Terms of Use - Corfu Reading Society

INTRODUCTION

The Corfu Reading Society (hereinafter “The Society”), which has created and manages the website: anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/, offers its services to the users of the aforementioned website under the following terms and conditions. Before browsing, please read carefully the following terms and conditions of use. If you continue using anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website, you agree to comply with and abide by the following terms and conditions. If you disagree with any part of these terms, please leave the site and DO NOT use any of its services and content.

The Society may modify any of these terms and conditions at any time, without prior notice, updating the text accordingly.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Society disclaims liability for damages or compensation for any direct or indirect loss or damage may incur from the use of this website.

The Society disclaims liability for the content of third parties’ websites. The owners of the third party website are the sole responsible for the content of their website (indicatively, text, images, and multimedia).

COPYRIGHT & INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

The content of the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website (indicatively, trademarks, logos, photographs, texts, videos, etc.) is the intellectual and industrial property of the the Society and is protected by the Greek, European and international law. It cannot be wholly or partially altered, copied, reproduced, sold, distributed or transmitted in any way whatsoever without the Society’s prior written consent.

Third party products or services (organisations, companies, etc.) appearing on the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website are the intellectual and industrial property of the third parties, who are, therefore, the sole responsible for these products or services.

TRANSACTIONS

All transactions between the Society and any natural or legal entity is confidential and shall not be disclosed, unless in the cases stipulated by the Law, upon written decision of the competent authorities.

PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

When you visit anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website, in order to enable communication and to inform the users of the website on the Society’s services, we may request some personal information (such as name, profession, e-mail, date of birth, etc.). The personal information requested anywhere on the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website, shall be used exclusively for the respective service, in compliance the provisions of Act 2472/97 on personal data protection. If you are under 16, you MUST have your parents’ consent before using the services of this website.

PRIVACY POLICY & GDPR COMPLIANCE

This privacy policy may change from time to time following legislation changes and developments in the sector, without prior notice to the users of this website. Please visit this page occasionally for any changes to this privacy policy. If you continue using the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website even after the changes in the privacy policy, you agree to comply with and abide by these terms.

Relevant Legislation

Along with our company’s internal IT systems, this site is designed to comply with the following laws/regulations regarding the protection of user’s personal data:

EU Data Protection Directive (DPD of year 1995)

Regulation on general EU data protection (GDPR of year 2018)

Personal information collected by this website and why we collect it

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

Website traffic monitoring

Like most sites, this site uses Google Analytics to track user activity. We use this data to determine the number of our site visitors, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to track their course on the website. Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographic location, your device, your web browser, and your operating system, none of this information identify you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address, which could be used to identify you, but Google does not provide access to it. We believe that Google is a third party data processor, compliant with the requirements of European legislation.

Communication forms and email links

If you choose to contact us using a contact form or an email link, none of the data you provide will be stored on our site or transferred or processed by any third party data processor as defined below in the section «Our third-party data processors». Instead, this data will be sent to us via an SMTP protocol (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Our SMTP servers are protected by a TLS security protocol (also known as SSL), meaning that email content is encrypted before being sent over the Internet. The content of the email is decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Cookies

What are cookies?

The term “cookie” refers to a small data file that consists solely of a set of text information that the site transmits to the web browser on your computer’s hard disk, either temporarily for the duration of your visit, or sometimes for longer periods, depending on the type of cookie. Cookies perform different functions (for example distinguishing you from other visitors to the site or remember certain information on you, such as your preferences) and are used by most websites to improve user experience.

Each cookie is unique to your browser and contains some anonymous information. A cookie typically contains the name of the cookie field, the cookie’s lifetime, and a value (usually in the form of a randomly generated unique number).

Types of cookies

The basic types of cookies that may be used by websites are the following:

Third Party Cookies: These are cookies used by third parties such as social networks to track your visits to the various sites they advertise. The site administrator has no control over these third-party cookies.

Persistent cookies: These remain in the cookie file of your device’s browser even after the browser closes, sometimes for one year or more (the exact length of stay depends on the lifetime of each cookie). Permanent cookies are used when the site administrator may need to identify you for more than one visit (e.g., to remember your username or your site configuration preferences).

First-party cookies: These are cookies installed on the browser and / or hard drive of your device from the site you are visiting. This includes assigning a unique ID to you, in order to monitor your site navigation. Site creators often use first-party cookies for visit management and for identification purposes.

Cookies on this site and how to manage them

At this site, we use cookies to improve the experience of using the site by its visitors. Site operation will be significantly affected if you disable or disagree with the use of cookies.

Below are information about the third-party cookies we use on this site, including how to disable them and the effect of disabling on the site’s functionality. If you’d like more information on how to handle certain types of cookies, including how to check or delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics cookies are performance analytics / logging cookies that allow us to collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site. These cookies can tell us how many visitors use the site, the time and duration of the access, and also provide information on how visitors navigate across the site. This information helps us improve the way our site works. They are anonymous information and do not contain personal information. The information collected by the Google Analytics cookies about our site is transferred and stored on Google’s servers in accordance with Google’s privacy policy. For more information on Google Analytics, please click https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 . You can turn off Google Analytics tracking by clicking https: //tools.google.com/dlpa ge/gaoptout?hl=en=GB. If you disable these cookies, your use of the site will not be counted or used in the statistics we collect to improve the services we provide through the site. Website functionality will not be affected.

Cookies from video service providers (Google, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc.)

These providers may place cookies on your device, if you watch on our site videos that provide us as an external service. If you disable these cookies, you may not be able to see the embedded videos from our site.

Cookies from social networks

Third-party social networks can place cookies on your device if you choose to share material from our site with them by clicking on one of the embedded buttons under “Share”. If you disable these cookies, the share function will not be available.

About the server of this site

All web traffic (file transfer) between this site and your browser is encrypted and transferred via the HTTPS protocol using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Our third-party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data for us. These entities have been carefully selected to comply with the legislation mentioned in this document.

Data breaches

For any of your personal information stored in our database, all necessary steps will be taken to secure them.

We will report any unlawful violation of the database of this third party data processing site or database to anyone and to all relevant stakeholders as well as authorities within 72 hours of the violation, if it is obvious that the personal data that is stored in recognizable form, have been stolen.

Data Controller

The operator of this website is: “The Board of Directors of the Corfu Reading Society”.

USERS OBLIGATIONS

Users agree that they will make reasonable and appropriate use of the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website. In case of any unlawful or inconsistent with these terms use of the anagnostiki-etairia-kerkyras.eu/ website by a User, the latter shall indemnify the Society for any actual damage and / or loss of profit incurred by the aforementioned use.

APPLICABLE LAW – JURISDICTION

These Terms of Use, as well as any future amendment thereof, are governed by the Greek Law. Any dispute that may arise shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Corfu.

COMMUNICATION

If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us. Tel.: +30 26610 39528, address: 120, Kapodistriou street, GR49100 Corfu – Greece.