Terms and conditions

1. Scope

The use of this website owned by Westenergie AG ("Westenergie") is only permitted on the basis of these terms and conditions. They may, if necessary in a given case, be amended, modified or replaced by additional terms, e.g. in case of the purchase of goods and/or services. By using this website, the user agrees to the Terms and Conditions in their respective version.
 

2. Responsibility for Content

Westenergie publishes data and information on this website ("Content"). Westenergie tries to ensure that the Content on this website is accurate. However, Westenergie cannot assure that the Content provided is up-to-date, accurate and complete or that this website is available at all times. The Content does not constitute or replace an individual consultation. Westenergie reserves the right to change the Content of this website at any time. Therefore, every user of this website is required to review the Content before making a decision based on the Content.
Westenergie is responsible for its own Content on this website within the general legal principles.

Forward-looking Content
The Content on this website sometimes contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the views, expectations and assumptions of the management as of the date of writing and are based on information available to the management at that time. Forward-looking statements shall not be construed as an assurance of future results and developments and are subject to known and unknown risks. Actual results and developments may differ significantly from those described in such statements due to, among other things, changes in the general economic and competitive environment, risks associated with capital markets, currency exchange rate fluctuations, changes in international and national laws and regulations, in particular with respect to tax laws and regulations, affecting the Company, and other factors. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates assume any obligations to update any forward-looking statements.

Stock exchange data
The stock exchange data on the Westenergie website is provided by Quartal Flife AG. Westenergie cannot assure that this information and data is up-to-date, accurate and complete or that this website is available at all times.

Services offered by Westenergie, websites and services of third parties
Insofar as Westenergie offers services directly via this website, these general terms and conditions apply. If an affiliated company within the meaning of Sec. 15 et seq of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) offers its own services via this website, the general terms and conditions of that affiliated company apply.

This website provides links to websites of third parties. Westenergie is not responsible for content of those websites unless it considers that content to be its own. At the time of the inclusion of those links to third-party websites on the Westenergie website, their content was reviewed regarding the potential to cause a civil or criminal liability. However, it cannot be excluded that the content has been modified by the respective owner thereafter. Westenergie does not frequently review the content of these third-party websites with respect to changes that could lead to a liability. Should a user notice legal infringements on those third-party websites, Westenergie kindly asks that the user provide the corresponding information to Westenergie. If users access a third-party website through a link, they will be subject to the general terms and conditions of the third party. If users engage the services offered by the third party, contractual relationships arise exclusively between the respective third party and the user of this website.
 

3. No prospectus and no offer

The provision of the Content on this website is for general information purposes regarding Westenergie and the Westenergie group only. The information on this website does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Any offer will be made exclusively through and on the basis of a prospectus that must be published in Germany and Luxembourg and supplemented by additional information related to the offer outside of Germany and Luxembourg. The prospectus will be available free of charge at Westenergie, Brüsseler Platz 1, 45131 Essen as well as on the Company's website.

The Content does not constitute a prospectus or an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities in the United States. Any securities referred to herein have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or the laws of any state of the United States, and may not be offered, sold or otherwise transferred in the United States absent registration or pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act. Neither Westenergie nor one of its shareholders intends to register any securities referred to herein in the United States. 

No money, securities or other consideration is being solicited and will not be accepted.

The information on this website does not constitute an offer document or an offer of securities to the public in the U.K. to which section 85 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of the U.K. applies and should not be considered as a recommendation that any person should subscribe for or purchase any securities as part of an offer.
 

4. Copyright

All content and works created by Westenergie that are published on this website are protected by copyright. The use, reproduction, distribution, editing and any other type of utilisation of the content and works, in particular the use of texts, parts thereof or image material requires the explicit prior written consent of the copyright owners, subject to any legal stipulations. The text and image material offered explicitly in the "Image database" chapter is exempt from these stipulations.
The image copyright is owned by Westenergie, Stockphoto LP and Fotolia, unless stated otherwise.
 

5. Liability

Westenergie cannot be held liable for damages resulting from the use of this website or its Content (including stock exchange date). The exclusion does not apply to a liability of Westenergie, Westenergie's legal representatives, executives (leitende Angestellte) or persons whom Westenergie uses to perform its obligation (Erfüllungsgehilfe) according to the product liability law (Produkthaftungsgesetz), damage caused by intent or gross negligence, damages arising from injury to life, body and health, to a guarantee of quality, in case of fraudulent concealment of a defect (arglistiges Verschweigen eines Mangels) or to violations of essential contractual duties (Kardinalspflichten). If essential contractual duties are violated by slight negligence, Westenergie's liability is limited to such typical damages which are reasonably foreseeable to Westenergie at the time of the conclusion of the contract. Essential duties are those whose violation compromises the purpose of the contract or whose performance is essential to the execution of the contract.
 

6. Applicable law

Legal claims or disputes connected to this website or its use are subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

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