Terms of Use – Privacy Policy

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

• The thaniaiordanidou.com is the official website of Thania Iordanidou/Giorgos Melachrinos, General Partnership (OE), headquartered at Kostas Varnali 31, Athens, 15233, Greece. The website (website or site or electronic pages, web server, server, servers or other similar meaning, hereafter called the “website”) serves as the official content site of the OE (hereafter called the Company or We).
• The terms and conditions presented below (terms and conditions or terms and conditions of use or terms or conditions or other similar meaning, hereafter called “Terms of Use”) apply to You (you, your, the user, client, customer, final consumer, visitor, visitor to the website) by virtue of your electronic use of the website and the information herein. Your access and use of any of the electronic pages and services of the website thaniaiordanidou.com is subject in its entirety to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the website, you accept without limitation or qualification this Terms of Use Agreement. You should read all the Terms of Use and ensure you understand them before proceeding to use the website. If you do not agree with any one of the Terms of Use you are required to leave the website and not use any of its content and services. Your continuing use of the website constitutes your unconditional acceptance and agreement with them.

• We reserve the right, at our own discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, at any time. The new Terms of Use are in effect from the moment they are uploaded on the website. By clicking the “I Agree” button (or similar) you confirm that you have read and do accept all the Terms of Use in effect at the time. We suggest that you visit the article Terms of Use periodically to review possible changes to our Terms as they may affect our relationship with You, the information on the website or the use of information by us.

PRIVACY POLICIES – USE OF COOKIES – PERSONAL INFORMATION – SECURITY

• We respect your concern about your privacy and the safekeeping of the personal information you provide and are committed to protecting your data. A necessary requirement for initiating and processing your transaction with our Company is the disclosure by you of certain personal data (some or all of your title, name, username or similar identifier, electronic address, electronic identification, contact information, phone number, date of birth, age, gender, affiliation, images). The information is collected and processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, put into mandatory effect since 25 May 2018 and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), and is not disclosed, published, shared with or sold to any unrelated party without your explicit consent, according to Law 2472/1997 and Law 3471/2006, except under provisions of Law 2225/1994 and obligations under directive 24/2006. Under certain circumstances required by law or legal process, we may be compelled by competent authorities or court orders to disclose some of this information, if disclosure is believed to be necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity. We will make all reasonable effort to restrict such disclosures to what is mandatory by law  and authorities at the time with respect to your private data and with adequate safeguards. We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
• We use the personal information you provide us with to transact with You. We may also use the information to evaluate and improve our business and provided services, as well as to communicate with you and provide customer support, to send you promotional materials and other communications (including thank you notes, special occasion reminders, special events invitations), respond to your inquiries, make suggestions about alternative or related products or services, or to communicate news about our brand. You can opt out of such communications from us by sending an email request to info@thaniaiordanidou.com or simply by clicking Unsubscribe at our Newsletters or Events Invitations or at any other form of email. We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
• If you connect with our website through social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and the like, or any associated website we may receive information about you from those sites depending on their privacy policies, which we do not control, and according to the settings you have accepted from them.
• Along with the abovementioned information we also collect Technical Data about you, such as IP (internet protocol) address, your location, your device type, the browser you are using, your network provider, the time zone and country, language preferences, website pages you have visited, error and download reports. Our IT systems may collect this information automatically and may use it to customize our services and provide a better online experience. Some of this information is collected by “cookies” (defined below).

• A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored automatically on the hard drive of your device. Cookies are used to distinguish you from other users of our website and partake in making your experience in our website more efficient and tailored to your needs. This helps us to understand how you are using our website and moreover to make it more functional for your future use.

  Cookies can be either related to a session and be stored temporarily during a browsing session and then deleted from the user’s device when the browser is closed, or persistent (saved for a fixed period and used over multiple sessions). Some cookies are mandatory and crucial for the complete functioning of the website and your session. Disabling said cookies will result in losing access to certain parts of the website and its full performance. Optional cookies such as location, country, language preferences, size, colors etc. help us improve the performance of the website and allow us to provide you with reasonably personalized services. Other categories of cookies are used for in-house marketing and demographic surveys along with non-personal data to analyze and monitor consumer profiles to constantly improve the products and services we offer and to understand what might be of interest to you or other customers.

  You can disable certain types of cookies by following your browser’s  instructions on how to block them or delete them. We do not control the policies and settings of your browser. Please note that you may restrict cookies by changing your browser settings, but that such restrictions will potentially degrade and impact your user experience and full functionality of our website. You can get information about blocking, controlling and deleting cookies from www.aboutcookies.org.

  This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and social media websites (Instagram, Facebook). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you, or may also use cookies during your session in our Site, if you have allowed them to do so.. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit and set their settings according to your preferences.

