Terms of Use

Stefan Trost Media provides you (in the following „user“ or „you“) the contents, information, functions and services offered at askingbox.de, askingbox.com and sub domains (in the following „AskingBox“) on the basis of the following Terms of Use.

With your registration on AskingBox, by posting contributions on AskingBox and / or by using AskingBox, you accept these Terms of Use as a binding contractual agreement and a contract based on these Terms of Use is concluded between you and Stefan Trost Media.

If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, you are neither allowed to visit AskingBox, nor to use the contents, information, functions and / or services on and from AskingBox, nor to register on AskingBox.

Conditions specified by the User which are in conflict with or differing from these Terms of Use are only mandatory, if they are explicitly accepted in writing by Stefan Trost Media.

Structure

I. Definitions
II. Scope of Services
III. Registration and Account
IV. Obligations of the User
V. Contributions
VI. Indemnity / Liability and Responsibility of the User
VII. Liability and Warranty
VIII. Payments to Stefan Trost Media
IX. Balance and Payments to the User
X. Copyrights and Rights of Use
XI. Data Protection
XII. Confidentiality
XIII. Commercial Use
XIV. Blocking, Deletion and Termination
XV. Change of AskingBox and these Terms of Use
XVI. Applicable Law and Contractual Language
XVII. General Provisions

I. Definitions

(1) „AskingBox“ includes all current and future contents, information, functions and services as well as the entire platform and technology that Stefan Trost Media provides at the Internet addresses askingbox.de, askingbox.com y subdominios

(2) „askingbox.com“ stands for the English version of AskingBox with the start page www.askingbox.com.

(3) „askingbox.de“ stands for the German version of AskingBox with the start page www.askingbox.de.

(4) „es.askingbox.com“ stands for the Spanish version of AskingBox with the start page es.askingbox.com.

(5) „fr.askingbox.com“ stands for the French version of AskingBox with the start page fr.askingbox.com.

(6) „Stefan Trost Media“ or „we“ stands for the company Stefan Trost Media as well as for the servants, agents and representatives of Stefan Trost Media. For contact information, please refer to the imprint of AskingBox on askingbox.com/imprint.

(7) „User“, or „you“ is, who registers on AskingBox, who posts contributions on AskingBox and / or who is using the contents, information, functions and / or services of AskingBox (with or without registration) and / or who is using AskingBox in any other way.

(8) „Contributions“ are all contents and information submitted, distributed, offered, published, sent via email or otherwise made available on AskingBox by the user including but not limited to comments, answers, questions, articles, tips, tutorials, infos, tools, votings, lists, discussions, statements, blog posts, reviews, user profiles, messages, texts, images, photos, graphics, avatars, artistic works, software, data, files, patterns, multimedia works, music, sounds, videos and other creative works.

(9) „Terms of Use“, „Terms“ or „Contract“ means this document with all provisions contained therein.

II. Scope of Services

(1) Stefan Trost Media provides an internet platform at www.askingbox.com, www.askingbox.de, es.askingbox.com and fr.askingbox.com on which users can post contributions to a wide range of subjects. www.askingbox.com is the English language version, www.askingbox.de is the German language version, es.askingbox.com is the Spanish language version and fr.askingbox.com is the French language version of AskingBox.

(2) The use of AskingBox is free of charge for the user. Possible additional, fee-based services or premium functions, such as switching off ads, are clearly marked as such and can be booked by the user voluntarily. When booking fee-based services or premium functions, the user is clearly notified of the respective costs before contract formation.

(3) The contributions from users and the contents of AskingBox are not verified by Stefan Trost Media or independent instances. They are only intended to provide general information and entertainment and they are no substitute for professional advice. Therefore, you should use the information contained therein only with caution, using common sense and in doubt, only after an independent professional review.

(4) The opinion represented in the contributions is solely the opinion of the corresponding user and does not necessarily reflect the opinion and view of Stefan Trost Media or AskingBox on the corresponding subject.

(5) Please note, that a continuous and periodic monitoring of the contents, information and contributions posted by users is not possible for us and such a control is also not reasonable with no evidence of a violation of law. Regarding this, we also point to §7 German Tele Media Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG). As service provider in terms of §8, §9 and §10 TMG, we are not obligated to monitor transmitted or stored information of third parties or to search for circumstances which indicate illegal activities. Obligations to the removal or blockage of the use of information according to the general laws remain untouched from this, even in the case of non-responsibility. As soon as we are aware of such infringements, we will remove the respective contents immediately.

(6) We do not assume any warranty and guarantee for the contributions of users and we are neither responsible nor can we be held responsible for the content of user contributions. In particular, but not exclusively, we do not assume any warranty, guarantee or liability for any advice, diagnosis, treatment proposal, comment and / or suggestion of medical, psychological, legal, sanitary, medicinal, factual, technical, financial or other kind that may be found within user contributions independent of type and subject of the contribution and we are indemnified by you from any loss or damage arising within this context. Note that anybody – regardless of his qualifications – can write contributions on AskingBox and we do not verify the information contained in the contributions. We expressly point out that we cannot verify these contributions particularly on their completeness, accuracy, quality, timeliness, suitability, legality, safety and / or usefulness. The information will never be as current as the date on which you retrieve the information. We assume no obligation to keep the information up to date.

