WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DATED: 20 February 2023
These general terms and conditions concern the use of the website www.aegeanvt.com, (hereinafter the “Website”), owned by the company with the corporate name “VirtualWorks”. In these terms and conditions, “we” “us” and “our” refers to VirtualWorks LP.
The use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions. These terms and conditions govern your access to and use of the Website. By using the Website, its content and the services offered, you, the user of the Website, unconditionally declare and assure that you understand and agree with the content of the Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the content of the Terms of Use in whole or in part, please do not use the Website and the services offered through the Website.
- This Website is operated by us.
- We reserve the rights to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online. Continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified.
- These terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with European and Greek laws. Any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Greek Courts.
- You agree to use this Website only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights, restrict, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the Website by any third party. Users of our interactive features which will be available shortly should also refer to our terms of use and participants’ rules.
- You are prohibited from using the Website to harm others or their rights in any way, including their intellectual and industrial property rights and personal data. You are prohibited from destroying, deactivating, overloading, or causing damage to the Website, using non-authorized means for amending the content of the Website or intervening in its operation in any way. In case you have access to other websites via the Website, it is presumed irrefutable that VirtualWorks has no liability for the content and in general for anything associated with these websites. In any case, you, the user, unconditionally acknowledge and accept that you are exclusively liable for any damage or breakdown caused to the Website and to third parties, irrespective of the specific cause or its type, as a result of any breach by you, directly or indirectly, of any term of the Terms of Use.
- The use of the Website and its services requires that you, the user, are 18 years old, you have legal capacity and in case you use the Website’s services on behalf of another person, you declare and guarantee that you have their authorisation and consent.
- The Website is a virtual online platform that presents landscapes of the Aegean islands through 360̊ photos and provides travelers with useful information about accommodation, travel agencies, transportation companies, travel guides, restaurants, bars, cafes, museums, attractions, archaeological sites and other travel-related products. VirtualWorks does not offer services or sell products itself.
- The Website is a virtual online platform in which tourism and travel related products and services are promoted. Specifically, through the Website, services, products and promotions of third parties are provided to you (hereinafter, the term “Service Providers” includes third parties that provide any kind of products, services or advertising related to travel and tourism sector and contractually linked with VirtualWorks).
- When you proceed to an order or purchase a product or service, and generally when you make a transaction through the Website (either within the Website environment or on third party websites), you are entering into a contract directly with the Service Provider.
- All information published on the website relating to the Service Providers is provided directly by them. The Service Providers are solely responsible for the correctness, completeness, and accuracy of this information (e.g., prices, fees, and other payments for the provision of their services, availability, cancellation policies, and generally the conditions under which they provide their services). This information is not controlled by VirtualWorks as the service providers themselves publish their information on the site via the extranet. VirtualWorks neither guarantees nor confirms the accuracy, completeness, or validity of said information, nor is it liable towards you, the user, for any reason related to the contractual relationship between you and the Service Provider (including, among others, false information, service non-availability, cancellation of the service, etc.).
- VirtualWorks does not accept, approve, recommend, or suggest to you any of the Service Providers and their services/products through the Website, unless otherwise and explicitly stated.
- The Website provides access to other websites, administered and owned by third parties. Liable for these websites and their content are the companies that own these websites (Service Providers included). VirtualWorks has no right to intervene in the content of the previously mentioned websites nor assumes any liability for their content, or the correctness, completeness and accuracy of the information provided through these websites.
- VirtualWorks has no liability (contractual or for tort) in case of non-performance, poor performance, and in general any liability for any reason whatsoever associated with the provision of the services or the sale of products of Service Providers, given that the said services and products are not provided or sold by VirtualWorks.
- These Terms & Conditions set out the full extent of VirtualWorks ‘s obligations and liabilities in respect of the promotional services offered through the Website, unless as agreed otherwise in specific terms of use. The content and services of the Website are provided on an “as is” basis, without any guarantee, expressed or implied, by VirtualWorks by any means.
- With the explicit reservation of its rights, VirtualWorks does not guarantee, assumes no liability (civil or penal) and/or obligation, unless if otherwise stated in the Terms of Use, for any damage that might occur to the user caused by the use of the Website and/or the provision of the services by Service Providers (indicatively in case of non-appropriateness, non-availability, non-adequacy, non-safety of the products/services of Service Providers).
- VirtualWorks, to the maximum extent provided by law, assumes no liability under all circumstances and in any case (negligence included) for any damage that may occur to the user or any third party (both material and non-material, direct or indirect or of any other type and for any cause):
- The users are exclusively and solely liable for all the transactions made through or as a consequence of the use of the Website, as well as for the specific terms and conditions of the said transactions.
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, VirtualWorks’ liability towards the user or any third party for compensation for any claim (tort included) is excluded.
- You agree to indemnify, defend and hold the Website harmless from any liability, loss, damages, claim, or expense related to your violation of these Terms of Use and in case which causes to Website the above mentioned.
- You explicitly agree and accept that the Service Provider assumes the exclusive liability towards you regarding the provision by the Service Provider to you of services through the Website, given that VirtualWorks is not a seller or a reseller of any Service Provider’s service or product. For any complaint or claim you might have against the Service Provider, you shall address directly the Service Provider, with whom you have a contractual relationship.
- The Website and the information, names, images, pictures, logos regarding or relating to us are provided “as is” without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied. In no event will we be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from the use or in connection with such use or loss of use of the Website, whether in contract or in negligence.
- The materials and information we provide on the Website is of a general nature only. We are not providing professional advice and you should obtain professional or specialist advice that is appropriate to your circumstances and we give no warranty and accept no liability should you use the information without obtaining independent advice.