• By continuing to browse our website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and the storing of information you provide to us for the authorized use by our current employees and related parties to complete transactions and improve our services to you. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other related third parties who have a business need to know, all the while requiring they all adhere to the prevailing European Union and Greek regulations in the use and storage of such information and treat your data with the same level of protection. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. However, much we strive to provide you with an internet experience without security breaches, you should also keep in mind that safe surfing on the depends on you as well, as we cannot completely guarantee the security of your personal data, stored in digital form and transmitted to us through the internet. You accept the risk of any such transmission.
• By using our online services, you have given your consent to the processing of your personally provided data, which can be revoked any time. Under Greek and European Union regulations it is within your legal rights to request to be granted access to the personal information we hold on you, to dispute and request to rectify your incorrect or outdated data or make a point for erasure or restriction of processing of your personal information. Please, contact us via email in either the Greek or English at  info@thaniaiordanidou.com, for any such reasonable requests about the specific information and corrections.
• You may be accessing our website from a location outside the European Union, or from countries that have different personal information laws, or via and through browsers with different levels of protection than those that apply in the EU. You explicitly accept that those provisions may be lower or different than what we provide here, and that we cannot guarantee the protection of personal information we receive from and through them nor can we comply with the range and possible contradictory statures of different jurisdictions. You accept that by using our website, our relationship with You is governed by European and Greek laws as appropriate.
• If another entity acquires us or our assets, or assets related to the website, or any other change ownership or control in a lawful way, personal information, usage information and any other information that we have collected may be disclosed to such entity as one of the transferred assets. Also, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, all such information may be considered an asset of ours and such may be sold or transferred to third parties. Such transfer will be announced on our website and will be in effect as prescribed by law.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – COPYRIGHT – TRADEMARKS

• Thania Iordanidou/Giorgos Melachrinos OE owns the Website. The OE owns or has rights to all elements of the website, such as wallpaper, icons, characters, artwork, images, graphics, music, text, videos, layout and arrangement, software and other content of the website (the “Content”), and all HTML, CGI and other code and scripts in any format used to implement the website (the “Code”). Except as set forth herein, you may not copy, modify, upload, download, trade, amend, transmit, broadcast, re-publish, display for redistribution to third parties for commercial purposes, or otherwise distribute any Code or Content from the Website in whole or in part without the prior written agreement from us. You may not use the Content or Code from the website for any purpose other than those set forth herein. You are permitted to visit the website, view the Content and download a limited amount of copyrighted material for your own temporary and strictly personal use, as a final consumer without deleting the indications of origin. You are not authorized to use any copyright material for commercial or professional purposes. You must not systematically extract or use Content in any commercial or professional capacity. You must not extract by physical or electronic means (such as data mining), whether once or multiple times, any of the Content of the Site for commercial or professional use either for direct or indirect, financial, or other benefit. You must not re-utilize or extract any parts of the Content of the website without our prior written consent. Your failure to comply with this Terms of Use Agreement will constitute breach of contract and will violate our copyright, trademark and other proprietary and intellectual property rights.
• Any use and sharing or representation by you of the electronic link to our website must be at all times compliant to law and customary norms and therefore must not be done in any way harmful or exploitative of our reputation and identity or to imply any endorsement by us or any affiliation between us and other linked websites. We reserve the right to withdraw our permission to you to provide our link at any time and for any reason we deem appropriate, in which case you are required to remove the link without any delay.
• Third party products and/or services (publications, social media or blogs) which may appear on the website are the intellectual and industrial property of third parties who bear the relevant responsibility for their content and the services and/or products and are provided to you by us for information only and in no way represent any endorsement, truthfulness, reliability, secure access or affiliation with us. We do not control nor monitor the content of those websites and we cannot be held responsible for any information provided or for any loss or damage you might incur from you use of such websites.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

