Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Welcome to our website! You will find information and services on our enterprises, brands and products and beyond that, you will be given the opportunity to communicate. We wish you an informative and entertaining stay at our pages. Please make sure that you have understood and agreed on the following conditions:

All rights concerning design or contents of this website will remain with us. Copying or downloading the website or parts of it is allowed only for private use, unless we invite you to proceed differently. In any case, the public or commercial use of our contents or parts of them is prohibited, unless you have our express permission.

The internet offers public access and enables unauthorized third parties to influence its contents. Thus, the internet includes risks that are beyond our control. By using the internet you have to bear these risks and the possible consequences resulting from their realisation. Under no circumstances you can assert any claims against us. Through our websites you may not take part in any activities that violate a third party’s right, infringe laws or regulations or interfere with others using the internet or our website. We will reserve the right to remove any insertions or other information originating with you from our websites without giving reasons, if there is any reason to believe that they infringe these principles.

We carefully select the information at your disposal. However, we do not assume any liability for the correctness of the information on our website. This information is presented for marketing purposes only and is not binding. Nor do we give any assurances concerning its use or any resulting consequences. This applies also to other websites or web pages referred to by links or hyperlinks. The liability for external contents is restricted to the legal regulations. The installation of links or hyperlinks leading to our website, web pages or any of their contents is only permitted with our explicit consent.

These terms of use and the service use follow German law. For qualified merchants Hamburg is the only place of jurisdiction for claims arising from the service use or being connected with it.

Privacy Policy

Laurens Spethmann Holding Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG takes its obligations with regard to protecting your personal information very seriously. With this declaration on data security, we would like to inform you about the methods that we use for protecting your privacy on the Internet. As a corporation established under private law, we are subject to the regulations of the Federal German Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act(TMG). We guarantee that the regulations for data security and the protection of privacy are observed by our staff and by external service providers.

Personal data include information about you, which can be used for establishing your identity. The BDSG legislation does not make a differentiation between "unimportant" and "important" personal information. Also such (possibly publicly available) information as your name and your address is considered personal data, and is subject to the protective regulations of the above-mentioned laws. You can use the webpages of our company without revealing your identity. Whenever you register for one of our services (such as the transmission of our newsletters, participation in a lottery, etc.), we only request the information that is necessary for providing the requested service. Your information is also only used for that purpose.

If you should solicit for a position with us, then we guarantee that the information that you provide will be handled confidentially and in conformity with the legal obligations for the protection of your personal information and privacy. Online applications please send exclusively to the following address: jobs@lsh-ag.de. Please remember that online applications made by you may possibly be viewed and changed by third parties during transmission.

Your personal information is processed and used exclusively within the Laurens Spethmann Holding Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, and such information is not provided to third parties without your express consent. In particular, your data is not sold or let. If data should be provided to external service providers (for instance for processing ordering data), then such third parties are bound to the observance of the legal requirements of data security and privacy protection, as well as to the provisions of this declaration on data security.

To the extent that we are required by law or a court order, your personal data may be transmitted to governmental and private instances that are entitled to receive such information. We furthermore reserve the right to transmit your personal data to third persons without your consent, in those instances where this may be necessary for protecting ourselves against attacks that constitute a criminal act, or acts that are suitable for preventing or impairing the functionality of our Internet pages. Children and minors under 18 years of age should not transmit personal information to us, without the permission of their parents or a legal guardian.

Personal information that has been provided to us can be recalled at any time. In such an event, your personal data will be immediately deleted. A request for the deletion of your personal data can be sent per e-mail to info@lsh-ag.de. Insofar as we may be legally obliged to store your personal data, such data will not be deleted and only blocked, in the event of a recall. Your data will continue to be stored on our systems in such an event. However, these data will not be processed or used by us, and they will be automatically deleted after the compulsory period of retention has terminated.

"Cookies" are small files that make it possible to store user-specific information on your PC, while you are a visiting one of our Internet pages. Cookies help us in detecting the frequency of use and the number of users of our Internet pages, while also making the use of our offers as comfortable and as efficient as possible for you. We exclusively use so-called temporary cookies, which are automatically deleted as soon as you quit our webpages, or when you have not made any entries for a longer period of time.

Some of our Internet pages contain links to other Internet sites. We are not responsible for the content and the data security declarations of those sites. We therefore recommend that you inform yourself about the data security regulations of those sites, before making use of their offers.

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments on the subject of data security, you may contact our authorised representatives for data security, PrivCom Datenschutz GmbH in Hamburg. Please take up contact by e-mail or telephone under: info@privcom.de.; +49 (0)40-48 40 90 10.

Last changed: October 2007