Terms & Conditions
1. GENERAL, SPECIAL AND ADDITIONAL TERMS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE
1.1. The present terms of use (General Terms of Use) are the rules and conditions for the use of the website “http://www.sete.gr” (the “website”). The General Terms of Use govern and pertain to all aspects of the use of http://www.sete.gr.
1.2. The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), which is the manager of the website (the “Manager”), may at any time amend the present General Terms of Use or introduce special or supplementary-additional terms of use for sections or functions of the website. The user shall be informed about such terms prior to entering the respective section or prior to using the respective function.
1.3. The General Terms of Use and any special or supplementary-additional terms of use constitute a legally binding agreement (contract) between the Manager and the user/visitor of the said website.
2. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF USE
2.1. The visitor or user of the website should carefully read and study the General Terms of Use before visiting or using the web pages and should refrain from any use in case of disagreement. The General Terms of Use apply to the entire content of the website.
2.2. The users’ navigation on the website or sections thereof shall indisputably be deemed to constitute their acceptance of the said Terms of Use.
3. USE OF THE WEBSITE SETE.GR
3.1. Use of the present website is expressly prohibited for any of the following: (a) illegal activities, (b) breach of international and national laws, regulations and rules, (c) breach of copyright of the Manager of the website or of any third party, (d) submission of misleading or fraudulent information, (e) offence, defamation, harassment, damage or discrimination related to gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or physical disability, (f) management of third party personal data, (g) dispatch of spam, phish, pharm or dispatch of viruses or malicious codes, which may affect the operation of the Internet website, (h) indecent or immoral activities. SETE reserves the right to terminate access to the present website to any user in breach of one or more of the above restrictions. If the user is provided with access to external links or external content through the present website, the Manager shall not be liable as to the content and other functions of such external links.
3.2. Users must comply with the general terms and conditions, applicable law and any other law provisions and/or practices and/or procedures which have been set and applied by the Manager.
3.3. The user acknowledges and unconditionally accepts that s/he shall be exclusively liable for any damages which may be caused to the present website or to any third party, regardless of cause, type or name of same, when such damages arise as a result, whether directly or indirectly, of failure to comply with the present terms and conditions of use.
4. PERSONAL DATA
4.1. SETE takes all reasonable legal, technical and organizational measures for the protection of Personal Data which are subject to applicable Greek and EU law and any binding provisions or agreements which safeguard any principles for the fair management and adequate degree of protection of Personal Data.
4.2. SETE undertakes that all Personal Data which may be contained in www.sete.gr shall be lawfully processed and shall not be sold or otherwise given to any third party.
4.3 All required information pertaining to the protection of your Personal Data and your rights may be found in SETE’s Personal Data Protection Policy here.
4.4. To find out about the collection and processing of your personal data and about your rights, you are kindly requested to carefully read SETE’s Personal Data Protection Policy before using the website www.sete.gr.
5. COOKIE POLICY
The website www.sete.gr uses cookies to store information on your computer. To see the full cookie policy, click here.
6. ONLINE TRANSACTIONS
6.1. SETE allows users, whether members of the Confederation or non-members who wish to participate in its annual Congress, to effect online transactions through its website in order to renew their subscription or to register, as the case may be.
To successfully complete said online transactions, users shall be required to provide some personal data. The following information shall have to be provided at the initial stage of the transaction:
i. Full name and father’s name.
ii. Telephone number and home address.
iii. The purpose of the transaction.
iv. The time and type of the transaction.
v. Card particulars, i.e. type (Mastercard, Visa, Visa Electron), number, and month and year of expiry.
vi. The card verification number, which is printed on the holder’s signature panel (CVV/VISA or CVC/MC).
vii. The way that the voucher shall be dispatched. The user shall incur no charge, if s/he selectsdispatch by post.
6.2. Online transactions as described above shall be effected subject to Law 2251/1994 about protection of the consumer for distance purchases.
6.3. Upon completion of the transaction, SETE shall send by email to its member or to any non-member who shall participate in its Congress a confirmation of the contract which has been concluded, within 2 days from the conclusion of the distance contract.
6.4. Payment to SETE for said online transactions effected either by its members or by non-members who shall participate in its Congress may be made as follows:
Credit or debit card: Charge of the card shall be completed upon approval by the respective credit institution.
