KIT Career Service Website

( September 2025)

1. Scope and purpose

1.1. One of the tasks of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), a corporation under public law and a university (hereinafter referred to as "KIT"), is to support students in conducting internships and graduates of KIT (hereinafter referred to as "users") in cooperation with industry and other employers in their transition to professional life. For this purpose, KIT has set up the Career Service Website (hereinafter referred to as the "Website") and offers various products in connection with the public task described above. The customer supports KIT in the fulfillment of its tasks by concluding a contract in accordance with these terms and conditions, whereby the customer pursues publicly effective communicative goals. The aim of the contracts is to inform users about the customer, their status as an employer, including vacancies, and to give users a first impression of the customer as an employer. At the same time, the customer should be given the opportunity to position himself or herself as an attractive employer among students and graduates.
1.2. Users of the website are students and employees of KIT on the website.
1.3. Subject to the regulations laid down here and subject to the conclusion of a separate contract for the respective product, customers are given the opportunity to place advertisements on the website as potential employers for jobs in the Job Market product as well as advertisements for scholarships as potential scholarship providers and prizes as potential award givers. In addition, advertisements and services from the area of online advertising can be placed for recruiting events of the customers that are organized by the customers themselves. These customer ads and services are visible to users. The website has a student profile database. Here, users have the opportunity to create their own profile to present their professional skills and qualifications, including a CV, and to activate it for customers on the KIT Career Service website. The Career Service website offers the customer the opportunity to search for potential employers in a student profile database based on certain criteria. The website also has the option for customers to book poster and banner advertising as well as information booths for students on campus. In addition, participation in the KIT Career Fair can be booked via the website. Customers can present themselves on the website in company profiles or taster day profiles.
1.4. KIT reserves the right to remove products from the range or to add new offers to the Internet platform.

2. Conclusion of Contract

2.1. The present contractual agreements apply between KIT and the customer.
2.2. In order to provide the customer with access to the website, a basic contract must be concluded between KIT and the customer. This is done by registering the customer on the website under acceptance of this "Career Service Website - General Terms and Conditions for Customers" (hereinafter referred to as "GTC") in the version valid at the time of registration and activation by KIT. After registration, the potential customer will be checked by KIT and activated by KIT at its own discretion. KIT reserves the right not to activate potential customers without giving reasons. The legal relationship between KIT and the customer shall be governed exclusively by the GTC set out here in the version valid at the time of registration; deviating or supplementary terms and conditions for the customer, in particular general terms and conditions, shall only apply if they are expressly acknowledged by KIT in writing within the scope of activation. In this respect, it is not sufficient for the customer to refer to the customer's general terms and conditions during registration or in separate correspondence and for KIT to confirm or carry out the registration without explicit reference to the customer's deviating or supplementary terms and conditions. The provision of services is not considered an implied acceptance.
2.3. The customer has the opportunity to purchase the products presented in Section 5 from KIT on the website. This requires a product contract. The product contract is concluded by the customer ordering a specific product via a digital order form on the website and a written order confirmation by e-mail by KIT. The legal relationship between KIT and the customer in relation to this product contract shall be governed exclusively by the current price list – as presented on the website – the relevant service descriptions and the GTC in the version valid at the time of the order; deviating or supplementary terms and conditions of the customer, in particular general terms and conditions, shall only apply if they are expressly accepted by KIT in writing as part of the order confirmation. In this respect, it is not sufficient for the customer to refer to his/her General Terms and Conditions when placing an order or in separate correspondence and for KIT to confirm or carry out the order confirmation without explicit reference to the customer's deviating or supplementary terms and conditions. The provision of services is not considered an implied acceptance.
2.4. With the successful conclusion of a product contract, the customer accepts the version of the GTC current at the time of this order, also with regard to the basic contract.

3. Customers characteristics and earmarking

3.1. The customer assures that he/she is an entrepreneur within the meaning of § 14 BGB or a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law.
3.2. If the customer loses the above-mentioned property during the term of the contract, he/she undertakes to notify KIT of the loss immediately in writing and to delete his/her account on the website immediately.
3.3. The customer assures that he/she will use this website exclusively for the purposes mentioned in section 1, in particular he/she will look for potential employees for his/her own company as a commercial enterprise or other employer.

