Terms of use for GEPA pic­tures GmbH web­site and photo data bank

1.    Owner, ap­plic­a­bil­ity and scope of ap­pli­ca­tion

1.1.    The cur­rent terms of use ap­ply to the web­site www.GEPA-pic­tures.com and the photo data bank, isave.GEPA-pic­tures.com, which are both op­er­ated by GEPA pic­tures GmbH. GEPA pic­tures GmbH, Ivica-Osim-Platz 2 / Top 5, 8041 Graz, is here­after re­ferred to as “GEPA”. In ad­di­tion to the terms of use, the gen­eral busi­ness terms (GBT) of GEPA also ap­ply and can be down­loaded here: GBT.
1.2.    When us­ing our web­site or web shop you au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept our terms of use. GEPA is en­ti­tled to change in­di­vid­ual terms of use or guide­lines on the web­site at any time. If changes are made, the date of the cur­rent ver­sion will be up­dated at the be­gin­ning of the terms of use. All changes ap­ply as soon as they are pub­lished on the web­site. If you con­tinue us­ing the web­site af­ter their pub­li­ca­tion you au­to­mat­i­cally agree to the changes.
1.3.    All con­tent on the web­site (e.g. texts, pho­tos, films, data, soft­ware, graph­ics) are owned by GEPA pic­tures GmbH or ex­ter­nal part­ners. All con­tent and el­e­ments of the web­site are pro­tected by copy­right or in­tel­lec­tual prop­erty laws. Down­load­ing or copy­ing the web­site or parts of the web­site, re­verse en­gi­neer­ing, data min­ing, reusing con­tent, col­lect­ing data, ex­tract­ing pro­grams and any sim­i­lar ac­tiv­i­ties are il­le­gal and out­right for­bid­den with­out first get­ting writ­ten con­sent from or reach­ing an agree­ment with GEPA. If any of these il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties oc­cur, le­gal pro­ceed­ings will be com­menced with­out ex­emp­tion and com­pen­sa­tion pay­ment will be claimed.

2.    Avail­abil­ity of the web­site and the photo data bank

2.1.    Our web­site should be ac­ces­si­ble 24 hours a day, how­ever, tech­ni­cal is­sues (e.g. main­te­nance) can oc­ca­sion­ally cause the con­nec­tion to be in­ter­rupted.
2.2.    Be­cause tech­ni­cal is­sues can arise at any time, it is not pos­si­ble to make a web­site or data bank that is never of­fline or with­out any flaws. There­fore, we can­not be held li­able for any prob­lems aris­ing from such is­sues. 
2.3.    We are not li­able for any dis­rup­tions caused by prob­lems with tele­phone and/​or in­ter­net con­nec­tions.

3.   Ac­cess­ing and us­ing the photo data bank

3.1.    Our data bank can only be ac­cessed once you have been reg­is­tered. Reg­is­tra­tion is only al­lowed when you are of le­gal age and legally com­pe­tent. As a client and user of the web shop you are pro­hib­ited from pro­vid­ing any false per­sonal data.
3.2.    Af­ter reg­is­ter­ing you will re­ceive your per­sonal pass­word (sent to you via the email ad­dress you pro­vided us when reg­is­ter­ing), which is needed to ac­cess the data bank. This pass­word is gen­er­ated by the com­puter and is not saved by us. In case you for­get your pass­word, you can ap­ply for a new one at any time. The pass­word is as­signed to your name and your com­pany name.
3.3.    When us­ing the data bank, you are re­spon­si­ble for mak­ing sure that your ac­count and pass­word stay con­fi­den­tial. This data is not to be shared with a third party and you will be held li­able if any prob­lems arise due to shar­ing or loos­ing ac­cess data.
3.4.    You can al­ways delete your ac­count by sim­ply send­ing us an e-mail stat­ing your wish to do so. Please use the fol­low­ing e-mail ad­dress: of­fice@gepa-pic­tures.com.

