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Festo 7DHTGb_en
Conditions of use for “electronic documentation”
I. Protection rights and scope
of use
The file of your choice is subject to protec-
tion provisions. Festo or third parties have
protection rights concerning this electronic
documentation which Festo makes available
on portable data storage devices (floppy
disks, CD-ROM, removable disks) as well as
on the Internet and/or Intranet, hereinafter
referred to as electronic documentation.
Provided third parties are entitled to partial
or full rights concerning this electronic docu-
mentation, Festo shall have the correspond-
ing 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 documenta-
tion is allowed to use this documentation
for his own, exclusively company-internal
purposes on any number of machines within
his business premises (location). This right
of use includes exclusively the right to save
the electronic documentation on the central
processors (machines) used at the location.
b) The electronic documentation may be
printed 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 creat-
ing his own machine and system documen-
tation. The use of the Festo logo requires
written consent from Festo. The user himself
is responsible for ensuring that the pictures
and texts used match the machine/system or
the relevant product.
d) Further uses are permitted within the fol-
lowing framework:
Copying exclusively for use within the frame-
work of machine and system documentation
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 devices
or can be reproduced there.
Passing on printouts to third parties not
covered by the provision stated in item 3, as
well as any processing or other use, is not
permitted.
2. Copyright note
Every “electronic document” receives a
copyright note. This note must be included on
every copy and every printout.
Example: E 2003, Festo AG & Co. KG,
D-73726 Esslingen
3. Transferring the authorisation
of use
The user can transfer the authorisation of
use in the scope of and with the limitations
of the conditions in accordance with items 1
and 2 completely to a third party. The third
party must be made explicitly aware of these
conditions of use.
II. Exporting the electronic
documentation
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 soft-
ware. The hardware status and, where appli-
cable, the software status of the product can
be found on the name plate of the product.
If the electronic documentation, in whatever
form, is not supplied with the product, i. e.
is not supplied on a portable data storage
device (floppy disk, CD-ROM, removable
disk), Festo does not guarantee that the elec-
tronic documentation corresponds to every
hardware and software status of the product.
In this case, the printed documentation from
Festo accompanying the product alone is
decisive for ensuring that the hardware and
software status of the product matches that
of the electronic documentation.
2. The information contained in this electronic
documentation can be amended by Festo
without prior notice and does not commit
Festo in any way.
IV. Liability/Limitations of liability
1. Festo supplies this electronic documenta-
tion in order to assist the user in creating his
machine and system documentation. In the
case of electronic documentation that does
not directly accompany a product in the form
of portable data storage devices (floppy disk,
CD-ROM, removable disk), i. e. that is not
automatically supplied together with that
product, Festo does not 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 data storage devices,
i. e. except for the electronic documentation
available via the Internet/Intranet, is limited
exclusively to proper duplication of the
software, whereby Festo guarantees that in
each case the data storage device or software
contains the latest update of the documenta-
tion. Concerning electronic documentation
available on the Internet/Intranet, there is no
guarantee that it 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 dam-
age 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 protection rights of third
parties concerning the use of the electronic
documentation.
3. The limitations of liability as per para-
graphs 1 and 2 do not apply if, in cases of
intent or gross negligence or the lack of
warranted quality, liability is compulsory. In
such a case, Festo’s liability is limited to the
damage discernable by Festo when the defini-
tive circumstances are made known.
V. Safety guidelines/documentation
Warranty and liability claims in conformity
with the aforementioned regulations (items
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 the
electronic documentation, when not supplied
with the product, matches the product actu-
ally used by the user.
