Privacy Policy

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to ensure that Green Aviation International Association (GAIA) interacts with all of its customers in line with current legislation such as the UK Data Protection Act 1998.

Information collected from site visitors

This statement discloses the privacy policy for this GAIA website, which currently encompasses the URL:

http://www.airline-ets.org

This statement does not extend to sites that are linked to GAIA sites but which are not part of the GAIA network. You should refer to those sites for further details about their use of your personal information.

If you use this website certain information is automatically collected so that delivery can be made of the service. Cookies may be stored on your machine by your browser. You can set your browser to disable cookies, but then you might find some website features will not work.

When you request a page from the site's web server, the server automatically collects some information about your system, including your IP address. GAIA collects the minimum information necessary to make the service work - this information is essential to send the pages back across the Internet to the right computer.

GAIA uses "StatCounter" and "Google Analytics" to analyse traffic to this website. We understand that these tools do not create individually identifiable information. You should however find out more information about their privacy policy on their respective sites. In particular Google will as of April 2009 introduce the "doubleclick dart cookie" which Google provide the following information -

* Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
* Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
* Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, a third party advertiser may place or recognise a unique cookie on your browser, but it will not collect any personally identifiable information about you. GAIA does not have control over the collection of information for advertising purposes. You can find out more information about the advertisers' privacy policy on their privacy policy page.

GAIA is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of third party web sites linked to these sites.

GAIA reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time by posting changes on this page. It is your responsibility to refer to this privacy policy on accessing this site.

If you have any general questions or wish to report a technical error, please visit our feedback page.

The Privacy Policy

1. GAIA can use your contact details (postal address, email address, telephone, mobile and fax numbers) to contact you regarding the services you have requested. This includes re-registration/renewal notifications, surveys on improving our service to you and/or invitations to exhibitions, seminars and shows.

2. From time to time GAIA may invite you to register in order to receive magazines, email newsletters, enter competitions, and receive services from GAIA websites. This will require you to confirm personal information such as your name, email address, home and work postcodes. This information is required by GAIA for security purposes and enables GAIA to supply a reasonable level of services to users and our advertisers. We may ask for information such as job function, company sector, company, name and date of birth. During registration, you may also be asked to choose a password for future access to the relevant site(s).

3. GAIA offers you the chance to opt in to receive additional information from GAIA and its associated companies by email. This includes other products/services that we feel may be of interest to you.

4. GAIA offers you the chance to opt in to receive marketing information from other carefully selected organisations by email, telephone and/or SMS. GAIA will only pass on these details if you opt in. GAIA takes all measures possible to ensure that the contact you receive will be from reputable organisations. GAIA however cannot accept any responsibility for use of the data once it has been passed on.

5. GAIA offers you the chance to opt out of receiving additional information from GAIA and its associated companies by post.

6. GAIA offers you the chance to opt out of receiving marketing information from other carefully selected organisations by post. GAIA takes all measures possible to ensure that the contact you receive will be from reputable organisations. GAIA cannot however accept any responsibility for use of the data once it has been passed on.

7. Aggregate statistical information gathered from GAIA registration forms may be passed on to advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage. At no point will this include personal identifying information.

8. At all times a recipient of a GAIA product and/or service will have the opportunity to amend their contact details and/or to opt in or out of any of the options listed above in points 3, 4, 5 and 6. You can also request, at any time, to have your personal details flagged on the GAIA databases to ensure you do not continue to receive such information. We will not actually delete your record from the GAIA databases as we would no longer be able to identify you, which could lead to you receiving information from us in the future. To action any of these requests please contact the relevant customer care department of the product/service you subscribe to.

9. You have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should fax +447092164088. In your fax you must state your full name, your address and all publications and/or services from GAIA to which you know you subscribe. A small administration charge of £10.00 will be made for fulfilling this request.

10. GAIA may make anonymous use of information to help diagnose faults, manage the system and gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information will be stripped of all details that could identify you personally. For example, we may use IP addresses to help fix performance problems with our server.

