Source: https://www.klueber.com/en/service/klueber-lubrication-extranet/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 20:39:05+00:00

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1. Klüber Lubrication München SE & Co. KG (hereinafter referred to as "KLM") offers on the internet (under https://extranet.klueber.com) solely for business associates (suppliers, customers, sales partners and project partners) information in electronic form (hereinafter referred to as "Extranet").
2. These General Standard Terms and Conditions (abbreviated in German and hereinafter referred to as "AGBs") apply for all information provided by KLM on the Extranet at any time, in particular for information in the categories of sales promotion material, data sheets, product applications, discussion forums and corporate news.
3. The legal relations with KLM shall be governed by the version of these AGBs valid on the date when the agreement was signed. Alterations shall be governed by § 9.
1. "Partners" are all suppliers, customers, sales partners or project partners of the Klüber Group (hereinafter referred to as "KL") which KLM has registered for the Extranet services.
2. "Administrators" are the staff at KLM who enter, alter and delete utilization authorizations for partners.
3. "Users" are the partner's staff who have been authorized by the administrators to utilize the Extranet services.
4. "Extranet data" are all access data, contract data, transaction data, company profile data, other data and registration data as defined in Paragraphs 5 to 9 below.
5. "Contract data" are master data required for establishing, formulating or altering the contractual relationship with the customer regarding use of the KLM Extranet services.
6. "Company profile data" are the data which the partner enters as his own description of his company, his products and his services.
7. "Registration data" are contract data and company profile data.
8. "Access data" consist of user name and password or other features with which the users log onto the Extranet services.
9. "Other data" are the data described in § 1 Para. 2.
10. "Transaction data" and "routing data" plus "reporting data" are the data which are electronically recorded automatically as log files when the Extranet services are utilized.
KLM shall provide the partner with the contractually agreed Extranet services.
The precise scope of the individual services shall be detailed in the performance descriptions, including the security and operating concept involved.
The performance descriptions, and the security and operating concept, shall not be construed as dependent or independent guarantee undertakings from KLM.
For utilizing the Extranet services, KLM grants the partner a simple, non-transferable right, limited to the term of the utilization agreement, to use the information and data provided by KLM.
The fundamentally targeted availability of the Extranet services shall be governed by the performance descriptions, including the security and operating concept. A legal duty to perform on the part of KLM cannot be derived herefrom. If the specified level of availability is not reached, the partner shall not be entitled to any claims whatsoever, irrespective of the legal grounds involved.
KLM is the technical service provider for the purveyance and communication of Extranet data. KLM shall not be responsible for the correctness of the data provided by the partner on the Extranet.
KLM shall not be obligated to provide its services as detailed under Paragraphs 1 to 3 of this section if such performance becomes impossible for KLM or its vicarious agents by reason of force majeure such as labor disputes, natural disasters, war or similarly comparable unforeseeable events lying outside the responsibility of KLM.
KLM shall be entitled, but not obligated to check the partner's registration data by obtaining data from the partner himself or from third parties.
KLM may demand documentary evidence of the authority granted to each subscriber registered by the partner concerned. KLM shall be entitled to refuse registration for objectively justified reasons, particularly if a prospective user states incorrect or misleading registration data or there is evidence pointing to violations of current international, European or national statute law.
KLM shall be entitled for the term of the agreement to utilize the company profile and business data, the brands and logos for the purposes necessary to fulfill the agreement, in particular to duplicate, to translate and to communicate data and information. Domain names, name brands, image brands and trademarks of KL are legally protected. All other brands or logos appearing in the services of KLM shall not be the intellectual property of KLM. The rights of the owners involved shall remain reserved. KLM reserves all property and utilization rights to the present and future design of the Extranet services.
KLM will disable access to illegal contents as soon as it becomes aware of them, particularly in the event of a violation as detailed in § 5 Para. 8 (prohibition on impermissible contents).
KLM shall be entitled to bar partners from using particular Extranet services on a temporary or permanent basis if despite a written warning specifying the violation involved they violate their contractual obligations, particularly those dealt with in § 5. Notification by email shall in this context satisfy the requirement for the written form.
3. immediate access disablement has been ordered by a government agency.
After termination of the breach of duty by the partner, KLM will reverse the access disablement, if no further breaches are to be expected from the partner involved.
