Terms and Conditions

GENERAL TERMS OF USE

Many articles are published on our website, which are provided by the BoardGameStories editorial team or by external partners. The material that is provided by BoardGameStories is always accompanied by the author’s permission and the corresponding permission for the material used for an article to be edited. No republication of an entire article appearing on our website is permitted. Only the initial part of articles (the introduction appearing on the main page for each article or the first paragraph) and pictures appearing on the main page can be republished, always with reference to the author and BoardGameStories, while it is necessary that the link (URL) referring to the specific article of BoardGameStories appear as well. For any other kind of usage of the BoardGameStories content, you must get written permission from BoardGame Stories. In order to get permission for republishing or using part of the BoardGameStories content, please contact us through the communication form.

All articles published on boardgamestories.com follow the specific Creative Commons terms:

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the articles and videos belong solely to the author, reviewer who wrote the article or is featured in the video and not necessarily to the BoardGame Stories’ team, founders, other authors or individuals.

If, for any reason, you believe that the material used in any of the articles does not have the permission to be used or that it violates some of the Creative Commons rules or ethics rules, then please contact us through the [email protected] or through our website’s communication form.

Boardgamestories.com offers its services according to the following terms of use, which the users should carefully read and use these services, on condition that they completely accept the terms and consent to their implementation. By using in any way the boardgamestories.com website, you completely accept the specific terms of use, which are a binding agreement between you and the creators of boardgamestories.com and stand as if you have signed them.

In case of any future modification of these terms of use, your using boardgamestories.com, signifies your accepting these new terms and your commitment to them.

 

USERS’ PERSONAL DATA

Boardgamestories.com does not collect any personal data of the users, since users do not have to give their personal data at any point. Communication with the boardgamestories.com administrator is achieved through e-mail and is treated with complete confidentiality. Boardgamestories.com is bound not to use your e-mail address to send any kind of spam. It is entitled though to send newsletters regarding the functionality or services of boardgamestories.com, unless users are opposed to this, in which case they will have to address to [email protected].

 

COOKIES

Boardgamestories.com may use cookies for your recognition in some services and pages of it, as well as the targeted reproduction of advertisements through Google Ads. Cookie is a small piece of data, which is sent to your browser by a web server and is saved in your computer’s hard drive. Cookies do not cause any damage to your system and do not affect its functionality. Moreover, cookies make your searching through the Internet easier for you, by saving your adjustments. You can adjust your browser in a way that allows you either to be informed on the usage of cookies in specific services of boardgamestories.com, or to forbid the cookie. In case you do not wish the usage of cookies for your recognition, you will not be able to have further access to those services.

 

EXTERNAL LINKS

Boardgamestories.com contains advertisements or/and links to other websites, which are controlled by third parties. Boardgamestories.com is not responsible for any of the content, safety or appropriateness of those websites and it makes clear that you enter them on your own responsibility.

 

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS

The theme in which boardgamestories.com appears, has been designed by Black Lotus that holds the copyrights of the design and its development.

The pattern and the arrangement of the content, as well as the content itself of the boardgamestories.com website, is copyright of its creator and administrator, according to the Copyright Law 2121/1993, as it has been modified and is in effect today, and the international agreements that have been signed by Greece, except for the material that may be added after the users’ request to the administrator of the site/blog.

Indicatively, and not restrictively, no copying, modification, distribution or unauthorized usage of the software and content of boardgamestories.com is allowed, without the administrator’s permission.

Boardgamestories (www. Boardgamestories.com) constitutes a distinctive title and is protected according to the regulations of the Greek legislation.

 

USERS ETHICS

Indicatively, and not restrictively, users are not allowed to use the services of boardgamestories.com for:

  1. Copying or any kind of alteration of the boardgamestories.com data aiming at misleading, concerning the sources of the content that is shown through the services of boardgamestories.com.
  2. Publication, sending, transport or any other kind of usage for the establishment of unsolicited or unwanted advertisement or any other way of promoting products, sending unwanted and unbidden e-mails and any other kind of unwanted promotion of content.
  3. Publication or sending of personal data.

