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I. Patent rights and scope of use
The file of your choice is subject to protective
provisions. Festo or third parties have patent
rights to this electronic documentation, which
Festo provides both on portable data storage
media (diskettes, CD ROM, removable discs)
as well as on the Internet and/or intranet
(hereinafter referred to as the Electronic
Documentation). In so far as third parties
have a whole or partial right of access to this
Electronic Documentation, Festo has the ap-
propriate rights of use. Festo permits the user
to use the Electronic Documentation under
the following conditions:
1. Scope of use
a) The user of the Electronic Documentation
is allowed to use this documentation for his
own, exclusively company-internal purpo-
ses on any number of machines within his
business premises (location). This right of use
includes exclusively the right to save the Elec-
tronic Documentation on the central control
units (machines) used at the location.
b) The Electronic Documentation may be prin-
ted out on a printer at the location of the user
as often as desired, providing this printout is
printed with or kept in a safe place together
with these Conditions of Use and other user
instructions.
c) With the exception of the Festo logo,
the user has the right to use pictures and
texts from the Electronic Documentation
for creating his own machine and system
documentation. The use of the Festo logo
requires written consent from Festo. The user
is responsible for ensuring that the pictures
and texts used match the machine/system or
the product.
d) Further uses are permitted within the
following framework:
Copying exclusively for use within machine
and system documentation compiled from
electronic documents of all documented
supplier components. Demonstrating to third
parties exclusively under guarantee that no
data material is stored wholly or partly in
other networks or other data storage medium
or can be reproduced there.
Passing on printouts to third parties not co-
vered by the regulation in item 3 is forbidden,
as is any other form of processing or other
use.
2. Copyright notice
Every “Electronic Document” contains a
copyright notice. This notice must be inclu-
ded on every copy and every printout.
Example: E 2003, Festo AG & Co. KG,
73726 Esslingen, Germany
3. Transferring the authorisation
of use
The user can transfer the authorisation of
use entirely to a third party in the scope of
and with the limitations of the conditions
in accordance with items 1 and 2. The third
party must be made explicitly aware of
these Conditions of Use.
II. Exporting the electronic docu-
mentation
When exporting the Electronic Documenta
-
tion, the licence holder must observe the
export regulations of the exporting country
and those of the purchasing country.
III. Warranty
1. Festo products are being continuously
developed with regard to hardware and
software. The hardware status and, where
applicable, the software status of the
product can be found on the rating plate
of the product. If the Electronic Documen-
tation, in whatever form, is not supplied
with the product, i.e. is not supplied on a
data storage medium (diskettes, CD ROM,
removable disc) as a delivery unit with the
relevant product, Festo cannot guarantee
that the Electronic Documentation corre-
sponds to every aspect of the product‘s
hardware and software. In this case, only
the printed documentation from Festo
accompanying the product is decisive for
ensuring that the hardware and software of
the product matches that in the Electronic
Documentation.
2. The information included in this Elect-
ronic Documentation can be amended by
Festo without prior notice and does not
constitute any obligation on the part of
Festo.
IV. Liability/limitations on liability
1. Festo provides this Electronic Documenta-
tion to assist the user in creating his machine
and system documentation.
If a product is not accompanied by Electronic
Documentation in the form of data storage
media (diskettes, CD ROM, removable disc),
i.e. said Electronic Documentation is not
automatically supplied together with that
product, Festo cannot guarantee that the
Electronic Documentation available/supplied
separately matches the product actually used
by the user.
The latter applies particularly to extracts of
the documents for the user’s own documenta-
tion. The guarantee and liability for separately
available/supplied portable data storage
media, i.e. with the exception of Electronic
Documentation provided on the Internet/
intranet, are limited exclusively to proper
duplication of the software, whereby Festo
guarantees that, in each case, the relevant
portable data storage medium or software
contains the latest status of the documenta-
tion. There is no guarantee that the Electronic
Documentation available on the Internet/
Intranet will have the same version status as
the last printed edition.
2. Furthermore, Festo cannot be held
liable for the lack of economic success or for
damage or claims by third parties resulting
from the use of the documentation by the
user, with the exception of claims arising
from infringement of the patent rights of third
parties concerning the use of the Electronic
Documentation.
3. The limitations on liability as per para-
graphs 1 and 2 do not apply if, in cases of in-
tent or gross negligence or lack of warranted
quality, a compulsory liability exists. In such
cases, Festo‘s liability is limited to the dama-
ge discernable by Festo when the concrete
circumstances are made known.
V. Safety guidelines/documentation
Warranty and liability claims in conformity
with the aforementioned regulations (points
III. and IV) may be raised only if the user has
observed the safety guidelines of the Docu-
mentation in conjunction with the use
of the machine and its safety guidelines.
The user himself is responsible for ensuring
that Electronic Documentation not supplied
with the product matches the product actually
used by the user.
Conditions of use for “Electronic documentation”