4. Compensation

4.1. For the products of KIT, the customer provides consideration of the same value in the form of cash benefits.
4.2. The Client shall pay applicable taxes – such as foreign withholding tax, use tax, wealth tax, excise tax, service tax or similar taxes, duties and other charges. If KIT is obliged to pay such taxes, the customer must reimburse them as well as all related costs or expenses, interest and fines to KIT.
4.3. The customer is obliged to provide KIT with all details and information (e.g. company certificates) required for proper invoicing.
4.4. The amount of the remuneration is based on the product prices shown on the website in accordance with the price list plus legally owed VAT. KIT will issue an invoice to the customer for this purpose, showing the legally owed VAT.
4.5. The requirements of §§ 14, 14a UStG are observed. The customer will provide KIT with his/her VAT ID no. or submit his/her entrepreneur's certificate, insofar as this is necessary for invoicing, after the conclusion of this contract.
4.6. After conclusion of the contract by automated dispatch of the order confirmation and invoicing by KIT, the amount plus legally owed VAT is due.
4.7. Publication of the advertisement or activation of the booked product by KIT takes place within three working days after receipt of the remuneration for the respective product by KIT.
4.8. If KIT does not provide one or more services as owed, the customer may assert rights only with regard to these services, while the contract remains unaffected in all other respects.

5. Products

5.1. After conclusion of the basic contract, its registration and activation by KIT, the customer has the opportunity to purchase products offered on the website in accordance with Section 2 in return for payment of a fee according to the product prices shown on the website in accordance with the price list plus legally owed VAT in accordance with Section 4. KIT offers the following products on its website:
5.1.1. KIT Career Fair (Service Description KIT Career Fair)
5.1.2. Advertisements of customers for the job market (service description online recruiting)
5.1.3. Ads of customers for scholarships and prizes (service description online recruiting)
5.1.4. Student Profile Database (Service Description Online Recruiting)
5.1.5. Company profiles (service description, online profiles and events)
5.1.6. Event banner advertising (service description, online profiles and events)
5.1.7. Taster Day (Service Description, Online Profiles and Events)
5.1.8. Campus Advertising (Campus Advertising Service Description)
5.2. The details of the respective product are set out in the respective service description in our login area .
5.3. If a stand is part of the product, the following applies: The customer is obliged to ensure safety with regard to the stand. In particular, the customer must ensure that the stand is sufficiently secured against access to or access by unauthorised third parties, that equipment and other working and operating materials are properly used and stored, and that the stand itself is set up and secured in such a way that he/she does not pose a risk to KIT and to third parties, especially for students and visitors. KIT does not take any safety precautions that go beyond KIT's usual duty to ensure traffic safety, in particular against theft or damage to property. If the booth is set up within the KIT premises, the premises will be secured against access by third parties after the end of the set-up and dismantling times in accordance with the usual measures at KIT. KIT does not individually secure individual stands.
5.4. The customer will immediately follow the instructions of the KIT security staff. During the measures, the fire protection zones and escape routes must not block. The house and fire protection regulations of KIT must be observed. Smoking is prohibited in all buildings, and the use of fog machines is prohibited.

6. regulations on posted contents of the customers / inadmissible contents, prohibited activities / removal of inadmissible contents

