«CODA SA» WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
DATA PROTECTION POLICY
This website (“www.konta.gr” hereinafter referred to as the “Website”) belongs to the company under the trade name “CODA SA” (hereinafter referred to as “the Company”) and has been created exclusively for your information. Every user having access in the material available by the Company through the Website, should carefully read these Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms” or “Terms of Use” or “Terms”) before further using the Website in any way and in the event of any disagreement he/she should refrain from any further use whatsoever. Use of the Website implies the full, explicit and unconditional acceptance of these Terms by the visitor / user.
These Terms of Use apply to the entire content of the Website.
The Company may renew, supplement, update and/or modify the Terms of Use, in whole or partially, whenever it is considered as necessary. For their thorough information, the users/visitors are also required to check for any modifications and/or additions of the Terms of Use.
Continuance of use of the Website after any modification or completion or update of the Terms of Use, indicates acceptance by the user of the revised Terms. In case of non-acceptance, the user must abstain from any use/visit of the Website.
1. Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights
The Company is the owner of the Website and all of its contents. The Company has full and complete copyright, which includes, amongst other rights, the exclusive right to use and exploit both the Website, under Law 2121/1993 on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, as applicable, as from the time of its creation, and any other application or work that may be considered to be directly or indirectly linked to the Website.
• In particular, the entire content of the Website, including but not limited to, texts, news, graphics, photographs, videos, drawings, illustrations, services and other files of any kind in general, is subject of intellectual property and is governed by national and international intellectual and industrial property laws, with the exception of the explicitly recognized rights of third parties.
• All logos, database rights, trademarks and other industrial property rights of this Website, as well as its structure and design are owned exclusively by the Company, unless otherwise stated.
• It is expressly prohibited to reproduce, republish, copy, store, sell, transmit, distribute, publish, perform, translate, modify in any way, partially or in summary, of any content of the Website and above rights, without the previous expressed written consent of the Company.
• Every person who wishes to incorporate in its website any part/content of the Website is obliged to obtain prior written consent of the Company, which reserves the right to withdraw such consent-authorization at any time.
2. Website Use/Restrictions
Use of the Website must be done in accordance with the law and the present Terms of Use solely for legitimate purposes and must not restrict or impede third party use.
• The visitor / user of the Website must use it in compliance with the rules and provisions of Greek, European and International Law and the relevant legislation governing telecommunications, as well as with the applicable code of conduct on the Internet (Netiquette) and must abstain from any unlawful and abusive use of the content and services of the Website and in general from any activity that may directly or indirectly damage the interests and/or the commercial reputation of the Company.
• Indicatively, use of the Website for sending, publishing, transmitting, reproducing or otherwise disposing content that may for any reason be, or considered to be, unlawful, threatening, disturbing, obscene or expressing racial opinions, or other discriminations, violent or threatening to violate any patent, trademark, copyright or other property rights of third parties, containing software viruses or any other codes, files, programs designed to cause harm, destroying or obstructing the function of any computer software or hardware, intentionally or unintentionally, and in general violating the applicable Greek and Union law, is prohibited. It is also forbidden for the user to use any software, formula or device to intervene or attempt to intervene electronically or manually in the organization or functionality of the Website, to destroy, alter or otherwise interfere in the final form of this Website or its code, to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to any of the Company’s networks.
• In the event that the Company finds any use by the visitor/user to be in breach of the above, then the user, regardless of any other sanctions, automatically loses his/her right to use the Webiste and is obliged to immediately cease use of the Website.
3. Liability limitation
• Under no circumstances, including negligence, is the Company liable for any damage that may be caused to the visitor/user by accessing, using and connecting to the Website.
• The Website’s information and services are provided “as they are”. Although every effort is made to ensure that information provided is accurate, complete, true, updated and highly available to the extent possible, the Company does not warrant for the correctness and accuracy or the merchantability, or suitability of these elements, which the visitor uses solely on his/her own responsibility.
• he Company does not in any way warrant for uninterrupted and error-free provision of the services and content of the Website, nor for absence of viruses. Therefore, the visitor/user acknowledges himself/herself to be solely responsible for correct and lawful use of the Website and must carry out all necessary checks.
