Terms of Use

The website showcaves.com is a private website maintained and operated by Jochen Duckeck.
Jochen Duckeck, Archivstr. 11, 90408 Nürnberg, Germany. E-mail: .
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1. Copyright:
   1. All photos, images and texts on this site are copyrighted. You must not use them without explicit permission of the copyright owner.
   2. Unless otherwise stated the © of these pages lies by Jochen Duckeck. Opinions expressed on showcaves.com are those of the author.
   3. The "maps" on this site are just sketches for orientation, not maps in a geographic sense. Unless otherwise stated they are drawn by Jochen Duckeck. The information to draw them was collected from numerous sources, but primarly they are based on the maps of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin, which are in the public domain. showcaves.com wants to thank them for this useful source of information.
   4. All photos, images and texts on this site are only intended for personal use. You may download them, print them, give a copy to friends or family. But you must not use them in any kind of publication, especially web sites or printed matters, without prior permission. A specimen copy and naming of the copyright owner are obligational.
   5. Fair Use:
      We believe in fair use, and the freedom to cite other texts and images. But this requires some care and fairplay. We made up some rules, how we understand fair use:
      • Fair use is only possible with non-commercial parters. However, non-commercial does not mean private. Selling some books or CD-ROMs might be okay, depending on the intentions and the income. Commercial are of course big online shops, companies and persons earning their living partly or full with their website or other publications, where they intend to use the material from showcaves.com.
      • Naming the copyright owner is required.
      • Adding a link to showcaves.com is required.
      • For printed publications and CD-ROMs a specimen copy is required.
      • Fair use is bi-directional. By using material from showcaves.com, you allow Jochen Duckeck to use material from your site/publication under the same regulations.
      • At the moment fair use is only possible with material by Jochen Duckeck. All images and texts on showcaves.com with an other author or copyright owner are not available for this exchange.
      • It is necessary to inform that you used some of the material after you made your page, so we can check the page if above rules apply. A message before you made your page is nice but not necessary.
      If you want to use material from this site, but can not live with this rules, please contact for alternatives. If you use material from showcaves.com without noticing we assume you accept this terms.
   6. Several contents on showcaves.com are copyrighted by third parties. As showcaves.com is not the copyright owner, showcaves.com has no right to allow you the use of them. We can only make a contact if you ask.
   7. Commercial use only after prior notice! Naming of the copyright owner, link to showcaves.com, and a specimen copy are obligational. Depending on the used material and the kind of usage, a fee may be charged.
   8. Absolutly forbidden is, to link pictures directly from our site. Beneath the copyright infringement, this is also theft of bandwidth. We will not tolerate this and do anything to make it impossible.



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2. Accuracy:
   1. Although every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is correct, showcaves.com can not guarantee its accuracy. Any use of the information provided here, is on your own risk. showcaves.com will not be liable for any damage that occurs in connection with your use of this service.
      Some info, like open hours and entrance fees are subject to change without notice. The information given on this pages may only be used as a clue.
   2. If you find any errors, please use the submit form. For general questions/hints contact . Hints will be processed as soon as possible.
   3. This site is written by Jochen Duckeck. Despite the efforts to make them as neutral and unbiased as possible, they definitely represent the personal opinion of the author.
   4. There is no claim to changes by owners, administrators or other involved persons. We are always happy about clues and first hand information and do our best to include them as soon as possible. But showcaves.com reserves the right to decide if and how they are included.
   5. showcaves.com will not be liable for delays in the addition of updates or changes. There is no assured response time.


3. External Links:
   1. External links are all links leading to other web sites than showcaves.com. They are marked with a small earth symbol: .
   2. showcaves.com has no possibility to ensure the content of pages that are not maintained by us. As links may not work in the future we can not guarantee that they work and we are not liable for broken links. And of course we can not guarantee the content of the pages as this may be changed by the respective page owner.
   3. In the last years several strange judicial decisions made it necessary to point out the following:
      The listing of an external link does not constitute endorsement of material at this site, or any associated organisation, product or service. By following any link leading out of showcaves.com, you accept this notice.
   4. This site is linking only to related sites, about caves, mines, geology, and sometimes tourist sites.
   5. There is no guarantee for the inclusion of a link on showcaves.com, even if its content is related. The final decision on the inclusion of an external link is up to Jochen Duckeck.
   6. Please do not send unrelated links to showcaves.com, as the check costs a lot of time. showcaves.com is not interested in link exchange, as we are not interested in accidental visitors. Please refrain from sending such inquiries. Thank you!


4. Environment Protection:
   1. A big request to all cave visitors: please be carefull with nature and try not to destroy or harm anything! Caves are extremely fragile and precious natural monuments and habitats.
   2. The content of showcaves.com is limited to tourist caverns. This means, they are rather easy and safe to visit, if you obey the given advices.
   3. In most countries of the world, caves are natural monuments and protected by law. It is normally forbidden to make camp fires or use open light, like torches or candles. It is not allowed to destroy or even touch speleothems.
   4. Any cave animal nearly everywhere on the world is protected! In most countries bats are protected, including the forbiddance to disturb them or even take pictures. Even if there is a gap in this protection, please do not take advantage of it.
   5. Some not accessible caves are included for their importance and as a warning. showcaves.com tries to explain why they are closed. Please accept, that it is not possible to visit them!


5. Privacy Policy:
   1. Requests to the website showcaves.com are logged by the webserver. This data is used by showcaves.com solely for the optimization of the website. Server statistics are not published, except in aggregated form.
   2. The addresses and emails of the listed sites are already published by the owner and are just collected on showcaves.com. If by mistake private address data is included, we will remove is as soon as possible, if requested. Email addressesare protected by JavaScript which makes them invisible for spammers. As far as we know this protection has not be breached so far, although this is generally possible.
   3. Personal data we receive by email or other ways will be kept private, as long as publication is not explicitly requested by the sender. However, we are not able to check if the sender has the right to publish this data, as there is no technical way to identify persons over the inetrnet.