Our terms & conditions in detail:

These terms & conditions are valid for the acquisition of image licenses from the online platform of adpic Images, owner Martin Baumann, Fraunhofer Str. 8, 53121 Bonn (herewith known as „adpic“). adpic is an online platform that fowards coextensive license offers of image authors to customers. The license agreement is between the customer and the image author. adpic has no influence of the content of the license agreement. adpic is authorized, from the image author, to issue invoices and handle payments, so that the agreed royalties are paid to adpic.

§ 1 Notes on the agreement

By clicking on the button "Request current images", the customer agrees with the license offer as per the content of § 2 and accepts these terms & conditions. adpic forwards the acceptance of the customer to the image author. The license agreement between the customer and the image author is valid once the customer sends his acceptance.

§ 2 Coverage of the agreement

2.1 The image author grants a non-exclusive, timely and openly unresricted usage right for ones own purposes on the images to the customer. This includes the duplication, distribution and transmission rights in the extent required by the user pursuant to the rights stipulated in the agreement, especially

• the right to use the images and illustrations for advertising purposes (especially broschures, prospects, etc.) as well as for special business needs (e.g. illustration of images, electronic media, in magazines, etc.) as well as for private use;
• the right to duplicate and the distribution in print media and on electronic media (CD-ROM, DVD, DVD-ROM, etc.);
• the right to publish the images on the Internet (the right to public publishing);
• the right to edit the images and to combine them with text, other images and music (synchronization), as long as the interest of the image author regarding the integrity of the images is not breached.

2.2 The image author and originator license the images with the conditions that correspond to the published price tables.

2.3 The image author may revoke, based on important reasons, the usage rights. A more important reason comes in effect if the customer does not pay or he oversteps the usage rights granted to him. On revocation of the usage rights through the image author, the customer will delete all duplicated images. On demand of the image author of adpic, the completeness of the publishing of deletion must be confirmed in written form.

2.4 The images licensed to the customer should only be used for legal purposes, and cannot be used for the following purposes:

• Usage as a brand or trademark or a part thereof,
• Usage with or for pornographic purposes,
• Usage with or for the glorification of violence or racial hatred, or the conflict of laws for the protection of juveniles,
• Usage for the falsificaton and/or vilification of illustrated persons,

2.5 The images cannot be, separately or independent of a product or a website, sold without a license or otherwise made available for any other use and distribution. The images can, for example, be used as an integral component of a website, but not to be downloaded separately, made available on file servers or made available in a format for the repeated use of website users. All copyrights apply. The following applies for all usage types: The product of your work with the image must be either used by yourself, your direct employer, customer, or anyone who is the end-user of the image.

§ 3 Customer Access

3.1 The registration and therewith the creation of a customer access is based on the agreement of the following conditions.

3.2 The registration is only allowed for legal entities and unrestricted corporate persons.

3.4 Our customer access is not transferable.

§ 4 Services of adpic

4.1 adpic makes its described online platform available to its customers. The usage of this online platform or the usage extent, where the individual functions can be used, can be linked by adpic under certain requirements.

4.2 The claim to use the adpic platform and its functions is based only within the framework of the rules of technology. adpic can temporarily limit its services if these, in view of capacity limits, the security or integrity of the deployed adpic hardware or the execution of technical measures is required, and this serves for an orderly or improved provision of services. In these cases, adpic will comply with the authorized interests of the members, e.g. preliminary information. adpic is basically not required to ensure the availability of its services.

4.3 On completion of the contract with the vendor, adpic will allow the customer access to the ordered images for a time span of 2 months. The customer herewith receives an access authorization per e-mail, allowing him access to these images at adpic. The customer is, within this time, authorized to download the images from the internet platform, operated by adpic, to his own computer. The images can be downloaded multiple times.

§ 5 Commission, Payment Conditions

5.1 The registration as a customer with adpic is free.

5.2 The image owner commissioned adpic with the encashment so that the customer can pay the designated license charge in the shopping cart for the individual pictures through adpic. The customer receives an invoice from adpic per e-mail.

5.3 Payments to adpic are to be carried out within 7 days after receiving the invoice and without deduction.

§ 6 General Principles

6.1 Customers are required, during the usage of the adpic website as well as its services, to follow the applicable laws.

6.2 The price shown in the light box for the offered images is understood to be the final price plus eventual incurred sales tax and other special services (e.g. delivery of images per post).

6.3 adpic has the right to change the rules of its internet presence within the Terms & Conditions as long as these, with regards to the members and their interests, are reasonable.

6.4 The titles, descriptions and keywords used on the website are used for orientation and image search. A competent and technical correctness of the data for each image is not guaranteed.

§ 7 Liability Limitations

7.1 adpic is only responsible for, except the adoption of a guarantee or an exercise risk and as long as not otherwise explicitly agreed, intention and negligence.

7.2 adpic affords compensation or reimbursement of vain expenses irrelvant of legal grounds (e.g. breach of duty, disallowed acts) only in the following:

• intention and adoption of a guarantee with regards to a guaranteed nature in full amount;
• gross negligence on reimbursement of predictable and typical damages;
• in other cases only through the breach of an agreed integral duty, so that the achievement of the agreement target is endangered, as well as for requirements from flaw liabilities and delay, and namely on reimbursement of predictable and typical damages, however limited to EUR 200.00 per image with a maximum of a total EUR 2,000.00 per customer and year.

7.3 The exception of contributory negligence remains open. The legal liability of personal damages, and based on the product liability law, remains untouched.

§ 8 Data Collection

The customers are herewith informed that adpic collects and saves their data as required in the license agreement and on the basis of data protection provisions. Data is not forwarded to third-parties.

§ 9 Final Clauses

9.1 Oral agreements do not exist. Changes or extensions to the agreement are only allowed in written form. The contract parties satisfy the agreed written form requirement even through the delivery of documents per telefax and e-mail, as long as are none otherwise is contractually agreed upon regarding individual declarations.

9.2 German law is exclusively applied to the exclusion of the UN selling rights.

9.3 Place of jurisdication is in Bonn, as long as the contract partner merchant or someone equally is or has a foreign domicile. adpic has the right to sue the contract partner also in his domicile.

9.4 If one of the above terms becomes ineffective, or a breach in the provision occurs, this does not affect the effectiveness of the remaining terms. In this case of ineffective or breached term the next economically advantageous term will be applied.