TERMS OF USE
A visitor to / user of the services provided on the VIANEX website understands and agrees that all its pages are provided on an “as is” basis, and the website waives any liability relating to limited duration, deletion, poor performance or inability to store electronically any user data and/or any of the contents of hompages/services.
A visitor/user shall be responsible for accessing the site services, and the relevant access may require payment of fees to third parties (e.g. Internet service providers, fees paid for the time spent on-line). A visitor/user shall be the sole person responsible to pay the relevant fees. Moreover, a visitor/user shall be the sole person responsible for his/her personal equipment and the necessary hardware allowing access to the site services.
USER ETHICS
It is mutually agreed upon and understood that all the information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos and messages, as well as all the contents in general, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, shall remain under the exclusive responsibility of the natural or legal person from which all these have originated. This means that users shall be held exclusively liable for all and any contents they post, publish, sent, transmit or make available in any other way through the services provided on the website.It is impossible for the website, due to its size, to control all the contents posted by its users/members on the site services and therefore the website shall not warrant the accuracy, integrity, lawfulness or quality of those contents. It shall in no event be held liable for any errors or omissions included in any of the contents or for any loss or damage that may result from using any contents posted, sent transmitted or made available in any other way by the site users/members.
The users/members agree not to use the site services and to assume full and exclusive liability concerning the following:
1. Posting, publishing, sending, transmitting or using any other method for installing any content that is illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, damaging, slanderous, vulgar, violent, offensive, racist or unacceptable in any other way, any content that offends the personality and breaches the personal data of others or any intellectual property rights secured by anybody, or incites to hatred and/or to any other criminal offense, as may be specified, or any other form of undesirable promotion of content, including any content that includes digital viruses or any other electronic code, files or programs designed to interfere with, destroy or limit the functioning of any computer or telecommunications software or hardware.
2. Causing harm to minors in any way whatsoever.
3. Impersonating any legal or natural person or making false claims about the identity of a user/member or misleading statements regarding the relationship and/or affiliation of the user/member with any other legal or natural person.
4. Falsifying or otherwise changing the identifiers of the users/members with the purpose to mislead as regards the origin of the content transmitted through the site services.
5. Posting, publishing, sending, transferring or using any other method to install content by a person that does not have the right to make the specific content concerned available according to the law or based on a confidential relationship.
6. Interfering with or disrupting the services or servers or networks that are connected to the site services, or breaching the conditions, procedures and rules of use of these networks.
7. Breaching, intentionally or unintentionally, any local, national, European, international legislation and/or any rules that have legislative effect and concern and/or govern any of the site services.
8. Breaching, in any way whatsoever, the privacy and the personal and social rights of other users (such as by collecting and/or storing the personal data of other users/members).
A user site understands and agrees that the website does not conduct ex ante checks on the contents. However, the website and its competent partners reserve the exclusive right (not the obligation) to refuse to post/publish, transmit or delete, any contents made available through the site services. Moreover, the website and its competent partners reserve the right to delete, without warning, any content that breaches these terms of use.
PROTECTION OF MINORS
Any website visitors/users who are minors are not allowed to access any site services that are deemed to be inappropriate for minors, which cannot possibly be controlled by the website. Any section or service that may contain material that is inappropriate/offensive/immoral includes a warning to visitors/users. The website, however, shall not be held liable if any minor users willingly visit any pages with inappropriate/offensive/immoral content, which is impossible to control continuously.
MEMBER ACCOUNT
The website provides its users with member services after they complete the sign up procedure. As soon as a visitor/user completes the sign up procedure specified by the website, he/she shall receive a message from the website to confirm the password and username that the he/she has chosen. A member shall remain exclusively liable for all the actions carried out under his/her password and username, and his/her user account in general. The members agree to notify the website immediately in the event of any unauthorized use of their account and any actual and/or possible breach of security. The members shall also be solely responsible for making careful use of their account and for logging out from their account by using the standard log out procedure at the end of each session. The website shall not held liable for any damage or loss resulting from the members’ inability to comply and abide with this clause.
SIGN UP
A visitor/user wishing to sign up to the site services agrees: (a) to provide true, accurate, valid and complete information concerning the data requested by the website in the relevant request forms for access to its contents/services, and (b) to keep and update diligently his/her sign up information, to ensure that it is always true, accurate, valid, updated and complete. The sign up procedure shall be completed upon transmission by the website of the password, and the relevant user/member shall be deemed to have accepted and been aware of the present terms of use.