• As a result, any loss or damage of/to the Website or the network that may result from use or inability of the user to use the respective services, or from omissions, program errors, interruptions or delays during the use or during transmission of the information contained therein etc., or from downloading material, text and other data contained therein, is attributed to the user’s sole responsibility and the Company accepts no responsibility for any loss, alteration or destruction of the data or the software or the hardware of the user that may occur during or after the use of this Website, nor for any program errors (bugs), human factor, program malfunction, or any other error, omission or delay in computer or network connection transmission.
4. Exclusion of advice
• Anything provided to the users / visitors through the Website is not, in any way, directly or indirectly, the subject of incitement, advice or encouragement to carry out any act; nor can it be considered as invitation for the visitor/user to proceed with any other transaction. It is at the discretion of the users / visitors to evaluate whatever is provided to them and act on their own will, excluding any relevant responsibility of the Company.
5. Hyperlinks
• Some of the connections of the Website to other websites (via links, hyperlinks or advertising banners), which are not controlled by the Company, may cause exit from the Website.
• The Company has not inspected such websites, it does not accept or provide any warranty regarding their content or services and it does not accept any liability that a visitor / user may allege from accessing these websites or from the collection of personal data made by these sites nor does it, of course, warrant for their availability. Moreover, the Company is not responsible for the terms of personal data use and protection that these sites apply thereto.
• Any problems that may arise while visiting/using these websites rest solely in the sphere of liability of the respective websites, to which the users should address.
• A hyperlink to other websites will then only be provided for the convenience of the Website users and in no way creates any form of commitment to any person.
6. Personal Data – Collection and Use
This Website collects personal data every time the visitor/user subscribes to the services provided and/or completes a registration form and/or uses or visits the Website in general.
• This personal data includes, but is not limited to, the name and surname, home or work address, e-mail address, form of employment.
• In addition, the Company automatically records information from the electronic equipment used by the visitors/users of the Website, including their IP addresses, as well as information from cookies it sends and installs to their computers.
• Cookies are small data files which are stored on the computer, mobile phone or any other electronic device of the visitors/users during their visit to the Website. Cookies do not access any file of the visitors/users’ device and cannot be separately used to identify their identity.
• The Company uses cookies so that the server hosting the Website recognizes visitors when they return to it. This way, entering their preferences each time they visit the Website is not needed.
• Furthermore, use of cookies measures the use of various pages of the Website so that the Company can customize it according to the users’ needs for access and to facilitate their access to specific services of the Website and/or for statistical reasons, to improve the use of the Website or for marketing purposes.
• When visitors/users visit the Website, a cookie banner pops up and gives them the choice of setting their preferences and accordingly giving consent as the case may be as to the use of their data pursuant to the purposes set out. Visitors can withdraw their consent at any time, by deleting cookies in the settings of the Internet browser.
• The Company also uses web analytics cookies, provided by Google, which are used to collect information about the use of the Website by its visitors, the number of visits and its sources in order for the Company to improve its performance. The Company, based on this information, exports statistics and data that help to improve the experience provided to all visitors/users. These cookies can and may be used to offer a desirable and personalized advertising experience to each user.
• he Company uses first-party cookies that are used during the visitors/users’ visit to the Website. These cookies, as well as third-party cookies, including:
(a) Connection period session cookies, which are temporary cookies enabling quick and easy navigation through the Website during the browsing session.
(b) Persistent or tracking cookies, which outlast an individual session and remain in the visitors/users’ browser for a specific period after the session (unless the cookie is deleted).
• The Company does not use cookies to retrieve information about users’ visiting other websites, or to verify their personal information.
• Cookies do not corrupt or harm the user’s computer, or the programs or files of that computer.
• The browser’s settings can be set so as to not receive cookies or to restrict the transfer of cookies in such a way that it alerts the user about the use of cookies in certain services of the Website prior to their installation. In such cases, full functionality of the Website may not be feasible.
• The Company uses the personal data collected as above in order to inform the visitors / users and to select the content offered to them, so that such content is relevant to their general preferences with the aim to meet the requirements of the customers / users of the services and products available from and through the Website and their information on new services, recipes, seminars and products.
7. Subscription to the Company’s Newsletters
• While registering in for newsletters of the Company, the visitor/user is asked to provide information such as his / her name, surname, e-mail address.