Each partner must register before using the Extranet. For this purpose, KLM records registration data. The partner shall be obligated to state the registration data correctly and completely, to update them immediately with any changes involved, and to notify KLM thereof. Registration shall as a rule take effect when KLM enables the agreed Extranet services for the customer on the basis of a signed agreement.
The partner shall be obligated to comply with these AGBs.
The partner may appoint as users only natural persons with appropriate specialist knowledge. He must grant them powers of representation for issuing and accepting declarations of intention in his name.
The partner shall be obligated to provide the Extranet data for KLM in the specified formats, by using the interfaces provided for this purpose.
The partner shall be obligated to himself provide the entire equipment and technology required for utilizing the KLM Extranet. This shall apply particularly to all requisite devices, data transmission lines, telecommunication services, and the acquisition of browsers and the use of encryption procedures. The partner must conclude the relevant agreements with third parties in his own name, and ensure compliance with the applicable international, European and national laws and regulations.
The technical requirements shall be governed by the performance descriptions of the KLM Extranet. The partner shall himself bear the costs and other burdens involved here.
The partner may not manipulate the Extranet services in any way.
In particular, the partner must not make any entries or transfer any data which contain or may contain viruses, Trojan Horses or comparable executable program codes, and/or are suitable for damaging, viewing, intercepting, forwarding or erasing data or systems, or provide unauthorized persons with access to data, systems or areas. The partner must not use mechanisms, software or other routines which may disturb or overload KLM's Extranet services.
The partner shall be obligated to pass on access data only to those users whom the partner has registered with KLM. Access data must be protected from cognizance, from access and from use by third parties. This shall in particular apply for employees of the partner who have not been named as users. Actions involving utilization of a user's access data shall be construed as actions of the user concerned, and will be assigned to the partner involved. This shall not apply if the partner is able to prove that he has complied with the requirements of Sentences 1 to 3.
Those contents shall be deemed impermissible which violate legal regulations, particularly infringe criminal laws or public morals, especially contents which infringe copyrights, patents, brands, business secrets or other industrial property rights, personal rights or data protection rights of third parties, or violate provisions of competition law.
The partner shall be obligated to inform KLM immediately after discovering specific indications that one of the duties detailed under Paragraphs 6 to 8 above is being breached.
The partner must not alter, publish, transfer, or participate in the transfer or sale of the Extranet services of KLM or parts thereof, nor store or duplicate them, nor produce, distribute, or display contents derived from them, nor commercially exploit the services and information in any other way. The partner undertakes not to violate the rights of other partners or other third parties.
By concluding the written utilization agreement and the registration, the partner consents in advance to KLM's obtaining, processing and utilizing the data required solely for fulfilling the contractual purpose of the Extranet services involved.
If a customer refuses his consent as detailed in Sentence 1 of this paragraph, KLM shall immediately draw his attention to the consequences of such a refusal, in particular to the possibility of KLM not providing its contractual duties as detailed under § 4.
The partner shall be entitled at any time to obtain information on the data he has provided, to correct them, or to have them erased or access to them disabled by KLM.
If the partner wishes his data to be erased or access to them disabled, the arrangements detailed under § 6 Para. 2 Sentence 2 on refusal of consent shall apply correspondingly.
The details of how the Extranet data of the Extranet services involved are obtained, processed, utilized and communicated can be found in the security and operating concept of the Extranet-referenced performance description.
The contracting parties shall be mutually liable for loss or damage caused by them, their legal representatives or vicarious agents.
In the event of a breach of duty committed with intention or with gross negligence a breach of significant contractual duties (cardinal duties), injury to life or limb, damage to health or product liability claims, the contracting parties shall be mutually liable with no restriction.
In the event of a breach of duty committed by the contracting parties out of simple negligence, there shall be no liability for indirect loss or damage, such as lost profits and consequential loss or damage � also in the case of contractual partners of the contracting parties. This shall not apply if the preconditions laid down in Paragraph 2 are met.
In the event of a breach of duty committed by the contracting parties out of simple negligence, the liability shall be limited to the loss or damage typically foreseeable for the contracting parties in the context of KLM's Extranet operations. This shall not apply if the preconditions laid down in Paragraph 2 are met.
The contracting parties indemnify each other against liability in connection with all claims involving disputes with third parties arising from a breach of the contractual duties by the contracting parties concerned. The contracting parties shall inform each other immediately of any impending legal disputes.
d. KLM is increasing the scope of performance.