(7) Please note that the contributions on AskingBox cannot replace professional advice and may not be understood in terms of professional advice. This applies in particular, but not exclusively, to the contributions about health, medicine, psychology, law, engineering, finance and taxation, where the respective contributions should not be understood in terms of a professional medical, psychological, technical, legal and / or financial advice. Therefore, you should not use AskingBox for emergencies and not as a substitute for professional advice of any kind. We expressly point out that contributions on the topics of health, medicine and psychology, should not be used for diagnosis, treatments, cures or prevention of disease without the supervision of a medical, physician or therapist. In addition, contributions on legal topics cannot replace legal advice and contributions on financial and fiscal issues cannot replace investment advice, tax advice or any other form of financial advice. Therefore, in all cases and for each topic and subject on AskingBox, we recommend a professional advice from a trained and competent specialist for the corresponding subject.

(8) Stefan Trost Media provides AskingBox without guarantee that AskingBox works together with the User’s browser, that AskingBox can be run on every operating system and / or that AskingBox is compatible with every system configuration.

(9) Please note, that for websites and Internet services, interruptions, failures and breakdowns can never be excluded. Therefore, AskingBox is always offered subject to the reservation of availability. In particular, Stefan Trost Media assumes no liability for interruptions, failures and / or breakdowns of devices of third parties and for other areas that are beyond the control and responsibility of Stefan Trost Media. However, Stefan Trost Media also reserves the right to take AskingBox offline for an indefinite period of time, for example, to perform maintenance operations.

(10) For the use of AskingBox, an internet access is required. The user has to take care for his Internet access and the associated technical requirements and programs on his own responsibility and has to bear the costs and fees arising in this context by himself.

(11) For certain offers, functions or services within AskingBox, additional terms or contracts can apply, that can supplement or replace parts of these Terms of Use. Before booking or orderring such offers, functions or services, the user is clearly notified of the rules that apply.

(12) AskingBox can contain offers for products and / or services from partner companies or third parties. If you make use of such offers, a contractual relationship is concluded exclusively between you and the respective supplier of the offer. Please note, that for such offers other terms and conditions, differing from these Terms of Use, can apply. Information about that are typically attached in the form of a separate contract or separate terms to the respective offers. Stefan Trost Media assumes no guarantee and is not liable for the suppliers of such external offers.

III. Registration and Account

(1) A use of AskingBox in its entirety requires a registration by the user. The registration can be done on askingbox.com/register (English), askingbox.de/register (Deutsch), es.askingbox.com/register (Español) or fr.askingbox.com/register (Français). By registering, there is automatically created an account for the user. The account can be used for all available language versions of AskingBox, regardless from the language version that you have used for registering.

(2) The user can choose a personal username and a password during registration. The username has to start with a capital letter and can contain letters, numbers and spaces. Not allowed are usernames containing no letters at all or that are shorter than 4 characters. The password has to be at least 6 characters in length.

(3) The chosen user name may not yet be assigned or used by another user in any language version of AskingBox at the time of registration.

(4) The chosen username may not violate the rights of others. So, it is not permitted, for example, to select a username, which simulates or pretends a non-existent relationship with other people, brands, products or companies. Furthermore, usernames may not be offensive, defamatory, hateful, provocative, insulting, misleading, threatening, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, violent, discriminatory, racist, illegal, unlawful or otherwise objectionable. Stefan Trost Media reserves the right to terminate the user and delete the corresponding account, when such an infringement should become known.

(5) The selected username, the date of birth as well as the gender can not be changed by the user after the first entry during the registration. If you want to have a different username, please register again using that other new username. If you can prove a sex change, we are willing to change the gender of your account.

(6) The same username is automatically used by default for each language version of AskingBox after the registration. If you would like to use a different username with your account for individual language versions (e.g. a translation of your username), please contact us using our contact form. Please note that such an adjustment is only possible as long as you have not yet published any articles in the language version concerned.

(7) The minimum age for use and registration on AskingBox is 16 years. If the user has not reached the age of 16, he may not use AskingBox and may not register on AskingBox.

(8) People under the age of eighteen years may not register without the consent of their legal guardians. Please note, that AskingBox can contain content that is not suitable for children and adolescents. Therefore, legal guardians should support and assist their children in the use.

(9) The user agrees to make true, current, accurate and complete information about himself according to the specifications of the registration form and update this data in the event of a change immediately.

(10) In addition, the user also agrees to make true, current, accurate and complete information about himself after his registration and keep this information up to date.

(11) If Stefan Trost Media should notice, that the data specified by the user is not correct, Stefan Trost Media has the right to terminate the user and to block or delete the corresponding account.

