ΤERMS OF USE

INTRODUCTION

This Website’s Standard Terms and Conditions govern the use of this website, including all pages within this website (collectively referred to herein below the HOLMES PLACE GREECE website), including contents and services made available therein (the “HOLMES PLACE website”).

Any person that accesses the HOLMES PLACE website (“User”) accepts all the terms and conditions as mentioned in the current Terms of Use and updated from time to time.

The contents and services that HOLMES PLACE makes available to the User in the HOLMES PLACE website (respectively, “Contents” and “Services”) may also be governed by particular conditions that, in case of conflict, shall prevail over the General Conditions (the “Particular Conditions”). The User, whenever uses each Content or Service, submits and accepts also the corresponding Particular Conditions applicable.

Consequently, the User must read attentively the General Conditions whenever they wish to use the HOLMES PLACE website, as well as, as is the case, the corresponding Particular Conditions, whenever they intend to use each Content or Service.

In any case, HOLMES PLACE reserves the right to alter, at any moment and with no prior notice required, the presentation and configuration of the HOLMES PLACE website, as well as the present General Conditions or the corresponding Particular Conditions.


You are strongly advised not to use this Website, if you have objections to any of this Website’s Standard Terms and Conditions(T&Cs).

USE OF THE HOLMES PLACE WEBSITE

Unless stipulated otherwise, use of the HOLMES PLACE website is free of charge, without prejudice of the cost of the connection of the corresponding electronic communications network through which the User accesses it.

The User knows and accepts, voluntarily and expressly, that use of the HOLMES PLACE website is always under its sole and exclusive responsibility.

Using HOLMES PLACE website, the User commits not to carry out any act that may hinder or damage the image, interests and rights of HOLMES PLACE or any third party, or that may hinder, damage, render useless or overcharge the HOLMES PLACE website or that prevents, in any way, normal use of the HOLMES PLACE website.

HOLMES PLACE adopts safety measures reasonably adequate to detect the existence of viruses. Nevertheless, the User must be aware that the safety measures of computer systems in the Internet are not entirely reliable and, thus, HOLMES PLACE may not guarantee the inexistence of viruses or other elements that may cause changes to the User’s computer systems (software and hardware) or digital documents and files contained therein.

CONTENTS

Τhe Contents of the HOLMES PLACE website are made available to the User by HOLMES PLACE, with information collected from us as well as from third-party sources.

HOLMES PLACE endeavours that Contents have the highest possible quality and be reasonably updated, but does not guarantee the usefulness, accuracy, exhaustiveness, pertinence and/or update of Contents

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Under the present General Conditions (or by accessing the HOLMES PLACE Site or using its Contents and Services) no intellectual or industrial property right is granted over the HOLMES PLACE website or any of its elements; Users are expressly forbidden from reproducing, transforming, distributing, publicly communicating, making available, extracting, reusing, resending or using them in any nature, by any means or procedure, except for cases that it is legally allowed or authorised by the holder of the corresponding rights.

The Users may view and obtain a temporary private copy of the Contents, for their exclusive, personal and private use, in their computer systems (software and hardware), whenever that is not aimed at developing commercial or professional activities. The Users must refrain from obtaining or trying to obtain the Contents by different means or procedures that those made available to them, as is the case, offered for that purpose or usually used in the Internet (and that, in this latter case, do not represent a risk of damage or destruction of the HOLMES PLACE website).

All texts, graphs, editorial content, data, graphic art, designs, HTML, photographs, music, sounds, images, software, videos or other content that Users see or read in the Service are held by HOLMES PLACE or used under the authorisation of the holders of rights. This material is protected by every way, means and technologies already known or to be developed. HOLMES PLACE holds property of all such material, as well as coordination, selection, combination and perfection thereof. This material is protected by the laws that govern author’s rights, patents, brands and others, both nationally and internationally. Users may not copy, download, use, redesign, reconfigure or retransmit anything from the Service without prior consent from HOLMES PLACE in writing. Using this material is prohibited without consent from HOLMES PLACE and/or the holders of rights.

HOLMES PLACE is a trademark, including its logo.

Copying or using any of this brands, logos or names without prior consent in writing from their holder is forbidden.

the User must observe, at every moment, all intellectual and industrial property rights over the HOLMES PLACE website, owned by HOLMES PLACE or third parties.

PUBLIC AREAS

The Service may contain profiles, e-mail systems, blogs, message boards, applications, job publications, newsgroups, forums, communities and/or other means of communication (“Public Areas”) that allow communication between Users.

These common areas may be used only to send and receive messages and the sort, relevant and adequate to the forum in question.

