Terms of Use
Welcome to the www.carroten.gr website (the “Website”). The purpose of this Website is solely to provide information about Carroten and other relevant products of the company Gr. Sarantis S.A. and the other companies of the Sarantis group of companies (the “Group”). Furthermore, visitors of this Website may subscribe to the Website and participate in competitions, request the sending of advertising emails and newsletters and participate in any other promotional activity in relation to the above products. No Products of Carroten or other products are sold or offered for sale on this Website.
This Website is offered to you for use conditional upon your acceptance without modification of the present Terms of Use (the “Terms”). Please read carefully these Terms. If you do not accept all or part of these Terms, you are not authorized to use this Website. Be sure to return to this page periodically in order to review the most current version of the Terms. We reserve the right at any time and at our sole discretion to change or modify the present Terms, without the need to notify you or inform you on the change or modification. The use of this Website signifies your acceptance of the updated or modified Terms.
USE OF THE WEBSITE
Copying, reproduction, republication or redistribution of the Website content or any portion thereof is strictly prohibited without prior written permission of Gr. Sarantis S.A. To request the relevant permission, you may contact our company at the following contact details: Gr. Sarantis S.A., 26, Amaroussiou-Halandriou Str.,15125 Maroussi, Athens, Greece, Tel: +30 210 6173000 – Fax: +30 210 6197100, e-mail:carroten@sarantis.gr.
Users of this Website will not incur any charges for using the Website in accordance with the present Terms. However, this Website may contain hyperlinks to third-party websites, which are operated and owned by independent service providers or merchants/retailers. Such third parties may charge a fee for use of certain content or service provided or products offered for sale on the website. Thus, you should make any investigation that you feel is necessary in order to determine whether a charge will be incurred. Gr. Sarantis S.A. or any other company of the Group is not in any way responsible for content or services provided on third party websites.
The content and information contained on this Website –including, but not limited to messages, data, texts, music, sound, information, graphics, video, pictures, software, code or other material- as well as the infrastructure used to operate the present Website, are proprietary to the company Gr. Sarantis S.A. You agree not to copy, modify, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, create derivative works, and not sell, transfer or re-sell any information, software, products or services obtained from or through this Website.
You further agree not to use this Website or its content for any commercial purpose. You accept that you will not monitor or copy any content or information of this Website using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission. You agree not to violate the restrictions that we may place in any robot exclusion headers on this Website or bypass or circumvent other measures employed in order to prevent violations or limit access to this Website. You accept that you will not take any action that may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.
You also agree not to deep-link to any portion of this Website for any purpose without our express written permission and not to “frame”, “mirror” or otherwise incorporate any part of this Website into any other website without our prior written authorization. You agree that you will not attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any software programs that are used by the Sarantis Group in connection with the present Website.
INTERACTIVE AREAS OF THE WEBSITE
This Website may contain discussion forums, bulletin boards, review services or other forums in which you will be able to post your comments or product reviews or other messages or content on the Website (the “Interactive Areas”). In case that this Website provides Interactive Areas services, you are solely responsible for the use of these Areas.
By using any Interactive Areas you expressly agree not to post, upload, transmit, distribute, store or otherwise publish through the Website any of the following: a) any message, data, information, text, music, sound, photos, graphics, code or any other material (the “Content”) that is false, unlawful, misleading, libelous, defamatory, indecent, threatening, derogatory, violates the privacy or third parties’ rights or is otherwise illegal or objectionable b) content that may constitute, encourage, promote or provide instructions for a conduct of an illegal activity, criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or violate the rights of any person in any country of the world c) content that provides instructional information about any illegal activities, including the creation of computer viruses d) content that may infringe any trademark, trade secret, patent, copyright or other intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party e) content that promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufactured-installed copy-protect devices and providing pirated music or links to pirated music files f) content that impersonates any third person, physical person or entity or otherwise misrepresents an affiliation with a person or entity, including a company of the Sarantis Group g) unsolicited advertising, mass mailings (spamming), transmission of “junk mail”, chain letters, advertising, contests, raffles or pyramid schemes h) private information of any third party, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and credit card numbers i) contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page) j) viruses, corrupted data or other harmful or destructive files k) links to content that either violates the previous subsections hereof or restricts or inhibits any other person from using the Interactive Areas or the Website or may expose the Sarantis Group to any risk or liability of any type.