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6.1. The customer guarantees that he/she owns all rights necessary for the placement of his/her own content. The customer is solely responsible for his/her content and the legal admissibility of the text and image documents provided. You: within the framework of this contract, he indemnifies KIT from all claims of third parties that may arise due to the violation of relevant legal provisions by the customer, insofar as KIT has not caused the violation intentionally or through gross negligence. Furthermore, KIT is exempted from the costs of the necessary legal defense. The customer is obliged to support KIT in good faith with information and documents in the legal defense against third parties.
6.2. The customer guarantees that all content posted by him/her on the website or transmitted to KIT for posting or use in accordance with the service description is free of third-party rights. The customer will compensate KIT for damages caused by a violation of this regulation. With the order, the customer confirms that he/she holds or can freely dispose of all rights of use, copyright and other rights to the documents and data etc. provided by him/her/him/her necessary for posting on the Internet or other use in accordance with the service description.
6.3. The customer grants KIT all rights of use and use for advertising in print and online media of all kinds, which are necessary for the fulfillment of the obligations incumbent on KIT under the respective product contract. In particular, the customer grants KIT non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable and free of charge right to use the logo and other works made available without restriction in terms of space and time and authorizes KIT to use it on the Internet, and grants all necessary copyright rights of use and other rights, in particular the right to reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, public access, extraction from a database and retrieval, in terms of time and content to the extent necessary for the performance of the product contract. The above-mentioned rights are granted without territorial restrictions. This right also extends to software providers, insofar as KIT uses them to fulfill its contractual obligations, and thus also the right to store the content on their servers. The customer is solely responsible for the content and legal admissibility of the text and image documents provided. KIT and, if applicable, the software providers do not undertake to check the content for completeness, correctness, legality, topicality, quality, and suitability for a specific purpose. Insofar as third parties assert rights to the content against KIT, the customer indemnifies KIT from any claims, insofar as KIT has not caused the violation intentionally or through gross negligence.
6.4. The customer is aware that content published on the Internet is searched by search engines or other third parties and that these search engines can archive the published content on their premises. If an advertisement is archived by a search engine, KIT is not responsible for this and requests for deletion of the archived data must be addressed by the customer to the search engine provider or the third party.
6.5. KIT assumes no responsibility for information of the customer (e.g. logo, advertising text) posted on the website beyond the obligations expressly agreed herein and is in particular not obliged to store it after the expiry of the respective product contract or to return it to the customer.
6.6. In particular, KIT is entitled to routinely monitor electronic data traffic and to store the log files obtained from it in accordance with the statutory retention regulations applicable to KIT according to its own care.
6.7. If the customer is requested to cease and desist on the basis of certain information or representations that are related to information or representations of his/her content published on the website (in particular advertisements or information), or if he/she has already issued a cease-and-desist declaration with regard to certain information or representations, or if a corresponding preliminary injunction, judgment or other judicial order has been issued? decision or official order, the customer is obliged to inform KIT immediately in writing. The Customer shall indemnify KIT against all related claims of third parties and shall compensate KIT for any damages caused by KIT, unless KIT culpably fails to avert the damage within the meaning of these GTC.
6.8. Prohibited Content / Prohibited Activities:
Content that violates laws, official or court orders or requirements, the rights of third parties, morality or the regulations laid down in the product contract is inadmissible.
6.8.1. In particular, the following actions of the customer are prohibited:
• the posting, distribution, offer and promotion of pornographic, non-permissive content, services and/or products that violate youth protection laws, data protection law and/or other rights and/or fraudulent content;
• the use of content that insults or defames other participants or third parties;
• the use, provision and distribution of content, services and/or products that are protected by law or encumbered by third-party rights (e.g. copyright) without being expressly authorised to do so.
6.8.2. Furthermore, regardless of a possible violation of the law when distributing or posting one's own content, for example on platforms, as well as when communicating with other participants (e.g. by sending personal messages), the following activities by the customer are prohibited:
• the distribution of viruses, Trojan horses and other harmful files;
• sending junk or spam mail and chain letters;
• the dissemination or communication of offensive, offensive, sexually influenced, obscene or defamatory content as well as content or communication that is / is suitable to promote or support racism, bigotry, hatred, physical violence or unlawful acts (in each case explicitly or implicitly);
• harassment of other participants, e.g. by contacting them personally several times without or against the reaction of the other participant, as well as promoting or supporting such harassment;
• soliciting other participants to disclose passwords or personal information for commercial or unlawful purposes;
• the distribution and/or public reproduction of content available on the platform, unless expressly permitted by the respective author.
6.8.3. Any action that is likely to impair the smooth operation of platforms, in particular to place an excessive load on the systems of KIT or the software provider that may be engaged by KIT, is also prohibited.
6.8.4. If there is a suspicion of illegal or criminal acts, KIT and the software provider are entitled and, if necessary, obliged to review all activities and, if necessary, to take appropriate legal action. This may also include the forwarding of a case to the public prosecutor's office.
6.8.5. The customer, for his part, undertakes to ensure that participants engaged by him/her do not carry out any actions on the website that violate a) to c).
6.8.6. Furthermore, the following contents are excluded in any case:
• Content that violates the reputation and dignity of KIT or the public administration and the state,
• Content with party-political content, in particular election advertising,
• Advertisements for participation in illegal structural distribution (§ 16 UWG) or for the conclusion of membership in an association or other association/society,
• irrelevant content, such as competitions, events without career relevance or pure advertising campaigns
6.9. KIT and, if applicable, software providers consulted by KIT reserve the right to remove or not publish/use content, in particular advertising material, of the customers if the content to be published violates laws, official or court orders or requirements, the rights of third parties, morality, or the regulations laid down in the product contract ("Prohibited Content"). This also applies to the extent that links are placed in the customer's published or to be published information that lead directly or indirectly to pages with inadmissible content. The customer's obligation to pay remains unaffected. KIT will inform the customer about the removal or non-publication. The customer is free to post a notification in accordance with the specifications for the remaining term. The right to extraordinary termination of the product contract remains unaffected by this. KIT's obligations to remove such inadmissible content are based exclusively on the statutory provisions. However, KIT will delete inadmissible content at the customer's request, insofar as the customer is not able to do so himself/herself. Insofar as KIT is held liable for inadmissible content or other violations of the law for which the customer is responsible, the customer shall indemnify KIT upon first request, insofar as KIT has not caused the violation intentionally or through gross negligence. Furthermore, KIT is exempted from the costs of the necessary legal defense. The customer is obliged to support KIT in good faith with information and documents in the legal defense against third parties.
6.10. The provisions of the General Equal Treatment Act must be complied with.
6.11. Compliance with notification and approval obligations as well as compliance with relevant legal provisions regarding the measures carried out by the customer is the sole responsibility of the customer (e.g. Youth Protection Act, GEMA registration). KIT has the right to check compliance.