Without exception, the User may not:

• Defame, insult, harass, persecute, threaten or violate legal rights (namely the right to privacy) of others in any other way;

• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any name, topic, material or information that is profane, defamatory, obscene or unlawful;

• Use the Service for any purpose that breaches the rules of local, national or international law;

• Upload files that contain software or other material that breaches the right to intellectual property (or right to privacy) of third parties;

• Upload files that contain viruses, Trojans, corrupted files or similar software that may damage the computer of other users;

• Publicise or offer products or services that are not relevant for the Service;

• Make or forward surveys, competitions, Ponzi schemes or chain letters;

• Act in the name of another person or allow another person to use their identification to post or see comments;

• Post the same note repeatedly (known as “spamming”);

• Spamming is forbidden;

• Download files uploaded by another User known to them, or that they are expected to know, or distribute it through the Service;

• Restrain or inhibit other users from accessing Public Areas;

• Insinuate or state that statements made by the User are approved by HOLMES PLACE, without prior consent in writing therefrom;

• Use any automatic and/or manual process to track or index HOLMES PLACE;

• Hack or interfere with HOLMES PLACE, its servers or network;

• Adapt, alter, license or sub-license the brand “HOLMES PLACE” for personal or commercial use;

• Remove or alter, visually or otherwise, author’s rights, trademarks or property rights and brands held by HOLMES PLACE;

• Upload offensive and/or damaging contents, including, namely, contents that defend, approve, tolerate or promote racism, intolerance, hatred or physical violence against any person or group;

• Upload content that provides material or access to material that exploits people under 18 years of age in abusive, violent or sexual ways;

• All mailing to Public Areas will be public, HOLMES PLACE taking no responsibility for the actions of other users regarding those contents.

HYPERLINKS AND INTERLINKED SITES

Connections (such as hyperlinks) from HOLMES PLACE to other sites are not tantamount to approval by HOLMES PLACE of said sites or their content.

These connections are provided for reference and user convenience only. HOLMES PLACE does not control those sites and is not responsible for their content.

The existence of connections in the Service to those sites does not mean that HOLMES PLACE approves of any material shown therein, or that has any association with its operators.

It is the user’s responsibility to assess the content and usefulness of the information obtained from those sites.

The use of sites controlled, held and operated by third parties is governed by the Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policies of those sites, and not by the Terms of Use of HOLMES PLACE.

Access to those third-party sites is on the User’s account and risk.

HOLMES PLACE expressly declines any responsibility arising from using and/or viewing any site or other material associated to connections shown in the Service. The User agrees under the present Agreement to exempt HOLMES PLACE of any liability that may arise from using connections shown in the Service.

a) Hyperlinks

The User and, in general, any natural or legal person wishing to establish a hyperlink or technical connection device (for example, links) from their website to the HOLMES PLACE website (“Hyperlink”) must procure prior authorisation in writing from HOLMES PLACE.

Establishing the Hyperlink does not imply, in any case, existence of any relations between HOLMES PLACE and the proprietor of the website or webpage where the Hyperlink is established, or acceptance or approval by HOLMES PLACE of their contents or services.

In any case, HOLMES PLACE reserves the right to forbid or render useless at any moment any hyperlink to the HOLMES PLACE website, especially in cases of unlawful activity or contents of the website that includes the hyperlink.

b) Interlinked sites

HOLMES PLACE website make available to the User, solely for purposes of searching and accessing information, contents and services available online, hyperlinks or technical connection devices (for example, links) that allow the User to access sites or portals belonging to or managed by third parties (“Interlinked sites”).

HOLMES PLACE does not offer or market, by themselves or through third parties, information, contents and services available in Interlinked sites, nor does it approve, supervise or control in any way the contents and services and any material of any nature existing therein, the User taking exclusive and full responsibility for navigation therein.

PERSONAL DATA

All the information on Users’ Personal Data is described in our Privacy Policy. Users should read the Privacy Policy before using the site in order to be informed on the collection and use of their personal data, the retention period, their rights and other important information.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Non-exertion, or late or partial exertion of any right that HOLMES PLACE has under the present Agreement or any applicable provision does not entail waiver of that right or prevent later exertion and may not constitute any means of establishing delay or novation.

This Agreement is the full contract between the User and HOLMES PLACE as far as the matters that it governs.

CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF USE

These terms of use may be updated at any moment by Holmes Place whenever the latter deems necessary or desirable with no prior notice to Users, in order to respond to legal requirements or operational changes. The User will always have access to the terms of use in force online. This document will always be available online and may be consulted freely, recorded or printed at any moment even without being registered in the website. Later access to and use of the site by the User will be deemed an unequivocal sign that they read, accepted and understood the altered Terms and Conditions.

PARTIAL INVALIDITY

Total of partial invalidity of any clause of the present General Conditions will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which will be applicable to their full extent, unless an affected party demonstrates that the aim pursued by the parties allows presuming that they would not have signed the deal without the part at stake.

APPLICABLE LAW/JURISDICTION

These General Conditions are governed by Greek law.

FINAL PROVISIONS

All persons that wish to purchase in this site declare that they are of age and legally capacitated for that purpose. For any purchase made in this site the User is deemed to have full knowledge and to have accepted the present document of Terms and Conditions If any User has any doubt about the present General Conditions or any comment about the HOLMES PLACE site, please contact: Dataprotection_GR@holmesplace.gr I HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND ACCEPT THE PRESENT TERMS OF USE AND THE PRIVACY POLICY OF HOLMES PLACE AND DECLARE THAT MY USE OF THE SERVICE MEANS ACCEPTANCE OF ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.