The right of objection
You have the right to object requesting the website to correct or delete your personal data, or to delete you as a signed up member by filling out and sending the contact form included in the website.
“Dear Sir/Madam ... You are kindly requested, under Article 13 of Law 2472/1997, to make the following correction (...) or to delete my personal data kept in your files”.
The website shall reply to you in writing within fifteen (15) days.
LICENSING FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES
A user that makes use of the site services to post and/or publish information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos and messages licenses the website, for as long as that content is part of the site services, to use the space in which the content is posted for advertising purposes. Moreover, a user/member that posts and/or publishes information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos and messages consents to the posting/and publication of advertisements by the website on the relevant pages/services. The website shall not be held liable for the communication of a user/member with third service providers advertised on the website and for any commercial transaction that may result from their relationship.
DAMAGE/COMPENSATION
A website user understands and agrees that he shall be the sole person liable to pay compensation to the site and its partners for any litigation that may result between the user and third parties due to the content made available by the user for posting, publication of other transmission through the site services.
INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS - MARKS
Apart from the exceptions referred to specifically (third parties, partners and organizations’ intellectual property rights), all the website content, including videos, images, graphics, photographs, drawings, texts and services provided and, in general, all the files included therein, constitute intellectual property, registered trademarks, trade dresses and service marks of the site services and are protected by the relevant provisions of Law of Greece, the Law of the European Union and international conventions and treaties. Therefore, none of them may be, in total or in part, sold, copied, modified, reproduced, republished or uploaded, transmitted or distributed in any way whatsoever. All the products or services related to the pages of this website, which bear the marks of their respective organizations, companies, partners, associations or publishers, constitute their own intellectual and industrial property, and therefore the relevant liability shall be borne by these entities. The user understands and agrees that he/she is not entitled to reproduce, copy, sell, resell, and/or exploit commercially in any way whatsoever all or part of the site contents.Should a user do so, he/she agrees that he/she shall be the sole party liable to pay compensation for the above.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Taking into account the nature and volume of the Internet, the website shall, under no circumstances, including in case of negligence, be held liable for any type of damage incurred by a user of the site pages, services, options and contents, which he/she shall use on his/her own initiative. The site contents are provided on an “as is” basis, without any warranty, whether expressed or implied, in any way whatsoever. The website denies, to the maximum extent possible and as provided by law, all warranties, whether expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, those entailing marketability and suitability for a specific purpose.
The website does not warrant that the pages, services, options and contents will be provided without any interruption and will be free from errors, or that the errors will be corrected. Moreover, the website does not warrant that the website itself or any other associated website or the servers used to make these available to users/members do not contain any viruses or other harmful elements. The website does not warrant, in any way whatsoever, the correctness, completeness and/or availability of the contents, pages, services, options or results thereof. The cost of any correction or service shall be borne by the visitor/user. It shall not be borne by the website in any event.
COOKIES
The website may use cookies to identify a visitor to / user of specific site services and pages.These are used only to facilitate visitor access to specific site services and for statistical purposes, with a view to identifying the areas where the site services are useful or popular, or for marketing purposes.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY CONCERNING INFORMATION/ADVICE
The content and information included in the website are a contribution to the website visitors/users and the community of Internet users in general. Therefore it may not be understood to constitute valid information and/or advice neither to include any implied admonition for taking, or refraining from, specific actions. The website undertakes to collect, process and distribute its content without, however, making any warranties as to the correctness, completeness, adequacy and general suitability thereof, as well as the absence of any errors, not least because of its huge volume and the participation of third parties (natural or legal persons) in the primary production and collection thereof. Therefore, by using its services, any visitors to / users of the website shall assume the responsibility to cross-check the information provided.
Some of the information included in our website is provided by third parties. The website is unable to verify that information and does not make any warranties as to its accuracy.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
The website does not control the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness of the services provided on other websites and pages referred to through links, hyperlinks or advertising banners. The website shall not be regarded to have adopted and accepted the content or the services of the websites and pages which it refers or links to in any way whatsoever.
SERVICES AND PAGES OF A PERSONAL NATURE AND CONTENT
The user understands and hereby agrees that the website may adopt new terms of use for its services including the time periods in which emails, fora, homepages and/or other contents posted and/or published by the user/member are to be maintained on the site services. The users/members understand and agree that the website reserves that right to deactivate email accounts at any time and free of charge.
COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA
The website shall collect personal data when a visitor/user: (a) signs up to its services, (b) makes use of its products/services, (c) visits its pages and/or accesses its promotional/advertising programs, and (d) participates in competitions. Following are the personal data collected on a mandatory basis: Name, surname, email, telephone number, address, postal code, city, country, occupation, age.
CORRECTION AND/OR DELETION OF PERSONAL DATA
The website allows users to delete, correct and/or update their personal data, and/or deactivate their account at any time by sending an email to the website.
DISSEMINATION AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
The website promises not to sell, lease out or, in any way, publish and/or disclose the personal data of website visitors/users/members to any third party.
The website may disclose the personal data of its visitors/users/members to third legal and/or natural persons only on condition that:
• It has obtained the consent of the visitors/users for disclosing the personal data, which shall be deemed to be granted when a user signs up to the website without filing an objection, as per the above.
• The disclosure of personal data to legal and/or natural persons collaborating with the website is necessary in order to satisfy the users’ wishes and/or orders. The legal and natural persons collaborating with the website shall be entitled to process the personal data entered by the website users/members to the degree absolutely necessary for supporting the website.
• This is necessary with a view to complying with the relevant legal provisions and provided that such data are disclosed to the competent authorities only.
HOMEPAGES
The website shall not be held liable for the content posted and/or published by users on their homepages. Other users shall access these homepages at their own risk. If the website is informed that the content hosted on one or more such homepages is offensive to third parties and/or breaches the personal data of third parties, it reserves the right to proceed, without warning, to delete the relevant pages and/or the user/member who made the relevant post and/or publication. This clause shall apply to texts, photographs, images, audio files, video files and all other types of content that may be posted/published by users on their homepages.
IP ADDRESSES
The IP address used by a visitor/user’s computer to access the Internet and then the website shall be retained for technical purposes and shall be utilized.
CHAT
The website operates online chat rooms subject to the more specific conditions imposed and enables its visitors/users to develop their own message boards, also allowing them to take part in discussions conducted on massage boards developed by other users by sending text messages. The visitors to / users of such services shall abide with the rules of good conduct and decency and shall not make unlawful or immoral comments.
The site shall in no event be regarded as having accepted or endorsed, in any way whatsoever, any personal ideas or views irrespective of how these are expressed in such rooms. The website reserves the right to shut down or expel a visitor/user of the relevant services if it finds out that the latter has breached the above conditions. The website may record the content of messages sent by visitors to / users of such services only to identify any breaches of the relevant terms of use, in accordance with the more specific stipulations laid down in the Terms of Use and for no other purpose.
APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER CONDITIONS
The above terms and terms of use of the website, as well as any amendments thereto, shall be governed and supplemented by Law of Greece, the Law of the European Union and the relevant international treaties. The Courts of Athens shall have jurisdiction to settle any disputes. Any provision included in the above terms which contradicts the Law shall cease to have effect automatically, without affecting the validity of the other terms in any way whatsoever.
The present text constitutes the total agreement between the website and the visitor/user of the site pages and services and shall be binding on these visitors/users only. No amendment to these terms shall be taken into account or become part of this agreement, unless it has been stated in writing and integrated herein. These terms of use shall supersede any other terms and shall apply to all the site services and applications without exception and without the need for any other more specific terms. A user that makes use of this website and its services shall be deemed to have accepted these terms unconditionally unless he/she files an objection.
The management and protection of the personal data of the visitors/users of the site services shall be subject to the terms set out in this section and to the relevant provisions of the Greek legislation (Law 2472/1997 on the protection of the individual and the protection of personal data, as supplemented by the decisions of the President of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, Presidential Decrees 207/1998 and 79/2000, and Article 8 of Law 2819/2000, as well as Law 2774/1999 and the EU law (Directives 95/46/EC and 97/66/EC). The present terms are formulated taking into account both the rapid development of technology and the Internet in particular as well as the current (even though not fully developed) framework of legal regulations governing these issues. In this context, any potential relevant regulation shall fall under the scope of this section. In any case, the website shall reserve the right to change the personal data protection terms following notification to the visitors/users and within the current and/or potential legal framework.
If a visitor/user does not agree with the personal data protection terms laid down in this section, he/she shall be obliged not to use the services of this website.
Taking into account the nature and volume of the Internet, the website shall, under no circumstances, including in case of negligence, be held liable for any type of damage incurred by a user of the site pages, services, options and contents, which he/she shall use on his/her own initiative and being aware of the terms laid down herein.