These terms cover the use of this marketing and portfolio website and the project material published on it. This website does not sell anything, accept orders or process payments.
1. Provider and scope
FiddlerCrab UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Balbronner Straße 4, 14195 Berlin, Germany. Email: hello@fiddlercrab.com. Telephone: +49 30 69204740. Represented by Dr. Clemens Dorian Chaskel; Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 286687 B; VAT ID DE462245283.
These terms apply to consumers and businesses alike unless something different is individually agreed. Individual agreements take priority, and mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected. Simply reading this website does not create a contract.
2. Use of the website
You may view, print and share this website for personal, non-commercial purposes and for informing others about our work. Automated mass retrieval, attempts to circumvent technical measures, and any use that impairs the availability or security of the site are not permitted.
We may develop, change or discontinue the website and its content. Because our projects are developed continuously, descriptions, illustrations and status labels describe the state at the time of publication and are not a binding promise of specific features.
3. Content, licences and open-source projects
Unless an individual item states otherwise, the content of this website is protected by copyright and belongs to us or our licensors. You need our written consent for uses beyond what copyright law permits without it.
Some of our projects are published under an open-source or open-hardware licence, for example in a public source repository. Where that is the case, the licence supplied with the material governs its use, modification and redistribution — including its warranty and liability disclaimers. Those licence terms take precedence over this section for the material they cover.
Trade marks, product names and logos of third parties belong to their respective owners and are named only to describe compatibility. Naming a machine, board or printer does not imply endorsement or a partnership.
4. Build instructions, firmware and safety
Our project material describes what worked for us on our own equipment. It is offered for you to understand, adapt and rebuild at your own responsibility. You are responsible for checking that a design, part, setting or piece of firmware is suitable, safe and lawful for your machine, your materials and your use.
Several of the described projects involve mains-powered equipment, lasers, high-temperature parts, moving machinery, lithium batteries or breathing-gas measurement. Follow the safety instructions and the documentation of your own equipment, use appropriate protective measures, and do not rely on any of our tools or devices as a sole safety-critical measurement or safeguard. Analyser and monitoring projects supplement recognised procedures and certified equipment; they do not replace them, and they do not replace recognised training.
Installing our firmware on a device and modifying hardware can void the device manufacturer’s warranty and, if done incorrectly, can damage equipment. Check the target board, the wiring and the instructions before you flash anything.
5. No sales or orders on this website
This website is a marketing and portfolio presentation only. It has no shop, checkout, download purchase, account area or payment function. Project links lead to separate websites or project pages; any services or products offered there are outside this website and are governed by the relevant provider’s terms.
7. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for culpable injury to life, body or health, for fraudulently concealed defects, for expressly assumed guarantees, and under the Product Liability Act or other mandatory law.
For other damage caused by ordinary negligence we are liable only for the breach of an essential contractual duty — a duty whose performance makes the proper execution of the agreement possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the damage typical for this type of agreement and foreseeable at the time it was concluded.
These limitations apply equally to our legal representatives and to the people we use to perform our obligations. They do not limit statutory remedies other than damages, mandatory rights for digital products, or compensation rights under data-protection law. Free content published on this website is provided as information; statutory liability for it remains as described above.
8. Applicable law, changes and disputes
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Consumers retain the mandatory protection of the law of their habitual residence.
We may amend these terms for future use of the website, for example after changes to our services or to the law. The version published here at the time of your use applies. Amendments to an individually agreed contract require agreement.
We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body (§ 36 VSBG). Please contact us directly with complaints; access to the courts is unaffected.
For customers who are merchants (Kaufleute), legal entities under public law or special funds under public law, Berlin, Germany, is the exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes arising from this relationship. Mandatory exclusive jurisdictions remain unaffected. For consumers and others not covered by this agreement, the statutory jurisdiction rules apply.