(12) The user can access and modify his personal data and settings for his account in the section „My Account“ after his login on AskingBox.

(13) The user must keep his password secret from third parties and is solely responsible for its secrecy. The user has to take all measures to ensure the security of his account and to protect his account against misuse, unauthorized access or unauthorized use. We point out that no employee of AskingBox will ask you for your password, your access data or other personal data or user data. If someone should ask you for this or similar data, please report that to Stefan Trost Media and do not pass any data.

(14) If third parties should come into possession of the access data of the user, the user is obligated to immediately inform Stefan Trost Media about that and change his password.

(15) Furthermore, the user is obligated to inform Stefan Trost Media immediately about any kind of misuse of his account or access data or any other form of security violations.

(16) The user is responsible for ensuring that using his account, applicable law and the provisions of these Terms of Use are met.

(17) The user is fully responsible for all actions that are carried out using his access data and / or his account.

(18) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any responsibility or liability for claims, violations of the law, losses or damages of any kind resulting from third parties using your account with or without your knowledge.

(19) An account is not transferable. The user may not rent, lend, sell, license or transfer his account in any other way. All rights on the account expire with the death of the user.

(20) Non-registered users can only use selected functions to a limited extent on AskingBox. Contributions that were written by non-registered users will be assigned to the account „Guest“. This account has the name „Guest“ on askingbox.com, „Gast“ on askingbox.de, „Invitado“ on es.askingbox.com and „Invité“ on fr.askingbox.com.

(21) The user should therefore check always and prior to each writing and saving of a contribution, if he is logged in, since the corresponding contribution is otherwise possibly considered irrevocably as a Guest . Additionally, we recommend that you save your contributions regularly during processing and write it in advance in a text editor.

(22) Contributions that have been written as Guest can not subsequently be assigned to another account or username nor can they be edited or deleted by the user after the first save.

(23) There is no entitlement to participation or persistence of a registration.

IV. Obligations of the User

(1) The User agrees to comply with the provisions of this Terms of Use.

(2) The User has to ensure, that all information he transmits to Stefan Trost Media and on AskingBox is complete, correct and current.

(3) The User agrees to take all necessary measures to avoid or reduce losses or damages.

(4) The User agrees to always use AskingBox in a legally acceptable way and not to violate the law or the rights of others by his use.

(5) The user should be aware, that each user is personally responsible for his account and for his contents, information, contributions and actions on AskingBox and therefore, each user also has to bear possible resulting legal consequences by himself (for that see Section VI, Indemnity / Liability and Responsibility of the User).

(6) The user agrees not to submit, distribute, offer, publish, email, link or otherwise make available any content, information or contribution, that is hateful, defamatory, deceptive, inappropriate, despicable, malignant, hurtful, provocative, disrespectful, pestering, abusive, insulting, degrading, youth endangering, harmful, harassing, tortious, threatening, immoral, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, discriminatory, violence requesting, violence glorifying, extremist religious, extremist political, racist, disorderly, punishable, criminal, illegal, unlawful or in any other way objectionable.

(7) The user agrees not to submit, distribute, offer, publish, email, link or otherwise make available any content, information or contribution that the user is not authorized to pass on and / or that violates the rights of third parties, including, but not limited to infringements of copyrights, patents, trademarks, rights to privacy, protection of personality rights, data protection rights, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements or other property or privacy rights.

(8) The user agrees not to submit, distribute, offer, publish, email, link or otherwise make available any content, information or contribution, containing or referring to programs, files or code, designed or suitable for manipulating, reading out, blocking, turning off, misusing and / or otherwise affecting systems, computers, software, hardware and / or telecommunication devices from Stefan Trost Media, AskingBox and / or third parties noticeable or not noticeable in any harmful way. In particular, but not exclusively, this includes malicious software such as viruses, trojans, worms, bots, spyware, spiders, scrapers, manipulated files or similar programs, files and code.

(9) Regarding your contributions, please also note Section V (Contributions).

(10) The user agrees to properly back up all contents and data published, transmitted, received and stored on AskingBox outside of AskingBox.

(11) The user agrees not to use AskingBox for any other than its intended purposes and not to disturb, interrupt, overload and / or otherwise influence the technical operation and / or the technical functions of AskingBox and / or its affiliated servers.

(12) The user agrees, not to interfere or constrain other users in the exercise of functions and / or services of AskingBox and not to spy out other users or to try in any way to get the passwords or access data of other users or to use unauthorized an account of a third party. Likewise, the user is not permitted to systematically capture, spy out or collect information from and about other users or to pass information from and about other users to third parties without legal foundation.

(13) The user agrees not to pretend to be another person. In particular but not exclusively, it is not permitted to pretend to be a representative and / or a responsible person of AskingBox or to feign a not existing connection or relationship with representatives or responsible persons of AskingBox.

(14) The user agrees, not to use technical means to automatically post contributions, send messages, manipulate ratings, generate clicks on contributions or to otherwise interfere with the system.

