This Website is owned and operated by Gentlemen’s Digest Ltd. & Co. KG, Germany. Your access to the Website is subject to these terms of use, the customer license, the privacy policy, and disclaimers of specific parts of the Website ("Terms of Use").

www.gdigest.com welcomes you as a valued customer. Because we want to make your shopping experience simple and as safe as possible, you are required to enter into a customer license with eBooks.com which explains what we promise to observe and what we require you to observe while using our services, including browsing our site.

We may change the customer license from time to time. If we do, we will post the new version on our site and we will email you at the last email address you have given us. Although any change will take place immediately it is posted on our site, we welcome your comments on any such changes.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

• This Website is provided by Gentlemen’s Digest on an "as is" basis.

• Gentlemen’s Digest makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of, your access to or the results of your access to the Website (including any related or linked websites) or the correctness, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or reliability of the information, content, materials or products included on this Website.

• To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Gentlemen’s Digest disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

• Gentlemen’s Digest will not be liable for any loss or damage (including indirect, special or consequential loss or damage) arising from the use of, or reliance on, any information on the Website, whether or not caused by any negligent act or omission. If any law prohibits the exclusion of such liability, Gentlemen’s Digest hereby limits its liability to the extent permitted by law, to the resupply of the said information.

We promise to protect your privacy. Except if required by law, we promise not to divulge any information that you provide to us. We use the information we collect about you to process orders, including calculating the amount payable, and to otherwise communicate with you. We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to our licensees. We promise that these statistics will include no personally identifying information. We promise to support your purchase. In the unlikely event that you require assistance with any eBook purchase, we promise to provide you with assistance. We promise to keep you informed of changes in products and services. We may add, delete or change some or all of our services at any time, including the manner in which those services are to be accessed. We will endeavour to keep you informed of these changes by publishing details on our website. While we will use our best endeavours, we do not guarantee that our service or products will be available at all times or in all locations.

What you promise to do

1. By using our services, including browsing our site, you promise to observe these principles.

2. You promise to respect copyright and otherwise observe the law. Once an eBook is downloaded, it cannot be refunded or exchanged for another eBook for for a different format of the same eBook. All eBooks at www.gdigest.com are the exclusive property of the publisher or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The download of these product(s) is intended for the Gentlemen’s Digest Buyer's personal and noncommercial use. Any other use of eBooks downloaded from www.gdigest.com is strictly prohibited. Users may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of these product(s), in whole or in part. By downloading Gentlemen’s Digest eBooks, the User hereby acknowledges and agrees to these terms.

3. You may view this Website and its contents using a web browser. You may not make copies of this Website.

4. Save for the foregoing, you promise not to reproduce, transmit, make available, adapt, modify, frame (by whatever means), link to or do any other act of copyright or otherwise use any of the material on the site without first obtaining the written permission of Gentlemen’s Digest or unless specifically permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or similar copyright legislation.

5. You promise to pay for our products and services. Joining www.gdigest.com is free. You are required to pay all applicable taxes.

6. You promise to provide us with accurate information.

7. You promise to keep any eBook in the form in which it was supplied to you. We may include other information (including information identifying the author, the copyright owner, or the terms upon which the eBook is supplied) to any eBook supplied to you. You promise not to circumvent any measures that we have taken to protect the rights in the eBook that we have supplied, including removing this information or otherwise facilitating an infringement of copyright.

8. You promise not to compromise the integrity of our software or systems. That is, you promise not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Gentlemen’s Digest Website or any of the software that we supply to you for the purposes of providing you with an eBook.

9. You promise not to take action of any kind against us in the event of our termination of this agreement, non-supply, or unfitness for purpose. That is, you release Gentlemen’s Digest, its servants and agents ("us") from any liability if we terminate or suspend your entitlement to use our services. We will only do this if you fail to observe one of these principles. You release us from any liability if we fail to provide you with a service or a product within a reasonable period after you request it. You release us from any liability if the software that we provide to you is not suitable for your existing hardware or software. Some jurisdictions do not permit the disclaimer of implied warranties, in which case this disclaimer will not apply to you. You may have rights additional to this agreement and which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Purchase License

By purchasing from Gentlemen’s Digest these items ("the Items"), entitled [shown on order page] I acknowledge that:

1. I am [customer name];

2. I have read the terms of the customer license which I accepted on [date (being a date inserted by our systems and recorded in it)];

3. I have read the Terms of Use of the Website which I accepted on [date (being a date inserted by our systems and recorded in it)];

4. I am bound by the limitations on copying embedded in the eBooks; and

5. I further acknowledge that these limitations override (to the extent permitted by law) any right that I might have to use the Items under the copyright legislation in the country of use.

Refund policy

Refunds will not be given on digital items (eg: eBooks) where the item has been downloaded or sent by eMail.

Linking Policy and Trademark notice

Gentlemen’s Digest is the registered owner of various business names and marks, including www.gdigest.com and "GD". Gentlemen’s Digest uses the various Marks in the course of providing products and services to its customers. Gentlemen’s Digest has used and continues to use the Marks as trade marks outside Germany and asserts its entitlement to do so to the exclusion of others.

The Marks may not be used as trade marks or in connection with the supply of goods or services by any other person without prior permission in writing by Gentlemen’s Digest. Gentlemen’s Digest has developed strict guidelines as to the manner in which the Marks are to be used by authorised users.

You may only provide a link to this Website from a website provided that you link to the home page (http://www.gdigest.com). To link in any other way, you must first obtain the permission of Gentlemen’s Digest (office@gdigest.com).

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