6.5. To effect the said transactions, the user shall be directed to a secure web page of the respective bank which is linked to SETE’s website, exclusively for the purpose of completing the payment of the transaction amount, where s/he shall enter the information stated in clause 5.1 above. SETE is obliged to clearly inform the user that s/he is entering web pages of the respective bank.
6.6. SETE has installed on its computer the latest updated versions, which are compatible with the bank’s system, of programs, operating systems, antivirus and other data and computer protection software (antivirus programs, antispyware, firewalls, etc.) and under no circumstances shall it install on its computer any unauthorized programs or any programs which are not licensed for the specific installation.
6.7. SETE and any third party, employee, partner or otherwise related person who may lawfully have access is obliged to destroy any documents by which it receives passwords to access secure web pages of the bank and to not record such passwords, even in disguise, on any other media, to memorize such passwords and to take all appropriate measures to prevent their leak to any third party. Saving passwords in any legible form shall constitute gross negligence on SETE’s part.
6.8. SETE and any third party, employee, partner or otherwise related person who may lawfully have access may not store, whether in electronic form or in hard copy, information related to the CVV/VISA or CVC/MC of the user’s card.
6.9. Once the bank approves the charge to the card, SETE shall, at its own risk, expense and responsibility, send the issued voucher to the user by the method selected. If the user has selected delivery by post, the voucher shall be dispatched against receipt either by ELTA (Hellenic Post) or by the private courier service preferred by SETE, without any charge to the recipient. SETE must dispatch the voucher within the month in which the transaction was effected.
6.10. Receipt of the voucher by the user shall be evidenced by the user’s unconditional signing of the delivery receipt, which shall bear, on SETE’s responsibility, full particulars of the user (especially the user’s full name and home address) and of the transaction. The total amount charged shall also be clearly stated.
6.11. If, for reasons beyond SETE’s control, SETE may not complete a transaction for which payment has been made, SETE shall contact the user by email to inform the user about the delay and about the user’s right to withdraw from the transaction, in which case the aforesaid pertinent provision shall apply. SETE assumes no liability for any occurrences which may arise through no fault on the Confederation’s part.
6.12. SETE accepts that, in such distance contracts, the user may withdraw without providing any reason within 14 calendar days from the day on which the contract was concluded, unless a longer term has been agreed upon, without incurring any cost. To exercise such withdrawal right, the user may send an email or fax or registered letter to SETE. SETE shall then be obliged to refund the amounts paid by the user within fourteen (14) calendar days from the day on which it received the declaration of withdrawal.
6.13. SETE shall proceed to refund any such amounts using the same payment method as that used by the consumer for the initial transaction, unless otherwise expressly agreed upon by the consumer and on condition that the consumer shall not incur any expense arising from the money refund.
7. COMMUNICATION CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROTECTION
7.1. If requested, the user must submit to the website his/her true personal data and other pertinent information.
7.2. The website shall take all appropriate measures to safeguard the security of communications in accordance with the applicable law.
8. WEBSITE CONTENT – COPYRIGHT
8.1. Save for any exceptions expressly identified (copyright of any third party, partners and organizations), the copyright of the entire content of the website, including pictures, artwork, photographs, drawings, texts and generally all files on this website, belongs to SETE and is protected in accordance with the relevant provisions of Greek and European law and of international conventions.
All the above are provided exclusively for personal and non-commercial use, subject to compliance with all notices pertaining to copyright and other related intellectual property rights as contained in the original material and on all copies of such material. The material of the website may not be modified in any way or reproduced or disclosed in public or performed or loaded or distributed or used in any way for commercial or other purposes.
8.2 An exception is provided for the ad hoc storage of a single copy of part of the content on an ordinary personal computer for personal and not public or commercial use, without the removal of the indication of its being sourced from the present website and without prejudice to any related intellectual and industrial property rights.
8.3 Any other products or services mentioned on the web pages of the present website which carry logos of organizations, companies, partnering bodies, associations or publications are the intellectual or industrial property of such entities.
8.4. It is mutually accepted and understood that, notwithstanding that the website provides users with the required technological infrastructure and means for the posting/publication of content, all information and content, whether posted publicly or transmitted privately, remain within the exclusive responsibility of the natural person or legal entity from which the content is derived. This means that the user is exclusively liable for any and all the content s/he posts, publishes, dispatches, transmits or otherwise makes available through the services of the website. The Manager may not, on account of its volume and the participation of third parties (natural persons or legal entities), control the entire content posted by users through the services of the website and may therefore not warrant the accuracy, completeness, lawfulness or quality of any such content. If www.sete.gr should receive notice that any content causes moral or other damages to any third party, it reserves the right to immediately delete such content and at the same time suspend the operation of the account of the Member that has breached the terms of this present.
