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contents presented on these Internet pages serve exclusively the personal information of the user. Reproduction and dissemination of contents from this Internet presentation and any reference thereto are free of charge and permitted provided both the source and its Internet address are quoted. The information on these Internet pages has been selected and compiled carefully and to the best of our knowledge. However, we cannot guarantee that the information on these pages is up-to-date, correct, and complete. The provision of information and data on our pages does not establish any claim under customary law. We expressly state that we do not have any influence whatsoever on the design and the contents of Internets sites to which our links refer. Accordingly, we explicitly distance ourselves from all contents which might possibly be liable to criminal prosecution or have other liability consequences or offend against public morality. The providers of linked websites shall assume sole liability for the contents and functionality of their websites. Moreover, we want to point out that we cannot influence who sets links to our site, so that such a link does not mean that we have or had any relation with the operators of sites that present links to our site.

Environmental Information Act/Freedom of Information Act
The Internet presentation has also the purpose to provide information to the public and to facilitate access to information pursuant to the German Environmental Information Act (Umweltinformationsgesetz - UIG) and the German Freedom of Information Act (Gesetz zur Regelung des Zugangs zu Informationen des Bundes - IFG).

Data privacy protection
This Web site includes contents that are tele-media services pursuant to Article 1 of the German Tele-media Act (Telemediengesetz). The services offered are in agreement with the stipulations of this regulation. IP addresses of the visitors are not saved. Protocol information are used exclusively for statistical purposes.

The disclosure of this information by the visitor is explicitly voluntary. Personal data are not passed on to third parties.

Copyright
The copyright and the rights to use the contents of the Web site are held by the Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, unless indicated otherwise. By accessing these Web pages you accept the terms and conditions of use. Downloading or copying of data, contents, images, photos or other files do not involve transfer of rights on the contents.

Legal Effect of the Liability Exclusion
This liability exclusion shall be considered part of our Internet offer. In case parts or individual provisions of this text do not comply or no longer comply with currently applicable law, the content and validity of the remaining parts of this document shall not be affected.

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