Privacy Policy

OSRAM Commitment to Data Privacy Protection
Protecting the security and privacy of your personal data is important to OSRAM; therefore, we conduct our business in compliance with applicable laws on data privacy protection and data security. We hope the policy outlined below will help you understand what data OSRAM may collect, how OSRAM uses and safeguards that data and with whom we may share it.

Personal data
Through our Web sites, OSRAM will not collect any personal data about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address), unless you voluntarily choose to provide us with it (e.g. by registration, survey), respectively, provide your consent, or unless otherwise permitted by applicable laws and regulations for the protection of your personal data.

Purpose of Use
When you do provide us with personal data, we usually use it to respond to your inquiry, process your order or provide you access to specific information or offers. Also, to support our customer relationship with you:

• we may store and process personal data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to better understand your business needs and how we can improve our products and services; or
• we (or a third party on our behalf) may use personal data to contact you about an OSRAM offer in support of your business needs or to conduct online surveys to understand better our customers’ needs.

If you choose not to have your personal data used to support our customer relationship (especially direct marketing or market research), we will respect your choice. We do not sell or otherwise market your personal data to third parties, except to OSRAM affiliates.

Purpose Limitation
OSRAM will collect, use or disclose personal data supplied by you online only for the purposes disclosed to you, unless the disclosure:

• is a use of the personal data for any additional purpose that is directly related to the original purpose for which the personal data was collected,
• is necessary to prepare, negotiate and perform a contract with you,
• is required by law or the competent governmental or judicial authorities,
• is necessary to establish or preserve a legal claim or defense,
• is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activities, such as willful attacks on OSRAM information technology systems.

Communications or Utilization Data
Through your use of telecommunications services to access our Web site, your communications data (e.g. Internet protocol address) or utilization data (e.g. information on the beginning, end and extent of each access, and information on the telecommunications services you accessed) are technically generated and could conceivably relate to personal data. To the extent that there is a compelling necessity, the collection, processing and use of your communications or utilization data will occur and will be performed in accordance with the applicable data privacy protection legal framework.

Non-Personal Data Collected Automatically
When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the Web site from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share it with our worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites and improve their performance or content.

“Cookies” – Information Stored Automatically on Your Computer
When you view one of our Web sites, we may store some data on your computer in the form of a “cookie” to automatically recognize your PC next time you visit. Cookies can help us in many ways, for example, by allowing us to tailor a Web site to better match your interests or to store your password to save you having to re-enter it each time. If you do not wish to receive cookies, please configure your Internet browser to erase all cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block all cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored.

Children
OSRAM will not knowingly collect personal data from children without insisting that they seek prior parental consent if required by applicable law. We will only use or disclose personal data about a child to the extent permitted by law, to seek parental consent pursuant to local law and regulations or to protect a child. The definition of “child” or “children” should take into account applicable laws as well as national and regional cultural customs.

Security
To protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration and against unauthorized disclosure or access, OSRAM uses technical and organizational security measures. Links to Other Web Sites OSRAM Web sites contain links to other Web sites. OSRAM is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites.

Questions and Comments
OSRAM will respond to reasonable requests to review your personal data and to correct, amend or delete any inaccuracies. If you have any questions or comments about the OSRAM Data Privacy Protection, please click on “Contact” and inform us about your request. As the Internet matures, so will our Data Privacy Protection Policy. We will post changes to our Data Privacy Protection Policy on this page. Please check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.

Terms of Use

1. Scope

1.1 Any use of the web site www.lab.me is exclusively permissible on the basis of these Terms of Use. These general Terms of Use may be amended, modified or replaced by other terms in individual cases. Log-ins to this web site or, where a log-in is not required, accessing or using this web site, signifies acceptance of these Terms of Use in their then current version.

1.2 Provided the User is using the blog as a business customer, i.e. for purposes of his or her trade, business or profession or on behalf of a public body or corporation, article § 312e paragraph1, sentence 1, no. 1 – 3 of the German Civil Code does not apply.

2. Services

2.1 The web site www.lab.me contains specific information and software, as well as – as the case may be – related documentation for viewing or downloading.

2.2 www.lab.me reserves the right to cease operation of the blog, in part or in its entirety, at any time. Due to the nature of the Internet and computer systems, www.lab.me cannot accept any liability for the continuous availability of the blog.

3. Registration, Password

3.1 During registration, the User shall give accurate information, and, where such information changes in the course of time, shall update this information (online, to the extent possible) without undue delay. The User shall ensure that his or her e-mail address, as supplied to www.lab.me is current at all times and is an address at which the User can be contacted.

3.2 The User shall ensure that User Data (user name and password) is not accessible to third parties and is liable for all transactions and other activities carried out under his or her User Data. At the end of each online session, the User shall log-off from the password protected area. If, and to the extent, the User becomes aware that third parties are misusing his or her User Data, the User shall notify www.lab.me thereof without undue delay in writing, as well as by immediate e-mail where applicable.

3.3 The User may at any time request termination of his or her registration in writing. In such an event, www.lab.me will delete all User Data and any other personal data related to the User as soon as this data is no longer needed.

