Countryguidebook 
USER AGREEMENT
General Rules and Definitions
1.1. This Agreement constitutes the agreement between CGB TRAVEL Corp. ("CGB") and you as a user who accesses or establishes a connection to the website and internet service known as Countryguidebook.com ("Service"), which is owned and controlled by CGB Travel Corp.
1.2. If you choose to use the Service, you will be agreeing to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You must agree to abide by all of the provisions in this Agreement in order to remain an authorized user of the Service and your use of the Service constitutes your agreement to abide by those provisions. You are solely responsible for your use of the Service and for ensuring that your use complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement.
1.3. CGB reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, add or remove portions of this Agreement at any time, but if it does so, it will post such changes on the Service. Any changes to this Agreement will be effective immediately upon notice to you. Your use of the Service after notice of changes to this Agreement will be deemed your acceptance of the changes.
1.4. CGB reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time. CGB may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Service without notice or liability.
1.5. If you do not agree to the provisions of this agreement or are not satisfied with the service, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue your of the service.
Countryguidebook Content and Copyright
2.1. The contents of the Service are intended for your personal, noncommercial use. You will use the Service and any content, material, or information found on the Service solely for lawful, non-commercial purposes. (exceptionally GNU-licenzed content). All materials published and provided on the Service ("Content") are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws and is owned, controlled, and/or licensed by CGB or the party credited as the provider of the Content. "CGB Travel ", "Countryguidebook", and "Countryguidebook.com" are trademarks of CGB Travel. You shall abide by all copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Service.
2.2. The Service and its Contents are protected by copyright pursuant to German and international copyright laws. You are permitted to print or download extracts from these pages for your personal non-commercial use only. Any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal use. You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site. No part of Service may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other web site, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission.
2.3. Nearly all text The articles on this Web Page are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ).and it comes from http://www.wikipedia.com
2.4 The climatological information is based on monthly averages from the 30-year period 1971-2000. Number of precipitation days = Mean number of days with at least 1 mm of preciption.
Precipitation includes both rain and snow. Source for the data: www.worldweater.org
2.4. All photography (where the license is not written below picture) copyrights are exclusively held by the CGB Travel. No images may be copied, reporduced from this website.
All Photos that are not owned by CGB Travel have a written License that reffere to the picture. You will find a detailed Licence description under Link:
GNU FDL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
CCbySA (Creativ Common) : www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
2.5. CGB may contain links to other related World Wide Web Internet sites, resources, and sponsors of CGB. CGB is not responsible for the availability of these outside resources or their contents.
Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability
3.1. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR
SOLE RISK. NEITHER CGB, ITS AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, OR CONTENTS OF ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, MATERIAL, POSTINGS, OR POSTING RESPONSES
FOUND ON THE SERVICE, ANY MERCHANDISE OR SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE, OR ANY LINKS TO OTHER SITES MADE AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICE.
3.2. THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIAL, INFORMATION,
POSTINGS, OR POSTING RESPONSES FOUND ON THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
3.3. IN NO EVENT WILL CGB Travel (OR ANY OF ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, OR LICENSORS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS), BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, MATERIAL, POSTINGS, OR POSTING RESPONSES ON THE SERVICE OR THE SERVICE ITSELF. THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE PARTY LIABLE OR ALLEGEDLY LIABLE WAS ADVISED, HAD OTHER REASON TO KNOW, OR IN FACT KNEW OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT CGB Travel (AND ANY OF ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, OR LICENSORS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS), IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER, INCLUDING
YOU.
Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CGB Travel (and any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents, third party content providers, or licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents) from and against all claims, liability, and expenses, including attorneys\\\' fees and legal fees and costs, arising out of your use of the Service or your breach of any provision of this Agreement. CGB Travel reserves the right, in its sole discretion and at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. You will cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any claim. Fees and Payments CGB Travel reserves the right, in its sole discretion, at any time to charge fees for access to and use of the Service, or any portions of the Service. If CGB Travel elects to charge fees, it will post notice on the Service of all provisions pertaining to fees and payments.Notices between Us You will contact us by sending electronic mail to help@countryguidebook.com . We will contact you by sending electronic mail to the address you provide to us, or by posting a notice on the Service. Termination CGB Travel may terminate this Agreement and your use of the Service at any time. CGB Travel shall have the right immediately to terminate your use of the Service in the event of any conduct by you which CGB Travel, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of this Agreement. Law Governing Performance and Disputes This Agreement, your performance under it, and any disputes arising under it shall be governed exclusively by the laws of
PRIVACY STATEMENT
(updated on 24 April, 2006)
CGB TRAVEL Corp ("CGB TRAVEL") recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information collected about its users. CGB TRAVEL adopted this Privacy Policy to inform Countryguidebook.com users how it does collect, store, and use personal information. "Personal information" includes, but is not limited to, usage data, along with the name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card information of Countryguidebook.com users. Therefore, CGB TRAVEL does not sell or otherwise disclose any individually identifiable personal information about any user without an express and informed consent of such user. Nor does CGB TRAVEL include in Countryguidebook.com any functionality for performing "reverse searches" to identify Countryguidebook.com users from their e-mail addresses. However, CGB TRAVEL reserves the right to analyze and utilize user data in order to more effectively optimize the user experience and to present certain opportunities to users for their benefit. CGB TRAVEL also reserves the right to share with its partners and third parties some personal information on the aggregate basis only and provided that such use of personal information does not violate any expectations of privacy of or agreement with any Countryguidebook.com user. CGB TRAVEL\\\'s intent is to balance its legitimate business interests in collecting and using personal information against the reasonable expectations of privacy of its users.
Information Collection and Use
Information Collection
CGB TRAVEL is the sole owner of the information collected on Countryguidebook.com (exceptionally GNU-licenzed content). CGB TRAVEL collects information from our users at following points on our Web site.
Registration
In order to customize Countryguidebook site, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give contact information (such as email address). We do not collect user\\\'s name and address. We use this information to contact the user about services on our site for which he has expressed interest. It is also required for the user to provide demographic information (such as age group, gender, city and country), and unique identifiers (such as, username and password).
Information Use
CGB TRAVEL uses personal information for: developing enhancements to Countryguidebook.com; marketing and promotional purposes; and evaluating Countryguidebook.com usage by analyzing and otherwise using personal information and related data in the aggregate, but not with respect to any individual Countryguidebook.com user.
In addition, CGB TRAVEL uses personal information to direct e-mail to Countryguidebook.com users who provide their e-mail address in connection with specific promotions, or to direct e-mail regarding Countryguidebook.com updates and service enhancements to users who opt in during the Countryguidebook.com registration process.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user\\\'s computer tied to information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. We currently do not use cookies on our site. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Countryguidebook.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user\\\'s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information. We use a tracking utility called Webtrends that uses log files to analyze user movement. Sharing
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
CGB TRAVEL shares aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertising
We use MaxWorldwide and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
These are the instances in which we will share users\\\' personal information:
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.
Business Transitions
In the event CGB TRAVEL goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users\\\' personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via email or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information. If as a result of the business transition, the users\\\' personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification of changes section.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to \\\'opt-out\\\' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for information.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications may opt-out of receiving these communications by offering an opt-out mechanism on the "My News" pages or contacting us at help@countryguidebook.com.
Users of Countryguidebook.com are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.
LinksThis Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, CGB Travel, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as gender and postal code). Contact information will be used (or shared with the contest or survey sponsors) to notify the winners and award prizes. Anonymous survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Users\\\' personally identifiable information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests, they may not use users\\\' personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. SecurityCGB Travel takes every precaution to protect our users\\\' information. When users submit sensitive information via the web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when users are just \\\'surfing\\\'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users\\\' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our users\\\' information is protected.
If users have any questions about the security at our Web site, users can send an email to privacy@countryguidebook.com.
Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information
If a user\\\'s personally identifiable information changes (such as , email or country), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate users\\\' personally identifiable information. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at help@countryguidebook.com.
Notification of ChangesIf we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users\\\' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: privacy@countryguidebook.com