PREAMBLE

The visitor/user of the services of this website diversitynews.eu (hereinafter the “website”) understands and accepts that all pages/services are provided “as is” and the website disclaims any liability related to the limited duration, deletion, poor performance or inability to electronically store any user data and/or any content of personal pages/services.

The visitor/user is responsible for accessing the website services and the relevant access may require the payment of fees to third parties (e.g. internet service providers, internet time charges). The visitor/user is solely responsible for paying the relevant fees. Furthermore, the visitor/user is solely responsible for his/her personal equipment with the necessary technological means that allow him/her to access the website services.

The website is committed to ensuring the privacy of its visitors. These Terms of Use – Privacy Policy explain how the personal data of visitors/users is managed, in accordance with the applicable legal framework [(REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), Law 4624/2019 and related legislation].

Each visitor/user is asked to accept the use of Cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy the first time they visit the website. By using the website and accepting this Policy, the visitor/user accepts the use of Cookies by the website in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

PROTECTION OF MINORS

Visitors/users of the website who are minors are not allowed to access the website services that may be considered unsuitable for minors and which cannot be controlled by the website. In each section or service that may contain inappropriate / offensive / immoral material, there is a warning to visitors/users. If, however, minor users voluntarily visit pages with inappropriate / offensive / immoral material and which cannot be constantly controlled, the website is not responsible. In any case, where the services provided through the website are also suitable for minors, they should always be under the supervision of a parent or guardian or commissioner.

USER ETHICS

It is mutually accepted and understood that all information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos, messages and all content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, falls under the exclusive responsibility of the natural or legal person from whom the content originates. This means that the user is solely responsible for any and all content that he/she posts, publishes, sends, transmits or otherwise makes available through the website services. The website is not able, due to its volume, to control all the content posted by its users/members on the website services, so it does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, legality, or quality of such content. The website can never be held responsible for any error or omission in any content or for any harm or damage that may arise from the use of any content posted, sent, transmitted or otherwise made available by users/members on the website services. Users/members agree not to use the website services and accept their full and exclusive responsibility regarding the following for:

1. Posting, publishing, sending, transmitting or using any other method to install content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, offensive, harmful, defamatory, vulgar, violent, abusive, racist or otherwise objectionable, violates the personality and personal data of others, any intellectual property rights of any entity and causes feelings of hatred, and/or any other criminal offense and any other form of unwanted promotion of content, as well as content that contains digital viruses or any other electronic code, files or programs designed to interfere with, destroy or limit the operation of any software or computer equipment or telecommunications equipment.
2. Causing harm to minors in any way.
3. Impersonation of any legal or natural person or false statement regarding the identity of the user/member or misleading statement regarding the relationship and/or collaboration of the user/member with another legal or natural person.
4. Forgery or other alteration of user/member identifiers, with the aim of misleading as to the origin of the content transmitted through the website’s services.
5. Posting, publishing, sending, transmitting or using another method to install content by a person who does not have the right to make that content available by law or based on a confidential relationship.
6. Interference with the services or disruption of the services or servers or networks connected to the website services, or disobeying the conditions, procedures and rules of use of these networks.
7. Violation, with or without intent, of any local, national, European, international legislation and/or any rule that has legislative force and concerns and/or covers any service of the website.
8. Harassment in any way of the privacy and individual and social rights of other users (such as collecting and/or storing personal data of other users/members).

The user understands and accepts that the website does not pre-screen the content, but the website and its authorized partners reserve the right (and not the obligation) to refuse to post/publish or to move or delete any content available through its services. The website and its authorized partners also reserve the right to delete without notice any content that violates these terms of use.

MEMBER ACCOUNT (when required)

The website may provide its users with membership services, upon completion of the registration process. Once the visitor/user has completed the specified registration process, he/she will receive confirmation of a personal password and username that he/she has set in an information note from this website. Members remain solely responsible for all actions carried out under their personal password, username and generally their user account. Members agree to immediately notify the website of any unauthorized use of their account and any actual and/or potential breach of security. Members are also solely responsible for the careful use of their account and their formal exit from their account at the end of each use (Log out). The website is not responsible for any damage or loss resulting from the failure of members to respect and follow this clause.

