Terms & Conditions of Use
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture (hereinafter referred to as YPPO) maintains various digital hubs within the scope of its responsibilities. This website, through technologically advanced web infrastructure and open and closed source software applications, can offer everyone (hereinafter referred to as visitor/user) free information, participation, and information, as well as technological applications related to the Ministry under the following terms of use. The use/visit, navigation, archiving/cataloguing of these and the access on this website presupposes and constitutes practical and unconditional acceptance of the terms of use described below.
The use/visit of this website, its electronic pages, and services by the visitor/user requires prior careful reading and unconditional agreement and acceptance of the following terms of use, which apply to the use of the website. user presupposes careful reading and unreserved agreement and acceptance of the following terms of use, which apply to the entire content of the website, including, without limitation, files, texts, images, photographs, drawings, graphics, videos, and software applications.
If the visitor/user of the websites does not agree with the content of this website, they should not use its services and content. Visitors/users are requested to check the content of these pages for any changes. Continued use of this website even after any changes have been made implies the visitor’s/user’s unconditional acceptance of these terms.
The terms and conditions of use of this website and other digital hubs of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture constitute the entire agreement between the Ministry and the visitor/user of its websites and services and are binding only on them. No modification of these terms of use shall be taken into account and shall not form part of this agreement unless it is expressed in writing and incorporated into these terms of use. Unless otherwise specified, the following terms of use are immediately effective in their entirety on this website.
Visitors/users of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture websites are required to use them in accordance with the law and the present terms of use. This website must be used exclusively for lawful purposes in a manner that does not restrict or prevent its use by third parties, and visitors/users must not engage in any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and/or negatively affect or jeopardize the operation of the website. The visitor must not engage in any acts or omissions that may cause damage or malfunction and/or negatively affect or jeopardize the provision of services provided through them to citizens.
The entire content of the website, including (but not limited to) documents, texts, files, news, graphics, images, photographs, diagrams, illustrations, videos, sketches, software applications, and services provided, the terms and conditions of use of these websites, as well as any amendments thereto, are governed and supplemented by the Greek law, European Union law and relevant international treaties, and are the intellectual property of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The entire content is also governed by national and international provisions on intellectual property, as well as Law 3028/2002 “On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General” (A’153). Logos, names, trademarks, and features included on the website belong to www.nam. culture.gr and/or the persons mentioned as owners of the relevant rights on the website, and are protected in accordance with the legislation in force on Industrial and Intellectual Property and related rights (Law 2121/1993).
Any provision of the above terms that is found to be contrary to the above institutional framework or becomes invalid shall automatically cease to apply and shall be removed from this document, without in any way affecting the validity of the other terms.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, in relation to the above, non-exhaustive content of the website, has the right to post, publicly display, reproduce, multiply, distribute, exploit, and generally use it in any way by conventional or electronic or digital means, even if not expressly mentioned herein. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture has the right, at any time, to change, modify, cut, remove, alter, and compose, at its discretion, the content posted on its website, both as a whole and in individual posted elements (texts, images, videos, etc.).
The license to use any other material protected by Law 2121/93 or other relevant law and which has been designated as Intellectual or Industrial Property of third parties is not covered. For the use and exploitation of material belonging to third parties, the end user must contact the holders of the relevant Intellectual and Industrial Property rights in order to obtain the necessary licenses for use and exploitation.
Works of intellectual property and related rights of third parties included inwww.nam.culture.gr have been posted in good faith and for informational purposes. It is understood that they will be removed if requested by the rights holders. The following are not considered third parties, regardless of their type of work and specialty/category: employees of the Ministry, the Regional and Special Regional Services of the Ministry, and Public Museums, as well as providers of services and/or digital photography/filming/cataloguing of monuments, sites, or places, events, concerts, etc. of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and, in general, those who have assigned, conceded, and transferred in writing, in accordance with the provisions of the law on intellectual property, their rights to the material posted on the website www.nam.culture.gr.
Any use, reproduction, republication, copying, storage, sale, transmission, distribution, publication, performance, downloading, translation, modification in any way, in part or in summary, of the content of the website www.nam.culture.gr and the services offered on it is expressly prohibited. translation, modification in any way, in whole or in part, of the content of the website www.nam.culture.gr and the services offered therein without prior permission.
By way of exception, the individual storage and copying, reproduction, republication, transmission, or distribution of parts of the content on a simple personal computer for strictly personal use is permitted, without any commercial, advertising, or other exploitation, without any direct or indirect financial, commercial, or advertising purpose, and always with reference to the source of origin, without this implying in any way the transfer of intellectual property rights of the Greek State (Hellenic Ministry of Culture). Therefore, it is prohibited to use the content posted on the website www.nam. culture.gr, in whole or in part, be sold, assigned, advertised, or in any way distributed, transferred, modified, or “uploaded” in any way.
