Terms of use

This Website is provided to you free of charge, "as is," by Matthias' Software Blog. You are only authorized to use this Website (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully. Matthias' Software Blog may contain links to other sites that might contain additional Terms of Use. Your use of any site shall also subject you to the Terms of Use of each of those sites. To the extent that the Terms of Use on any site conflicts with any terms and condition contained herein, the Terms of Use of such site shall hold.

Liability Disclaimer
The information, services and products available to you on this Website may contain errors and is subject to periods of interruption. While Matthias' Software Blog does its best to maintain the information, services and products it offers on the Website, it cannot be held responsible for any errors, defects, lost profits, or other consequential damages arising from the use of this Website.

MATTHIAS' SOFTWARE BLOG PROVIDES THE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. ALL EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

IN NO EVENT SHALL MATTHIAS' SOFTWARE BLOG BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, ARISING FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF MATTHIAS' SOFTWARE BLOG HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THIS WEBSITE, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY SHALL BE TO CEASE USING THE WEBSITE.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Matthias' Software Blog harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to, the violation of these terms and conditions by you, or the infringement by you, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. Matthias' Software Blog reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.

Copyrighted Information
The message on these Websites may contain material that has been copied from another individual or entity. Please contact us if you believe Matthias' Software Blog has posted copyrighted information on a message contained on these Websites.

Miscellaneous
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of U.S.. In the event that any portion of these terms and conditions is deemed by a court to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the messages contained on these Websites, or the use of these Websites, must be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action arose.

Privacy policy

Matthias' Software Blog regards privacy issues at the utmost seriousness. It is firmly commitment to the privacy of its users. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.pierschel.com, operated by Matthias' Software Blog, located in Dresden, Germany.

During the administration process of the Website, Matthias' Software Blog needs to gather some personal information, in order to personalize software registrations. Matthias' Software Blog respects and grants confidentiality for personal data collected over from its users at several different points on the Website. We are the sole owners of the information gathered within the Website www.pierschel.com. We shall not sell or rent this information to others in any way. We shall not share this information in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

The clauses of this policy are valid for all kinds of information gathered from Matthias' Software Blog users. This privacy policy informs you about the type of personal data that we may collect from you, the way we can use it and the way we protect it.

Information that I collect
Matthias' Software Blog may collect information from its users in two different ways: directly from the user and from traffic references of hosting servers. Information provided directly by the user: when you register a software provided by Matthias' Software Blog, I may ask you about your name, e-mail address or other personal data. Information from traffic references: when you visit a Website, you unveil certain information about you, such as your IP address, time of visit, place from which you accessed our Website. Matthias' Software Blog, like other operators, stores this information.

Matthias' Software Blog allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Matthias' Software Blog site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Matthias' Software Blog site. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

Matthias' Software Blog does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.

You need to acknowledge that, whenever you disclose information in public areas on the Website, such as comments or forums, that information becomes public and can easily be tracked and used by unauthorized persons. Although Matthias' Software Blog does its best in order to protect your personal data, I cannot entirely grant you its safety. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

How and when Matthias' Software Blog uses collected information
Matthias' Software Blog uses the information collected from you for several purposes, depending on the type of data collected:

• information provided directly by the user: this information is used only in order to register software licenses that I offer you and to check your identity;
• information from traffic references: this type of info help me to identify the parts of my site of most interest for you. Matthias' Software Blog also collects the IP addresses of its users, in order to safely manage the computer system;

How Matthias' Software Blog protects information collected from users
Matthias' Software Blog takes confidentiality very seriously. It does not offer your personal data to third parties without your explicit consent. Any statistics that Matthias' Software Blog may offer to advertisement networks does not include any personal identifying information about any individual user.

Unfortunately, no data transmission by means of internet can be 100% certain. As a consequence, despite my best effort to protect your personal data, Matthias' Software Blog cannot guarantee the safety of your information. Thus all kinds of transmission and transactions whatsoever are made at your own risk.

Still, Matthias' Software Blog can grant you that it makes the best efforts to ensure the safety of the systems, according to the security standards imposed by International standards. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The servers of Matthias' Software Blog have strict security in place to prevent intruders from retrieving personal information about my users.

Unsolicited communication
Matthias' Software Blog will not use your e-mail address in order to send you any kind of unsolicited or promotional mail.

Who has access to the information collected from you
As a rule, Matthias' Software Blog will never unveil any sort of personally identifiable information about any of its users, without their prior express consent. On the other hand, Matthias' Software Blog may unveil this kind of data when expressly permitted by law or when this measure is necessary in order to protect Matthias' Software Blog rights and interests.

As a conclusion, when you access Matthias' Software Blog Website and are asked to offer information about you, only Matthias' Software Blog will have access to them. However, you acknowledge that our site contains links to some partner sites. Matthias' Software Blog is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Websites.

Matthias' Software Blog may use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Website, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information.

Advertisements served by Google, as a third party vendor, use DART cookies. These cookies are used to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Children's Guidelines
This site gives children under the age of 18 the ability to publicly post or distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent. Please take proper measures if you do not wish your child to have access to public forums and message boards. As always, exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in a public forum.

If you feel that Matthias' Software Blog is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact Matthias' Software Blog. For any suggestions and comments regarding Matthias' Software Blog or our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

This Privacy Policy has been last updated on 14th of February 2014.

Contact Information
You can contact me about this privacy statement by writing or email me at the address below:

For service requests regarding a single program, please use the specially designated e-mail address in the online help of a program (Topic 'Feedback and contact') or in the document you are received during the registration process.