Terms of use and legal disclaimer

1. Use and Content of this Website

Use of this website and of all website links referred to herein, is entirely at the risk and discretion of its visitors and/or users. Both Martin Hadis (the "Site Manager") and the hosting service provider for this site (the "Site Hosting Provider", and together with the Site Manager, the “Site Operators”), shall not be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided in this website and/or the website links referred to herein. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected. Parts of the pages or the complete publication, including all information in this website, might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the Site Operators without separate announcement.

2. License to use this Website

Visitors and/or users of this Website website recognize and acknowledge that, unless otherwise noted, ALL information on this website (including, but not limited to, all reviews, summaries and collections of information, software, multimedia, this Legal Disclaimer, and all other information, is and remains the sole property of the Site Manager. Unless otherwise noted, all reviews, summaries and collections of information, software, multimedia, as well as all other information (including, but not limited to, this Legal Disclaimer) are the property of the Site Manager. Permission is granted for the purely personal non-commercial use of this information, but NONE of it may be duplicated, distributed, reposted, or retransmitted in ANY form under ANY conditions without the express written approval of the Site Manager. This includes, but is not limited to, the copying of ANY information on this website and sending of such information to any other person, whether by e-mail or other means. [Users are, however, encouraged to link to this website -- see Section 4]

3. Referrals and Links

The Site Operators shall not be responsible for any contents linked or referred to from this website. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented or linked from this website, the author of the respective sites or pages and/or their visitors shall be liable. Furthermore, the Site Operators shall not be liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailing lists provided on this web site. The Site Operators assume no responsibility whatsoever with regards to any dealings that users enter into with other parties reached via this website and/or the links referred to herein. Any activities to which other websites or advertisers entice users is solely the responsibility of the user. The Site Operators assumes no responsibility for any damage incurred through such activities. The Site Operators are in no way responsible for where the links posted herein lead. A good-faith effort is made to ensure that links lead to where they are described as leading. Nevertheless, links change, die, and mutate, and the Site Operators shall not accept responsibility for misleading, incorrect, incomplete, dead (or, for that matter, correct) links. Every effort will be made to change inaccurate and offensive links if and when they are brought to the attention of the Site Operators.

4. Linking to this website

Users are encouraged to link to the home page of this website.

5. Accuracy of information

The Site Operators cannot warrant any of the information on this website, nor can they make any guarantees as to the accuracy of any information and/or opinions expressed herein and/or in the links referred hereto. Please note that the literary ratings and reviews, biographies, critics and summaries, solely represent the Site Manager's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual literary work or author involved, in particular from Jorge Luis Borges. Similarly, any illustrative texts or quotes have been chosen subjectively by the Site Manager. The Site Manager acknowledges (and reminds and warns users) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual views and opinions of the visitors and/or users of this website. Visitors and/or users are warned that the information provided on this website and any links referred to herein may be inaccurate and should not rely on this information.

The following information -- as a mere example -- may be inaccurate:
· The spelling of author's names and book titles
· Covers of books as depicted
· Length of books
· Dates when the book was written or translated
· Names of reviewers
· Dates and sources of listed reviews
· Availability of books
· Any information about books, reviewers, etc
· Review summaries and ratings

6. Website of opinion (not fact) and inherent consequences thereof

As a website of opinion, certain users may feel offended by the material posted at this website and any links referred to herein. While the Site Operators regret this, they take no responsibility whatsoever for this or any reaction to any material posted. Every effort has been made to ensure that no harm results from the use of this website. Nevertheless, users are advised to use this website responsibly and reminded that the Site Operators accept no responsibility for any damage and harm caused by use of this website or any links referred to herein.

7. Copyright

This site is only for educational, cultural and scientific purposes, and no lucrative nor commercial purposes should derive from its use. Unless otherwise noted, the Site Operators did not intend to use any third parties’ copyrighted material in this website and may not guarantee as to the use or misuse of third parties’ copyrighted material in the links included herein. Therefore, the Site Operators assume no responsibility for any use or misuse of any third parties’ copyrighted materials in this site or in the links included herein. The copyright for any material created by the Site Manager is reserved. Any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the Site Manager's prior written authorization.

8. Privacy policy

If the opportunity for the input of personal or business data (email addresses, name, addresses) is given to visitors and/or users of this website, the input of such data takes place voluntarily.

9. Legal validity of this disclaimer

This legal disclaimer is to be regarded as part of this website. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain unchanged.