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You are kindly requested to read the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using the ERMOFILOS system website (the “website”). The website is available for your access and use only on the condition that you agree to the Terms of Use set forth below. If you do not agree to all of the Terms of Use, do not access and use the website. By accessing or using the website you and/or the legal entity you are authorized to represent (hereinafter “you” or “your”) signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
1. User eligibility
The website is provided by the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA and available only to legal entities and persons who have reached the age of legal majority and are competent to enter into legally binding contracts under the Greek law. If you do not meet these requirements, then you are not permitted to use this website.
2. Scope of Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your use of the website and all files, software and accessible textbooks provision services (collectively, “ERMOFILOS services”) made available through the website, except to the extent that such services are the subject of a separate agreement. Specific terms or agreements may also apply to the use of certain services and other items available through the website (“Services agreement(s)”). Any such service agreements will accompany the applicable ERMOFILOS service or are listed in association therewith or via a hyperlink associated therewith.
3. Modifications
The Accessibility Unit of the NKUA reserves the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. If you continue using the website after any modifications of these Terms of Use, it will be deemed as acceptance of such changes. Any aspect of the website may be changed, supplemented, deleted or updated without prior notice, at the sole discretion of the Accessibility Unit. The Accessibility Unit reserves the right to establish or change general practices as well as restrictions concerning its services at any time at its sole discretion.
4. Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions
The ERMOFILOS Service Terms and Conditions of the Accessibility Unit applying to the services provided by the Accessibility Unit through this website govern your use of the services obtained through this website in addition to any other terms and conditions which may be applicable to such transaction, as provided for in these website Terms of Use. The Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions are hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use, such that all references herein to the Terms of Use shall be deemed to include, to the extent applicable, the Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions.
Any student wishing to receive any of the Accessibility Unit’s services, whether available through ERMOFILOS or not, must fill in the Student’s Activity and Participation Restrictions Registration Form (ReF). Filling the Form is a prerequisite also for receiving services for which submitting a separate Request Form is required (e.g. Transportation Service).
Any personal data entered in the ReF are used by the Accessibility Unit for the sole purpose of fulfilling its duties, as defined by the legislation in force as well as by the Internal Regulation of the NKUA: that is to provide accessibility services in order to ensure coequal access of students with disabilities (StD), severe diseases and learning difficulties to the academic studies. The use of these data is subject to the NKUA’s personal data protection policy. Apart from the Accessibility Unit’s employees other members of the academic community may receive knowledge of the content of the ReF, as long as they are involved in providing accessibility services to StD (e.g. Accessibility Advisor Professors).
5. Information submitted through the website and the ERMOFILOS service
Your submission of information through the website and its services is governed by these Terms of Use. You represent and warrant that any information you provide through the website or the services is and will be accurate and complete and that you will maintain and update such information as needed.
With respect to any individual whose personal data are provided by you to the Accessibility Unit through the website and the services, you represent to the Accessibility Unit that you are authorized to provide such information and that you have provided all necessary notice and obtained all necessary consents for the processing of such information contemplated by the services you are using.
6. Licence and Ownership
Any and all intellectual property rights ("Intellectual Property”) associated with the website and its contents (“Contents”) are property of the Accessibility Unit, companies affiliated with it (Publishing Houses, Publishers) or third parties (Authors). The content is protected by intellectual property legislation as well as other laws in Greece.
According to the Greek Ministerial Decision ΥΠΠΟ/ΔΙΟΙΚ/98546 of the 24th of October 2007, which specifies the terms under which the regulation of Art. 28A of the Law 2121/1993 is to be implemented, the reproduction of legally published works, in this case of academic textbooks, in specific forms carried through by Higher Education Institutes to the benefit of persons with disabilities and only for uses directly linked with the disability and for non-commercial purposes is allowed. The institution undertaking the reproduction and conversion of the work in accessible form is responsible for ascertaining that the person, to whom the reproduced and converted work is made available, has the properties justifying the reproduction, conversion and provision thereof. Print-disabled students, who are not able to read printed information effectively because of optic, physical, sensory, developmental, cognitive or learning disability, are eligible for obtaining academic textbooks in accessible form. More specifically, persons with upper-limb disability, blind persons or with low-vision or dyslexia fall into this category.
