Introduction
www.medtourism.gr is an internet guide to medical tourism services for Greece and Cyprus which resides in Agios Eleftherios, Athens, Attica, 64, Lampaki str. In the present guide doctors, dentists, medical units, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation institutes, wellness centers and hotels are input, henceforth called Registrants.
The terms and conditions mentioned below are to be applied for the use of provided information and services of the internet guide www.medtourism.gr.
Every visitor or user accessing the site www.medtourism.gr and using its services consents, assents to, approves, agrees and accepts unconditionally and fully the conditions below with no exception. If any user or visitor does not agree with these conditions, then he owes to abstain from the use of the internet guide and from any other transaction with it. The on behalf of the visitor or user use of the site's services demands awareness-acceptance on his behalf of the included conditions and agreements and serves as a contract between the visitor or user and www.medtourism.gr.
1. Terms of use- modifications
www.medtourism.gr reserves the right to modify and review freely the conditions and agreements which govern its function and use by visitors- users when necessary and at its sole discretion. Continued use of this site after such changes or alterations take effect will be deemed to constitute the visitor's-user's acceptance of such changes, alterations, addendums or deletions.
2. Copyright
All of the site materials, including the content and display of the site (logos, pictures, graphics, photos, drawings, texts etc) are the property of www.medtourism.gr or other copyright owners who have authorized their use on the site. Partial or full content copy, reproduction, reissue, transfer, downloading, alteration of the present site even content diffusion or transmission or any other use of content by any means for commercial or other reasons without the previous written consent of www.medtourism.gr is prohibited.
3. Content
www.medtourism.gr contains information which regard to the profile and services of the Registrant as well as to the marketing programs. Preciseness, veracity, completeness and legitimacy of the information and the provided services of the registered constitute their sole responsibility.
www.medtourism.gr is not responsible to judge the legitimate function of the Registrant and his registered typical and substantial qualifications and the Registrant is solely and entirely responsible for the accuracy and correctness of the registered data.
4. Limitation of liability
www.medtourism.gr does not suggest neither approves of any provider of health, wellness or accommodation services. www.medtourism.gr is directed at informing-consulting and under no circumstances does it intend to substitute health service-care or wellness-hotel services. The choice of any Registrant through www.medtourism.gr is on the visitor's-user's sole responsibility.
In case the Registrant displays on his profile prices for his provided services, then these prices shall be binding for his part.
www.medtourism.gr offers its services to the visitors-users of the site for free. Any arising transaction between the visitors-users and the Registrants exclusively regard these two trading parts and www.medtourism.gr does not bear any criminal or civil liability for resulting disputes, material or non-material damages which may arise between the two trading parties.
www.medtourism.gr does not bear any liability for damages which may arise in the transactions between the visitor-user and the Registrant (ex. bad medical practice, erroneous provision of medical services, defective provision of services from wellness centers, hotels, etc.).
Under no circumstances does www.medtourism.gr bear any civil or criminal liability for any damage (sustained or return, current or future, which includes but is not limited to loss of profit, data, earnings, compensation to be paid, personal injury etc) which the visitor-user or Registrant or a third party may suffer by cause related to the function or use of this website and the provision of information and services.
Medical information displayed on www.medtourism.gr express the personal view of its authors, have consultative and informative role and in no case does it substitute clinical examination, diagnosis, treatment or specialists advice. Medical information provided through the articles and publications are not regarded as provision of medical care or medical practice. The reading of the medical information on our website guide should motivate further investigation of the problem by the interested party.
The visitor-user is solely responsible for the use, access, management and control of access and activation codes. Furthermore, the visitor-user is solely responsible for safeguarding the access and activation codes, as well as the access to them by unauthorized persons.
www.medtourism.gr cannot control and does not in any case guaranty the availability of the Registrants. The cancellation of a reservation with any Registrant as well as the damage made on his behalf is not a www.medtourism.gr responsibility.
The content of www.medtourism.gr, such as profile, pictures, texts, contact info etc, is indicative and under no circumstances do they substitute a Registrant's full description. The use of content is exclusively made to aim the provision of basic information to the visitor-user of the site.
The medical articles and publications are neither exhaustive nor possible to follow the latest developments and latest research results of each medical sector.
The potential existence of medical articles or publications with sexual content has a scientific role and approach. If a visitor-user considers them insulting, he is required to refrain from their reading.
www.medtourism.gr contains links to third party websites. Under no circumstances does it suggest or countersign the content of the linked websites, does not control the content, availability, quality and completeness of services, privacy policy of the websites to which it refers through advertising banners or hyperlinks. For any problem between the visitor-user and the linked websites the sole responsible is their proper disclaimers and they are also considered the sole responsible for the completeness, quality and real presentation of the provided services. www.medtourism.gr does not bear responsibility for any connection during the use of related websites and any arisen transaction.
