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The website www.Halkidiki.com (herein Halkidiki.com), offers its services under
the following terms and conditions, which the user is called to carefully read
and continue to use the website's services only if he or she fully consents to
their application. By using the website Halkidiki.com in any way you agree to
the following terms of use, which constitute a binding agreement between you and
the creators of Halkidiki.com, valid as if you have signed a written contract.
In case of a future modification to the present terms of use, continuing to use
Halkidiki.com at a later date signifies the binding acceptance on your part of
the modified terms of use.
1. USING THE OFFERED SERVICES
The content of the Halkidiki.com website is available exclusively for personal,
non commercial use, without a charge and not requiring a charge for user
registration. However, in order to publish your photographs to the website, you
are required to register by completing the necessary form.
2. USER ACCOUNT
Users remain personally and exclusively responsible for all the actions carried
out by use of their user account after their registration. Users are required to
immediately inform Halkidiki.com if any non authorized use of their account or
any already accomplished or possible breach of security comes to their
attention.
Moreover, users are solely responsible for the careful use of their account, for
safeguarding their password and for logging out of their account at the end of
each use. Halkidiki.com is not responsible for any damage or loss occurring from
the inability of the users to abide by the present clause.
3. USER PERSONAL INFORMATION
Halkidiki.com does not collect personal information of the type stated in Law
2472/1997, as the user is not obligated at any part of his or her interaction
with the website to provide personal information capable of leading to his or
her identification. Any personal user data sent willingly by the user (e.g. in a
post signed under his or her own name), are published at the user's request and
are not separately stored in the Halkidiki.com servers as a structured group of
data accessible by specific criteria.
4. CONTACT
You can contact the administrators of Halkidiki.com by e-mail at
info@halkidiki.com. This communication
is confidential and Halkidiki.com commits not to publish its content without
your expressed consent. Halkidiki.com also commits not to proceed with the sale,
lease, and release or making known of your email address in any way. The only
exceptions are the following:
- Halkidiki.com has the prior consent of the sender to publish the information
than concern him or her.
- The individuals and legal entities collaborating with Halkidiki.com have the
right to process the user's personal information, only to the extent absolutely
necessary in order to provide technical or other type of support towards
Halkidiki.com or in order to provide a service requested by the user and they
are also bound by equivalent terms of protection of this information.
- When it is dictated in order to comply with the relevant laws and only towards
the relevant authorities.
Furthermore, Halkidiki.com is binded not to use your electronic address to send
out unsolicited e-mail (spam). It retains however the right to send out
newsletters concerning the operation and services of Halkidiki.com, barring the
user's expressed objection by email sent to
info@halkidiki.com.
5. COOKIES
Halkidiki.com can use cookies to identify you in some of its pages and services.
Cookies can also be stored in your computer from third party websites, such as
the adsense advertising program by Google. A cookie is a small piece of data
sent to your browser by a web server and is stored to your computer's hard
drive. Cookies do not cause any damage to your system and do not adversely
affect its function in any way. Cookies make your web browsing easier for you by
storing your settings. You can set your browser in such a way that it informs
you when cookies are used in certain services of Halkidiki.com or forbid the use
of cookies altogether. In case you choose not to uses cookies for your
identification, you will not be able to further access the services that require
them.
6. EXTERNAL LINKS
Halkidiki.com contains links to other websites controlled by third parties.
Links included in Halkidiki.com have the sole purpose to facilitate the user's
search for information concerning the categories listed in the website.
Inclusion of third party links in the Halkidiki.com content can in no case be
considered a promotional or advertising act of any kind.
In no case does Halkidiki.com guarantee the legitimacy or accuracy of the
content of the links the website includes, nor that these links will be
temporarily or constantly active. Furthermore, the links cited in each category
are indicative, and not exclusive or restrictive. Halkidiki.com retains the
right to remove or add links without any warning or explanation to any party and
alter the website's content at any time. Halkidiki.com is not obligated to
include any link in its categories.
Some of the websites the links included in Halkidiki.com lead to require a
registration or a registration fee for their services. Their mention in
Halkidiki.com is not considered a suggestion or advisement to register of pay a
registration fee to third party websites.