The Accessibility Unit acting in accordance with the Greek legislation in force (cf. Law 4672/2020 and more recent ones) as the institution responsible for converting academic textbooks or other types of educational material in accessible form, follows the procedure set forth below for each work, which is to be converted in accessible form:
A) it requests that the publishers provide a) the digital files of the works, to which they have legal access and b) the permission to use them,
B) it requests that the benefitting students who have applied for the conversion, submit a) a certificate for being print-disabled student as well as entitled to the works they are applying for and b) a formal statement that they will safeguard the copyright of these works, as demanded by these Terms of Use and the Greek legislation.
Every action necessary for making a copy of the work and converting it into accessible format is carried through by the Accessibility Unit free of charge on a non-profit basis (e.g. Publishing Houses granting access to the digital files of the works for free).
Any use or modification to any academic textbook format available on the website in whichever way is not allowed. It is not allowed to copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell or use in order to create derivative works from it, upload, transmit or distribute the intellectual property items of the website in any way without prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit or of an appropriate third party. Except as expressly provided herein, the Accessibility Unit grants you no express or implied rights to its intellectual property or that of any third party.
The Accessibility Unit hereby grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the website, its content and information only in the manner presented and expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit. Apart from this limited license, the Accessibility Unit does not convey any right to information or the data available through the website, content, services or any other property by permitting you to access the website. Except to the extend required by the law or as expressly provided herein, no reverse-engineering, modification, reproduction, republication, translation in any language or computer language, re-transmission in whichever form or by any means, reselling or redistribution is allowed without the prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit. You may not make, sell, offer for sale, modify, reproduce, display, perform in public, import, distribute, retransmit or otherwise use the content in any way, unless you have the express permission of the Accessibility Unit to do so.
7. Restrictions on using the website
In addition to other restrictions set forth in the Terms of Use, you agree that:
(a) You shall not disguise the origin of information transmitted through the website.
(b) You will not place false or misleading information on the website.
(c) You will access and use any service, information, application or software available through the website in a manner not expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit.
(d) You will not input or upload to the website any information that may contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routine intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the website or information or that infringes the Intellectual Property rights of other parties.
(e) The website is available for access and use only to staff members of the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA, NKUA’s students and other collaborating parties.
(f) You may not use or access the website or the ERMOFILOS services of the Accessibility Unit in any way that, in the Accessibility Unit’s judgment, adversely affects the performance or function of the website or the services or interferes with the ability of authorized parties to access the website of the services.
(g) You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion or aspect of the content or the information, without the express written consent of the Accessibility Unit.
8. Written Document
You may preserve these Terms of Use in written form by printing them for your records, and you waive any other requirement for these Terms of Use to be proved by means of a written document.
9. Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided for under a separate license, service or other written agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit with respect to the use of the website and all ERMOFILOS services, information and content contained therein and supersedes all discussions, communications, conversations and agreements concerning the subject matter in question.
10. User Service
Questions or comments regarding the website are to be submitted to the Accessibility Unit’s personnel (https://access.uoa.gr/ERMOFILOS/contact.html).
11. Disclaimer
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens makes every possible effort to succeed the good operation of its network, part of which is the ERMOFILOS website. However, it does not guarantee that the functions of the servers will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of viruses, malware or other similar items. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any damage a user of the webpages, services, options and content may suffer.
You are kindly requested to read the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using the ERMOFILOS system website (the “website”). The website is available for your access and use only on the condition that you agree to the Terms of Use set forth below. If you do not agree to all of the Terms of Use, do not access and use the website. By accessing or using the website you and/or the legal entity you are authorized to represent (hereinafter “you” or “your”) signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
1. User eligibility
The website is provided by the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA and available only to legal entities and persons who have reached the age of legal majority and are competent to enter into legally binding contracts under the Greek law. If you do not meet these requirements, then you are not permitted to use this website.
2. Scope of Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your use of the website and all files, software and accessible textbooks provision services (collectively, “ERMOFILOS services”) made available through the website, except to the extent that such services are the subject of a separate agreement. Specific terms or agreements may also apply to the use of certain services and other items available through the website (“Services agreement(s)”). Any such service agreements will accompany the applicable ERMOFILOS service or are listed in association therewith or via a hyperlink associated therewith.
