Terms of use
Our web-store Cosmowood.gr welcomes you!
Introduction
The present General Terms and Conditions apply to the use of this website as well as to the purchase of any products/services through this website; they define the terms and conditions of all visits and use of both our website and our web-store, and determine the purchase contract concluded between the two parties for any purchase order made through this website. You are requested to read carefully these Terms and Conditions and make sure you consent to them before entering our web-store. In case you do not agree to them, you are advised to leave the present website. However, any action such as browsing, signing in our newsletter, or purchasing any of our products; will signify your full consent to the present Terms.
1) What does Cosmowood.gr provide?
Cosmowood.gr is aonline store that has been created to exhibit, promote and retail the products of its suppliers in such a way as to offer every visitor the possibility to choose through a wide range of clothes, shoes and accessories and purchase any product at highly attractive prices. The company reserves every right to choose the products that will be exhibited on the website Cosmowood.gr, as well as to replace or/and withdraw any of them, at any time, with no reason and with no previous notification. In addition, both the company’s price policy and its retail promotion methods, through special offers or/and discount, are solely determined by the company itself; and they can be modified at any time with no previous notification.
2) Reception and fulfillment of an order
Cosmowood.gr has established an effective collaboration with various suppliers, importers and manufacturers, from Greece as well as other countries, in order to provide you with a wide range of products at the most attractive prices in the market. There is a certain process, which is described in detail below, that needs to be followed by any visitor who wishes to place an order, and that is mainly because occasionally – for reasons we cannot be held accountable for – a product that appears to be available for purchase may not be eventually available or due for delivery within the time limit that is displayed in Cosmowood.gr. Thus, in order for you to be totally aware of your order’s progress and fully protected against any potential risks, your order can be completed through the following steps:
a) Sending order request
You are requested to sign in as a user on grbefore placing your initial order, so as to secure an easier and more convenient transaction on our website.
Select any product and place it in the “Cart”.
Initiate the process of sending the order request by following the suggested steps.
Fill in all the information required in the order format.
An automated message with the information of your order as this has been received from our website will be sent to your registered e-mail.
Before sending us an order request, you should accept the terms of use, since they define every transaction you make with our company.
Please be aware that our company is entitled to express any reservations regarding the availability of the products included in your order request, given the fact that at that time the process of your request has not been yet initiated.
Finally, we would like to inform you that our company adopts a strict policy regarding the protection of your personal data, and it is only with your full consent (which is granted through the order format) that it is gathered and processed in a proper and totally secure way.
b) Order request process
At this stage, our company verifies the availability of all the products that are included in your order request. In case every product included in your order request can be available within the time limit projected on our website, a confirmation e-mail consisting of all your order’s information will be sent to the web address you have registered. Afterwards, the products will be sent based on the delivery schedule of the courier company we collaborate with.
In case one or more of the products included in your order request is not available or/and cannot be delivered within the time limit projected on our website, a competent member of our staff will contact you by phone or e-mail in order to inform you about the limited availability. In case, for any reason, none of the communication methods mentioned above can be established within 10 days since the date of your order request, the request will be automatically canceled and a new one should be resent to us.
c) Phone orders
If you choose to do your order by phone and not through the site's form it is a prerequisite for you to know our online store's terms and conditions located here.
By choosing to put an order by phone, mean's that you automatically and fully accept our online store's terms and conditions through all the phone order process.
3) Payment Methods
In order to pay for the products you may be interested in buying, you can choose between the various payment methods suggested. First, you choose the payment method that you consider most satisfying. Then, you select that specific payment method from your order format and, finally, you fill in the personal information required.
We would like to inform you that the shipping cost inside Greece is free of charge for all orders, provided their total cost is over 60€. For orders equal or below 60€, the shipping cost is 4€ and the cash on delivery 3€.
We would like to remind you that our company adopts a strict policy regarding the protection of your personal data, and it is only with your full consent (which is granted through the order format) that it is gathered and processed in a proper and totally secure way. As regards to the payments by a credit card, our company, in collaboration with Piraeus Bank, has taken every precautionary measure as to secure the highest level of protection during your electronic transactions.
4) Product delivery and delivery costs
At the time of the confirmation of your order, you will also be informed of the delivery time, which may vary based on the area you selected for your products to be sent to.
Your order will be sent to you directly from our company or a courier chosen exclusively by our company, during working days and hours (Monday - Wednesday - Saturday: 09:00 - 15:00 and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 09:00-14:30 and 17:30-21:00).