7. use of the website

7.1. The Client acknowledges that 100% availability of software solutions and platforms is not technically feasible. In particular, maintenance, security, or capacity issues as well as events beyond the control of the software provider or KIT (such as disruption of public communication networks, power outages), but also hardware and software errors, in particular of the software and hardware and the IT infrastructure of the customer, can lead to short-term disruptions and the temporary suspension of services. This contract only grants a right to use the services within the scope of the technical and operational possibilities described.
7.2. The customer is aware that the data for the operation of the websites is transmitted via public channels, in particular the Internet. The customer acknowledges that the transmission is not 100% secure.
7.3. KIT will operate the website and the related technical equipment to the best of its knowledge and belief in accordance with its usual care and on the basis of the state of the art of science and technology known to it. KIT does not guarantee that a concrete result will be achieved. In particular, KIT does not guarantee that a corresponding interest is aroused on the part of users in specific products, that a certain number of interested parties apply for the products, or that a certain number of users are stored in the student profile database.
7.4. KIT ensures that the services to be provided by KIT are implemented in accordance with the usual technical standards.
7.5. An exclusion from competition is not granted.
7.6. The customer undertakes to hand over all documents and information to KIT in a timely manner and in the agreed manner that are necessary and expedient for the achievement of the goals described in the contract. If these requirements are not fulfilled in time, any deadlines for the provision of services for KIT shall be extended accordingly. The term of the product is not extended by late provision of necessary documents and information. The customer will remove job advertisements or information that is no longer up to date.
7.7. KIT is entitled to use vicarious agents to fulfill its obligations under the product contract.
7.8. The customer shall configure his/her infrastructure, in particular his/her technical facilities, in accordance with the respective state of the art in such a way that it is neither the target nor the starting point of faults that are likely to impair the Internet service offered by KIT or generally a smooth and error-free network operation.
7.9. It is the customer's responsibility to exercise the greatest possible care when using IDs, passwords, user names, or other security devices provided in connection with the services of KIT and to take every measure that ensures the confidential and secure handling of the data and prevents its disclosure to third parties. The customer is responsible for the use of his/her passwords or users by third parties and will be held responsible accordingly if he/she cannot demonstrate in a sustainable manner that access to such data did not occur through his/her culpable act or omission. The customer shall inform KIT immediately of any possible or already known unauthorized use of his/her access data.
7.10. If personal data is processed on the part of the customer, the customer must ensure that these comply with the relevant data protection regulations in the applicable version, in particular those of Regulation [EU] 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) as well as the BDSG or the LDSG, by means of suitable agreements with participants consulted by him/her or organizational measures.