3. Modifications
The Accessibility Unit of the NKUA reserves the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. If you continue using the website after any modifications of these Terms of Use, it will be deemed as acceptance of such changes. Any aspect of the website may be changed, supplemented, deleted or updated without prior notice, at the sole discretion of the Accessibility Unit. The Accessibility Unit reserves the right to establish or change general practices as well as restrictions concerning its services at any time at its sole discretion.
4. Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions
The ERMOFILOS Service Terms and Conditions of the Accessibility Unit applying to the services provided by the Accessibility Unit through this website govern your use of the services obtained through this website in addition to any other terms and conditions which may be applicable to such transaction, as provided for in these website Terms of Use. The Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions are hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use, such that all references herein to the Terms of Use shall be deemed to include, to the extent applicable, the Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions.
Any student wishing to receive any of the Accessibility Unit’s services, whether available through ERMOFILOS or not, must fill in the Student’s Activity and Participation Restrictions Registration Form (ReF). Filling the Form is a prerequisite also for receiving services for which submitting a separate Request Form is required (e.g. Transportation Service).
Any personal data entered in the ReF are used by the Accessibility Unit for the sole purpose of fulfilling its duties, as defined by the legislation in force as well as by the Internal Regulation of the NKUA: that is to provide accessibility services in order to ensure coequal access of students with disabilities (StD), severe diseases and learning difficulties to the academic studies. The use of these data is subject to the NKUA’s personal data protection policy. Apart from the Accessibility Unit’s employees other members of the academic community may receive knowledge of the content of the ReF, as long as they are involved in providing accessibility services to StD (e.g. Accessibility Advisor Professors).
5. Information submitted through the website and the ERMOFILOS service
Your submission of information through the website and its services is governed by these Terms of Use. You represent and warrant that any information you provide through the website or the services is and will be accurate and complete and that you will maintain and update such information as needed.
With respect to any individual whose personal data are provided by you to the Accessibility Unit through the website and the services, you represent to the Accessibility Unit that you are authorized to provide such information and that you have provided all necessary notice and obtained all necessary consents for the processing of such information contemplated by the services you are using.
6. Licence and Ownership
Any and all intellectual property rights ("Intellectual Property”) associated with the website and its contents (“Contents”) are property of the Accessibility Unit, companies affiliated with it (Publishing Houses, Publishers) or third parties (Authors). The content is protected by intellectual property legislation as well as other laws in Greece.
According to the Greek Ministerial Decision ΥΠΠΟ/ΔΙΟΙΚ/98546 of the 24th of October 2007, which specifies the terms under which the regulation of Art. 28A of the Law 2121/1993 is to be implemented, the reproduction of legally published works, in this case of academic textbooks, in specific forms carried through by Higher Education Institutes to the benefit of persons with disabilities and only for uses directly linked with the disability and for non-commercial purposes is allowed. The institution undertaking the reproduction and conversion of the work in accessible form is responsible for ascertaining that the person, to whom the reproduced and converted work is made available, has the properties justifying the reproduction, conversion and provision thereof. Print-disabled students, who are not able to read printed information effectively because of optic, physical, sensory, developmental, cognitive or learning disability, are eligible for obtaining academic textbooks in accessible form. More specifically, persons with upper-limb disability, blind persons or with low-vision or dyslexia fall into this category.
The Accessibility Unit acting in accordance with the Greek legislation in force (cf. Law 4672/2020 and more recent ones) as the institution responsible for converting academic textbooks or other types of educational material in accessible form, follows the procedure set forth below for each work, which is to be converted in accessible form:
A) it requests that the publishers provide a) the digital files of the works, to which they have legal access and b) the permission to use them,
B) it requests that the benefitting students who have applied for the conversion, submit a) a certificate for being print-disabled student as well as entitled to the works they are applying for and b) a formal statement that they will safeguard the copyright of these works, as demanded by these Terms of Use and the Greek legislation.
Every action necessary for making a copy of the work and converting it into accessible format is carried through by the Accessibility Unit free of charge on a non-profit basis (e.g. Publishing Houses granting access to the digital files of the works for free).