 

PUBLICATION OF COMMENTS

Users of boardgamestories.com are not allowed to publish comments that indicatively and not restrictively:

  1. are written in capital letters
  2. assume third person
  3. contain offensive language for the administrator of the site or anyone else
  4. are repetitive
  5. contain an advertisement of any type
  6. contain the user’s or any other person’s personal data

In any case, the administrator of boardgamestories.com is entitled to remove comments with any of the above content, as well as comments that he considers to be against the purpose and the smooth function of boardgamestories.com. Furthermore, if a spam account is noticed, it might be deleted.

The administrator of boardgamestories.com is not responsible for the publication of any offensive or illegal material in its comments. In case he is notified through an e-mail for the offensive or illegal material, he is entitled to remove the specific material, as soon as possible.

 

DAMAGE/INDEMNITY

Users of boardgamestories.com are responsible to its creators and partners, for any damage caused by their using the services of boardgamestories.com in an illicit way or in a way that is not in accordance with the specific terms.

 

LIABILITY LIMITATION

Boardgamestories.com does not guarantee the accuracy, validity or correctness of information (in any form and if provided, e.g. pictures, texts, graphics etc.) that is included in it. Considering the quality and quantity of the Internet information, in any circumstances, including negligence, boardgamestories.com is not responsible for any kind of damage caused on the users of the pages, services and content of boardgamestories.com, which they use on their own initiative.

You visit boardgamestories.com pages on your own initiative and responsibility. The responsibility for the completeness, accuracy, fullness, sufficiency, legitimacy and appropriateness of the content of the links, including the advertisements in any way they appear, is exclusively taken by the websites/companies that provide it.

Under no circumstances must the content and the information included in boardgamestories.com, including the advertisements in any way they appear, be considered to be valid information, advice or exhortation for a specific action.

 

ABSENCE OF GUARANTEE

The content of boardgamestories.com is provided exactly as it is, with no explicit or implicit guarantee, concerning its appropriateness for a specific purpose.

Boardgamestories.com grants no explicit guarantee that its pages, services, functions, selections and content will be provided with no interruption or errors at all and that mistakes will be corrected. Moreover, boardgamestories.com does not guarantee that the specific site or any other site working with it or the servers through which they are at users’ disposal, do not contain any “viruses” or other damaging material.

In no case, is boardgamestories.com, its team’s members or anyone else associated to it responsible for any damage caused to you by using boardgamestories.com.

 

APPLICABLE LAW AND OTHER TERMS

The above terms and usage requirements of boardgamestories.com, as well as any modification of them, are governed and complemented by the Greek legislation, the European Union law and the respective International Treaties, that have been signed by Greece. By accepting the specific terms of use, you also accept the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Athens.

All the above terms are stipulated as essential. If any regulation of the above terms is against the law, it ceases by right to be in effect and is removed, and under no circumstances is the validity of the other terms affected.

This is an agreement between boardgamestories.com and the users of its services and only those are confined by it. No modification of these terms will be taken into consideration and be part of this agreement, unless it has been formulated in writing and incorporated into it. For any discrepancy between boardgamestories.com and a user, an extrajudicial and reconciliatory settlement of the discrepancy will be necessary.

 

COMPETITIONS AND GIVEAWAYS

By taking part in any competition organized by boardgamestories.com, you accept the terms of use of this website and you also accept the sharing of your name in the process of election of the winners. Winners are informed through the social media or through e-mails and have a seven-day deadline in which they must respond, in order to receive their gifts. They are not entitled to receive them, after seven days have passed and the gift is allotted to another winner. All gifts are sent through courier or post, depending on each occasion.

If you do not agree with the specific Terms of Use, you may not use the services of boardgamestories.com.