REGISTRATION (when required)

If the visitor/user wishes to register for the website services, he/she agrees to: a) provide true, accurate, valid and complete information regarding the data requested by the website in the relevant requests for access to its contents/services and b) maintain and diligently update his/her registration data, so that they are kept true, accurate, valid, up-to-date and complete. The registration data is necessary for the proper provision of the website services to users and the maintenance/recovery of their account. By sending the access codes from the website, the registration process is completed and the user/member is presumed to accept these terms of use and is aware of them. The visitor/user is requested to inform the website in the event that the personal information concerning him/her needs to be corrected or updated.

LICENSE FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES

The user who makes use of the website’s services, to post and/or publish information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos, messages, grants permission to the website and other sites managed by other natural and/or legal persons, affiliated or not, for the period that this content is part of the website’s services, to use the space where the content has been posted for advertising purposes. Also, the user/member who posts and/or publishes information, data, texts, graphics, photographs, images, music files, videos, messages consents to the posting and/or publication of advertisements from the website on the relevant pages/services. This website is not responsible for the user/member’s communication with the third-party service providers advertised on the website and for any commercial transaction that may arise from the relationship between them.

DAMAGE/DAMAGE

The user understands and accepts that he retains the sole responsibility to indemnify the website and its partners for any legal dispute that may arise between him and third parties due to the content that he makes available for posting, publication or other transfer through the website’s services.

START-STOP OPERATION OF SERVICES

The website reserves the right to modify and/or temporarily or permanently discontinue part or all of its services with or without notice to users/members.

DURATION

The user understands and accepts that the website reserves the exclusive right to terminate the use of his/her access codes to its services and/or to discontinue the availability of its content to users/members, in particular when it believes that they have violated the letter and spirit of these terms of use, as well as the services themselves.

ADVERTISING

The website has no responsibility for the user/member’s communication with the third-party service providers advertised on the website and for any commercial transaction that may arise from the relationship between them.

COOKIES

The website may use cookies to identify the visitor/user of certain of its services and pages. The website and connected applications use cookies.

A cookie is a file that contains an identification code (a sequence of numbers and letters) and is sent from a server to a browser where it is stored. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, the identification code is sent back to it.

Cookies can be either permanent or session-specific. Permanent cookies are stored by the browser and remain active either until their expiration date or until the user deletes them. Session-specific cookies expire when the connection ends, once the browser is deactivated (closed).

In collaboration with our trusted partners, we use cookies for the following purposes:

1. Mandatory Cookies

We use these cookies to ensure optimal website functionality in the following:

• Identifying users who have browsed the website at least once or are registered members of the website and allowing us to present them with a personalized version of the website.
• Eliminating the need for users who have logged in to the website once to re-enter information necessary for their better browsing.
• Contact our website with a series of communication and information forms.

1. Functional Cookies

We use these cookies to measure the usage behavior of visitors on our website with the ultimate aim of optimizing it. By using web analytics provided by Google Analytics, we can analyze the pages visited by users, as well as other statistics (e.g. time spent on the page, website from which they came, number of pages per visit, etc.) and through them we can provide optimized content on the website (based on the interests of users). We also use the aforementioned statistics to record the wishes of users and define the advertising strategy based on them.

1. Cookies from other websites and Behaviorally Targeted Advertising Cookies (third party):

On the pages of the website there are cookies that are not directly related to the website but relate to partners, advertisers or sponsors.

When you visit a page that contains data from other sites such as YouTube or Facebook, these sites use their own cookies on your device/browser. The website does not control these cookies or have access to them in the way cookies work (only those who created them have access to cookies). Please check the policies of these sites for more information regarding these cookies.

Behaviorally Targeted Advertising Cookies store users’ preferences regarding the services they have browsed, in order to display relevant advertisements on third-party websites, tailored to their interests.

If for any reason you do not wish to receive ‘cookies’, you should modify the settings in your browser accordingly so that it either notifies you of the use of cookies or does not allow their use. You should take into account that any settings that do not allow the use of ‘cookies’ may affect the way and/or the ability to provide services, facilities or certain functions from the website. Failure to make such settings is understood as acceptance of the reception and storage of ‘cookies’ by the website.

Some pages/ads may use Adobe Flash Player to deliver video content or advertisements to users. Adobe uses its own cookies which are not managed by your device’s browser but are managed by Flash Player for similar purposes such as storing preferences or storing information about users. Flash cookies work differently from other cookies in that all information is stored in a cookie. You can control how much information can be stored in these cookies but you cannot control the type of information stored in them. You can control which sites can store information through the website storage settings panel on the Adobe site.

