These Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy (the
"Terms and Conditions") were last updated on 03.
Jan. 2009
Welcome to http://www.vlamis.gr
, the Web site of sailing in Greek islands experts .
As used in these Terms and Conditions,
the term "Web site" refers to the Web site
located at www.vlamis.gr as well as online services that include,
but are not limited to, our E-mail letters, our archives, our
premium online content, and our online discussion forums. Vlamis
George - http://www.vlamis.gr does not control, and is not responsible
for, any third-party site to which the Web site links.
You agree that the use of the Web site is subject to the following
Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions may be modified
at any time and from time to time; the date of the most recent
changes or revisions will appear on this page. Continued access
to the Web site by you will constitute your acceptance of any
changes or revisions to the Agreement.
If you do not agree
with the Terms and Conditions, please do not use
this Web site.
The materials contained on the Web site are provided by George
Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr as a service to
you for your non commercial, personal use on an "as is,
as available" basis and may be used by you for information
purposes only. You acknowledge that you are using the Web site
at your own risk. George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
assumes no responsibility for error or omissions in these materials.
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr makes
no commitment to update the information contained herein. George
Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr makes no, and
expressly disclaims any and all, representations or warranties,
express or implied, regarding the George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr Web site, including without limitation
the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of text, graphics,
links, products and services, and other items accessed from
or via the Web site, or that the Web site will be uninterrupted,
error-free, or free of viruses or other harmful components.
No advice or information given by George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr or any other party on the Web site shall
create any warranty or liability.
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr does not
warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the
results of the use of the materials at the Web site in terms
of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, or
otherwise. Under no circumstances shall George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr or any of its parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, or their respective partners, officers, directors,
employees, or agents be held liable for any damages, whether
direct, incidental, indirect, special, or consequential, and
including, without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits,
arising from or in connection with your use, reliance on, or
performance of the information on the Web site.
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr periodically
schedules system downtime for maintenance and other purposes.
Unplanned outages also may occur. George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr shall have no liability for the resulting
unavailability of the Web site or for any loss of data or transactions
caused by planned or unplanned system outages, or any outages
of web host providers or the Internet infrastructure and network
external to the Web site.
User Generated Content
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr, through its forums, provides
users an opportunity to post content to the Web site. George
Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr does not necessarily endorse, support,
sanction, encourage, or agree with content posted by users.
You shall not post or transmit any unlawful threatening, abusive,
libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane,
or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation
any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would
constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability,
or otherwise violate and local, state, national, European or
international law, or infringe upon another's copyright or trademark.
You understand that all information, data, text, software, music,
sound, photographs, video, messages, or other materials posted
or transmitted in a George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr forum,
whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole
responsibility of the person from whom such content originated.
This means that you, and not George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr,
are entirely and solely responsible for all content that you
upload, post, or otherwise transmit via the Web site. George
Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr does not and cannot review the content
posted by users and is not responsible for such content. However,
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr shall have the right, but
not the obligation, to delete, move, or edit any content that
violates this agreement or is otherwise objectionable as determined
by George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr in its sole discretion
and without notice.
If you upload, post, or otherwise transmit content to the Web
site, you acknowledge that any such submissions may be edited,
removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr in any
medium now existing or hereinafter invented, and for any purpose,
including commercial uses. You waive any moral rights you may
have in having the material edited, removed, modified, published,
transmitted, or displayed in a manner not agreeable to you.
You agree to indemnify George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
and its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their
respective partners, officers, directors, employees, and agents,
against, and to hold each of them harmless from, any and all
claims and liabilities (including attorney's fees) that may
arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material
obtained from the Web site, from your breach of these Terms
and Conditions, and from any such acts arising through your
use of the Web site.
Third Party Content Provider Notices
News text, photo, and graphic material shall not be published,
broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication, or redistributed
directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither the News materials
nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for
personal and non commercial use. George Vlamis
has no responsablity for news with delays, inaccuracies, errors,
or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of
all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any
of the foregoing.
Third party text, photo, and graphic material shall not be published,
broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication, or redistributed
directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither the third party
materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer
except for personal and non commercial use. George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies,
errors, or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery
of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any
of the foregoing.
Premium Online Content
Purchasers of premium online content are not permitted to share,
distribute, sell, or otherwise transfer their password to other
individuals. The password is for the purchaser's sole use. Significant
or unusual use of a single password (including but not limited
to significant use of a single password on multiple computers)
could result in suspension of that password. Premium online
content is protected by copyright laws, and may not be reproduced,
republished, distributed, transmitted, resold, displayed, broadcast,
or otherwise exploited in any manner without the express written
permission of George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr.
Featured Services
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr is committed
to providing visitors to its site with as many features as possible.
The companies that George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
selects as featured services providers offer products and services
that site visitors may find useful. George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr in certain cases may have a business relationship
with certain third parties that it selects as a featured service
providers. George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any advice
or information given, or of any statement made, by the companies
providing featured services, or for the content, services, products,
or advertising on or available from their Web sites, or for
the availability and operations of their Web sites.
Jurisdiction
You agree that any claim, action, or proceeding arising out
of these Terms and Conditions, or your use of the Web site,
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the Hellenic Repubblic applicable to contracts to be wholly
performed therein, and any action based on or alleging a breach
of this Agreement must be brought in a court in Greece. In addition,
you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to the Web site only and does not
cover information collected on any third-party sites to which
this Web site links. This privacy policy is part of, and
must be read in conjunction with, the Web site's Terms and Conditions.
You can read the entire Terms and Conditions by either scrolling
up to the top of this Web page. If you do not agree with
the Terms and Conditions in their entirety, please do not use
this Web site.
