Your CLUB RATIONAL registration cannot be completed until you agree to the conditions of use.

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General conditions of use

The responsibility for all information, data, texts, photos, news or other materials which are published in the CLUB RATIONAL by club members or are transmitted lies exclusively with the club members from whom these contents come. RATIONAL controls no contents which is submitted by club members about the CLUB RATIONAL and, therefore, takes over no guarantee for the correctness, propriety and quality of such contents.

Club members are not allowed within the scope of the use of CLUB RATIONAL to:

1. Publish Data, texts, pictures, files, links or other contents which are illegal, threatening, abusive, bothering or are in any other manner offensive. according to appraisal by CLUB RATIONAL.;
2. portray themselves in the CLUB RATIONAL as another person, e.g., as an employee of the RATIONAL AG or that a non existent relationship with such people exist.
3. Input material , publish or in another manner transfer, software viruses or other information, data or programmes which are thought to contain or are likely to interrupt the function of computer software or hardware or from telecommunication devices, which destroy or limit usage;
4. collect or store personal data about other users.
5. input un requested advertisement, mass e-mails or input other advertisements, publish or in other manner transfer / transmit;
6. Input contents, publish or in other manner transfer, that injures third parties, in particular patents, brands, copyrights, business secrets or other property rights; if you discover material that offends against these directives or against the general terms of business from RATIONAL, please report this to us, inform us under the menu point „Report abuse “..

With the use of the CLUB RATIONAL the user has the possibility, to input their own contents (recipes, pictures, texts, etc.). The user commits to, by the production and use of such contents valid right (to follow, e.g., penal right, competitive rights and protection of children and young people rights) and not to injure rights of third parties (e.g. name rights, brands rights, originator rights and data protection rights).

1. The user approves RATIONAL unrestricted, irrevocable right of use transferable on thirds the imputed contents in particular for the recipes and photos and renounces the originator's naming according to. § 13 UrhG.
2. RATIONAL is entitled at any time to use the contents in printed and electronic form, to translate, to use, to change, to delete or to allow usage by third parties.
3. If the user is not a sole originator of the transmitted works, insb. of the photos, he assures that he has obtained suitable rights of use from the originator and may transfer this for the purposes of RATIONAL. For the case that relationship diminish with copyrights and rights holders. The user guarantees that the originator has renounced a naming of his authorship.
4. The rights to be transferred to RATIONAL contain in particular the duplication right, the distribution right and the right of the public reproduction, in particular the inclusion of the rights for publication. The legal grant encloses at the same time the right for RATIONAL, the opposed contents in other contents, namely in every form to integrate into the RATIONAL on-line offers and to utilise for advertising purposes by RATIONAL.
5. RATIONAL it is entitled any time to block the access to single contents, e.g. if the suspicion insists that these offend against valid right or rights of third parties..
6. The recipes published in the CLUB RATIONAL show no nutritional information or food consultation, but serve merely to general information. The user has to check the recipes in food-scientific regard before the use and to take up technical or medical advice if necessary to the control of which RATIONAL cannot and will not substitute or perform.

Disclaimer of liability

This Internet page may also include links to third-party Internet pages. RATIONAL disclaims any responsibility for the content of such pages, as RATIONAL has no influence on the design and content of these pages. RATIONAL cannot therefore give any guarantee of the up-to-dateness, completeness or quality of the information there provided and does not endorse the content of these pages. RATIONAL disclaims any liability for damage or injury arising from the use of such information; the use of such information shall be made at the user's risk.

Data protection declaration

Here, at RATIONAL AG, we are delighted that you have decided to visit our website and are interested in our products. We take protecting your personal data very seriously and conscientiously follow the rules of the data protection acts. When we request personal data from you, we will NEVER sell this or pass it on to third parties for other commercial reasons.

The following declaration provides an overview of how we guarantee this protection and what type of data we request and for what purpose.The national legal regulations mentioned below are taken into account and thus guarantee that the legal requirements of German law are met. According to the principle of the country of origin, it is the office of the service provider, in this case Rational AG, that determines which national law is applied.

1. Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, the name given to text files that are stored on your computer and are used to analyse your usage of the website. The information about your usage of this website (including your IP address) that is generated by the cookie is transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored. Google will use this information to analyse your usage of the website, to compile reports about website activities for website operators and to provide other services associated with website and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is legally permitted or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never combine your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the cookies being installed by changing the settings in your browser software. However, if you do this, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website.Approval to use “Google Analytics” as part of this telecommunications service is granted by the user’s declaration of agreement created by Rational AG in accordance with §3, para. I in conjunction with §4, para. II TDDSG (German telecommunications service data protection act). (Principle of the country of origin: German law).

2. Data processing on this website

RATIONAL AG automatically obtains and saves in its server log files information that your browser sends to us. Specifically, this information is:• Browser type/version• Operating system used • Referrer URL (the previously-visited site)• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address)• Time of the server request.This data is not person-specific for RATIONAL AG.Static IP addresses that clearly contain a reference to a person shall not change the way in which the data is handled by Rational AG in any way.Such data is not combined with other data sources or databases.

3. Cookies

The web pages uses “cookies” at several points. We use these so that we can tailor the services we offer more individually. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and are saved by your browser. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses.They are either “session cookies”, which are not saved when an individual connection is lost, or cookies that are stored after an individual connection is dropped and may be deleted after use.

4. Newsletter

If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, we will need a valid e-mail address from you, plus information that will allow us to check that you actually own the specified e-mail address or that the owner is happy to receive the newsletter. No other data is requested.You can withdraw at any time your permission to store the data and e-mail address and to use it to send the newsletter.

5. Forms

Any information that you send to us on the website in a form will only be used for the purpose specified for that form. You can withdraw your permission to store and use the data and e-mail address at any time. The requested data will never be sold or passed on to third parties for other commercial reasons.

6. Right of information

Your trust is important to us. You have the right at any time to see the data stored about you, its origin and recipients and the purposes for which the data is processed. You can request information about the stored data from the RATIONAL AG Data Protection Officer (Mr Christian Vogt, c.vogt@rational-online.com).

CLUB RATIONAL declaration of agreement

The "CLUB RATIONAL" Internet portal is a telecommunications service as defined by the German Telecommunications Services Act (TDG).

The regulatory framework is thus defined by the
- German Telecommunications Services Act (TDG) and, from the data protection viewpoint, by the
- German Telecommunications Services Data Protection Act (TDDSG)

Declaration of agreement

I hereby agree that the personal information I have provided voluntarily may be raised, processed and used in order to provide the specified telecommunications service. RATIONAL AG will not use this data for any other commercial purpose. I hereby also agree that my IP address may be sent to Google Inc., USA, for the purposes of analysis by the "Google Analytics" web analysis service. Google will never combine these IP addresses with other data.

Note from the service provider - RATIONAL AG

Reference is hereby made in accordance with §4 paragraph 3 TDDSG, the user may at any time claim his right to withdraw his consent with effect for the future.