1. Terms of use
Through its internet infrastructure and open-source and proprietary software, lerosnews.gr can provide free news services to all visitors and users on the following terms. Visiting, using, browsing, archiving or cataloguing this site, or remaining on it, constitutes full and unconditional acceptance of these terms.
Please read these terms carefully before using the site. They cover all its pages, services and content, including files, text, images, photographs, drawings, graphics, video and software. If you disagree with the content of the site, you must refrain from using its services and content.
Please check these pages for changes. Continued use after any change constitutes unconditional acceptance. These terms form the entire agreement between lerosnews.gr, its owners and legal representatives, and the visitor or user. They bind those parties alone. Amendments are effective only if made in writing and incorporated into these terms. Unless otherwise stated, all terms take effect immediately.
Use the site only for lawful purposes, in accordance with the law and these terms, and in a way that allows others to use it. You must avoid acts or omissions that could damage or disrupt the site, adversely affect its services or put their provision to the public at risk.
2. Intellectual property
The content of this site, including documents, text, files, news, graphics, images, photographs, diagrams, illustrations, video, sketches, software and services, these terms and any amendments are governed and supplemented by Greek law, EU law and the relevant international treaties. Site content is the intellectual property of lerosnews.gr and is protected by national and international copyright law. Logos, names, trade marks and identifying features belong to lerosnews.gr or the rights holders identified on the site. They are protected under industrial and intellectual property and related rights legislation, including Law 2121/1993.
Any provision that conflicts with this framework or ceases to be valid automatically falls away. The other terms remain in force. Leros News may post, display publicly, reproduce, duplicate, distribute, exploit and otherwise use its content by any conventional, electronic or digital means, including means not expressly listed here. It may change, edit, shorten, withdraw, adapt or combine the whole or any part, including individual texts, images and videos, at its discretion.
The licence does not cover material protected by Law 2121/1993 or other applicable law and identified as the intellectual or industrial property of third parties. To use or exploit it, you must obtain the necessary licences directly from its rights holders. Third-party works and material protected by related rights appear here in good faith for news and information purposes. We will remove them at the rights holder’s request.
3. Licence
You must observe copyright and other proprietary notices under applicable intellectual property law. The site’s work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
Without prior permission or compliance with all conditions of that licence, you must not use, reproduce, republish, copy, store, sell, transmit, distribute, publish, perform, download, translate or modify the content or services, including extracts and summaries.
As an exception, you may individually store or copy, reproduce, republish, transmit or distribute portions of the content on a personal computer strictly for personal use. You must identify the source and have no intention of commercial, advertising or other exploitation, or direct or indirect financial, commercial or advertising gain. This does not transfer intellectual property rights of the Greek State (lerosnews.gr).
The content, in whole or in part, may not otherwise be sold, assigned, advertised, made available, licensed, modified or uploaded by any means. Products and services bearing the marks of other organisations, companies, partners, associations or publications remain their intellectual and industrial property and those parties bear the corresponding responsibility.
4. Disclaimers and limitations of liability
Leros News and the rights holders named on the site make every effort and take all necessary steps to provide accurate, clear, correct, complete, current and accessible information. Leros News accepts no responsibility for spelling or other errors in republished information.
The site may provide contact forms, noticeboards and interactive areas. You are solely responsible for your communications and the consequences of publishing them. Leros News accepts no responsibility for the fidelity, accuracy or reliability of material in interactive areas, or for the consequences of communications or use of the site. We do not endorse the ideas, views or actions of contributors. We may review, correct or remove their contributions.
Leros News gives no warranty and accepts no liability, including in negligence, for legal, civil or criminal claims or any actual, special or consequential loss, including lost profit, loss of data or monetary compensation, suffered by visitors or third parties in connection with the operation, unavailability or use of the site, inability to provide services or information, or unauthorised third-party interference. We provide files, text, images, photographs, drawings, graphics, video, software, information, names, illustrations, data and services as they stand. We disclaim express and implied warranties, including satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
We make every effort to keep the site operational. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, that faults will be corrected, or that our site, its servers or other sites or servers transmitting its content will be free of viruses, malware or similar material.
5. Protection against malicious software and viruses
We make every effort to check material uploaded to the site and protect the servers that host it. Given the nature of the internet, we accept no liability for damage, loss, alteration or destruction of visitors’ data, software or hardware during or after use of these pages, services, options or content. We cannot guarantee that related sites or servers delivering these services are free from viruses or malware. Users are advised to use antivirus and anti-malware protection whenever they connect to the internet.
6. No recommendation or advice
Nothing on these pages constitutes direct or indirect encouragement, instructions or advice to act or refrain from acting. Readers should make their own assessment and act at their own discretion. We accept no liability for their decisions.
7. Links to other websites
Links to third-party sites are provided for information and convenience. They do not imply endorsement of those parties’ views, actions or content. The linked sites have their own terms. We do not control their availability, content, privacy policies, quality, completeness or updates, whether you reach them through links or advertising banners.
