Terms

DSI Data Service & Information - Terms of Sale

Freight Policy

All prices shown here include free postage by international air mail.

Rush Orders

Rush Orders Rush Services can be offered for all titles in stock (upon request).

Surcharges for Europe: EUR 75 surcharges outside Europe: EUR 125

Tax and Customs duties

Customs duties are not included in the prices shown here.

For EU Members: European Union customers must show their Value Added Tax (VAT) number if available. Otherwise the German VAT (normal rate: 19%, reduced rate for books and printed matters: 7%) will be added to the invoice amount.

German customers have to add the German VAT (normal rate: 19%, reduced rate for books and printed matters: 7%) to the prices shown here.

The prices shown in brackes include the German tax rates.

Return Policy

DSI is committed to providing exemplary services to our customers. If we have inadvertently shipped you the wrong book, CD, DVD, or if the book, CD, DVD arrives in damaged condition, or if we have made an error in your order, we will gladly accept these returns. Customers can return any book, CD, DVD within 30 days of receipt as long as it is in saleable condition. DSI reserves the right to refuse any shipments damaged in transit. Regrettably, DSI cannot accept the following types of return:

• Electronic publications
• Standing orders

CD-ROM/ DVD and Internet Licences

General Terms

• The licensee agrees to forbid the use of the software and databases by third parties.
• DSI does not guarantee the correctness of the data or the data documentation.
• The product, either in whole or in part, may not be assigned, licensed, sold or transferred to any party by any physical or electronic means.
• The licensee does not receive the proprietary rights to the software or the data, but solely the right to use them within the framework of his analysis-application.
• The DSI CD-ROMs and DVDs may remain in the possession of the customer.
• The data producers retain the rights to the data. The software producers retain the rights to the software.
• The source of the data must be correspondingly cited in all publications, computations, etc.
• In case of a breach of this contract, DSI reserves the right to take proper measures against the licensee and to request appropriate compensation for the losses which DSI had incurred.

Standing Orders

• The following annual subscriptions are automatically extended an additional year if they are not cancelled in writing 30 days prior to expiration. The expiration dates are defined as follows:

• International Statistical Yearbook (published July/August): June 30

• DSI Statistical Compendium Series
  • European Union Selection (published September): August 31.
  • OECD Selection
    • a: the subscription begins with issue 1/20xx (published in April): March 31
    • b: the subscription begins with issue 2/20xx (published in October): Sep. 30 
• STATIS-BUND (published October): September 30.

• Global Environmental Database (published October): September 30.

• The subscription price has to be paid each year in advance.

• DSI reserves the right to review the prices for subscriptions each year and to change them.

• DSI reserves the right to suspend the subscription service due to an important reason. In this case the subscription price will be refunded on prorated basis.

• DSI takes no responsibility for administrative restrictions or influences beyond one's control which interfere with the mailing or the import and export of the CD-ROMs or DVDs, or via the electronic transmission, or anyway.

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