Terms Of Use

Helleniczeus S.A., owner and beneficiary of all rights of the web site www.helleniczeus.gr provides its visitors/ members/ subscribers/ readers (hereinafter referred to as “users”) with a host of services, pages, choices and/or sources. Users of Helleniczeus services understand and acknowledge that all pages/ services are provided “as is” and that Helleniczeus shall bear no liability whatsoever for any limited duration, deletion, poor performance or failure to store any user data and/or any content of personal pages/services.

Access to the use of Helleniczeus services may require the payment of fees to third parties (for instance, Internet service providers, charge of on-line time). Users shall be solely responsible to pay the corresponding fees. In addition, users shall be solely liable for their personal equipment along with the necessary technological means ensuring them access to Helleniczeus services.

By making use of the services, Helleniczeus users fully and unreservedly accept these terms. To this effect, Helleniczeus recommends its users to carefully read the texts below and refer to info@helleniczeus.gr for any queries they may have.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – TRADEMARKS
In addition to the exceptions explicitly set forth (intellectual property rights of third parties, associates and bodies), the entire content of Helleniczeus including pictures, graphics, photographs, drawings, texts, services provided and, in general, all files of this web site (save the content created by users through customised services) shall be intellectual property, registered trademarks and service marks of Helleniczeus and shall be protected by the respective provisions of Greek and European Law and international agreements and conventions. Therefore, the content of Helleniczeus cannot be sold, copied, modified, counterfeited, imitated, reproduced or republished in whole or in part, without prior written permission, or be downloaded, transmitted, distributed or otherwise exploited. With the explicit exception of the above indicative cases, separate storage of a single copy of part of the content in a plain personal computer of the user solely for the latter’s personal use and not for public or commercial operation shall be allowed, provided that its origin is not deleted and that no third parties or the relevant intellectual and industrial property rights are affected in whatsoever way. The other products or services referred to in the electronic pages of this node and bearing the marks of the respective organisations, corporations, associates, bodies, unions, etc shall be the intellectual and industrial property of these persons.

REGISTRATION - USER ACCOUNT
Upon registration with Helleniczeus services, users will be asked to provide certain personal data and information. Each user represents and warrants that the information provided is true, accurate, current and complete.

Upon registering and creating an account, users shall be asked to determine a password and a user name. Users shall be solely responsible for all activities that occur under their password/ user name and, in general, their user account and should see that the above personally identifiable user information is safeguarded. Helleniczeus recommends its users to take all necessary safety measures to prevent any illegal use of the network services and their passwords by third unauthorised parties. In addition, Helleniczeus recommends its users to memorise these passwords and avoid writing them down on objects to which third parties may gain access.

Finally, Helleniczeus recommends its users to be particularly careful when exiting from their accounts at the end of each session (Logout).

Helleniczeus cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from users’ failure to comply with the terms hereof.

USER CONDUCT
By way of example, but not limited to, users are not allowed to use Helleniczeus services to:
1. Upload, post, email, transmit, or use other method to install content that is unlawful, harmful, misleading, threatening, abusive, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, violent, harassing, obscene, racially or otherwise objectionable, invasive of privacy or personal data, hateful, etc.
2. Impersonate any natural or legal person or falsely state the identity of the user/member or otherwise misrepresent the association and/or co-operation of the user/member with another natural or legal person.
3. Falsify or otherwise alter the identifiers of users/members with a view to providing misleading information regarding the content transmitted via Helleniczeus services.
4. Upload, post, email, transmit, or use other method to have content installed by a person that does not have a right to transmit such content under any law or under fiduciary relationships.
5. Upload, post, email, transmit, or use other method to install software or other content (text, picture, sound, video, animation) that infringes on any intellectual property rights of any body (including trade secrets).
6. Upload, post, email, transmit, or use other method to install any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk/spam mail" or any other form of solicitation.
7. Upload, post, email, transmit, or use other method to install and/or promote and/or make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
8. Interfere with or disrupt the services or servers or networks connected to Helleniczeus services, or disobey any requirements, procedures or regulations of use of such networks.
9. Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, national, European or international law and/or any regulations having the force of law and concerning and/or covering any Helleniczeus services.
10. Interfere with the privacy as well as the individual and social rights of other users/members in whatsoever way (for instance, by collecting and/or storing personally identifiable information about other users/members).

