1. Scope

The use of this online offer (subsequently called „Portal“) must be effected exclusively on the basis of these General Conditions of Use. They apply in their respective current form – which has been disclosed to the customer - for all offers of the Portal with costs and exempt from charges. Other conditions than these General Conditions of Use expressly do not apply in the scope of the Portal use.

2. Registration

2.1. In the scope of your first-time registration you will acknowledge having taken due note of and accepted these General Conditions of Use. These General Conditions of Use at their respective current state are readable at any time in The Portal’s proper menue box. Any changes of these General Conditions of Use will be made known by e-mail to the indicated respective address of all registered customers. After such a change, you will be invited to approve them by clicking on the respective dialogue box. If you do not accept these changes, the contract will continue under the conditions of use originally stipulated at the conclusion of the contract. For such a case, however, we reserve the right to contractual notice of termination.

2.2. The registration is required for all offers of the Portal with costs as well as exempt from charges.

2.3. We reserve the right to refuse the registration of users. A justification for this is not re-quired.

2.4. After having given the required information concerning your person, we will send you per e-mail to the e-mail address you indicated a user name and a password (subsequently also called “user data”). At first access you should change the password into a password only known to yourself.

2.5. The registration has been successful if you have received an e-mail from us inviting you to confirm your registration. After this confirmation, you will receive a welcome e-mail from us. Only then the registration process will be terminated.

3. System prerequisites

For an unlimited use of the Portal you must fulfil the following prerequisites:
Mac or PC with minimum 1,5 GHz, minimum 512 MB Ram, recommended SXGA (1280x1024) Graphic Card and screen resolution, current web browser with cookies enabled, installed current Flash Player, Broadband internet connection

4. Our services

4.1. In the scope of the use of the Portal you have the possibility to recall lectures, videos and e-posters by way of online-streaming from the Portal.

4.2. The online-recall by streaming occurs under subscription or by individual order at the conditions and prices indicated in the shopping basket.

4.3. If you have passed a subscription for a certain period of time, our services are rendered expressly under the reservation of the actual availability. We endeavour to make available the announced lectures as extensively as possible under the subscrip-tion. However, we cannot guarantee the complete recallability of all lectures having been given at a certain congress, as this is subject to the authorization of the respective authors and right holders and the technical availability cannot be ensured in each case. If we cannot offer at least 70% of the lectures of a subscription, a course or a session, you are entitled to an extraordinary termination with immediate effect. In such a case you will have to address the termination in text form to M Events Cross Media GmbH, Felix-Wankel-Straße 1 82152 Krailling or by e-mail to efort@m-events.eu. In this case we shall refund you the pro rata subscription fees but no further compensation for damages.

5. Prices and payment modalities

5.1. All prices result from the individual offers of the shopping basket. Any custom charges (import duties and charges) must be borne by you.

5.2. A payment is principally only possible by credit card. It is effected via a coded online payment system (SSL Secure Socket Layer). The payment by credit card presupposes the entering of the credit card owner, the credit card number and any existing security pin number as well as the respective validity period of the credit card on the entering form provided for these purposes.

5.3. Until 31st Dec 2007 payment via remittance to the indicated account of M Events is possible too. In case of a remittance from a foreign country, you will have to bear all costs of the bank transfer.

6. Conclusion of contract

6.1. The contract for the subscription selected by you or for the individual order is concluded after receipt of payment and transmission of your activating code.

6.2. The contract for a CD or DVD is concluded after receipt of the order and our acknowled-gement.

6.3. The forwarding of CDs or DVDs will be effected only when the purchase price plus for-warding costs has been booked completely on our account.

7. Right of withdrawal

7.1. Within one month you have the right of withdrawal of your declaration of intention to conclude a contract. This period starts at the earliest at the receipt of the withdrawal instructions, however, in case of an order for CDs or DVDs not before receipt of the commodity. For safeguarding this withdrawal limit the timely dispatch of the withdrawal declaration or the commodity will suffice. The withdrawal must be declared in text form and can be addressed to:

By e-mail to: ondemand@m-events.com

By letter to:
M Events Cross Media GmbH
Felix-Wankel-Straße 1 5a
82152 Krailling
Germany

7.2. The right of withdrawal will expire prematurely if we have already begun the rendering to the service before the end of the withdrawal period and you consented expressly thereto or you have caused yourself the execution of the service (i.e. by starting the “streaming”).

7.3. In case of an order of CDs or DVDs the right of withdrawal will expire if you have unsealed the CDs or DVDs.

8. Rights of use

8.1. In the scope of the subscriptions booked by you or of the individual recalls, we grant you the non-exclusive and not transferable right to use the “streams” available on the Portal exclusively for your own private purposes or the purposes of research or your own continuing education. Propagation or commercial use is not permitted. Memorizing/storing on your computer or other means of memorizing/storing as well as any other duplication, dissemination, leasing/renting out or the making available to the public is expressly forbidden.

8.2. Paragraph 8.1. also applies to the use of CDs or DVDs except that a use beyond this is exceptionally authorized according to applicable law (e.g. the right to a private copy).

9. Liability

9.1. If we cede to you contents and information free of charge, we completely exclude any liability for material defects or defects of title/legal defects, especially concerning their correctness, freedom of faults, freedom of rights of third parties and/or usability – if we have not acted deliberately, maliciously or fraudulently.

9.2. With respect to our offers with costs, we are unrestrictedly liable in case of damages which can be attributed to premeditation, gross negligence and the lack of a guaranteed characteristic.

9.3. In the case of slight negligence, we are unrestrictedly liable for damages caused by us to life, body or health. If we are behind schedule with our services due to slight negligence, if our services have become impossible of if we have violated an essential contractual duty, we are liable for the material and financial damages which can be attributed thereto and the occurrence of which had to be reckoned with reasonably at the time of conclusion of the contract.

9.4. If we are behind schedule with a service/performance, we are unrestrictedly liable for this service/performance also in case of fortuity – if the damage would not have occurred when the service / performance had been rendered in time.

9.5. For the rest, we exclude liability for all other damages. The legal liability according to the German Product Liability Act, however, is excluded therefrom.

10. Data protection/Privacy policy

We bind ourselves to protect the private atmosphere of the customer and to treat all individual related data confidentially according to the provisions of the German Federal Law for Data Protection. We memorize/store customer data exclusively for contract processing/execution and for establishing contact with you.

11. Duration and termination of the contract

11.1. In the case of a subscription selected by you, the contractual relation beween you and us will last till the end of the contract. The subscription is extended automatically for the same period if it has not been terminated in text form to us (e-mail sufficient) with a res-pite of four weeks.

11.2. We reserve us the right to terminate the contract due to an important reason also during the duration of the subscription period without previous notice if we ascertain that essen-tial provisions of these Conditions of Use have not been adhered to or have been violated by you – especially if you:

- have given false information when registering or

- you use or have used the “streams“ for other purposes than the ones agreed upon.

11.3. For the rest, an extraordinary termination for an important reason is admissible for both parties according to the legal specifications.

12. Miscellaneous

12.1. These Conditions of Use reflect the agreements between us exhaustively. Supplementary agreements, verbal or in writing, do not exist.

12.2. If individual clauses of these Conditions of Use should be or become ineffective, this does not concern the effectiveness of the rest of the clauses. The ineffective clause must be replaced by an effective one which approaches most the execution of the con-tract purpose based on the intention of the parties. The same applies in the case of any regulation gap.

12.3. The jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods.

12.4. Legal venue is exclusively Berlin, Germany, if legally admissible.