How can I manage or stop the use of cookies?

Many users find the idea of ​​using cookies intrusive, especially when the use of these data is done by third parties. For example, you may object to the use of your data (which has come from your browsing history on a website) for the purpose of carrying out an advertising campaign. If you want to prevent the use of cookies during your browsing you can do so by following these steps, knowing that this will affect the functionality of the website.

You can delete cookies that have been created from your hard drive.

You can also change the preferences/settings in the web browser you are using. In some cases you can accept cookies from specific sites and block the creation of third-party cookies. In others you can block cookies from specific advertisers. You should be aware that deleting or blocking cookies may reduce the functionality of the site you are browsing. For more information about cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu in the browser you are using. If you are having trouble deleting or blocking cookies from the browser you are using, contact your browser provider.

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INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – TRADEMARKS

Except for the expressly stated exceptions (copyrights of third parties, partners and entities), all content of the website, including videos, images, graphics, photographs, drawings, texts, the services provided and generally all files of this website, constitute intellectual property, registered trademarks, designs, distinctive features and service marks of the site and are protected by the relevant provisions of Greek law, European law and international conventions and treaties. Consequently, none of them may be sold, copied, modified, reproduced, republished or “downloaded”, transmitted or distributed in any way. The products or services mentioned on the electronic pages of this website and bearing the trademarks of the respective organizations, companies, partner organizations, associations or publications, constitute their own intellectual and industrial property and therefore these organizations bear the relevant responsibility. The user understands and accepts that he is not granted the right to reproduce, copy, sell, resell and/or commercially exploit in any way all or part of the content of the website. If he does so, he accepts that he is solely responsible for compensation for the above.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

Given the nature and volume of the internet, under any circumstances, including negligence, the website is not liable for any form of damage suffered by the visitor/user of its pages, services, options and contents that he/she proceeds with on his/her own initiative. Its contents are provided “as is” without any warranty expressed or implied in any way. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the website disclaims all warranties expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, those that imply merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

The website does not guarantee that the pages, services, options and contents will be provided without interruption, without errors and that errors will be corrected. It also does not guarantee that the same or any other related site or the servers through which they are made available to users/members, do not contain “viruses” or other harmful components. The website does not guarantee in any way the correctness, completeness or availability of the contents, pages, services, options or their results. The cost of any corrections or services is borne by the visitor/user and in no case by this website and the company that manages or exploits it commercially.

The website is a news website, aiming to provide visitors with accurate and timely information. The news and information posted daily are derived from news reports by its editors and collaborators.

The website, its Administration and its editors are not responsible for the posts made by its renowned collaborators, whose column is hosted on the website as part of a collaboration.

CATEGORY “BLOGS”

The website may host on its website “BLOGS” of famous bloggers. In these “BLOGS” the responsibility for the posts, as well as their content, belongs exclusively to the famous authors, with the website expressly excluding any liability in this regard. The same applies to the comments posted by users.

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION/ADVICE

The content and information included in the website constitute an offer to the visitor/user and in general to the community of internet users and cannot of course be taken as valid information and/or advice nor do they conceal any encouragement for the business or non-business specific actions. The website undertakes the collection, processing and distribution of its content, without however guaranteeing in any way its integrity, completeness, adequacy and general suitability and the absence of possible errors, all the more so due to its particularly large volume, as well as the participation of third parties (natural or legal persons) during its primary production and collection. Consequently, visitors/users of the website, using its services on their own initiative, also assume the relevant responsibility for cross-checking the information provided.

Some of the information on the website is provided by third parties. The website is not able to verify this information and does not guarantee its accuracy.

‘LINKS’ TO OTHER SITES

The website or the linked applications contain hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites or related applications. The website does not control and bears no responsibility for the availability, content, privacy and data protection policies, quality and completeness of the services of other websites and pages to which it refers through “links”, hyperlinks or advertising banners. The website should not be considered to endorse or accept the content or services of the websites and pages to which it refers or to be linked to them in any other way.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (E-COMMERCE)

The website may provide its visitors/users with the possibility of purchasing services and/or products through e-commerce applications, in accordance with the specific terms and conditions set forth therein and ensuring the protection of the personal information submitted for the use of these services. The website is not responsible for the quality of the goods acquired through e-commerce applications and the transaction is solely between the visitor/user and the company providing the goods or services. Therefore, under no circumstances may the website be involved in any relevant legal dispute arising from this transaction. The user, as a prudent consumer, must check the products and services provided to him in each case under their own exclusive responsibility and not that of this website.

