Terms & Conditions of Use

1. Terms of Use
The Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens (hereinafter referred to as E.F.A.P.A.) within the framework of its responsibilities maintains various digital nodes. This website, through technologically advanced internet infrastructures and open and closed source software applications, can offer to everyone (hereinafter referred to as visitor/user) free information, participation, information, as well as technological applications related to the Ministry under the following terms of use. The use/visit, Navigating, archiving/cataloging them and staying on this website presupposes and constitutes practical and unconditional acceptance of the following terms of use. The use/visit of this website, its electronic pages, and services by the visitor/user presuppose the prior use of the website careful reading and the unconditional agreement and acceptance of the following terms of use, which apply to the entire content of the website, which includes, but is not limited to, files, texts, images, photos, drawings, graphics, videos, and software applications.
If the visitor/user of the webpages does not agree with the content of this website, he/she must not use its services and content. The visitor/user is kindly requested to check the content of these pages for possible changes. The continued use of this website even after any changes means the unconditional acceptance by the visitor/user of these terms. of this website as well as the other digital nodes of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens constitutes the entire agreement between EFAPA and the visitor/user of its websites and services and binds only them. No modification of these terms of use shall be taken into account and shall not form part of this agreement unless expressed in writing and incorporated into these terms of use. Unless otherwise specified, on this website the following terms of use are immediately effective in their entirety.
The visitor/user of EFAPA's websites is obliged to use it by the law and these terms of use. The use of this website must be made exclusively for lawful purposes in a way that does not restrict or prevent their use by third parties and the user/visitor must not proceed to acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and/or negatively affect or endanger the provision of services provided through them to citizens.

2. Copyright

The entire content of the website, including (indicatively and not restrictively) documents, texts, files, news, graphics, images, photographs, drawings, illustrations, videos, sketches, software applications and services provided, the terms and conditions of use of these websites as well as any modification thereof, are governed and supplemented by Greek Law, European Union law and relevant international treaties and is the subject of intellectual property of the Ministry of Culture and Culture and is governed by national and international provisions on Intellectual Property as well as Law 3028/2002 "For the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General" (A' 153). Logos, names, trademarks and features included in the website belong to the www.th-ink.gr and/or the persons mentioned as owners of the relevant rights on the website, and are protected in accordance with the applicable legislation on Industrial and Intellectual Property and related rights (Law 2121/1993). Any provision of the above terms is found to be contrary to the above institutional framework or becomes invalid, automatically ceases to apply and is removed from the present, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms. For the above, not restrictively, content of the website, EFAPA has the right to post, publicly display, reproduce, multiply, make available, exploit and generally use it in any way by conventional or electronic means or generally digital, even if it is not explicitly mentioned herein. EFAPA has the right, at any time, to change, modify, curtail, remove, alter and compose at its discretion the content posted on its website, both in its entirety and in the individual posted elements (texts, images, videos, etc.). The license to use any other material protected by Law 2121/93 or other relevant law and which has been determined as Intellectual or Industrial Property of third parties is not covered. For the use and exploitation of material belonging to third parties, the end user should contact the holders of the relevant Intellectual and Industrial Property rights to obtain the necessary licenses for use and exploitation. Works of Intellectual Property and related rights of third parties included in the www.th-ink.gr have been placed in good faith and for information purposes. It is understood that they will be removed if requested by the beneficiaries. Third parties are employees of the Ministry, the Regional and Special Regional Services of the Ministry and the Public Museums of any kind of work and specialty/category, as well as the providers of services and/or digital photography/filming/cataloguing of monuments, places or places, events, concerts, etc. of EFAPA and in general those who have assigned, granted and transferred in writing in accordance with the provisions of the law on intellectual property their rights on the material posted on new.culture.gr website.

