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Legal Notice

This not-for-profit web site is privately maintained by and for Hetchins owners and enthusiasts. Costs of maintaining this web site are met entirely privately, with no contribution from the manufacturer or any advertiser. This web site is beholden to no commercial interest.

The Editor is solely responsible for the content of this web site. The Editor endeavors to the best of his knowledge to provide timely and accurate information, but accepts no liability for misinformation which may possibly appear at this web site, or in email correspondence, or for loss or damage accruing therefrom.

This web site provides a forum for posting bikes and frames for sale; this service is offered as-is, free of charge, without any assurance of the honesty or integrity of the sellers or prospective buyers or the authenticity of the items offered for sale. All sales are the sole responsibility of the sellers and buyers.

This web site is not the official organ of the manufacturer, Hetchins Lightweights. The Editor hereby indemnifies the manufacturer, Hetchins Lightweights, against loss or damage which may result from misinformation which may appear at this web site.

Link Disclaimer

Das Landgericht (LG) Hamburg hat mit seinem Urteil vom 12. Mai 1998, 312 O 85/98, "Haftung für Links" entschieden, dass man durch die Anbringung eines Links die Inhalte der gelinkten Seite gegebenenfalls mit zu verantworten hat. Dies lehne ich kategorisch ab. Ich uebernehme die Verantwortung fuer meine eigene Web Site und sonst keine, genau wie jeder Autor der sein Buch mit Fussnoten oder eine Bibliografie versehen hat.

The State Court of Hamburg [the jurisdiction in which hetchins.org is registered], in a landmark miscarriage dated 12 May 1998, decreed that one can be held liable for the content of other web sites to which one's own web site is linked. The Editor categorically rejects this. If an author has footnotes or a bibliography in his book, no court of law holds him liable for the contents of the other books. The Editor is not liable for the contents of other web sites.