8. provisions on advertisements by the customer

8.1. Advertisements by the Customer in accordance with Section 5 will be posted by the Customer via his/her account on the Website in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7. The duration of the ads depends on the booked product and the duration shown there. After this time, KIT is entitled to take the advertisement offline, but is not obliged.
8.2. The customer undertakes to clearly include the type, job description and requirements of the activities advertised in the advertisements in the advertisement. In particular, he/she will clarify the type of activity involved (either dependent employment or traineeship or one of the types listed for selection). Advertisements for self-employment are not permitted. The information must be correct and must not be misleading or misleading.
8.3. The job advertisement may only be linked to the customer's website. This website must comply with the minimum legal requirements and, in particular, have an imprint that complies with the legal principles and the principles developed by case law.
8.4. KIT is entitled to assess at its own discretion whether there has been a violation of these requirements in Sections 6 and 7. In the event of a violation, it is entitled to remove or not publish the relevant job offer with the consequences of Section 6.9.

9. application data

9.1. The data of users who register on the website are strictly confidential and may only be used and used by the customer in accordance with the relevant data protection regulations in the applicable version, in particular those of Regulation [EU] 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) and the BDSG or LDSG. The customer undertakes to comply with all data protection regulations. In particular, the customer ensures the implementation of the information obligations towards the data subjects, the implementation of the rights of the data subject and compliance with the data protection regulations on data transfer outside the scope of the European Union.
9.2. The use of the student profile database by the customer may only be carried out for the above-mentioned purpose in accordance with sections 1, 3 and the student profile database from the job exchange service description. In the event of a violation, KIT reserves the right to block the customer's account and to block the customer's access to application data.
9.3. Contact with users must be established exclusively via the function provided for this purpose. The customer does not make copies of the personal data provided by the users of the website without first obtaining their consent.
9.4. Although the establishment of contact between users and customers is technically supported by the website, the success of this contact – in particular the accessibility of users via this instrument – is not subject to KIT's performance obligations. Any subsequent application process is not the subject of this contract, but is reserved solely for the parties concerned, i.e. the customer and the users.
9.5. KIT also reserves the right to prevent the customer from contacting specific candidates via the website at the request of these users.
9.6. KIT does not guarantee a certain number of student profiles or feedback from interested users.
9.7. KIT is not liable for the accuracy and completeness of the data and information uploaded by the users. KIT does not verify the identity of the users or the accuracy of the information provided by the users. The entry is made exclusively by the respective user and under his/her own responsibility.
9.8. Downloads of files that the users themselves post on the website are at the customer's own risk. KIT assumes no liability for damages caused by downloading, installing, storing or using documents, software or content of our website through no fault of KIT. Although KIT uses up-to-date virus scanning programs, KIT assumes no liability for damage or malfunctions caused by malware, computer viruses, computer worms, etc.
9.9. Access to the student profile database is reserved exclusively for the customer himself/herself. The customer undertakes to handle both the access data to the student profile database and all information stored there, in particular personal data of the users stored there, in strict confidentiality, to use it exclusively for the purpose specified in the respective product contract and to protect it from access by third parties. A disclosure of information stored on the website to third parties is excluded.
9.10. If a user deletes or changes his/her profiles or data or parts thereof, in particular his/her CV, these will be automatically deleted from the student profile database for data protection reasons.
9.11. The student profile database may not be used to search for users using search criteria that violate the AGG.

