i. Introduction

1. The website “theweddingexperts.gr” (and all websites that may be automatically linked to one of the aforementioned websites) (hereinafter the “Website”) has been created for the personal entertainment, information, education and communication of users. Use of the Website is governed by the terms and conditions herein, which the users/visitors of the Website, after reading carefully, accept unreservedly and without any further requirement, by their use.

2. The terms and conditions set out herein, as well as any other applicable national, Community or international legislation in force regarding the Internet or the World Wide Web in general, apply to all visitors or users of the Website.

3. The Wedding Experts OU (hereinafter “The Wedding Experts OU” or “the Company”) or an affiliated company may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this notice. The revisions are binding on users and are deemed to be accepted, unreservedly and without any further requirement, by their use.

4. In the event that the use of any service of the Website is governed by more specific terms of use, those terms are considered as a whole together with these terms and conditions of use. In the event of a conflict, however, the more specific terms of use of each service prevail.

5. The Wedding Experts OU and its affiliated companies are in no case bound by the content of the Website.

6. Minors are prohibited from using the Website and its Content, which, according to the law, is addressed exclusively to adults. If, nevertheless, minors voluntarily visit the Website or make use of its Content or of services offered through it which may be considered unsuitable for them, The Wedding Experts OU and its affiliated companies shall bear no liability.

7. The Wedding Experts OU is entitled at any time, without notice, to interrupt or suspend, wholly or in part, the operation of the Website or to alter its nature and content. Likewise, the operation of the Website may be interrupted, suspended or impeded, either permanently or temporarily, due to events lying beyond the control of, or regardless of the will of, The Wedding Experts OU.

8. The Wedding Experts OU will make reasonable efforts to ensure the maintenance and availability of the Website and its Content, but availability may be affected by users’ equipment, other communications networks, the large number of people attempting to use the Internet simultaneously, or other causes of interference, and it may fail or require maintenance without any notice.

ii. Content – Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights

1. The mark “TheWeddingExperts” and other related marks used on the website are registered trademarks of “The Wedding Experts OU” or another company affiliated with it. The Website and its content in general, including without limitation all texts and images, photographs (hereinafter the “Content”), except where otherwise stated for specific third-party rights, constitute the intellectual and industrial property of The Wedding Experts OU and are protected by the relevant provisions of Greek, Community and international law.

2. The Content is used as is and is not susceptible to modifications or other interventions by the user. Furthermore, the Content may not, in whole or in part, be the subject of a transaction (commercial or not), copying, modification, reproduction, retransmission, or be transmitted or distributed in any manner by any user without the prior written consent of The Wedding Experts OU.

3. The products and/or services and/or the name and/or the trademarks or distinctive features of third parties that may appear or be displayed on the Website constitute the intellectual and industrial property of the third parties, who bear the relevant responsibility for the content and the services and/or products.

4. Any communication or material or data transferred or retransmitted or sent through services that may be offered by the Website, and in general the entirety of the information submitted to The Wedding Experts OU through this Website, will be considered and treated as non-confidential and will not constitute property of the said user. Anything transferred or retransmitted or sent through the Website, where this is possible, or submitted to The Wedding Experts OU through the Website, will be considered and will remain property of The Wedding Experts OU or its affiliated companies, and it will be free to use, subject to the applicable Greek, Community and international legislation, for any purpose, any idea, conception, know-how, or technical method contained in the information that the users of the Website provide to The Wedding Experts OU and its affiliated companies through this Website. Through the use of the said Website, each user may submit and/or The Wedding Experts OU may collect limited information for any purpose it deems appropriate for its commercial activities.

5. The trademarks, logos, distinctive features, trade names and distinctive titles (hereinafter collectively “Trademarks”) that appear on the Website are either registered or unregistered Trademarks of The Wedding Experts OU and/or third parties. Nothing contained in the Website should be construed as an express or implied license or right to use, in any form, any Trademark appearing on the Website without the written permission of The Wedding Experts OU or of the third parties who may own the Trademarks appearing on the Website. The use, by users, of the Trademarks appearing on the Website, or of any other content thereof, beyond what is provided in this text of the Terms and Conditions, is expressly and strictly prohibited.

6. Depictions of persons or places or things that form part of the content of the Website are either property of The Wedding Experts OU or of its affiliated companies, or are used on the Website following a relevant license from their rights holders. Any form of use of these depictions by the users of the Website beyond the limits of the latter, or by anyone else authorized by the users, is prohibited, unless specifically permitted by these present Terms and Conditions or unless a special license is provided elsewhere on the Website.