4.    Pur­chas­ing photo data and le­gal right of use

4.1    Pur­chas­ing a photo li­cense and con­tract con­clu­sion is done ex­clu­sively in writ­ten form. In or­der to do so, the cus­tomer must, once again, ac­cept the GBT while or­der­ing. Af­ter ac­cept­ing the GBT, or­der­ing and pay­ment pro­ce­dures can be suc­cess­fully con­cluded, and the cus­tomer will be able to down­load their pho­tos. 

5.    Prices and pay­ment

5.1    Prices in­di­cated by GEPA are in eu­ros and al­ways ex­clude the re­quired VAT. Prices can be changed by GEPA at any time. If you do not pay, or pay­ment is in­com­plete, then GEPA is en­ti­tled to can­cel the pur­chase agree­ment.

6.    Lo­ca­tion, ap­plic­a­ble law, con­tract lan­guage, dis­pute res­o­lu­tion

6.1.    The lo­ca­tion for all de­liv­er­ies, ser­vices and le­gal dis­putes stem­ming from a con­trac­tual re­la­tion­ship (in­clud­ing le­gal dis­putes about re­al­iza­tion and/​or va­lid­ity of the or­der and/​or the ef­fec­tive­ness of the ju­ris­dic­tion clause) is the GEPA com­pany of­fice in Graz. If the of­fice moves, then le­gal com­plaints can be made at ei­ther the old or new lo­ca­tion. GEPA is also en­ti­tled to ap­peal to the court of the clien­t’s of­fice.
6.2.    Ex­cept for con­flict-of-law rules, Aus­trian law ap­plies for all le­gal pro­ce­dures be­tween GEPA and their cus­tomers.
6.3.    All con­tracts will be writ­ten in Ger­man only.
6.4.    Al­ter­na­tive dis­pute res­o­lu­tion, ac­cord­ing to ar­ti­cle 14 para­graph 1 ODR, ap­plies to all clients. The Eu­ro­pean Union pro­vides a plat­form for on­line dis­pute reg­u­la­tions (ODR) which you can ac­cess at ec.eu­ropa.eu/​con­sumers/​odr. How­ever, we are nei­ther ob­lig­ated nor will­ing to par­tic­i­pate in a dis­pute reg­u­la­tion pro­ceed­ing in front of a con­sumer ar­bi­tra­tion board.
We kindly ask you to send any com­plaints to of­fice@gepa-pic­tures.com

7.    Dis­claimer

7.1.    GEPA strives to pro­vide cor­rect and com­plete in­for­ma­tion on our web­site. Al­though all in­for­ma­tion is thor­oughly checked, GEPA can­not guar­an­tee or be held li­able for cor­rect­ness, com­plete­ness and ac­tu­al­ity of all pro­vided in­for­ma­tion. Since ju­ris­dic­tion and le­gal reg­u­la­tions are con­stantly chang­ing, there is al­ways a risk that in­for­ma­tion maybe un­clear. Un­der no cir­cum­stances can GEPA be held li­able for any di­rect, in­di­rect or con­se­quen­tial dam­age caused by us­ing the web­site, even if the dam­age can be con­nected to us­ing in­cor­rect or in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion.
7.2.    Links: GEPA ex­plic­itly de­clares that they do not have any in­flu­ence on the cre­ation or con­tent of any ex­ter­nal sites to which they have pro­vided a link. There­fore, GEPA can­not be held li­able for any change of con­tent af­ter the link has been es­tab­lished. Only the provider of a web­site can be held li­able for il­le­gal, faulty or in­com­plete con­tent or dam­ages re­sult­ing from use of their site and, there­fore, GEPA is not held re­spon­si­ble for any of the for­mer on any sites to which they have pro­vided links. If the linked page con­tains il­le­gal, faulty or in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion and GEPA be­comes aware of that, then GEPA is ob­lig­ated to re­move the link im­me­di­ately.

Sta­tus: Sep­tem­ber 2019