Componiverse: Terms and conditions of use

Terms and conditions of use regarding the TARGET 3001! component community

COMPONIVERSE®

Ing.-Büro FRIEDRICH, (IBF)
Harald Friedrich,
Am Schwarzen Rain 1,
36124 Eichenzell,
Deutschland
Tel.: 06659 / 91 94-44
Fax: 06659 / 91 94-45
VAT ID DE112342909
Tax 01881900337
target@ibfriedrich.com
www.ibfriedrich.com

(hereafter referred to as "the owner")

offers on it's website www.componiverse.com community network in order to exchange, publish and discuss CAD data of electronic components. It keeps opportunity to upload and download data (CAD - components), which were created by the users of this network themselves under the use of the PCB Layout CAD software TARGET 3001!®. The following rules apply for all users of this network especially in relation to the owner of this platform, which is IBF.

The services of the platform "COMPONIVERSE" are meant explicitly for private, non commercial use.

The use of this community portals is allowed only if the user agrees to the following terms and conditions of use. The owner may change these terms and conditions after a 4 weeks period of announcement. Such announcement happens only by internet under www.componiverse.com

§ 1 Enregistration, participation, membership

Precondition for the use of componiverse is a registration, by which a user becomes a member. A member musn't hand out his access data to third persons or give them knowledge about it.

§ 2 End of membership

The user may finish his membership by declaration towards the owner instantly (without time-limit). By demand of the member the owner will lock the access of the member. The owner is entitled to resign the membership of a member not before two weeks till end of month. At the end of a membership the owner is entitled to lock the access of the person. Upon good cause shown the owner is entitled to resign the membership instantly and to lock the user's access instantly. In case a membership ends, the owner is entitled but not obligated, to delete the contents uploaded by the person. A user does not have the right to claim those contents he himself had uploaded.

§ 3 Services of the owner

The owner allows any member to upload and publish on www.componiverse.com those CAD-data of electrocic devices which he himself had been drawing. This keeps the right of other users to download them and to use them in a layout. There is no claim of any member to have this service permanently. The owner does not take any responsability for correctness, completelyness, reliability, up-to-dateness and usability of the contents offered. The services of www.componiverse.com are free of charge and may be used by any person after registration and login. The owner is not obliged to any service. The owner ist entitled to modify his service at any time or to end it instantly without giving notice. In case of an ending of the whole service the owner is entitled but not obliged to delete the contents of the members.

§ 4 Obligations of the owner

The owner obliges himself to keep personal data of users confidential. The processing of personal data will be handled according to the rules of the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) and the German Telemediengesetz (TMG). A use of personal data happens only if needed in tespect to the purpose of componiverse.

§ 5 Transfer of the rights in using the contents

The upload of a user's contribution to componiverse entitles the owner to keep this contribution lastingly on the componiverse website to use it in all its aspects and to make it accessible to the public, especially to make the contents downloadable for every member. The owner is entitled to move contributions and to link them to other contents. By an upload of content to the componiverse the member allows the owner in an unlimited way to change, copy, distribute, allocate and publish this content. This permission covers the right to distribute the contents or their adaptions, respectively cuttingsworldwide i.e. to give the public access to it.

§ 6 Obligations of the users

The user obliges himself to publish only those components on componiverse which he himself has created or those to which he has an unlimited copyright. The user assures to the owner to be the holder of all rights on the material uploaded. Furthermore does the user declare not to have given out any rights to third parties which would be suitable to obstruct the transfer of rights (according to § 6) or to make it impossible.

Der user commits himself not to publish any material,

• violating the rules of copyright, trademark law or competition law
• contrary to "ordre public" or morality or applicable law
• being statutory offence or administrative offence
• violating the German "Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz",
• with insulting, racistic, discriminating or pornographic content
• containing advertisements

Der user verpflichtet sich, keine kommerziellen Aktivitäten und/oder Verkäufe über die Community-Website auszuüben bzw. anzubahnen und/oder keine kommerziellen Angebote zu verbreiten und/oder hierfür zu werben. Der owner hat das Recht, Beiträge zu löschen, die eine Pflichtverletzung darstellen. Der user ist verpflichtet, dem owner den durch die Pflichtverletzung entstandenen Schaden zu ersetzen. Der user hat gegenüber dem owner keinen Anspruch auf Löschung oder Berichtigung von ihm erstellter Beiträge.

§ 7 Component information without warranty

we assume that components brought to the COMPONIVERSE have been been built up with great effort. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that all components were created correctly. First because mistakes might have been made, on the other side there are no real standards. A TO220 for example is not always the same! Several manufacturers have packages with that name, without mentioning differences. And we're afraid it is the same with all other component properties too. Vendors substitute components with similar ones, without giving notice. Hence check all information from our component data base, compare all with the original manufacturer's data sheets, order samples of the components in advance. Do not trust in simulation models. Build up prototype boards and test those sufficiently. Please immediately report every error that you find in our component data base and send an eMail to us! All legal responsibility or liability in case of a consequential damage is impossible.

§ 8 Schadensersatzansprüche des users

Schadensersatzansprüche des users sind ausgeschlossen, soweit nachfolgend nichts anderes bestimmt ist. Der vorstehende Haftungsausschluss gilt auch zugunsten der gesetzlichen Vertreter und Erfüllungsgehilfen des owners, sofern der user Ansprüche gegen diese geltend macht.

§ 9 Verstoß

Der user trägt die alleinige Verantwortung für sämtliche von ihm eingestellten Inhalte und/oder Aktivitäten im Rahmen der use der Dienste. Er darf die Dienste nicht missbräuchlich nutzen, insbesondere nicht vorsätzlich oder fahrlässig zur rechtswidrigen Übermittlung und/oder Verbreitung von Mitteilungen, Daten und Inhalten beitragen und/oder diese nicht bewusst betreiben. Verstößt der user und/oder dessen Beusername und/oder die durch ihn im Rahmen der use verbreiteten Inhalte, Texte oder Schriften gegen gesetzliche Verbote/Gebote, insbesondere Rechte Dritter, oder gegen diese AGB und hat der user dieses zu vertreten, haftet der user dem owner für den Ersatz aller hieraus entstehender Schäden. Der user stellt den owner bereits heute im Innenverhältnis von etwaigen aus diesen Verstößen resultierenden Ansprüchen Dritter frei.

§ 10 Freistellung

Der user stellt den owner von sämtlichen Ansprüchen Dritter frei, die diesen infolge von Rechtsverletzungen im Zusammenhang mit der use der Dienste des owners durch den user unmittelbar und/oder mittelbar entstehen. Dieses gilt auch und insbesondere in Fällen, in denen Dritten ein Schaden durch die unbefugte use der Zugangsdaten (Beusername und Passwort) und/ oder des Beusernamens des users entsteht.

§ 11 Gewährleistung

Eine bestimmte Verfügbarkeit der angebotenen Dienste wird nicht gewährleistet. Der owner haftet nicht für Schäden, die dem user an seinen technischen Einrichtungen (Computer etc.) im Rahmen der use des angebotenen Dienstes entstehen.

§ 12 Schlussbestimmungen

Auf die vertraglichen Beziehungen zwischen dem owner und dem user findet das Recht der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Anwendung. Sollten einzelne Bestimmungen dieser allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen und/ oder des Vertrages unwirksam sein oder werden, so berührt dies die Wirksamkeit der übrigen Bestimmungen nicht.