Any use or modification to any academic textbook format available on the website in whichever way is not allowed. It is not allowed to copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell or use in order to create derivative works from it, upload, transmit or distribute the intellectual property items of the website in any way without prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit or of an appropriate third party. Except as expressly provided herein, the Accessibility Unit grants you no express or implied rights to its intellectual property or that of any third party.
The Accessibility Unit hereby grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the website, its content and information only in the manner presented and expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit. Apart from this limited license, the Accessibility Unit does not convey any right to information or the data available through the website, content, services or any other property by permitting you to access the website. Except to the extend required by the law or as expressly provided herein, no reverse-engineering, modification, reproduction, republication, translation in any language or computer language, re-transmission in whichever form or by any means, reselling or redistribution is allowed without the prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit. You may not make, sell, offer for sale, modify, reproduce, display, perform in public, import, distribute, retransmit or otherwise use the content in any way, unless you have the express permission of the Accessibility Unit to do so.
7. Restrictions on using the website
In addition to other restrictions set forth in the Terms of Use, you agree that:
(a) You shall not disguise the origin of information transmitted through the website.
(b) You will not place false or misleading information on the website.
(c) You will access and use any service, information, application or software available through the website in a manner not expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit.
(d) You will not input or upload to the website any information that may contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routine intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the website or information or that infringes the Intellectual Property rights of other parties.
(e) The website is available for access and use only to staff members of the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA, NKUA’s students and other collaborating parties.
(f) You may not use or access the website or the ERMOFILOS services of the Accessibility Unit in any way that, in the Accessibility Unit’s judgment, adversely affects the performance or function of the website or the services or interferes with the ability of authorized parties to access the website of the services.
(g) You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion or aspect of the content or the information, without the express written consent of the Accessibility Unit.
8. Written Document
You may preserve these Terms of Use in written form by printing them for your records, and you waive any other requirement for these Terms of Use to be proved by means of a written document.
9. Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided for under a separate license, service or other written agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit with respect to the use of the website and all ERMOFILOS services, information and content contained therein and supersedes all discussions, communications, conversations and agreements concerning the subject matter in question.
10. User Service
Questions or comments regarding the website are to be submitted to the Accessibility Unit’s personnel (https://access.uoa.gr/ERMOFILOS/contact.html).
11. Disclaimer
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens makes every possible effort to succeed the good operation of its network, part of which is the ERMOFILOS website. However, it does not guarantee that the functions of the servers will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of viruses, malware or other similar items. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any damage a user of the webpages, services, options and content may suffer.
You are kindly requested to read the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using the ERMOFILOS system website (the “website”). The website is available for your access and use only on the condition that you agree to the Terms of Use set forth below. If you do not agree to all of the Terms of Use, do not access and use the website. By accessing or using the website you and/or the legal entity you are authorized to represent (hereinafter “you” or “your”) signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
1. User eligibility
The website is provided by the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA and available only to legal entities and persons who have reached the age of legal majority and are competent to enter into legally binding contracts under the Greek law. If you do not meet these requirements, then you are not permitted to use this website.
2. Scope of Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your use of the website and all files, software and accessible textbooks provision services (collectively, “ERMOFILOS services”) made available through the website, except to the extent that such services are the subject of a separate agreement. Specific terms or agreements may also apply to the use of certain services and other items available through the website (“Services agreement(s)”). Any such service agreements will accompany the applicable ERMOFILOS service or are listed in association therewith or via a hyperlink associated therewith.
3. Modifications
The Accessibility Unit of the NKUA reserves the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. If you continue using the website after any modifications of these Terms of Use, it will be deemed as acceptance of such changes. Any aspect of the website may be changed, supplemented, deleted or updated without prior notice, at the sole discretion of the Accessibility Unit. The Accessibility Unit reserves the right to establish or change general practices as well as restrictions concerning its services at any time at its sole discretion.
4. Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions
The ERMOFILOS Service Terms and Conditions of the Accessibility Unit applying to the services provided by the Accessibility Unit through this website govern your use of the services obtained through this website in addition to any other terms and conditions which may be applicable to such transaction, as provided for in these website Terms of Use. The Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions are hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use, such that all references herein to the Terms of Use shall be deemed to include, to the extent applicable, the Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions.
