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Publisher
Carl-Otto Gensch
Öko-Institut e.V.
Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division
Merzhauser Str. 173
D - 79100 Freiburg
www.oeko.de

Web-Administration
Yifaat Baron
Öko-Institut e.V.
Sustainable Products & Material Flows Division,

Disclaimer

1. Content

The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness orquality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of anyinformation provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect,willtherefore be rejected. All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement.

2. Referrals and links

The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless he has full knowledge of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site fromviewing those pages. Ifany damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore the author is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on his page.

3. Copyright

The author intended not to use any copyrighted material for the publication or, if not possible, to indicatethe copyright of the respective object.

The copyright for any material created by the author is reserved. Any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the author's agreement.

4. Privacy policy

Thank you for visiting the ELV-Exemptions website and taking an interest in our work. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. This Privacy Statement explains what personal information we collect during your visit to our website

• Use and sharing of personal data

The personal data provided by you is logged solely for administrative purposes, e.g. to manage our list of stakeholders registered for receiving our notifications. We never pass on, sell or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties. When you send us an e-mail, your e-mail address is used solely for corresponding with you and for no other purpose.

• Security

The Oeko-Institut takes all the necessary technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss or misuse. Users who contact the Oeko-Institut by e-mail are made aware that the confidentiality of information contained in non-encrypted e-mails cannot be guaranteed.

• Your rights

You can contact us at any time to request information about your stored data. If the personal information we hold is inaccurate, you may ask for it to be corrected. You may also withhold consent to the use of your data or ask for it to be deleted. We will notify you if your personal information is affected by a data leak or a breakdown in data security. You may also file a complaint with the regulator (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for Baden-Württemberg: https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/).

• Amendment of the Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time, should this become necessary in light of new technological developments or changes in the law.

Visitors to our website and all interested persons can obtain further information about data protection at the Oeko-Institut from:

Silvia Schütte
Data Protection Officer, Oeko-Institut e.V.
Darmstadt Office
Phone +49 6151 8191-134
Fax +49 6151 8191-133
datenschutz(at)oeko.de

5. Legal validity of this disclaimer

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.