(15) The user is not allowed to modify, manipulate, decompile, reverse assemble, disassemble or otherwise alter, extend and / or reduce AskingBox and the functions, codes and scripts of AskingBox and / or to create derived products from them. In particular, methods such as reverse engineering or other methods to deduce the source code of AskingBox are prohibited. Furthermore, the access or attempted access to data, databases, files and / or information that is not directly accessible through the user interface of AskingBox, is prohibited.

(16) The user agrees not to submit, distribute, offer, publish, email, link or otherwise make available any mass mails, mass content, spam, identical or substantially identical contributions, chain letters, snowball systems or the like.

(17) AskingBox may not be used without permission and separate contract for commercial or business purposes regardless of which type (for example advertisements). Please observe the respective rules and regulations for infringements in Section XIII (Commercial Use).

(18) On AskingBox, advertisements marketed by Stefan Trost Media are placed. The user agrees, that such advertising may be placed in the immediate surrounding and within his contributions.

(19) The User agrees to compensate Stefan Trost Media for damages if the damage results from a violation by the user against the provisions of these Terms of Use.

(20) If the user can not or does not want to comply with these regulations or the provisions of these Terms of Use, or if the User uses or intends to use AskingBox in a non-appropriate or non-intended manner, the user is not allowed to use AskingBox.

V. Contributions

(1) Each user is responsible for his own contributions.

(2) With the input of a contribution, you agree, that Stefan Trost Media can neither be held responsible for the answers, you get to your contribution, nor for the case, that you get no answers to your contribution at all.

(3) The language of the contribution has to correspond essentially to the respective language version of AskingBox (English contributions in the English language version, German contributions in the German language version, Spanish contributions in the Spanish language version, French contributions in the French language version). This does not include isolated words of different languages as well as particular sentences in contributions, in which there is a discussion about other languages or formulations. Original quotes from a foreign language should be published together with a translation. Contributions written on askingbox.com should be understandable to the English-speaking world, contributions written on askingbox.de should be understandable to the German-speaking world, contributions written on es.askingbox.com should be understandable to the Spanish-speaking world and contributions written on fr.askingbox.com should be understandable to the French-speaking world.

(4) The user should try to pay attention to the spelling, grammar, punctuation as well as to a correct upper and lower case writing in his contributions as far as possible.

(5) Stefan Trost Media and the moderation of AskingBox have the right to delete contributions without notifying the user. In particular, we reserve the right to delete contributions about the meaning or the nonsense of a question, contributions in a foreign language, contributions that are shorter than 25 words, spam, insults, mere repetitions, contributions that do not contain content relevant to the subject, contributions violating these Terms of Use, questions that are not answered after a year, as well as answers or comments that have nothing to do with the topic.

(6) The user should be aware, that the content, he makes available on AskingBox, can be accessed worldwide by any person. Furthermore, the user should keep in mind, that it can systematically be searched for content on AskingBox by using Internet search engines or integrated search features of AskingBox. Therefore, the user should only publish content that is intended for the public or that can be made public.

(7) The user has no right or claim to the publication of his contributions. We reserve the right to reject, shorten or delete contributions without giving any reason. Particularly but not exclusively, we can make use of this right, when contributions are containing full citations, repetitions, advertising or content violating these Terms of Use.

(8) We reserve the right to translate contributions that a user has published in one language version of AskingBox in order to publish them in other language versions of AskingBox. The translated contributions can be assigned to the user’s account. If you are interested in translating your contributions yourself, please contact us using our contact form.

(9) Please also note for your contributions particularly the Sections IV (Obligations of the User), VI (Indemnity / Liability and Responsibility of the User), X (Copyrights and Rights of Use), XI (Data Protection), XII (Confidentiality) and XIII (Commercial Use).

VI. Indemnity / Liability and Responsibility of the User

(1) Each user is personally responsible for his own contents, information, contributions and actions on AskingBox.

(2) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any responsibility or liability for users as well as for their contributions, contents, information and actions on AskingBox. This applies in particular, but not exclusively, to cases in which contents, information, contributions and actions of users violate the law (for example, violations of the copyright law, the trademark law or the personality rights of third parties).

(3) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any responsibility or liability for claims, violations of the law, losses or damages of any kind arising from a violation of these Terms of Use by the user.

(4) The user is fully responsible for all actions that are carried out using his access data and / or his account.

(5) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any responsibility or liability for claims, violations of the law, losses or damages of any kind resulting from third parties using your account with or without your knowledge.

(6) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from your violation of these Terms of Use, official orders or applicable law.

(7) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from the contents, information and contributions submitted, distributed, offered, published, sent via email or otherwise made available by you.

(8) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from an application of the contents, information and contributions submitted, distributed, offered, published, sent via email or otherwise made available by you.

(9) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from a violation of third party rights committed by you.

(10) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from your actions on AskingBox.

(11) You agree to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all third party claims of any kind resulting from the use of your account by a third party.

