Terms of use

PLEASE READ THESE “TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE” CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

The visitor/ user/ member of these webpages and services consents to the following terms of use, about all content, pages, graphics, images, photographs and files included in the portal. He, therefore, has to read carefully the said terms before visiting or using the webpages and services of the portal. In case of disagreement, he may not use the services nor the content of the portal. The portal and all its content and data is owned by NIKOLOGIANNI KBNET CO (KBnet), which can revise these Terms and Conditions at any time by updating this page. The visitor/user is requested to control the content of certain pages for eventual modifications. If they continue to use the portal even after the modifications, they implicitly consent to the modified terms.

Intellectual and industrial property rights

With reserve as to the explicitly reported exceptions (copyright of third party, contractors and institutions), the entire context of the portal, including images, layout, illustrations, graphics, photographs, designs, texts, articles, data, the provided services and, in general, all files hereto, consist intellectual property, registered trade and service marks of the said owner of the portal, that is NIKOLOGIANNI KBNET CO (KBnet), and are governed by the relevant provisions of Greek and European law, as well as of the International Conventions. Consequently, none of the aforementioned facts can be in whole or in part the object of vending, copying, modifying, reproducing, or republishing activities or be uploaded, transmitted or distributed in any way. There is an exception as to the individual storage of a unique copy or part of the context in a simple PC for personal use (neither public nor commercial) without deleting the indication that it has derived from the portal, without breeching in any way the relevant intellectual and industrial property rights.

The context internal management software is intellectual property, registered trade and service mark of the owner of the portal (KBnet) and it is governed by the relevant provisions of Greek and European law, as well as of the International Conventions. Consequently, it cannot be in whole or in part the object of vending, copying, modifying, reproducing, or republishing activities or be displayed, performed, uploaded, transmitted or distributed in any way. You may not distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or used to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyrights from the photos of the site. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any of our trademarks, logos, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form).

The rest of the products or services mentioned in the webpages of the said portal that bear the marks of the respective organizations, companies, contractors, institutions, associations of publications are their own intellectual and industrial property; therefore, the aforementioned entities are charged with the respective liability.

The visitor/user agrees that any action at law arising out or relating to these terms and conditions shall be filed only in the courts of Athens, Greece.

Disclaimer

All the information in the webpages is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. This web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. KBnet reserves the right to make changes, corrections and/or improvements to materials on this website, and to the products and programs described in such information, at any time without notice.

Liability (prohibitions) of visitor/ user/ member

The following regulations do not intend to limit the scope of suspension and publication of content or more generally the use of www.ionianguide.com. The visitor/user/member is solely responsible for all and any content (information, data, graphics, photos, videos, etc.) he displays, publishes, sends or otherwise makes available through the services of the site, while the site provides adequate and appropriate technological infrastructure and means for its uploading.

1. Copying, republication, storage, sale, transmission, distribution, performance, loading «download», alteration or modification in any way, partially or summary of everything available on this site (graphics, logos, texts, pictures etc.) without express prior written consent of the beneficiaries is explicitly prohibited. The visitor/ user of the webpages/ services of the portal is liable for any damaged caused to the portal due to bad or malicious use of the respective services. The navigation or use of the page does not involve the acquisition of any right to any material contained on this regardless of whether it is a property of the website or third parties. (Exceptionally, the individual storage or printing a single copy or parts of the content, a recipe for example, in a simple personal computer for personal use without intent for commercial, business or otherwise exploited for profit and always provided to indicate the source of origin is allowed).

2. Sending, promoting or placing any type of material (software, images, text etc.) with offensive, racist, pornographic, defamatory, vulgar and threatening content and general content misleading or against morality is strictly prohibited. All content or point of view-even it is extreme- has the right to be expressed in many acceptable ways and certainly not just using insulting words or phrases.

3. The sending, publishing, promoting, or placing any form of material content that infringes in any way the personality and private data but still all intellectual property rights of any entity are explicitly prohibited.

4. Sending, promoting and distributing of illegal software, even the disposing of material of all forms intending the sending of unsolicited and non-invited by the customer e-mails and any other form of unwanted promotional content (such as spamming) are explicitly prohibited.

5. Sending, publishing and promoting material containing any form of digital viruses or any other electronic code, files or programs designed to interfere with, destroy or limit the functioning of any software or computer equipment are explicitly prohibited.

6. Sending, promoting and marketing materials in any form by a person not entitled to dispose specific content under law or under other agreements are explicitly prohibited.

7. The harassment of privacy and social rights of the users of www.ionianguide.com and removing their right to use it comfortably by other users is explicitly prohibited.

8. Sending, publishing, promoting or placing unsolicited or unauthorized advertising material of any kind are explicitly prohibited.