• Such data is being processed by the Company in order to inform the users about its products and services and for the direct marketing of the products, always in accordance with the Privacy Policy applied and with the law governing electronic communications and the relevant applicable legislation.
• Any user who receives newsletters can at any time request termination of the communication and oppose to the collection and use of his data, in an easy and cost-free way, by choosing to unsubscribe from the Company’s newsletters, an option that is provided to any relevant message sent to him/her, in a clear and distinct way.
8. Declaration for the protection of the users’ personal data
The Company recognizes the importance of the security of the visitors/users’ personal data and is committed to ensuring the security and integrity of the data collected through the Website.
• Therefore, the Company adopts procedures and undertakes and applies the appropriate technical and organizational measures, in order to safeguard the personal data of the users and to protect such data from unauthorized access or disclosure, loss or misuse and alteration or destruction.
• The Company processes the users’ personal data for reasons related to the use of the Website (e.g. updating, submitting communication requests, receiving recipes, attending seminars, etc.), to improve the services provided and by no means for reasons that are incompatible with the purposes of their collection.The Company processes the users’ personal data for reasons related to the use of the Website (e.g. updating, submitting communication requests, receiving recipes, attending seminars, etc.), to improve the services provided and by no means for reasons that are incompatible with the purposes of their collection.
• Such data is retained only for as long as necessary for the purpose of their processing.
• Employees of the Company who have access to the users’ personal data are specific and, in any case, bounded by obligations of confidentiality and security of such data. Unauthorized access is prohibited, except where the use by third parties is permitted or required by law, for example, by competent authorities.
• The Company expressly declares that it does not sell, disclose or allow access to such data to any third party. Only employees of the Company as above may access information of such nature, if the subject of their employment explicitly requires such access. Users’ personal information may also be disclosed to affiliates of the Company or enterprises which co-operate with the Company for the purpose of supporting, promoting and performing the customer relationship with the Company etc., supporting the Website etc. In these cases, the Company ensures that these companies implement similar measures that ensure security and confidentiality of the users’ personal data.
• The Company exerts every reasonable effort to ensure that the use of this information is carried out with absolute discretion, diligence and in accordance with the Law.
• The process and protection of visitor’s / user’s personal data by the Company is governed by these Terms of Use and the relevant provisions of both Greek and European Law.
9. Visitors/Users’ rights
• Users have the right to access their personal data, be informed of the processing and request a copy thereof, have their data rectified or erased or have incomplete personal data completed, ask for restriction of processing, object to further processing of their data etc., as provided for in the applicable Greek and European legislation, for the protection of personal data.
• Α If and to the extent that the processing is based on their consent, users also have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, without prejudice to the legitimacy of the processing already made based on such consent up to its revocation.
• For any query, suggestion, remark or statement upon any matter that concerns users as well as the exercise of any of their rights as subjects of personal data held by the Company, users may contact the Company by email to : info@konta.grand/or by tel .: +30 210 2406990 – 210 2406688.
10.Right to refer to the Data Protection Authority
• Users have the right to refer to the Data Protection Authority (ΑΠΔΠΧ) for matters related to the processing of their personal data.
• For information on the jurisdiction of the Authority and on details on how to file a complaint, visitors/users may visit its website (www.dpa.gr – My Rights – Submitting a Complaint), where detailed data is available.
11. Indemnification
• In the event that any action or claim of any nature arising out of any form of infringement on the part of the user is brought against the Website, the user undertakes to intervene in the relevant proceedings and to indemnify the Company in the event it is compelled to payment of damages or other expense.
12. Applicable Law and other Terms
• The present Terms of Use are governed by Greek and European law and the relevant international provisions and shall be interpreted in accordance with the rules of good faith, moral trading conduct and the economic and social purpose of rights.
• Any dispute arising from the present Terms, shall be brought before the courts of Athens, which are designated as competent courts.
• If any provision of the Terms of Use is found to be contrary to the law and therefore invalid or voidable, it shall automatically cease to be valid, without in any way prejudicing the validity of the other provisions.
• No modification of any of the provisions of these Terms shall be taken into account and shall not form part thereof, unless it has been drafted in writing and incorporated in the Terms.