Organizer:
e4 QUALIFICATION GmbH
Am Motodrom
68766 Hockenheim
T +49 (15678) 7744-00

Represented by Managing Directors
Kai Hennefarth and Alexander Nieland
Commercial register at Mannheim District Court
Register no.: HRB 728858

1. Scope

The following Special Terms and Conditions apply to all orders placed through our online ticket shop and at the box office. Any deviations from the organizer’s General Terms and Conditions are effective only if they have been confirmed in writing by the organizer. By redeeming the ticket on site, you expressly accept these Special Terms and Conditions.

2. Contracting Parties, Conclusion of the Contract, Opportunities for Correction

The purchase agreement is concluded with the event organizer. By listing the tickets in the online shop, we are making a binding offer to conclude a contract for these tickets. You may initially add our tickets to your shopping cart without obligation and correct your entries at any time before submitting your binding order by using the correction tools provided and explained in the ordering process. The contract is concluded when you accept the offer for the tickets in your shopping cart by clicking the order button.

The purchase price is due for payment immediately upon conclusion of the contract. The customer pays the amount stated in their order using the payment method they selected from the available options. In all cases, fulfilment only occurs once the amount has been credited to the organizer’s account.

Tickets booked online cannot be cancelled.

Immediately after submitting the order, you will receive a confirmation by email.

3. Delivery conditions

Tickets are delivered immediately after successful completion of the ordering process to the email address provided by the buyer. You will be granted access to the event site with your self-printed ticket or by showing your ticket on a smartphone/tablet. Tickets only become valid once the purchase value has been credited to the organizer’s account.

4. Conducting test drives

The following conditions apply to conducting test drives.

Eligible for test drives is anyone who:

• Can present a valid driving licence suitable for the vehicle and a photo ID at the at the location where the vehicle is picked up.
• Has reached the following age and/or meets the following conditions:
  For cars, at least 18 years old. Exceptions may apply for individual exhibitors and/or certain vehicle models.
  Has permission from the booth staff to use the vehicle.
  Has undergone an instruction briefing by the booth staff.

The authorized user is obliged to show consideration for other participants and to drive prudently. The designated route is not used for racing, but for a test drive. Traffic regulations such as speed limits and mandatory/prohibitory signage under the German Road Traffic Regulations (StVO) must be observed and complied with. The StVO applies throughout the entire exhibition grounds. In addition, the rules for driving on the Grand Prix track apply within the framework in which the accompanying instructor briefs the test driver. Every event participant is obliged to follow the instructions of stewards and security personnel.

The authorized user acts responsibly and at their own risk. Driving is at your own risk. The authorized user must treat the vehicle with due care.

The authorized user assures that they are physically and mentally able to drive a vehicle and that, in particular, they have no physical disability or illness that prevents them from driving a vehicle, no mental disability or illness that results in an immediate or even temporary loss of physical control (e.g. epilepsy), and that while driving the vehicle they are not under the influence of narcotics (e.g. drugs, alcohol) or medication that impairs driving ability.

For accompanying minors under 150 cm and under 12 years of age, the authorized driver is responsible for providing a child seat.
Violations and/or grossly negligent behavior may result in exclusion from further test drives.

5. Waiver of liability

• Participants take part in the event at their own risk. They bear general civil and criminal liability for any damages they cause. By submitting this declaration, participants waive all claims of any kind for damages related to the event against the organizers, all other persons involved in the organization of the event, the agents and representatives of all the aforementioned persons and entities, the other participants, and the owners and operators of the other vehicles.
• The waiver of liability does not apply to damages resulting from injury to life, limb, or health; to other damages arising from an intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty by the organizer; or to damages resulting from a breach of a material contractual obligation by the persons exempted from liability. In the case of damages resulting from a breach of essential contractual obligations due to slight negligence, liability for financial and property damages is limited in amount to the typical, foreseeable damage. The waiver of liability applies to claims based on any legal grounds, in particular to claims for damages arising from contractual and non-contractual liability and claims arising from tort. Implied exclusions of liability remain unaffected by the foregoing waiver of liability clause.
• The authorized user must have valid third-party liability insurance.
• The authorized user is liable in accordance with the general rules of liability if they damage the vehicle or commit any other breach of contract. In particular, the authorized user must return the vehicle in the same condition in which they received it. The authorized user’s liability also extends to ancillary damage costs such as: expert fees, towing costs, diminution in value, compensation for loss of use.

6. User liability

• The user’s liability towards the exhibitor is limited to EUR 1,000.00 if the user can prove that they are at most guilty of slight negligence.
• Use is only permitted within the intended purpose.
• In the event of slight negligence, the authorized user is liable for vehicle damage up to the amount of this deductible, plus the ancillary damage costs listed under 5.
• The authorized user is fully liable if they caused the damage intentionally or through gross negligence (e.g. in a state of alcohol-related or otherwise absolute unfitness to drive, due to extreme fatigue, etc.), or if they violated the obligations under these Terms and Conditions.

