1. PREAMBLE
1.1 These Terms of Use (together with the privacy policy) constitute the terms and conditions of use of this website hellenica.gr (hereinafter the “Website”).
1.2 The Website addresses exclusively to users over sixteen (16) years old. Merely accessing and using the Website constitutes full and unconditional acceptance of the terms of use. It is thus assumed that each visitor has carefully read, understood and accepted the terms of use as well as compliance with Greek and European legislation.
1.3 This Website is a website operated by the company under the name. “HELLENICA – HELLENICA SOCIETE ANONYME OF COSMETIC PRODUCTS”, whose registered office is in Maroussi Attica, 7 Chimaras street (hereinafter the “Company”).
1.4 All references to the term “we” in these terms of use shall be deemed to refer to the Company.
2. CONCESSION OF USE AND RIGHT
2.1 All information, documents and illustrations posted on this website are of the exclusive property of HELLENICA S.A. Any license to use the above is granted on the condition that each copy will bear the relevant notce of intellectual property protection, that they are intended exclusively for private use, that they will not be subject to commercial exploitation, that they will not be modified in any way and that any illustrations that may to be extracted from the website will be used exclusively in conjunction with the accompanying text.
3. TRADEMARKS
All of the trademarks posted on this website are the property of HELLENICA S.A., unless otherwise indicated or if it becomes clear that it is a third-party trademark.
Any unlicensed use or abuse of these marks or other posted material is expressly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the provisions of intellectual and industrial property.
4. ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE
4.1 Access to the website is allowed throughout the week and throughout the day, with the exception of the period when access to the website will be suspended due to its maintenance, upgrade or interruption of electronic communication or other related reason. The Company bears no responsibility in the event that for any reason the website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
4.2 The Company aims to update the website regularly and may change its content at any time. If necessary, the Company may suspend access to the website or discontinue it indefinitely.
The Company is under no obligation to update the material on the website which may not be up to date at a given time.
4.3 You must make all necessary changes/ arrangements in order to access our website. You should also ensure that all persons who access the website via your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and comply with them.
5. RESTRICTION OF ACCESS
5.1 The Company has the right to prohibit and/or interrupt the function of the website (or the operation of some of its services) to any user, in cases where it reasonably considers that this access may endanger the Company and/or the user or another third party, as well as when the user has violated the terms of use and/or the Law.
6. WEBSITE CONTENT – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
6.1 The Website and its content, such as, but not limited to, trademarks and service marks of the Company, distinctive title, domain name, source code, software, services offered, photos, images, graphics, texts, illustrations, audio and/or image files and files of audiovisual works, interactive applications, data, metadata, databases (hereinafter the “Content”), is subject of exclusive intellectual and industrial property rights either of the Company or of third parties cooperating with the Company and is under the protection of the relevant intellectual and industrial property provisions of Greek and European law and international conventions and treaties.
6.2 The content may be temporarily copied to the memory of a personal computer for the purpose of simple reading. It is expressly forbidden to make this content, in whole or in part, object of transfer, sale, assignment, concession (with or without consideration), commercial exploitation, copying, modification, reproduction, retransmission, transmission, distribution, sale or download with any way or means by users and/or by any third party. It is noted that these actions are indicative and not restrictive.
6.3 The above prohibition excludes the case of the individual storage of a single copy of part of the content of the website on a simple personal PC (electronic computer) for strictly-personal-private, non-public (with or without compensation) and non-commercial use and without erasing or altering the indication of origin, and without this action affecting the intellectual or industrial property rights of the Company or third parties.
6.4 The ability to access and use the software included in the website (hereinafter the “software”) does not constitute a right of the user upon the software. Users must refrain from any act of reproduction, modification, translation or in general damaging the software and the content by users or by third parties in any way or means.
6.5 The Company hereby grants users a non-exclusive, personal, non-assignable and freely revocable license to use the software, and it will last only for as long as the use of the website is necessary in accordance with the terms of use.
6.6 Users are obliged to compensate the Company for any positive and/or consequential damages due to violation of its own and/or third party rights or inappropriate or illegal use of the website.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
7.1 HELLENICA S.A. has collected the detailed information contained in this website from the most reliable internal and external sources been possible, exercising professional diligence. Our pursuit is the continuous expansion and update of this information.
7.2 The information contained in this website is intended to present HELLENICA S.A., its products and services. However, we make no representations or warranties, expressed or implied, as to the completeness or correctness of the information contained on this website. In particular, you are cautioned that the information contained on this website, although accurate at the date of publication, may not continue to be updated. We therefore recommend that you check any information you obtain from this website before using it in any way. Any advice provided on this website does not release you from the obligation to carry out your own audit of our products, in order to ascertain their suitability for the intended uses and purposes. For any information or advice regarding our products and services, please contact our company directly.
7.3 Users of this website accept that access to it and its content is at their own risk. HELLENICA S.A. and third parties involved in the writing, production or retransmission of the website bear no responsibility for any damage or injury as a result of access or inability to access or use or inability to use this website or the fact that you relied on information from this website.
8. OBLIGATIONS OF USERS
8.1 The users accept, agree and stipulate that the general use of the website services by them:
a) does not in any way insult the personality of third parties and will not constitute an indirect or direct threat to any other user or third party,
b) does not conflict with the Law, fair and commercial ethics,
c) does not violate in any way the privacy, personal data, individual and social rights of users or third parties,
d) does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party and
e) does not mislead or damage in any way the Company or any third party, user or not, by intentionally promoting false, misleading or incorrect information or otherwise. If the aforementioned event takes place, the Company expressly reserves the right to exercise any of its legal rights.
