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Agreement on rights of use 

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License Agreement

between

ASATEX® - Aktiengesellschaft
August-Borsig-Straß 2
50126 Bergheim

– hereinafter referred to as “Licensor”

and

– hereinafter referred to as “Licensee”

Preamble

(1) The Licensor is the author or owner of the rights of use and exploitation of photographs, data sheets, declarations of conformity, flyers and article data (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Works") provided on the website "https://www.asatex.eu" and listed individually under the URL www.at-data.eu/image-overview.pdf, which are the subject of this Agreement. These Works are subject to copyright protection.

(2) The Licensee wishes to make extensive use of the Works on the website that it operates and for which it is responsible (hereinafter referred to as "Website") as well as its social media presence (hereinafter referred to as "Social Media") and to use them for commercial purposes. With this in mind, the Parties herewith enter into the following licence agreement for the use of the Licensor's Works by the Licensee (hereinafter referred to as "Agreement"):

§1 Subject of the agreement

(1) The Licensor grants the Licensee revocable simple rights of exploitation and use of the Works under the following conditions, subject to the Licensor's T&Cs (available at asatex.eu/en/Terms-and-Conditions):

  1. The rights will be assigned when the Licensee sends this fully completed and digitally signed agreement to the Licensor.
  2. The rights of exploitation and use are limited to the following geographical territory: Germany
  3. The Licensee may not sub-license the Works.
  4. The Licensee may not assign the Licence to any third party.
  5. The rights granted cover both the use of the Works as a whole and in part as well as in combination with other works.

(2) The assignment of the rights to the Licensee covers the following types of use:

  1. Digital storage and use of the Works on the Licensee's Website and in social media (reproduction).
  2. Integration of the Works on the Licensee's Website and Social Media for commercial purposes (making them available to the public).
  3. Use of the Works for advertising purposes and for marketing products in printed form, use of the Works for advertising purposes and for marketing products in connection with online marketing, e-mail marketing, use of the Works for advertising purposes and for marketing products in connection with digital forms of advertising for mobile end devices irrespective of the hardware or operating system used (right of distribution).
  4. The right to crop, release and/or combine the Works with other works, while respecting any moral rights, irrespective of how the process (analogue or digital) actually works.

§ 2 Licensee's obligations

(1) The Licensee must credit the Licensor, or the author/rights holder specified by the Licensor, as the author or holder of the rights of exploitation in the Works at the point where it integrates the Works. This reference must be made by means of lettering in the immediate vicinity of the work concerned.

(2) The Licensee grants the Licensor free access to its Website/Social Media at all times to enable the Licensor to monitor the Licensor's obligations. If the Licensee's Website/Social Media require an access code, the Licensee will provide such access code to the Licensor free of charge without undue delay after the Works have been integrated into the Website.

(3) The Licensee must notify the Licensor of any changes relevant to the Agreement and related to the performance of the Agreement at an early stage. In particular, the Licensee must inform the Licensor immediately of any unauthorised use of the contractual rights by third parties.

(4) The Licensee also undertakes to comply with the provisions of section 1 concerning the scope of the assignment of rights.

§ 3 Period of the assignment of rights

(1) The assignment of rights of use is limited to the period of use of the Works for the advertising purposes specified above. This Agreement will terminate when the Licensee's advertising activities have ceased without the need for explicit notice of termination.

(2) The above provision does not affect the right to extraordinary termination.

§ 4 Consequences of the termination of the Agreement

All rights of the Licensee revert to the Licensor upon the termination of this Licence Agreement. The Licensee must immediately surrender all physical copies of the Works to the Licensor and immediately delete all electronic copies.

§ 5 Final provisions

(1) This Agreement is subject to the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contractual relationship is Cologne Regional Court, unless otherwise stipulated by law.

(2) There are no verbal subsidiary agreements to this agreement. Changes or amendments to this Agreement must be made in writing in order to be effective. The same applies to the waiver of this requirement of the written form.

(3) The Licensor is obliged to inform the Licensee immediately in writing of any change in its data. The Licensor's address stated in the introduction to this Agreement is the address for the Licensee's notification obligations under this Agreement.

(4) The Licensor will store the Licensee's data required for the performance of this Agreement for the term of the Agreement and for 6 months after termination or cancellation of this Agreement. The storage of data based on statutory retention periods is excluded from the above provision. The Licensee undertakes to comply with any obligations under data protection law with respect to persons employed by the Licensee.

(5) Should individual provisions of this Agreement be or become invalid or unenforceable, it will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The Parties will endeavour to replace the invalid or unenforceable provision with a valid and enforceable provision that comes as close as possible in economic terms to the invalid or unenforceable provision. The same applies to any omission from this Agreement.

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