Users of Helleniczeus shall be solely and exclusively liable to fully restore any damage incurred by Helleniczeus and its associates as a result of any challenge, dispute or litigation that may arise from non-compliance of users with the terms of this article.

In case Helleniczeus services are employed in a way contravening these terms, Helleniczeus reserves the right to refuse access to the service without notice.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Having regard to the nature and volume of the Internet, under no circumstances, including negligence, shall Helleniczeus be liable for any damage incurred by the users of pages, services, choices and contents of Helleniczeus. The contents of Helleniczeus are provided “as is”, with no warranties whatsoever, whether be express or implied, with respect to their merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Helleniczeus undertakes to collect, process and distribute its content, which however, due to the tremendous volume of information transferred on its hosting servers and the participation of third parties (whether be natural or legal persons, or the users themselves), cannot be monitored physically during its initial production and collection. Therefore, in no event can Helleniczeus guarantee the thoroughness, accuracy, fullness, adequacy, lawfulness and, in general, the quality or fitness thereof or the absence of any errors.

Users utilise the services at their own initiative and responsibility and, additionally, Helleniczeus recommends its users to double check the information provided.

Helleniczeus does not give any express warranty that the pages, services, choices and contents will be provided free of errors, without interruption, or that the errors will be corrected. Additionally, Helleniczeus does not warrant that Helleniczeus site or other affiliated sites or the servers through which the above are made available to users will be free of viruses or other harmful elements.

E-COMMERCE
Helleniczeus provides its users with the capability to purchase services and/or products through e-commerce applications pursuant to the terms hereof and/or other special terms regarding the provision of e-commerce services.

Helleniczeus fully complies with the provisions of Law 2251/1994 on Consumer Protection and the regulatory acts and decisions related to remote sales. Thus, Helleniczeus is obliged to inform its users with respect to: a) the substantial characteristics of the products and/or services Helleniczeus makes available; b) their price and the value added tax, if not included in the price; c) payment terms; d) availability of products; e) mode, time and cost of shipping – delivery of products; and f) revocation right.

ADVERTISING
Helleniczeus explicitly reserves the right to use the space offered to its users to upload and post any content (personal pages, etc) and to promote advertising messages of any type and size as long as this content is part of Helleniczeus services.

Helleniczeus shall not be liable in whatsoever way for the communication of its users with third-party providers of services advertised on Helleniczeus or for any commercial transaction that may arise from such a relation.

VOTES
Helleniczeus provides the users of its services with the capability to vote on current issues formulated as questions. The answers of voters are recorded, analysed and commented by Helleniczeus for conclusions to be drawn regarding public opinion in relation to the topic put to the vote. Helleniczeus reserves the exclusive right to collect and exploit such data and the findings to which Helleniczeus is led shall be Helleniczeus’ s intellectual property. Helleniczeus determines specific terms regarding participation in voting and reserves the right to terminate voting.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Helleniczeus does not control the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and thoroughness of the services of other web sites and pages to which users are referred through links, hyperlinks or advertising banners. Therefore, users acknowledge that they should refer directly to the respective web sites and pages for any problem encountered when visiting or using the services of other web sites, which will be solely responsible for the services they provide. In no event can it be believed that Helleniczeus abides by or accepts the content or services of the web sites or pages to which Helleniczeus refers and/or is linked in whatsoever way.

COMMENCEMENT – TERMINATION OF SERVICES OPERATION
Helleniczeus reserves the right to modify and/or suspend or terminate its services, in whole or in part, with or without notice to users/subscribers.

GOVERNING LAW AND OTHER TERMS
The aforementioned use terms and conditions of Helleniczeus as well as any amendment thereof are construed and supplemented by Greek Law, the Law of the European Union and the corresponding international conventions. Should any provision of the above terms become invalid, it shall automatically cease being in force and it shall be removed from this document without prejudice to the validity of the other terms. This document is the entire agreement between Helleniczeus and the user of its pages and services and shall bind solely these parties. Any amendments to these terms shall be taken into account and shall be a part of this agreement insofar as they are formulated in writing and incorporated herein.