Legal & Privacy

what´s wrong with the zoo (“i,” “my”) own and operate the whats-wrong-with-the-zoo.com/de web sites (my “Site”). Your use of the service is subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Use (these “Terms”). I reserve the right to make changes to these terms at any time. Your single or continued use of my provided service constitutes your acceptance of such changes. Accordingly, you should review these terms from time to time for such changes.

1. USER CONDUCT
In your use of the service of what´s wrong with the zoo, you agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating the exercise of good judgment. For example and without limitation, you agree not to:
violate any applicable law or regulation, infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights, use the information available through my service for any unauthorized purpose, interfere with or damage my service, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology, use my service to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers, use my service in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email (“Spam”) or advertisements, “stalk” or harass any other user of my service, collect or store any information about any other user other than in the course of the permitted use of my service, use my Service for any commercial purpose whatsoever or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.

For future community- and interactive tools: You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of my service. I will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with other users of my service. I reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor interactions between you and other users of my service and take any other action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any material that we or another user of my service may consider to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable

2. CONTENT
The what´s wrong with the zoo publisher, authorized contributors and authors reserve the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected. All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement.

3. USER CONTENT
By submitting any content (including without limitation, your photograph) to my site, you hereby grant me a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed and promote such content in any form, in all media now known or hereinafter created, anywhere in the world, and for any purpose. You are solely responsible for any content that you submit, post or transmit via my service. You agree not to post or submit any content that: is libelous, defamatory or slanderous, contains sexually explicit content (including nudity), may denigrate any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group by stereotypical depiction or otherwise, exploits images or the likeness of individuals under 18 years of age, encourages or otherwise depicts glamorized drug use (including alcohol and cigarettes), makes use of offensive language or images, characterizes violence as acceptable, glamorous or desirable. I have no obligation to post any content that you or anyone else submits. In addition, i may, in my sole and unfettered discretion, edit, remove or delete any content that you post or submit.

4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT
In your use of my service, you may access content from third parties (“Third Party Content”), either via my service or through links to third party web sites.
I do not control Third Party Content and make no representations or warranties about it. You agree that by using my service, you may be exposed to Third Party Content that is false, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. Under no circumstances will i be liable in any way for any Third Party Content, including, without limitation, any errors or omissions in any Third Party Content or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Third Party Content posted, stored or transmitted via my service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, Third Party Content, including without limitation, profiles of other users of my service. The publisher and the authorized contributors and authors of what´s wrong with the zoo are not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from my pages – unless there is full knowledge of illegal contents and the publisher, author or contributor would be able to prevent the visitors of my site from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore I am not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on my page.

5. COPYRIGHTS/PROPRIETARYRIGHTS
I intended not to use any copyrighted material for the publication or, if not possible, to indicate the copyright of the respective object. The copyright for any material created by the authors and contributors of what´s wrong with the zoo is reserved. Any duplication or use of objects such as images, diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the publisher´s agreement. You agree that all content and materials available on my site are protected by rights of publicity, copyright, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by me, you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on our Site. Notwithstanding the above, you may use the content and materials on my site in the course of your normal, personal, non-commercial use of my service.
You agree not to systematically retrieve data or other content or any materials from my site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of “bots” or otherwise. You agree not to use of any of my trademarks as metatags on other web sites.

6. PRIVACY
I understand the concerns that you may have about your privacy and respect your right to protect your personal information while online. However, my service is and will be more and more designed to allow users to post photographs and information about themselves for public review and comment. Accordingly, by submitting your photograph and/or any personal information, you thereby waive any privacy expectations you have with respect to our use of your likeness or personal information provided to me. If you do not wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed by or disclosed to others, do not use my service. I may collect certain other personal information from you that i do not post on our Site. In most cases, i do not intentionally transfer this information to unaffiliated third parties without your consent. However, i reserve the right to transfer such information without your consent to prevent an emergency, to protect or enforce my rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party or in response to a court order or subpoena as otherwise required or permitted by law. In addition, i provide this personal information to third-party service providers who help us maintain my Service and deliver information and services to you and other users of our Service. If the opportunity for the input of personal or business data (email addresses, name, addresses) is given, the input of these data takes place voluntarily. The use and payment of all offered services are permitted – if and so far technically possible and reasonable – without specification of any personal data or under specification of anonymized data or an alias. The use of published postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses for marketing purposes is prohibited, offenders sending unwanted spam messages will be punished. .

