Terms of Use

Terms of use

TERMS OF USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA ALTER EGO MEDIA S.A.

The limited company Alter Ego Media S.A. (hereinafter “ALTER EGO”) which created and manages the Website www.tovima.com, (hereinafter the “Website”) offers its services under the following terms of use which the visitor/user of the Website pages is invited to read carefully and visit/use its pages/services only if he/she fully accepts them in their entirety. Wherever rights, obligations and properties of the Site are mentioned, they shall be understood to be those of ALTER EGO.

PREAMBLE

ALTER EGO provides to visitors/users of the Website, which is a news/entertainment site, a rich collection of services, pages, options and/or resources. In addition, the pages of the Website include advertisements of all kinds. Existing as well as any new services included in the future are subject to these terms of use.

ALTER EGO has the unrestricted ability to modify the content of its owned websites at any time, to abolish the services provided by them and/or to create new ones without requiring the prior notification of visitors/users and without the relevant modification of the present Terms.

The visitor / user is responsible for accessing the services and the relevant access may require the payment of fees to third parties (e.g., internet service providers, charge for time spent on the internet). For this access, ALTER EGO bears no responsibility, both from a technical point of view, and with regard to any payable fees of any kind. The visitor/user is solely responsible for paying the relevant fees. Also, the visitor/user is solely responsible for his personal equipment with the necessary technological means that allow him to access the services and websites of ALTER EGO.

These Terms of Use also include the Privacy Policy, which explains how to manage the personal data of visitors/users/members, in accordance with the current legal framework (REGULATION 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL) as well as Greek legislation on the Protection of Individuals from the Processing of Personal Data (Law 2472/1997), as applicable following the amendments that have taken place.

USER REGISTRATION

With the registration of the visitor/user in the relevant newsletter, there will be the possibility for the visitor/user to indicate whether he/she wishes to receive informative material about the latest news of the Website as well as about the new offers and events of ALTER EGO.

If the visitor/user wishes to subscribe to content on the Website addressed to subscribers, he is automatically transferred to ALTER EGO’s online store for products and services, HeliosKiosk (www.helioskiosk.gr) which provides subscription services for printed and online media.

COMENCEMENT AND TERMINATION OF SERVICES

ALTER EGO reserves the right to modify and/or temporarily or permanently interrupt part or all of the Website’s services with or without notice to users.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – TRADEMARKS

Apart from the expressly stated exceptions (copyrights of third parties, partners and entities), all the content of the Website, including images, graphics, photographs, designs, texts, of the services provided, are intellectual property, registered trademarks and service marks of ALTER EGO and are protected by the relevant provisions of Greek law, European law and international conventions and treaties. Consequently, none of them may be in whole or in part sold, copied, modified, reproduced, republished or “uploaded”, transmitted or distributed in any way. Excluded is the case of individual storage of a single copy of part of the content on a simple personal computer, for personal and not for public or commercial use and without erasing the indication of their origin from ALTER EGO, without affecting in any way the relevant intellectual and industrial property rights. The other products or services mentioned on the online pages of this site and bearing the marks of the respective organizations, companies, partners, associations or publications, are their own intellectual and industrial property and therefore these bodies bear the relevant responsibility. The user understands and accepts that he/she is not granted the right to reproduce, copy, sell, resell and/or commercially exploit in any way all or part of the content of ALTER EGO.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Given the nature and volume of the Internet, under any circumstances, including the case of negligence, ALTER EGO is not liable for any form of damage suffered by the visitor / user of the pages, services, options and contents of the Website. The contents of the Website are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied in any way.

ALTER EGO does not guarantee that the pages, services, options and contents of the Website will be provided without interruption, without errors and that errors will be corrected. ALTER EGO also does not guarantee that the same or any other related site or the servers through which they are made available to users/members, do not contain “viruses” or other harmful components. ALTER EGO does not under any circumstances guarantee the correctness, completeness or availability of the contents, pages, services, options or their results. The cost of possible corrections or services is borne by the visitor / user and in no case by ALTER EGO.