3. License
LicenseIt is expressly forbidden to use, reproduce, republish, copy, store, sell, transmit, distribute, publish, execute, download, translate, modify in any way, in part or in summary, the content of www.callos.culture.gr website and the services offered on it without prior permission. By way of exception, individual storage and copying, reproduction, republication, transmission or distribution of parts of the content on a simple personal computer for strictly personal use, without the intention of commercial or advertising or other exploitation, without direct or indirect economic or commercial purpose or advertising purpose and always under the condition of acknowledging their source of origin, without this implying in any way the granting of Intellectual Property Rights of the Greek State (YPPOA). Therefore, it is forbidden for the content posted on the website www.th-ink.gr to be wholly or partially sold or assigned or advertised in whole or in part or in any way made available, or granted or modified or "loaded" in any way. The other products or services mentioned in the web pages of the node and bear the marks of their respective organizations, companies, partners, bodies, associations or publications, are their own Intellectual and Industrial Property and therefore these bodies bear the responsibility. Regarding the issues of use, reproduction and dissemination to the public for direct or indirect economic or commercial purposes of depictions of monuments, archaeological sites, historical sites protected by Law 3028/2002 "For the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in general" (A' 153), we note that article 46 par. 7 Law 3028/2002 and Joint Ministerial Decision No. MINISTRY OF CULTURE / DGDAPK / DMEEP / Γ2 / Φ51-52-54 / 81397 / 2199 / 12-9-2005 – ( Β '1491) "Determination of fees a) photography – filming – videography. ", as amended and in force, which sets out the licensing procedures, the amount of the fee and the manner of its collection and any other necessary relevant detail.
This JMD provides for the licensing procedure for the use of images of archaeological content for commercial or advertising purposes in electronic titles on the Internet or Intranet, in electronic publications (e- books) and in the production of audiovisual works and electronic guides.
The Greek State (Ministry of Culture) is the exclusive beneficiary of the rights to the content of these images. Furthermore, Law 4305/2014 (Government Gazette 237/A/31-10-2014) provides for a special exemption for cultural heritage from re-use for commercial or advertising purposes for the "protection of cultural heritage from theft, looting, vandalism, excavation, looting, and generally avoiding exposure to danger of movable and immovable monuments and sites protected under Law 3028/2002".

4. Disclaimers and Limitations of Internet Liability
LiabilityThe www.th-ink.gr and/or the persons mentioned as owners of the relevant rights on the website and protected in accordance with the applicable legislation on Industrial and Intellectual Property make every effort and take all necessary measures to ensure that all content and information displayed and published on the website is accurate, clarity, correctness, completeness, timeliness and availability. However, the E.F.A.P.A. is not responsible for any spelling or other errors during the republication of this information.Through this website, contact forms, bulletin boards and interactive areas may be posted. The use of the above implies that the user / visitor bears sole responsibility for the communication he / she makes and the consequences arising from the publication of this communication. E.F.A.P.A. It bears no responsibility for the fidelity, accuracy or reliability of the material published in an interactive area or for the consequences of communication in interactive areas or the consequences arising from the use of the website.
E.F.A.P.A. Under no circumstances can it be considered that it accepts or embraces in any way the ideas, perceptions and actions expressed by the user / visitor – as a consequence or result of the communication. E.F.A.P.A. may check, correct or delete the content of the user's/visitor's communication. The user/visitor hereby grants permission to E.F.A.P.A., as the owner of the website, of all works amenable to protection in accordance with Law 2121/1993 resulting from communication in the tables and communication forms, as well as in the areas of interaction, as described above. Under no circumstances will E.F.A.P.A. does not guarantee and therefore does not bear responsibility (not even by negligence) for any claims of legal, civil or criminal nature nor for compensation for any damage (positive, special or consequential, which may indicatively consist of loss of profits, data, lost profits, monetary satisfaction, etc.) of the user / visitor of this website or third parties, for a reason related to the operation or not, the use of the website, any inability to provide services / information available from it or from any unauthorized interventions of third parties in products / services / information available through it. It also provides content (e.g. files, texts, images, photographs, designs, graphics, videos, software applications, information, names, illustrations, data, etc.) and services available through the websites of "AS IS", without any warranty, express or implied, expressed, assumed, expressed or implied, implying the guarantees of satisfactory quality, suitability, inviolability, compatibility, security and accuracy, in any way, all of which we explicitly deny. E.F.A.P.A. makes every effort for the proper operation of its Node, but in no case does it guarantee that the functions of the above website or its servers will be uninterrupted or without any kind of error and that any defects will be corrected, free of viruses, malware and similar elements, whether it is its website, or for another site or server through which its content is transmitted.

5. Protection against Malware "Viruses".
E.F.A.P.A. Every effort is made to control the material uploaded to the above mentioned Website, as well as to protect against malware (viruses) its servers and the servers that host it. Given the form and structure of the Internet, E.F.A.P.A. shall not be liable, under any circumstances, for any form of damage, loss, alteration or destruction of data or software or hardware suffered by the visitor / user that may occur during or after use of the webpages, services, options and contents of these Website. It also does not guarantee that any related website or the servers and servers, through which any relevant service is made available to the user / visitor, do not contain "viruses" or other malicious software. In any case, users are advised to use antivirus and anti- malware software every time they connect to the Internet.

6. Exclusion of Exhortations – Advice
No part of the content provided to users / visitors of the websites constitutes and can not be considered in any way, directly or indirectly, encouragement, instruction, advice or exhortation for any act or omission, on the contrary it is at the discretion of users / visitors after personal evaluation to act on their own will, excluding any liability on our part.

