TERMS OF USE

for product reviews and post comments

The rating/comment system on www.alkmene.de is an offer of Mann & Schröder GmbH, Bahnhofstraße 14, 74936 Siegelsbach (hereinafter referred to as Mann & Schröder).
By submitting a product review/comment you accept the following terms and conditions. Do not submit a product review or comment if you do not wish to accept these terms. We reserve the right to revise these terms. Therefore, please read the Terms of Use each time you submit a product review or post comment.

A. Submitting a product review / post comment

The product rating function gives you the opportunity to rate individual products from Mann & Schröder. The product ratings reflect your own opinion and not that of Mann & Schröder GmbH. Mann & Schröder expressly distances itself from the content of these product reviews.
The comment function gives you the opportunity to comment on individual Mann & Schröder contributions. Comments on articles reflect your own opinion, experience or thoughts and not those of Mann & Schröder GmbH. Mann & Schröder expressly distances itself from the content of these comments.
When you submit a product review/comment, your name and e-mail address are transferred to Mann & Schröder. Instead of your real name you can also use a pseudonym (mandatory field). Your e-mail address will never be publicly visible. Mann & Schröder may use your e-mail address to contact you to verify the product review or post comment you have submitted.
The submission of a product review is done on the one hand by assigning stars. It is possible to give a product rating from one star up to five stars. One star is the worst rating, five stars correspond to the best rating. On the other hand, the product rating takes the form of a written contribution. For this you have an evaluation field at your disposal. You also have the option of uploading a picture, which is published with your comment and can be viewed by anyone who visits the corresponding page.
For the submission of a contribution comment, only one comment field is available to you, in which you can write a text.

B. Use of the product rating / the post comments

By submitting a product review/contribution comment, you transfer to Mann & Schröder the non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable right:

• to use, copy, revise, publish, translate, make available to third parties, distribute, make publicly available and reproduce the product review / contribution comment (in whole or in part) online as well as offline (e.g. in print media or catalogs), as well as to integrate it into other works of any form (media, technologies; already existing or those still being developed).

This means, for example and not conclusively, that Mann & Schröder may publish the product review/contribution comment and allow third parties to use the product reviews/contribution comments for advertising purposes (e.g. in its advertising or for marketing purposes).

 

C. Content of the product reviews / post comments

Product review and post comments must not have content that:

• is punishable by law or incites or encourages a criminal act;
• is unlawful;
• is threatening, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, defamatory, misleading, racist, discriminatory, glorifies violence, offensive, obscene or pornographic;
• infringes or violates the rights of third parties (including any intellectual property rights, e.g. copyrights, trademark rights);
• is technically harmful, e.g. contains malicious code;
• includes confidential data and/or violates or compromises the privacy of third parties;
  deceives others about your identity (especially by impersonating another person);
• is not truthful;
• serves to advertise other websites, products or services (among other things, it is not permitted to include telephone numbers, e-mail addresses or links);
• is off-topic: i.e. content that is not related to the actual product, e.g. experiences with certain dealers;
• is not based on the user’s own experience with the product / the contribution.