10. Software

Within the framework of the basic and product contract, there is no transfer of ownership or rights of use, nor the granting of licenses or other rights to the software of the website from KIT to the customer. KIT reserves all rights to the software used, to trademarks, titles, trademarks, and copyright and other industrial rights. These remain with KIT without restriction.

11. Liability

11.1. The liability of the contracting parties is limited to property damage and financial damage caused by intent and gross negligence.
11.2. In deviation from No. 10.1, the contractual partners shall be liable for intent and negligence in the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations. Essential contractual obligations are those obligations that protect contractual essential legal positions of the contractual partners, which are to be granted to them according to the content and purpose of the contract. Furthermore, those contractual obligations are essential, the fulfilment of which enables the proper execution of the contract in the first place and on the compliance of which the contractual partner could regularly rely.
11.3. In deviation from No. 10.2 In the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations in the case of simple negligence, liability shall be limited to foreseeable, direct and contract-typical damages.
11.4. The exclusions and limitations of liability do not apply to claims under the Product Liability Act, due to fraudulent conduct, liability for guaranteed characteristics and injury to life, body or health.
11.5. A contractual penalty or lump-sum damages is excluded and does not become the subject of this contract.
11.6. Insofar as liability is excluded or limited in accordance with the above provisions, this also applies to the liability of the legal representative and the vicarious agents of the contractual partners.
11.7. Insofar as a stand / advertising space is part of the product, the following applies: The customer assumes the duty to ensure traffic safety for his/her stand / advertising space in the internal relationship with KIT. If KIT is held liable for damages resulting from the violation of the customer's duty to ensure safety, the customer must indemnify KIT against all claims of third parties and all costs incurred by KIT. This does not apply if the claim is based on intentional or grossly negligent conduct on the part of KIT.

12. Confidentiality

12.1. Unless expressly stipulated otherwise in these GTC, the customer and KIT will not exchange any confidential information within the framework of the basic contract.
12.2. KIT and the customer will treat all information and objects received from the other partner within the framework of the product contract and marked as confidential vis-à-vis third parties. Oral information is only to be treated as confidential if it is designated as confidential in the notification and is then summarised in writing and marked as confidential and transmitted to the other party within 30 days of notification. The confidentiality obligation shall apply until three (3) years after the termination of the respective product contract, unless otherwise provided for in these GTC.
12.3. Information in the form of personal data of the user (e.g. information of the user from the profiles and the CVs) is considered confidential information within the meaning of the underlying contract, regardless of any separate marking, and must be treated strictly confidential by the customer for an unlimited period of time, used exclusively for the purpose specified in the contract and not passed on to third parties.
12.4. The above-mentioned confidentiality obligation does not apply if and to the extent that the information/objects in question:
• are generally known, or
• become generally known through no fault of the partner concerned, or
• have been or will be obtained from a third party without any obligation of confidentiality, or
• are already present with the partner concerned or
• have been or will be developed independently by the receiving partner independently of the notification.
Insofar as information has to be released by law or official/judicial order, this disclosure does not constitute a violation of the confidentiality obligation. In all other respects, the above-mentioned obligations remain unaffected.

