General terms and conditions (GTC)

These terms and conditions ("Terms", "Agreement") are an agreement between Website Operator ("Website Operator", "us", "we" or "our") and you ("User", "you" or "your"). This Agreement sets forth the general terms and conditions of your use of the https://sebastianknoll.net/photo website and any of its products or services (collectively, "Website" or "Services").

Cookies:

Cookies are small pieces of data stored in text files that are saved on your computer or other devices when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to remember you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a "session cookie") or for multiple repeat visits (using a "persistent cookie"). Session cookies are temporary cookies that are used during the course of your visit to the Website, and they expire when you close the web browser. Persistent cookies are used to remember your preferences within our Website and remain on your desktop or mobile device even after you close your browser or restart your computer. They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for you while visiting our Website or using our Services. Cookies may be set by the Website ("first-party cookies"), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website ("third party cookies"). These third parties can recognize you when you visit our website and also when you visit certain other websites.

Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies allow us to offer you the best possible experience when accessing and navigating through our Website and using its features. For example, these cookies let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access the content.

Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies let us operate the Website and our Services in accordance with the choices you make. For example, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized the Website and Services during future visits.

Analytical cookies
These cookies enable us and third-party services to collect aggregated data for statistical purposes on how our visitors use the Website. These cookies do not contain personal information such as names and email addresses and are used to help us improve your user experience of the Website.

Social media cookies
Third-party cookies from social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc) let us track social network users when they visit our Website, use our Services or share content, by using a tagging mechanism provided by those social networks. These cookies are also used for event tracking and remarketing purposes. Any data collected with these tags will be used in accordance with our and social networks’ privacy policies. We will not collect or share any personally identifiable information from the user.

If you don't like the idea of cookies or certain types of cookies, you can change your browser's settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. To learn more about how to do this or to learn more about cookies, visit internetcookies.org Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or do not accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features our Website and Services offer.

Image/Video Licensing:

All images and videos displayed on this site are copyrighted and may not be used without the express consent of the respective owner.

Private use:
However, until further notice, one can use the images and videos for personal use only.

Commercial use:
In general, commercial use won't be repudiated either after consultation with the owner.

Additional publications:
Several images and videos were additionally published on the internet (by myself) for which softened conditions may hold.

To contact the owner you can use the contact-formu, the link 'original' on the corresponding image/video or write an E-mail to photo@sebastianknoll.net.

Links to other websites:

Although this Website may be linked to other websites, we are not, directly or indirectly, implying any approval, association, sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation with any linked website, unless specifically stated herein. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, products, services, and content of any other third-parties. You should carefully review the legal statements and other conditions of use of any website which you access through a link from this Website. Your linking to any other off-site websites is at your own risk.

Advertisements:

During use of the Website, you may enter into correspondence with or participate in promotions of advertisers or sponsors showing their goods or services through the Website. Any such activity, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such activity, is solely between you and the applicable third-party. We shall have no liability, obligation or responsibility for any such correspondence, purchase or promotion between you and any such third-party.

User content:

We do not own any data, information or material ("Content") that you submit on the Website in the course of using the Service. You shall have sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability, appropriateness, and intellectual property ownership or right to use of all submitted Content. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor Content on the Website submitted or created using our Services by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Website does not grant us the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the Content created by you or stored in your user account for commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant us permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, display and perform the Content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, we have the right, though not the obligation, to, in our own sole discretion, refuse or remove any Content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any of our policies or is in any way harmful or objectionable.

Changes and amendments:

We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or its policies relating to the Website or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Agreement on the Website. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Website. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. Policy was created with WebsitePolicies.

Acceptance of these terms:

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement and agree to all its terms and conditions. By using the Website or its Services you agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Agreement, you are not authorized to use or access the Website and its Services

Refund

Consumers/buyers have a right of withdrawal according to the provisions stated in the next paragraph. Thereby, a consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for the purposes which are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed can be attributed to.

As a consumer, you have the right to cancel a contract within 14 days of entering into it without giving any reasons. The cancellation period starts from the day you or a third party named by you, who is not the carrier, took possession of the last goods. To exercise your right of cancellation, you must inform DI Sebastian Knoll, Burgfriedstraße 60, 5204 Straßwalchen, Austria, or send an email to refund@sebastianknoll.net. You need to state your decision to revoke the contract clearly. To meet the cancellation period deadline, you just need to send the notification of your exercise of the right to cancel before the end of the cancellation period.

