Verner Panton – Official

GENERAL TERMS OF BUSINESS REGARDING THE USE OF THE WEBSITE WWW.VERNER-PANTON.COM – VERSION 10/2007

1. Application

As a user of the website www.verner-panton.com and all websites and internet offers from Verner Panton Design connected with it, you accept the following general terms of business as well as the exclusions of warranty and liability outlined below. Verner Panton Design expressly reserves the right to change, supplement, delete the website in whole or part without notice, or to delete the entire domain.
If any individual part of these general terms of business does not comply with application legislation in whole or part either now or in the future, this will not affect the content and validity of the remaining part of the general terms of business.

2. Use of the website www.verner-panton.com

The website www.verner-panton.com is the official reference portal on the life and work of the designer and architect Verner Panton. In addition to biographical details and the artistic development of Verner Panton, the website contains important archive material and information on the sale of articles by Verner Panton in auctions as well as current production by a range of manufacturers.
As user you accept that the contents of the website www.verner-panton.com, in particular text, image, video and sound materials of all kinds as well as the names of manufacturers and auction houses, are protected by copyright, patent, brand, trademark, design, company and/or other legislation. Users are not allowed, either for their own commercial purposes or those of others, to copy, use, sell, distribute, publish the contents of www.verner-panton.com or to use them for any other purpose. In particular users are prohibited from changing or removing logos, brand names or information on product, design, names, companies and copyright, or any other part of the content.
Orders for press photos via the website www.verner-panton.com will be checked individually and where appropriate approved with any restrictions which are communicated. Verner Panton Design reserves the right to reject enquiries regarding the use of press photos without giving any reason, or to approve such use strictly only with any restrictions which are imposed.

3. Exclusion of liability and warranty

Verner Panton Design accepts no responsibility for content and links to the websites of third parties or for the functioning of such websites. In particular Verner Panton Design accepts no liability for the correctness and prices of articles by Verner Panton in auctions or for the fact that any articles displayed by Verner Panton are in production or available at any specific time. The exclusion of liability for links to outside websites also applies when the links are commented on. In including links to outside websites Verner Panton Design has checked that such sites do not contain illegal content. However, Verner Panton Design has no influence on the continuing development of such websites and expressly distances itself from any illegal content.

4. Data protection

The personal data of users which is recorded as part of the information services provided by www.verner-panton.com will be saved and processed by Verner Panton Design. Verner Panton Design will use the data to provide users with the requested information and to improve its own services by evaluating user data and the way the website is used.
Verner Panton Design assures users that all personal data will be treated in confidence, not made accessible to third parties and that Swiss legislation on data protection will be complied with. Data will be transferred to third parties only in cases where this is explicitly referred to when the data is recorded (e.g. when a product or catalogue enquiry is made to a specific manufacturer).

5. Applicable law and place of jurisdiction

The use of the website www.verner-panton.com is exclusively subject to Swiss law. The sole place of jurisdiction for any disputes arising from the use of the website www.verner-panton.com is Basle, Switzerland.

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