Any student wishing to receive any of the Accessibility Unit’s services, whether available through ERMOFILOS or not, must fill in the Student’s Activity and Participation Restrictions Registration Form (ReF). Filling the Form is a prerequisite also for receiving services for which submitting a separate Request Form is required (e.g. Transportation Service).
Any personal data entered in the ReF are used by the Accessibility Unit for the sole purpose of fulfilling its duties, as defined by the legislation in force as well as by the Internal Regulation of the NKUA: that is to provide accessibility services in order to ensure coequal access of students with disabilities (StD), severe diseases and learning difficulties to the academic studies. The use of these data is subject to the NKUA’s personal data protection policy. Apart from the Accessibility Unit’s employees other members of the academic community may receive knowledge of the content of the ReF, as long as they are involved in providing accessibility services to StD (e.g. Accessibility Advisor Professors).
5. Information submitted through the website and the ERMOFILOS service
Your submission of information through the website and its services is governed by these Terms of Use. You represent and warrant that any information you provide through the website or the services is and will be accurate and complete and that you will maintain and update such information as needed.
With respect to any individual whose personal data are provided by you to the Accessibility Unit through the website and the services, you represent to the Accessibility Unit that you are authorized to provide such information and that you have provided all necessary notice and obtained all necessary consents for the processing of such information contemplated by the services you are using.
6. Licence and Ownership
Any and all intellectual property rights ("Intellectual Property”) associated with the website and its contents (“Contents”) are property of the Accessibility Unit, companies affiliated with it (Publishing Houses, Publishers) or third parties (Authors). The content is protected by intellectual property legislation as well as other laws in Greece.
According to the Greek Ministerial Decision ΥΠΠΟ/ΔΙΟΙΚ/98546 of the 24th of October 2007, which specifies the terms under which the regulation of Art. 28A of the Law 2121/1993 is to be implemented, the reproduction of legally published works, in this case of academic textbooks, in specific forms carried through by Higher Education Institutes to the benefit of persons with disabilities and only for uses directly linked with the disability and for non-commercial purposes is allowed. The institution undertaking the reproduction and conversion of the work in accessible form is responsible for ascertaining that the person, to whom the reproduced and converted work is made available, has the properties justifying the reproduction, conversion and provision thereof. Print-disabled students, who are not able to read printed information effectively because of optic, physical, sensory, developmental, cognitive or learning disability, are eligible for obtaining academic textbooks in accessible form. More specifically, persons with upper-limb disability, blind persons or with low-vision or dyslexia fall into this category.
The Accessibility Unit acting in accordance with the Greek legislation in force (cf. Law 4672/2020 and more recent ones) as the institution responsible for converting academic textbooks or other types of educational material in accessible form, follows the procedure set forth below for each work, which is to be converted in accessible form:
A) it requests that the publishers provide a) the digital files of the works, to which they have legal access and b) the permission to use them,
B) it requests that the benefitting students who have applied for the conversion, submit a) a certificate for being print-disabled student as well as entitled to the works they are applying for and b) a formal statement that they will safeguard the copyright of these works, as demanded by these Terms of Use and the Greek legislation.
Every action necessary for making a copy of the work and converting it into accessible format is carried through by the Accessibility Unit free of charge on a non-profit basis (e.g. Publishing Houses granting access to the digital files of the works for free).
Any use or modification to any academic textbook format available on the website in whichever way is not allowed. It is not allowed to copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell or use in order to create derivative works from it, upload, transmit or distribute the intellectual property items of the website in any way without prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit or of an appropriate third party. Except as expressly provided herein, the Accessibility Unit grants you no express or implied rights to its intellectual property or that of any third party.
The Accessibility Unit hereby grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the website, its content and information only in the manner presented and expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit. Apart from this limited license, the Accessibility Unit does not convey any right to information or the data available through the website, content, services or any other property by permitting you to access the website. Except to the extend required by the law or as expressly provided herein, no reverse-engineering, modification, reproduction, republication, translation in any language or computer language, re-transmission in whichever form or by any means, reselling or redistribution is allowed without the prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit. You may not make, sell, offer for sale, modify, reproduce, display, perform in public, import, distribute, retransmit or otherwise use the content in any way, unless you have the express permission of the Accessibility Unit to do so.
