The use of this website (referred to as ”website“ in the following) is subject to the following Conditions of Use of TUI Deutschland GmbH (referred to as TUI Deutschland“ in the following).

1.1 TUI Deutschland offers all of the general information available on the website solely as information for the user. A user is understood to be every user of the website who uses it for finding out information or for making a booking. General information includes all information on the website with the exception of information relating to travel and holiday services, holiday prices, taxes and/or any other legally required data. The general information may change at any time. The user should therefore contact the corresponding institutions, embassies or tourist information offices to ensure that the information given is up to date. In particular with respect to entry requirements (passports, visas, etc.) and health/medical formalities (e.g. required vaccinations) TUI Deutschland cannot guarantee that the given information for countries is up to date or complete.

1.2 The information relating to entry requirements and health/medical formalities applies exclusively to users who are nationals of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria and Switzerland and only provided they are holders of a passport or identity card issued by one of those countries. For all other users different conditions and regulations may apply in connection with this. In this case the user must inform himself by contacting the consulate responsible or a diplomatic representative.

2.1 The website is available to the user for personal use only. Holiday, flight and other tourism services (in the following summarised as “tourism services“) from our company as well as from various third-party companies, such as travel insurers, car rental companies, airlines , (in the following summarised as ”providers“) purchased via the website may not be sold, mediated or otherwise passed on to third parties for payment by the user. 

2.2 TUI Deutschland reserves the right at its sole discretion to refuse users access to this website or parts of it without notice and/or to cease operation of the website without notice.

2.3 The website may be used only in a legally permissible way and for concluding contracts for tourism services, but only when complying with these conditions of use. By use it is meant the procurement of information on travel services as well as the booking of them, and any other legitimate use of the functions installed on the website.

The following applies, in particular:

a) The user bears the full responsibility for all activities performed on the website under his name and his personal data.

b) The user must be at least 18 years of age and be fully competent to contract.

c) The user assures that all information he provides about himself or co-travellers corresponds to the truth.

d) The website may not be used for the purpose of speculation, false or fraudulent bookings, as well as block bookings.

e) Threats, coercion, defamatory statements and the transmitting of pornographic, racist, inciting or in any other way unlawful material are expressly forbidden.

f) The user may not modify, copy, transmit, sell, publish or in any way reproduce the website and its content. The production of a single copy of a page is, however, permissible for private, non-commercial use.

g) Files containing software or other material which are subject to industrial property rights or copyrights or are protected by the right to privacy may not be put into circulation, unless the user is entitled to these rights or the user has the necessary approval.

h) Files that contain viruses, corrupted files or software which could harm the operation of the computer of a third party may not be uploaded.

i) References that indicate the author, legal information, indications of ownership or marks which are contained in an uploaded file (software or other material) may not be deleted or modified.

j) Goods or services may not be advertised or offered for sale. Surveys, competitions or chain letters may not be conducted or passed on.

k) Access to the website may be made exclusively via the homepage. Before the website is used within the framework of affiliate programs a written agreement must be made with TUI Deutschland. Links may not be displayed by integrating them into frames without the written approval of TUI Deutschland.  

2.4 The rules laid down in Section 2.3  apply also to any bulletin boards, blogs, chat rooms and other communication forums (summarised as “forums”) that may be present on this website. All forums are public and not private communication. No content of third parties in these forums is either examined or approved by TUI Deutschland before its use. TUI Deutschland reserves the right to remove without notice any content of forums communicated or sent by users.

2.5 The user undertakes at the first request to indemnify TUI Deutschland as well as the companies associated with it according to Section 15ff of Company Law  (in the following summarised as ”associated companies “), partner companies and employees against all claims of third parties (including costs for an appropriate legal defence or court costs) that are based upon non-contractual use, abuse or other illegal use of the website and its content by the user.

3.1 TUI Deutschland, its associated companies and/or the partner companies are owners of all industrial property rights of the computer programs (software) written in machine code that TUI Deutschland offers for download on the website and/or that are otherwise operated on or in connection with the website. The unauthorized use, copying or passing on of such software is expressly forbidden. 

3.2 The use of the software may be subject to a special agreement (license agreement) and other conditions. The user will be informed in advance in detail about any necessity to have such an agreement.  The user may neither install, copy nor use software that is accompanied by a license agreement or contains a license agreement without having first expressed his agreement to the terms and conditions of the license agreement.

3.3 Insofar as the owner of the industrial property rights does not require a license agreement to be concluded he herewith transfers to the user a personal, non-transferable and at any time revocable right of use that exclusively covers the private use of the software for the purpose of access, display and agreed use of the website in agreement with these conditions of use.

3.4 A warranty of title and warranty against defects for the software is made only insofar that this is legally prescribed or expressly given and if so this applies exclusively under the conditions of the  license agreement.

3.5 Any copying of the software onto other servers and/or data carriers for the purpose of further copying is expressly forbidden. The same applies to retracing through reverse engineering, decompiling and disassembling the software.

The website contains hyperlinks that lead to internet sites of third-parties. TUI Deutschland has no influence on the design and content of these and therefore does not give any warranty as to the correctness, topicality, completeness and/or content of the information provided therein.

TUI Deutschland reserves the right at any time to make changes to the website and/or its content, especially in respect of the selection of providers, functions, information, databases and/or their content.

6.1 TUI Deutschland or its affiliated companies are the owners of the copyright and all other industrial property rights relating to the website and its content. Solely TUI Deutschland and its associated companies are entitled to any of the content, unless the ownership of a third party is specifically identified. The name TUI Deutschland and all trademarks, logos and graphics of TUI Deutschland and other companies of the TUI Group on the website are registered trademarks of TUI AG. 

6.2 TUI Deutschland is expressly and exclusively entitled to use those trademarks of proprietors who are not affiliated companies.

 6.3 The user obtains through the use of the website no rights or licenses whatsoever to use these trademarks as a consequence of Section 6.1 and 6.2.

November 2010