Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

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

The website www.mwlesvos.gr belongs to the Municipality of West Lesvos (hereinafter referred to as the Municipality). The website through technologically advanced web infrastructures and open and closed source software applications can offer to everyone (hereinafter, user/visitor) information, participation, consultation and technological applications related to participation in actions under the following terms of use. Use/visiting these websites implies unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described herein. Navigating and staying on these websites and archiving and/or cataloguing it constitutes an implicit acceptance of the following terms of use.

Ο διαδικτυακός τόπος www.mwlesvos.gr ενδέχεται να περιέχει παραπομπές (συνδέσμους/links) σε διαδικτυακούς The website www.mwlesvos.gr may contain references (links) to third party websites for the sole purpose of informing the user / visitor. The reference to links belonging to third-party websites does not constitute an endorsement of their views and actions or acceptance of the content they express, publish or post. The third party operators of the websites responsible under the law are solely responsible for the content of their websites or for any damage that may arise from their use, when the user/visitor of the website www.mwlesvos.gr accesses them. The user/visitor accepts that by visiting third party websites, he/she leaves the www.mwlesvos.gr website and is subject to their terms of use.

USER/VISITOR OBLIGATIONS

The use of the websites must be used exclusively and only for legitimate purposes and in a way that does not restrict or prevent its use by third parties. The user/visitor of these websites is obliged to use them in accordance with the law and these terms of use. The user/visitor of these websites must not perform any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction of the website and negatively affect or jeopardise the provision of the services provided through the websites to visitors.

The user/visitor must exercise due diligence when entering his/her data and undertakes to ensure that the relevant entries are absolutely clear, complete and accurate. The Municipality is not responsible for the entry of incorrect data by the user/visitor, who is the only person responsible for the accuracy, completeness and legality of these entries.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

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

LIMITATION OF NETWORK LIABILITY

The Municipality makes every effort to ensure that the information and content that appears on the www.mwlesvos.gr website is as accurate, true and up-to-date as possible. It also provides the content, such as information, names, photographs, illustrations, data, etc. and services available through its website “AS IS”. The aforementioned information, and any other information provided to the user/visitor through the website, does not constitute, directly or indirectly, a solicitation or advice to perform any act that brings about financial results. The trader must examine the information provided and act on the basis of his or her private will. Under no circumstances shall the Municipality be liable for any legal, civil or criminal claims or for any damage, positive, special or consequential, suffered by the user/visitor of this website.

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

Given the format of the Internet, the Municipality is not liable, under any circumstances, for any form of damage suffered by the user/visitor of the web pages, services, options and contents of this 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, nor does it guarantee the correctness, completeness or availability of the contents, web pages, services, options or the results of their use.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION, PERSONAL DATA AND SECURITY

Through this website, the Municipality may collect, as the Data Controller, personal data of users/visitors, such as their identification and contact details, which are necessary for the purpose of processing and only to the extent that they disclose them. The Municipality takes all necessary measures and ensures the legitimate and lawful collection and processing of personal data as well as their safe keeping in accordance with the provisions of the applicable European and national legislative and regulatory framework on the protection of personal data and in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) as incorporated into Greek law (Law 4624/2019) and the specific regulatory framework for its implementation, safeguarding the confidentiality of personal data and the protection of personal data. The user/visitor, after becoming aware of these terms of use, makes the above personal data available to the website www.mwlesvos.gr and its services, where required or requested.

is required to disclose their personal data.

The Municipality may process part or all of the data provided by users/visitors, indicatively for statistical purposes and to improve its services and information. Also, the Municipality may process the above data in the context of informing users/visitors about announcements/news and/or new services of the Municipality, provided that they give their express consent for this purpose. In this case, users/visitors have the right to withdraw their consent at any time, without prejudice to the legality of the processing based on the consent before its withdrawal.