The Website is a news/entertainment site, with the aim of providing accurate and timely information to the visitors of the Website. The news and information posted each day comes from a news report by its editors and collaborators. The Website, the Administration and the editors are not responsible for the posts made by its named collaborators, whose column is hosted in the framework of cooperation on the Website.

DISCLAIMER FOR INFORMATION – ADVICE

The content and information of the Website constitute an offer to the visitor/user and to the community of Internet users in general and cannot in any case be considered as valid information and/or advice, nor do they in any way imply any encouragement to undertake or not undertake specific actions. ALTER EGO undertakes the collection, processing and distribution of its content, but in no case can it guarantee the integrity, completeness, adequacy and generally the appropriateness of the content and the absence of possible errors, especially due to its particularly large volume, as well as the participation of third parties (natural or legal persons) during its primary production and collection. Therefore, visitors/users of the Website, using its services on their own initiative, assume the relevant responsibility for cross-checking the information provided. Please note that some of the information on the Website is provided by third parties. The Website is unable to verify this information and does not guarantee its accuracy.

ADVERTISEMENT

ALTER EGO has no responsibility for the user’s communication with the third-party service providers advertised on the Website and for any commercial transaction that may arise from the relationship between them.

The content of the ALTER EGKO Website may contain references (third party links, plug-ins, applications, etc.) to other websites, which are not controlled by ALTER EGO. Consequently, by selecting these links, users are taken to third-party websites that are governed by their own terms and privacy policy.

The website contains advertisements, as well as the display of other material with advertising content, purpose and character, from third party organizations and advertising companies. ALTER EGO Media S. A. bears no responsibility towards users, as well as any third parties that may be considered as affected, for any illegal act or omission, inaccuracy or failure to comply with the laws and regulations of any country or the European Union in relation to the content of the advertisements. ALTER EGO is not obliged to examine and does not examine the legality or otherwise of the advertising material displayed on the website (apart from the obvious cases of violation of legal rights that would be perceived by the average prudent citizen) and therefore cannot be held responsible in any way. This responsibility is borne by the advertisers, sponsors and/or creators of the promotional material displayed.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

This Personal Data Protection Policy applies only to this Website and not to websites owned by third parties. We may provide links to other websites that we believe may be of interest to our visitors. Our aim is to ensure that these websites follow the highest standards. However, due to the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee the privacy standards of the websites we link to nor are we responsible for the content of websites other than this one and this Privacy Policy is not intended to apply to any linked beyond of this Website. ALTER EGO does not control the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness of the services of other web sites and pages to which it refers through “links”, hyperlinks or advertising banners. Therefore, for any problem encountered during their visit/use, the user must contact the respective web sites and pages directly, which bear full responsibility for the provision of their services. ALTER EGO MEDIA S.A. under no circumstances should it be considered that it endorses or accepts the content or services of the web sites and pages to which it refers or that it is connected to them in any other way.

APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER CONDITIONS

The above terms and conditions of use of the Website, as well as any modification thereof, are governed and supplemented by Greek law, the law of the European Union and the relevant international treaties.

ALTER EGO declares that it complies with the Commission’s Recommendation (EU) 2018/334 of March 1, 2018, regarding measures to effectively deal with illegal content on the internet, and the Website complies with the above Recommendation insofar as its provisions concern the its content and takes the appropriate measures for its effective implementation.

Any provision of the above terms becomes contrary to the law, shall automatically cease to be valid and shall be removed from the present, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms. The present constitutes the entire agreement between ALTER EGO and the visitor/user of its pages and services and is binding only on them. No modification of these terms shall be considered and shall not form part of this Agreement unless it is in writing and incorporated herein.

Any dispute related in any way to the use of the Website with the services provided through it, will be firstly attempted to be resolved out of court. In the event of failure to reach an out-of-court resolution of the dispute, the disputes and related issues will be resolved in the competent courts of Athens.