Based on the delivery schedule of the courier company we collaborate with, deliveries are made as follows:
In Attica, within 1-2 working days since your order has been recorded by our web-store.
In county capitals within 1-2 business days from when your order is completed at our store, except for remote locations that may be delivered within 1-5 business days and on island destinations within 1-3 business days.
Our company cannot be held liable for any delays caused by force majeure or any other incidents that cannot be controlled or predicted. For instance, our company is not responsible for any delays that occur in customs or any intermediate load-unload checkpoints, due to strikes by transportation-mean personnel or any other strikes that may affect the prompt supply of our warehouses, etc.
In the case of a potential delay, our company will make any necessary effort to contact you using the personal data you have previously registered, in order to notify you accordingly and agree with you upon a new delivery date or the delivery of a different product.
Despite the fact that our company goes to great lengths to respond adequately to your need for prompt notification regarding any potential limited availability, there is always the possibility that our suppliers encounter unexpected lack of availability even after the confirmation of your order. In such cases, our company will once again make every possible effort to establish contact using the personal information you have registered, in order to inform you properly and agree with you upon a new delivery date or the delivery of a different product or even the cancellation of your order with no further damages for both parties, as well as an interest-free refund of the amount of money you may have paid in advance within a reasonable time-period.
You can choose to pick up from our store in Filippiada when you complete your order. In this case, the products you ordered will be reserved for you for 5 business days and within this time you can come to pick up your parcel. At the end of the above timespace, your order will be canceled automatically. The address of the store is Bizaniou 149, Filippiada, Preveza. Our partner will contact you by phone for the day and time when your order is ready for pickup.
We would like to inform you that the shipping cost inside Greece is free of charge for all orders, provided their total cost is over 60€. For orders equal or below 60€, the shipping cost is 4€ and the service of cash on delivery costs 3€.
5) Use - Operation - Content
Both the company and the consumer are bound to use and operate this website properly, based on good faith and business ethics.
In order to gain proper and complete access to Cosmowood.gr, visitors need to activate JavaScript and allow cookies on their browser. In addition, you need to have installed a version later than 6 for Internet Explorer, a version later than 3.5 for Mozilla Firefox, or any other equivalent web browser version. You are also advised to use the latest versions of browsers and Adobe Flash Player to be able to view additional graphics.
Each user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr accepts that may need to download certain updated applications and software, in order to be able to use some of the services of Cosmowood.gr. The Company preserves the exclusive right – to which the customer agrees unconditionally – to interrupt either permanently or temporarily the operation of Cosmowood.gr with or without any previous notification of its users/members.
In any case, each user-consumer-visitor-member complies with the obligation and accepts that Cosmowood.gr will not be used for sending, displaying or conveying in any possible way, content that is considered illegal, harmful, threatening, insulting, disturbing, defamatory, vulgar, indecent, libelous; violates another individual’s confidentiality; involves spite; expresses racial, national or other discrimination; may cause any kind of damage to minors; does not fall within the provisions of the law, the conventional or administrative relations (such as domestic information, ownership and confidential information that has been obtained or revealed through working relations or is subjected to confidential agreements); violates any kind of patent, trademark, commercial secrets or ownership rights of third parties; consists of software viruses or codes of any kind, archives or software that have been designed with a purpose to interrupt, damage or cease the proper function of any software or hardware; violates the current domestic or European legislation and its provisions either intentionally or unconsciously; may harass third parties in any way; as well as any Content used for gathering or saving personal data of other users.
Our company is edited on a daily basis in order to achieve an accurate and suitable presentation of all the information related to the products that are promoted on Cosmowood.gr. However, our company is not responsible for any mistakes as regards to the information displayed on the website (such as prices, availability, photos, articles etc.) that may be due to, for instance, technological failures and errors, misprints or “human errors” or/and incorrect information provided by our suppliers, even if these derive from the company’s negligence. In case you encounter any incorrect information before or/and after your order is placed, we urge you to send a corresponding e-mail at the web address info@cosmowood.gr or/and call our supporter helpline +30 26833 00900. In any case, however, if you encounter any mistake, you are kindly requested not to proceed with your order request before notifying our company and clarifying that specific issue. Our company’s trading strategy and price policy are in full consonance with the terms regarding the protection of competition. Therefore, the prices of the products sold on Cosmowood.gr may differ from those of similar products sold at any other stores, since our company proceeds to various special offers and other promotional actions at times we see it fit for our business goals to be achieved.
Our company reserves the right to alter the price of any product, at any time, with no reason and no previous notification.