Access is at your own risk. The third-party operators are legally responsible for their content and any damage arising from its use. Following a link means leaving lerosnews.gr and becoming subject to the destination’s terms.
8. Linking to Leros News
We encourage links to lerosnews.gr. You do not need permission to link here. Our pages must open in their own window and may not be displayed within frames on other sites.
9. Rights in user contributions
You retain ownership of content you submit or publish. You grant the site an unlimited, royalty-free licence to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly display and exploit it at any time in electronic or printed form, subject to your moral rights. Further use is subject to data protection legislation, including Law 2472/1997, Government Gazette A 50, as applicable.
10. Personal data and the GDPR
Leros News aims to act lawfully and protect personal data within the EU framework, including the General Data Protection Regulation. When you visit, we may ask for your name and email address so we can communicate with you. We do not publish a directory of readers’ email addresses.
The personal information collected when you submit a contact form or comment is your name and email address. It is kept private and is not disclosed to third parties except judicial or prosecuting authorities. You may contact the person responsible for privacy to find out whether we hold a record about you and request its correction, amendment or deletion.
We follow applicable law and good internet practice. Personal details are held securely while you are registered for a service and deleted when your relationship with lerosnews.gr ends. We use the information you provide to support, promote and carry out that relationship or for statistical purposes. Information is also supplied to competent judicial, police or other administrative authorities on a lawful request under applicable legislation.
You have rights of information and objection under Articles 11–13 of Law 2472/1997, Law 3471/2006 and the GDPR, within the legal framework for the confidentiality of communications. The person responsible for privacy is Kyriakos Grekos, info@lerosnews.gr.
We may use personal details to inform registered users or send emails, notices or news unless they expressly tell us they do not wish to receive them. We do not sell personal information. We do not transfer or disclose it to third parties unless the law provides otherwise or it is contractually necessary for the website and its functions to operate properly. We may process some or all of the information supplied for statistics and to improve our services. You may contact the site administrator to check whether we hold a record and request correction, amendment or deletion.
The site may collect non-personally identifying information through cookies, IP addresses and communications between your browser and our server. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. They do not read your documents or files or identify the user of a computer. They facilitate access to particular services and pages and help us measure which parts of the site are useful or popular. Other information may include your browser, computer type, operating system and internet service provider.
You can set your browser to warn you when a service uses cookies or to refuse them. This may limit access to certain services or functions. Personal data supplied by users or collected while they browse is collected under Laws 2472/1997 and 3471/2006 as applicable. Leros News accepts no responsibility for the privacy policies of third-party sites reached by links from this site.
11. Changes to content and services
These terms and any changes are governed and supplemented by national and EU law and relevant international treaties. They form the entire agreement between Leros News and its visitors and users. We may unilaterally amend, add to or change the site’s content, services or terms whenever necessary, without prior notice, through this website and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Greek law applies and the courts of the Dodecanese have jurisdiction.
12. Advertising
The website carries advertisements and other promotional material. Leros News accepts no liability to users or other affected parties for unlawful acts or omissions, inaccuracies or failure to comply with national or EU laws and regulations relating to advertising content.
Except for obvious infringements apparent to an ordinarily prudent person, Leros News is not obliged to review and does not review advertising material for legality. Responsibility lies with the advertisers, sponsors or creators. They are also responsible to consumers for their products and services, warranties, licences, registrations and labelling. Leros News accepts no responsibility for your communications or transactions with advertised providers.
13. Readers under 18
Readers under 18 are presumed to have the prior consent of a parent or guardian.
14. Cookies
We record and analyse site traffic using cookies to improve our services and provide fuller information. We reserve the right to install cookies when you visit. Read our cookie policy for details.
15. Indemnity
If an action, claim, other judicial claim or administrative proceeding is brought against Leros News because you infringed a third party’s rights, you expressly undertake to intervene in the proceedings and fully indemnify Leros News if it has to pay compensation or other costs.
16. Compliance with Recommendation (EU) 2018/334
Leros News declares that the site complies with Commission Recommendation (EU) 2018/334 of 1 March 2018 on measures to effectively tackle illegal content online (OJ L 63). We reserve the right to withhold or remove material we consider unlawful without prior notice to, or permission from, the user, and to take any necessary preventive measures against its dissemination.
17. Governing law
These terms are governed by Greek law, applicable EU provisions and international treaties. They are interpreted in accordance with good faith, accepted commercial practice and the social and economic purpose of the right concerned. If a provision is void or voidable, the other terms remain valid. The parties will make every effort in line with these principles to replace it with one as close as possible to its original substance.
18. Comments
Anonymous comments express the views of their writers. Leros News does not endorse them. Everyone is entitled to express an opinion. Anonymous comments are moderated, edited or rejected if they maliciously criticise or defame a named person, correct grammatical or other errors, disclose the writer’s or another person’s personal data, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or are difficult to read or understand.
Defamatory, abusive, threatening or blackmailing comments are stored in the Leros News database without being published. Disputes between the parties over the interpretation or performance of these terms, or arising from them, will be settled by the competent courts of the Dodecanese. For any matter concerning this website, email info@lerosnews.gr.