Terms of Use

Introduction

This is not a company site. I (Mario M. Westphal) publish this site to support my user-supported applications. photools.com is not a company either, it's just the URL of my current home on the web.

All contents on this site are subject to change without explicit notice.

Use of Site

All Rights reserved - photools.com authorizes you to view and download the materials at this Web site ("Site") for private Use, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials. You may not modify the materials at this Site in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose. For purposes of these Terms, any use of these materials on any other Web site or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. The materials at this Site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of any materials at this Site may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

Disclaimer

THE MATERIALS PROVIDED AT THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. photools.com further does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the materials at this Site. photools.com may make changes to the materials at this Site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. The materials at this Site may be out of date, and photools.com makes no commitment to update the materials at this Site.

Links to third party sites

THE LINKS ON THIS SITE WILL LET YOU LEAVE THE PHOTOOLS.COM SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF PHOTOOLS.COM AND PHOTOOLS.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES. PHOTOOLS.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. PHOTOOLS.COM IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY PHOTOOLS.COM OF THE SITE.

Trademarks

IMatch, the IMatch logo, photools.com and the photools.com logo are trademarks of Mario M. Westphal.
All brand and product names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.

Privacy Policy

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to the photools.com webmaster webmaster@photools.com. Please be aware that this site contains links to other sites. photools.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such web sites. 

photools.com respects your privacy. At this site, you can order products or express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletter or participate in one of our online forums or communities.

Your computer reaches us via a particular IP (Internet Protocol) address. This can tell us things like what part of the world you're coming from or what service provider you are using, but photools.com does not link your IP address to any personally identifiable information about you.

photools.com appreciates your interest in its products and your visit to this web site. Your privacy is important to us and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our sites. The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention during our business processes.

Personal data collected during visits to our Web site are processed by us according to the legal provisions of the Federal Republic of Germany. The photools.com Web site may include links to other Web sites which are not covered by this privacy statement.

User Forum Policy

Our community exists to provide a friendly, professional medium for customers to receive informal technical advice, as well as banter with others.

While in the public forums, please keep things civil. Users are not permitted to, among other things, post abusive, hateful, harassing information--about any person or entity (including photools.com and Mario M. Westphal (mwe).

Please note that photools.com and the IMatch software family are a personal project of Mario M. Westphal. This is not a company, but an individual working hard to create and support the best image management system on the market. I do this all in my spare time.

Currently only members who are of legal age in their country are allowed on the forums. By registering as a user on the forum you state that you are of legal age in your country, and that you have read and understood the board rules.

Users that have a specific technical issue that needs attention should use the support emails given at: http://www.photools.com/support.php for the most expeditious results, as I give this priority to monitoring online support requests.
Additionally, I will most likely need confidential information that should not be posted in a public community area. If you ever have a question about how the community is run, feel free to click the "contact" link on the left hand side of any page and let me know.

photools.com and Mario M. Westphal do not confirm the validity of information posted on this message board. We do not actively monitor the contents of posted messages and are not responsible for any messages posted. Remember that the posted messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of photools.com or Mario M. Westphal.

I Mario M. Westphal/photools.com, reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the members of this message board, Mario M. Westphal/photools.com, and their agents with respect to any claim based upon viewing of this board and/or transmission of your message(s).

If you feel that a posted message is objectionable, you are encouraged to contact me or a forum moderator immediately by email at ptfadmin@photools.com. I have the ability to remove objectionable messages and will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if I determine at our sole discretion that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, so please realize that I may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately.

By using this service, you have agreed that you will not:

Post any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law.

Post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this message board. Use profanity of any kind on this board; posts that contain profanity will be deleted summarily. Repeat violators of this policy (or any other board policy) will be banned from participating.

Post advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations. These are inappropriate on this message board, and will be deleted summarily. Violators of this policy are subject to banning.

Cross-post (post your message in more than one place on this board). This will actually hinder you from getting a rapid answer, and repeated cross-posting may result in your being banned.

I reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information I know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. To read Mario M. Westphal’s/photools.com’s complete privacy policy, see: http://www.photools.com/impressum.php.

By posting content on this message board, you agree that Mario M. Westphal/photools.com can quote from, or reuse the content in promotional materials, newsletters, or other documents. If I intend to use content posted by you in such a manner, I will generally notify you as a courtesy.

Please do not direct call this telephone numbers if you have questions about your registration or IMatch.
Contact Share-It via their Customer Support Center or via the German or International telephone numbers given at this page.

Please do not direct orders at this address. Orders for our products are exclusively available via Share-It. Click here for more information about ordering IMatch.