7. Restrictions on using the website
In addition to other restrictions set forth in the Terms of Use, you agree that:
(a) You shall not disguise the origin of information transmitted through the website.
(b) You will not place false or misleading information on the website.
(c) You will access and use any service, information, application or software available through the website in a manner not expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit.
(d) You will not input or upload to the website any information that may contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routine intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the website or information or that infringes the Intellectual Property rights of other parties.
(e) The website is available for access and use only to staff members of the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA, NKUA’s students and other collaborating parties.
(f) You may not use or access the website or the ERMOFILOS services of the Accessibility Unit in any way that, in the Accessibility Unit’s judgment, adversely affects the performance or function of the website or the services or interferes with the ability of authorized parties to access the website of the services.
(g) You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion or aspect of the content or the information, without the express written consent of the Accessibility Unit.
8. Written Document
You may preserve these Terms of Use in written form by printing them for your records, and you waive any other requirement for these Terms of Use to be proved by means of a written document.
9. Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided for under a separate license, service or other written agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit with respect to the use of the website and all ERMOFILOS services, information and content contained therein and supersedes all discussions, communications, conversations and agreements concerning the subject matter in question.
10. User Service
Questions or comments regarding the website are to be submitted to the Accessibility Unit’s personnel (https://access.uoa.gr/ERMOFILOS/contact.html).
11. Disclaimer
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens makes every possible effort to succeed the good operation of its network, part of which is the ERMOFILOS website. However, it does not guarantee that the functions of the servers will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of viruses, malware or other similar items. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any damage a user of the webpages, services, options and content may suffer.
You are kindly requested to read the Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using the ERMOFILOS system website (the “website”). The website is available for your access and use only on the condition that you agree to the Terms of Use set forth below. If you do not agree to all of the Terms of Use, do not access and use the website. By accessing or using the website you and/or the legal entity you are authorized to represent (hereinafter “you” or “your”) signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
1. User eligibility
The website is provided by the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA and available only to legal entities and persons who have reached the age of legal majority and are competent to enter into legally binding contracts under the Greek law. If you do not meet these requirements, then you are not permitted to use this website.
2. Scope of Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your use of the website and all files, software and accessible textbooks provision services (collectively, “ERMOFILOS services”) made available through the website, except to the extent that such services are the subject of a separate agreement. Specific terms or agreements may also apply to the use of certain services and other items available through the website (“Services agreement(s)”). Any such service agreements will accompany the applicable ERMOFILOS service or are listed in association therewith or via a hyperlink associated therewith.
3. Modifications
The Accessibility Unit of the NKUA reserves the right to revise and update these Terms of Use at any time. If you continue using the website after any modifications of these Terms of Use, it will be deemed as acceptance of such changes. Any aspect of the website may be changed, supplemented, deleted or updated without prior notice, at the sole discretion of the Accessibility Unit. The Accessibility Unit reserves the right to establish or change general practices as well as restrictions concerning its services at any time at its sole discretion.
4. Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions
The ERMOFILOS Service Terms and Conditions of the Accessibility Unit applying to the services provided by the Accessibility Unit through this website govern your use of the services obtained through this website in addition to any other terms and conditions which may be applicable to such transaction, as provided for in these website Terms of Use. The Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions are hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use, such that all references herein to the Terms of Use shall be deemed to include, to the extent applicable, the Accessibility Unit ERMOFILOS service Terms and Conditions.
Any student wishing to receive any of the Accessibility Unit’s services, whether available through ERMOFILOS or not, must fill in the Student’s Activity and Participation Restrictions Registration Form (ReF). Filling the Form is a prerequisite also for receiving services for which submitting a separate Request Form is required (e.g. Transportation Service).
Any personal data entered in the ReF are used by the Accessibility Unit for the sole purpose of fulfilling its duties, as defined by the legislation in force as well as by the Internal Regulation of the NKUA: that is to provide accessibility services in order to ensure coequal access of students with disabilities (StD), severe diseases and learning difficulties to the academic studies. The use of these data is subject to the NKUA’s personal data protection policy. Apart from the Accessibility Unit’s employees other members of the academic community may receive knowledge of the content of the ReF, as long as they are involved in providing accessibility services to StD (e.g. Accessibility Advisor Professors).
