Welcome! By accessing or using this Website you agree to the following Terms of Use and Privacy. If you do not accept the Terms of Use and Privacy, you are not entitled to use this Website.

1. General

All offers are subject to confirmation and not binding. stockillustrations reserves the right to amend, limit, delete the content, images, information, Terms of Use and Privacy or in each case parts of it or to stop the operation of the Website without prior notice at any time. In addition to these Terms of Use and Privacy the License Agreement applies.

2. Ownership, Copyright and Trademarks

This Website is owned and operated by stockillustrations/Die ILLUSTRATOREN corinna Hein GmbH (hereinafter: stockillustrations). The whole content of this Website, including all data, texts, images, illustrations, graphics, software, programming and/or other elements (hereinafter: „the Content“) is owned by stockillustrations, the image provider, artists or our contractual partner. The Content is protected by property rights, copyright and trademarks, if applicable, even though this may not be expressly stated. Any violation of these rights is indictable.

By using the Website and its Content you do not obtain a right with regard to the Website or its Content. Any reproduction, amendment or use of the Content is prohibited. Exemptions are subject to an expressive written approval by stockillustrations.

3. No Warranty

This Website and its Content are provided “as is” with no warranty, whatsoever. stockillustrations, our image provider, artists and contractual partner expressly disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all express, implied and statutory warranties regarding the timeliness, correctness, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and/or quality of the provided material and information. stockillustrations, our image provider, artists and contractual partner expressly disclaim any warranties for information or advice provided by third parties or on third parties´ websites. The content of this Website is not to be deemed as a warranty, whatsoever.

4. Limitation of Liability

You are using this Website on your own risk. Under no circumstances shall stockillustrations, our representatives, employees, servants, image provider, artists and/or contractual partner be liable to any user for any direct, incidental, consequential indirect or punitive damage, arising, without limitation, out of access or use, inability to access and/or use of defective or incomplete material or information, whatsoever. You have to bear all damages, direct, indirect or consequential costs occured through the use of the Website, and not stockillustrations.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall stockillustrations or our representatives, employees, servants, image provider, artists and/or contractual partner be liable for the Content of this Website and that it is free of any failures, omissions, errors and/or viruses nor for the correctness and legality of the Content and/or the granted licenses of stockillustrations, its image providers, artists and contractual partner.

5. Links

This Website might contain direct or indirect links to other websites (hereinafter: „Links“). stockillustrations is not responsible for information displayed on websites, which can be reached through these links. stockillustrations is not liable for any content on third parties´ websites, whatsoever. The implementation of links to third parties´ websites does not indicate any approval of the content of such sites nor any relationship to their operators.

6. Privacy

We respect the right of our customers to determine the handling of their personal data. In the following you are advised about the record and use of your personal data on the Websites of stockillustrations.

We expressly advise, that we collect, process and record personal data according to the German Federal Data Protection Act. The data will be kept confidential by stockillustrations, our image provider, artists, contractual partner and collection agencies as far as it is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract.

If you affirmed when signing up, we are allowed to keep you informed about special offers, services, products and general information.

In the case of a merger, bankruptcy, purchase or sale of the company or parts of it, the customer`s data may be transferred as part of the assets of stockillustrations.

If legally or judicially required, we are entitled to forward your personal data to the best of one`s knowledge. We reserve our right to disclose customer`s personal data in a lawsuit in order to protect claims or rights with regard to the property or the security of stockillustrations, our representatives, employees, servants, image provider, artists, contractual partner, customer and/or the public.

You are free to recall in writing your approval to collect, process and record your personal data for the future at any time.

We reserve our right to amend these terms of privacy without prior notice at any time.

7. Cookies

When using the Websites of stockillustrations, we send one or more cookies, a small file containing a string of characters, to your computer, that uniquely identifies your browser. A cookie contains information about date and time of the use of our Website as well as data about your searches in order to improve the quality of our services and access to stored data. If your computer refuses the storage of cookies of if you delete our cookies, however, these advantages are not available.

8. Miscellaneous

8.1 Governing Law and Jurisdiction

As far as legally possible, the Terms of Use and Privacy and the use of the Website shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Germany. If not otherwise agreed upon and as far as legally possible, any action you, any third party and/or stockillustrations brings to enforce these Terms of Use and Privacy or in connection with any matters related to this Site shall be brought exclusively before the Courts located in Hamburg, Germany, and you expressly consent to the jurisdiction of the said Courts.

8.2 Illegal Advertisement

Any use of our data contained in the impressum or similar information, like, without limitation, contact data, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail-address etc., may not be used for any unauthorized advertisement and/or mailing, whatsoever. We reserve our rights to take legal actions against the sender of spam- or junkmail.

8.3. Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use and Privacy shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from the Terms of Use and Privacy and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. The ineffective provision has to be replaced by another regulation with a preferably same tenor.

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