will be terminated as a result.
Invoices are due net for payment immediately from the invoice date. When placing an advertisement, Advertising Space Buyer must choose a payment possibility. A possible demand of Advertising Space Buyer not to publish one or more advertisements does not discharge the Advertising Space Buyer from his duty to pay.
Should Advertising Space Buyer default on payments due, Advertising Space Buyer is obliged to pay late payment charges in the amount of 8% per annum. The basic rate of interest on late payments set forth by law is in all cases the minimum rate of interest. INCREON reserves the right to immediately block the Advertisement or Banner Advertisement, or both, of Advertising Space Buyer, and also that of the Advertising Space Buyer of the reseller.
In the case of promotions, the prices indicated for promotions are only valid for the run time of the respective promotion. The periods of notice are, however, as described under “7 Run Time, Cancellation”. Should the period of an ordered promotional service automatically be renewed, from the beginning of the renewal, the normal prices, no longer the promotional prices, but the regular rates are in effect.
The claim for payment of INCREON is based on the making available of the contractually stipulated services. Whether Advertising Space Buyer actually then makes use of these services does not inasmuch play a role. A remittance in the case of a cancellation is within the discretion of CDH eService and INCREON and must be individually reviewed.
INCREON has no direct influence on the reaction of Readers to the placed advertisements and listings and can therefore not assume any liability for the number of any contacts. Further, INCREON rejects any guarantee of success for the establishment of a contact between Advertising Space Buyer and any Readers.
In light of the exclusion of customers under Section 13 of the Civil Code of Germany, the right of withdrawal stated in Section 355 of the Civil Code of Germany does not apply to orders placed through our online store, which is clearly and unmistakably laid down.
6. Guarantee and Liability
INCREON is a broker of data and information. The integrity of data and information can in no way be guaranteed by INCREON. For this reason, INCREON is not liable for losses which arise from incorrectly displayed or defective data. INCREON bears liability at most in the amount of the costs paid for services made use of. Claims in excess of this (for example, lost profits) may not be asserted.
For defects of its services in accordance with Numbers 1 and 2 of this agreement, CDH eService and INCREON bear liability according to the legal regulations.
CDH eService is not liable for the operability of telephone connections to its servers, and is not liable in the event of power outages and for the outages of servers over which it has no control.
In the case of slight negligence, both CDH eService and INCREON are liable only for the injury of fundamental contractual obligations (cardinal obligations). Apart from that, the precontractual, contractual and non-contractual liability of both CDH eService and INCREON is limited to malice and gross negligence. The limitation of liability is also valid in the case of the indebtedness of a fulfillment partner of CDH eService and INCREON.
CDH eService and INCREON do not assume any liability for the content provided in the Internet as well as for loss resulting from its use.
7. Right of Withdrawal
In light of the exclusion of customers under Section 13 of the Civil Code of Germany, the right of withdrawal stated in Section 355 of the Civil Code of Germany does not apply to orders placed through our online store, which is clearly and unmistakably laid down.
8. Term (Run Time), Termination of the Agreement
The agreement is concluded for the period of the placement.
The right to terminate the agreement for good cause shall not be affected by the provisions of this section. A good cause for the termination of this agreement is in particular present for INCREON when the Advertising Space Buyer:
(a) is in arrears more than 20 calendar days with the payment of the charges,
(b) culpably violates conditions for the award of the agreement or the guidelines for the award of the agreement.
Each termination of the contract must be in writing to take effect; telefax is considered to satisfy the requirement of written form.
9. Data Protection and Data Privacy
INCREON hereby draws attention to the fact that personal data are stored in the context of executing the agreement.
INCREON expressly draws the attention of the Advertising Space Buyer to the fact that data privacy for data transmissions in public networks such as the Internet cannot be guaranteed in full according to the current state of the technology. The Advertising Space Buyer understands and acknowledges that the operator, service provider, and provider can at any time, from a technical standpoint, view the page content stored on the web server and possibly also other data of the Advertising Space Buyer stored on the server. Other participants in the Internet are also possibly, in technical terms, in a position to interfere with the security of the network and to monitor or steer the communication traffic. The Advertising Space Buyer shall be fully responsible for the security of the data transferred by him or her into the Internet and of data stored on web servers.
Advertisements: In the case of advertisements quoting a box number, data associated with the box number are saved by INCREON. However, they are not transmitted.
Additionally, we hereby draw attention to the data privacy regulations of the platform.
10. Explanatory Note of Disassociation (Links to Other Sites)
The CDH eService website contains links to other websites and images in the Internet. For all these links, as well as for all other references to or from other websites, the following applies: The operators have no possibility whatsoever to influence the design or content of the pages to which the CDH eService website links. CDH eService expressly distances itself from all content of all linked pages accessible from our web pages.
11. Clauses finales
German law is to be applied in all respects to this agreement.
Insofar as Advertising Space Buyer is a merchant as defined by German law, a legal entity under public law, a special fund governed by public law, or has no general domestic place of jurisdiction, for all disputes arising from or in connection with this agreement, the jurisdiction or venue is agreed to be Munich, Germany.
Should individual provisions of this agreement be invalid or become invalid due to a subsequent change in circumstances, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. In place of the invalid provision, an appropriate provision shall apply which corresponds as closely as possible to that which the parties would have intended had they considered the point. The same is true for missing provisions.