11. GAIA uses all reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to it secure.

Terms of use

Terms & conditions of use of http://www.airline-ets.org

Access to and use of this site is provided by Green Aviation International Association (GAIA) and is subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. Use of this site constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions which take effect at the time you first access the site.

2. If you do not accept these terms and conditions you must not use this site.

3. GAIA reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online. It is your responsibility to refer to these terms and conditions on accessing this site.

4. Continued use of this site after such changes to the terms and conditions constitutes acceptance of those posted changes.

5. GAIA reserves the right to make this site unavailable at any time or to restrict access to parts or the entire site without notice.

6. You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights, including any trade marks or copyright in the content of this site, are owned by GAIA or its third party suppliers. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting any licence or right to use any of the intellectual property of GAIA except as otherwise provided on this site.

7. Material may not be copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way except for your own personal non-commercial use, or in accordance with GAIA's linking terms and conditions.

8. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of or enjoyment of this site by any third party.

9. GAIA reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to this site and/or Log-in details at its sole discretion and without notice.

10. You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend GAIA and all of its representatives, owners, employees and suppliers from any and all loss, damage and expense (including legal fees) incurred by GAIA on account of any claim or lawsuit arising out of or related to your use of this site whether or not authorised by you.

11. You accept that when you leave this site (whether knowingly or not) GAIA can no longer be responsible in any way for any material that you encounter and GAIA excludes (to the fullest extent permitted by law) any liability that may arise with respect to or as a result of such material causing any damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind.

12. GAIA does not represent or warrant the accuracy, timeliness, completeness or suitability of the content. Some content may contain pricing information, however at no time does GAIA act as a vendor. GAIA disclaims liability for this content.

13. GAIA will not be liable for any claims, losses, including but not limited to direct, indirect, special, economic and consequential loss or damage (including but not limited to loss of profits, loss of revenue or loss of goodwill), whether in contract, negligence or other tortuous action arising out of or in connection with the use of this site.

14. These terms and conditions are governed by and will be interpreted in accordance with Swiss law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Swiss courts.

15. GAIA does not warrant that this site is free of viruses or bugs or that this site is compatible with all computer systems and browsers.

16. This site includes links to other sites on the world wide web. GAIA makes no warranties as to the suitability or accuracy of the content of any of those sites.

17. GAIA accepts no liability for any product or service advertised, supplied or otherwise promoted on this site by any third party. GAIA accepts no liability for any product or service advertised, supplied or otherwise promoted on this site by GAIA unless categorically stated for a specific product or service. GAIA also disclaims liability for any downloadable software or other items on this site.

18. GAIA does not warrant that any of the goods or services linked to or advertised on this site comply with data protection or other relevant legislation and GAIA accepts no liability whatsoever for any claim arising from such goods or services.

19. GAIA is happy to accept comments, stories or other submissions from its users. GAIA is under no obligation to publish any such material and such material shall be considered to be the property of GAIA. GAIA may dispose of such material at its discretion.

20. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

21. The failure or delay of GAIA to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive GAIA's right to enforce that right.

22. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.

23. Green Aviation International Association (GAIA) is registered under the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act.

24. Green Aviation International Association (GAIA) is incorporated as a non-profit in England and Wales (a company limited by guarantee) with registration number 6562410. The Registered Office address is 5 Percy Street, Office 4, London W1T 1DG, England.

Disclaimer

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

1. Any links to third party websites from airline-ets.org do not amount to any endorsement of that site by GAIA and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

2. airline-ets.org content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the GAIA, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law (of England and Wales), the GAIA excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. The GAIA does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by the GAIA is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the GAIA for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

3. GAIA nor any of its Directors shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of greenaviation.org regardless of the form of action.

4. GAIA does not warrant that functions available on airline-ets.org will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that airline-ets.org or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

5. Green Aviation International Association (GAIA) is incorporated as a non-profit in England and Wales (a company limited by guarantee). The Registered Office is 5 Percy Street, Office 4, London W1T 1DG, England.