13. Term and Termination

13.1. Basic contract: The basic contract comes into force upon conclusion of the contract and ends automatically if the website is not used by the customer for a period of 15 months. It can be terminated at any time by ordinary notice with 14 days' notice to the end of the month. It is equivalent to an ordinary termination by the customer if he or she deletes his/her account. The right to extraordinary termination remains unaffected.
13.2. Product Contract:
13.2.1. The term of the product contract comes into force upon conclusion of the product contract and ends after the term specified in the respective product. Termination of the basic contract does not affect the term of the product contract and all associated rights and obligations.
13.2.2. In the event of an important reason, KIT and the customer have the right to extraordinary termination of the product contract. An important reason entitling the employee to terminate the contract without notice exists in particular if compliance with the deadlines proves to be impracticable due to unforeseeable and/or unavoidable events, in particular cases of force majeure, official requirements or statutory prohibitions.
13.2.3. In the event of termination, KIT shall no longer perform any further contractual services from the time of termination.
13.2.4. If a contractual partner is responsible for the termination without notice, he/she is obliged to return the services received from the other contractual partner, whereby the consideration granted by him/her is to be offset against its market value. If the contractual partner liable for restitution is unable to reimburse due to the nature of the services obtained or for other reasons, he/she must compensate the market value of the services received. The contractual partner entitled to terminate the contract without notice reserves the right to assert further damages.

14. Transfer of rights and obligations

Unless otherwise stipulated in the contract, rights and obligations under this contract may only be transferred to third parties or made available for exercise with the prior written consent of the respective other contractual partner.

15. Good Conduct

15.1. KIT and the customer are obliged to comply with German laws and regulations, in particular the relevant anti-corruption regulations. They are also committed to responsible and ethical behavior towards employees, society and the environment. Further provisions of one contracting party in connection with ethics and corruption prevention require explicit written contractual inclusion in the contract in order to be applied to the other contracting party.
15.2. As a corporation under public law, KIT is committed to absolute integrity and neutrality. Therefore, when initiating and executing this contract, the customer undertakes to refrain from anything that could call into question this integrity and neutrality, in particular he/she will refrain from any appearance of possible influence on the exercise of administrative actions by KIT and its employees. In particular with regard to the autonomy of the university, he/she will ensure that there is no undue influence on academic or scientific affairs of KIT.
15.3. The contractual partners are required to take into account the interests of the other contractual partner that are worthy of protection, in particular their reputation. The aforementioned obligations shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
15.4. The Contracting Parties shall immediately inform each other of any circumstances that may be significant for the performance of this Agreement.

16. Disclosure of the Grant

The customer is aware that KIT, as a corporation under public law, must comply with the requirements of the Joint Order of the Ministries for the Promotion of Activities of the State through Services of Private Persons (AnO Sponsoring). Against this background, the customer agrees that KIT may report the type and amount of the donation, the purpose of use, and the customer to the state government and the MWK with regard to product contracts to be concluded, and that the ministries concerned may publish this data in the report of the state government on benefits received, insofar as AnO Sponsoring is relevant in the specific case.
During the ordering process, the customer declares whether he/she transmits personal data to KIT within the meaning of the Baden-Württemberg State Data Protection Act or the General Data Protection Regulation and declares his/her consent to publication in the aforementioned sense by confirming the corresponding declaration of consent. The customer can refuse this consent. In this case, the donation will be published in anonymised form.

17. Data protection

The relevant data protection regulations in the applicable version, in particular those of Regulation [EU] 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) as well as the BDSG or the LDSG, must be complied with by the partners. The exchange of personal data between the partners is limited to the data provided for in the contract as well as personal data of employees of the partners, insofar as their processing is necessary for the performance of the contract.

18. Final provisions

18.1. All previous agreements between the contracting parties on the respective subject matter of the contract are replaced by this contract, there are no oral ancillary agreements.
18.2. Rights and obligations arising from the contract may only be transferred to third parties or made available for exercise with the prior written consent of the other party.
18.3. Any differences of opinion that may arise will be resolved amicably by the contracting parties. In all other respects, the place of jurisdiction is Karlsruhe and German law applies to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
18.4. Should individual provisions of this contract be or become invalid in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this contract. In this case, the contracting parties undertake to replace the invalid or unenforceable provision retroactively with an effective or feasible provision that is equal to or as close as possible to the meaning and purpose of what is economically intended. The same applies in the event of a gap.
18.5. The service descriptions associated with the respective product contract specify the above-mentioned products. They are considered an essential part of the agreement. In the event of contradictions between these GTC and the provisions mentioned in the service descriptions that cannot be eliminated by interpretation, the contractual provision shall apply first, then the contractual provision in the service description.