Terms & Conditions

GENERAL TERMS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE

The website is provided, as is, by the company “BRAINFOOD PUBLISHING LTD” which is based in Peristeri, at 28 Empedokleous Street and 20 Souri Street, P.C. 12131, VAT number – 997864022, Tax Office – A Peristeri, GEMI Number – 9009601000, contact number 2102514123, email address [email protected] (hereinafter “BRAINFOOD Publications”) under the terms and conditions set out in this notice. Access to and use of the website constitutes unconditional acceptance of these terms and conditions, as well as any amendments thereto.

Intellectual and Industrial Property

The content and information provided by the website, including but not limited to the design, distinctive features, logos, graphics, texts, documents, photographs, databases and in general any distinguishing mark and intellectual work of the website, constitute intellectual and industrial property of BRAINFOOD Publications and are protected by the relevant provisions of Greek and Community legislation as well as international conventions. As an exception, the books, magazines, diaries, CDs, CDROMs and other products offered for sale are the intellectual property of the publishing houses, legal entities and/or natural persons listed therein as beneficiaries of the relevant rights.

Play the content

It is expressly prohibited, without the prior written permission of BRAINFOOD Publications or in any way, to reproduce, republish, modify, distribute, make available, transmit, use and in general exploit, all or part of the content of this website. Exceptionally, the individual copying and printing of a single copy of part of the content for personal and non-public or commercial use is permitted, provided that the intellectual and industrial property rights of BRAINFOOD Publications are not affected.

Visit – use of the website

Every user has the possibility to freely visit the website. The visitor / user declares and guarantees that he will use the website in accordance with these terms, the applicable rules and provisions of national, community and international legislation and good manners. The visitor/user is responsible for the restoration of any damage that may be caused to BRAINFOOD Publications or to any third party, from unfair and/or misuse of the services or pages or any part of this website as well as from the introduction, publication and transmission, through it, any information, text, software or file.

In the event that the visitor/user does not agree or does not understand these terms of use, in whole or in part, he must not visit and/or use this website.

Right of Modification

BRAINFOOD Publications reserves the right to discontinue, suspend, modify or alter, at any time and without notice, the services and information offered on this website. BRAINFOOD Publications also reserves the right to modify these terms of use at any time..

Disclaimer Statement

BRAINFOOD Publications bears no responsibility for any damage caused to the visitor/user by accessing and using the content and the information and services offered on the website. BRAINFOOD Publications makes every effort to provide and ensure a high level of information and services through its website, but is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or correctness of the information provided on this website.

Also, they are not responsible for any redetermination of the sale price of the offered products, on the part of their publishers, as well as for any graphical or numerical errors in the prices or other details of the products.

BRAINFOOD Publications take the necessary protection measures for the proper operation of this website, but in no case do they guarantee that the contents, the web pages and the technical facilities and capabilities of the website will be provided continuously and without problems, nor that the website and/or the servers ("servers") through which it is connected, with the computer of visitors/users, will be provided without harmful applications which were installed without their knowledge.

BRAINFOOD Publications is not responsible for any damage caused to the customer by the non-fulfillment of his contractual obligations, which is due to events of force majeure or beyond his control (such as, indicatively, failure to provide/network failures, weather conditions, strikes, etc.) .

Referral links ("links") to other websites

The website may include referral links "links", "hyperlinks", advertising "banners" to other websites over which BRAINFOOD Publications have no control and are not connected in any way. BRAINFOOD Publications bears no responsibility regarding the content, the personal data protection policy, the quality, security, legality and accuracy of the information or services of other websites and/or pages to which they may refer through links, of any form .

For any damage that may be caused to the visitor/user from the use and access to the aforementioned websites and/or pages, the persons who operate or operate on the relevant websites are solely responsible. Advertisers are solely responsible for the content, legality and validity of the content on the advertising website.

Submission of personal information

The user who registers on the website is obliged to register personal information that is complete and true.

During registration, the user is asked to submit the following information: a) Name of Natural Person / Legal Entity, b) Address / Headquarters, c) Postal Code, d) Telephone Number, e) E-mail.

