Privacy Policy

The company with the name JOIST Innovation Park / The Factory IKE (hereinafter COMPANY), in the context of the integration of all its websites, offers its services under the following terms of use which the visitor / user of the website is requested to read carefully and to visit/use its pages/services only if he entirely accepts them.

PREAMBLE

The COMPANY provides its visitors / users with several collection of services, pages, options and/or resources including various communication tools, personal services / pages and content. The existing and new services are subject to these terms of use, which apply to all digital sites belonging to the COMPANY and govern all the services they provide. The visitor / user of the services understands and accepts that all of the pages / services are provided as they stand and the COMPANY disclaims any responsibility related to the limited duration, deletion, or inability to electronically store any user data and/or any content of personal pages/services.

The COMPANY 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 information of the visitors/users and without the relevant modification of these Terms being necessary.

The COMPANY is committed to ensuring the privacy of visitors to its digital sites. These terms of use – privacy policy explain how the personal data of visitors/users is managed, in accordance with the applicable legal framework [(REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL] for the protection of natural persons against processing of personal data and for the free circulation of such data and the repeal of Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and any applicable laws].

The first time each visitor / user visit any digital site of the COMPANY, he is requested to accept the use of Cookies in accordance with the terms of the Policy. By using the respective website, and by accepting this Policy, the visitor/user accepts the website’s use of Cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

ETHICS OF USERS

It is mutually agreed and understood that, although the COMPANY provides its users/members with the necessary technological infrastructure and means to post/publish content, all information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos, messages and all content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, remains the sole responsibility of the individual or entity from which the content originates. This means that the users are solely responsible for any content they post, publish, send, transfer or make available through the COMPANY’s services. The COMPANY cannot, due to its volume, control all the content posted by its users on the website services, so it does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, legality, or quality of such content.

The user understands and accepts the international nature of the Internet and undertakes to respect and adhere faithfully to the local rules of conduct of each state. In particular, the user undertakes to strictly follow the legislation regarding the transmission of data from Greece and Europe to third countries.

REGISTRATION (where required)

As long as the visitor/user wishes to register for the COMPANY’s services, he/she agrees to: a) provide true, accurate, valid and complete information regarding the information requested in the relevant applications for access to the COMPANY’s Unified User-Visitor Database and in its specific contents/services and b) maintains and diligently updates its registration information so that it is kept true, accurate, valid, updated and complete. The registration details are necessary for the proper provision of the COMPANY’s services to the users and the maintenance/recovery of their account.

COOKIES

The COMPANY may use cookies for the proper functioning of its services and pages. Cookies are small text files (in .txt format) that are sent and stored on the hard drive of each visitor/user’s computer, if the latter has chosen to accept cookies. Cookies are used only to facilitate the access of the visitor/user to specific services of the pages, as well as for statistical reasons in order to determine the areas in which the services of the pages are useful or popular.

The visitor/user can set his server (browser), so that it either warns him (the user) about the use of cookies in specific services of the pages, or does not allow the acceptance of the use of cookies under any circumstances. In case the visitor/user does not want to use cookies for his identification, he cannot have further access to these services.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – TRADEMARKS

Apart from the expressly mentioned exceptions (copyrights of third parties, partners and entities), all the content of the COMPANY, including videos, images, graphics, photos, plans, texts, the services provided and generally all the files of this website, are intellectual property , registered trademarks, designs, distinctive features and service marks of the COMPANY 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. The products or services mentioned on the online pages of this site and bearing the marks of the respective organizations, companies, partner bodies, 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 is not granted the right to reproduce, copy, sell, resell and/or commercially exploit in any way all or part of the COMPANY’s content. If he does so, he accepts that he is solely responsible for compensation for the above.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Given the nature and volume of the internet, under any circumstances, including the case of negligence, the COMPANY is not responsible for any form of damage suffered by the visitor/user of the pages, services, options and contents of the COMPANY which he/she does on his/her own initiative. The contents of the COMPANY are provided “as is” without any warranty expressed or implied in any way. To the fullest extent permitted by law, COMPANY disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, those of merchantability and suitability for a particular purpose.

COMPANY does not guarantee that the pages, services, options and contents will be provided without interruption, errors and that errors will be corrected, as well. Also, it 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. The COMPANY 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 the COMPANY.

DISCLAIMER OF INFORMATION/ADVICE

The content and information included in the COMPANY constitute an offer to the visitor/user of the COMPANY and in general to the community of Internet users and cannot, under any circumstances, be taken as valid information and/or advice nor do they, under any circumstances conceal any solicitation for the business or non-specific actions. The COMPANY undertakes the collection, processing and distribution of its content, but without under any circumstances, guaranteeing its completeness, completeness, adequacy and general suitability 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, the COMPANY’s visitors/users, using its services on their own initiative, assume the relevant responsibility of cross-checking the information provided. Some of the website information is provided by third parties. The website is unable to verify this information and does not guarantee its accuracy.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

COMPANY has hyperlinks to third party websites or related applications. The COMPANY does not control and bears no responsibility for the availability, content, personal data protection and privacy 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. The COMPANY should not be considered to endorse or accept the content or services of the web sites and pages to which it refers or to relate to them in any other way.

