Imprint and legal notice

Media Owner and contact details

The media owner of the subdomain https://ef-geometry.univie.ac.at (and all of its sub-sites) is the Emerging Fields project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna.

The coordinator of the project is

Roland Steinbauer
Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
roland.steinbauer@univie.ac.at

Supervising Authorities

The supervising authorities for this project are:

• the Austrian Science Fund (FWF),
• the University of Vienna,
• the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Republic of Austria.

Turnover Tax – Identification Numbers

The University of Vienna has two different VAT numbers depending on the type of projects. For the project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond the relevant VAT number is ATU37586901.

Ownership, Copyright, Liability and Use

1. Unless otherwise stated, this website and its contents are property of the project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond. The copyright in the material contained on this website belongs to this project or its licensors. Trademark appearing on this website are protected by the laws of the Republic of Austria and by international trademark laws.

2. The information provided on this website is prepared solely for the purpose of providing selected information about the project, its project parts and organizations with which it is associated; and about the respective, non-commercial services which they offer, including announcements of scientific events, scientific achievements, etc.

3. The project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond does not make any warranty that the information contained on this website, or on any site linked from this website, is complete, accurate or up-to-date; in particular, the project and its members are not responsible for the results of reliance on any such information.

4. The project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond does not make any warranty that use of the website will be uninterrupted, virus-free or error-free; or that the use of the website will not affect other software or operating systems used to access the website. Any warranties provided under the general law are expressly excluded to the fullest extent possible. In particular, the project does not warrant that use of the website will not infringe the rights of any other person or organization; nor that the website is of reasonable quality or fit for any particular purpose, even if the project receives notice of an intention to use the website for that purpose.

5. Unless expressly stated otherwise, opinions given on this website are those of the individuals making them, and not those of the project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond as a whole; the project is not responsible for such opinions or any claims resulting from them.

6. To the extent permitted in law, the project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond accepts no liability for any loss or damage which may be suffered by other parties as a direct or indirect result of using this website (including loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of business, and consequential loss).

7. Persons submitting material to this website (for example when applying for open positions in the project) are solely responsible for the material and for any claims relating to its content, whether made against the project A new Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond or otherwise. Whilst the project does not exercise editorial control over any content posted to the website by users and visitors (for example in comment sections or similar areas), the project reserves the right at its sole discretion to remove any content which it has been notified is objectionable, whether or not the objection is substantiated, and otherwise to review, edit or delete any content posted by users and visitors which it deems defamatory, unlawful, threatening or otherwise objectionable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by the law, the project accepts no responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties via the website.

8. Subject to the above, those gaining access to this website are authorized to make use of the website for any lawful purposes. The following is a non-exclusive list of uses which are expressly prohibited:

1. using the website to commit or encourage unlawful acts, including unlawful copying of copyright material;
2. misrepresenting the user’s identity or authority;
3. distributing any type of virus or other device intended to cause nuisance, loss or corruption of any information on the website or accessed through it, or of any systems used to operate the website or any systems accessed through it;
4. tampering with communications which are not the user’s, or making any alteration to any information on the website;
5. accessing or attempting to access other parties’ user accounts;
6. hacking or attempting to hack any part of the website, or any system used to run it, or any system accessed through the website;
7. disrupting the flow of communications in interactive areas;
8. posting material which (i) infringes intellectual property rights; (ii) defames or threatens other people or organizations; (iii) is offensive, obscene or hateful; or which other users of the website are likely to consider offensive, obscene or hateful;

9. The project may collect in its databases (and publish if deemed appropriate) on this domain personal information like names, family names, websites, email addresses, and academic titles of members of the project as well as collaborators. We also may collect personal information from people registered to our events and/or to our newsletter. We refer to the Privacy and Data Protection Policy page for information about data-processing of the personal data mentioned above, as well as for detailed information about cookies used on this domain.

10. The terms above are governed by Austrian law, and Austrian courts have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to them.

11. If any of these terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the term(s) in question will be severed; but the remaining terms will continue in force.

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