KLM shall announce alterations by means of individualized communication, pointing out the right of objection, in particular by email and on its Extranet website.
The partner can object to alterations which do not meet the criteria laid down in Para. 1, within a period of four weeks after announcement of the alterations concerned. If as the partner raises no objection during this four-week period, these alterations shall become operative.
If the partner, citing grounds in writing, objects within the four-week period to the alterations to these AGBs, specifying the clauses he finds unacceptable, the AGBs in their form valid on the date of signing the agreement shall continue to apply for the partner concerned.
If the partner, citing grounds in writing, objects to alterations in the scope of performance which are not permissible under the provisions of Paragraph 1 without his consent, he shall have the right to terminate the agreement in accordance with § 9 Para. 4.
KLM and partners hereby undertake to keep secret the information, empirical feedback, formulas, drawings, models, technical records, process methods and other technical and commercial know-how received from and/or learned from the other party (hereinafter referred to as "confidential information"), not to disclose them to third parties, and not to use this confidential information for a purpose other than the purpose of cooperation specified above.
d) was developed by the recipient or his employees autonomously and independently of any confidential information being communicated.
The parties undertake to disclose or make accessible the confidential information only to such employees and consultants who necessarily as a consequence of their involvement in the cooperation have to have knowledge of the confidential information concerned. The parties undertake to impose on such employees and consultants the obligation to maintain secrecy specified in Section 1 above, and to evidence this in writing to the other party on request.
The disclosure of confidential information and any handing over of corresponding documents shall not establish for the recipient concerned any rights whatsoever to industrial property rights, know-how or copyrights. The parties concur that the disclosure or communication of confidential information shall in no way establish prior printed publication or right of prior use within the meaning of German protection-of-inventions legislation (Patent- und Gebrauchsmustergesetz). No warranty is assumed for the correctness or completeness of the confidential information disclosed or rendered accessible. Unless otherwise agreed, no party shall be liable for ensuring that the confidential information is suitable for the purpose of this cooperation.
Unless otherwise specified, the contractual relationship shall begin with access being enabled by KLM.
The agreement is not tied to any fixed term.
KLM and the partner can terminate the contractual relationship at 4 weeks' notice.
The contracting parties shall be entitled to terminate the contractual relationship for good cause without first complying with a period of notice, if when taking into account all circumstances of the individual case involved and weighing up the interests of both parties, a continuation of the contractual relationship until its agreed end or expiry of the period of notice cannot reasonably be expected of the party wishing such termination.
For KLM, good cause shall in particular apply if a partner abuses the services of KLM, or seriously or repeatedly violates his contractual duties as laid down in § 5 Paras. 6 to 10. In the event of an operative termination without notice, KLM can disable access to the partner's data without having to comply with a period of notice and without prior notification.
Every notice of termination must be made in writing. Electronic documents without an authorized electronic signature within the meaning of the German Signature Act shall not be sufficient to be construed as written form.
When termination becomes operative, the contracting parties' performance duties shall end, apart from post-contractual duties such as surrender, deletion and access disablement of Extranet data.
The parties undertake, waiving all rights to legal appeal, to submit to arbitration all disputes arising between KLM and the partner in connection with the utilization agreement, its validity, and with provision of the Extranet services.
All disputes shall be finally decided in accordance with the rules of arbitration laid down by the Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. (DIS), admitting of no legal appeal.
The applicable substantive law shall be the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and conflicts between German and international private law. The place of arbitration shall be Munich, Germany. The language of the arbitration procedure shall be German.
The arbitration tribunal shall consist of an individual arbitrator appointed jointly by the contracting parties. If the parties have not reached agreement within a period of 15 working days from submission of the arbitration suit, each party may apply for the individual arbitrator to be appointed by the DIS Appointments Committee. The individual arbitrator has to be a qualified lawyer well-versed in IT legislation.
This agreement shall be governed solely by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sales of Goods and conflicts between German and international private law.
Place of performance for the services is the registered domicile of KLM.
Alterations and supplements to this agreement must be made in writing. This shall also apply to deviations from this written-form clause. Electronic documents without an authorized electronic signature within the meaning of the German Signature Act shall not be sufficient to be construed as written form.

References: § 9
 § 1
 § 5
 § 5
 § 4
 § 6
 § 9
 § 5