4. Rights of Use to Information, Software and Documentation

4.1 The use of any information, software and documentation made available on www.lab.me is subject to these Terms of Use. Separately agreed license terms take priority over these Terms of Use.

4.2 www.lab.me grants the User a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the information, software and documentation made available to the User on www.lab.me to the extent agreed, or, in the event of no such agreement, to the extent of the purpose intended by www.lab.me in making the same available, provided no further restrictions are provided for under these Terms of Use.

4.3 Information, software and documentation may not be distributed by the User to any third party at any time, nor may it be rented or made available in any other way. Unless such is allowed by mandatory law, the User shall not modify the software or documentation nor disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile the software or separate any part thereof. The User may make one backup copy of the software where necessary to secure further use in accordance with these Terms of Use.

4.4 The information, software and documentation are protected by copyright laws as well as international copyright treaties and other laws and conventions related to intellectual property. The User shall observe such laws and in particular shall not modify, conceal or remove any alphanumeric code, marks or copyright notices, neither from the information nor from the software or documentation or any copies thereof.

4.5 §§ 69a et seq. of the German Copyright Law shall not be affected hereby.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1 The materials provided on www.lab.me, including all editorial content, information, photographs, illustrations, graphics, names, trademarks and logos, are the property of OSRAM GmbH or its licensors and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and other intellectual property rights. Materials may be presented and printed for personal, non-commercial use only. Notwithstanding the particular provisions in section 4 of these Terms of Use, the contents of www.lab.me as described above may not be changed, copied, reproduced, sold, rented, used, supplemented or utilised in any other way without the prior written permission of OSRAM GmbH.

5.2 Nothing contained in the above shall be construed as granting by implication or otherwise any license or right to use any patent, trademark or any other intellectual property right of OSRAM GmbH. Nor does it grant any license or rights to use any copyrights or other rights related to the materials described above.

5.3 The word and device trademark OSRAM, other product trademarks, illustrations and logos identify OSRAM products and are the property of OSRAM GmbH. It is possible that registrations have not yet taken place in all relevant countries.

5.4 Use of these names and trademarks requires express permission of OSRAM GmbH. The use of the name OSRAM as a reference is permitted, e.g. for a link to this blog.

6. Duties of the User

6.1 In accessing or using www.lab.me, the User shall not

• harm other persons, in particular minors, or infringe their personal rights;
• breach public morality in his or her manner of use;
• violate any intellectual property right or any other proprietary right;
• upload any contents containing a virus, so-called Trojan Horse, or any other program that could damage or change the software;
• transmit, store or upload hyperlinks or contents to which the User is not entitled, in particular in cases where such hyperlinks or contents are in breach of confidentiality obligations or unlawful;
• distribute advertising or unsolicited e-mails (so-called “spam”) or inaccurate warnings of viruses, defects or similar material; additionally, the User shall not solicit participation in any lottery, snowball system, chain letter, pyramid game or similar activity

6.2 Access to www.lab.me may be denied at any time without prior warning, in particular if the User breaches any obligation arising from these Terms of Use.

7. Hyperlinks

www.lab.me may contain hyperlinks to the web pages of third parties. We shall have no liability or responsibility for the contents of such web pages and do not make representations about or endorse such web pages or their contents as our own. www.lab.me does not control the information on such web pages and is not responsible for the contents and information given thereon. The use of such web pages shall be at the sole risk of the User.

8. Liability

8.1 The information on this web site does not represent any assurance or guarantee, be it explicit or implicit. In particular, it does not represent any implicit assurance or guarantee of a property, of marketability, of suitability for certain purposes or of non-violation against laws and patents.

8.2 The information on www.lab.me may contain specifications or general descriptions related to the technical possibilities of individual products which may not be available in certain cases (e.g. due to product changes). www.lab.me endeavours to research and present all information in a substantiated and journalistically correct manner. Nevertheless, factual errors can never be ruled out. The required performance of the product shall therefore be mutually agreed upon in each case at the time of purchase.

8.3 Comments reflect the opinion of the respective author, not the opinion of OSRAM. OSRAM does not review these comments and accepts no responsibility for the contents thereof. However, a comment will be deleted without delay should it become known that it infringes upon rights. Details of this are governed in the comment posting guidelines.

9. Viruses Although www.labme.net makes every effort to keep the blog free from viruses, no guarantee can be made that it is virus-free. The User shall, for his or her own protection, take the necessary steps to ensure appropriate security measures and shall utilize a virus scanner before downloading any information, software or documentation.

10. Data Privacy Protection For collecting, using and processing personal data a User, www.labme.net complies with applicable laws on protection of data privacy and the data privacy protection guidelines of the blog, available on the Internet under Data Privacy Protection Guidelines.

11. Supplementary Agreements, Place of Jurisdiction, Applicable Law

11.1 Any supplementary agreement requires the written form.

11.2 The place of jurisdiction shall be Munich if the User is a merchant in terms of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch).

11.3 These Terms of Use shall be governed by German law. The place of jurisdiction shall be Munich. October 2011