(12) The indemnification granted according to paragraphs VI.6, VI.7, VI.8, VI.9, VI.10 and VI.11 also includes the obligation, to fully indemnify Stefan Trost Media from any legal defense costs, including court costs, lawyers fees and costs caused by cease and desist letters. Hereby, the user expressly agrees with this regulation.

(13) This indemnification remains valid even after the ending of this contract, regardless of the reason why the contract was ended.

VII. Liability and Warranty

(1) Any use of the contents, information, functions and / or services of AskingBox by the user is at the user’s own risk.

(2) Each user should use the contents, information and contributions available on AskingBox only with caution, using common sense and, in doubt, only after an independent, professional verification.

(3) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any responsibility or liability for users or third parties.

(4) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any warranty and is not liable for third-party information and contents, such as contributions of users, in accordance with the provisions of Sections § 7, § 8, § 9 and § 10 of the German Tele Media Act (Telemediengesetz, TMG).

(5) For free services, the liability of Stefan Trost Media is limited to intent and gross negligence (§ 521 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB), Liability of the donor (Haftung des Schenkers)). The warranty of Stefan Trost Media for free services is governed by § 524 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB), Liability for material defects (Haftung für Sachmängel).

(6) For services with costs, besides cases of intent and gross negligence, Stefan Trost Media is also liable in the event of an essential infringement of a contractual obligation. However, the liability for an essential infringement of a contractual obligation is limited to the loss, Stefan Trost Media could have foreseen due to the circumstances known at the time of entering into this contract with the user.

(7) For the culpable injury to life, body or health, besides cases of intent and gross negligence, Stefan Trost Media is also liable for simple negligence.

(8) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any warranty or liability for that AskingBox meets the requirements, needs and / or expectations of the user, AskingBox is suitable for the purposes of the User as well as for the results and consequences arising from using AskingBox or arising from the application of the contents, information and contributions of AskingBox.

(9) Stefan Trost Media does not assume any warranty or liability for the completeness, correctness, accuracy, quality, actuality, timeliness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, safety, legal applicability, helpfulness, effectiveness and / or usefulness of the contents, information and contributions, which can be found on AskingBox.

(10) AskingBox is always offered subject to the reservation of availability. Stefan Trost Media assumes no responsibility or liability for that AskingBox is always available reliable, error-free, secure, trouble-free, on time and without interruption. Particularly, but not exclusively, this applies, when the access to AskingBox is restricted by circumstances, that are beyond the area of responsibility of Stefan Trost Media.

(11) Stefan Trost Media assumes no responsibility or liability for any memory losses, loss of data, interruptions, possible disturbances and / or failures in the transmission of data and / or the involved communication networks; for errors or delays in transfer and / or deletions of user contributions; for electrical power outages, as well as for failures or problems with servers, computers and / or systems that are not within the control of Stefan Trost Media. In particular, Stefan Trost Media assumes no liability for interruptions, failures and / or breakdowns of devices of third parties and for other areas that are beyond the control and the responsibility of Stefan Trost Media.

(12) No liability is accepted for losses or damages resulting from the inability or impossibility to use AskingBox and the contents, information, contributions, functions and services of AskingBox.

(13) Except for the fulfillment of payment obligations, no contracting party is liable against the other contracting party for non-performance or delay in performance of the contract, if the non-performance or delay is due to circumstances beyond the control of the respective contracting party. Such circumstances include in particular: acts of god caused by natural events, operational disorders, fire damage, interference by public authorities, war, terrorism, riots, strikes and / or lockouts, failures of the general electrical power supply and telecommunication circuits as well as failures due to the provider.

(14) For all linked or embedded plug-ins, services, libraries, scripts and codes from third parties on AskingBox, the licensing is not with Stefan Trost Media, but with the third party, that is also responsible for any resulting claims and warranties.

(15) AskingBox contains links to external websites and services of third parties on whose contents we do not have any influence. Therefore, we can not accept any responsibility and liability for these external contents as well as for possible changes to these contents. For the contents of linked websites, only their operators are responsible. For illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents of external websites and especially for losses and damages resulting from the use or disuse of contents of external websites, only the provider of the respective website is liable, not the one, who only refers to the respective website by using links. A permanent control of the contents of linked websites is not possible. Therefore, we ask you to inform us immediately about any links referring to illegal contents, so that we can remove the respective links.

(16) Stefan Trost Media will block the access to and / or delete illegal contents, information and contributions or links referring to illegal contents immediately after taking note. In addition, Stefan Trost Media is entitled to terminate the respective users and to block or delete the appropriate account. Stefan Trost Media will only make the access to blocked content possible again, if the user can prove, that the illegal state has been remedied. The burden of proof for this lies with the user.

(17) Stefan Trost Media is not liable and responsible in the case that AskingBox has been manipulated and / or altered in any way, the user has failed to comply with these Terms of Use and / or applicable law, and / or AskingBox was used in a non-recommended, not usual or not intended way.

(18) This limitation of the liability and warranty remains valid even after the ending of this contract, regardless of the reason why the contract was ended.

