Rechtliche Hinweise

Legal information

Limitation of liability for the website, external links

MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG and its legal representatives and vicarious agents assume no liability or guarantee for the current relevance, accuracy of content, completeness and other aspects regarding quality of the information provided on this website. This also applies to all links to other websites (external links) that this website directly and indirectly refers to. MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG is not responsible for the content of websites that are reached via such an external link. Unless stated otherwise, we do not support any of these other websites and herewith expressly distance ourselves from the contents of those websites. This statement applies to all links to external pages included on the website of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG and to the complete contents of the websites to which such external links lead. MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co KG reserves the right to make the connection to other websites subject to their express written consent and to withdraw the consent to a link at any time.

Liability claims against MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG and its legal representatives or vicarious agents regarding material or non-material damage, which were caused by use or non-use of information offered or the use of obsolete, incorrect , incomplete or otherwise of inferior quality information, are fundamentally excluded, unless wilful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG, its legal representatives or vicarious agents can be proven.

Copyright, other trade mark rights

© MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG, Düsseldorf (Germany) 2014. All rights reserved. Text, images, graphics, sound, animation and videos as well as their layout on the website fall under the protection of the copyright and other protective legislation. Any use or duplication of the available contents and data for other than personal information purposes requires prior written authorisation by MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG and prior written authorisation by the respective photographers, authors and/or originator. The contents of this website may not be copied, distributed, modified or made available to third parties, particularly not for commercial purposes. This also applies to inclusion in external websites and online services, as well as the storing or copying in databases or on data mediums. In the case of a violation, MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG reserves the right to take any form of legal steps, particularly the right to demand cessation, removal, disclosure or compensation for damages. Please note that the copyright to some of the images on our website is held by third parties. The right to scientific quotation whilst providing the correct source remains unaffected. Please quote us using our complete URL as well as providing the date of your access.

Characteristics

All logos presented on the website are legally protected trademarks and must not be published or used in any other manner without prior consent by MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG and/or their licensor. Likewise all other brands and trademarks mentioned on the website and possibly protected by third parties are subject to the current trademark regulations and to the proprietary rights of their respective owners without reservation. The sole mentioning shall expressly not indicate that such brands and trademarks are not protected by the rights of third parties.

No offer, right of modification

The information contained on this website does not constitute an offer for the conclusion of contracts. All contents of this website are subject to change and non-binding. MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG expressly reserves the right to change, supplement or totally delete parts of the pages or the whole content of the website, or to discontinue the publication temporarily or irrevocably.

Misuse

By visiting this website, you commit to refrain from any misuse of the provided contents and services, in particular with regard to bypassing security measures and carrying out any actions that lead to damage to servers or networks. Furthermore, you also commit not to integrate the provided contents and services into other websites or to benefit from such contents commercially.

Data protection provisions

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. Therefore, we would like to inform you about how your data is handled when you visit the MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG website.

Collection, processing and use of your personal data:

According to section 3, paragraph 1 of BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act) personal data consists of individual details regarding personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable person. This includes e.g. details regarding your name, address, email address or telephone number. Personal data will only be collected if you provide it of your own accord in the respective forms on this website and if this data is needed to send you the desired information. MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG observes the legal regulations when dealing with this data. Furthermore, MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG may also record your access to this website for technical reasons or for the continuous improvement of our website. In this respect MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG will only record details about your internet service provider, your IP address, the website from which you reach our website selection and of those pages within our selection which you visit while on our website. This data is used exclusively by us in a non-personalised form. Your IP address is only saved by us during utilisation, i.e. while you are visiting our website (so-called SessionID). A user-based evaluation is not carried out.

MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG follows the following rules in particular:

  • We inform you of the purpose of the data you provide in the form of our privacy policy and information contained on our websites.
  • We protect your data against unauthorised access, loss and amendment with all means at our disposal.
  • We collect, process and use your data only within MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG to be able to offer you the desired information and services. This data is not transferred to third parties.
  • Personal data provided by you will be deleted by us when all purposes of storage have ceased, unless you have agreed to further usage. Deletion will be replaced by blocking if legal, statutory or contractual retention periods hinder deletion, or if there is reason to believe that deletion will affect protectable interests of the affected person or if the deletion is only possible with an excessive amount of effort due to a special type of storage. After all, you can always have the data collected by MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG blocked, corrected or deleted. A deletion will also be carried out if you revoke your consent for the collection, processing and use of personal data. If the revocation is made during an ongoing business transaction, the deletion will take place immediately after its conclusion. Further legal deletion or blocking obligations are not affected by this.

