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Conditions of use for “Electronic Documentation”
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
appropriate 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 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
product.
d) Further uses are permitted within the
following contexts:
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
covered 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 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 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
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 continuously being
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, 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 Electronic
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
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. 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 any lack of economic success, 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 cases, 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 (items
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
Electronic Documentation not supplied with
the product matches the product actually
used by the user.
