Terms & Conditions

PVSC Group and its affiliated companies (“PVSC”, “we,” “our,” or “us”) welcome you to our website. These terms and conditions of use ( “Terms and Conditions”), which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you, apply all web www.pvscgroup.com pages (collectively, the “Website”). By accessing any of the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference (collectively, this “Agreement”). If you do not agree to any of these terms, then please do not use the Website. Capitalized terms not defined in these Terms and Conditions shall have the meaning set forth in our Privacy Policy.

Use of Personal Information

Your use of the Website or contacting PVSC or any of its affiliated companies may involve the transmission to us of certain personal information. Our policies with respect to the collection and use of such personal information are included our Privacy Policy located at: www.pvscgroup.com/privacy

Rules of Conduct

By accessing and/or using the Website, you hereby agree to comply with these rules and that:
a. You will comply with all applicable laws in your use of the Website and will not use the Website for any unlawful purpose;
b. You will not access or use the Website to collect any market research for a competing business;
c. You will not upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available any content that: 1) infringes any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any person or entity; or 2) is threatening, tortious, defamatory, libelous, indecent, obscene, pornographic, invasive of another’s privacy, or promotes violence; or 3) discloses any sensitive information about another person, including that person’s e-mail address, postal address, phone number, credit card information, or any similar information;
d. You will not impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
e. You will not decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the Website;
f. You will not circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade, or thwart any of the protections in the Website;
g. You will not use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or scrape data from the Website, directly or indirectly, except for Internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that comply with our robots.txt file;
h. You will not use, frame, or utilize framing techniques to enclose any PVSC trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including the images found on the Website, the content of any text, or the layout/design of any page or form contained on a page) without PVSC’s express written consent;
i. You will not use meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing the PVSC name, trademark, or product name without PVSC’s express written consent;
j. You will not take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our technical infrastructure;
k. You will not interfere with or attempt to interrupt the proper operation of the Website through the use of any virus, device, information collection or transmission mechanism, software or routine, or access or attempt to gain access to any data, files, or passwords related to the Website through hacking, password or data mining, or any other means; and If you find something that violates these rules of conduct, please let us know, and we will review it. We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to deny you access to the Website, or any portion of the Website, without notice, and to remove any comments that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Intellectual Property

The Website contain materials, such as software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and other materials provided by or on behalf of PVSC or its affiliated companies (collectively referred to as the “Content”). The Content may be owned by us, our affiliated companies, or by third parties. The Content is protected under EU, UK and United States laws. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content, and you will not use the Content except as permitted under this Agreement. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from PVSC. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content on any copy you make of the Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use or posting of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited. If you violate any part of this Agreement, your permission to access and/or use the Content and the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of the Content. The trademarks, service marks, and logos of PVSC (“PVSC Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Website are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of the EUIPO. Other company, product, and service names located on the Website may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (the “Third-Party Trademarks”, and, collectively with the PVSC Trademarks, the “Trademarks”). Nothing on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Trademarks, without our prior written permission specific for each such use. Use of the Trademarks as part of a link to or from any site is prohibited unless establishment of such a link is approved in advance by us in writing. All goodwill generated from the use of the PVSC Trademarks inures to our benefit. Elements of the Website are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part, by any means, including but not limited to the use of framing or mirrors. None of the Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.

Communications with Us

You hereby represent that you will not e-mail us any content that contains confidential information. With respect to all e-mails you send to us, including but not limited to, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, the development, production and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information.

No Warranties/Limitation of Liability

THE WEBSITES, AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. ALL USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY WARRANTY, CONTRACT, OR COMMON LAW TORT CLAIMS: (I) WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE TO DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO ACCESS AND USE THE WEBSITES, OR THE CONTENT, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES; AND (II) ANY DIRECT DAMAGES THAT YOU MAY SUFFER AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SITE, OR THE CONTENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES, CORRECTIONS, AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.

External Sites

The Website may contain links to third-party websites (“External Sites”). These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content on such External Sites. The content of such External Sites is developed and provided by others. You should contact the site administrator: info@pvscgroup.com or webmaster for those External Sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or any content located on such External Sites. We are not responsible for the content of any linked External Sites and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such External Sites. You should take precautions when downloading files from all websites to protect your computer from viruses and other destructive programs. If you decide to access linked External Sites, you do so at your own risk.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, successors, licensees and assigns harmless from and against any claims, actions, or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from: (i) your breach of this Agreement; (ii) your misuse of the Content, (iii) your misuse of the Website; and/or (iv) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, trademark, property, or privacy right.

Termination of the Agreement

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate this Agreement and your access to all or any part of the Website, at any time and for any reason without prior notice or liability. We reserve the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the Website at any time without prior notice or liability.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without respect to its conflict of law provisions. Except for proceedings commenced by PVSC to protect its intellectual property or confidential information which may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction, the parties mutually agree that any and all disputes arising hereunder shall be resolved exclusively by state or federal courts located in the city of Frankfurt am Main. If this Agreement is terminated in accordance with the Termination provision above, such termination shall not affect the validity of the following provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect: “Intellectual Property,” “No Warranties/Limitation of Liability,” “Indemnification,” “Termination of the Agreement,” and “Miscellaneous.” You may not assign this Agreement. Our failure to act on or enforce any provision of the Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of that provision or any other provision in this Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against us unless made in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Except as expressly agreed by us and you in writing, this Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. The section headings are provided merely for convenience and shall not be given any legal import. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sublicensees.
Frankfurt 8 September 2020, Copyright PVSC Group, All rights reserved.