In the event that the customer requests the issuance of an invoice, he must submit his occupation, A.F.M and D.O.Y.

BRAINFOOD Editions reserves the right to delete a user's account if it is found that the information he has declared is untrue, or he has not logged into his account in the last 9 months, or has never made a transaction, or uses his account abusively or seeks to alter the website and its appearance.

Processing & Protection of Personal Data

The User accepts and agrees that in order to enter into a sales contract with the Seller through the Store, he is required to create a user profile, i.e. a "customer card" where he is asked to enter all necessary information for the purposes of concluding and executing sales contracts with the Seller .

The User undertakes the obligation to declare to the Seller a true e-mail and product shipping address, while acknowledging that any false statement renders the execution of any of the sales contracts impossible, subject to the Seller's right to demand compensation from the User for any positive damage suffered by his guilty behavior.

The User is solely responsible for keeping the login code in the user profile he will create. The process is automated and the User acknowledges that the Seller cannot intervene in the identification process for entering the Store, nor can she know the password - user code she has chosen.

The Seller is in possession of the personal data entered by the User in the customer record (name, surname, residential address - shipping of Products - email address - telephone numbers, and therefore becomes the Data Controller within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR).

Each use, the processing of these data and all data concerning the Buyers and their electronic trace in the Store, which the Seller undertakes, is done exclusively in accordance with what is stipulated by the GDPR.

The User – Subject of the data, may, at any time, exercise the rights provided for in the above Regulation and in particular in articles 12 to 23 thereof and in particular:
a) the right to information and access to his data processed by the Seller
b) the right to limit the processing of data,
c) the right to correct and delete part or all of his personal data, and
d) the right to object, i.e. to raise objections to the processing of his personal data.

It should be noted that the exercise of some of the above rights may not allow the conclusion or completion of the execution of the contract with the Seller. The above data will be processed by the Seller mainly until the execution of the contract is completed and further some basic information will be kept that proves the legality of the processing on behalf of the Seller.

The User has the sole and absolute control of this information and can at any time modify or delete it from his account - upon communication where necessary - without the consent or consent of the Seller. Minimal information-identification data for the execution of an order will always be requested by the Store software, exclusively and solely for this purpose.

If the User wishes to have all the data concerning him deleted, the User can contact the Seller by e-mail and exercise his right of oblivion with regard to the electronic trace of the account of him and the data he produced by registering and interacting with the Store stored on the Seller's servers. The Seller will delete all this data within 7 days and cancel the User's account. The User is entitled to re-register with a new account at any time.

To exercise the above right and in general to raise objections to the processing of the User's personal data in accordance with the GDPR, the latter can send an email message to the address [email protected]. on the subject of "View Objections to Personal Data Processing - GDPR". If, despite all this, he still considers that an illegal use of his data has taken place, he has the right to appeal to the competent Authority (Personal Data Protection Authority www.dpa.gr – see below ).

Especially with regard to the communication of the Seller with the Buyers with the aim of informing the latter about the Products that the Seller has available through the Store, the Seller is entitled to send to the e-mail address of the Users informative - advertising bulletins, if they have chosen about it and granted express electronic consent to this (opt-in). Also, the same users are provided in a clear and distinct way with the possibility to object at any time to each User (opt-out / unsubscribe), in an easy way and without any charge through their tab / account screen (their profile), but also in from each relevant message, in case the User had not initially objected to this use from the settings of his profile - account.

The Seller will continuously inform the User about the exercise of his rights as a Data Subject.

The above rights and their exercise are subject to restrictions to the extent that they conflict either in principle or due to the manner in which they are exercised by the User with the current legislation and other applicable provisions (e.g. retention of User transaction data for tax purposes – financial transparency of the Seller, retention for proof of consent, etc.).

The User agrees and accepts that the Seller may collect statistical non-personal information regarding which Products he buys or browses most often and how many times he visits the Store or shares the Store's Product hyperlinks on social networks.