The appearance of third party websites in www.medtourism.gr, either in form of research results or as advertisement on behalf of a third party (having no relation to www.medtourism.gr) is not its responsibility and therefore www.medtourism.gr is not in control of their content, validity, preciseness, legitimacy or completeness of the provided information and services. In this case, the use of third party websites is sole responsibility of the visitor-user.
www.medtourism.gr retains the unconditional right to take the following action if necessary and appropriate:
• Delete registered members when they violate the present terms and conditions, after relevant notification inviting them to comply within a time frame defined in it.
• Have records with all intercourse between the website and the visitors-users of the website made through emails and online communication form.
• In case a visitor-user makes a direct contact with a Registrant through the online communication form on the Registrant's profile, the email address is communicated to www.medtourism.gr.
• Delete any contact and data of a visitor-user which is considered immoral, insulting, illegal or violating the present terms and conditions.
5. User's personal data
The data provided by the visitors-users when registering in the internet guide, when the communication forms are filled in or when an email is sent to www.medtourism.gr concerning the provision of any information or service, should be real and accurate. Users' data (name, profession, email address, address of residence, medical history etc) are secret and confidential. Users when providing data in their communication with www.medtourism.gr agree to and accept the forthcoming process of the above data for the needs of the specific communication with www.medtourism.gr as well as such data transmission for the specific purpose to administrators and agents of www.medtourism.gr. www.medtourism.gr commits itself not to reveal visitors' and users' data without their written authorization or if this is imposed by judicial or any other public authority decision. All the documents and electronic data exchanged between the parties within their communication shall be stored by www.medtourism.gr. If desired, the user can have access to them at any time. The visitor-user accepts the storage and process of his personal data as well as his medical history, as stated by himself, by the administrator of the website, who has the unconditional right to release them to third parties (doctors, dentists, clinics, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, medical units) in order to guide correctly the visitor-user about available medical techniques and treatments, if the visitor-user desires it. The visitor's-user's personal data records will be stored according to law Ν. 2472/1997 and the confidentiality of their personal information according to the order of the law N. 2225/1994 and according to the OT 47/2005 about remission of confidentiality to any administrative court, for national security reasons and for any relevant to the law reason in general.
www.medtourism.gr has the unconditional right to forward all necessary information and related data (including the IP address) to the authorities in case the operating rules of www.medtourism.gr, the Greek legislation or the morality of internet use are violated.
The use of www.medtourism.gr is permitted for legal and legitimate purposes only.
Making a medical appointment or reserving accommodation without ex ante being willing to present is prohibited.
Creating false accounts in order to collect or save other users' data or information is prohibited.
The use of www.medtourism.gr in order to deactivate and/ or cause damage, harm or destruction to the website, the servers or the network connected to www.medtourism.gr by transmitting any worms, viruses, spyware, malware or any other code of a destructive or disruptive nature is prohibited.
www.medtourism.gr reserves every legal right in case of violation of the above prohibitions.
6. User's responsibility
Every user of the website agrees and is required not to use it or any other information in it in any way, briefly by publishing, interfering, copying, transmitting data, information, messages, viruses, software, files, material etc for acts which would potentially result in insulting, harming, damaging or putting in jeopardy assets, or personal rights of www.medtourism.gr or of any third party or the violation in any way of the existing legislation.
7. Links with other websites
Related to the present websites are not under the control of www.medtourism.gr and therefore www.medtourism.gr does not bear any responsibility for the content of any related website or any link contained in a related website, or any information contained in such websites. www.medtourism.gr provides these links to facilitate and including any link does not suggest that the relevant webpage and its content are approved by www.medtourism.gr.
8. Minors
The use of the website www.medtourism.gr and the services relevant to it by persons under the age of 18 or by persons who do not possess the appropriate legal capacity is prohibited.
9. Applicable Law
Every dispute which may arise between www.medtourism.gr and the users and/or clients of the website, concerning the execution, application, interpretation, use, presentation, copy of the present website or the relations created in this website or as a result of it, will be resolved in the competent Courts of Athens and Greek Legislation will be applied. This term is also valid in case someone outside Greece has access to www.medtourism.gr. Under no circumstances, even if any of the above conditions is deemed invalid by the competent Greek court, should the validity of the rest of the conditions be affected.