VIII. Payments to Stefan Trost Media

(1) The registration and the use of AskingBox is free to the user and with his registration and / or use of AskingBox, the user does not enter into a commitment to use fee-based services and / or premium functions immediately or later.

(2) At any time, the user is free to transfer a voluntary donation to Stefan Trost Media. You can find information about donations on askingbox.com/donate. If you donate at least € 10 and you mention the name of a user along with your payment, 70 percent of the amount (after deduction of possible applicable fees) are forwarded by PayPal to the named user. If the named user has not specified a PayPal address and the user can also not be reached via the contact details he has made, the 70 percent of the amount are paid back to the donor. The remaining amount as well as donations without a given name and donations under € 10 are used for the operation and the costs of AskingBox.

(3) Additional, optional fee-based services or premium functions - such as switching off ads - can be booked on AskingBox against paying a monthly fee. The respective prices or charges are displayed clearly when booking the corresponding offers.

(4) Fee-based services and premium functions will not be activated until Stefan Trost Media has received the corresponding payments in full. As soon as a fee-based service or a premium function is no longer covered by a corresponding payment of the user, for example, because the user has stopped making payments, the respective service or premium function will be disabled.

(5) Payments can be made via PayPal or, if a separate agreement has been made, by bank transfer. The PayPal address or the bank account details for the bank transfer will be published at the appropriate point or after the order process.

(6) Possible invoices are provided online. Unless otherwise agreed, Stefan Trost Media is not obliged to send a written invoice to the User.

(7) Invoices are payable within 10 business days from the date of invoicing.

(8) In the event of an ending of this contract, possible prepayments of fee-based services and premium functions will be refunded proportionately to the user. The same applies to the case, when a fee-based service or a premium function will be discontinued.

IX. Balance and Payments to the User

(1) Every account on AskingBox has a balance. At the time of registration, the state of the balance of each user is fixed to € 0.00 and the balance is disabled. A balance is always bounded to an account and not transferable. Balances can not be offset against each other.

(2) Payments of Stefan Trost Media to the user and an activation of the balance require a separate written contract, that must have been approved by both, Stefan Trost Media and the user.

(3) Payments to the user are paid out by using PayPal. In order to receive payments, the user must have specified a PayPal address in his account.

(4) We would like to inform the user that possibly, he has to pay taxes on the payments. Each user is personally responsible for the correct taxation of his payments. The user agrees to indemnify Stefan Trost Media from all claims arising from a breach of this obligation.

X. Copyrights and Rights of Use

(1) Stefan Trost Media has to be informed immediately, when others think that their works have been exploited, used or reproduced without authorization. As far as the allegations prove to be justified demonstrably, Stefan Trost Media will block the corresponding content or contributions from the access of third parties and / or delete them. Details on the procedure and how to report suspected violations of your rights are specified in the imprint of AskingBox.

(2) With the input of a contribution or content on AskingBox, the user grants Stefan Trost Media and related companies, affiliates and contractual partners an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, temporally and spatially unrestricted right to use, reproduce, host, publish, store, distribute, display, make publicly available, provide for retrieval, stream, transmit, transfer, edit, format, modify, use for marketing purposes, translate and / or cite the contribution or the content completely, partially and / or in an edited form, with or without naming names, and / or to derive new contents from it and to distribute such as well as the right to transfer and / or sub-license all of these rights to third parties.

(3) In addition to AskingBox, the usage rights and exploitation rights granted pursuant to paragraph X.2 also apply to other media such as other websites, printed matters (such as books, newspapers and magazines), feeds, data mediums and all other electronic and non-electronic forms of exploitation.

(4) The usage rights and exploitation rights granted pursuant to paragraph X.2 and X.3 remain valid even after the ending of this contract, regardless of the reason why the contract was ended.

(5) With the input of a contribution, you assure and warrant that you are the author of the contribution and all contents contained therein or that you have the right to use the contribution and all contents contained therein under these Terms of Use and in particular its paragraphs X.2, X.3 and X.4. If you are not the right holder of a contribution or a content inputted by you, you assure and warrant, that the right holder has agreed to the use and the nature and purpose of the use and the right holder has explicitly agreed to the transfer of rights according to these Terms of Use and in particular to the provisions of paragraphs X.2, X.3 and X.4. If your contribution contains pictures of people, private information or other content affecting the privacy of a person and / or personality rights of a person, you additionally assure and warrant, that any of the persons concerned has agreed to the nature and purpose of the use and to the use according to these Terms of Use and in particular the provisions of paragraphs X.2, X.3 and X.4.

(6) AskingBox contains and is mainly composed of works of personal intellectual creation (texts, images, graphics, audio clips, video clips, computer programs, codes, compositions, implemented ideas and so on) in the sense of the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG). These works are intellectual property/copyrighted works of Stefan Trost Media, his suppliers or the respective author/user. It is neither allowed to copy, pass, imitate or to use these works wholly or partially nor to use them in any other than the intended purpose unless there is an explicit written permission to do so. Other applicable rights of this website remain unaffected from this.