In cases where e-commerce applications are carried out between users/members and the website, the website is obliged to comply with Decision Z1-496/2000 on distance selling and the provisions of Law 2251/1994 on Consumer Protection. Thus, the website is obliged to inform its prospective customers about a) the essential characteristics of the goods and/or services it offers, b) the price, c) the quantity and transport costs, d) the value added tax if not included in the price, e) the method of payment, f) the method of delivery and execution, g) the validity period of the offer or price and h) the right of withdrawal.

The website may, with your consent, utilize – process the data collected during user transactions, in order to record the purchasing interests of the transactor and to make new offers. The user/member of these services may request that such offers not be made by revoking his consent at any time.

CREDIT CARD DETAILS

Purchases through the website are processed by a third party provider, a banking institution or a payment service provider legally licensed by the Bank of Greece. The payment process is based on the terms of the provider of the relevant services, to whose website a secure referral (redirect) is made. The credit card that the visitor / user will use to pay for services / subscriptions of the website is charged only once and only for the specific transaction, unless the visitor / user has chosen to automatically charge his credit card each time his subscription or the service in which he participates is renewed. The website is not responsible for the terms of processing these transactions or the terms of use of personal data adopted by the above providers with whom it collaborates for the completion of commercial transactions.

The website uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology. Through this technology, all data you enter on our website is encrypted before it is sent to the internet, and the authenticity of the messages and servers is then verified. The website has a digital security certificate.

PERSONAL SERVICES AND PAGES AND CONTENT

The user understands and accepts that the website may adopt new terms of use of its services, including time limits that will be maintained on the website services, electronic messages (e-mails), messages (fora), user pages, and/or any other content that the user/member posts and/or publishes. Users/members understand and accept that the website reserves the right to deactivate email accounts at any time and without penalty. In this case, they will be notified in order to receive their stored data within a specific deadline. This notification will be made both by sending an electronic message and by posting on the website. In the event that you do not exercise this right, this data will be securely and permanently deleted.

DATA COLLECTION AND USE

The website collects personal data a) when the visitor/user registers for its services b) when using its products and/or services c) when visiting its pages and/or entering its promotional/advertising programs and d) when participating in competitions. The personal data that may be collected for the use of the above services are the following: Name – Surname – E-Mail – Telephone – Address – Postcode – City – Country – Occupation – Age.

The following types of personal data may also be collected, stored and used:

(a) information related to his computer and his visits to, and activity on, this website or in connected applications (including [his own IP address, his geographical location, his browser type and version, his operating system, his referral source, the duration of his visit, the pages he read and the navigation paths on the website or in connected applications].

(b) information provided when registering on the website or in connected applications (including your own email address).

(c) the information he provides when completing his profile on the website or in connected applications (including: his name, his profile photos, his gender, his date of birth, his marital status, his interests and hobbies, his education and professional career details).

(d) the information he provides to the website for the purpose of subscribing to the website’s updates and newsletters via email (including his name and email address).

(e) the information provided to the website by using the services available on the website or in connected applications (including the time, frequency and manner of use of the services).

(f) information related to purchases made by the User of products/services/products and/or services on the website or other transactions made through the website or through connected applications (including his name, address, telephone number, email address and credit card details).

(g) the information he publishes/posts on the website or in connected applications for the purpose of publishing it on the internet (including the username he has set, his profile photos and the content of his posts).

(h) the information contained in, or linked to, any communication that you forward on the website, or which you forward through the website or through connected applications (including the content of the communication and the metadata associated with that communication).

(i) any other personal information that you choose to submit to the website, and

(j) providing details related to other information collected.

Before disclosing personal data of a third party on the website, the user must have previously obtained the consent of that person for both the disclosure and the processing of their personal data, in accordance with this Policy.

Personal data provided through the website, or connected applications, will be used for the purposes stated in this Policy or on the relevant pages of the website or in related applications.