8.5. SETE and its partners shall make every effort to ensure the smooth operation of www.sete.gr but may not warrant that the operation of the website or of its servers shall be seamless and free of all errors, viruses or other such elements.
9. LIMITATION – EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
9.1. The Manager assumes no liability vis-à-vis the user or any third party deriving rights from the user for any damages, whether material or otherwise, incidental or consequential, direct or indirect, or otherwise arising, regardless of the specific name, form and cause of such damages, for any legal claims under civil or criminal law, or for any damages arising from visitors to our website or from third parties, from any cause related to the operation or non operation or to the use of the website or from any unauthorized intervention by third parties to information available through the website.
9.2. The Manager and his partners shall make every effort to ensure the smooth operation of www.sete.gr but may not warrant that the operation of the website or of its servers shall be seamless and free of all errors, viruses or other such elements.
9.3. The limitation or exclusion of liability on the Manager’s part pursuant to the terms of this present shall not limit or exclude his liability for damages of any kind for which liability may not be limited or excluded in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law.
10. ADVERTISEMENTS – SPONSORSHIPS
10.1. Some of the web pages of the website may be supported by advertisement funds and/or sponsorships and may include advertisements and promotions.
10.2 The Manager of the website may change the manner, method and extent of advertisements and sponsorships related to the content of the website without specific notice to the users thereof.
10.3. The user expressly and unconditionally accepts that the Manager may place and/or show advertisements on the specific website.
10.4. All material available to users/visitors through the website in the form of advertisements shall not, in any way, constitute, whether directly or indirectly, encouragement, advice or prompting for any act to be undertaken and users/visitors should use their discretion to assess all available material and should act on their own will, while any liability on our part is excluded.
11. EXTERNAL CONTENT
11.1. The website includes links, hyperlinks and advertising banners linked to third party websites and the Manager may not control their availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness of services. Under no circumstances does the Manager accept any liability as to the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality or correctness of the web pages and functions of websites of any third party which may be available to visitors/users through links, hyperlinks or banners. Hence, in the event that any problem should arise in the course of a visit to or use of such pages/functions, visitors/users should directly contact the party responsible for the specific website, who shall be responsible for such functions.
11.2. Under no circumstances should the Manager be deemed to endorse or approve the content or functions of websites and of the web pages accessed by visitors/users or to which the present portal is in any way linked.
11.3. The user expressly and unconditionally accepts that the Manager shall not be liable for any loss or damage, regardless of the specific cause, name or form thereof, which the user may incur as a result of the availability of the aforesaid external websites or sources or as a result of any trust on the user’s part as to the completeness, accuracy or presence of any advertisement, any product or any other material contained in or available through the aforesaid websites or sources.
12. VARIOUS PROVISIONS
12.1. The General Terms of Use constitute a single legal agreement between the user and the Manager and shall govern the use of said website by the user.
12.2. The user expressly and unconditionally accepts that the Manager may provide notices, including such notices pertaining to amendments to the Terms of Use, by email, ordinary mail or announcements.
12.3. The delay or non-exercising of any right by the Manager, whether once or repeatedly, shall not, under any circumstances, entail the Manager’s waiver of such right, which the Manager may exercise at any time.
12.4. In the event that any provision of these Terms of Use should become void, the user expressly and unconditionally accepts that such provision shall be substituted by the Manager with another similar provision to thus construe the true intentions of the contracting parties. The invalidity of any provision of same shall not affect the validity of all other Terms of Use of this present, which shall remain in force.
13. BREACH OF THE TERMS OF USE
In the event that the user should breach any term of this present, the Manager may, at its own discretion and apart from any other consequences provided for in this present or in any other source of law, suspend, whether provisionally or permanently, access to his website.
14. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The present Terms of Use shall be governed by Greek law and by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) inasmuch as they pertain and refer to the protection of personal data. Any dispute arising in relation to the present Terms of Use shall be exclusively resolved before the Courts of Athens.
15. REVIEW OF THE TERMS OF USE
The present terms and conditions of use were reviewed on 23.07.2019 and shall govern the present website until any further review is announced.