6) Copyright and Trademarks
The content of Cosmowood.gr, in its total, constitutes intellectual property of the company and is protected by the corresponding provisions of both domestic and international legislation, as well as the international conventions concerning intellectual property. For example,every article, any kind of archive, the signs/logos, the website’s layout, the software, every photo and design, both commercial and financial data etc. are considered as such. The rights of third parties, such as associates, collaborating sectors etc., are not related to the company’s own rights. Total or partial copy, distribution, storing, reproduction, republishing, transfer, modification, alteration or any other similar action of the aforementioned information is explicitly prohibited, unless the company has granted prior, clear and written consent. Any potential actions opposed to the prohibitions mentioned above may offend our company’s intellectual/industrial property rights. The company explicitly reserves every legal right to full and proper compensation in case it suffers any damage.
The company is entitled to exploit commercially (either itself or third parties) the total amount of information displayed on Cosmowood.gr, as well as to modify them whenever sees it fit with or without any previous notification of the users-consumers-members of “Cosmowood.gr” who accept unconditionally the company’s option to act accordingly.
7) Personal Information
Our company devotes constant effort to collect the complete and correct data sent by you. Therefore, our company cannot be held responsible for not fulfilling properly or/and promptly some of its conventional or legal obligations, in case some of the personal data you have submitted is either false or inaccurate.
In particular, every potential notification sent to the web address you have registered (regarding limited product availability etc.) will be considered as valid even if it is not received by you due to incorrect personal data registered on your behalf. The effect will be the same in case your address or phone number is also incorrect. In any case, you are obliged to update your personal data every time they change.
For your own greater convenience during future purchases you are asked to sign in on “Cosmowood.gr” when you send an order request to our company for the first time. Thus, during your first order request-visit you are asked to create an account on our website and make a user profile (first and last name, genre and date of birth) using your own unique security codes (username & password). During your sign in as a registered user, you consent – as a registered user – to the installation of a session cookies system that aims exclusively to the confirmation of your identity as a user, as well as to the verification of your transactions in order to create a record of your actions as a client which will be displayed on your personal page and will be visible only by you. The sole purpose of these session cookies is to serve the best possible management of both your profile and your transactions in order for you to avoid registering your personal data all over again every time you visit Cosmowood.gr. The session cookies are erased as soon as you log out.
Our company gathers only those personal data that are vitally essential, with the sole purpose of being able to conclude your transactions with Cosmowood.gr and communicate with you in reference to your transaction. In any case, you may access your data with no legal impediment and ask for them to be deleted. Furthermore, you may, at any time, exercise every one of your constitutional rights based on the articles 11-13 of the law 2472/1997. In any case, your personal data are reserved by our company only for as long as you are a registered user of Cosmowood.gr or/and for the time period you make transactions with our website; and they are entirely deleted once you unregister from Cosmowood.gr or/and as soon as your ongoing transaction with the website is concluded.
Your personal data are not revealed to any third parties and are handled solely by our company, with the exception of:
i) those data that are required for the completion of any web-payment by credit card and
ii) those data that are absolutely essential for your order to be concluded by any companies associated with us.
Your personal data are protected and handled in their total based on the terms and rules of Greek legislation and particularly on the law 2472/1997; our company, in addition, conforms strictly to every rule instituted by the relevant legal framework. Furthermore, all of your personal data and transactions are governed by the principles of confidentiality in both communications (electronic and others) and commercial transactions; thus, every necessary measure is adopted so as to protect and secure such confidentiality while your transactions are forwarded or/and concluded.
The user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr ought to secure the confidentiality of his/her own personal data and not reveal any information to third parties (even due to negligence) or grant access to such information. Additionally, it is highly recommended that the user’s password is changed occasionally. The company reserves every legal right in case it suffers any potential damages due to the failure of the user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr to comply with the aforementioned obligations. Finally, in order for the purchase process to be completed promptly, you consent to receive automated and personalized e-mails both directly on your PC and individually to the web-address you have registered; as well as phone calls from our company’s personnel to your registered contact numbers.
The Cookies we collect
The following table shows in detail the cookies we collect and the description of the information they store.