8.2 Users are prohibited from installing and promoting, in any way, any kind of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or unsolicited electronic messages (spam), chain letters, pyramid schemes and any other form of unwanted content promotion, as well as install and promote advertisements without the written consent of the Company.
8.3 Users are prohibited from installing, promoting and/or making available content that contains digital viruses or any other electronic code, files or programs designed to interfere with, destroy, limit or affect in any way the operation of any software or any other service of the website or to prevent other users from using the website and any other service linked to it.
9. LINKS/RELATIONS WITH THIRD PARTIES
9.1 Website may include links to other websites which are under the responsibility of third parties, natural or legal persons. The Company does not control the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness of services of third-party websites, as well as services and/or stores to which it may refer via links, hyperlinks and other activities. Therefore, for any problem that occurs when visiting or using third-party websites or third-party services, users acknowledge that they must contact the respective websites, the providers of said services and/or the stores, which bear full responsibility for the provision of their services.
9.2 With the assistance of appropriate links within the website, access to third-party websites is provided. The placement of these links has been done with the sole purpose of facilitating the visitors during their internet browsing. It is in no way an indication of acceptance or approval of the content of the websites listed with a link. Each link leads to a different website, the browsing of which is subject to the terms of use of that website. The Company bears absolutely no responsibility for the content and the personal data management policy of the website listed with a link. Access by using the provided links to the respective website takes place at the sole responsibility of the user himself.
9.3 Under no circumstances should it be considered that the Company endorses or accepts the content or services of the websites and/or stores and/or services to which it may refer, and/or that it is connected to all of the above in any other way, such as indicative service agreement, project, joint venture, principal-agent relationship, etc.
10. COOKIES
10.1 The website reserves the right to use cookies or other techniques for gathering personal information of website users, to identify the user and to facilitate the operation of the website on the one hand and its use by the visitor on the other. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard disk of each visitor/user and do not take notice of any document or file from their computer, they are used only to facilitate the visitor’s access to specific services of the website and for statistical reasons in order to determine the areas where the website’s services are useful or popular or for marketing purposes. The visitor of the website can set his server (browser) in such a way that it either warns him about the use of cookies in specific services of the website, or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case. In case the visitor of the specific services and the website does not wish to use cookies for his identification, he cannot have further access to these services. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use some cookies (such as the AnalyticsCookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClickcookie) to better update, optimize and display ads.
11. MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL DATA
11.1 The management and protection of the personal data of the users of the website is subject to the present terms of use, the privacy policy as well as the provisions of national and European law regarding the protection of individuals from the processing of personal data, as applicable from time to time.
11.2 Please read these texts carefully to understand our approach and practices to your personal data and how we will handle it.
11.3 By providing your personal information to us, you indicate that you accept the privacy policy and that you consent to the collection and processing and disclosure of your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy. The processing of your personal data, as described in this policy, is based on the consent you provide us by using the services of our website.
12. PROTECTION OF MINORS
12.1 The website strictly addresses users over sixteen (16) years old.
If, however, minor users declare a false date of birth when entering the website or enter a false date of birth when use of the Website’s services, the Company bears no responsibility for their exposure to its content or for any other use of the Website. The users who declared a false date of birth and their parents/guardians exercising parental care are responsible towards the Company for any damage that the Company may suffer from their false declaration.
12.2 The disposition/exposure or placement in any way in the circulation of pornographic material of minors as well as the seduction of minors in any way constitute criminal offenses and are prosecuted according to the Law. In the event that such material is posted by a user on the website, the Company will immediately terminate the user’s access to the website’s services; will report this incident to the competent authorities, reserving all its other legal rights.
13. REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCLAIMER
13.1 Users agree that the use of the website is solely at their own risk, unless otherwise agreed in written form between the company and the users, and to the maximum extent provided by applicable law or by the company offers the services of the website and its content “as such” for personal use and does not make any expressed, implied or other representation or warranty regarding the website and its use. Indicatively but not limiting, the company makes no declarations and guarantees of non-infringement or absence of hidden or other defects, accuracy or absence of identified or non-identifiable errors.
13.2. The Company bears no responsibility for:
(A) Errors or inaccuracies,
(B) Any damage (property or moral) that may arise from the use of the website,
(C) Any interruption, suspension, poor quality of reception of the services of the website,
(D) TROJAN HORSES viruses that may be transmitted by the website or any third party using it, and
(E) Any error of act or omission in the content of the website.
14. APPLICABLE LAW
14.1 The terms of use as well as any amendment thereof are governed by Greek law, European Union law and relevant international treaties. Any of the above terms that becomes contrary to the Law, automatically ceases to be valid without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms.
14.2 For any dispute concerning or resulting from the application of these terms and the general use of the website by them, as long as it is not resolved extra-judicially, it is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Athens.
15. OTHER TERMS
15.1 These terms of use and any rights contained therein constitute the entire agreement between the Company and the users of the website and are binding only for them.
15.2 The Company reserves the right to modify and/or temporarily and/or permanently interrupt part or all of the website’s services with or without warning to users.
15.3 The Company has the right to modify these terms of use unilaterally and without warning at any time, with the obligation to update this text for any modification or addition; however the continued use of the website after the above modifications implies unconditional acceptance of the terms of use. It is therefore recommended to frequently verify the terms of use.
15.4 The invalidity of a specific term of these terms of use does not affect the validity of the remaining terms; however it ceases to be valid automatically.
15.5 If any user disagrees with the terms of use provided herein, he must not use the website’s services.