- We give no warranty that the information in the Website is free from error or omission and you should use your own care and skill when accessing and using it.
- We do not accept any responsibility for any loss or damages which may arise from accessing or reliance on the information on this Website. And to the fullest extent permitted by the law, we exclude all liability for loss or damages direct or indirect arising from use of this site.
- The Website contain hyperlinks or banners to other websites. Such links are provided for convenience only and we take no responsibility for the content and maintenance of or privacy compliance by any linked website. Any hyperlink on our Website to another website does not imply our endorsement, support, or sponsorship of the operator of that website nor of the information and/or products which they provide.
- VirtualWorks assumes no liability in any case whatsoever for the availability, the content, the privacy and cookie policies, and the quality or the correctness of the webpages and functions of third party’s websites, which are available to the user through hyperlinks, links or banners. Therefore, in case any problem occurs during the visit or use of such pages/functions, the user shall immediately communicate with the said websites.
- The user explicitly and undeniably accepts that VirtualWorks has no liability (irrespective of the specific cause or its type) for any loss or damage they might have suffered as a result of non-availability of the aforementioned websites or sources, or as a result of any confidence shown by the user to the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertisement of any product marketed through the aforementioned websites. We strongly recommend that you carefully read the terms of use and privacy and cookie policy of the aforementioned websites and keep a copy of them.
- Where the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from you using them. When accessing a site via our Website we advise you to check their terms of use and privacy policies to ensure compliance and determine how they may use your information.
- When you visit our Website, we give you a limited license to access and use our information for personal use.
- We update the Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. It is our right to suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. If any of the material or information on our site is out of date, we are under no obligation to update such material.
- You may link our Website with our consent. Any such linking will be entirely your responsibility and at your expense. By linking, you must not alter any of our Website’s contents including any intellectual property notices and you must not frame or reformat any of our pages, files, images, text or other materials.
- We take all due care in ensuring that our Website is free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse and/or malware, however we are not responsible for any damage to your computer system which arises in connection with your use of our Website or any linked website.
- You must not knowingly introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer, or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you are committing a criminal offense under EU and Greek laws for cyber crimes. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
- We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
- We undertake to take all due care with any information including Comments which you may provide to us when accessing our Website. However we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of any information which you may provide to us. Information you transmit to us is entirely at your own risk although we undertake to take reasonable steps to preserve such information in a secure manner.
- Our compliance with privacy legislation is set out in our separate Privacy Policy which may be accessed from our home page.
- The copyright to all content on this Website including applets, graphics, images, layouts and text belongs to us or we have a license to use those materials.
- VirtualWorks is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
- VirtualWorks is the creator and legal owner of all 360° panoramic view photos contained in the Website and Aegean Virtual Tours, at all times, throughout the world.
- VirtualWorks is the creator and legal owner of all Aegean virtual tours, the Website logo and virtual tour template design.
- Unless stated otherwise, the content of the Website, including intellectual property rights (industrial property rights and copyright), intangible assets, non-registered, photos, pictures, illustrations, graphic designs, texts, structure, etc., are VirtualWorks’ and/or third parties’ exclusive property and are protected by Greek law, EU law, and international treaties and agreements.
- Consequently, you accept and understand that you do not have the right to use, copy, extract, re-utilise, sell, resell, distribute, download, upload and/or commercially exploit, present to the public in any way any content or parts of the content of the Website for any reason, unless you have prior written consent of VirtualWorks, of the third party, of the owner or licensee.
- If you believe your intellectual property rights have been infringed by our website content, please contact us by email.
- All trade marks, brands and logos generally identified either with the symbols TM or ® which are used on this Website are either owned by us or we have a license to use them. Your access to our Website does not license you to use those marks in any commercial way without our prior written permission.
- You may print a copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site or virtual tours only for your personal reference. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors.
- The license to access and use the information on our Website does not include the right to use any data mining robots or other extraction tools. The license also does not permit you to meta tag or mirror our Website without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to serve you with notice if we become aware of your meta tagging or mirroring of our website.
- Any communication or material that you transmit to, or post on, any public area of the Website including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary information.
- If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and rules and/or specific terms of use appearing on this Website relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.
- The Terms of Use, any amendments of the Terms of Use as well as all issues associated with the Website and the services provided by VirtualWorks (also through the Website) are subject to Greek law. Any dispute arising from these Terms of Use and the Website will be submitted to the Courts of the City of Athens, which have exclusive competency over any other venue. The exclusive jurisdiction of Athens Courts includes interim measures, temporary restraint orders, and disputes arising from tort.
- If any of these provisions cannot be applied for whatever reason or is against the law, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of the Τerms of Use.
- The Terms of Use are provided in Greek and English. In case of discrepancies, the Greek version shall prevail.
- VirtualWorks’s delay to enforce any of its rights or to exercise any right, shall not be considered as a right waiver in any case
- Any comment, feedback, idea or suggestion (called “Comments”) which you provide to us through this Website becomes our property. If in future we use your comments in promoting our Website or in any other way, we will not be liable for any similarities which may appear from such use. Furthermore, you agree that we are entitled to use your comments for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without compensation to you or to any other person who has transmitted your comments.
- The content of any comments published by you on the Website must be true, accurate and lawful and compliant with all applicable laws and must not infringe any right of VirtualWorks or of any third party. VirtualWorks assumes no liability for any content posted by any user and reserves the right to remove comments violating the applicable laws.
- We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time and take notice of any changes, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
- By accessing our Website, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs and expenses including legal fees arising from or in connection with your use of our Website.
For any queries regarding the content and services of the Website and the Terms of Use, you may send an e-mail to info@virtualworks.gr.
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