Our website, whose address is URL http://www.edding-funtastics.com, is a gratis online information service that offers gratis prize contests. This service is operated by and the prizes are offered to you by edding International GmbH (hereinafter referred to as "edding"), whose address is Bookkoppel 7, D-22926 Ahrensburg, Germany.

The present terms and conditions of participation apply to all users who participate in any edding prize contest (hereinafter referred to as the "Contest"). Any user who wishes to participate in the Contest is required to register. Said registration is realised by entering the correct information in the fields that are marked mandatory.

Any natural person may participate in the Contest, insofar as allowed by law. Participation in the Contest is excluded for any edding employee or any relative of any edding employee.

Valid participation in the Contest under the terms hereof on the part of any user who is under 18 years of age at the time of participation is subject to the prior consent of one parent or a legal representative (hereinafter referred to as "Consent"). edding shall be entitled to verify Consent. Any Consent shall also constitute consent for edding to use, free of charge and subject to the General Terms of Use, all documentation submitted by the user.

Participation in the Contest by any user with a duplicate data set shall be excluded, as is participation via any type of automated participation or any other automatic mechanism. In the case of (a) any knowing multiple participation by any unique individual person; or (b) any form of automated participation, edding shall be entitled to take legal steps against the user concerned and the party that caused the attendant registrations to be effected.

Participation in the Contest is free of charge.

The deadline for participation is the __________ of each month.

Winners shall be determined via a prize drawing. Any litigation in respect to such prize drawing and any cash payment of any winnings shall be excluded. Winners will be notified by postal mail or by e-mail. Within one week following receipt of such notification, the user concerned shall indicate to edding via a postal letter or e-mail the user's full postal address and whether or not the user accepts the prize. Insofar as the user concerned fails to meet the aforementioned deadline, edding shall be entitled to determine a new winner and give the prize to another user. In such a case, any claim for loss or injury against edding on the part of the initially notified winner shall be excluded.

By registering, you accept the terms and conditions hereof, the General Terms and Conditions, and the Data Privacy Disclaimer.

The Contest shall also be governed by the General Terms of Use.

These General Terms of Use apply to all content on the website whose address is http://www.edding-funtastics.com (hereinafter referred to as the "Website") and for which the following company is responsible: edding International GmbH (hereinafter referred to as "edding"); address: Bookkoppel 7, D-22926 Ahrensburg, Germany. We reserve the right to modify these General Terms of Use at any time, insofar as such modification is necessitated by any change in the content offered on the Website or by any change in any relevant statute or regulation. You hereby state that you accept (a) any such change; and (b) that the most recent version of these General Terms of Use that can be called up at the time of use of the Website is the valid version.

The Website offers users various articles and a range of information on selected topics.

Any edding liability toward any user for the accuracy, completeness, reliability and/or suitability of Website content shall be excluded. The lodging of any liability claim of any kind whatsoever against edding for any loss or injury arising from any erroneous, incomplete or unsuitable Website content shall be excluded.

Any right to use of the Website or any claim in this regard shall be excluded. The Website or any portion thereof may be temporarily inaccessible or inoperable owning to a technical failure or fault.

Although edding takes and will take all relevant necessary measures, edding cannot exclude the possibility that use of the Website may result in loss or injury owing to circumstances such as third-party misuse for the purpose of spreading computer viruses. Any edding liability for any software or hardware loss or damage arising from Website use shall be excluded, except insofar as such loss or damage is attributable to any gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of edding. In the case of any loss or exceeding the scope of the foregoing and involving injury to life, limb or health, edding liability's shall not be excluded in the event such liability is attributable to any gross negligence on the part of edding.

Any edding liability for any direct or indirect links on the Website shall be excluded, except insofar as (a) edding has knowledge of any prohibited content in respect to linked information; and (b) it would have been reasonable and technically feasible for edding to forestall use in the case of such prohibited content. Liability for any farther reaching content, and notably any liability for the use of prohibited content, shall be incurred solely by the operator of the linked page concerned to the exclusion of any edding liability for such content, while the Website links solely serve to indicate the existence of the web pages concerned. edding does not and shall not make the content of any third-party website edding's proprietary content and can accept no responsibility for any unlawful content that is accessible via linked information.

All texts, graphics, and other elements that are published on or within the context of the Website are protected by copyright. The Website content is intended solely for personal and non-commercial use within the context of such Site. Any infringement in this regard may subject you to civil and/or criminal prosecution.

You shall, upon first request, hold edding harmless against any third-party claim and any expenses attributable to, or associated with, the mounting of a legal defence against such claim, insofar as such claim arises from any unauthorised use by you of the Website and the services associated therewith, or any such use that is authorised by you, or notably that arises from any legal dispute concerning copyright, data privacy, or any other right in connection with Website use. Insofar as the likelihood of any such claim being lodged comes to your attention or must have come to your attention in due course, you are to notify edding accordingly without delay.

