Terms of Use

Use of this website is subject to the following conditions. By accessing our content, you agree to the terms and conditions set out here. Please read the terms of use carefully to avoid any misunderstandings.

Austria Tourism operates websites under the main domain austria.info and associated subdomains (b2b.austria.info, meet.austria.info, career.austria.info, atb.austria.info, oett.austria.info) that serve the paid or unpaid promotion of Austria as a tourist destination. Hereinafter, austria.info refers to the website accessible by entering this or any other forwarding URL. Subdomains refers to the websites b2b.austria.info, meet.austria.info, career.austria.info, atb.austria.info, and oett.austria.info, accessible by entering these or any other forwarding URLs. All users are requested to read the following terms of use and all other legal notices carefully. Use of the austria.info website or its subdomains is conditional upon the user's agreement to the terms of use set out below and to all other legal notices (e.g. copyright notice, linking & framing policy). Use of the austria.info website or its subdomains constitutes acceptance of the terms of use and all other legal notices. Should a user not accept the terms of use, they are prohibited from making any further use of the austria.info website or its subdomains. Any breach of all or individual provisions of the terms of use set out below or of any other legal notices will result in the immediate and automatic revocation of the user's right to use the austria.info website or its subdomains. In the event of such breaches, Austria Tourism reserves all claims of whatever nature (e.g. claims under warranty or for damages) against the user or users concerned.

The use of the websites austria.info and its subdomains is exclusively permitted for informational purposes of both a private and a professional nature. All contents on the website austria.info and its subdomains are protected by copyright. Irrespective of whether contents are offered free of charge or at a charge. In the case of chargeable content (e.g. chargeable download of studies), specific provisions exist that determine to what other usage rights exist. Any type of reproduction, distribution, rental, lending, publication, or other use of any type at all requires the explicit written permission of Austria Tourism and is explicitly forbidden without such permission. An exception obtains when a specific provision explicitly establishes something to the contrary. Violations of this provision may in particular result in trademark, copyright and competition law consequences. Austria Tourism expressly reserves itself all copyrights and the usage rights arising therefrom (rights to use work and permission to use work) on the contents offered on the websites austria.info and its subdomains. All users are urged to read the copyright statement.

Austria Tourism places great importance on the careful handling of personal data. For this reason, the privacy policy of Austria Tourism follows the principle of maintaining data confidentiality and emphasises the protection of personal data in particular. All users are urged to read the provisions on data privacy protection.

Austria Tourism cannot guarantee that the websites austria.info and its subdomains can always and at all times be accessed. Technical errors and/or maintenance work as well as other causes (such as a re-launch of the website) can lead to the websites austria.info and its subdomains being unavailable temporarily or over a longer period of time. Austria Tourism assumes no responsibility for any specific availability or accessibility of the websites austria.info and its subdomains. Austria Tourism does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, legality, objectivity and up-to-dateness of the contents offered on the websites austria.info and its subdomains. This is equally applicable to all products and services offered on the website, including associated descriptions and prices. Austria Tourism may undertake changes, modifications as well as deletions of the website in its entirety and the contents presented on it at any time and without prior notice.

Austria Tourism and the persons or companies related to Austria Tourism shall not be liable for damages of any kind (e.g. lost profits, frustrated expenditures, damages due to loss of data, loss of earnings, claims based on enrichment law, legal advice or contract establishment costs). This disclaimer in particular applies to all damages caused by the use of the website, by temporary or permanent inability to use the website (downtime), by the limited availability of the website or the content presented thereon, by the erroneous presentation of content, by the presentation of third-party content or by the display of hyperlinks on austria.info and its subdomains.

Should any damages to hardware and/or software or to other data arise from the use of the websites austria.info and its subdomains or their contents, Austria Tourism does not incur any liability whatsoever. The user acknowledges that the services offered by Austria Tourism are also offered along with the involvement of third-party network operators. The availability of services is therefore dependent on the technical provision of external network services. Austria Tourism assumes no obligation to keep these services offered free from interruptions and able to be accessed at all times. The user is aware that Austria Tourism has no influence on the possibility of the Internet access, the transmission speed and the availability and stability of network connections and access. Austria Tourism is entitled to interrupt the services for internal reasons such as maintenance services for a reasonable period.

There may be a temporary restriction of services, especially for reasons of force majeure, strikes, lockouts and orders by the authorities as well as due to technical changes to the systems of Austria Tourism or due to other measures which are necessary for a proper or improved operation (e.g. maintenance, repairs, etc.). The user can derive no claims from this, however Austria Tourism will strive for rapid troubleshooting. The user is entitled to use the services of Austria Tourism on his own respective risk and expense and is obliged to only use appropriate technical devices, such as appropriate computers, modems, etc. The user is also obliged to use the services only in accordance with legal regulations and standards and to refrain from any improper use of the services. Where services are rendered free of charge, Austria Tourism reserves the right to provide these for a charge at any time after prior notice. Under no circumstance is there an entitlement to the provision of gratuitous services.

On the Internet portal, Austria Tourism also and in particular offers users services (such as information) that are conveyed, created or otherwise provided by third parties. Austria Tourism will undertake every effort to not infringe on any third-party rights, in particular, but not limited to copyright, exploitation, trademark or other usage rights through the operation of the Internet portal. However, Austria Tourism does not guarantee that the services used by users (such as information) are free from any third-party rights, specifically but not limited to copyrights, exploitation, trademark or other rights of use. Liability for damages possibly resulting therefrom shall be excluded. In the event that Austria Tourism offers free software downloads (e.g. screen savers) on the website, no liability whatsoever is assumed for their ability to function. More particularly, no liability is assumed for any (consequential) damages resulting from the use of the software (e.g. damage to the operating system).