• While we make our best efforts to include accurate and up to date information on the website, we make no warranties or representations with respect to the content of the website. We cannot guarantee that all information and details (descriptions, features, characteristics, specifications, colors, sizes and availability) are always accurate and free of errors and omissions. You accept that sometimes images may not be accurately depicted, colors may be distorted between different devices, and information  may change without our knowledge or our capacity to include the new information in our website. We reserve the right to modify the content of this Site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on the Site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to the Site. Some items may appear slightly larger or smaller than actual size due to screen defaults and photography techniques. You are encouraged to contact us directly if you have any doubt or want more accurate information than what you can find on the website. We cannot be held liable for any loss or damage you may suffer from incomplete, inaccurate or distorted information on our website.
• We exclusively assume responsibility for any loss or damage you suffer in relation to visiting our website and avail of our services that can be obviously attributed to gross negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, malice on our part or other liability that cannot be limited by law. We are not responsible for any loss or damage, injury or death that is not foreseeable or beyond our control.
• Eligibility. By use of the website, you declare that you meet appropriate legal requirements (legal age of at least 18 years of age, mental and financial capacities). Underage visitors may have access to our website and our services with the consent and under the direct supervision of their legal guardian who assumes responsibility for any of their Purchases. We assume no liability toward you if you do not meet the minimum age requirement, as we lack reasonable means to ascertain that you do meet aforementioned requirements. If you do not meet those requirements, we have the right to seek legal action and demand reparations from your legal guardian or representative.
• By making use of our website you have consented that you proceed to use of our services for your domestic and private use. Consequently, we do not accept any responsibility for any commercial, business or professional loss, damage, business interruption, or missed business opportunity on your part.
• The use of the website is on your sole responsibility and its contents do not constitute nor can, in any way, be interpreted as counseling or direct and indirect incitement to proceed to any action or act or advice on which you should rely on. The evaluation of the contents, which are provided for general non-commercial information only and may be out of date at any given time and may be provided by our partners and be beyond our control, lies upon any user who assumes responsibility for the use of any part thereof. We make no representations, whether expressed or implied, that the content is accurate, up to date, complete and free from errors and omissions. We will not be held liable for any loss or damage related to the use or inability to use the website. We assume no responsibility for any loss or damage you may incur from representations you may make with respect to use of the website. We are not accountable for any reliance by you or third parties on specific content except that for which we explicitly state otherwise. For any clarifications with respect to any specific elements of the content, you are welcome to contact us directly with specific requests.
• We will not be held accountable for any technical problems that may occur to visitors and/or customers upon your effort to access this website, and during your access, which are related to the operation or compatibility of your own infrastructure with this website and do not guarantee protection against electronic viruses, malware or other harmful electronic data, via the use of its website. You are solely responsible and encouraged to activate and maintain up to date appropriate electronic protection before you participate in any internet activity including making use of our electronic services in this website.
• Force Majeure. While we cannot guarantee and therefore be held liable for any loss or damage, nor for failure to perform, nor for any delay in performing any of our obligations, caused by an event outside of our control, such as acts of God, wars, terrorist attacks, civic strife, riots, labour disruptions, strikes, transportation interruptions, natural disasters, earthquakes, fires, floods, severe weather, government action or failure, interruption of telecommunication and transportation networks,  we can guarantee your timely notification as to the reasons pertaining to our inability or delay in fulfilling your order and we will arrange for an alternative after the event affecting our operation is over and when an alternative is reasonably available.

USE OF THE SITE – CONDUCT

• Accessing our website is made available to you conditioned upon your acceptance of the Terms of Use and is without a charge. Any charges you may be subjected to by your network provider or browser for accessing our website are your responsibility, as you are required to make all necessary arrangements to access our website and we cannot be held responsible for them.
• You must refrain from any and all unlawful use of the website or usel for any purpose that violates local, national, European and international law. Accordingly, any use that is illegal, offensive, abusive, obscene, inflammatory, injurious to third parties, minors,  defamatory, violates copyright or privacy laws, or can cause harm to others is strictly prohibited. You are expressly not allowed to use the website to send or use material that includes business and commercial soliciting, political campaigning, software viruses, mass mailings, spam, or other material that may cause inconvenience annoyance or harm to any person. You are solely responsible for your conduct in using the website and our services, access to which is temporary and for personal purposes only and may be at our discretion restricted to certain parts of the website or blocked for certain individuals either temporarily or permanently. Access at one time does not in any way imply permission to access it at any other time and in any case must not be conducted in a way that may cause or is likely to cause interruption, damage or impaired its use by others.
• Any violation of these herein Terms of Use that constitutes a criminal offense will be promptly reported to the relevant law enforcement authorities, accompanied with the disclosure of your personal information and identity to them for purposes of legal proceedings.
• In all cases where the webpage is used in an illegal manner or contrary to these Terms of Use, automatically and without prejudice for further action you shall be obliged to compensate usin full  for any direct and related or consequential loss, liability, damage, cost, fee and expense  Failure by us to exercise our rights deriving from these Terms of Use shall not entail a waiver of those rights.

SEVERABILITY, APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER TERMS

• Severability. The invalidity, unlawfulness or incompetence of any term, condition or provision of the Terms of Use Agreement shall not affect the enforceability of those portions of the Terms of Use Agreement deemed enforceable by applicable courts of law, wiich remain valid and binding. When it comes to our attention, we will strive to replace the affected section or paragraph with a legal alternative.
• The Terms of Use and any policies or operating rules posted on this website, constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us with respect to the subject matter thereof and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between the parties with respect to such subject matter, that deviate from the Terms of Use. Any other agreement must be in writing and duly signed by the related parties.
• Should you violate or breach any of the Terms of Use, it may result in legal steps on our behalf. Failure by us to exercise our rights deriving from these Terms of Use at a particular time shall not entail a waiver of those legal and moral rights nor does it imply that we may not take any steps in the future. Not taking any action against a particular breach by you shall not be translated as our permission to violate the same or any other Terms of Use in the future.
• For any dispute arising out of the use of our website there shall have jurisdiction ratione materiae the competent courts of Athens, Greece and they shall be governed exclusively by Greek law (EU law).