Terms & Conditions of PADIGE platform


Your Membership Account - Your Responsibility

You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account information. You are entirely responsible for any and all activities which occur under your Account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your Account or any other breach of security known to you.



Members' Behaviour – Acceptable Conduct



PADIGE platform is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use PADIGE for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. International users agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data from your country of residence. Members are solely responsible for their own conduct and any text, photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, logos, button icons, audio clips, video clips, software, and other content, and the compilation, collection, arrangement, and assembly thereof that they submit, post, e-mail, display or otherwise transmit within PADIGE platform ("Materials").

The following non-exhaustive types of inappropriate behaviour will not be tolerated in PADIGE and by becoming a PADIGE Member you undertake to all other PADIGE Members that you will not: (a) use PADIGE in a manner inconsistent with its purposes or these Terms and Conditions; (b) use Members' personal data for purposes other than establishing bona fide contact within PADIGE; (c) act in breach of the PADIGE (Privacy Statement); (d) upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Materials that are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, intimidating, offensive, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy or confidentiality, hateful, harmful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (e) interfere with other Members' use and enjoyment of the PADIGE; (f) infringe another's intellectual property (intellectual property includes patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of privacy or publicity or other proprietary rights of any party); (g) jeopardise or prejudice the operation, quality or integrity of the PADIGE online platform, or the operation, quality or integrity of any telecommunications network; (h) use PADIGE for any commercial purpose including any direct marketing, surveys, contests or pyramid schemes, nor to use PADIGE to participate in or cause others to participate in sending chain letters, junk e-mail, spam, duplicative or unsolicited messages, advertising material; (i) impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, the PADIGE community managers or moderators, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (j) mislead others by, for example, concealing or disguising the origin of a message or the nature of any Materials; (k) harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any content in PADIGE; (l) distribute, download, upload or transmit any material which contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or any other harmful or deleterious programs; (m) use PADIGE in a manner contrary to the terms and conditions of any Internet Service Provider whose services you may use; (n) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any aspect of the PADIGE platform or computer systems; (o) modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any part of PADIGE; (p) reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of PADIGE; or (q) remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices posted in PADIGE.



Limits on PADIGE's Responsibilities

PADIGE does not control the Materials submitted, posted, emailed, displayed or otherwise transmitted by Members and, as such, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, truthfulness, integrity or quality of such Materials. Although we have adopted these Terms and Conditions for Members, you understand that by using PADIGE, you may be exposed to Materials that you find offensive or objectionable.

Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Materials (other than for content created by us), including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Materials, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Materials submitted, posted, emailed, displayed or otherwise transmitted to or through PADIGE.

As the essence of PADIGE is to provide a real-time environment for Members to communicate with other Members, PADIGE cannot accept a general obligation to monitor Members' use of PADIGE. However, PADIGE does agree to use reasonable endeavours to address any breaches of these Terms and Conditions where it is notified of a material breach thereof. Accordingly, we may, but shall have no obligation to, remove Materials that we determine in our sole discretion to be unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or which we feel may infringe or violate any party's intellectual property, privacy or other proprietary rights or these Terms and Conditions.



Exclusions of Liability - When we will not be Responsible

YOUR MEMBERSHIP AND USE OF PADIGE PLATFORM IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PADIGE PARTNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY MANAGERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE PADIGE OR ANY MATERIALS, WHETHER BASED ON STATUTE, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL CAUSE, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

PADIGE does not warrant that PADIGE will operate uninterrupted or be error free, that defects will be corrected, or that PADIGE or the servers that make it available are or will be free of viruses or bugs.


PADIGE Proprietary Rights - Your Right to use our Materials

PADIGE does not claim any ownership rights in any Materials that Members submit, post, or display on or through PADIGE. After submitting, posting or displaying Materials on or through PADIGE, Members continue to retain all ownership rights in such Materials, and they continue to have the right to use their Materials in any way they choose.



Provided that you comply with your membership obligations under these Terms and Conditions, PADIGE grants to Members a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access PADIGE and all Materials displayed in PADIGE.



Notice and Takedown Procedure


You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. PADIGE reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.

If you feel that any Materials have been posted on PADIGE which are in breach of these Terms and Conditions, you should report it to the PADIGE community management. Please supply us with as much information as possible, and the PADIGE staff shall respond, using our reasonable discretion, by editing or removing content that we reasonably consider to be in breach of these Terms and Conditions. If the PADIGE managers deem it appropriate, the Member who posted the infringing Materials will be banned or suspended from PADIGE to limit the possibility of any further infringing Materials being posted. Notwithstanding that PADIGE will endeavour to address all complaints as we deem fit in accordance with the foregoing, the limitations of liability contained in these Terms and Conditions shall to the fullest extent permitted by law apply to any acts or omissions by PADIGE in respect of any complaints PADIGE receives.

