Preamble

The societe anonyme company under the name “MANIMA S.A.” and the distinctive title “MANIMA”, which is based in Halandri, Attica, Kifisias, No. 216, with VAT 801478241 and No. G.E.MI. (General Commercial Registry) 157665801000 (hereinafter “the Company”) manages the website www.ashley.com.gr (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Website’), which is its online shop (e-shop).

Through this online store, the Company’s customers and internet users have the opportunity to be informed about the products offered by the Company, to make their purchases online as well as to create a user account that will facilitate their purchases.

The use of the Website and the Material is subject to these Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as “the Terms of Use”), as applicable at any time, which constitute the agreement between the Company and any person visiting the Website regarding the use of this (hereinafter referred to as “the User or Users”).

By accessing and using the Website in any way (including the simple navigation on it), indicates the User’s unconditional acceptance of the Terms of Use, as applicable at any time.

Modification of the Terms of Use

These Terms of Use may be revised occasionally at our absolute discretion and without notice. In case of revision of the Terms of Use, a notice will be posted on the Website indicating the last date of their revision.

The continued use of the Website by the User after such notice implies the unconditional acceptance of the modifications. The User is periodically required to review the Terms of Use in order to be informed about their content and is solely responsible for being informed about them.

Special Terms

In case the use of any service of the Website is regulated by more specific terms of use, these terms are considered as a whole with these Terms of Use. In case of conflict, however, the specific terms of use of each service prevail.

Create Account – Account Protection

Users can browse the digital pages of the Website and make use of its services and content either as ordinary visitors or as registered users through the creation of an account.

If visitors wish to create an account, they agree to provide true and accurate information about the information required in the relevant registration form and to keep their information up to date in case of any change to serve their contractual relationship with the Company.

It is expressly stated that Users are not allowed to impersonate a third party or create accounts for third parties, unless they have their express permission.

In order for the Company to allow registered users to access their account and present them with any of their personal information, the username and password must first be entered in the relevant field of the Website. Users must not disclose their password to third parties and take appropriate measures to protect their account against unauthorized access / use of their account. Users are solely responsible for all transactions carried out under the personal password, username and generally their account (user account) and the Company is not responsible for any damage suffered by the registered user due to actions or his omissions.

Use of the Website by Minors

By accepting the Terms of Use the User declares that he/she is an adult over 18 years of age or, if he/she is under 18 years of age, that he/she has obtained the necessary consent from the person/persons responsible for his/her parental responsibility and that he/she will provide the details of them if requested to do so. Those with parental responsibility for minors must protect them from access to adult content and are solely liable otherwise.

Personal Data – Privacy Policy

For the sale of the products and the provision of the services of the Company it is necessary to collect and process the information of users/visitors. For the collection and processing of personal data and privacy, please refer to the Privacy Policy of the Website and Application, which is an integral part of these Terms of Use.

Intellectual Property Rights

The Website, its software, its content composition and layout, its material (i.e. indicatively and not limited to, texts, graphics, images, photographs, drawings, video, sounds), trade name, trademarks, logo, domain name and other distinctive elements of the Website constitute the intellectual and industrial property of the Company and is protected by the relevant provisions of the Greek, EU and International law.

The User is not hereby granted any property rights over the Website and its material, except for the powers of use expressly provided in these Terms of Use.

The Company expressly reserves by these Terms of Use for any intellectual property rights on the Website, indicatively and not restrictively, for intellectual property rights, industrial property rights under trademarks, domain names, distinctive features, etc.

Licensing – Restrictions on Use

Provided that the User complies with the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy and Personal Data Protection Policy, the Company grants him a personal, worldwide, no royalties, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software in order to access, “load”, display on the screen of his device the Website and the material and generally to use it for the purpose set out in these Terms of Use. In this regard, each User acknowledges and accepts that the Website and its material are intended only for personal and not commercial use.

Each User has the right to “download” and/or copy and/or store an individual part of the material of the Website for strictly personal use and not for commercial purposes, without deleting his indications of origin and provided that he protects every and all property rights of the Company from any infringement. For any other purpose, such actions will only be permitted, provided that they are done with the prior written consent of the Company. Access to the Website or any of the above-mentioned actions will in no case result in the creation of a right, title or legitimate interest in any part or all of the Website that has been “downloaded” and/or copied and/or stored.

