Terms of Service

Before you proceed to ILIAS you accept the following Terms of Service.

I. Subject

1. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH, Im Anwnder 24-26, DE-71549 Auenwald, operates an eLearning platform under the domain eAcademy.lorch.eu for the further training of dealers and employees regarding Lorch products.

 

2. This eLearning platform based on the open source software ILIAS.

 

3. The platform is directed exclusively at entrepreneurs within the meaning of 14 BGB and their employees; not at consumers.

 

II. Registration

1. For the participation and use of the eLearning platform a registration by the participant and a release of this registration by Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH is necessary, with which access data are left.

 

2. Participation possibility, access data and passwords are individual for each participant and linked to the activity at or with a dealer of Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH. Access data may not be passed on to other employees, not even within a company.

 

3. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH must be informed immediately of any loss/misuse of the access data and of any change of employer.

 

4. In case of a change of employer, the participant is not allowed to use the access data. In this case, a new registration is necessary for the new employer of the participant.

 

III. Design and modification rights of Lorch

1. The offer of the eLearning platform is currently free of charge. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH reserves the right to convert this free offer into a partly or completely paid offer. In the event of a change, the participant will be informed of this; he can decide whether he still wants to use the e-learning offer in the case of payment.

 

2. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH is entitled to unilaterally change the terms of use at any time. In this case, the participant will be informed of the changed terms of use the next time he uses the offer (login with his access data) and must accept them if he wishes to continue using the eLearning platform.

 

3. The dealer or participant has no right to permanent or future operation of the eLearning platform. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH may discontinue the eLearning platform in whole or in part at any time.

 

4. The trader or participant has no claim to availability or complete functionality of the platform at any time. Liability for damages caused by the complete or partial unavailability of the eLearning platform or its contents is excluded.

IV. Limited rights of use

The contents posted on the eLearning platform are regularly protected by special laws (e.g. copyright law). The user is not entitled to use the content in the eLearning platform outside the platform, to reproduce it in whole or in part, to make it publicly accessible and/or to publish it. In particular, the user may not post or publish the materials in whole or in part in social media or networks or forward them to third parties.

V. Contents of the user

1. Insofar as it is possible for the user to upload or generate his own content within the framework of the eLearning platform, the user guarantees that the uploaded content does not infringe the rights of third parties. This means that the contents do not infringe the copyrights, trademark rights, design rights or patent rights of third parties and that there is no violation of personal rights, e.g. by depicting persons on photos or inappropriate languages.

 

2. The user grants Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH a simple right to use such content within the framework of the eLearning platform. This right of use also includes the possibility for other participants of the eLearning platform to take note of these contents.

 

3. The customer is not permitted to post content that damages or destroys the eLearning platform or existing files or that causes existing information to be altered or spied on.

 

4. The posting of content with xenophobic, racist, political extremes, religious extremes, sexually offensive, violence glorifying and punishable content is prohibited. The same applies to the placement of advertising.

 

5. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH is entitled to delete contents that contradict the aforementioned principles at any time and without prior notice and/or to deactivate and/or delete the user's account.

 

VI Liability

1. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH is liable for damages only in case of intent and gross negligence. In the case of simple negligence, Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH shall only be liable for damages resulting from injury to life, body or health and for damages resulting from the violation of an essential contractual obligation, whereby in the latter case liability shall be limited to compensation for the foreseeable, typically occurring damage even taking into account at least daily data backups of the customer.

 

2 The provisions of the Product Liability Act shall remain unaffected.

 

3. Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH cannot assume any liability for the completeness and correctness of the contents provided. Neither is a backup of the user's data guaranteed.

 

VII Data Protection

In all other respects, reference is made to the data protection declaration https://www.lorch.eu/en/data-protection.

 

VIII. Arbitration of disputes

Lorch Schweitechnik GmbH is not prepared or obliged to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board in the sense of the Consumer Dispute Resolution Act.

 

IX. Choice of law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply. The provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply.