DISCLAIMER

EFFECTIVE: April 1, 2022

Gio in The Philippines (“we”, us”, “our”, on “https://giointhephilippines.com“, “Gio in The Philippines “, “GIP”, and/or further referred to as “Site” or “Website”) that is owned solely by Giovanni SF (“I”, “me”, and/or “my”) hereby states that by using the Site, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Use that follow, our Privacy Policy and any other additional terms and conditions that may apply to specific sections of the Site or to products and services available throughout the Site.

The reading of information on the Site is of your own free will, and by using or staying on the Site, you explicitly accept, without limitation or qualification, our practices surrounding the collection, use, and sharing of personal information provided by you in the manner described on this Disclaimer page. If you do not agree with any of the terms contained in this Disclaimer, you should cease the use of this Site immediately.

We encourage you to review this Disclaimer page whenever you use or access the Site, and we reserve the right to change any of these terms at any given time. Please take note that we will not be held liable if for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or at any period of time. Due to reasons that are often out of our control, the website could be down without notice and at our own discretion, intended or not.

INTELLECTUAL & COPYRIGHT POLICY

All photos and text used in this site are intellectual properties of the Site, and/or our affiliates or licensors, unless otherwise stated. The Site creates all content, and we find our other images via Creative Commons or via licensed stock photos (mainly through our blogger partnership with Shutterstock.com). All photos are properly credited if it’s not created by the Site; however, if we have missed any, please send us a message and we will immediately remove it. You can send the notice to [email protected].

Additionally, unless otherwise noted, we are also the legal copyright holder of all materials on this website and it may not be used, reprinted, (partially) modified, or published without our permission — even more so if it’s for commercial use.

You may establish a hypertext link to the Site so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by us or by the Site. However, you may not, without our prior written permission, frame or inline link any of the content of the Site, or incorporate into another website or other service any of our material, content, or intellectual property.

After all, the Site is provided solely for your personal noncommercial use. You may not use the Site or the materials available if it has not been authorized by us. More specifically, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, translate, sell, create derivative works, exploit, or distribute in any manner or medium (including by email or other electronic means) any material from the Site without prior permission. You may, however, download, print, and/or share one copy of individual pages of the Site for non-commercial use, provided that you credit us accordingly. If in doubt, please get in touch with us first and state your intent and purpose for such.

Take note that we have partnered with CopyTrack that uses reverse-image search technology services in order to find our images online, determine how they’re being used, and recover compensation in case of unlicensed use.

USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Site, you represent and warrant that: (1) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms of Use; (2) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside; (3) you will not access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise; (4) you will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (5) your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your current and future access to the Site and its related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice if we deem your access as against our Terms of Use.

CONTENT

All views that are expressed here represent only those made by us and/or by Giovanni SF, and not those of any other person or entity in their favor. Whatever opinion we may put across does not intend to harm, slander, or defame any company, individual, or thing. We will not be held liable for libel nor will we be held to compensate you in any way whatsoever if you ever happen to suffer a loss/inconvenience/damage because of what we may display or state on the Site. We will not be held responsible for any offense taken due to translation, interpretation, or mistakes in grammar/punctuation of my website’s content. We will not also be responsible for what people might do with our advice, critique, and/or wisdom.

Under no circumstances will we even be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with the use of this Site. Any reliance you place on any information gleaned from this blog is strictly at your own risk so please make sure to research and verify the information that you read from the Site because there’s a possibility that some of it will be less accurate as time passes.

We definitely try our best to provide up-to-date information, but we can’t make representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, or availability with respect to the stated website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the Site for any purpose. The Site contains a large amount of data, and errors are likely to occur in tracking changes on dates or times of events. We, therefore, do not accept any liability for error or omissions with regards to the content of the Site. Should you find any inaccurate information, please inform us at [email protected] and we shall correct it as soon as possible.

Moreover, articles on the Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, Instagram posts, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

From time to time, this Site will use plugins from websites like YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our posts featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. From that, the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited during your visit. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. Take note that you can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account and this constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

The Site may contain links to other websites or content belonging to or originating from third parties or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising. Such external links are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness by us. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION OFFERED BY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES LINKED THROUGH THE SITE OR ANY WEBSITE OR FEATURE LINKED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING. WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

Should the Site be unintentionally linked to obscene, pornographic, hostile, or offensive content-filled web pages, we, in no way, condone, endorse or take responsibility for such. Though this Site contains links that direct to external websites, these are simply mainly provided for your convenience and information. Take note, however, that we are NOT in control of these external platforms so we will not be held liable for any material contained within them.

For purposes of design, the Site also makes use of web fonts provided by Google, and these are used without authentication. No cookies, as well as none of your personal information, are sent to Google; what only happens is that when you load a page, a secure connection is established with Google’s servers to load the required web fonts. You can find out more about this over at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq?tid=231543659398.

Meanwhile, you can find out which data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

COMMENTS & OTHERS

Comments on this Site are the sole responsibility of their writers and they take full responsibility, liability, and blame for any libel or proceedings that will result from their statement. We do not guarantee the accuracy, honesty, and politeness of their comments. Though of course, we reserve the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this Site without notice as they may deem to be spam or questionable spam, or that they include profanity, contain language or concepts that are offensive, attack a group, or person individually, etc.

Take note that when you, as a visitor, leaves a comment on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help in detection of spam. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

By posting or submitting any material (including, without limitation, comments, blog entries, Facebook postings, photos, and videos) to us via the Site, internet groups, social media venues, or to any of our staff via email, text, or otherwise, you are representing: (i) that you are the owner of the material, or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner of the material; and (ii) that you are thirteen years of age or older.

In addition, when you submit, email, text or deliver or post any material, you are granting us, and anyone authorized by us, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, exploit, create derivative works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform or display such material, in whole or in part, in any manner or medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose. The foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such posting or submission, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark, service mark, or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. Also, in connection with the exercise of such rights, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, the right to identify you as the author of any of your postings or submissions by name, email address, or screen name, as we deem appropriate.

Any letters, e-mails, blog comments, responses on our connected Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter; or questions written directly to ‘Giovanni SF’ may be used as blog material for our audience unless specifically requested otherwise.

(Part of) these letters or emails, questions, or any other feedback may also be used in newsletters, blog posts, columns, or up-and-coming books.

For any further clarifications and questions, it can all be directed to [email protected]

PRIVACY POLICY

Any personal and/or contact information provided to us will be kept private (especially emails from readers in blog comments and our newsletter). You will not be spammed in any way and we will absolutely NOT sell or disclose your information to any other companies.

Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements

There are 3rd-party applications like Google Analytics that would collect cookie and usage data. This basically means that Google will simply analyze visitor behavior in an anonymous form in order to track, examine and compile statistical reports on the traffic, activity, and visits to this website.

Rest assured and overall, NO personal and identifiable information will be collected from you since your anonymity is still and always perfectly safe with the Site.

We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information this Site may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

AFFILIATES

This blog is also open to forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions, and other forms of compensation and/or projects. As such, please assume that almost every link on the Site is an affiliate link which means that if you click and purchase something through that link, we will likely earn a small percentage of the sale or a commission (or we will earn a bonus from your registration through our referral link). All of these will be at NO additional cost to you.

In fact, the cost for you will sometimes even be cheaper due to our partnership with a certain brand — so it’s a “win-win” situation for both of us!

Nevertheless, though this blog is open to advertising, we will never recommend and write about products or brands that we don’t personally use nor believe in. We will always disclose whether we will be receiving any commissions or products for free, or if a trip was sponsored or not.

Our Site is always committed to helping you create amazing travel memories, and earning a commission simply allows us to keep generating quality content for everyone at all times. Ultimately, we hope for your understanding that this is a way for us to keep this website running in tiptop shape; so your purchases or registration through any of our affiliate links is much appreciated.

We are not responsible, however, for the actions of our advertisers or sponsors. If you purchase a product or service based upon a link from this Site, you must take action with that company or 3rd-party to resolve any issues and NOT with us. Any product, claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.
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Amazon

‘Gio In The Philippines’ is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

CONTACT

All of these Terms shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the Philippines, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction.

If you have any questions regarding our disclaimer, or your dealings with our website, please contact us here:

Gio In The Philippines Travel Blog
Giointhephilippines.com by Giovanni SF
[email protected]