(7) All rights, including translation, reproduction and copying of the contents of AskingBox or any part of it are reserved. Without explicit written permission of Stefan Trost Media or the respective author, it is not allowed to reproduce, publish or distribute the contents of AskingBox in any form or to process, copy or distribute the contents AskingBox using electronic systems. We reserve the right to pursue legal infringements. The usual electronic processing by search engines is excluded from this and expressly welcome.

(8) Excluded from Paragraphs X.6 and X.7 are all cases that are expressly permitted by the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz, UrhG).

(9) These Terms of Use do not grant the user any property rights and / or claims on AskingBox, particular contents, services and / or functions. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to Stefan Trost Media, the respective supplier or the respective author.

(10) All brand labels and trademarks, which are mentioned on AskingBox and possibly protected by third parties, are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the property rights of the respective registered owners. The mere mentioning of a brand label or a trademark does not imply that the brand label or trademark is not protected by third-party rights!

XI. Data Protection

(1) Stefan Trost Media ensures that within the service provision the applicable data protection regulations will be respected. All data will be used strictly task-related.

(2) For further information about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of your data, please refer to our Data Privacy Statement, which can be found on askingbox.com/privacy.

(3) Please help us, to protect your data. In your contributions, you should not publish personal data, such as e-mail addresses, other contact data or other information, allowing conclusions about your person, since your contributions will be publicly visible on the Internet and can therefore be retrieved by any Internet user worldwide. If you nevertheless do this, the publication of your data is your own responsibility. Under no circumstances, publish any data or content in your contributions that is not intended for the public. Please note, that your contributions can also be found by using search engines. The deletion or correction of data that has arrived in an index of a search engine or another indexing service, can often not be enforced.

XII. Confidentiality

(1) As far as the contracting parties transmit commercial or technical information which is marked as confidential or a contracting party becomes aware of information of the other party, which is usually considered as business secret or otherwise confidential, the contracting parties agree to treat such information confidential and not to make this information available to third parties or to use this information outside the implementation of this contract in any way without written consent of the other party.

(2) Confidential information is in particular: additionally agreed terms, additional contracts, functional specification documents (FSD), product requirement documents (PRD), offer documents, agreed prices, cost calculations, cost estimates, drafts, technical details as well as content of personal communications. The contractual parties agree to make such information available to their employees or agents only if this is necessary for the execution of the contract.

(3) Not regarded as confidential information according to this provision is information that became public without any breach of confidentiality of a party as well as information that the announcing party has received from a third party lawfully.

(4) Excluded from this mutual obligation of confidentiality is information which is generally obvious; for which there is a legal, judicial or regulatory obligation to disclose; to whose use the concerned contracting party has consented, or which are necessary to ensure the safety of other Users, the public, AskingBox or Stefan Trost Media.

XIII. Commercial Use

(1) Stefan Trost Media provides all contents, information, functions and services of AskingBox, if not regulated in a separate contract, solely for personal, non-commercial use. Hence, it is forbidden to use the contents, information, functions and services for commercial or business purposes of any kind.

(2) In particular, the user is prohibited to submit, distribute, offer, publish, email, link or otherwise make available any commercial advertising regardless of which type on AskingBox without permission and authorization of Stefan Trost Media.

(3) Any commercial use by third parties requires a separate and mutually agreed contract between Stefan Trost Media and the respective third party.

(4) The user agrees to pay a contractual penalty of € 5000 to Stefan Trost Media for each violation of the above regulations about commercial use.

(5) In the event that not contractually regulated commercial use becomes known, Stefan Trost Media reserves the right to terminate the respective user without warning, to delete his account and to remove the corresponding contents.

XIV. Blocking, Deletion and Termination

(1) Stefan Trost Media is entitled to terminate the user ordinary with a term of notice of one week at any time by e-mail and then to block or delete the account of the user. The right to extraordinary termination for an important reason remains unaffected.

(2) In case of an important reason, Stefan Trost Media is always entitled to terminate the user extraordinary without prior notice with immediate effect and to block or delete the account of the user. For Stefan Trost Media, an important reason is especially, if the user violates or has violated these Terms of Use, third party rights or applicable law. In this case, Stefan Trost Media is entitled to exclude the user from any use of AskingBox immediately and for the future. After such an extraordinary termination for important reason, the user is not allowed to register again without the consent of Stefan Trost Media.

(3) If the user has not used his account for more than 6 months, Stefan Trost Media reserves the right, to block or delete the account without notifying the user.

(4) The user can terminate at any time and with immediate effect by using the function "Delete Account". A termination can not be undone.