On the website of MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG cookies (see below) are used, which are deposited on your PC. With regard to this matter, we assume that you consent to this if your browser permits the acceptance of cookies based upon your settings. All data is only collected, processed and used for your support and page set-up according to your needs in compliance with the currently valid regulations for the protection of personal data.

Google Analytics usage

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files which are saved on your computer and which facilitate an analysis of your use of the website. The information created by the cookie about your usage of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and is saved there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a server of Google in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use such information to analyse your use of the website, to create reports on the website activities and to provide further services connected to the website and internet usage to the website operator. Your IP address, which was transmitted from your browser in the course of Google Analytics, will not be associated with other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies through the respective setting of your browser software, but please note that in this case you might not be able to use all functions of this website to the full extent. Furthermore, you can prevent the transmission of data generated by the cookie, which relates to your usage of the website (incl. your IP address), to Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin under the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Use of social plugins

This website uses plugins/functions of the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Google+. For data protection reasons they are deactivated by default and need to be explicitly activated if desired. We would like to point out that other data protection regulations and liability regulations apply to the use of these functions offered by third-party providers. The storage and use of data by the website operator, which accrue during usage of linked websites, can possibly exceed the scope of the existing data protection provisions. The further processing of data on the connected social networks, the relevant storage duration and the intended purpose are exclusively determined by those providers.

Facebook

This website uses social plugins of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. After activation of the plugin, a direct connection will be created between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook will thus be informed that you visited our website with your IP address. If you click the Facebook “like” button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our web pages to your Facebook profile. In this way, Facebook can associate our website with your user account. We would like to point out that we as the provider of this website receive no information regarding the content of data transferred, as well as the use thereof by Facebook. Further information about this is available in the privacy policy of Facebook at http://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our website with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Twitter

Twitter functions are integrated into our website. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the function “Re-Tweet”, websites visited by you are connected to your Twitter account and announced to other users. Data is thereby also transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that we as the provider of this website receive no information regarding the content of data transferred, as well as the use thereof by Twitter. Further information about this is available in the privacy policy of Twitter at http://twitter.com/privacy. You can change your data protection settings for Twitter in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

Google+

With the help of the Google +1 button, you can release information worldwide. You and other users receive personalised contents from Google and our partners through the Google +1 button. Google saves both the information that you selected +1 for a particular content, as well as information about the page which you were on when you clicked +1. Your +1 can be displayed as tips together with your profile name and your photo in Google services; for example in search results, in your Google profile, or at other places on websites and advertisements on the Internet.

Google record information about your +1 activities to improve Google services for you and others. To be able to use the Google +1 button, you need a public Google profile which is visible worldwide and which must contain at least the selected name for the profile. This name is used for all Google services. In certain cases this name can replace another name which you have used for sharing contents via your Google account. The identity of your Google profile can be displayed to users who either know your email address or who have access to other identifying information about you. In addition to the uses mentioned above, the information provided by you is used according to the current Google data protection provisions. Google could possibly publish summarised statistics regarding the +1 activities of users and could pass them on to users and partners, for example publishers, advertisers or connected websites. Further information regarding the collection and use of data by Google, your rights in this respect and possibilities for the protection of you privacy can be found in the privacy policy of Google under google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html.

Right of access and withdrawal

You have the right to receive information about your data saved by us at any time and free of charge. You also have the right at any time to revoke your consent for the collection, processing or use of data without giving any reasons. In order to do so, please contact us at: info@mec-cm.com.

For questions concerning the processing of your personal data, please send us an email. When communicating with MEC METRO-ECE Centermanagement GmbH & Co. KG by email, please note that, due to the technical infrastructure of the Internet, the sending of emails does not guarantee confidentiality or any protection against modification of the transferred contents. Therefore, you must take your own measures to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the contents should you attach importance to the confidentiality and integrity of the contents transferred by email.

Amendments to the data protection provisions

We reserve the right to adjust these data protection provisions at any time without prior notice in accordance with the data protection regulations. We therefore recommend that you inform yourself of the current status every time you visit our website.