The Sarantis Group takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Content posted, stored or uploaded by you, or for any loss or damage from the above posting, storing or uploading and is not liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, misrepresentations or use of foul language from the Content. Although the Sarantis Group has no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any Content posted to or distributed through any Interactive Area, the Sarantis Group reserves the right to remove, screen or edit without notice any Content posted or stored on the Website at any time and for any reason, and you are solely responsible to create backup copies and replace any Content posted or stored on the Website at your sole cost and expense.
Any use of the Interactive Areas or other portions of the Website in violation of the foregoing violates the Terms of the present Website and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Interactive Areas and/or the Website. The Sarantis Group may disclose to the competent authorities traffic and location data of natural or legal persons in compliance with the provisions of Greek law 3917/2011 transposing the Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of The Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks into national legislation and any other legal provisions as in force. We may also disclose any information we consider necessary, including user profile information, email address, IP addressing and traffic information, usage history and posted Content, in compliance with court decisions and public prosecutor orders or orders of other competent authorities.
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
The companies of the Sarantis Group disclaim all warranties and representations that its servers or emails that are sent by companies of the Sarantis Group are free of viruses or other harmful components, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law. The companies of the Sarantis Group will not be liable for any direct or indirect damage or loss of income, profits, goodwill, data or contracts or any damages arising from or connected in any way with your access to this Website or with the display or the use of the Website or with the delay or inability to access, display or use this Website.
In addition, we disclaim all liability for any content displayed on third-party websites that are connected to this Website through links of any type.
The present Terms and the foregoing disclaimer do not affect the application of mandatory provisions that cannot be excluded under applicable law.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to defend and indemnify the companies of the Sarantis Group and any of their representatives, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, demands, damages, fines, penalties or other costs and expenses of any nature, including but not limited to legal and accounting fees, that may be brought by third parties as a result of your breach of these Terms or your use of this Website.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than the Sarantis Group. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. We do not control such websites and we are not responsible for their contents or for the privacy or other practices of these websites. Furthermore, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from this website or other websites) are free of items such as viruses, worms, trojan horses or defects. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to third-party websites does not imply any endorsement of the content of such websites or any association with their operators. In some cases you may be asked by a third-party website to link the profile that you created on this Website to the profile created in a third-party website. Choosing to do so is purely optional and the decision to allow this information to be linked can be disabled with the third-party website at any time.
SOFTWARE
Any software that is made available to download from the Website of the Sarantis Group (the “Software”) is either the copyrighted work of the Sarantis Group or other third-party software as identified.
The use of the Software is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with the Software (“License Agreement”). You may not install or use any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement unless you first agree to the License Agreement terms. For any Software made available for download on this Website not accompanied by a License Agreement, we hereby grant to the user a limited, personal, non-transferable license to use the Software for using this Website in accordance with the present terms and conditions and for no other purpose. Please take into consideration that all Software, including without limitation all HTML, XML and JAVA code contained on this Website, belongs to the Sarantis Group and is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Any copying, reproduction or redistribution of the Software is expressly prohibited, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
All contents of this Website are copyright of the Sarantis Group of Companies. The Sarantis Group is not responsible for content on websites operated by third parties other than companies belonging to the Sarantis Group. The word “Carroten”, the “Carroten” logo and all other product names of the Sarantis Group displayed on the Website are registered trademarks of companies belonging to the Sarantis Group and cannot be copied, imitated or otherwise used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Sarantis Group or the applicable trademark owner.
Additionally, the look and feel of this Website, including all page headers, pages, graphics, button icons and scripts, is the copyright and trade dress of the Sarantis Group and cannot be copied, imitated or otherwise used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the Sarantis Group. All other trademarks, trademark applications, product names and company names or logos mentioned in the Website are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any product, services, distinctive title, company name, trademark or trade dress belonging to a third party does not constitute or imply endorsement, support, advertisement, recommendation, sponsorship or other relation of the Sarantis Group to the above.