Website use shall be governed by the applicable laws of the Federal Republic of Germany without regard for any statutory conflict or choice of laws rules. The place of performance hereof shall be Ahrensburg, Germany. The legitimacy, validity and interpretation of the Terms of Participation and the General Terms of Use shall be governed by the German textual versions of both of the foregoing. Any translation of the Terms of Participation and/or the General Terms of Use shall constitute solely a non-binding textual version of both of the foregoing.

By using any Website service for which registration is required on the Website, you consent to having your personal data captured, stored, processed and used for the purpose of concluding a contract, providing services, or meeting statutory reporting and monitoring requirements.

edding will grant you, via the Website, opportunities to use the Website interactively, the relevant technical and operational resources permitting. When using the Website, you are permitted to transmit proprietary content to the website, make such content accessible to other users, and perhaps comment on other content or send messages to other users. Any legal right accruing to you to such interactive use and to use of the hard drive storage space that is made available shall be excluded. Furthermore, any legal right to any publication of your proprietary content or to having such content remain on the Website permanently shall likewise be excluded.

You shall assume all civil and criminal liability for any content you may post on, or upload to, the Website.

Any registration on the part of any user who is under 18 years of age at the time of registration is subject to the enforceable consent of the user's legal representative. edding shall be entitled to verify such consent.

The Website content is intended solely for personal and non-commercial use.

Insofar as, for reasons related to the Contest or in using the Website, you transmit any proprietary content of any kind whatsoever, in so doing you grant edding a licence that is exclusive, irrevocable, of unlimited duration, and subject to no geographic or content-related restriction for the use of such content in its entirety via any media or process; and notably the following rights: the right to make such content available in whole or in part and in any form whatsoever to any third party or to the general public; the right to duplicate, disseminate, and store the content; the right to make presentations in public concerning the content; the right to use the content to identify any product or service of any kind whatsoever; the right to use the content for any commercial or non-commercial purpose; the right to process and optimise the content; the right to combine the content with other content; and the right of any third party to use the content in any form whatsoever for proprietary edding purposes.

You warrant that any content that you transmit will have been created by you at your own expense; or that you will have obtained all necessary copyright and any other right to such content, as well as personal rights and the right to the use of any relevant name; and that you are legally entitled to use all such rights. You furthermore guarantee that any such content will be unencumbered by any third-party rights. You shall, on first request, hold edding harmless against any third-party claim, including any cost arising from any legal defence that may be necessary, insofar as such claim is attributable to any content that you have transmitted to edding.

You hereby acknowledge that you are aware of the fact that you may be subject to criminal and/or civil prosecution in the event you transmit content to the Website that (a) is unlawful or that violates any official regulation; (b) is liable to corrupt the young; (c) is pornographic, racist, or incites violence; (d) stirs up hatred against any ethnic group or nationality; (e) is defamatory; (f) violates standards of common decency in any similar manner; and/or (g) calls for unlawful acts or provides instructions concerning the realisation of unlawful acts.

The edding Web Server stores specific data that is transmitted automatically by your web browser, notably the following type of information:

• The name of your internet service provider
• The address of the web page from which you visited the Website
• The pages that you visit on the Website
• The date and duration of your visit to the Website

Such information (hereinafter referred to as the "Information") will be captured, stored, processed and use strictly in accordance with the provisions of data privacy laws. The Information will not be linked with any other information that would allow you to be identified, except insofar as such identification is necessary for use of the Website or to meet statutory reporting requirements. Personal information that you transmit to edding, notably your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, age and gender will be captured, stored, processed and used only insofar as necessary to draw up a contract, provide services, or meet statutory reporting or monitoring requirements.

Your personal data will not be used to send informational material to you, to offer you additional services, or for advertising purposes, and will be deleted immediately upon completion of the relevant prize contest or following performance of any contract concerning any additional edding services.

edding will not provide your personal data to any third party, except insofar as required by law.

Insofar as you have consented to the capture, processing, storage and disclosure of your personal data, you are entitled to revoke such consent at any time with immediate effect by simply sending an e-mail containing the relevant message to datenschutz@.edding.com or by postal mail to edding International GmbH, Bookkoppel 7, 22926 Ahrensburg, Germany.

Although edding's website http://www.edding-funtastics.com uses no cookies, edding cannot exclude the possibility that third parties will use cookies in the event you transmit third-party content to the Website or if you call up or use such content. Cookies are data files that identify you as a specific user and that can store technical information or information concerning your personal preferences in connection with your use of a particular website. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer, deactivate the cookies option in the system settings of your browser.

Insofar as the Website contains any advertising, it should be noted that the Site also uses third-party ad servers for delivery of advertising that you may see on the Website.

You are entitled to ask edding to provide information, free of charge, concerning your personal data that is stored by edding, as well as the origin and any recipient of such data, and the purpose for which the data was stored.

You are entitled to have any personal data stored by edding modified or deleted at any time. You are furthermore entitled to ask edding to delete any of your personal data that has been captured, stored, processed or used by edding. You may request, at any time, such change, modification or deletion in respect to your personal data by sending an e-mail, fax or postal letter to edding International GmbH Bookkoppel 7, 22926 Ahrensburg, Germany, or to datenschutz@.edding.com.