Legal Information for visiteurope.com
1. LEGAL INFORMATION
1.1. Copyright
Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and any other rights in all material on this site are owned by the European Travel Commission and its members. You are permitted to print and download extracts from this site on the following conditions:
Use of documents and related graphics on this site is for information and/or personal, non-commercial use only;
Any copies of these pages saved on to disk or to any other storage medium may only be used for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal, non-commercial use;
No documents or related graphics on this site are to be modified in any way;
Graphics on this site are not to be used separately from the accompanying text;
The European Travel Commission copyright notice (© European Travel Commission) must appear in all copies
No part of this site may be reproduced or stored in any other website without the European Travel Commission's prior written consent. You can contact the European Travel Commission at :
European Travel Commission
Rue Marche aux Herbes
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM
or on-line at the following address : info@visiteurope.com
Reproduction rights are reserved and strictly limited.
Trademarks used on this site have been registered by the companies that own them.
1.2. Access rights
1.2.1. General
The European Travel Commission is committed to protecting your privacy as a user of our website www.visiteurope.com ("the Site"), and the confidentiality of any personal information that you may provide us with during your visit to the Site.���The European Travel Commission abides by Belgium law of 8th December 1992 on privacy policy and complies with its provisions to ensure that any data you provide is treated accordingly.
Information is gathered automatically by the web server, through the use of cookies on the Site, and also from your interaction through online requests for brochures as well as the submissions of online forms.
General information that is collected by the web server and which does not require any input on your part, apart from to log on to the Site, is data such as:
- type of browser
- operating system
- IP address
- domain name
Cookies and You
A cookie is a text-only string that is entered into the memory of your browser by our web server. The use of cookies enables our website to store information on your machine so that it can be retrieved at a later date. This is done so that we can monitor the number of people visiting our Site and to determine the country of origin of specific users. It also gives us the ability to personalise the site according to your requirements so when you next log on, you will be able to enter a user ID and continue planning your trip to Europe without having to state your preferences each time you visit.
If you do not wish to accept new cookies or wish to disable cookies altogether, you can set your browser accordingly using its menu bar. However the Site will then be unable to offer you a personalised service.
Cookies stored by the Visit Europe website content management system
Name:
ASP.NET_SessionId.
Description:
Stores values for users visiting the website.
Name:
CMSPreferredCulture.
Description:
Stores local language culture settings for the content management system.
Name:
CurrentVisitStatus.
Description:
Used by the content management system to monitor visitors’ page impressions.
Name: ViewMode.
Description:
Sets which elements of the website visitors see, based on your login credentials.
Third party cookies
Name: __utma
Description:
Tracks in Google Analytics, each user's amount of visits, and the time of the first, the previous, and the current visit (presumably partly for double checking).
Name: __utmb
Used in Google Analytics, to track how long you stay on a site - when a visit starts and approximately ends (c expires quickly). If you look at cookie state changes, you will see these change regularly.
Name: __utmc
Description:
Used in Google Analytics, to track how long visitors stay on a site - when a visit starts and approximately ends (c expires quickly). If you look at cookie state changes, you will see these change regularly.
Name __utmz
Description:
Tracks in Google Analytics, where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link)
Online Forms
Any information that you provide online, should it be a request for brochures or an email query, is captured into our database.
Primarily, the information provided is used to fulfil any queries and requests that have been sent to us, and also to keep you updated with news and promotions concerning Europe as your holiday destination, should you opt-in to receiving information from us. The gathered information also helps us to improve our website, by making it more personal for each individual user.
This information is confidential and is not passed on to our selected partners without your consent.
You may withdraw your authorization for the European Travel Commission to use or share your personal information (address, telephone, E-mail) for commercial and promotional purposes at any time, for any reason, free of charge.
You may also exercise your right to access, modify, rectify or remove any information relating to you, by contacting :
European Travel Commission
Rue Marche aux Herbes
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM
or on-line at the following address : info@visiteurope.com
This privacy statement only applies to www.visiteurope.com. Third party sites that are linked to from this site, are not covered by this statement. You should check the privacy policy for the site in question to determine how your information will be used when visiting that site.
1.2.2. Indications given on any forms
Data protection
I grant ETC and its partners permission to send me promotional material and information
I grant ETC permission to send me promotional material and information
Please do pass my personal information (address, e-mail etc...) to thrid parties
Please read our Privacy Policy
2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These are the Terms and Conditions for use of www.visiteurope.com, the website of the European Travel Commission.
2.1. Use of www.visiteurope.com
All access and use of this Site is subject to acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these conditions, you should cease use of the Site immediately.
We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any given time on the Site.
Access to the Site may be suspended temporarily or permanently and without notice at our discretion. Whilst we shall endeavour to ensure that the Site is available 24 hours a day, we will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period of time.
2.2. Accuracy of Information
Whilst we shall endeavour to ensure that all information on the Site is accurate, we cannot vouch that all information will be accurate and up-to-date at all times. The Site contains a large amount of data, and errors are likely to occur in tracking changes - for example, changes in dates and times of events. We therefore do not accept any liability for error or omission with regards to content of the Site.
Should you find any inaccurate information on the Site, please inform us by sending an email to webmaster@visiteurope.com and we shall correct it, where we agree, as soon as it is practicable to do so.
Part of this Site contains materials submitted to the European Travel Commission by Third Parties. It is the responsibility of these Third Parties to ensure that the materials submitted for inclusion on this Site comply with national and relevant foreign laws. We cannot guarantee the accuracy or reliability of this material and hereby disclaim any responsibility for error, omission or inaccuracy in the material or for any misinterpretation, loss, disappointment, negligence or damage caused by reliance on any material contained within the Site. We also cannot accept responsibility for any failure, or alleged failure in the delivery of the services referred to herein, or in the event of bankruptcy, liquidation or cessation of trade of any company, individual or firm referred to herein. You are advised to check with the establishment concerned.
We accept no responsibility for the content of any Site to which a hypertext link from this Site exists. Such links are provided for your convenience on an 'as is' basis.
2.3. Our Liability
We shall not be liable for any damages arising in contract, tort, or otherwise from the use of or inability to use this Site, or any material contained in it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using this Site or any such material.
2.4. Legal Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions are governed by Belgium law.
If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined as illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms and conditions are intended to be effective, then within that jurisdiction in which that term is deemed to be illegal, invalid or enforceable, it shall be deleted from the clause concerned and the remaining Terms and Conditions shall continue to remain in force.
2.5. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT ("DMCA") NOTICE:
European Travel Commission has registered an agent with the United States Copyright Office in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "Act") and avails itself of the protections under the Act. We reserve the right to remove any User Content on the Site which allegedly infringes another person's copyright. We are under no obligation to, and do not, scan content posted for any violations of third party rights, however, we respect the copyright interests of others and it is our policy not to permit materials known by us to infringe another party's copyright to remain on the Site or the Service. If you believe any materials on the Site or the Service infringe a copyright, you should provide us with written notice that at a minimum contains:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
All DMCA notices should be sent to our designated agent as follows:
European Travel Commission
c/o Spring, O’Brien
50 West 23rd Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10010
2.6. Further Information
Terms used mean the following:
The/this Site = www.visiteurope.com
We/us = The European Travel Commission
You = User of www.visiteurope.com
2.7. Contact details:
European Travel Commission
Rue Marche aux Herbes 61
1000 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM
T : +32 (2) 548 9000
F : +32 (2) 514 18 43
E-mail: info@visiteurope.com
Corporate website: www.etc-corporate.org