Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

Every visitor or user of the website www.patmos.gr must, before visiting or using the pages, carefully read and study the terms of use as follows. In case of disagreement, he must not use them. Otherwise, it is presumed that he or she expressly and unconditionally accepts these terms of use and grants consent. The following terms of use apply to all content on our website.

The website www.patmos.gr belongs to the Municipality of Patmos (hereinafter the Municipality). The website through technologically advanced online infrastructure and open source software applications can offer everyone (hereinafter, user / visitor) information, participation, consultation and technology applications related to participation in actions under the following terms of use. The use / visit of these websites presupposes the unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described here. Navigating and staying on these websites and archiving and / or cataloging it constitutes practical acceptance of the following terms of use.

The website www.patmos.gr may contain references (links) to third party websites for the sole purpose of informing the user / visitor. Reference to links to third party websites does not constitute an acceptance of their views or actions or an endorsement of the content they express, publish or post. Third party operators responsible for the law are solely responsible for the content of their websites or for any damage that may result from their use, when the user / visitor of the website www.patmos.gr acquires access to them. The user / visitor accepts that by visiting third party websites, he leaves the website www.patmos.gr and is subject to the terms of use.

RESPONSIBILITIES USER/VISITOR

Websites must be used solely for legitimate purposes and in a manner that does not restrict or prevent its use by third parties. The user / visitor of these websites is obliged to use it in accordance with the law and the present terms of use. The user / visitor of these websites must not commit acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and adversely affect or jeopardize the provision of services provided through the websites to visitors.

The user / visitor must show increased diligence when entering his details and undertake the obligation that his relevant entries be absolutely clear, complete and accurate. The Municipality is not responsible for the registration of incorrect data by the user / visitor, who is also the only one responsible for the accuracy, completeness and legal nature of these entries.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

The overall content of the websites is made available to the public under the more specific terms of the Greek Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY v.3.0) as defined in detail in the relevant License, unless otherwise specified. The license to use any other material protected by Law 2121/93 as in force, or other relevant law and which has been designated as the intellectual property of a third party is not covered by the above license. For the use and exploitation of material belonging to third parties, the end user must decide on the copyright holders to obtain the necessary licenses for use and exploitation. The computer programs used for the development and operation of the website of www.patmos.gr and its digital services are usually free software and / or open source programs and when available, they are made available on the most specific terms of the license. European Union Public License (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/licence-eupl). The specific license with which the software is available is specified specifically on the website of the relevant software.

RESTRICTION OF NETWORK RESPONSIBILITY

The Municipality makes every effort to ensure that the information and content displayed each time on the website www.patmos.gr is as accurate, true and up-to-date as possible. 

It also provides content such as information, names, photos, illustrations, data, etc. and services available through the website “As they are”. The above information, as well as any other information provided to the user / visitor through the Website, does not constitute direct or indirect, incitement or advice for the performance of any act resulting in financial consequences. The user must examine the information provided and act in accordance with his/her private will. In no case shall the Municipality be liable for any claims of a legal, civil or criminal nature or for any damage, positive, special or derogatory of the user / visitor of this website.

The Municipality makes every effort to ensure the smooth operation of its network, although it does not guarantee that the services of its servers will be uninterrupted or without any errors, free of viruses, malware or other similar.

Given the form of the Internet, the Municipality is not responsible, under any circumstances, for any form of damage suffered by the user / visitor of the websites, services, options and contents of this website. It also does not warrant that any relevant website and servers through which any relevant service is made available to the user / visitor do not contain “viruses” or other malware, as it does not guarantee accuracy, completeness or the availability of content, websites, services, options or results from their use.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION, PRIVACY POLICY AND SECURITY

Through this website, the Municipality may collect, as editor, personal data of users / visitors, such as identification and communication data, which are necessary for the purpose of processing and only to the extent that they themselves disclose them. The Municipality takes all the necessary measures and takes care of the legitimate and legal collection and processing of personal data as well as their safe observance in accordance with the current European and national legal and regulatory framework for the protection of personal data and in particular the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) as incorporated into Greek law (Law 4624/2019) and its more specific regulatory framework for its implementation, while safeguarding the secrecy and confidentiality of any information brought to the attention of. The user / visitor, after becoming aware of these terms of use, provide the above personal information on the website www.patmos.gr and its services, where required or requested.

Under age users/visitors have access to our site only with the consent of their parents / guardians and are not required to disclose their personal data.

