In order to use the services provided by us (the website "trackbib"), it is necessary that you agree to our terms of use. Please read them carefully and respect them when using our services.
We reserve the right to change the terms of use. The use of our services is always subject to the conditions that are in use while you are using one of the services we offer.
We try to keep the quality of the content provided by our services as high as possible. However, the content of the tracks provided on our website is generated by our users and therefore cannot be fully verified by us. For this reason, the tracks provided there can only be regarded as tour suggestions. Before carrying out a tour, each user must inform themselves about the current local conditions and the requirements of a track so that they can make their own decision regarding the feasibility of a tour. We accept no liability for any damage that may occur during or as a result of the tour.
If you discover legal violations of any kind, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will try to resolve them as quickly as possible.
Furthermore, we cannot guarantee the continuity of the services we provide. Therefore, we cannot accept any liability if data stored in our services is lost.
All disputes concerning one of the services we provide are subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany.
If any condition in our Terms of Use is invalid, the other conditions are not affected and remain valid.
Your personal data, as well as all other data you provide to us, is stored exclusively in encrypted form. We respect the principle of data minimization and only store the data necessary for the provision of our services.
The personal data collected will only be used to provide you with the services you have requested from us and for our own marketing purposes (newsletter) if you have given your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time in your user settings by deleting your account or unsubscribing from individual notifications and services. In addition, in every newsletter we send out, we offer you the option to cancel your subscription for future newsletters by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the footer.
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. If you use any service we provide that is performed by a third party and we need to share some of your personal data to provide that service, we will let you know in advance.
For more information on data protection, please read our Privacy Policy.
If you use our services, you accept that you will receive emails from us that are essential for the operation of our services. In your user settings, you can choose what kind of additional email notifications you would like to receive. You also agree to receive emails in order to conclude a contract.
The entire content of our services such as text, graphics, images, GPS tracks, logos, icons etc. belongs to us or third parties and is therefore protected by German copyright law. Quotations in the form of screenshots and text excerpts are permitted for non-commercial publications if they are properly marked. You are not permitted to publish parts of our services in any other form without our written consent.
The website trackbib, which is part of our provided services, is a specialized portal for the publication, presentation and sharing of GPS-based tours of all kinds. The copyright of tracks published on our platform is still held by their authors.
By creating a new track on our website, you as the author transfer to us unlimited and unrestricted rights of use for the data uploaded to the website or produced with it. This also includes the right to modify the uploaded data for presentation reasons in order to provide our services in the best possible way.
We reserve the right to publish the data stored in our services and made publicly accessible also in other places within the context of our services.
These rights granted can be revoked at any time by deleting the track from the website or no longer making it publicly accessible. In the event that data from your track has been published in the context of our services at other places, you allow us to continue to use this data there until it is removed or updated and replaced by new content.
If you use our services, you are responsible for ensuring that your access data (user name and password) are not disclosed to third parties. You must keep your password safe.
You must not damage or interrupt the services we provide. Likewise, it is forbidden to cheat, commit illegal crimes, insult people, spread fear or cause inconvenience with any of our services.
In this case, you agree to take full responsibility for your actions and to support our cooperation with the relevant authorities.
We reserve the right to delete or deactivate your account if it has been inactive for more than one year. We will inform you of this in advance to give you the opportunity to reactivate your account.
Furthermore, we cannot guarantee the constant availability of the data and services we offer. If they are not available due to technical problems or maintenance work, we apologize and hope you understand that we cannot take responsibility for the loss of data.
Please use a polite tone in your conversations. If you upload data to one of our services, make sure that you own all rights to this data and that no third party owns rights to these files. You also agree that you take full responsibility for this data. Possible data that can be uploaded by users are texts, images and GPS tracks. In addition, you guarantee that you have checked the links embedded by you in the textual descriptions of your tours for possible legal violations at the time of linking and that no illegal content was recognizable at that time. As soon as you become aware of legal violations on websites linked by you, you must immediately remove those links which were embedded by you.
We reserve the right to remove content that violates our Terms of Use. You also allow us to outsource certain steps in the processing of track data or the provision of our services to third parties in order to provide our services in the best possible way. If this is done in unencrypted form, we will inform you in advance.
A track downloaded from our website is intended as a tour suggestion for inspiration and private use only. You agree that you will inform yourself about current local laws and restrictions before you start a tour. You also agree to take these restrictions into account when planning and carrying out the tour and to follow them.