Your use of Halkidiki.com signifies your understating and acceptance of the fact
that Halkidiki.com is in
no case responsible for the content of the links it contains and/or the
products/services or advertisements the websites they link to contain.
Furthermore, Halkidiki.com is
not responsible for any financial or other type of loss or damage the
user that follows those links sustains.
7. TRADE NAMES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The Halkidiki.com website was created by and belongs to its individual creators
and constitutes their intellectual property under the "Intellectual Property"
Law 2121/1993, as it has been modified and is valid today, as well as under the
international agreements signed by Greece.
Halkidiki.com retains the exclusive intellectual rights to the design, the code,
the database and the complete content of the website (including images,
graphics, photographs, designs, texts, offered services and overall the files
included in this website), with the exception of any content added by the users
themselves. Third parties may also hold exclusive or non exclusive intellectual
property rights to parts of the content of Halkidiki.com. The content included
in Halkidiki.com, its structure and categorization comprises a data base under
the Law 2121/1993 and is thus protected by that law. Any publication,
reproduction, processing, copying, translation, purchase, renting, selling all
or part of the content of Halkidiki.com is strictly forbidden. Any breach of
these rights of the creators incurs the liabilities and penalties dictated by
the law.
By adding any kind of content to Halkidiki.com you declare that you own its
copyrights in full according to the Greek laws, or you have the prior express
permission for this specific use. You are not allowed to record, distribute or
in general process and manage in any way content which is protected by
intellectual property rights, trade names or patented products that belong to
third parties without the prior written consent of the holder of these rights.
Halkidiki.com has the right to delete the account of any user who repeatedly
violates the aforementioned term, after proper notification on the matter by the
holder of the intellectual rights or his or her legal representative. Without
retracting or restricting the aforementioned terms, if you believe that any of
your work is being copied or included in Halkidiki.com in a way that violates
your intellectual property rights, please send a written warning to
abuse@halkidiki.com.
By consenting to the present terms, you declare expressly and irrevocably
declare that you assign Halkidiki.com the non exclusive worldwide right to
publish, copy, broadcast, reproduce, process, modify, translate, sell or lease,
transfer to a third party, enter into a computer memory/server, create copies
and provide access to an unknown number of people for any content you add to the
website (if you have the legal right to do so), and declare that these actions
are a willing and knowing exercise of your moral rights. Furthermore, you
consent to the impression of the “halkidiki.com” logotype at a small scale on
any photograph you publish, for security reasons. In no case does this addition
breaches or distorts your intellectual property rights on the photographs you
publish. The content included in the websites the links contained in
Halkidiki.com lead to is subject to the terms of use of each and every one of
these websites and the user should read them before proceeding with their use.
Halkidiki.com bears no responsibility for any breach of intellectual property
rights from third party websites, but does point out to its users the existence
of those rights and the necessity of being informed before any use of the
content of the links contained in the website. The trade names included in
Halkidiki.com constitute registered trade names of Halkidiki.com and third party
organizations, companies or institutions which are their holders and are thus
protected by the relevant Greek and European laws and international treaties and
agreements. The use of these trade names is forbidden altogether.
8. FORUM ETIQUETTE
The purpose of Halkidiki.com is to inform and its creators do not wish for
anyone to be insulted, justifiably or not. For this reason, we urge you to read
this clause carefully. Your non compliance to these terms may lead to deleting
your account as well as to further legal actions.
Despite the fact that Halkidiki.com provides you with the necessary
technological infrastructure and the means to publish your views and your
photographs, all the content you add and post publicly remains your sole
responsibility. Halkidiki.has no legal obligation to monitor any or all of the
comments made, nor is complete and constant monitoring feasible. Halkidiki.com
does not accept or agree in any way with the personal ideas or views expressed
by the users of the forum. The users of the website's forum have complete
responsibility of the content they post. The users also agree and accept that
the conversation as well as any kind of communication conducted through the
forum is public and not private.
