Legal disclosure

Person responsible in accordance with section 5 of Telemedia Act (TMG), also responsible for content in accordance with 55 Abs. 2 RStV (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag):

Christian Stankowic
Osannstraße 11
D-64285 Darmstadt
Germany

Mail: inquiries@sankowite.com

Accountability for content

The contents of our pages have been created with the utmost care. However, we cannot guarantee the contents’ accuracy, completeness or topicality. According to statutory provisions, we are furthermore responsible for our own content on these web pages. In this context, please note that we are accordingly not obliged to monitor merely the transmitted or saved information of third parties, or investigate circumstances pointing to illegal activity. Our obligations to remove or block the use of information under generally applicable laws remain unaffected by this as per §§ 8 to 10 of the Telemedia Act (TMG).

Accountability for links

Responsibility for the content of external links (to web pages of third parties) lies solely with the operators of the linked pages. No violations were evident to us at the time of linking. Should any legal infringement become known to us, we will remove the respective link immediately.

Copyright

Our web pages and their contents are subject to German copyright law. Unless expressly permitted by law (§ 44a et seq. of the copyright law), every form of utilizing, reproducing or processing works subject to copyright protection on our web pages requires the prior consent of the respective owner of the rights. Individual reproductions of a work are allowed only for private use, so must not serve either directly or indirectly for earnings. Unauthorized utilization of copyrighted works is punishable (§ 106 of the copyright law).

Measuring visitor statistics

This website utilizes the open-source analytics software Piwik to generate visitor statistics in order to optimize the website continously. Stored information include the following:

Access date and time
Accessed blog post
Web browser and operating system

These information are completely anonymized and cannot be used for identifying persons or creating user profiles. IP addresses are censored before being stored in order to follow legal regulations. Information are never linked or passed.

You have the option to opt-out from this behaviour:

Comments

When publishing a comment on this website, the IP address linked to the comment will be removed after 60 days.

You can access and request removal of your personal data related to your comments on this website at any time – feel free to use this form.

When subscribing to comments, your mail address will be stored in this website’s database. You can alter your subscriptions at any time.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Anti-spam

Antispam Bee

This website utilizes the Antispam Bee plugin in order to differentiate whether comments have been posted by real humans or spam software. This differentiation is implemented by automatically defined rules (buzzwords, comments, mail addresses,…). This software never stores or passes individual-related information such as IP addresses.

Google reCaptcha

For protecting contact forms of this website, the service reCAPTCHA by Google Inc. is used. The service enables differentiating whether comments were authored by human beings or spam software. This includes forwarding the IP address and other information required by the service to Google. This also includes using submitted data for additional purposes. Your IP address is censored before being submitted to Google servers in the United States of America if you are a citizen of the European Union or other contractual states of the European economic region. Your IP is only submitted uncensored under exceptional cases and censored afterwards at server site. Google will use your information in order to evaluate your service consumption. Your IP address gathered along with reCAPTCHA will not be combined with other Google data. For this data, deviating data privacy of Google is applied. Additional information about Google’s data privacy policy can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

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