LEGAL AND PRIVACY INFORMATION

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Impressum

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Wolfgang Steffen

Contact:
e-mail: wsteffen@astro.unam.mx

Responsible for the content:

Wolfgang Steffen
Instituto de Astronomía
UNAM

Carr. Tijuana-Ensenada km 107
22860 Ensenada, Baja California

México

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Copyright

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2021 Owners: Nico Koning (Calgary, Canada), Wolfgang Steffen (IA-UNAM, Mexico)

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal use the Software without restriction, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. THE SOFTWARE MAY BE USED AND DISTRIBUTED IN COMPILED FORM. NO PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL CODE MAY BE USED, CHANGED OR DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION IN WRITING BY THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS.

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Disclaimer of liability:

 

Liability for the Shape software and the manual contents

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The Shape software is provided as is and no guarantee is given for its fitness for a particular purpose. We can not be made responsible for any incorrect scientific results or other that may or may not appear in publications of any kind. 

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The contents of the Shape manual may not correspond to the version of the Shape software that user is applying and may therefore or for other reasons deviate from the actual functionality of the software.

Liability for general contents

The contents of our pages were created with the greatest care. However, we cannot guarantee that the contents are correct, complete and up-to-date. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with § 7 para.1 TMG (German Telemedia Act) and general laws. According to §§ 8 to 10 TMG we are not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored information from third parties or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information according to general laws remain unaffected by this. However, liability in this respect is only possible from the time of knowledge of a concrete infringement. If we become aware of any such legal infringements, we will remove the content in question immediately.

Liability for links

Our offer contains links to external websites of third parties, on whose contents we have no influence. Therefore we cannot assume any liability for these external contents. The respective provider or operator of the sites is always responsible for the contents of the linked sites. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal contents were not identified at the time of linking. However, a permanent control of the contents of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete evidence of a violation of the law. If we become aware of any infringements, we will remove such links immediately.

Copyright

The contents and works on these pages created by the site operators are subject to German copyright law. The reproduction, editing, distribution and any kind of use outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of these pages are only permitted for private, non-commercial use. Insofar as the content on this site was not created by the operator, the copyrights of third parties are observed. In particular, third-party content is identified as such. Should you nevertheless become aware of a copyright infringement, please inform us accordingly. If we become aware of any infringements, we will remove such contents immediately.

Data protection

The use of our website is usually possible without providing personal data. As far as personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail addresses) is collected on our website, e.g. for access to the forum or to contact us, this is always done on a voluntary basis, as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
The use by third parties of contact data published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the purpose of sending advertising and information material not expressly requested is hereby expressly prohibited. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam mails.

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Support

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The design of the Shape software was partially supported by the "Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México" (UNAM-DGAPA, UNAM-PASPA).