The website may use the user’s personal data to:

(a) the management of the website and associated applications and activities;

(b) to personalize the website and connected applications for the user

(c) to enable the user to use the services provided through the website or connected applications

(d) to ship products purchased through the website or connected applications to the user

(e) to forward bills, invoices and payment reminders as well as to collect payments from the user from the website

(f) to send commercial, non-promotional, updates to the user

(g) to send the user notifications that he has specifically requested to receive;

(h) newsletters are sent to the user via email, if he has chosen to do so (he may at any time inform the website that he no longer wishes to subscribe to the newsletter)

(i) the website informs the user about promotional activities related to its activity (or the activities of carefully selected third parties) that may be of interest to the user, by mail or, if he has consented to this, by email or related technology (he may at any time inform the website that he does not wish to receive updates about promotional activities)

(j) the website provides third parties with statistical information concerning users (but without the recipients of this information being able to personalize any user through it)

(k) for the website to manage queries and complaints originating from, or referred to, users of the website or connected applications

(l) to keep the website and connected applications secure and to avoid fraud;

(m) to verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of the website or connected applications (including the control of personal messages sent through the website or connected applications’ personal messaging service).

If the user submits personal information for publication on the website or in connected applications, this information will be published and used in accordance with the permission provided by the user.

Privacy Settings can be used to limit the publication of user information on the website or in connected applications, and can be customized using the privacy settings on the website or in connected applications.

Without the user’s prior express consent, the website will not make their personal information available to any third party for the purposes of direct marketing of the same or any other third party.

The website will only share with the payment service provider the information that is necessary to process payments made by the user through the website or connected applications, to refund money and to manage complaints and questions related to these payments and refunds.

CORRECTION AND/OR DELETION OF PERSONAL DATA

The website gives users the right to delete their personal data, correct and/or update their personal data and/or deactivate their registration, at any time, by sending a relevant email to the website.

TRANSMISSION AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

The website undertakes not to sell, rent or in any way publish and/or communicate the personal data of visitors / users / members of the website to any third party.

The website may transfer personal data of its visitors / users / members to third-party legal and/or natural persons only if:

• Has the prior explicit consent of visitors/users to the transmission of personal data
• The transfer of personal data to legal and/or natural persons collaborating with the website is necessary for the implementation of the wishes and/or orders of the users. The legal and natural persons collaborating with the website have the right to process the personal data that the users/members of the website submit to it only to the extent that is absolutely necessary for the provision of support to the website.
• It is required due to compliance with the relevant provisions of the law and to the competent authorities only.

The website may disclose users’ personal information to any employee, officer, insurer, professional advisor, agent, supplier or subcontractor, to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

The website may disclose users’ personal information to any member of the Group of companies to which it belongs (i.e. subsidiaries, the parent company and all its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy.

The website may disclose users’ personal information:

(a) to the extent required by law

(b) in connection with existing or potential legal proceedings

(c) to establish, exercise or protect its legal rights (including providing information to third parties to prevent fraud and limit credit risk)

(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset it intends (or is considering) to sell;

(e) to any person who reasonably believes that he or she may have recourse to a court or other competent authority for the disclosure of personal information, when in the reasonable judgment of the website’s authorities such court or competent authority would be reasonably likely to order the disclosure of such personal information.

Except as provided in this Policy, the website will not make users’ personal information available to third parties.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

The information collected by the website may be stored, processed in, and transferred to, any of the countries in which it operates in order to facilitate the use of such information in accordance with this Policy.

Personal information that users publish on the website or in connected applications or that they submit for publication on the website or in connected applications may become available, via the internet, worldwide. The website cannot prevent the use, or misuse, of this information by other persons. In any case, the transfer to third countries will be made in accordance with the conditions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Law 4624/2019 and related legislation and only in full compliance with what is stipulated by the legislation.

PERSONAL DATA RETENTION

This Section sets out the personal data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to ensure that the website complies with its legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information processed by the website for any reason or reasons will not be retained for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. The website retains your personal information for six months after you delete yourself from the website.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, the website will retain documents (including electronic documents) that include personal data:

(a) To the extent required by law

(b) If the website authorities consider that these documents are relevant to any existing or potential legal/judicial proceedings

(c) To establish, exercise or protect its legal rights (including information to third parties for the purpose of fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation)

PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The website will take every organizational and technological precaution to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of users’ personal information.

The website will store all personal information provided by users on secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).

All electronic financial transactions performed through the website or connected applications will be protected by encryption technology.

The user acknowledges that sending information via the internet presents inherent security problems and consequently the website cannot guarantee the security of the data transmitted through it.

The user is responsible for keeping the password used to log in to the website or connected applications confidential. The website will not ask you to disclose this password (except when the user logs in to the website or connected applications).

