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Festo 7DGC-Kb_en
Conditions of use for “electronic documentation”
I. Protection rights and scope of use
The file of your choice is subject to
protective provisions. Festo or third parties
have property rights to this electronic
documentation, which Festo provides both on
portable data storage mediums (diskettes,
CD ROM, removable disks) as well as on
the Internet and/or intranet, referred to as
electronic documentation below. In so far
as third parties have whole or partial right
of access to this electronic documentation,
Festo has the appropriate rights of use. Festo
permits the user the use 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 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 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 the
framework 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 medium or can be
reproduced there.
Passing on printouts to third parties not
covered by the regulation in item 3, as
well as any processing or other use are 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,
73726 Esslingen, Germany
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
documentation, 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 Documentation,
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 corresponds to every aspect
of the product's hardware and software. 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 included in this electronic
documentation can be amended by Festo
without prior notice and does not commit
Festo in any way.
IV. Liability/limitations on liability
1. Festo provides this electronic
documentation 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
documentation. 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
documentation. In respect of the 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
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
paragraphs 1 and 2 do not apply if, in cases
of intent or gross negligence or lack of
warranted quality, a compulsory liability
exists. In such a case, Festo's liability is
limited to the damage 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
documentation 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 actually used by the user.