9. Damaging in any way to juveniles is clearly prohibited.

10. The alteration of the identifiers of users/members in order to mislead as to the origin of content transmitted through the services of www.ionianguide.com is explicitly prohibited.

11. Since www.ionianguide.com does not represent the accuracy or reliability of the information, content and advertisements contained, are connected/linked and transferred locally over it, the user/ member accepts that www.ionianguide.com does not make pre-screening test of the content to be displayed, but retains the exclusive option to refuse post, publication, transfer, delete any content available through its services. Therefore, the user should check the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any content and is responsible for any risk that may arise from the use of any content and services and cannot be based on content creating in good faith this site (ads, images, graphics, etc.).

12. Repeated accounts will be blocked without prior notice. Each member must maintain only one account to access the site and is solely responsible for all operations under his personal password and, generally, his account. He is equally responsible for the careful formal exit from his account (logout) at the end of each use.

13. Every user who finds unauthorized use of accounts or any security breach, even that he is affected either personally or more generally, can communicate with site administrators/ owners and express his complaints, adding/attaching the content that has received with the name of its sender and the sending time or any other proof that exists. Moreover, it is possible for the administrators to erase immoral or offensive content and messages as soon as they are perceived. Similarly, if it will be found discussion of such content will be deleted.

14. Users/members who do not respect the above rules will receive warnings from the creators of the website. Since they are perceptible through private message or e-mail and the violation continues, the users will be deleted, namely the automatic termination of the license use of this site.

Liability limitation of Network

The portal’s content is provided as is, with no explicit or implicit guarantees. At the up most level and by virtue of the applicable law, the portal rejects any implicit or explicit guarantee, including, without limitations, any guarantee which results in marketing and appropriateness on specific purpose. The portal doesn't guarantee that webpages, services, choices and contents will be provided incessantly, nor that errors will be corrected. Moreover, the portal doesn't guarantee that the same or any other relative site or servers by means of which its contents are forwarded to you, will be provided to you free of viruses or other malware. In no case does the portal guarantee the correctness, entity and availability of the contents, webpages, services, choices or of their results. The cost for any eventual corrections or services is undertaken by the visitor/user and in no case by the portal.

Waiver of legal advice

The contents and the information of the portal are offered to the visitor/user of the portal and generally to the Internet users' community and cannot in any case be considered as legal advice, nor do they in any case imply any such attorney/client relation, nor do they consist encouragement for following or not any specific actions. The portal undertakes to gather, elaborate and distribute its content, without in any case guaranteeing the correctness, entity, sufficiency and generally the appropriateness and the absence of any errors, particularly due to its large volume, as well as to the participation of third parties (people or entities) at its primary production and gathering. Therefore, visitors/users of the portal, using its services on their own initiative, undertake the respective responsibility to cross-check the information provided here with the sources.

Links to other sites

The portal doesn't control availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and integrity of the services of other websites and pages to which it provides links, hyperlinks and promotional banners. Therefore, should any problem come about during your visit/use of the content, you have to refer directly to the respective websites and pages, which are also responsible for providing their services. In no case should the portal be considered to share or to accept the content or the services of the websites and pages to which it refers or it provides links or is related to them in any other way.

Links to the Net

Links to the portal are only allowed towards its home page and not towards pages that possibly contain a password, unless it has been explicitly otherwise agreed between the owner of the contents and the institution that refers to them. Besides, those links should be created only by hyperlinks and not by images.

Subscription-Member Registration

All the guests have right of registration at the site, and always acting individually. In the process of registration in the services offered by www.ionianguide.com, personal information is requested. The user provides a username (username) and a personal access code (password), for which he shall take the necessary security measures for their safekeeping and to prevent unauthorized use by third parties. The site offers the possibility, whenever they want, to recover the username or access password without the inactivation of their account.

The user agrees to provide true, accurate and authoritative information about the data requested, and also is required to maintain and diligently to update the registration information in order to keep true, complete and valid. In case the visitor/user provides invalid personal information, or the site is suspected inaccurate information, KBnet has the right to suspend or terminate the user's account and refuse any current or future use of services. Each member undertakes to make strictly personal use of his account information and immediately inform the site owners for any problems from others. It may not be created or used multiple member accounts by the same person, and agreed that the site reserves the right to disable accounts and electronic mail services or content if remain inactive by users for a long time.

Advertisements

The site clearly has the right to use the page to display ads on the Internet according to the specific terms that it defines, without bearing any responsibility for communicating the visitor/user to the third party service providers who advertise in it and for any commercial transaction that may arise from their relationship. Similarly, the site is not responsible for the quality of goods acquired through such services by the user and the transaction is solely binding between the user and the provider of the goods.