Cookie name
Cookie Description
CART
The association with your shopping cart
CATEGORY_INFO
Saves category information on the page to allow pages to be displayed faster
COMPARE
The items you have in the Product Compare list
CURRENCY
The currency you prefer
CUSTOMER
An encrypted version of your identity as a customer with the store
CUSTOMER_AUTH
An indication of whether you are currently logged in to the store
CUSTOMER_INFO
An encrypted version of the client group you belong to
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS
Saves customer ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE
A flag indicating whether or not the cache is working
FRONTEND
Your identity on the server
GUEST-VIEW
Allows visitors to modify their orders
LAST_CATEGORY
The last category you visited
LAST_PRODUCT
The last product you saw
NEWMESSAGE
Indicates whether a new message has been received
NO_CACHE
Indicates whether to use cache
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART
A link that leads to information about your basket and traffic history if you've asked the website (permanent cookie)
POLL
The identity of any research you have participated in
POLLN
Information about any investigations you have participated in
RECENTLYCOMPARED
The species you have recently compared
STF
Information about products you have emailed to friends
STORE
The storage image or language you have selected
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE
Indicates whether a customer is allowed to use cookies
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS
The products you've seen recently
WISHLIST
An encrypted list of products added to your wishlist
WISHLIST_CNT
The number of items in your wishlist
8) Security of personal data and transactions
Our company takes every precautionary measure (data encoding etc.) so as to secure both the customers’ personal data and their transactions. Our clients’ personal information is never leaked to any third parties and remains encoded, and thus, non-visible by any unauthorized third parties, during your browsing on our website. Data encoding applies to every stage and process of your transaction, as well as to your sharing of personal data with Cosmowood.gr; including the cart, the wish list, your personal page as a user, your log in, and the order format during data sharing with the company, etc.
The codes used for your identification are: i) your log-in code (e-mail or username) and ii) your Personal Secret Security Code (password), which grant you total and secure access to all your personal data. You may alter these codes at any time and as often as you wish.
The only individual who has access to your personal data is you through the aforementioned codes, and thus, you are solely responsible for keeping them secret and not revealing them to any third parties. In case they are either compromised or leaked, you ought to proceed to our prompt notification, otherwise, our company will not be held responsible for the use of your secret code by an unauthorized individual.
For security purposes, we strongly recommend that you change these codes at reasonable time intervals, avoid using permanent and easily breakable codes, and include both numbers and symbols instead of letters exclusively while you create your personal codes.
9) Limitation of Liability
The user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr explicitly, irrevocably and unconditionally accepts the company’s absolute right to terminate the use of access codes for the website services, and prevent access to its content and information every time the company considers that the user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr violates the present terms and conditions. In addition, the company may interrupt, suspend, or modify the function of Cosmowood.gr, totally or partially, temporarily or permanently, at any time, with or without any previous notification of the user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr.
The company cannot be held responsible in case, for any probable reason – including negligence – the website’s function is interrupted, the access to the site is either inadequate or impossible, “viruses” or other malicious software is transferred to the users/visitors’ terminals despite the security measures adopted, unauthorized third parties interfere in any way with the content or the function of the website hindering, this way, its prompt use and proper function or intercepting information relevant to the personal data of those who are customers and registered users of Cosmowood.gr.
Furthermore, the company does not bear any responsibility regarding the consumers’ communication with any third parties who may be advertised on Cosmowood.gr, nor can it be held liable for any potential issue raised due to any commercial transaction concluded between the user/member and the advertised party.
In addition, our company assumes absolutely no liability for neither potential claims of legal or civil or/and criminal nature, nor damage (incidental, or consequential which indicatively and not restrictively, separately or/and accumulatively results to data loss, profit loss, financial compensation etc.) caused by users-consumers-members of Cosmowood.gr and inflicted by any reason related to the website’s function or not, or/and its use or not, or/and improper rendering of either services or information provided by the company through Cosmowood.gr, or/and unallowable third-party interference with products or/and services or/and information provided through the site or/and created security gaps.
In case, however, any of the aforementioned is caused by intentional malice pretense on the company’s behalf, the company is required to cover solely those potential incidental damages that are due and directly relevant to the terms above and the company’s intentional malice pretense. Respectively, all liability limitations included in the present terms and conditions are adopted, acknowledged and accepted in their total by every user-consumer-member of Cosmowood.gr, as valid and consistent to good faith and business ethics.
10) Links to third parties
Cosmowood.gr may consist of references to other websites, for the content and services of which bears no responsibility. The company does not guarantee full and safe access to websites that may be mentioned on Cosmowood.gr. In addition, our company shares no responsibility for the content and services of these websites; and in case the users-visitors encounter any kind of problem during their visit-use on these websites, they ought to address directly to the corresponding websites for they are solely responsible for that particular problem. Under no circumstances does the company agree to and adopt the content or the services of the websites that makes reference to; neither should it be considered that it is connected to them in any way.