1. Content of the Online Offer

Koelnmesse offers this website to the public to enable you to find out quickly and easily about Koelnmesse and its activities and interesting facts about trade fairs in Cologne. We aim to offer up-to-date, comprehensive and accurate information. We shall make every effort to correct any errors that we learn of without delay. Our website offers free and generally accessible information. Koelnmesse accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the up-to-dateness, accuracy, completeness or quality of the information on this website.

In particular, we cannot guarantee

• that brochures, forms or other documents able to be called up online correspond in content and form to the documents we publish in printed form. In case of doubt, solely the version published in printed form is binding.
• that all or parts of this website are always available. We cannot exclude the possibility that some of the data on our website may have been created or structured as files or formats that contain faults, for which reason we cannot give any warranty that our website will not be impaired by such faults or not cause such faults on your system.
• in spite of constantly checking the contents of our website for viruses, that it contains no undetected viruses and that such viruses cannot gain access to your computer if you use our website.
• that contents and data will always be transferred fully, correctly and in an impeccable technical state.

Liability claims against Koelnmesse based on damages of a material or immaterial nature that are caused by the use or non-use of the information offered or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information are expressly excluded unless it can be shown that Koelnmesse caused such damage intentionally or through gross negligence. All quotations are non-binding and without obligation. Koelnmesse expressly reserves the right to modify, extend or delete individual pages or the entire site without notice or to cease publication either temporarily or permanently.

2. Cross-References and Links

We offer you the additional service on our website of cross-references to other websites. Koelnmesse expressly declares that the linked websites were free of illegal contents at the time of creating the links. Koelnmesse has no influence whatsoever on the present and future structure and on the contents of the linked pages. For this reason, it hereby expressly distances itself from the contents of all linked pages that have been modified since the link was created. This statement applies to all links and cross-references provided in our own Internet site as well as to third-party entries in guestbooks, discussion forums and mailing lists hosted by Koelnmesse. Solely liable for illegal, faulty and incomplete contents and for damages resulting from the use or non-use of such information is the host of the website to which reference is made.

3. Copyrights and Trademark Rights

Koelnmesse endeavours to observe all existing copyrights in all published items and exclusively to use objects (graphics, sound recordings, video sequences and texts) either that it has produced itself, to which it has acquired the rights or which are not under licence. All trademarks referred to in the Internet site and, if appropriate, protected by third parties are subject without limitationto the provisions of the relevant applicable trademark law and to the rights of possession of their registered owner. The sole act of making reference to trademarks does not preclude any existing rights of third parties. Copyright to objects not only published but also designed by Koelnmesse remains solely with Koelnmesse. The reproduction or use of such objects in other electronic or printed media is not permitted without the express consent of Koelnmesse.

4. Data Protection

Insofar as the Internet site offers the possibility of entering personal or business details (e-mail accounts, names, addresses), disclosure of such details by the user takes place expressly on a voluntary basis. As far as technically possible and reasonable, all services on offer may be used and paid for without disclosing such details or by entering data rendered anonymous or by entering a pseudonym. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”).  Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.  Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.  You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.  By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Enlargement of the data protection policy

5. Legal Validity of this Exclusion of Liability

Insofar as parts or individual provisions of this document do not, no longer or do not fully reflect the prevailing legal situation, this shall have no effect on the other parts of the document.