7. The software and the content in general of the Website may be subject to Export Control in accordance with the relevant legislation in force of the United States of America. Export Control legislation prohibits the export of certain technical data and software to certain countries or regions around the world. The Wedding Experts OU does not approve the downloading or export of any software or technical data from the Website to any jurisdiction prohibited by the Export Control legislation of those countries.

theweddingexperts.gr ensures compliance with the principles of Protection of personal data during the use of the services of this website regarding electronic commerce and distance sales, in agreement and compliance with international, European and internal Greek law, and specifically with the provisions of Law 2251/1994 on consumer protection, Directive 2000/31/EC and Presidential Decree 131/2003 on electronic commerce, as well as Law 2472/1997 on the protection of the individual and of personal data, as supplemented by the decisions of the President of the Personal Data Protection Authority, Presidential Decrees 207/1998 and 79/2000 and Article 8 of Law 2819/2000 and Directives 95/46/EC and 97/66/EC.

theweddingexperts.gr expressly declares that it will not engage in any illegal or unfair use of your personal data and does not transfer in any manner and for any reason to any third party the personal details and information of users/visitors. Your personal details, upon your request, are permanently deleted and are not granted in any way to anyone. The submission of details for the purpose of using the services of theweddingexperts.gr has the status of a solemn declaration under Law 1599/1986, and therefore any false declaration of details may incur the sanctions provided for under Article 22 par.6 of the law.

iii. Liability of The Wedding Experts OU – Obligations of Users

1. Despite the diligent effort of The Wedding Experts OU and its affiliated companies to ensure that the content of the Website includes complete, accurate, valid and up-to-date information, The Wedding Experts OU does not guarantee the accuracy of these data. In any case, the users of the Website acknowledge and accept that The Wedding Experts OU may not be in a position to exercise control over the entirety of the Content and of the security of the Website and its services. For this reason, The Wedding Experts OU neither commits, nor provides any kind of guarantee, nor assumes any kind of liability or obligation regarding the security and content of the Website. Furthermore, The Wedding Experts OU does not guarantee that the use of the information, data or materials included in the Content posted from time to time on the Website will not infringe rights of third parties that do not belong to or are not affiliated with The Wedding Experts OU.

2. Users accept that they must evaluate the content of the website and that they are responsible for any risk that the use of any part of the Content may cause, including any decision of theirs to rely on the correctness, completeness, validity and/or usefulness of any part of the Content. Consequently, the use of the Website by each user is made at his own exclusive responsibility. Neither The Wedding Experts OU, nor its affiliated companies, nor their executives or directors, employees, associates, any of their representatives, nor any other party involved in the creation, production or delivery of the Content or in general of the operation of the Website is liable for any direct, consequential, incidental, indirect or contingent damages arising from each user’s access to the Website, or its use. Without limitation of the above, everything the Website contains is provided to users as is, without any kind of guarantee, express or implied, including in particular any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The Wedding Experts OU and/or its affiliated companies shall in no case be liable for damages, including, indicatively, direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, positive or contingent, expenses arising in connection with this Website or its use, or with the inability to use it, by any person, or in connection with inability to perform, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission or system line failure, and likewise they assume no liability, nor will they be liable for any damage or harm that may be caused to the computer or other electronic medium used by a user for his access to the Website, or for viruses or software of another nature that may infect the computer or medium or other property of the user which he uses for his access to the Website, during the visit, use or browsing of the Website, or for the downloading of any material, data, text, images, video, or sound of the Content of the Website from it, even if The Wedding Experts OU or its representatives have been informed about the possibility of such damages, losses or expenses. The links to other Internet sources take place at their own exclusive responsibility.

3. Although The Wedding Experts OU may, at intervals not predetermined in advance, monitor or review discussions, conversations, messages, retransmissions, electronic bulletin boards and any other material or item that may be transferred or circulated through the Website, The Wedding Experts OU has no obligation to do so and assumes no liability or obligation for any claim that may be raised regarding the Content of the Website, nor for any error, simple or slanderous defamation, insult, offense, omission, falsehood, foul language, pornography, blasphemy, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information included in the Content of the Website. It is prohibited to send or retransmit, or to transfer or circulate any illegal, threatening, slanderous, defamatory, insulting, inflammatory, pornographic or blasphemous material, or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that could be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or violate any law in any other manner through the Website.

4. The Website may refer, through “links”, hyperlinks or advertising banners, to other websites, whose providers have full (civil and criminal) responsibility for the security, lawfulness and validity of the content of their websites and services, which The Wedding Experts OU may not have inspected. Therefore, The Wedding Experts OU bears no liability, such as, indicatively, liability concerning intellectual and industrial property rights or any right of a third party, for the content of websites or other electronic/online locations that may be linked to the Website. The connection of users through the Website with other websites or electronic/online locations is made at their responsibility and without permission from The Wedding Experts OU, and they have the obligation to comply with the terms of use of those websites or electronic/online locations and to address themselves directly to their providers for anything that may arise from the visit and/or use thereof.

