The terms and
conditions of use and the confidentiality statement below have been
drawn up by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (hereinafter CTO) and are
intended for any person wishing to visit its pages or use its services.
For the purpose of conciseness, any natural or legal person visiting
the pages of the CTO or using its services is referred to herein as
"user". All the services existing on visitcyprus.com or likely to be
created in future are subject to these terms and conditions of use,
whereas visiting the pages and/or using the services of the CTO
presupposes their full and unreserved understanding and acceptance. The
CTO reserves the right to make at any time changes to the terms and
conditions of use and the confidentiality statement below and will
therefore inform the users of visitcyprus.com. of any new provisions.
The following terms and conditions of use and confidentiality statement
of visitcyprus.com do not aim to create nor do they create any form of
contractual or other legal obligations of the CTO towards the
user.
DISCLAIMER OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR
INFORMATION / ADVICE
The content and information
included on visitcyprus.com are provided by the CTO to the user of
visitcyprus.com. The CTO undertakes to gather, process and distribute
the content of visitcyprus.com, but it shall in no event be liable for
the reliability, completeness, sufficiency and, in general, the
suitability thereof or for the presence of possible errors, all the
more so because of its particularly important volume and the
participation of third operators (natural or legal persons) at the time
of its initial production and data collection. The users of
visitcyprus.com also assume responsibility for crosschecking the
information provided. The website visitcyprus.com contains at several
points links to other sites for the content of which it declines any
responsibility. Moreover, it shall not be held responsible for any
possible collection of information from those linked
sites.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS -
TRADEMARKS
Save as expressly mentioned
(intellectual property rights of third parties, collaborators and
operators) all the content of visitcyprus.com, including pictures,
graphics, photographs, drawings, texts, services provided and, in
general, all the files of this Internet site constitute the
intellectual property, registered trademarks and service marks of the
CTO and are protected by the relevant provisions of national and
European law, as well as international conventions and treaties. None
of those may be the subject of any sale, copy, modification,
reproduction, republication nor be downloaded, transmitted or
distributed in any manner whatsoever. The other goods or services
mentioned on the electronic pages of visitcyprus.com and carrying the
trademarks of the corresponding organizations, companies,
collaborators, operators, associations or editions constitute their own
intellectual and industrial property and, consequently, these operators
bear the relevant responsibility.
USER
REGISTRATION
In order to register on
visitcyprus.com, the user needs to give an electronic mail address
(email) on his own responsibility. This address is used for sending
newsletters and other informative messages to the users of
visitcyprus.com.
RESEARCH
As
the CTO may from time to time request information from the users
through inquiries, the participation of the user in these researches
will be on a voluntary basis and to this end the users will have a
choice as to whether or not give the required information. The
information collected thanks to this inquiry will be used for the
purpose of better knowing the visitcyprus.com users and improve the
services provided by this web
page.
CORRECTION AND / OR DELETION OF
PERSONAL DATA
The users of visitcyprus.com may at
any time delete their personal data, correct them and/or update them
and/or inactivate their registration, by simply visiting the relevant
visitcyprus.com service.
USER
STORIES
The CTO gives the users the possibility to
publish contents such as indicative texts, pictures and videos, at
various places on visitcyprus.com. This content shall be and remain the
exclusive responsibility of the user publishing it, who shall
furthermore remain the only person responsible for it without any other
responsibility of the CTO.
The user acknowledges and
accepts that this information will not be published without prior
control by the CTO and that the CTO keeps the right to delete any
content published by the user without previously informing the
user.
Moreover, the users acknowledge and agree that
they will have the following obligations as regards the content they
publish on visitcyprus.com:
- The content shall not
be illegal, offensive, insulting, defamatory or
racist.
- It shall not violate the personality or
personal data of third parties.
- It shall not
infringe intellectual property rights.
- It shall in
no way constitute a criminal offence.
- It
shall comply with existing national, European and international
legislation.
The use of the content published as
information by other users remains the user’s exclusive responsibility
and the CTO shall in no event be regarded as liable for its accuracy
and usefulness.
LIMITATION OF
LIABILITY
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The CTO takes all possible measures to ensure the services it provides,
but due to the nature of the Internet, it is not responsible for any
damage incurred by the user when visiting visitcyprus.com.
- The CTO does not warrant that the pages,
services, choices and contents will be provided without interruption or
error-free, and that mistakes will be corrected.
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Moreover, the CTO does not guarantee that visitcyprus.com or the
servers through which this site is placed at the disposal of users do
not contain viruses or other harmful components.
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The CTO does not, under any circumstances, guarantee the accuracy,
completeness and/or the availability of the contents, pages, services,
choices or their results.
- The cost of any possible
corrections or services shall be assumed by the user and under no
circumstances by the CTO or visitcyprus.com.
- The CTO may provide promotional services for advertisers and
service providers. The CTO has absolutely no involvement in the booking
process or transaction, although it may provide tools to enable the
booking process. The CTO makes no claims as to the quality, safety or
legality of any of the services advertised. It is the sole
responsibility of the advertiser or the service provider to be eligible
to supply the services advertised and the sole responsibility of the
user to pay for the services.
COLLECTION AND USE OF
INFORMATION
The CTO collects information from users
at different points on visitcyprus.com and does not sell or rent this
information to third parties otherwise than mentioned herein. The CTO
maintains the right to use the data it collects for the purpose of
statistics without the users' preliminary consent. Users should also
know that when reading the pages of visitcyprus.com and of all its
services, non-personal information may automatically be collected in
the form of small files (cookies) used to recognise users who often
visit visitcyprus.com, for the purpose of better serving them, by
improving the presentation, interaction, personal pages and personal
indexes.
