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Festo 7CRDSNUb_en
Conditions of use for “electronic documentation”
I. Protection rights and scope
of use
The file of your choice is subject to protection
provisions. Festo or third parties have
protection rights concerning this electronic
documentation which Festo makes available
on portable data storage media (floppy disks,
CD-Rom, removable disks) as well as on the
Internet and/or Intranet - always referred
to as electronic documentation hereinafter.
Provided third parties are entitled to partial
or full rights concerning this electronic
documentation, Festo shall have the
corresponding 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
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
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 media or can be
reproduced there.
Passing on printouts to third parties outside
of the provision stated in item 3, as well as
any editing 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
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 further developed
with regard to hardware and software.
The hardware status and, where applicable,
the software status of the product can be
found on the type plate of the product.
If the electronic documentation, no matter
in what form, does not directly accompany
the product, i. e. if the product is not supplied
together with a portable data storage medium
(floppy disk, CD-Rom, removable disk),
Festo does not guarantee that the electronic
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
documentation 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 media (floppy disk, CD-Rom,
removable disk), i. e. that is not supplied
together with that product, Festo does not
guarantee that the electronic documentation
provided/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 provided/supplied data
storage media, i. e. except for the electronic
documentation provided/supplied via the
Internet/Intranet, is limited exclusively to
proper duplication of the software, whereby
Festo guarantees that in each case the
data storage medium or software contains
the latest update of the documentation.
Concerning electronic documentation
available on the Internet/Intranet, there is no
guarantee that it will have the same version
status as the last typographically published
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 protection rights of third
parties concerning the use of the electronic
documentation.
3. The limitations of liability as per
paragraphs 1 and 2 do not apply if, in cases
of intent or gross negligence or the lack
of warranted quality, liability is absolutely
necessary. In such a case, Festo’s liability is
limited to the damage discernable by Festo
when the definitive 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 the electronic documentation, when
not supplied with the product, matches
the product actually used by the user.
