The public pages of the STRICE web site contain project related material (text, photos, images, graphics, multi-media, and software) elaborated in a pre-competitive research and development project and provided by the participants of the STRICE project for information of the interested public.

All information and material on this web site are subject to

• collective or individual copyrights,
• reproduction rules,
• legal notices,
• and a disclaimer.

Copyrights

All title and intellectual property rights including but not limited to trademarks, copyrights in and to the information and any copies thereof in whatever form, are owned by the individual project participant who supplied this information and/or the STRICE Project Consortium and/or by other parties who granted publishing of provided information on this web site. All information are protected by the applicable laws. Any trademarks or names being used are for editorial purposes only and to the benefit of the their owners without any intention of infringing upon it.

Except otherwise noted all content of this site is:

Copyright © The STRICE Project Consortium - all rights reserved.

In addition, the following copyrights prevail:

• Any materials if and as labelled with a separate copyright note at the bottom of a page are Copyright © of the mentioned provider - all rights reserved ;
• any image / photo is Copyright © of the mentioned provider - all rights reserved ;
• web design, HTML code and, if applicable and not mentioned otherwise, for included software, scripts and programs are Copyright © HYDROMODScientific Consulting - all rights reserved .

Rules for Reproduction

Reproduction is authorised, except for commercial purposes, if the source is fully acknowledged at least in the form

"The STRICE Public Web Site, http://www.hydromod.de/strice"

and written notification was given prior to each reproduction to the

In addition,

• reproduction of material labelled with a separate copyright mark is subject to the permission and citation of the therein mentioned provider;
• reproduction of any image / photo is subject to the permission of the provider mentioned in the captions;
• reproduction of publications, if no other copyrights apply thereto, is subject to the permission of the author(s);
• and where reproduced material, whether altered or not, are incorporated on a web site or in other hyper-media, at least one link to the above mentioned site and, if applicable, at least one link to the site of the provider of this material has to be included and maintained.

Legal Notices

Any attempt, whether successful or not, to hamper, disturb or disable the functioning of this web site or parts thereof including the hosting computer platforms and communication systems, thereon installed operating systems and software will be treated as a criminal act and prosecuted by the applicable laws.

The same applies for any successful or unsuccessful attempt to intrude the restricted area of this web site and/or to retrieve information thereof. In case of erroneous intrusion of the restricted area of this web site being clearly marked by a respective background it must be left immediately without any further action.

Access to this web site is concurrently monitored by the STRICE web site service. It reserves the right to store electronically and to copy data on accesses to and downloads from this web site for statistical, monitoring, security, operation and supervision purposes as well as to use and to publish such data in anonymised form for documentation and statistical reasons.

The STRICE Consortium is solely responsible for the contents of the STRICE project web site which does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and / or the European Community. Further The European Commission and / or the European Community are not responsible for any use that might be made with the contents of this web site.

Disclaimer

Information on the STRICE web site are stored, provided and accessible for public information as well as for project internal information and data exchange and for other dissemination activities among the project participants.

The STRICE Consortium is solely responsible for the contents of the STRICE project web site which does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and / or of the European Community. Further the European Commission and / or the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made with the contents of this web site.

The institution who provides information for publishing on this web site bares the sole and exclusive responsibility for it's contents as well as for not infringing any intellectual property rights, copyrights, publishing rights trademarks, confidentiality or whatever else might be applicable to the information provided. Further and especially, the information provider shall indemnify and hold free the operator(s) of this web site from any claims and whatsoever possible legal action should such arise from information provided and released for publishing on this web site which does not comply with the aforementioned legal terms and/or rights.

Neither the web site's operator(s) nor the STRICE Project Consortium bares any liability to third parties and/or concerning whatsoever kind of use of information obtained from this web site. The same applies to links to external web sites and information sources of which neither the project participants nor the operator(s) of this site have control on or liability for.

Further and although this site is compiled and maintained to high applicable technical standards and does to our knowledge not include scripts and software baring security risk, neither the project participants nor the web site operators bare any liability for whatever kind of possible damage which might occur on computer systems and/or software of visiting parties.

However, the project's web site service and the project partners attempt to keep the information on this site up to date and periodically correct errors both in contents and, if applicable, in performance if reported to the STRICE web site service.

In a judgement dated May 12, 1998 the City of Hamburg Regional Court ruled that placing links to other websites may imply a certain degree of responsibility for the contents of these linked sites. According to the court, this can be prevented only by stating an explicit disclaimer concerning these contents. In the STRICE project website various links to other sites on the Internet appear. The STRICE web site service as well as the STRICE project partners herewith emphasise that they have no influence on the design or content of any web site to which links are included. They therefore expressively dissociate themselves from all the content of all sites linked from this website. They explicitly take no responsibility for the content of linked sites and web pages. This declaration applies to all links and contents of the STRICE project web site / pages.