User Agreement ("Agreement") governs the use of this Web site

USER AGREEMENT

The following User Agreement governs the use of this Web site, including participation in bulletin boards, forums, or any other future services to be, or not to be offered, as provided by the this Site.

Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. If you cannot or will not agree with these rules, discontinue the use of this Site.

These terms may be modified from time to time. Continued access of the Site by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Agreement. Your failure to follow these rules, whether listed below or in bulletins posted at various points in the Site, may result in suspension or termination of your access to the Site.

USE OF PASSWORDS

Your right to use the Site is personal to you - you may not authorize others to use the Site, and you are responsible for all use by you and those you allow to use the Site under your name.

You will be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password (if you are given one). You are solely responsible for all usage or activity on your account including, but not limited to, use of your password.

If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure (for example, in the event of a loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure or use of your, password), you must promptly notify the Site with a request for a new password. It will then be determined, by the site, if you will receive a new password or not. A password is a privilege not a right.

USE OF THE SITE BY YOU

This Site is not intended for users under the age of legal consent in the state or country where they reside. The Site does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from users other than what you choose to give. Users are expressly prohibited from submitting their personally identifiable information to the Site, and from using our forums and chat areas; any information submitted by such users will not knowingly be used, posted or retained by Site.

You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language or to place on the Site any material that is defamatory, abusive, harassing, obscene, indecent, offensive or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Site any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorized advertising, invades anyone's privacy, or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes, and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Site, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party is posted without the permission of the owner(s) of such rights. Material on the Site is for your personal use only. The Site contains copyrighted and other proprietary information. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Site, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other law or as expressly permitted in writing by this Agreement, or the Site.

You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Site, or its associated software, hardware, and/or servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of the Site. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with the Site.

Other than connecting to Service Provider's servers by http requests using a Web browser, you my not attempt to gain access to Service Provider's servers by any means - including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Site or otherwise.

You acknowledge that the Site has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to/from the Site and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to/from the Site. Your linking to any service or site is at your sole risk.

USE OF MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY YOU

By posting messages, up-loading files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication through the Site, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sub-license any such communication (including your identity and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS:

This Site respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. The Site may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, suspend or terminate the access of and take other action against users who infringe the copyright rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Site contains links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity that infringes your copyright rights, you may notify the Site by providing information (as required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 512) to the Site.

1. A physical or electronic signature of person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are coverage by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.

3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Site Provider to locate the material;

4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit the Site Provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.

5. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

By e-mail: intellectualproperty (at) covington.de

Note: Only copyright complaints should be sent to agent. No other communications will be accepted or responded to.

For communications on other matters, please mail to infos (at) covington.de

MATERIALS POSTED BY OTHERS

You agree that the Site Provider and its service providers are not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material, including but not limited to material that violates this Agreement.

COMMENTS BY USERS ARE NOT ENDORSED BY THIS SITE

The Site does not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted on bulletin boards, forums or otherwise contained in the Site. Nor does the Site or its third-party service providers make any warranties with respect to any of the item mentioned in the Site. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those who post the statements, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Service Provider or its third-party providers.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify the Site Provider and its affiliates, and to hold them harmless, from any and all claims and liabilities (including attorneys fees) which may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained through the Site, or from your breach of this Agreement, or from any such acts through your use of the Site.

EDITING AND DELETIONS

The Site Provider reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move, or delete any material provided for display or placed on the Site or its bulletin boards, in its sole discretion, without notice.

ADDITIONAL RULES

The Site Provider reserves the right to post, from time to time, additional rules of usage that apply to specific parts of the Site, Such additional rules will be posted in the relevant parts of the Site, and will be clearly identified. Your continued use of the Site constitutes you agreement to comply with these additional rules.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, TITLE, MERCHANTABLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTEE OR REPRESENTATION, WHETHER ORAL, IN WRITING OR IN ELECTRONIC FORM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN OR PROVIDED BY THE SITE. SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ACCESS TO THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO FAILURES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR LOSS OF TRANSMITTED INFORMATION, OR THAT NO VIRUSES WILL BE TRANSMITTED ON THE SITE. THE SERVICE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND ITS THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD

PARTIES FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ALLEGEDLY SUSTAINED ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE PROVIDING OF SERVICES HEREUNDER, THE SALE OR PURCHASE OF ANY GOODS OR MERCHANDISE, YOUR ACCESS TO OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SERVICE, INCLUDING FOR VIRUSES ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICE, YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE OR ANY OF THE MERCHANDISE, INFORMATION OR MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF CLAIM OR THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY.

YOU HEREBY AGREE TO RELEASE THE SITE PROVIDER, ITS AFFILIATES AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED ("CLAIMS"), ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THIS SITE.

TERMINATION OF ACCESS TO THE SITE

The Site Provider has the right to terminate your ability to access the Site, for any reason, without notice.

JURISDICTION

The Site Provider makes no representation that materials on the Site are appropriate, available or legal in any particular location. Those who choose to access the Service do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

OTHER STUFF

The Site Provider shall not be liable for delays in performing or failure to perform this Agreement or any obligations hereunder, which are directly attributable to causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, fires, strikes, labor disputes, war, acts or intervention by any governmental authority, failure of a common carrier, supplier, hardware, software, browser, or communications equipment, or network failure, congestion, malfunction, ignorance, bird flu pandemic, or just plain laziness on our part.

If you don't agree to the terms contained in this Agreement, exit the Site at once.

Herausgeber/Autor:

William Edward Covington
Goethering 15,
63067 Offenbach, Deutschland

Nutzungsbedingungen

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Verwendung, Kopieren, Weiterverbreiten und Referenzieren von Inhalten

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Haftung

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Anwendbares Recht

Die Web Site wird in Deutschland betrieben und ist für den deutschen Markt bestimmt. Es findet deutsches Recht Anwendung. http://www.covington.de hat keine Kontrolle über die Länder, aus denen ein Zugriff auf diese Webseite möglich ist. Sofern Inhalte dieser Webseite Gesetzen anderer Länder widersprechen, ist der Zugriff aus diesen Ländern untersagt.

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