7. USERNAME AND PASSWORD
For future community-tools: You will select a username and password when completing the registration process. You are solely and fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password, and are solely and fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to: immediately notify me of any unauthorized use of your username and password or any other breach of security and ensure that you log off from your account at the end of each session. I cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 6.

8. TERMINATION
You agree that i, in our sole and unfettered discretion, may terminate your access to my Service for any reason, including, without limitation, your breach of these terms. You agree that any termination of your access to my Service may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that i may immediately deactivate or delete any of your accounts and all related information and files in such accounts and/or bar any further access to such files or my service. Further, you agree that i will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to my service.

9. DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE
I reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of my service with or without prior notice. You agree that i will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification or discontinuance of my service.

10. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
You hereby represent and warrant to us that: that you have the full power and authority to enter into and perform under these Terms, your use of my service will not infringe the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other legal right of any third party, you will comply with all applicable laws in using my service and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected with these terms, including, without limitation, contacting other users of my service and you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license the content you submit and that the posting and use of your content by me will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
You agree that: if you use ma service, you do so at your own and sole risk. My service is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. I expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
I do not warrant that my service will meet your requirements, my service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, any information that you may obtain on our service will be accurate or reliable, the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you through our service will meet your expectations, any information you provide or we collect will not be disclosed to third parties or any errors in any data or software will be corrected.
If you access or transmit any content through the use of my service, you do so at your own discretion and your own sole risk. You are solely responsible for any loss or damage to you in connection with such actions. No data, information or advice obtained by you in oral or written form from me, the contributors and authors or through or from my service will create any warranty not expressly stated in these terms.

12. LIMITS ON LIABILITY
You agree that I will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages (even if I had been advised of the possibility of such damages), arising from, relating to or connected with: the use or inability to use my service, the cost of replacement of any goods, services or information purchased or obtained as a result of any information obtained from or transactions entered into through or from my service, disclosure of, unauthorized access to or alteration of your content, statements, conduct or omissions of any service providers or other third party on my service or any other matter arising from, or relating to or connected with my service or these terms.
I will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing under these terms of use where such failure or delay is due to causes beyond my reasonable control, including natural catastrophes, governmental acts or omissions, laws or regulations, terrorism, labor strikes or difficulties, communication systems breakdowns, hardware or software failures, transportation stoppages or slowdowns or the inability to procure supplies or materials. In no event will my aggregate liability to you or any third party in any matter arising from, relating to or connected with my service or these terms exceed the sum of two hundred (200€) Euro.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages.

13. INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against me arising out of your use of my service or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach of any provision of these terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify me, i will have the right, in my sole and unfettered discretion, to control any action or proceeding and determine whether i wish to settle it, and if so, on what terms.

14. LEGAL VALIDY/MISCELLANEOUS
These terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland without reference to conflict of law principles. These terms contain the entire understanding of the parties regarding their subject matter, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between the parties regarding their subject matter. No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right, power or privilege under these terms shall operate as a waiver thereof. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect. This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

15. DMCA NOTICE
what´s wrong with the zoo protects and enforces copyrights in its own creative material and respects the copyright properties of others. Materials may be made available on or via my site by third parties not within the control of myself. It is my policy not to permit materials known by me to be infringing to remain on this site. You should notify me promptly if you believe any materials on the Service infringe a third party copyright. I will respond expeditiously to resolve the claim between the notifying party and the alleged infringer who provided the content in issue, including, where applicable, removing, or disabling access to material claimed to be infringing or by removing or disabling access to links to such material. Send any notification of claims of copyright infringement with respect to information residing, at the direction of a user, on the site to: info@whats-wrong-with-the-zoo.com