Terms of Use – Customer Assessments and Reviews

These Terms of Use define your behaviour in conjunction with the service provided by Siemens, a division of BSH Home Appliances Ltd, with its Registered Office at Grand Union House, Old Wolverton Road, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, MK12 5PR and with Company Registration No. 01844007, England & Wales (hereinafter “Siemens”) in relation to the formulation of customer assessments and reviews (the "Consumer Review Solution" or "CRS"). The personal data transmitted by you will be held on file in accordance with our Data Protection information. In the event of any divergence between the data protection guideline of Siemens and these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use shall prevail regarding regulation of the CRS.

Data is transmitted when “Submit & continue” button is clicked in the first step and if more data is provided in the second steps in the same session, it will be combined.

By transmitting content to Siemens you confirm and guarantee:

  •  that you are the sole author and owner of the associated rights to intellectual property;
  • that you voluntarily waive all moral rights which might accrue to you as the author regarding such content;
  •  that all content transmitted by you is accurate;
  •  that you are at least 18 years of age;
  •  that the content provided by you does not violate these Terms of Use or cause harm to persons or companies.

You also confirm and guarantee that you are not transmitting any content:

  •  which you know to be incorrect or misleading;
  •  which constitutes an infringement of copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other intellectual property rights, rights of publication or data protection rights of a third party;
  •  which violates laws, rules, regulations or provisions (in particular provisions relating to export controls, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination as well as misleading or false advertising);
  •  which is defamatory, offensive, abusive, biased in terms of race or religion, slanderous or constitutes an unlawful threat to or harassment of any individual, partnership or corporation or can be deemed as such;
  •  for which you were not and will not be compensated or granted any payments by third parties;
  •  which contains any information with references to other websites, addresses, e-mail addresses, contact details or telephone numbers;
  •  which contains computer viruses, worms or other potentially harmful computer programs, files or HTML codes.

You hereby agree to indemnify Siemens (and its managers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint venture companies, employees and third-party providers) in respect of all claims, receivables and claims to compensation (actual damage and consequential damage) of any nature or type whatsoever, whether known or unknown, including lawyer's fees of a reasonable amount and release same from any liability arising in conjunction with your failure to uphold the assurances and guarantees given above or infringement of applicable rights or the rights of third parties.

You grant to Siemens, for all content transmitted by you, a perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, fully-paid right and corresponding licence as regards the utilisation, reproduction, modification, complete removal, adaptation, publication, translation, creation of derivative works and/or sale and/or distribution of such content and/or takeover of said content anywhere in the world and in any form or medium or with any technology, in particular for the purpose of online and offline communication (e.g. on websites as banners, newsletters or printed advertisements) without thereby receiving remuneration in this regard.

All content transmitted by you may be used at the sole discretion of Siemens. Siemens reserves the right to amend, shorten or delete any content on Siemens’ websites which Siemens considers in its judgement to constitute an infringement of the guidelines governing content or any other provisions of these Terms of Use. Siemens offers no guarantee that you will have any recourse through Siemens to amend or delete content transmitted by you. Assessments and written comments are generally published within two to four business days. Siemens however reserves the right to (i) remove any content in whole or in part,(ii) refuse the publication of any submissions in whole or in part, where the above assurances and those confirmed by you are not applicable. You hereby declare that you bear the entire responsibility for the content submitted by you. No content transmitted by you is associated with an obligation of confidentiality on the part of Siemens, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliated enterprises, partners or third-party providers as well as their directors, managers and employees.

By transmitting your e-mail address in conjunction with your assessment and review you authorise Siemens and its third-party providers to contact you by e-mail regarding the status of your assessment and for other administrative purposes.

Updates to the Terms of Use

Advances in technology or changes to the law may prompt Siemens to update or amend provisions of the Terms of Use. Please check this page from time to time to ensure that you are in possession of the latest information.

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the Parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with this Agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).

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