Provider Information/Impressum & Terms and Conditions of Use

Provider Information/Impressum

The ABB website is provided by ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd, a company organised under the laws of Switzerland. ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd is registered with the commercial register of Zurich, Switzerland, under the company number CH-020.3.900.058-8.

CEO: Björn Rosengren
Address: Affolternstrasse 44, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 43 317 7111
Fax: +41 43 317 4420

For questions to ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd please go to the contact directory page where you can submit a web inquiry to the respective ABB contact.

Terms and Conditions of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of Use

By accessing this website or its subdomain/s (“Site”), including the content accessible in connection therewith, you accept the following terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions of Use”). You are only authorized to use the Site and its services if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to these Terms and Conditions of Use.

2. Copyright

All of the content made available through this Site, including all documentation, information, text and images, (“Content”) as well as any intellectual property related to the Energy Efficiency Movement (“EEM”) are and shall remain the property of ABB Group or the relevant owner/licensor, as applicable, and are protected by copyright and/or other proprietary rights and laws.

Permission to use, copy and distribute the Content published by ABB Group (“ABB”) on this Site is hereby granted on the condition that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices (e.g.  each copy contains this copyright notice in its entirety) and that no part of the Content is used for commercial purposes but restricted to use for information purposes within an organization.

3. Accuracy of Content

All Content is provided “as is” and/or “as available” without any representation or warranty of any kind either express or implied including but not limited to implied warranties for merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Any Content may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes and additions may be made by ABB from time to time to any Content.

4. Third party submitted information

Third parties may submit information to ABB, which is subsequently published by ABB on the Site (becoming “Content” as defined above). One example is commitments made by third parties regarding energy efficiency.

4.1. ABB’s responsibility for third party submitted information

ABB assumes no responsibility or liability arising from any Content provided by any third party. It is expressly understood that any commitment made by a third party is made by that third party alone and that ABB accepts no liability associated with such commitment.

4.2. Appropriate conduct when submitting information to ABB and using the hashtag #energyefficiencymovement

Information submitted to ABB through the Site must be correct and language and content which may be regarded as inappropriate must be avoided. All information submitted to ABB must be in compliance with applicable laws.

You are responsible for your own conduct and communications and for any consequences thereof. You agree to only submit information and material that are legal, proper and related to the context.

You agree to use hashtag #energyefficiencymovement in a manner which is legal, proper and related to the context. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using hashtag #energyefficiencymovement or otherwise referring to EEM, you will not:

(a) defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

(b) upload, post or otherwise make available any inappropriate, defamatory, obscene, or unlawful content;

(c) upload, post or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary right of any party, unless you are the owner of the rights, or have the permission of the owner or other legal justification to use such content; or

(d) upload, post or otherwise make available any other content, message, or communication prohibited by applicable law.

4.3. Abusive information

Any user can report incorrect, misleading or abusive Content which does not conform to these Terms and Conditions of Use by contacting ABB’s system administrators using the link provided.

ABB reserves the right to remove or change Content at its sole discretion, including Content which violates these Terms and Conditions of Use, without any liability to any third party.

ABB reserves the right to expel users and prevent their further access to any services provided in relation to the Site or EEM for violating these Terms and Conditions of Use or the law.

4.4. Your rights

Except to the extent provided in Section 5, ABB claims no ownership or control over any content, including documentation, information, text and images, submitted by you. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any information you submit and you are responsible for protecting those rights.

5. ABB’s rights related to third party submitted information

By submitting information, you grant ABB a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt and publish the information for the purpose of display and distribution. This license terminates when such information is deleted from the Site.

6. No partnership, trade association, professional gathering or legal entity

Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions of Use or use of hashtag #energyefficiencymovement on any social media platform or in any other way shall not be deemed or construed to create a partnership, trade association (or other professional gathering) or any form of legal entity.  

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions of Use shall be deemed or construed as creating an agency relationship between the parties and neither party shall take any action which could reasonably lead a third party to assume that it has the authority to bind the other party or make commitments on such party’s behalf.

7. Cookies and Personal Data Protection

ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd will use the data obtained from your interaction with the Site when you interact with the Site:

For more information about how ABB processes your personal data obtained during using the Site and your rights in this regard, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Unless separately agreed by the parties, ABB is not authorizing third parties to process personal data jointly or on behalf of ABB.

Whenever in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Use you copy, publish, distribute or otherwise share the Content or any reference to the Content published by ABB on this Site via your distribution or social media channels, you must do so in compliance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.