# 🇬🇧 Product safety, conformity, disposal

# 🇬🇧 Safety instructions for mounts and tripods

Handle the tripod legs carefully when folding and unfolding them to avoid pinching your fingers.

When attaching and detaching counterweights, mounts, or other heavy parts, be careful that nothing can fall on your feet.

Operate all clamps carefully to prevent any parts from accidentally coming loose.

# 🇬🇧 General safety instructions for batteries

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please keep this guide safe so you can refer to it. Pass it on to subsequent owners.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This device is not intended to be used by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities or who lack experience and/or knowledge, unless they are supervised or given instructions by a person responsible for their safety, how to use the device.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The device is not a toy for children. Therefore, keep children away from it. Children must be supervised so that they do not play with the battery.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Converting or changing the device impairs product safety. Changes and repairs to the device may only be carried out by the manufacturer or by persons expressly authorized by the manufacturer. Never open the device yourself. Don't do any repairs yourself!</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Handle the device carefully. It can be damaged by shocks, blows or falls from even a small height.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Keep the device away from moisture and extreme heat.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stay nearby while charging the battery and check its temperature regularly. If the heat is high, stop charging immediately. A battery that heats up or deforms during charging must not be used.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Never immerse the device in water or other liquids. Do not touch the device with wet or damp hands.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Check the device for damage before using it for the first time. Do not use it if there is visible damage.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Never use the device after a malfunction, e.g. if it has been dropped into water, dropped or otherwise damaged.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disconnect the battery from connected devices if you will not be using it for a long period of time.</span>

# 🇬🇧 Disposal instructions for batteries

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Batteries must not be disposed of in household waste. As a consumer, you are legally obliged to return defective batteries that can no longer be charged for proper disposal. You can hand in your batteries at public collection points in your community and wherever batteries of the same type are sold.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Electrical devices contain valuable resources, but also pollutants. The collection points give them to certified waste disposal companies who check whether the devices can be reused. Ideally, old devices can be refurbished. If not, pollutants are removed from the devices and valuable resources are recycled if necessary. This protects the environment.</span>

**Note on waste avoidance**

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">According to Directive 2008/98/EC on waste and the legislation of the Member States of the European Union, waste prevention measures generally have priority over waste management measures. In order to avoid waste, the main aim of electrical and electronic devices is to extend their service life by repairing defective devices and selling functional used devices instead of disposing of them. The federal waste prevention program contains further information.</span>