Other products or services mentioned on the website and bearing the trademarks of the respective organizations, companies, partners, agencies, associations, or publications, are their own intellectual and industrial property, and therefore these entities bear the relevant responsibility.
With regard to the use, reproduction, and dissemination to the public for direct or indirect economic or commercial purposes of images of monuments, archaeological sites, and historical sites protected by Law 3028/2002 “On the Protection of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage in General” (A’ 153), we note that Article 46(7) of Law 3028/2002 and Joint Ministerial Decision No. ΥΠΠΟ/ΓΔΑΠΚ/ΔΜΕΕΠ/Γ2/Φ51-52-54/81397/2199/12-9-2005 – ( Β’ 1491) “Determination of fees for a) photography – cinematography – videography. “, as amended and in force, which specifies the licensing procedures, the amount of the fee and the method of collection, and any other necessary relevant details. This Joint Ministerial Decision provides for the licensing procedure for the use of images of archaeological content for commercial or advertising purposes in electronic titles on the Internet or Intranet, in electronic publications (e-books), and in the production of audiovisual works and electronic guides. The Greek State (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) is the exclusive owner of the rights to the content of these images. Consequently, the Greek State is the exclusive owner of the revenue from the depiction of monuments (movable or immovable) and their use in any form.
Furthermore, Law 4305/2014 (ΦΕΚ 237/Α/31-10-2014) provides for a special exemption for cultural heritage from further use for commercial or advertising purposes for the “protection of cultural heritage from theft, looting, vandalism, illegal excavation, antiquities trafficking, and in general to avoid exposing movable and immovable monuments and sites protected under Law 3028/2002 to danger.”
The website www.nam.culture.gr and/or the persons mentioned as owners of the relevant rights on the website and protected in accordance with the applicable legislation on Industrial and Intellectual Property make every effort and take all necessary measures to ensure that all content and information displayed and published on the website is accurate, clear, correct, complete, up-to-date, and available. However, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture is not responsible for any spelling or other errors in the republication of this information.
This website may contain contact forms, notice boards, and interactive areas. The use of the above implies that the user/visitor bears sole responsibility for the communication they make and the consequences arising from the publication of this communication. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture bears no responsibility for the accuracy, precision, or reliability of the material published in any interactive area, nor for the consequences of communication in interactive areas or the consequences arising from the use of the website. Under no circumstances can the Hellenic Ministry of Culture be considered to accept or endorse in any way the ideas, perceptions, and actions expressed by the user/visitor as a consequence or result of the communication. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture may check, correct, or delete the content of the user/visitor’s communication.
The user/visitor hereby grants the Hellenic Ministry of Culture a license to use, as the owner of the website, all works eligible for protection under Law 2121/1993 arising from communication on the boards and communication forms, as well as in the interaction areas, as described above.
Under no circumstances does the Hellenic Ministry of Culture guarantee and, consequently, bear responsibility (even through negligence) for any legal, civil or criminal nature, nor for the compensation of any damage (positive, special or consequential, which may indicatively consist of loss of profits, data, lost profits, monetary satisfaction, etc.) of the user/visitor of this website or third parties, for reasons related to the operation or non-operation, use of the website, any inability to provide services/information available through it or any unauthorized interference by third parties in products/services/information available through it.
It also provides content (e.g., files, texts, images, photographs, drawings, graphics, videos, software applications, information, names, illustrations, data, etc.) and services available through its websites “AS IS”, without any warranty, express or implied, stated, assumed, expressed or implied, including warranties of satisfactory quality, suitability, inviolable compatibility, security, and accuracy, in any way, all of which we expressly disclaim.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture makes every effort to ensure the proper functioning of its Portal, but in no way guarantees that the functions of the above website or its servers (servers) will be uninterrupted or error-free, and that any defects will be corrected, free of viruses, malicious software, and similar elements, whether on its website or on any other site or server through which its content is transmitted.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture makes every effort to check the material uploaded to the above-mentioned website and to protect its servers and the servers that host it from malicious software (viruses).
Given the nature and structure of the Internet, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture is not liable under any circumstances for any form of damage, loss, alteration or destruction of data, software, or hardware suffered by the visitor/user that may occur during or after the use of the web pages, services, options, and content of this Website. Furthermore, it does not guarantee that any website related to it 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.
In any case, users are advised to use antivirus and anti-malware software whenever they connect to the Internet.