Web Site Users
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr generally collects personally
identifiable information such as a name, postal address, E-mail
address, telephone number, or credit card information with your
specific knowledge and consent.
How does the Web site use information supplied by me? Occasionally,
visitors to our Web site may be asked to supply certain personally
identifying information, which is then retained by George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr. For example, we ask you for certain information
if you choose to subscribe to our E-mail newsletters, register
with our online discussion forums, or purchase files from our
archives or our premium online content. If you choose to give
us personally identifying information at such time, such information
will be retained by us and used only to provide you with products
or services you have requested, or with additional information
from George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr about George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr, its affiliates, or selected outside companies
whose products or services we feel may be of use to you. Any
information from selected outside companies will be transmitted
by George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr so that such companies
will not have access either to your E-mail address or to your
other personally identifying information. Moreover, we will
not sell or rent any personally identifying information obtained
through the Web site (other than in connection with magazine
subscriptions ordered, as explained below) to any other company
or organization.
If, at some point after giving George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
your personally identifying information, you do not wish to
continue to receive additional information fromGeorge Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr about George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
, its affiliates, or selected outside companies, in general,
you may opt out by E-mailing webmaster@vlamis.gr and
put the words "remove my name" in the subject line
of your E-mail; in the case of our E-mail newsletters, you also
may follow the procedures at our E-mail newsletter registration
page. If you provide identifying information to subscribe to
our magazine, either online or offline, please read the policy
pertaining to "Magazine Subscribers" below.
From time to time, the personally identifying information that
you provide to us may be shared with our suppliers or service
providers who assist us in maintaining and managing our newsletters,
news, our archives, our premium online content, our online discussion
forums, and other activities on the Web site. Such suppliers
or service providers may use your personally identifying information
only in the course of providing services to George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr,
but they may not use such information for other purposes.
While your individual information is protected as discussed
above, George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr reserves the right
to use such individual information to create aggregated, anonymous
data about users in order to develop statistics about activity
on and visitors to the Web site. In addition, George Vlamis
http://www.vlamis.gr may disclose personal information if we
in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply
with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our
rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized
use of the Web site; or (4) protect the personal safety, property,
or rights of our users or the public.
What are "cookies" and how do you use them? "Cookies"
are pieces of information that are placed by a Web site in a
storage place on your computer. Cookies do not contain information
that is, in itself, personally identifying. Cookies are placed
on your computer in a limited way to help deliver advertisements,
to calculate unique site visitors, and to track usage throughout
our site. Other uses include placement of cookies to make the
login process more convenient for users of our E-mail newsletters,
our archives, our premium online content, and our online discussion
forums. In addition, some advertisers may place cookies on your
computer. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers.
In addition, we reserve the right to contract with certain third
parties to help manage and optimize our Web site business, including
the following:
We can use the services of a third party marketing company,
to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and
how visitors use the Web site. To do this, we shall use Web
beacons and cookies provided by this third party marketing company
at this Web site. This information helps us learn things like
what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our
products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers
our customers like to see.
We can also use a third party advertising company to deliver
ads to you when you visit our Web site. In the course of providing
this service, our third-party advertising company may place
or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser which
collects information about your visits to this Web site, such
as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name,
address, e-mail address, telephone number or other personal
information). If you would like more information about this
practice and to know your choices about not having this information
used by our third party advertising company, please contact
webmaster@vlamis.gr
How is my credit card information used when I make a purchase?
When you make a purchase, we ask you to provide your credit
card information so that we can process your payment. During
the ordering process, such credit card information is transmitted
to George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr (in
the case of our premium online content) or (in the case of our
archives, subscriptions, and mail order products) to one of
our suppliers or service providers. In both cases, credit card
information is then transmitted to third-party credit card processors
and card issuers that must use your information to process your
order.
Magazine Subscribers
From time to time, George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr is approached
by third parties interested in contacting our magazine's subscribers.
Perhaps they are in a similar business or have a product to
offer that would interest our subscribers. We may provide our
mailing list of magazine subscribers to such third parties if
we believe our subscribers would be interested in hearing from
them. Many of our subscribers find this a valuable and timesaving
service. If you subscribe to our magazine and want us to exclude
your name from mailing lists provided to third parties, mail
a letter to the address below, or E-mail us at the address
below with your request. Please specify that you would like
your name removed from the mailing list, and include your full
name and address or the address label from your magazine. Mail
your request to: George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr magazine-unsubscribe@vlamis.gr.
Please allow six to eight weeks for your request to take effect.
Web Hosting
George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
can host his web site and board in a free ( like freeforums.org
) or not free ( like hol.gr ) provider, local or not.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (What
is?) and Child Online Protection Act (
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is ? )
No one under the age of 13 should provide any personal information.
In general, George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr
does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from children under 13. If in limited circumstances we do knowingly
collect personally identifiable information from children under
the age of 13, we will do so only with verified parental
consent prior to collection. In the event that we learn
that we have collected information from a child under the age
of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
this information from our database as quickly as possible.
If you believe the Web site has any information about anyone
under 13, please contact us now at webmaster@vlamis.gr
.
About Child Online Protection Act and
the "material harmful to minors", there is no reason
for George Vlamis http://www.vlamis.gr to
restrict / prohibit the access in minors, because there is no
"Material harmful to minors" in the web site or boards,
defined as material that by "contemporary community standards"
is judged to appeal to the "prurient interest", or
material that shows sexual acts or nudity (including female
breasts, obscenity, hardcore or softcore pornography). In the
event that we learn that in our online discussion boards (Forums)
the user generated content contains any material harmful to
minors, we will delete immediately this information.
Please, if you belive the Web site or the boards has any information
or material harmful to minors, contact
the webmaster immediately ( abuse@vlamis.gr
).
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