Do not publish a critic if you haven't yourself used the services you are
reviewing or haven't indeed spent your vacation yourself to the specific place
to which you are referring to. We strictly suggest that you express yourself
with accuracy and moderation in your critics. Offensive or slandering
expressions may lead to the deletion of the entire comment. You are not allowed
to insult the honor, integrity or personality of any individual. Do not
criticize without having personal knowledge or without being completely certain
of the fact you are publicizing. Refrain from repeating comments, especially
when this particular or similar comment has been posted by more than one user.
Halkidiki.com retains the right not to allow the appearance of multiply repeated
comments. The Halkidiki.com forum is not a place for advertising and for this
reason any attempt of direct or indirect advertising is forbidden and the
relevant comments will be deleted.
Halkidiki.com retains the right to delete without any justification all or part
of any posted comment, if its administrators reach the conclusion that it may
harm the image and credibility of the website and delete user accounts even
without prior notification, if a repeated breach of the present terms is
observed. Comments may even be deleted upon a request by the person the comment
refers to, and a relevant reference will be posted in the forum.
Halkidiki.com users have a responsibility towards Halkidiki.com and its partners
for any damage or loss that occurs from their use of the Halkidiki.com services
in an unlawful way or a way non compliant with the present terms.
9. MALFUNCTION COMPENSATION
Halkidiki.com retains the right to modify and/or cease temporarily or
permanently all or part of its services with or without prior notification to
its users. Users have no claim over Halkidiki.com for any discontinuation or
termination of its operation or services.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Halkidiki.com does not guarantee the accuracy, validity or correctness of the
information included in the website, regardless of the type of information
provided (e.g. images, text, graphics, research results, scientific articles
etc).
Given the nature and the volume of the information provided through the
Internet, under no circumstances, including the case of negligence, is
Halkidiki.com responsible for any type of damage or loss (financial or
otherwise) occurring to the users of the web pages, services, choices and
content of Halkidiki.com, to which they gain access to at their own free will.
You visit the pages of Halkidiki.com at your own initiative and assume full
responsibility.
Accountability for the completeness, accuracy, sufficiency, legitimacy,
suitability and correctness of the content of the links appearing in the
website, including advertisements, irrespective of the way they appear, belongs
exclusively to the websites/companies that provide them.
The content and information included or even the answers to questions posted on
Halkidiki.com, including advertisements, irrespective of the way they appear,
should in no way be considered valid information, advice or suggestion for a
specific act.
Users should bear in mind that the information provided by Halkidiki.com is
under no circumstances exclusive or unique of any subject. The user who seeks
comprehensive knowledge on any subject included in Halkikidi.com understands
that the information he or she receives from Halkidiki.com could only be partial
and resumes full responsibility for the risk this fact entails. Any views
posted, reflect the views of the persons who have requested their posting and in
no case represent the views of Halkidiki.com, or its official position on any
matter.
11. LACK OF GUARANTEE
The content of Halkidiki.com is offered «exactly as is», with no explicit, or
presumed in any way, guarantees concerning the website's marketability or
suitability for any purpose.
Halkidiki.com offers no explicit guarantee that its pages, services, functions,
choices and content will be provided without interruption or without errors or
that mistakes will be corrected. Furthermore, Halkidiki.com does not guarantee
that the website in question or any associated website or the servers through
which they become available to users do not contain viruses or other harmful
components.
In no case Halkidiki.com, its employees or the persons associated with the
website have a responsibility to the users for any damage caused by the use of
Halkidiki.com
12. APPLICABLE LAWS AND OTHER TERMS
The aforementioned terms and any subsequent modification made to those terms are
governed by Greek laws. By accepting the present terms of use you accept the
exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Polygyros, Halkidiki, Greece.
All the aforementioned terms are drafted as material. Any clause of the terms
stated above rendered as contradictive to the law ceases to be valid without
affecting the validity of the remaining terms. The present document constitutes
the full agreement between Halkidiki.com and the users of its services and binds
these parties alone. No modification of these terms is taken into account nor is
it part of this agreement if it hasn't been put to writing and incorporated. For
any dispute between Halkidiki.com and any of its users, the effort to reach an
extrajudicial settlement is necessary.
If you do not agree with the present Terms of Use, you are obligated not to use
the services of Halkidiki.com.
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