The User accepts and knows that the Store, for the full functionality of the account - customer profile, for the realization - conclusion of sales contracts and in general the operation of the website and in the absence of another means of milder or different technology, temporarily stores in the temporary memory "cache" which cooperates with the browsing software it uses, text files "cookies" which store anonymous data related to the navigation - browsing of the website, or the operation of the Store's software and interact with the software on each visit of the User.

The User accepts the installation of these files on the storage space of the device - computer he uses to navigate the Store.

The User knows or must know, in case he wishes to block the storage of these files in his system, how he can, depending on the browsing software (browser) he uses, achieve the desired result - level of protection through settings . In this case, the User knows and accepts that due to the application of this restriction, he may not be able to enter into sales contracts through the Store with the Seller, until the blocking of the storage of "cookies" is lifted.

The Seller, complying with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR) will proceed with the appropriate updates of this policy in order to optimally adapt to the new regulatory framework and amendments or interpretive circulars.

The User - Data Subject is entitled to submit questions and complaints in relation to the processing of his personal data by the Seller, to the supervisory national Authority, i.e. the Personal Data Protection Authority, Offices: Kifisias 1-3, P.O. 115 23, Athens, Telephone Center: +30-210 6475600, Fax: +30-210 6475628, Email: [email protected]

9. Data transmission to courier companies

BRAINFOOD Publications, for the execution - delivery of the user's order, obligatorily transmits to a third party the minimum necessary personal data for the execution of the shipment of the order.

The data transmitted to a third party (carrier licensed by EETT) is the name, surname, address (City – Region, number / street) and contact telephone number of the recipient user, exclusively for the purpose of carrying out the transport and delivery of the order .

As BRAINFOOD Publications cooperates with external third-party (express) transport service providers, the transmission of the above data is necessary for the execution of the order and cannot be excluded if the user wishes to receive the products (books) he has ordered and buy at his place.

In the opposite case, of the user's refusal of consent for the above transmission, the user must come to the BRAINFOOD Publications premises to pick up his order, so that the transmission of his minimum data to a third party transport service provider does not take place.

BRAINFOOD Publications, in application of the general personal data protection policy of the users of its online store, in case of a request for information - disclosure by a user about the identity of the collaborating third party transport provider (company name), will respond by disclosing the details of the provider that has undertaken the execution of the specific transfer for which each request is made.

Sending newsletters upon consent

When you register in our online store, you are invited to enter your email address and you have the option to choose whether BRAINFOOD Publications can send you newsletters, in addition to messages about the progress of your order or management of your account (eg loss of login codes).

BRAINFOOD Publications only sends newsletters to registered users of the online store who have specifically consented to this, either during registration or from the user profile management tab.

BRAINFOOD Publications is entitled to send newsletters to the email address of the users, provided that they have chosen and given express electronic consent to this (opt-in). Also, the possibility is provided in a clear and distinct way for each user to object at any time (opt-out / unsubscribe), in an easy way and without any charge through his tab / account screen (his profile), but also through any relevant message, in case the user had not initially objected to this use from the settings of his profile – account.

BRAINFOOD Editions sends newsletters with dynamic content (HTML) without recording or uploading automatically or otherwise the user's interaction with the content of the newsletter, i.e. visits to hyperlinks or other actions of using dynamic content with the possibility of notifying the sender of the newsletter.

From the time and actual point of the user's - recipient's visit to a posted page on brainfood.gr, from a hyperlink [URL] of the newsletter, the website's independent software collects non-personal (anonymized) data - traffic statistics of each posted page, in accordance with the provisions of the General Privacy Policy of our website.

The reading environment of our newsletter is static content in HTML and does not interact with the information systems of the user - recipient like our website.

In any case, regarding the protection of users' personal data and their rights against the GDPR in relation to our newsletter via electronic mail, the provisions of the General Privacy Policy of our website apply.

Minors

The use of the pages and services of this website by a user/visitor who is a minor is only possible with the consent of his parents or guardians.

Applicable Law – Jurisdiction

These terms are interpreted according to Greek Law. The Courts of Athens (Greece) are exclusively responsible for the resolution of any dispute that may arise during the interpretation-application of these terms of use as well as from the realization of electronic transactions through this website.