Data protection policy of PADIGE project

Privacy Policy
The PADIGE partners ensure the protection of personal data of any natural person that is registered in the PADIGE platform.
In any case, and subject to possible restrictions laid down by law, the data subjects have the rights to access their personal data, the information on the nature and purpose of the processing, the correction of inaccurate, new or incomplete data, the deletion, the restriction of processing, the portability and the opposition to development of individual profiles by automated means.
Any natural person whose personal data is subject to any processing by PADIGE platform may have direct contact with the platform administrator to resolve any question or disagreement.

Data we process
PADIGE platform collects the following data from the users, during the registration process:
Personal data: Name, Surname, e-mail, citizenship , age group.
The collection of the personal data is necessary to identify the person and provide basic personal information to create their personal profiles. All the above information are necessary for the ECI initiative.
With the registration process, the users get a personal account (username and password) that is associated with their personal data. With their own username, they have direct access to their data and they can at any time delete, correct their personal data.

Participant rights
The fill-in of the registration form presupposes the acceptance of the terms of participation and the regulation of the PADIGE portal.
In the context of the compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), we invite you, if necessary, to exercise the following rights:
Right to transparency and information. Data Subjects have the right to be accurately and clearly informed about the collection and use (processing) of their personal data.

Right to access. Data Subjects have the right to receive confirmation regarding the processing of their data, and a copy of that data. This right may be exercised, either in writing or orally, on request.
Right to correction. Data Subjects have the right to request the correction of their data when they are inaccurate, or the completion of their data, when they are incomplete.
Right to deletion ('right to be forgotten'). Data Subjects have a right to ask for the deletion of their personal data.
Right to portability. Data Subjects have the right to receive their own personal data, which have been processed by a Data Protection Officer (DPO) , in a structured, commonly Used and readable format.
Right to object. Data Subjects the right to oppose, at any time, the processing of personal data relating to them. In this case the DPO must cease such processing unless it demonstrates overriding and legitimate reasons for this.

Responsibilities of Data Protection Officer
In the European Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), for the protection of personal data, the Data Protection Officer (DPO) is defined as the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that defines the purposes and manner of the processing of personal data. As data processor is defined the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the DPO.
IDEC SA, as DPO, ensures in any case the legitimacy of the processing and the appropriate organisational and technical measures to protect your personal data, such as Secure information and network systems, control and restriction of physical access, controlled electronic access, access levels, staff training, use of secure protocols for Data encryption and more.
In addition, it must respond without delay to the questions of the participants, as well as to the requests for the exercise of their rights as defined in the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

Retention and transfer of personal data
We retain your data for as long as necessary to provide you with our services in the best possible way, as well as to comply with our legal obligations .We do not transfer your personal data to third parties, unless it is necessary for the technical maintenance and upgrade of the platform.
In any case, you may exercise the rights of information, access, objection and portability for your personal data that we retain, the right to deletion, under the limitations of Legislation, the right to correction, if you find any error or change any of your details, by written request. In case of change of your information, the right to correction is at the same time your obligation, without delay. Your request must be sent in writing to the e-mail address dataprotection@idec.gr.





Cookies Usage Policy
The PADIGE Website (hereinafter the "Website") uses cookies to store information on your computer. This user policy explains how the Platform uses cookies. By browsing the Website, you agree to and accept the use of cookies on your computer, in accordance with the terms of this policy. If you do not wish to receive cookies from the Website, please either make the appropriate settings (as set out below) or refrain from using the Website.

What are cookies?
"Cookies" are small text files with information that a website (specifically the web server) stores on a user's computer without the knowledge of any document or file from the user's computer. Cookies contain some information, such as the name of a website and some digits and numbers. Each time a user logs in to a website, the latter recovers that information and provides the user with relevant services. A typical example of such information is the user's preferences on a website, as stated by the user's choices on that website (e.g. selecting specific "buttons", searches, ads, etc.).

What cookies does the site padige.eu use?
The Website uses cookies in order to facilitate the navigation of the user in it and to provide a unique browsing experience to the user. Furthermore, the Website uses a cookie related to Google Analytics, which is a platform that collects anonymous data about the usage of the Website, traffic, visited pages and more (for more information on the data collected by Google Analytics, please visit: https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/).
The information collected by cookies is not sold or disclosed to third parties unless required by law.

How can I review cookie settings in my browser?
Some users may not agree with the storage of information collected by cookies on their computer. Each web browser provides clear instructions for the political use of cookies.
If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may modify the settings of your web browser by notifying them when cookies are sent, disabling all or some of the cookies used by the Website, or deleting cookies that have already been installed on your computer.
Most of the services of the Website operate without the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you will not have access to certain services and features of the Website.
The following are references to the most basic web browsers for specific editions.
It is recommended that you refer to the official bibliography of the manufacturers for the most up-to-date information.
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy
Mozilla firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/el/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
For web browsers from other manufacturers, please refer to their official bibliography.

Support
For each of your questions regarding the use of your personal data, their accuracy, the retention time and their deletion, please contact us at dataprotection@idec.gr.
We recommend that you frequently visit this page, in order to be informed about any changes we make in our privacy policy.