PERSONAL DATA ARCHIVE POLICY

For the simple browsing of the COMPANY’s pages, no personal information of the visitor/user is collected.

The use of visitors’ / users’ personal data by the COMPANY of the personal data of the visitors/users takes place exclusively and solely for the purpose of informing and supporting the users during the operation of the services they subscribe to, the satisfaction of their respective requirements, as well as informing them regarding the promotion of new services.

The above information may be requested for the registration of the visitor/user in the mailing list to send newsletter of the website.

The pages provide their visitors/users with the possibility to delete their personal details and information at any time, to correct and update them or to deactivate their registration.

METHODS OF COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

a. Personal data that can be requested from the page.

When the visitor/user uses certain functions of the pages, such as registering for certain services, accessing certain content or functions, or communicating directly with a page or service, various information may be requested from him, such as the following:

• contact information, such as name, email address, status

b. Information collected automatically during the visit and interaction of the visitor/user with the page:
When the visitor / user visits and interacts with the page, certain information may be automatically collected, such as:

• Computer’s Internet Protocol (IP),
• Browser type and operating system,
• The web pages visited immediately before and after visiting the page,
• Basic server connection information and
• Information collected through HTML cookies, Flash cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies.

TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA.

a. The COMPANY strictly adheres to the Greek legislation on the Maintenance of Personal Data Records. The data declared and collected in the above cases are not disclosed to third parties and in no way are they made public or exploited by the COMPANY.

b. The COMPANY undertakes not to sell, rent or in any way publish and/or communicate the personal data of visitors/users to any third party.

c. The COMPANY may transfer the personal data of visitors / users to third parties exclusively and only in the following cases:

• As long as it has the express consent of the visitors / users for the channeling of their personal data, which is presumed to be given when the visitor / user registers as a member on one of the Websites owned by the COMPANY and does not submit an objection request, according to the above.
• Since the channeling of personal information is required by law and exclusively to the competent authorities.

d. The COMPANY may also, for the purposes of statistical analysis, and in order to collect information about how its pages and services are used, keep in an aggregated form and analyze the data that is collected, in order to improve the functionality of the pages and services and to shape better their content and design.

SPECIAL CASES OF USE OF PERSONAL DATA

a) Communications by e-mail

With the consent of the visitor/user, the personal information collected may be used in order to send him (the user) communication material by e-mail, such as updates to main articles, information about his account or changes of the page he visits and, with his consent, advertising messages for products and services of the COMPANY or for products and services of its marketing partners.

In the event that the visitor/user subscribes to on of the COMPANY’s e-mail newsletters, he will also be sent the newsletter he requested.

ACCESS TO PERSONAL DATA

The COMPANY gives users the right to delete their personal data, correct and/or update their personal data and/or deactivate their registration, at any time, by visiting the relevant COMPANY service.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

Access to visitor’s/user’s contact information is limited to those employees or service providers who reasonably have a need to know that information to provide products or services to visitors/users or to perform their jobs. Technical, physical and administrative procedures have also been adopted that are appropriate to protect information concerning Users from loss, misuse and alteration.

It is emphasized that no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

GOVERNING LAW AND OTHER TERMS

The above terms and conditions of use of the COMPANY, are governed and supplemented by Greek law, the law of the European Union and the relevant international treaties. Competent Courts for the resolution of any dispute are defined as the Courts of Larissa. Any provision of the above terms that becomes contrary to the law shall automatically cease to be valid, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms.

This constitutes the entire agreement between the COMPANY and the visitor/user of its pages and services and it only binds them. No modification of these terms shall be considered and made a part of this agreement unless made in writing and incorporated herein. These terms of use supersede any other terms and apply to all services and applications of the website without exception, without the need for other more specific terms. The user who uses the COMPANY’s websites and services is presumed to unconditionally accept these terms, if he does not submit an objection request.

The COMPANY may update this Policy from time to time by publishing the new version on its websites or on connected applications. The user should regularly check this page to ensure that he is in compliance with any changes to the terms of this Policy.

The COMPANY may notify users of changes to this Policy (either via email or via the website’s private messaging service or connected applications).

The management and protection of the personal data of the visitor/user of the COMPANY services is subject to the terms of this section, as well as the relevant provisions of the applicable legal framework [(REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL] for the protection of natural persons against the processing of personal data and for the free circulation of such data and the repeal of Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and any applicable laws thereof]. These terms are formulated taking into account both the rapid development of technology and in particular the Internet and the existing – albeit not fully developed – network of legal regulations regarding these issues. In this context, any possible relevant regulation will be the subject of this section. In any case the COMPANY reserves the right to change the terms of personal protection personal data after informing the visitors/users and within the existing or potential legal framework.

If a visitor/user does not agree with the terms of personal data protection provided herein, he/she must not use the COMPANY’s services and refuse to register as a member.

Given the nature and volume of the internet, under any circumstances, including the case of negligence, the COMPANY is not responsible for any form of damage suffered by the visitor/user of the pages, services, options and contents of the websites which he/she accesses on his/her own initiative and with knowledge of the terms hereof.