Except of the expressly above-mentioned permitted uses, the Website and its material may not be reproduced, copied, leased, sold, sub-licensed, assigned, transferred, exported, transmitted, retransferred or distributed in whole or in part by any User, nor be borrowed or granted in use. It is expressly prohibited to modify, adapt, adjust, translate or convert in any other way the Website and the material and to create derivative works or improvements. Similarly, disassembly, reconstruction or otherwise attempt to obtain the source code of the Website, reverse engineering is prohibited.

Based on the above, the User undertakes not to create a derivative and content-based project of the Website, not to copy, reproduce, republish, “upload”, modify, transmit, sell or exploit in any way in whole or in part the Website, its related software or hardware. Furthermore, it undertakes not to index the Website, not to frame it with another website, not to enter it as a link for direct access from another site to its internal information, not to copy its location to another server by creating an image and not to promise a right to a third party from the Website, without the explicit prior written consent of the Company.

Actions to circumvent or violate the security rules or rules for the use of content provided for, applied or enforced by any functionality (including, but not limited to, the digital rights management functionality) contained on the Website are prohibited. It is prohibited to use the Website to access, copy, transfer, encode or retransmit content in violation of any law or rights of the Company or third parties, as well as to remove, conceal or falsify the copyright statements, trademarks or statements of other exclusive rights of the Company or third parties that are pasted or contained or accessed in conjunction with or through the Website.

Security

Although the Company makes every effort to protect the Website from digital viruses and/or any other harmful or destructive files (or programs) designed to interfere with, destroy or restrict the operation of any software or telecommunications equipment, it cannot guarantee that the Website will never be compromised by such data. Therefore, the integrity and protection of the software systems and equipment of each User is subject to its own diligence, the Company will not be liable in case of infringement of the electronic equipment (software and hardware) of users by viruses and other harmful files.

The use of the Website is at the responsibility of the User. The Company is not liable, to the extent that exclusion of liability is permitted by law, for any direct, indirect, moral, positive or other damage caused by or linked to the use of the Website, including, but not limited to, the unintentional downloading of computer viruses from the Website or from emails sent from/to it.

Links to other sites

The Website may contain links to websites owned or operated under the supervision of third parties outside the Company. These links are provided only for the convenience of the User. The Company does not control and is not responsible for the operation, content, privacy policies that follow or the security of these sites. For example, the Company is not responsible if the websites of third parties:

  • violate the rights of a third party,
  • are unsafe or inaccurate, incomplete or misleading,
  • contain viruses or other programs of a destructive nature.

The Company does not embrace the content or products or services offered on these sites and is not affiliated with the administrators of these sites. Where the Website refers through “links” or hyperlinks to other websites, the owners and/or administrators of these pages bear full (civil and criminal) responsibility for the security, legality and validity of the content of their websites, excluding any liability of the Company, including but not limited to liability for infringement of intellectual and industrial property rights. If the User logs on to these sites, he/ she bears

the sole risk of such connection and access, without any involvement of the Company.

International Access

The Company makes every reasonable effort for the maintenance and availability of the Website. Users, however, recognize that the internet is an unsafe mean and that the availability of websites may be affected by users’ equipment, other communications networks, internet connection providers, the large number of people trying to use the Website at the same time or other causes. For these reasons, users agree that the Company is not responsible for the interruption or improper operation of the Website.

Users agree and accept that the Company reserves the right to modify and / or temporarily or permanently suspend the operation of all or part of the Website with and / or without notice to Users, for reasons of maintenance or upgrade or for any reason, without any liability to the Users. The Company is not responsible for any kind of damage due to the interruption or irregularity of the Website or the inability of Users to access it, the cessation of operation of all or part thereof, the delay, non-delivery, interruption or poor quality of download of their services or the loss of their content or the existence of any kind of errors, while, does not guarantee that the Website will be compatible with the device, hardware and software of each User.

International Access

The Company makes every reasonable effort for the maintenance and availability of the Website. Users, however, recognize that the internet is an unsafe mean and that the availability of websites may be affected by users’ equipment, other communications networks, internet connection providers, the large number of people trying to use the Website at the same time or other causes. For these reasons, users agree that the Company is not responsible for the interruption or improper operation of the Website.