USER RIGHTS

The user may request the website to provide any personal information it holds about him/her. This provision may be subject to the provision of appropriate evidence of his/her identity (for this purpose, the website’s responsible person usually accepts a photocopy of the user’s identity card certified by a lawyer as well as an original utility bill document indicating his/her current address).

The website may withhold personal information that the user has requested from the website, to the extent permitted by law.

The user may at any time request that the website not process their data for commercial purposes.

RIGHTS RELATING TO PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED BY THE WEBSITE

Website users are informed that they have the right to:

Access to their data,

Correction of their data in case of inaccuracy,

Deletion of their data in specific cases,

Restrict the processing of their data,

Objection to the processing of their data,

Transfer of their data to another company,

Complaint to the Personal Data Protection Authority in the event of an unfortunate incident of a breach of their data.

The website will examine and respond to the above requests from users within one month of their receipt, and exceptionally this deadline may be extended by 2 more months if further time is required.

We inform users that for any issue they are concerned about regarding the security of their data regarding the website, they can contact info@diversitynews.gr

USER PAGES (HOMEPAGES)

The website is not responsible for the content that users post and/or publish on their personal pages (Homepages). Other users visit these personal pages at their own risk. If the website receives notification that the content on any of the personal pages it hosts offends third parties and/or violates the personal data of third parties, it reserves the right to immediately and without notice delete the relevant pages and/or the user/member who made the relevant post and/or publication. This clause applies to texts, photographs, images, audio files, video files and any other content that users may post/publish on their personal pages.

VOTES

The website may provide visitors/users of its services with the opportunity to vote on current issues, which it formulates in the form of questions. The voters’ answers are recorded, analyzed and commented on by the website in order to draw conclusions regarding the positions of public opinion in relation to the specific issue put to the vote. The website reserves the exclusive right to collect and exploit these data and the conclusions it leads to constitute its intellectual property. The website determines the specific conditions for participation in the vote and reserves the right to stop the vote.

CHAT

The website may maintain real-time chat rooms on the Internet, in accordance with the specific terms and conditions set forth therein, and provides visitors/users with the opportunity to develop their own message boards, while also allowing them to participate in the discussion on message boards created by other users by sending text messages. Visitors/users of the relevant services must observe the rules of good conduct and decency and not engage in illegal or immoral conduct.

The website may under no circumstances be considered to accept or endorse in any way the personal ideas or perceptions expressed in these areas. The website reserves the right to exclude or expel any visitor/user of the relevant services in the event that it becomes aware of a violation of the above terms. The website may record the content of messages sent by visitors/users of the relevant services solely for the purpose of detecting violations of their terms of use, as specifically provided in the Terms of Use and for no other purpose.

ENTERTAINMENT – GAMES

The website may host platforms through which digital entertainment services will be offered to visitors/users of the website. The website bears no responsibility whatsoever regarding the type of these services and their mode of operation. By using these services, the visitor/user accepts the terms of use of these digital platforms, which will be integrated into the platform and will exclusively govern the relationship between the visitor/user and the platform with regard to the services provided.

APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER TERMS

The above terms and conditions of use of the website, as well as any amendment thereto, are governed and supplemented by Greek law, European Union law and relevant international treaties, and the competent Courts for the resolution of any dispute are the Courts of Athens. Any provision of the above terms that becomes contrary to the law shall automatically cease to be valid, without in any case affecting the validity of the other terms.

These terms constitute the entire agreement between the website and the visitor/user of its pages and services and are binding only on them. No modification of these terms will be taken into account and will form part of this agreement, if it has not been formulated in writing and has not been incorporated into it. These terms of use prevail over any other terms and apply to all services and applications of the website without exception, without the need for other specific terms. The user who uses this website and its services is presumed to unconditionally accept these terms, if he does not submit an objection. The website is managed by . The website may update this Policy from time to time, by publishing the new version on the website or in connected applications.

The user should regularly check this page to ensure that he/she complies with any changes to the terms of this Policy.

The website may inform users of changes to this Policy (either via email or through the website’s private messaging service or connected applications).

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Declaration of compliance with Recommendation (EU) 2018/334 L63

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diversitynews.eu takes effective and appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, both to prevent the creation, display and reproduction of illegal content and to ensure its removal, reserving the right to delete any form of content that in its judgment is or may be considered illegal, without requiring prior notification/permission of users. diversitynews.eu has the right to change the content of this site whenever it wishes, in order to comply with the applicable legislation.