No part of the content provided to users/visitors of the websites constitutes or can be considered in any way, directly or indirectly, as encouragement, instruction, advice, or encouragement for any action or omission; on the contrary, it is at the discretion of users/visitors, following personal evaluation, to act on their own volition, excluding any liability on our part.
This website may contain references (links) to third-party websites for the sole purpose of informing and facilitating the user/visitor. The reference to links belonging to third-party websites does not constitute an adoption of their views and actions or an indication of approval or acceptance of the content they express, publish or post, while the websites to which they refer are subject to the respective terms of use of those websites. As is understandable, the availability, content, personal data protection policy, quality, and completeness of the content of other websites and pages to which links or advertising banners may refer.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture bears no responsibility for their content or any damage resulting from their use, as visitors access them at their own risk.
Third parties – operators of websites responsible under the law – bear sole responsibility for the content of their websites or for any damage that may arise from their use, when the user/visitor of the website www.nam. culture.gr accesses it. The user/visitor accepts that by visiting third-party websites, they are leaving the website www.nam.culture.gr and are subject to the terms of use of those websites.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture encourages users to create hyperlinks to its website www.nam.culture.gr, and users are not required to seek the Ministry’s permission to create such links. However, it is not permitted to load pages of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture within frames of other websites. Any page of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture to which another website links should load in its own window.
The content submitted and published by users/visitors remains their property, while granting the website the right to unlimited, royalty-free use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly display, and exploit the content at any time and in any manner, electronically or in print, that does not violate their moral rights. Further use of the content posted on the website www.nam.culture.gr is always subject to compliance with the provisions for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (Law 2472/1997, ΦΕΚ 50 Α’ και ν. 3471/2006 ΦΕΚ 133 Α’), as applicable at any given time.
Through this website, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture may collect personal data and information from users/visitors, which is either sent by users/visitors on a case-by-case basis or collected during their browsing. Personal data and information are considered to be those that can only be used to identify or communicate with users/visitors, especially those collected through various Data Submission Forms and are subject to the legal framework governing the privacy of personal data, specifically Law 2472/1997 (as amended by Law 3625/2007) and Law 3471/2006 on the protection of personal data. They are used only for the purpose for which they were sent. The user/visitor expressly and unreservedly consents to the provision of the above personal data to the website nam.culture.gr, where required or requested.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture may use personal data for informational purposes or to send electronic mail or mail announcements/news to registered users/visitors, unless the latter does not wish this and expressly states so in their communication with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture does not sell personal data of third parties or users/visitors of these websites. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture does not transfer or disclose personal data of users/visitors of the website to third parties, unless otherwise required by law or unless it is a contractual obligation necessary for the proper functioning of the website and the performance of its functions.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture may process some or all of the data sent by users/visitors for statistical purposes and to improve the services and information it provides. The user/visitor may
contact the administrator of the website www.nam.culture.gr in order to verify the existence of their personal file, correct it, change it, or delete it.
Through the website www.nam.culture.gr, non-personal identification data of users of these websites may be collected using corresponding technologies, such as cookies and/or tracking Protocol addresses and other similar information resulting from the communication between the web browser and the server. Cookies are small text files stored on the hard drive of each user/visitor and do not collect any documents or files from their computer, nor do they lead to the identification of their computer with any person. They are used to facilitate user/visitor access to specific services and/or pages on the website for statistical purposes and to determine which areas are useful or popular.
Non-personal information may also include the type of web browser used by the user/visitor, the type of computer, operating system, Internet service provider (ISP), and other such information.
Users/visitors to this website can configure their web browser settings so that it either warns them about the use of cookies in specific services or does not allow the use of cookies under any circumstances.
If the user/visitor of these services and pages does not wish to use cookies for identification purposes, they may have limited access to some of the services, uses, or functions provided by this website. The collection of all data falling within the category of personal data received by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture through this website, which are either sent by users on a case-by-case basis or collected during navigation – browsing and use of the website by users, is carried out in accordance with Laws 2472/1997 and 3471/2006 on the protection of personal data, as applicable at any given time.
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture is not responsible for the privacy policies of third-party websites that users access via hyperlinks from this Website.
The terms and conditions of use of this website, as well as any amendments or changes thereto, are governed and supplemented by National and Community law and the relevant international treaties. The terms and conditions of use of this website constitute the entire agreement between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the user/visitor of its web pages and services and are binding on them. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture reserves the unilateral right to modify, add to, or change the content or services of its website, as well as the terms of use thereof, whenever it deems necessary, without prior notice, through this website, always in accordance with the applicable legislative and regulatory framework. The courts of Athens shall have jurisdiction to settle any dispute that may arise, and Greek law shall apply.
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