Users agree and accept that the Company reserves the right to modify and / or temporarily or permanently suspend the operation of all or part of the Website with and / or without notice to Users, for reasons of maintenance or upgrade or for any reason, without any liability to the Users. The Company is not responsible for any kind of damage due to the interruption or irregularity of the Website or the inability of Users to access it, the cessation of operation of all or part thereof, the delay, non-delivery, interruption or poor quality of download of their services or the loss of their content or the existence of any kind of errors, while, does not guarantee that the Website will be compatible with the device, hardware and software of each User.

Software available on this location

The intellectual property rights or other rights to the software available for the visit of the Website belong to the Company or its providers/licensees. In order to access information on the Website, the User may need to sign a license with third party software providers. The User’s ability to access this information may depend on whether he has signed such permissions. Use of such software is governed by the terms of any licensing agreement contained in the software. The Company assumes no responsibility for the arrangement of such licenses. It is recommended not to install or use software if the User has not obtained the relevant license. If the User, however, performs such acts despite the lack of permission, he bears the risk.

Users’ Responsibility

Users accept and agree that they will make lawful use of the website. Users are bound by, but not limited to, that by using the Website:

  • They will not use the data of third parties, pretending to be those third persons.
  • They will not conduct any acts that constitute a violation of the personal data of third parties,
  • They will not act in a way that prevents and/or makes it impossible for other Users to use the Website in a proper and/or lawful manner.
  • They will not act in such a way as to infringe the intellectual property rights of the Company or third parties.
  • They will not install, promote and/or transmit in any way through the Website digital viruses and/or any other kind of malicious or destructive files and/or programs designed to destroy or restrict the operation of any software or telecommunications equipment or to prevent other Users from using the Website.
  • They will not install or promote in any way unsolicited or otherwise non expressly approved by the Company advertising messages in any form, non-requested emails (spam) and generally they will not promote unwanted information with any way.
  • They will not post or share any classified or confidential information.
  • They will not act in a way that it assaults any rights or the personality of third parties (User or non), and in such a way as to cause harm to a minor.
  • They will not interfere with or compromise security or in any way harm the Website, the material hosted on them, the source code of their software, in the server where they are hosted.
  • They will not pursue any purpose that is prohibited by these Terms of Use.
  • They will not take any action that might constitute or encourage conduct that constitutes a criminal offence, raises civil liability or violates any provision of law.
  • They will not publish or transmit any material with threatening, untrue, misleading, offensive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, immoral, scandalous, pornographic or profane content. Please note that we will fully cooperate with all law enforcement authorities and will fully comply with any court order that requests or orders the disclosure of the identity of any person who publishes or transmits such Information and material.
  • They will not collect email addresses or other User information of the Website in order to make unwanted commercial or other communication with them.
  • They will inform the Company as soon as they become aware of any illegal or prohibited use of the Website by third parties.

Violation of the Terms of Use- Liability for compensation- Suspension or Deactivation of an account

In any case of violation of these Terms of Use from behalf of the User, the Company reserves the right to temporarily suspend or deactivate the access to User’s account, without any liability whatsoever.

Beyond and regardless of the foregoing, the Company reserves the right to seek the competent courts and administrative authorities to defend its interests, as for the restoration of any damage the Company incur from the actions/conduct of the liable User. The non-exercise of the Company’s rights under these Terms of Use does not imply its waiver of such rights.

Applicable law and other terms

These Terms of Use and any amendments thereto are governed by Greek Law.

If for any reason it is judged by a court of competent jurisdiction that any of these Terms of Use is invalid and cannot be applied, the validity of the remaining terms will not be affected or impaired.

It is expressly agreed that the printed version of the Website, the Terms of Use, as well as any correspondence in electronic form constitutes evidence to the Judicial or Administrative Authorities.

Expressly agreed that for any dispute arising from these Terms of Use and the general use of the Website, the courts of Athens are exclusively competent.

Contact

For any query or clarification related to the Website, as well as for any matter related to its use, Users can contact the Administrator in this email address [email protected].

Date of Validity 29.11.2022