Terms of Use & Copyright

All materials provided by Olympus contained in this web site are subject to copyright and/or trademark protection laws. All rights for the materials provided by Olympus are reserved by Olympus Europa Holding GmbH (in the following 'Olympus').

Olympus Europa Holding GmbH is a limited liability company according to German Law with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. Olympus Europa Holding GmbH is registered under the number HRB 10554 and dedicated to trade with optical instruments, business appliances and related articles. Value added tax identification number: DE118673662 Executive Managing Director: Michael C Woodford.

Terms of Use

By using this website and accessing the website, you in the following declare the consent with the terms of use hereunder.

Service Description

Olympus offers on the website www.world-of-pen.com a platform for establishing a photo community with respect to a broad information exchange regarding the Olympus Pen system. For this purpose world-of-pen.com provides infrastructure, technical applications and service space which allow the website user to upload photos and to provide links to specific web 2.0 related websites. Moreover the product allows capabilities to evaluate content or links uploaded by third parties.

Updating of the Website

Olympus provides the information on this server as a public service to its customers, and reserves the right to change the contents of the information without notice. Olympus is not liable for the accuracy, completeness, and/or reliability of the contents of the information provided herein. By accessing this site you accept the terms and conditions of use as set forth below.

Non-liability statement

Olympus has no influence on the content published by the website users and does by now means hold this content to be own content. Olympus takes no responsibility for such content.

This website is provided 'as is' and might be subject to expansions, amendments and up-dates. Although Olympus makes high efforts to provide accurate and up-to-date information to the public, Olympus makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or topicality of the content of the site and assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions or possible obsolescence. In particular, Olympus is not responsible for the content of any site you may link to from this site. Further, Olympus assumes no responsibility for any damages or viruses that may affect your computer equipment or other property due to access, use or downloading of contents from this site.

With the exception of the 'Maitany story' and the homepage Olympus does not provide any of the content on the site. As it is all entirely user generated content which has not been reviewed by Olympus. Upper notice we will take down any material. You may send your notice by using this form.

Every user is responsible for any content he publishes on the Olympus Pen sites as well as for hyperlinks to sites of third parties. Such content may not infringe any legal provisions or contain indecent content, content which may be harmful for the viewer or which may infringe third party rights – specifically, but not exclusively trademark rights, name rights, copyrights, patents or personality, or privacy rights -

Beneath others it is forbidden to post the following or links to other sites containing:

• Publication of photos which other parties have made or which show persons without their consent to the publication
• Any sort of pornography including specifically child porn, pornography with animals or violent pornography
• Presentations of persons in sexually oriented behaviour
• Presentation of the body
• Naked persons
• Content which may be harmful to minors
• Presentation of violence specifically, but not exclusively violent or inhuman acts of violence against human or animals.
• Content which violates the human dignity
• Content which foster racism, fanatism, hate, psychological or physical violence of any sort against others, hate speech
• Obscene content
• Content which supports the exploitation or abuse in physical or sexual manner of any other person
• Defamatory libellous or in other way damaging opinions or presentations of content
• Content which denies or belittles the genocide of the time of national socialism in Germany
• Propaganda material or signs of non constitutional parties
• Other religiously or politically extreme content
• Public excitement to commit crimes or misdemeanours
• Advertisement with the aim to sell products unless the agreement with Olympus on such publication has been made.
• Advertisement for any product or service which is not legal within Germany or the European Union (such as advertisement for drugs)
• Any links to any content described under the above

The user warrants that all content uploaded to the website by him is fully legal. This includes the freedom of any third party rights.

User Rights

The user keeps all rights towards the content published by him. By uploading content to the Olympus Pen site, he grants Olympus Pen the non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide right to use the content for the Olympus Pen website. This includes the right to change (for example to compress, reformat) to copy, to make publically accessible the content.

Trademarks and Registered Trademarks

All products or service names mentioned on this site are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The website, and all data, text, images, video or audio contained therein are for non-commercial and personal use only. No license to utilize the proprietary logo, service marks, or trademarks is granted by making them available on this website. You are welcome to duplicate, store, and print copies of all information provided here for personal use, with the understanding that Olympus retains the copyright on all media including text, graphics, and photographs. You may not, however, distribute exchange, modify, sell or transmit any information of this website. Unless indicated differently, all material of this website is protected by copyright and shall not be used for commercial or public purposes without the previous written permission of Olympus. You are also not permitted to link or 'mirror' any part of this web site without the prior written permission from Olympus.

Hyperlinks

On the Olympus site certain hyperlinks to third party web pages shall be published. There is no influence by Olympus on this website, neither on the design nor on the content. Olympus takes therefore no responsibility for the legality actuality, completeness or quality of the linked content and does not take this content to be own content. Moreover Olympus is not responsible for the content of websites linking into world-of-pen.com.

Data Protection

Olympus recognizes that any data provided by the user is extremely important to the user and Olympus shall therefore be particularly sensitive in handling such data. Olympus shall comply with all applicable legal provisions regarding data protection (German data protection laws, European data protection directives and any other applicable data protection legislation. In particular Olympus shall not provide or otherwise disclose any personal data of the user to any third party without authorization).

Communication and Tracking (Cookies)

For better communication via the Internet Olympus sometimes uses small text files (cookies) remembered by your browser according to its settings, so that you can navigate through our Web site easier. We also use this technique where appropriate, to keep track of page views and to personalise your communication with Olympus. We implement some of these cookies through our server technology on your storage device. The use of cookies is now standard procedure for most Web sites, however if you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, change your browser settings to opt-out of receiving cookies. This however, may limit your ability to interact with Olympus Web sites.