Austria Tourism endeavours to ensure the accuracy, completeness and up-to-dateness of price information contained on this website. Since Austria Tourism receives the prices from third parties, it has no means, however, to check them for accuracy. In particular, the specifications are subject to periodic changes. Austria Tourism therefore assumes no liability for the correctness, completeness and up-to-dateness of the price information contained on this website.

This general exclusion of liability applies irrespective of the asserted claim basis for slight negligence as well as for gross negligence where entrepreneurs are concerned. Limitation of liability extends to both contractual and non-contractual claims.

Austria Tourism is entitled to change, adapt, or update these terms and all other legal texts at any time, in whatever form and without prior notice. The current version of these terms of use is binding. All users of the websites austria.info and its subdomains should consult these terms of use and the associated legal texts, in order to keep track of any modifications. All users of the websites austria.info and austriatourism.com expressly declare themselves in agreement that the currently valid version applies to users as soon as they visit the site again and do not object to the current version of the terms of use or other legal texts explicitly and in writing.

Austria Tourism assumes no liability for linked websites and their contents. The information presented on hyperlinks on the websites austria.info and its subdomains are a free service provided by Austria Tourism. Austria Tourism has no influence on the design or modification of the linked sites and the content they offer. Should hyperlinks on austria.info and its subdomains refer to third-party content, these do not constitute a rating of the linked content. Austria Tourism in particular assumes no liability whatsoever for the accuracy, completeness, legality, objectivity and up-to-dateness of such content. The access to information that is reached via hyperlinks on austria.info and its subdomains is the sole responsibility of the user. All users are urged to also read the terms on Linking and Framing. In the event that users notice that a link refers to legally problematic content, they are asked to inform Austria Tourism via email to datenschutz@austria.info about the link in question, so that it may be removed as soon as possible where necessary.

All other legal texts on austria.info and its subdomains that are referred to in these terms of use are an integral part of these terms of use and are subject to the conditions defined in their provisions whenever they do not contain more specific provisions. More specific provisions may exist e.g. in the case of paid content for use rights.

If the user is a business, the court with subject-matter jurisdiction for the First District of Vienna shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes. If the user is a consumer within the meaning of the Consumer Protection Act, this shall apply only if they have their domicile, habitual residence or place of employment within that court's jurisdiction. The place of performance for all claims and obligations is the registered office of Austria Tourism. Austrian substantive law applies exclusively, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and national conflict-of-laws rules.

The invalidity or ineffectiveness of individual provisions of the terms of use shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions; in this case, those agreements are deemed made which are legally effective and come closest to the original objective of Austria Tourism. Where written form is required, the transmission by fax or e-mail satisfies this requirement.

Copyright on Own Content

All of the information displayed on the websites austria.info and its subdomains (e.g. text, graphics, videos, music etc.) are protected by trademarks and/or copyrights in favour of Austria Tourism. It is therefore not permitted to download, reproduce and distribute the website as a whole or in part. In particular, the rights of reproduction, distribution, renting, lending, provision and broadcast in any form whatsoever are owned exclusively by Austria Tourism or third parties. Violations of intellectual property rights will be pursued by legal action.

Copyright on Third-Party Content

Austria Tourism operates services on the websites austria.info and its subdomains which entail the use of third-party content (e.g., text, graphics, videos, music, logos), such as content of advertising partners and contents of cooperation partners. This content can be viewed by all users. Any other use of multimedia files and texts of whatever kind requires the prior explicit consent of the author or authorised user. The author or authorised user reserves all rights to the multimedia files and texts. Austria Tourism will inform the author or authorised user of copyright infringements where Austria Tourism becomes aware of these. In any event, Austria Tourism assumes no liability whatsoever for copyright infringements of third parties. Each partner (e.g. advertising partner, cooperation partner) indemnifies Austria Tourism from all liabilities.

Links from other Websites to austria.info and its subdomains

Austria Tourism allows (hyper-) links under the following conditions: they may not alter the contents of the websites austria.info and its subdomains in any way, the recognition of the origin of all content must be guaranteed in full, and austria.info and its subdomains must be represented as linked websites in their entirety. The display of contents of the websites austria.info and its subdomains through the use of frames is not allowed. The linking of websites to content that is offensive, objectionable, contradictory to good morals or otherwise controversial/illegal is also prohibited. The contents of the websites that link to the websites austria.info and its subdomains must fully comply with all applicable legislation (e.g. copyright law, advertising law, privacy law, criminal law). Above all, these websites must not represent their relationship to Austria Tourism in a falsified, incorrect or illegal manner. A collaboration with and/or support of Austria Tourism of whatever kind may only be the case if Austria Tourism had agreed to it explicitly and in writing beforehand. In particular, the use of the Austria Tourism corporate identity (e.g. logos) requires the prior approval of Austria Tourism. Austria Tourism reserves all rights in the case of illegal links.

Links from austria.info and its subdomains to other websites

In the linking to other websites, Austria Tourism attaches the greatest importance on the fact that external content on the linked websites is not modified in any way, that the recognition of the origin of this third-party content remains intact and that the linked website is displayed in its entirety. When showing third-party content, a new browser window is opened in each case and no framing technique is used. Austria Tourism accepts no responsibility whatsoever for the legality of the content of external websites which are linked to by Austria Tourism. In particular, Austria Tourism accepts no responsibility for any subsequent alterations of their content. The inclusion of a third-party mediated or operated website in the internet portal operated by Austria Tourism does not constitute an endorsement or guarantee with regard to the services offered or contained therein, in particular to possibly offered information, goods or services. Where Austria Tourism refers to websites that are not operated by Austria Tourism through links, this only constitutes an additional service for users, in order to allow them to have access to such websites. Austria Tourism, however, assumes no responsibility and/or liability for the content of such websites in these cases.