5. The users of the Website accept, agree and acknowledge that they will make lawful and proper use of the Website, being subject, among other things, to the legislation concerning the transmission of data from Greece to Member States of the European Union and third countries.

i. Introduction

The Wedding Experts OU and its affiliated companies respect the personal privacy of every user of the Website. This paragraph summarily states the information that the Company may gather and the way in which it may use it, as well as information concerning the actions which the user of the Website must take if he does not wish for the collection or further processing of his personal information during his visit to the Website.

ii. Personal Data

1. The Wedding Experts OU or its affiliated companies may keep a File and process any data of users (e.g., name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) (hereinafter “personal data”), which comes to its knowledge through the Website and the services provided through it, only if these data are provided voluntarily by users. In this case, the Company may transfer the Personal Data to companies affiliated with it, where this is required for reasons of operational and computerized servicing of its transactional relationship with the user, or for statistical or historical reasons. Likewise, recipients of the File data for the promotion, support and execution of the transactional relationship between the Company and the user of the Website may be third parties who cooperate with the Company for the provision of the services related to the File, or the Company may (provided it does not receive a specific contrary instruction from the user) disclose the Personal Data of Users to third parties for the advertising promotion of the products of the Company or of businesses with which the Company has a partnership, for market research or other similar activity, and for the distance promotion of products of its own or of third parties. If a user of the Website does not wish the collection and possible keeping and processing of his Personal Data in accordance with the above, then he must avoid submitting them to the Company.

2. However, in the event that the user consents to the aforementioned collection, keeping and processing of his Personal Data in accordance with what is provided herein, then it is expressly noted that at any time he retains the right to be informed of or to object to the further processing of his Personal Data pursuant to Articles 11 and 13 of Law 2472/97 on the protection of personal data. For the exercise of this right of his, each user may contact the Company at the following e-mail address. Furthermore, where a user provides his Personal Data voluntarily, the Company may use this information, unless otherwise provided, in the following ways: a. storage and processing of this information for a better understanding of the needs of users and consumers in general and the way in which it is possible to further improve the products and services of the Company, b. possible use of this information by the Company (or by a performance assistant or a third party contracting on its behalf in connection with a promotional action) for future communication with users, c. possible provision to third parties contracting with the Company of aggregate – but not individual or personalized – information concerning the visitors or users of the Website.

3. In the event of direct disclosure by the user of the Website to third parties of his Personal Data, the Company bears no liability regarding the use by the said third parties of the Personal Data of that user. Therefore, it belongs exclusively to that user the responsibility to personally study the relevant terms of personal data protection, before he discloses his personal data to third parties through the internet or the Website.

4. Finally, the Company bears no liability in the event of disclosure, whether to the Company or to a third party, whether within the framework of the services or the Content of the Website, or voluntarily by some user, of the personal details of another person (indicatively, the full name, his e-mail address, his telephone number, etc.) without having previously obtained the consent of that person, which shall be done at the exclusive responsibility of the disclosing user.

iii. Minors

1. The Company does not intend to gather any Personal Data from persons under the age of eighteen. Where this is appropriate, the Company will clearly inform minor children not to submit the said information to the Website and/or will take every reasonable action to ensure parental consent for the said submission.

2. Parents should be aware that the Confidentiality Policy of the Company governs the collection, keeping in a File and processing of Personal Data by it, but with regard to any information provided voluntarily by minors – or others – within the framework of electronic conversations (chat sessions), exchanges of e-mail messages (e-mails), through electronic bulletin boards or similar means, it may be used by others to send electronic messages that the minors do not wish to receive. The Company urges all parents to inform their minor children about the safe and responsible use of their Personal Data when they use the Internet.

iv. Information or Data Collected Automatically

In certain cases, technical information that is not personally identifiable may be gathered automatically (e.g., not through registration) when a user visits or makes use of the Website. Examples of this type of information that may be collected are the type of Internet Browser used by the user, the type of operating system of the computer used by the user to visit the Website, and the domain name of the website used by the user in order to connect to the Website.

v. Cookies

Cookies are data files that are transferred from a web server to the computer of the person who visits the Site, for the purpose of keeping statistical data. Cookies constitute an industry standard, are used by most web sites and facilitate the repeated access of users to a particular web site and its use. Cookies are not harmful to your computer system or to your files, and only the web site from which a particular cookie was transferred to your computer has the ability to read, modify or delete it. If you do not wish information to be collected through cookies, you can use the settings that most web browsers have, with which you can delete the already existing cookies and choose either for future cookies to be automatically rejected, or to decide on the rejection or acceptance of each particular cookie on your computer. It must, however, be noted that the rejection of cookies may have as a consequence that it becomes more difficult or impossible to use certain parts of the site.”

vi. Pixel Tags

On the Site, means such as the so-called “pixel tags”, “web beacons”, “clear GIFs” or similar means may be used. All of the above are collectively called “Pixel Tags” and aim at the collection of aggregate statistical data concerning the use of the Site and the speed of response. With Pixel Tags we can measure the number of users who visited specific pages of the Site, provide named services and determine the effectiveness that the promotional actions or the advertising campaigns had. When used in e-mail messages composed in HTML format, Pixel Tags offer the sender of the message the possibility to be informed about whether and when the message was opened by the recipient.”