Such data may be transmitted in the context of the legitimate operation of the website to third parties cooperating with the Municipality to the extent necessary for the proper operation and maintenance of the website and its services.

provided that the conditions of the regulatory framework are met, to exercise the rights to: erasure, restriction of processing, portability of their data, opposition to processing, and to ensure human intervention in automated procedures. In order to exercise the above rights, users/visitors may submit their request to the Municipality through the contact page (www.mwlesvos.gr/forma-epikoinonias/). In case they consider that the protection of their personal data may be compromised, users/visitors may, if they wish, also appeal to the Personal Data Protection Authority.

Through this website, non-personal identification data of the users of the website may be collected using appropriate technologies, such as cookies and/or protocol address tracking and other similar technologies as they result from the communication between the web browser and the server. Cookies are small text files that are stored on the hard disk of each user/visitor and do not take note of any document or file from his/her computer, nor do they take note of any driver or any other data. They are used to facilitate the user’s/visitor’s access in terms of using specific services and/or pages of the website for statistical purposes and in order to determine which areas are useful or popular.

Such information may also include the type of web browser used by the user/visitor, the type of computer, its operating system, the internet service provider (ISP) and other such information.

bears sole responsibility for the communication it makes and the consequences of its publication. The City assumes no responsibility for the fidelity, accuracy or reliability of material posted in any interaction area or for the consequences of communication in interaction areas or the consequences resulting from the use of the website. The Municipality cannot under any circumstances be considered to accept or endorse 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 communication and participation of the user/visitor. 

web browser in such a way that it either warns the user about the use of “cookies” in certain services or does not allow the acceptance of the use of “cookies” in any case. For this purpose, he can refer to the instructions of his web browser or the help screen to find out more about these functions. In the event that the user/visitor of the specific services and pages does not wish the use of “cookies” to identify him/her, he/she may have limited access to some of the services, uses or functions provided by this website.The collection of all data falling under the category of personal data received by the Municipality through this website, which are either sent by the users or collected during the navigation – browsing and use of the website by the users, is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the applicable European and national legislative and regulatory framework on the protection of personal data and in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) as incorporated into Greek law (Law 4624/2019) and the specific regulatory framework for its implementation, safeguarding the confidentiality and privacy of any information that comes to its knowledge. The user/visitor, after becoming aware of the present terms of use, makes the above personal data available to the website www.mwlesvos.gr and its services, where required or requested.

VOTES/DEBATES

The website www.mwlesvos.gr may provide the user/visitor with the possibility of a participatory process and public consultation on topical issues in the form of questions. The answers given by the user/visitor/participant in the above-mentioned procedure shall be recorded, analysed and generally taken into account in order to draw conclusions on the issue under consideration, each time submitted to public consultation through a participatory procedure. The specific conditions of this participatory procedure and public consultation shall always be determined by the municipality.

The Municipality reserves the exclusive right to collect and exploit all such information data as well as the conclusions to which it leads and which are made available to citizens through this website, and the user/visitor of the website accepts the transfer of all intellectual or industrial property rights resulting from his/her participation in the public consultation, as described above, to the Municipality.

APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER CONDITIONS

The terms and conditions of use of this website as well as any modification or change by the Municipality are governed and supplemented by national and Community law and the relevant international treaties. Any provision of the above terms found to be contrary to the aforementioned legal framework or rendered invalid, shall automatically cease to be valid and shall be 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 considered and shall not be part of this agreement unless expressed in writing and incorporated into these terms of use. Unless otherwise specified, on this website the above terms of use are immediately effective in their entirety. The Municipality unilaterally reserves the right to modify, add, change the content or services of the website, as well as its 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 requested to check periodically the said content, services and terms for any changes, as the continuous use of the website implies that they accept all possible modifications to them.

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

If you have found any problems with the content of the website that concern legal or ethical issues, please notify us at www.mwlesvos.gr/forma-epikoinonias/ so that we can deal with them immediately.-