LEGAL INFORMATION AND CONDITION OF USE
GENERAL INFORMATION ON USE OF THIS WEBSITE
Use of the services offered under www.powerlines-group.com (“website”) by Powerlines Group GmbH, Siemensstrasse 92, 1210 Vienna (Austria), and its subsidiaries SPL Powerlines GmbH, SPL Powerlines Germany GmbH, SPL Powerlines S.R.L., SPL Powerlines Sverige AB, FEB Fahrleitungs- und Elektrobau GmbH, SPL Dienstleistungen GmbH, VLB Leitungsbau GmbH & Co KG und Border Rail and Plant Limited (“Powerlines Group”) is subject to these conditions of use (“conditions of use”).
The information on the website of the Powerlines Group is given without commitment and is provided for information purposes only. It is solely informative in character and does not represent an offer of products or services as construed by the applicable legal regulations.
There is no contractual commitment with respect to products or services on the basis of the information contained on this website. The information on this website and the products and services described by this information are liable to be changed or updated by the Powerlines Group without prior notification. Furthermore, the Powerlines Group reserves the right to make unilateral alterations to these conditions of use at any time. The latest version of these conditions of use is published on the website under the heading “Legal”. By using this website after publication of any such changes, users agree to comply with the new conditions of use.
Unless users have already explicitly agreed to these conditions of use elsewhere, they accept these conditions by using this website. Users who do not accept these conditions of use are not permitted to continue using this website.
The Powerlines Group also reserves the right to remove the website and the services offered there in part or completely, temporarily or permanently, without prior notification.
SCOPE OF SERVICES, EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY
The information on this website is made available by the Powerlines Group until further notice and is designed only to provide an initial overview. In particular, it does not serve as a basis for contractual decisions.
As a result, the Powerlines Group can accept no liability or give any warranty whatsoever for the currentness, correctness, completeness or quality of this information, and unless explicitly otherwise stated, this website does not contain any guarantees or characteristics which the company need vouch for, either explicitly or implicitly.
Neither can the Powerlines Group accept any liability in connection with this website with respect to the profusion of information provided. With the exception of damage which the user can prove to be wilful, there can be no question of any liability for any direct or indirect damage, claims for damages or consequential damage of any kind or for any legal grounds whatsoever that may occur as a result of access to or use of this website by the user, in particular infection of the user’s computer environment by viruses, etc.
Only any contractual agreements concluded in conjunction with the general terms and conditions of the Powerlines Group as amended shall bear any relevance to the substantiation of and compliance with any obligations and the liability of the Powerlines Group for products and services. The information provided on this website does not represent any integral part of any agreements.
DATA PROTECTION
The Powerlines Group stores the personal data of users of this website only if their explicit permission to do so has been given. Apart from that, only anonymized statistical data is stored relating to the date and time of each visit, the pages visited, the name of the internet service provider, and the website from which the user accessed the Powerlines Group website. The Powerlines Group uses this anonymous data to monitor website activity, produce statistics, and to improve the services and information provided via this website. No personal user data is obtained or processed for this purpose, nor can such data be obtained from the statistics. The Powerlines Group is entitled to use these anonymous statistics both for its own purposes and to pass them on to third parties.
The personal data of users who have given the Powerlines Group permission to use it is used only for the purposes for which such permission was granted and in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. The Powerlines Group will pass such data on to third parties only if legally obliged or authorized to do so. The Powerlines Group will not make such data available to any outside companies for their own use.
COOKIES
The Powerlines Group uses temporary cookies (“session cookies”) on several pages of this website (e.g., searchable internet catalogues). These session cookies make it possible to adapt user settings for the sorting of references to the latter’s requirements. In the case of searchable catalogues, for instance, this means that data or selections do not have to be input again. Session cookies are valid only for the duration of the user's visit to this website, and are automatically deleted again once the user closes his browser. Visitors to the Powerlines Group website can specify the use and scope of cookies themselves by means of their computer settings (usually in an internet browser such as Internet Explorer). The Powerlines Group assumes that visitors have accepted the setting of cookies if their browsers permit this. For technical reasons, users whose browsers do not accept cookies may experience limitations on the use of, or inability to use this website or individual services.
Session cookies do not contain any personal data whatsoever, and are used only in order to offer the user an optimal browsing experience on the Powerlines Group website.
RIGHT TO INFORMATION
In accordance with the applicable data protection legislation, visitors to this website are entitled to obtain information about the personal data stored by the Powerlines Group. They are also entitled to correct incorrect data, or to have data blocked or deleted. Please address any queries in this respect directly to Erwin Chladek, the coordinator of this website.Contact: erwin.chladek@powerlines-group.com
If users call up pages and files contained on this website requesting them to enter personal data, the Powerlines Group calls attention to the fact that such data is transmitted via the internet unsecured, and that such data may therefore be seen or modified by unauthorized persons. Users who do not agree to this should not use this method of data transmission, but should use offline communication methods instead.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Hypertext links (“links”) to third-party websites are provided for visitors of this website as an additional service. Such websites are entirely independent and are not subject to the control of the Powerlines Group. The Powerlines Group is not liable for the content of third-party websites which users may access via this website, and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the content, data protection provisions or use of such websites. Neither does the Powerlines Group claim ownership of third-party content. Such links are maintained only for the convenience of users.
AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
This website may contain information about products and services of the Powerlines Group that may not be available in the user’s own country. The mere existence of such information on this website does not indicate that such products and services are available throughout the world. It is the responsibility of the user to determine the availability of such products and services in his own country, and in particular whether the products and services in question are not, or not yet offered in his own country.
BRANDS & COPYRIGHTS
The brands and logos (“brands”) used on this website are the property of the Powerlines Group. None of the information provided on this website entitles the user to use such brands. Licence to do so requires the explicit written consent of Powerlines GmbH. The unauthorized use of brands is strictly forbidden. Powerlines GmbH will enforce its intellectual property rights world-wide within the scope of the relevant legal regulations in each case.
All texts, illustrations, charts, animations, videos, music, sounds and other materials on this website may be subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights of Powerlines GmbH. Powerlines GmbH is therefore the owner of such rights. These materials may not be reproduced, modified or processed or otherwise made available or transmitted without the explicit written permission of Powerlines GmbH.
LEGAL SYSTEM AND JURISDICTION
Any legal disputes arising in connection with the use of this website shall be subject exclusively to Austrian substantive law to the exclusion of reference norms.
Any disputes arising directly or indirectly from the use of this website, including questions relating to the applicability of these conditions, shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the local and competent Austrian court responsible for 1010 Vienna.
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