LEGAL NOTICE

This web site is operated by adidas-Salomon AG ("adidas"). Please read the following Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy carefully before using this web site. By using this web site, you signify your consent to the Conditions of Use. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of Conditions of Use at any time. Please check the Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the adidas web site following the posting of changes to these Conditions of Use will mean you accept those changes. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE CONDITIONS OF USE STATED HEREIN, PLEASE LEAVE THIS WEBSITE.

Conditions of Use

Copyright and Ownership

This web site including all of the content featured or displayed on this web site, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and software (collectively "Content"), is owned by adidas, its licensors and/or its content providers. All elements of adidas' web sites, including, but not limited to, the general design and the Content, are protected by trade dress, copyright, moral rights, trademark and other laws relating to intellectual property rights.

Restrictions on Use of Content

You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell the Content or any part thereof, except as explicitly permitted under this web site. You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from the Content.

In the event you download software from this web site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "software") are licensed to you by adidas. adidas retains full and complete title to the software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the software to a human-readable form.

Corporate Identification, Site Content & Trademarks

All trademarks, service marks and trade names of adidas used herein (including but not limited to: the adidas name, the adidas corporate logo, the adidas trefoil Design, and the Three Stripe logo) are trademarks or registered trademarks of adidas or its affiliates. You may not use, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or modify adidas trademarks in any way, except as explicitly permitted under this web site. The use of adidas trademarks on any other web site or network computer environment is only allowed if it is explicitly permitted under this web site.

Disclaimer

Your use of and browsing of this web site are at your own risk. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED ABOVE, EVERYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. ADIDAS MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS OR ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ADIDAS DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES SUCH MATERIALS AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ADIDAS DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT ADIDAS) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold adidas and any affiliated company or individual harmless from any and all liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, related to any violation of these terms by you or your authorized users, or in connection with the use of the web site or the Internet or the placement or transmission of any message or information on this web site by you or your authorized users. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. You are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account and agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless adidas for any liability or expense arising from such use or misuse. You agree to immediately notify adidas of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security known to you.

Limitation of Liability

adidas shall not be liable for any claims, irrespective of their legal grounds, which arise particularly in connection with the delay or impossibility of performance, infringement of information duties or collateral duties or preliminary agreements, positive violation of contractual duties, infringement of industrial property rights of third parties or tort, unless adidas has committed such infringements willfully or by gross negligence or if adidas has infringed essential contractual obligations by slight negligence or if such claims for damages result from the lack of an expressly warranted characteristic. In all cases where adidas is liable based on above reasons, any claims shall be limited to the foreseeable damage. Any compensation for consequential damages such as loss of profits shall be excluded in any case. Such limitation of damages shall not be applicable if the event causing the damage was caused by a legal representative or executive officer of adidas by gross negligence or intent. Any possible liability in accordance with the product liability acts shall remain unaffected.

Governing Law

These Conditions of Use including disclaimers are governed by the laws of Germany without regard to their conflict of laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply. By using this web site, you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Nürnberg, Germany in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of this web site. If any portion of these Conditions of Use is held to be unenforceable, the unenforceable portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law to the greatest extent possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, and the remainder of the provisions shall remain in full force and effect. adidas' failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.

Additional Terms

Additional terms and conditions may apply to the purchase of products and other uses of this web site.

Copyright

All text, images, animation, videos, music, sounds, web site design, graphics, text selections, arrangements, and all software are Copyright © 2001, adidas-Salomon AG. The THREE STRIPE Trademark is a registered trademark of adidas. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Privacy Policy

Data Protection Statement

For the companies of the adidas Group it is imperative that any information on employees, customers, suppliers, other business partners and all persons who visit our web site or contact us in one way or other are protected and that all information is used in strict confidentiality and only in accordance with the applicable legal regulations. This applies in particular to personal data for which we adhere to the relevant data protection regulations. As a leading global corporate enterprise group in the field of sports, we are committed to fair play, in particular with regard to this matter.

When you visit our web site, the only information requested, processed and used is that which we need to be able to present our enterprise group, products, environment and sports in the best possible way for you. When you have left our web site, this data (IP address, sites visited, links used, language setting, information on the browser used, web site visited before and afterwards, date, time and duration of your visit on our web site, ...) is only used to further develop our web site accordingly and adapt it to your needs. Your information is evaluated only in terms of statistics. The data is not evaluated with regard to you as an individual.

On some of the pages on our web site you are directly requested to enter personal data. The services offered here are not available without this information. In individual instances a cookie may be stored in your computer system, provided that your browser settings permit such storing. The cookies for example serve to avoid the repeated display of information or to optimize the presentation of the information on your computer system. Such cookies merely contain an indication that certain information has already been displayed or they contain data for the technical optimization of your computer system. If you do not want to accept these cookies, you may prevent the transfer of the cookies by setting your browser accordingly. In that case you will generally not have any further disadvantages.

Insofar as on individual pages of our web site, cookies are additionally used for storing your personal data, please note the specific details given on such pages.

External service enterprises are involved in the design and operation of our web site. These enterprises have access to your data for the purpose of carrying out this work only. Under no circumstances will these enterprises use your data for other purposes.

We must also point out that our web site may contain links to third parties for which the above statements do not apply.

Our contact person for matters relating to data protection: Chris Newiger

eMail: dataprotection@adidas.de