7. Special conditions due to official orders

• The organizer is entitled to require visitors, in accordance with official orders and/or legal regulations applicable at the time of the event, to wear a mouth-and-nose covering, an FFP2 mask or a medical face mask throughout the entire event area. The organizer is also entitled to allow visitors to attend only in accordance with the 2G+, 2G or 3G rule with regard to COVID-19.
• The organizer is also entitled to exclude visitors from attending in accordance with official orders and/or legal regulations applicable at the time of the event. Visitors who are excluded from attending for these reasons remain obliged to pay the ticket fee and therefore have no right to a refund of the ticket fee paid. Further claims are excluded.
• Furthermore, the organizer is entitled to register visitors entering the event area in accordance with official orders and/or legal regulations applicable at the time of the event in order to enable contact tracing in the event of a subsequently identified COVID-19 case among visitors.
• To ensure compliance with legally and officially prescribed protective and hygiene measures, the organizer is entitled to limit the number of people in the entire event area or parts thereof. The organizer may therefore temporarily deny visitors access to the entire event area or parts thereof. If a visitor is not permitted to visit at least part of an event area due to the aforementioned restrictions, the ticket purchaser may request a refund of the pro-rata ticket fee and, in the case of a day ticket, a refund of the entire ticket fee. Further claims are excluded.

8. Cancellation policy for consumers

8.1. Right of withdrawal

If the customer is a consumer within the meaning of Section 13 of the German Civil Code (BGB), they may revoke their declaration of intent to conclude the contract within 14 days without stating reasons by an express declaration (e.g. letter, email) to the organizer. To meet the deadline, it is sufficient to send the withdrawal form in due time or to submit the withdrawal declaration to the organizer in due time.

Withdrawal within the withdrawal period is only possible up to the point in time when the ticket or voucher number loses its validity, i.e. at the end of opening hours on the last day of the event.

The withdrawal declaration must be sent to:

e4 QUALIFICATION GmbH
Am Motodrom
68766 Hockenheim
Email: kontakt@e4qualification.gmbh

8.2 Consequences of withdrawal

If the right of withdrawal is effectively exercised, the tickets concerned will be blocked so that access to the respective event is not possible. In the event of an effective withdrawal, the organizer will refund the ticket price already paid by the consumer without undue delay, but no later than within 14 days. For the consumer, the period begins when the withdrawal form is sent or the withdrawal declaration is otherwise submitted; for the organizer, when it is received. The organizer is free to choose the means of refunding the ticket price already paid. A processing fee will be charged to the consumer for the refund.

9. Force majeure, event cancellation

If the organizer is compelled as a result of force majeure or for other reasons beyond its control to temporarily or for a longer period clear one or more exhibition areas, or to postpone or shorten the event, the visitor shall have no rights of withdrawal, termination or reduction, nor any claims whatsoever, in particular claims for damages against the organizer. The same applies if the visitor is unable to attend the event as a result of force majeure or for other reasons beyond the organizer’s control.

If the organizer cancels the event because it cannot hold the event due to force majeure or other circumstances beyond the organizer’s control, or because holding the event has become unreasonable for the organizer, the organizer shall not be liable for any damage and disadvantages incurred by the customer as a result of the cancellation of the event.

10. Film and photographic recordings / data collection

• The visitor agrees that photos, film recordings and interviews of the participant made in connection with the event may be published, reproduced and edited by the organizer for advertising and documentation purposes without any claim to remuneration, in particular on social media, the internet, print media and the press. This consent is irrevocable and valid indefinitely.
• By providing their email address in connection with ticket booking, the visitor agrees that the organizer is entitled to send them current information in connection with the event as well as future events; this also includes the organizer’s newsletters. The participant may revoke consent to the sending of information and newsletters at any time.
• Furthermore, the visitor agrees that during test drives, statistical data regarding users and the respective vehicle may be recorded digitally. This data is anonymized and used for statistical purposes.
• The visitor also agrees that the personal data provided will be stored for the purpose of data processing and used exclusively for handling the test drives. Participant data will only be passed on to exhibitors upon individual request and the visitor’s express wish—for example, if the visitor requests information material from a specific exhibitor.

11. Place of performance and jurisdiction

The place of jurisdiction for all legal disputes arising from the contract is Hockenheim if the contracting parties are merchants, legal entities under public law or special funds under public law, or if at least one of the contracting parties has no general place of jurisdiction in the Federal Republic of Germany, or if after conclusion of the contract they relocate their domicile or habitual residence outside the Federal Republic of Germany, or if their domicile or personal whereabouts are unknown at the time the action is brought. The organizer is entitled to bring an action alternatively at the customer’s general place of jurisdiction. The place of performance for all obligations arising from this contract is Hockenheim.

12. Applicable law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply exclusively, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

13. Severability clause

Should one or more provisions of this contract be or become invalid in whole or in part, the remainder of the contract shall remain valid. Invalid provisions shall be replaced by provisions that most closely reflect the purpose pursued by the parties.

Note on Language Translation

The German version of this document is the original version and is legally binding. The English version is provided for informational purposes only. In the event of any contradictions, inconsistencies, or differences in interpretation between the German and English versions, the German version shall prevail.