In case you decide to cancel the contract, we will refund you all payments we have received from you, including delivery costs, except for additional costs that may arise if you choose to use a different delivery method than the standard one offered by us. The refund will be made immediately and at the latest within fourteen days from the day we receive notification of your cancellation of the contract. We will use the same payment method that you used initially, unless you expressly agree otherwise with us. You will not be charged any fees for this refund. However, we may refuse to refund you until we receive the goods back or until you provide evidence that you have sent the goods back, whichever happens first.

After you cancel the contract, you need to return or give us the goods back within fourteen days. The deadline will be considered met if you send the goods before the fourteen-day period ends. You will be responsible for paying for the direct costs of returning the goods. If the nature of the goods makes it impossible for them to be returned by post, the estimated cost of forwarding them is up to 80 euros. You will only be liable for any decrease in the value of the goods if the loss in value is due to handling that goes beyond what is necessary to determine the nature, characteristics, and functioning of the goods.

Legal disclosure:

We will disclose any information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger or acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your user account, and personal data will likely be among the assets transferred.

Information security:

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal Information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and our Website cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third-party, despite best efforts.

Newsletter:

We offer electronic newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe at any time. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting us. However, you will continue to receive essential transactional emails.

Data protection:

Our website's data protection declaration provides you with important information about how we process data. We only collect and process personal data in accordance with legal provisions such as the General Data Protection Regulation and Telecommunications Act 2003. When you visit our website, we record your IP address as well as the start and end of your session.

If you get in touch with us, either through the contact form on our website or via E-mail, we will store the information you provide for six months so that we can process your request or follow up with any additional questions. Your data will never be shared with anyone without your explicit consent.

To ensure a smooth purchasing process and to process the contract, the web shop operator collects and stores certain information about you. This includes your IP address, name, address, email, telephone number, payment information and credit card. Additionally, we require your name, address, email, and telephone number for contract processing. Without this information, it wouldn't be possible to conclude a contract. We do not share your data with third parties except for the processing of payment data (credit card information) with the payment service providers, the shipping company or our tax advisor for tax obligations. Rest assured that your information is safe with us.

If you decide to cancel your shopping process, all the data we have collected from you will be deleted. However, if a contractual agreement is reached between us, we will store all the data related to our agreement until the tax retention period (which is seven years) expires. Additionally, we will store your name, address, purchased goods, and date of purchase until the end of the product liability period, which is 10 years. Please note that data processing is carried out in compliance with the legal provisions of Section 96 Paragraph 3 TKG and Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit a (consent) and/or lit b (necessary for contract fulfillment) of the GDPR.

Google Fonts
Our website uses fonts from “Google Fonts”. The service provider of this service is:

Google Ireland Limited Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4. Ireland

When accessing this website, your browser loads and caches fonts. As a visitor, Google may analyze cookies saved on your computer.

The use of Google Fonts is necessary for uniform content display and optimization of our service, representing a legitimate interest under Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR.

Further information about Google Fonts can be found at the following link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq.

Further information about how Google handles user data can be found in the data protection declaration: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

Google also processes the data in the USA, but has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework

Server-Log Files
This website and associated providers automatically collect information through server log files when using the website.

  • IP-Adress and hostname
  • used browser
  • Length of stay on the website as well as date and time
  • Pages of the website accessed
  • Language settings and operating system
  • “Leaving page” (on which URL did the user leave the website)
  • ISP (Internet Service Provider)

This information is not processed in a personally identifiable manner. However, the website operator reserves the right to evaluate or check this data if illegal activities come to light.

Your rights as a subject
As a data subject, you generally have the right to:

  • Information
  • Deletion of data
  • Correction of data
  • Data portability
  • Revocation and objection to data processing

If you suspect that your data protection rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with us (legal@sebastianknoll.net) or the data protection authority.

Collection of personal and non-personal information:

We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you create an account, publish content, fill any online forms on the Website. When required this information may include your email address, name, phone number, address, credit card information, bank information, or other Personal Information. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the Website's features. Users who are uncertain about what information is mandatory are welcome to contact us.

When you visit the Website our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device's IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Website, pages of our Website that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on our Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.