Disclaimer

1. Content of our Website

The content of this website has been carefully prepared and reviewed. However, Kiel University and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or quality of the information provided, or that it is up-to-date. Liability claims against Kiel University and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR in respect of material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information offered or by inaccurate or incomplete information are in principle ruled out provided that there is no provable culpable intent or gross negligence on the Association's part.

Kiel University and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR expressly reserve the right to alter, amend or delete parts of the site or the entire offering, or to cease publication, without prior notice.

2. References and Links

Kiel University and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR are not responsible for the content, availability, correctness or accuracy of the linked sites or of the offerings, links or advertisements therein. It is not liable for illegal, incorrect or incomplete content or in particular for damages arising from the use or non-use of the information provided on linked sites.

3. Copyright

The copyright for any material created by the SFB 754 is reserved. Any duplication or use of objects such as images, diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without Kiel University's and the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR's agreement.
This does not apply for official press releases of the public relations office and other materials offered there for press coverage. Press releases are supposed to be used and duplicated numerously.

4. Data Policy

The following information about your visit on the web page is recorded exclusively for our own statistical purposes:

• your IP-Address
• URLs of the web site that you visited
• amount of data transferred
• time of page visits
• type and status of HTML requests
• URL visited prior to (browser dependent)
• search query used to find the page (browser depended)
• name and version of the browser used (browser dependent)

Currently, this data (log file on the web server) is used to generate an internal web statistics on a monthly basis.  IP-addresses are only used to generate a country statistics if this is possible (DNS backward search). No data will be handed over to third parties for any usage. Depending on the user settings we use cookies. No further investigation or usage of the cookie information is applied.  

5. Legal validity

This disclaimer of liability is to be regarded as part of the Internet offering from which you were referred to this page. Should parts or individual forms of wording in this text not, no longer or not fully comply with applicable law, this does not affect the content or validity of the remaining parts of the document.