PRIVACY POLICY
When you visit this Website, we automatically collect some information about your computer, such as session data, including your IP address, Web browser software and referring website. The automatic and temporary storage of this information is necessary for carrying out the transmission in the electronic communications network. The information thus collected is not stored for a time period longer than required for the transmission and the management of the traffic, whereas all privacy requirements are met during the storage period.
If you choose to register as a member of our Website, in order to be able to receive Newsletters or to participate in competitions or for any other reason, you provide us the right to receive and store any information that you give us about you, including but without limitation to your first and family name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, user name and password. We may also request additional information about you, in particular your shopping habits or your interests, in order to be able to adjust the content of the competitions or the newsletters or the Website content in general in accordance with your interests. The data at issue is used exclusively for the registration and the management of your account, for the communication with you and the provision of information regarding the “product”, the Newsletters and your participation in the contests that you have selected and in order to answer to your questions and your comments and notify you about special offers, new products or services, to enforce the present Terms of Use and in general for reasons of improvement of our services.
Furthermore, if you use third-party services, such as social network services, through our Website, we may gather data such as your user name, your password and other information that may be made available to us through these services.
In the future you may have the opportunity to provide contact information of third parties through our Website. You should obtain the consent of third parties prior to providing the Sarantis Group any personal information regarding third individuals.
If you have registered as a member of this Website, you may anytime access and update the information that you have given to us and close your account at any time. You may also choose not to provide us with any information at all. However, if you omit to provide us with any of the required information for your registration, you may not be able to make use of all services available on our Website.
If you have signed up as a registered member, you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe, in any email that we send you, from any promotional communications that are sent by the Sarantis Group. However, in such case we reserve the right to send you administrative messages or service announcements relating either to your member account or your participation in a contest organized through our Website.
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your computer’s hard disc, if your web browser allows it. Cookies may be used on this Website in order to be able to identify the web browser that you use as a past visitor and remember the preferences submitted by the user previously on our Website. Furthermore, the use of cookies helps us measure and research the effectiveness of the Website’s features and our services, in order to customize our Website’s content and overall look and feel according to your preferences.
The “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will inform you about how you may prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have your browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable non-essential types of cookies. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the services provided on this Website.
This Website may also use Web beacons (also known as pixel tags or Web bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are placed in the code of a Web page. Web beacons may be used to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our websites to another, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website and to improve our Website’s performance. We may also allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help us understand which emails have been opened by the recipients and to track actions performed on our Website.
We do not permit third parties to collect contact data or other personal information that are provided on our Website and we do not share with them any personal information that you have notified to us.
If any part of this Website links you to third-party websites, those external sites do not operate under the present privacy policy Term. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on third-party websites in order to understand their procedures for collecting, using, editing and disclosing personal information.
Although no service provider can guarantee the absolute security of your information, we inform you that we implement appropriate technical and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information that you provide to us. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting personal information between your system and ours and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems that help us prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information.
MODIFICATIONS
The Sarantis Group may change, add or delete any one of the present Terms of Use in its sole discretion when it deems it necessary and reasonable for legal, general regulatory and technical purposes, or due to changes in the services provided or nature or layout of the Website or for any other reason.
The Sarantis Group may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this Website’s services at any time, including availability of any feature, database or content, with the exception of the information required by law. The Sarantis Group may also impose limits on certain features or services or restrict your access to all or parts of the Website or any other website operated by Sarantis Group without notice or liability for technical or security reasons, in order to prevent against unauthorized access, loss of or destruction of data or where we consider in our sole discretion that you are in breach of any provision of these Terms or of any legal provision in relation to this Website.
Your continued use of this Website following the publication of the present Terms or the posting of any notice of any amendment thereof indicates and declares your acceptance of the present Terms and their modifications.
GENERAL
The performance of the present Terms is subject to existing laws and no Term of the foregoing can restrict our obligation to comply with legal requirements that are in force with respect to the use of the present Website or its content or any information collected or temporarily stored with regard to the users of the Website.
The competent courts for the resolution of any dispute arising from the use the Website will be the courts of the city of Athens, Greece.
If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or void pursuant to applicable law, including but not limited to the liability disclaimer, then the invalid or void provision will not affect the validity of the remaining Terms of Use.
The present Terms of Use are available in the language of the Website.
We reserve all rights that are not mentioned explicitly in the present Terms.
Date of last update [26/03/2024]
