1. Terms of Use
Welcome to this 2000grad site. These are the terms and conditions that you must follow if you use my site. By accessing this Website, you agree to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree, please exit this Website.

2. Ownership of My Site
This site is owned and operated by Henrich C. Poehls (referred to as "Poehls", "I", "2000grad","OWNER" and "my"). Unless otherwise indicated, all content included on my site, such as photographs, illustrations, Macromedia FLASH-films and other animations, images, text, HTML-code, scripts, audio clips, video clips, software and other material (referred to collectively as the "CONTENT") is owned by Henrich C. Poehls, third-party content-providers and/or its contributors ('OWNER'). All CONTENT is protected persuant to US and international copyright and trademark laws. For the protection of Henrich C. Poehls and the content-providers, images may be watermarked and/or digitally watermarked. The OWNER is intended not to use any copyrighted material for the publication or, if not possible, to state and indicate the copyright of the respective object. If you however find a copyrighted object, which is unindicated, this means that 200grad was not able to determine the correct copyright at that time. When 200grad receives notice that such an unintended copyright violation has occored, 2000grad will remove the copyrighted object or indicate the proper copyrigt. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

3. Authority to Download
Except for music and video, you are authorised to download or copy one copy of the CONTENT of this WebSite on a single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you retain all credits, trademark, copyright notices and/or other proprietary notices associated with the CONTENT.

4. No other copying
Excepting the above limited uses, you may not modify, copy, distribute, republish, reproduce, transmit, upload or otherwise exploit any of the CONTENT on this WebSite in any way, without the prior consent of OWNER in writing. No intellectual property or other rights shall be transferred to you. In particular, you may not include the CONTENT in any other publication or product, or on any other WebSite or computer network. In addition, you must abide all other terms, conditions, and restrictions contained in any other agreement associated with the CONTENT throughout my site.

5. POSTINGS
To the extent that portions of this WebSite (such as 'messaging', 'chat rooms' or 'bulletin boards') provide users an opportunity to post and exchange information, ideas and opinions (referred to as 'POSTINGS'), BE ADVISED THAT OWNER DOES NOT SCREEN, EDIT, OR REVIEW POSTINGS PRIOR TO THEIR APPEARANCE ON THIS WEBSITE. POSTINGS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF OWNER. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, OWNER excludes all responsibility and liability for the POSTINGS or for any losses or expenses resulting from their use and/or appearance on this Site.

6. Your Use of the POSTINGS
For parties posting material on this WebSite the following terms additonally apply.
The OWNER reserves the right to monitor all materials posted on this Website ('POSTINGS') and to remove any which it considers in its absolute discretion to be offensive or otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions.
You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all POSTINGS you provide and all material they contain and that such POSTINGS shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties.
POSTINGS shall not contain any viruses or other contaminating or destructive devices or features. Material contained in POSTINGS shall not be defamatory, indecent, offensive, tortious, or otherwise unlawful. POSTINGS shall not be used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity.
You hereby authorise OWNER to use and/or authorise others to use all or part of your POSTINGS in any manner, format or medium that OWNER or such other parties see fit. You shall have no claim or other recourse against OWNER for infringement of any proprietary right in POSTINGS.
You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified OWNER against all claims, charges, demands, damages, liabilities, losses and expenses of whatever nature and howsoever arising (including but not limited to any legal or other professional fees and the cost of defending or prosecuting any claim and any loss of profit, goodwill and any other direct or consequential loss) incurred or suffered by OWNER directly or indirectly by reason of any act or omission which you commit in breach of these terms and conditions and the obligations and warranties contained in them.
You may use POSTINGS for your personal, non-comercial home use only. You may not use the provided messaging functions to send any chain letters, commercial solicitation, mass mailing, or any form of "spam" or other mass mailings. You are solely responsible for the content of any POSTINGS you send via the 2000grad website. You may not use the 2000grad messaging functions to send messages that are illegal, obscene, threatening, abusive, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, profane, defamatory, or that infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold OWNER and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents harmless against any and all claims asserted against 2000grad and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents as a result of your use of the 2000grad WebSite, including without limitation any claims relating to the content of any POSTINGS that you send using the messaging facilities of the 2000grad WebSite.

7. NO WARRANTIES
THE OWNER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THIS WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENTS, WHICH ARE PROVIDED FOR USE 'AS IS.'
THE OWNER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE AND ANY WEBSITE WITH WHICH IT IS LINKED.

THE OWNER ALSO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO WHETHER THE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE WITH WHICH IT IS LINKED, IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT. The OWNER is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless he has full knowlegde of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site from viewing those pages.
It is your responsibility to evaluate (or take professional advice on) the accuracy and completeness of all information, opinions and other material on this WebSite or any Website with which it is linked. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented on linked or referred pages, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. The OWNER is providing these Links to you only as a convinience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsemnt by the OWNER.
Any information presented on this publication (including prices, offers or the publication at whole) is subject to change (extension, part or complete deletion) without prior notice. Your statutory rights as a consumer, if any, are not affected by these provisions, and OWNER does not seek to exclude or limit liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.
Further, OWNER makes no representations or warranties that the functional aspects of the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that my site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. (Because some jurisdictions do not allow for the exclusion of implied warranties, some of these exclusions may not apply to you.) You hereby acknowledge that your use of this site is at your own risk.

8. Exclusion of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, OWNER on behalf of its employees, agents, suppliers, and contractors exclude liability for any losses and expenses of whatever nature and howsoever arising, including without limitation any direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages, loss of use, loss of data, loss caused by a virus, loss of income or profit, loss of or damage to property, claims of third parties, or other losses of any kind or character, even if OWNER has been advised of the possibility of such damages or losses, arising out of or in connection with the use of this Website or any Website with which it is linked. You assume total responsibility for establishing such procedures for data back up and virus checking as you consider necessary.

9. Additional Terms
You are bound by this agreement when you access my site and until you have destroyed all CONTENT that you have downloaded or copied from the 2000grad WebSite; you are, in addition, bound by this agreement whether you downloaded or copied the CONTENT under the terms of this agreement or otherwise. You agree that the courts of Germany shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any controversy or claim of whatever nature arising out of or relating to use of this Website, and that the laws of Germany shall govern such controversy or claim. I reserve the right to make changes to my site and to this agreement at any time without any notice.

10. Legal validity of this disclaimer
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 remains uninfluenced by this fact.

Henrich C. Poehls