The validity of the advertisement can not be seen by KBnet and therefore the identification of what is said in the advertisement should be submitted by the visitor/user who is interested in it. If site administrators or owners take notice that any information displayed/published in its pages infringes intellectual property rights of others or affect privacy of third parties, or is inappropriate, reserves the right to immediately delete the ad and the member.

The member that uses the services of the site and displays or publishes texts, images, data authorizes and consents to the site, for as long as the content is part of the service, to use the space for advertising reasons.

Spam

Spamming, i.e. the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately is expressly forbidden by the users of this website and should be avoided the use of methods for the installation of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, or information of any misleading information content. In this way, interference at services and information of the site from third parties is avoided, without creating potential confusion and to follow received conditions and procedures for use. If while navigating the site found new records and accounts of members who simply have designed their actions or indirect advertising and other sites through forums, will be deleted when detected by the website administrators and relevant messages without notice. The same would apply to any members' accounts.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to this website under the domain name www.ionianguide.com.

This Policy explains how personal information may be collected and used via the ionianguide website.

Cookies Cookies are pieces of information that a website can transfer to an individual’s computer hard drive for tracking (site usage) users’ navigation and customising site information further to improve and enhance the user experience. Most Internet browsers are preset to accept cookies.

KBnet and ionianguide.com uses cookies:

- In all pages where an “E-mail this link to a friend” button is available (top right part of the pages). This permits us to have some statistics about which pages have been shared.

- In the member area: a cookie is used in order that your personal computer can remember you, in order to avoid login in every time.

On-line requests, forums, reviews and member areas When registering with ionianguide for the purposes of an enquiry, we will collect details such as your name, e-mail address and other details. Some of this information is essential for us to be able to accurately identify who is using the service so that we may be able to respond to your requests and as such is indicated by mandatory fields. Mandatory information requirements are clearly identified and are usually denoted by an asterisk (*). You will also be prompted when submitting a form if a mandatory information requirement has not been completed.

Protection of information Any personal information submitted to ionianguide.com website is held in the strictest confidence. This information is securely stored and access is restricted to ionianguide's authorised personnel, ensuring that your personal information is protected and safeguarded. None personal information will be shared or sold to any other party. We will not make your personal details available to companies other than ionianguide.com for marketing purposes.

Applicable law and other provisions

The aforementioned terms and conditions of use of the portal, as well as any modification, change or alteration thereto, are governed and completed by the Greek and European law, and by the relevant International Conventions. Should any provision of the said terms become controversial to the law, it stops by right being valid and it is excluded from the present, without in any case affecting the validity of all other terms. The present document is the entire agreement between the portal and the visitor/user of its pages and services and is only binding for the latter. No modification of the said terms will be taken into consideration, nor will it be part of the said agreement, unless expressed in writing and integrated in it.

POLLS-VOTING

KBnet provides the users-members of the site the opportunity to vote either on issues relating mainly to the tourism sector, or on current issues, expressed in the form of questions, producing useful findings. Obviously, the results of voting in no way are regarded as representing the administrators/owners of the site, or representing all or even a certain section of the public or as scientific conclusions. Participation in surveys is completely voluntary and free to any user/ member of this website.

KBnet sets out the procedure about the polls/ voting as for the duration of each poll, the specific terms of participation of members or the right to suspend the voting.

NEWSLETTERS

The visitor/user of www.ionianguide.com after his registration in the newsletter mailing list or the acquisition of an account may receive by the site administrators newsletters by e-mail about services, products or other activities that are intellectual property of KBnet and therefore protected by the relevant Greek legislation and international conventions. The visitor/ user accepts to be sent information and publicity brochures, automatically registering as a member and thus will be sent periodically alert messages unless he explicitly asks the administrators of the site not to send any such emails. The site reserves the right to send messages and other information or financial data over the newsletters unless the recipient expressly states that he wishes to do so.

FORUMS-DISCUSSIONS

The site www.ionianguide.com provides users/ members services to participate in online discussions. Each user/ member can participate in them by writing messages to newsgroups and also may create his own topic of discussion at forum. Each user has to continuously keep the rules of decency and good behaviour. The views expressed solely reflect each user himself.

CHANGE OF TERMS OF USE

The services and content are available for free at www.ionianguide.com (excluding additional services). The visitor/user understands and accepts the right of the website to adopt any time and from time to time new terms of use of services, to update, add to, amend the agreement or impose additional policies or rules, where reasonable, necessary or appropriate to verify compliance with this agreement. Here are included the date range of maintenance of services (e.g. a survey), e-mails and any other content displayed and published by the user and the maximum number of days to retain a file and so on.

So, changes, adjustments of conditions obtained at any time by the administrators of the site, regardless of warning users, apply only if in writing and incorporated into this Agreement. Continuing to use the site by the member/user after changing conditions is a proof of silent acceptance.