The Municipality may process part or all of the information provided by users / visitors for statistical purposes and to improve its services and information. Also, the Municipality may process the above information in the context of informing users / visitors about announcements / news and / or new services of the Municipality, if they provide their explicit consent, for this purpose. In this case, users / visitors have the right to revoke their consent at any time, without prejudice to the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent prior to its revocation.

This data may be transmitted in the context of the legal operation of the website to third parties in cooperation with the Municipality to the extent that this is necessary in the context of the proper operation and maintenance of the website and its services.

Finally, users / visitors have the right to access their personal data, the right to request the correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data, as well as, if the conditions of the regulatory framework meet, to exercise the rights: deletion, restriction processing, portability of their data, opposition to their processing, and ensuring human intervention in automated processes. For the exercise of their above rights, users / visitors can submit their request to the Municipality through the contact page (www.patmos.gr/contact/). In case they consider that the protection of their personal data is affected, users / visitors can, if they wish, appeal to the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data.

For the time being, non-personally identifiable information may be collected from the users of the Website using such technologies as cookies and / or the monitoring of protocol addresses and the like as they arise from the communication of the web browser server. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard drive of each user / visitor and do not take notice of 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 specific services and / or web pages for statistical purposes and to identify areas that are useful or popular. Non-personal information may also include the type of web browser the user / visitor uses, the type of computer, its operating system, the ISP, and other such information.

Communication forms, bulletin boards and interactive areas can be posted on this website. The use of the above implies that the user / visitor bears the sole responsibility for the communication he makes and the consequences that result from the publication of this communication. The Municipality does not bear any responsibility for the fidelity, accuracy or reliability of the material published in an interaction area or for the consequences of communication in interaction areas or the consequences that result from the use of the website.Τhe Municipality  In no case can not be considered, in any case, to accept or embrace in any way the ideas, perceptions and actions expressed by the user / visitor – as a consequence of the communication. The Municipality may check, correct or delete the content of the user’s communication and participation.

The user / visitor of this website may set up his web browser in such a way as to either warn him against the use of “cookies” in certain services or to prevent the acceptance of the use of cookies. For this purpose, he can refer to the instructions of his network browser or the help screen to find out more about these functions. In case the user / visitor of the specific services and pages does not wish to use “cookies” for his / her identification, he / she may have limited access to some of the services or functions provided by this website. The collection of all data that fall into the category of personal data received by the Municipality through this website, which are either sent by users on a case-by-case basis or collected during the navigation – browsing and use of the website by users, is carried out according to the current European and Νational legal and regulatory framework for the protection of personal data and in particular the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data V (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) as incorporated in Greek legislation (Law 4624/2019) and the particular application of the regulatory framework.

CROWD PARTICIPATION

The website www.patmos.gr may provide the user / visitor with the possibility of a participatory process and public consultation on current issues which are formulated in the form of questions. The respective answers of the user / visitor / participant in the above procedure are recorded, analyzed and taken into account in general in order to draw conclusions on the issue under consideration that is raised each time in a public consultation with a participatory process. The specific terms of this participatory procedure and public consultation are always determined by the Municipality.

The Municipality reserves the exclusive right to collect and use all this information data as well as the findings to which it leads and which are available to citizens through this website, and the user / visitor of the website accepts the transfer of all copyright or intellectual property rights arising from his participation in the public consultation, as described above, in the Municipality.

APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER TERMS

The terms of use and conditions of this website as well as any modification or change by the Municipality are governed and supplemented by national and Community law and relevant international treaties. Any provision of the above conditions which is found to be contrary to the above legal framework or becomes out of force, automatically ceases to be valid and is removed from the present, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms.

The terms and conditions of use of this website constitute the overall agreement between the Municipality and the user / visitor of its websites and services and binds only them. No modification of these terms of use shall be taken into account and shall not be part of this Agreement unless expressly provided in writing and included in these Terms of Use. Unless otherwise specified, the above terms of use apply directly to this site in its entirety on this website. The Municipality unilaterally reserves the right to modify, add, change the content or services of the website, as well as the terms of use, whenever it deems it necessary, without prior notice, through this website, always within the existing or possibly new legal framework. Following the above, users / visitors of the website are kindly requested to regularly check this content, services and terms for any changes, as the continued use of the website implies that they accept all possible modifications.

The competent courts for any disputes arising from this contract are the Courts of Athens.

If you have noticed any problems with the content of the site related to legal or ethical issues, please notify us at www.patmos.gr/contact/ in order to deal with them immediately.-