7. Links to third party websites
This website may contain references (links) to third party websites for the sole purpose of informing and facilitating the user / visitor. The reference to links belonging to third party websites does not constitute adoption of their views and actions or an indication of approval or acceptance of the content they express, publish or post, while the websites to which they refer are subject to the respective terms of use of these websites. As is understandable, the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality and completeness are not controlled, nor can it control the renewal of the content of the services of other websites and pages to which reference may be made through hyperlinks or advertising banners. E.F.A.P.A. It bears no responsibility for their content and any damage resulting from their use, as the visitor has access to them at his own risk. Third parties – operators of websites responsible by law – bear sole responsibility for the content of their websites or for any damage that may arise from their use, when the user / visitor of the website www.th-ink.gr accesses it. The user / visitor accepts that by visiting third party websites, he leaves www.th-ink.gr website and is subject to their terms of use.

8. Hyperlinks to the Website.
E.F.A.P.A. encourages users to create hyperlinks to its website www.th-ink.gr and users are not obliged to ask for the permission of E.F.A.P.A. to create such connections. However, it is not allowed to load pages of the E.F.A.P.A. within frames of other websites. Each webpage of E.F.A.P.A. which refers to a hyperlink to another website, It should load in its own window.

9. Rights of Use of Content
The content submitted and published by users/visitors remains their property, while granting the website the right to an unlimited, royalty-free license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly display and exploit the content at any time and in any way electronic or printed, which does not violate their moral right. Re-use of content posted online place www.th-ink.gr always subject to compliance with the provisions on the protection of individuals from the processing of personal data (Law 2472/1997, Government Gazette 50 A'), as in force each time.

10. User Data
Through this website, E.F.A.P.A. may collect personal data and data of users / visitors, which are either sent by users / visitors on a case-by-case basis or collected during their navigation. Personal data and data are considered those that can only be used to identify or communicate with users/visitors, especially those collected through various Data Submission Forms and are subject to the legal framework governing the privacy of personal data, namely Law 2472/1997 (with the amendments of Law 3625/2007) and Law 3471/2006 on the protection of personal data. They are used only for the purpose for which they were sent. The user / visitor expressly and unreservedly consents to have the above personal information on www.th-ink.gr website, where required or requested.
requested.EFAPA may use personal information for informational purposes or to send e-mails or announcements/news correspondence to the registered user/visitor, unless the latter does not wish to do so and expresses it explicitly in his communication to the E.F.A.P.A.I. E.F.A.P.A. It does not sell personal information of third parties or users / visitors of these websites. E.F.A.P.A. does not transfer or disclose personal information of users / visitors of the website to third parties, unless the law stipulates otherwise or unless it is a contractual obligation necessary for the proper functioning of the website and the realization of its functions. E.F.A.P.A.
It is possible to process part or all of the data sent by users / visitors for statistical purposes and improvement of the services – information provided. The user / visitor may contact the administrator of the www.th- ink.gr website to cross-check the existence of his/her personal file, correct it, change or delete it. Through the www.th-ink.gr website, non-personal identification data of users of these websites may be collected using corresponding technologies, such as cookies and/or Protocol address tracking, and other similar ones as they result from the communication of the web browser with the server. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of each user/visitor and do not know any document or file from his computer, nor do they lead to the identification of his computer with any person. They are used to facilitate user/visitor access to the use of specific services and/or pages of the website for statistical purposes and to determine the areas that are useful or popular. www.th-ink.gr Non-personal information may also include the type of web browser used by the user/visitor, the type of computer, its operating system, its Internet Service Provider (ISP), and other such information. The user/visitor of this website can configure his/her web browser in such a way as to either warn him/her about the use of cookies in specific services or not to allow the acceptance of the use of cookies in any case. In case the user/visitor of these services and pages does not wish to use "cookies" for his/her identification, he/she may have limited access to some of the services, uses, or functions provided by this website.
The collection of all data falling within the category of personal data received by E.F.A.P.A. through this website, which are either sent by users on a case-by-case basis or collected during navigation – browsing, and use of the website by users, is carried out by Law 2472/1997 and Law 3471/2006 on the protection of personal data, as in force each time. E.F.A.P.A. is not responsible for the privacy policy of third-party websites to which the user has access through hyperlinks from this Website.

11. Modification of Content and Services.
The terms and conditions of use of this website, as well as any modification or change thereof, are governed and supplemented by national and Community law and relevant international treaties. The terms and conditions of use of this website constitute the entire agreement between E.F.A.P.A. and the user/visitor of its websites and services and binds them. E.F.A.P.A. unilaterally reserves the right to amend, adds, and changes the content or services of its website, as well as its terms of use, whenever it deems necessary, without prior notice, through this website, always following the applicable legislative and regulatory framework. The courts of Athens are responsible for resolving any dispute that may arise, while Greek law is the applicable law efaath@culture.gr.
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