(5) Contributions of former users are assigned to the account “Ancient”. This account has the name „Ancient“ on www.askingbox.com, „Ehemalige“ on www.askingbox.de, „Antiguo“ on es.askingbox.com and „Ancien“ on fr.askingbox.com. This assignment can not be undone. Contributions can then no longer be associated with the respective previous user and the user can no longer edit his old contributions after the deletion of his account. So, contributions from former users accordingly are labeled with the username „Ancient“, „Ehemalige“, „Antiguo“ or „Ancien“. Alternatively, the name of the former user can also be retained for all or individual posts, if the name of the former user is a fantasy name, the name does not allow any conclusions to the former user and the retention of the name does not violate the current data protection law.

(6) In case of termination (regardless of which party has terminated and for which reason), blocking and / or other ending of the use of AskingBox, the Sections VI (Indemnity / Liability and Responsibility of the User), VII (Liability and Warranty), X (Copyrights and Rights of Use), XII (Confidentiality), XVI (Applicable Law and Contract Language), as well as the Paragraphs 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Section V (Contributions) remain valid.

XV. Change of AskingBox and these Terms of Use

(1) Stefan Trost Media reserves the right to change and / or to supplement these Terms of Use in the future, for example to regard changes of AskingBox, changes of the services and functions, changes in the legislation or loopholes in the regulation. Stefan Trost Media will inform the user about a change of the Terms of Use on the start page of his account. The change of the Terms of Use takes effect 30 days after the date on which the proposed change was notified. If the user does not agree with the changes, he must terminate by using the function "Delete Account". If the user does not terminate and the user continues using AskingBox, he thereby accepts the changed Terms of Use.

(2) Stefan Trost Media can change, enhance and / or remove the services and functions of AskingBox technically and substantially according to own visions and / or adapt them to changes in the user behavior.

(3) Stefan Trost Media reserves the right to offer particular or all contents, functions or services of AskingBox fee-based in the future or to integrate additional fee-based contents, functions or services in AskingBox.

(4) The user will be informed timely about changed fee-based contents, functions or services that affect him. Also in the case of such a change, the user has at any time the right to terminate by using the function “Delete Account”. Thus, also in the event that contents, functions or services, the user has used before, become fee-based, the user does not enter into any obligation to continue using them. If the user neither terminates nor pays for an offer, he has used before and that is fee-based now, the respective offer is disabled for the user or the user is terminated by Stefan Trost Media.

(5) Stefan Trost Media reserves the right to cease or temporarily disable AskingBox and / or all or particular contents, functions or services at any time and without giving reasons.

XVI. Applicable Law and Contractual Language

(1) This contract and the use of AskingBox are subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany and must be construed in accordance with this law, without giving principles of conflicts of law any effect.

(2) The contractual language and the legal language is German.

(3) The exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with AskingBox and this contract is the competent court of the city of Bottrop, Germany, if you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law or your residence or your habitual residence is not in Germany or you have transferred your residence or your habitual residence after conclusion of this contract abroad, or in the case that your residence or habitual residence is not known at the date, the complaint is filed.

(4) Excluded is the applicability of statutory conflict rules and the Agreement between the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The application of these provisions is explicitly excluded.

(5) With respect to the interpretation or construing of this contract, particularly in cases of conflict, only the German version of this contract is valid. This applies, even if Stefan Trost Media has provided a translation into another language. Translations into another language are only a service for Users which are not German-speaking.

XVII. General Provisions

(1) These Terms of Use contain the entire contract between the contracting parties concerning the subject matter hereof and replace all previous versions of these Terms of Use.

(2) If provisions or individual formulations of this Contract are found void or unenforceable in whole or in part or provisions of this Contract will lose their legal effect or feasibility, the validity of the remaining provisions of this Contract are not affected. The same applies to loopholes in this Contract.

(3) Not exercising or not immediately exercising a right or an appeal from this contract does not constitute any renunciation of the corresponding right or appeal or of other rights or appeals.

(4) The partial enforcement of rights or appeals does not rule out a further enforcement of rights or appeals or the enforcement of additional rights or appeals.

(5) The rights and the appeals resulting from this contract are cumulative, not alternative.

(6) A company-law relationship or a joint venture is not justified by this contract. A sales representative relationship does not arise due to this contract. No party is accredited or in another way authorized to bind the other party by contract beyond this contract or to conclude contracts on behalf of the other party.

(7) For the purpose of contract compliance and thus to provide the contractually performances owed by Stefan Trost Media, Stefan Trost Media can also make use of third parties.

(8) Please report violations of these Terms of Use via our contact form on askingbox.com/contact. Please provide all necessary information such as in particular the allegation, the respective page, the respective contribution or content as well as the respective user or violator, so that we can deal the case. Separate rules apply to the reporting of suspected copyright infringements. These are described in the imprint of AskingBox.

(9) Answers to some common questions about AskingBox, you can also find in the portal “About AskingBox” on AskingBox. Feel free to also post your own questions about AskingBox, there.

(10) Send any other questions, messages or notifications to us via the contact form on askingbox.com/contact or to the postal address stated in the imprint.

(11) The validity of this contract commences on the date on which the User has agreed to the contract by the possibilities mentioned above.

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