5. Information submitted through the website and the ERMOFILOS service
Your submission of information through the website and its services is governed by these Terms of Use. You represent and warrant that any information you provide through the website or the services is and will be accurate and complete and that you will maintain and update such information as needed.
With respect to any individual whose personal data are provided by you to the Accessibility Unit through the website and the services, you represent to the Accessibility Unit that you are authorized to provide such information and that you have provided all necessary notice and obtained all necessary consents for the processing of such information contemplated by the services you are using.
6. Licence and Ownership
Any and all intellectual property rights ("Intellectual Property”) associated with the website and its contents (“Contents”) are property of the Accessibility Unit, companies affiliated with it (Publishing Houses, Publishers) or third parties (Authors). The content is protected by intellectual property legislation as well as other laws in Greece.
According to the Greek Ministerial Decision ΥΠΠΟ/ΔΙΟΙΚ/98546 of the 24th of October 2007, which specifies the terms under which the regulation of Art. 28A of the Law 2121/1993 is to be implemented, the reproduction of legally published works, in this case of academic textbooks, in specific forms carried through by Higher Education Institutes to the benefit of persons with disabilities and only for uses directly linked with the disability and for non-commercial purposes is allowed. The institution undertaking the reproduction and conversion of the work in accessible form is responsible for ascertaining that the person, to whom the reproduced and converted work is made available, has the properties justifying the reproduction, conversion and provision thereof. Print-disabled students, who are not able to read printed information effectively because of optic, physical, sensory, developmental, cognitive or learning disability, are eligible for obtaining academic textbooks in accessible form. More specifically, persons with upper-limb disability, blind persons or with low-vision or dyslexia fall into this category.
The Accessibility Unit acting in accordance with the Greek legislation in force (cf. Law 4672/2020 and more recent ones) as the institution responsible for converting academic textbooks or other types of educational material in accessible form, follows the procedure set forth below for each work, which is to be converted in accessible form:
A) it requests that the publishers provide a) the digital files of the works, to which they have legal access and b) the permission to use them,
B) it requests that the benefitting students who have applied for the conversion, submit a) a certificate for being print-disabled student as well as entitled to the works they are applying for and b) a formal statement that they will safeguard the copyright of these works, as demanded by these Terms of Use and the Greek legislation.
Every action necessary for making a copy of the work and converting it into accessible format is carried through by the Accessibility Unit free of charge on a non-profit basis (e.g. Publishing Houses granting access to the digital files of the works for free).
Any use or modification to any academic textbook format available on the website in whichever way is not allowed. It is not allowed to copy, reproduce, modify, lease, loan, sell or use in order to create derivative works from it, upload, transmit or distribute the intellectual property items of the website in any way without prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit or of an appropriate third party. Except as expressly provided herein, the Accessibility Unit grants you no express or implied rights to its intellectual property or that of any third party.
The Accessibility Unit hereby grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the website, its content and information only in the manner presented and expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit. Apart from this limited license, the Accessibility Unit does not convey any right to information or the data available through the website, content, services or any other property by permitting you to access the website. Except to the extend required by the law or as expressly provided herein, no reverse-engineering, modification, reproduction, republication, translation in any language or computer language, re-transmission in whichever form or by any means, reselling or redistribution is allowed without the prior written consent of the Accessibility Unit. You may not make, sell, offer for sale, modify, reproduce, display, perform in public, import, distribute, retransmit or otherwise use the content in any way, unless you have the express permission of the Accessibility Unit to do so.
7. Restrictions on using the website
In addition to other restrictions set forth in the Terms of Use, you agree that:
(a) You shall not disguise the origin of information transmitted through the website.
(b) You will not place false or misleading information on the website.
(c) You will access and use any service, information, application or software available through the website in a manner not expressly permitted by the Accessibility Unit.
(d) You will not input or upload to the website any information that may contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs or other computer programming routine intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, the website or information or that infringes the Intellectual Property rights of other parties.
(e) The website is available for access and use only to staff members of the Accessibility Unit of the NKUA, NKUA’s students and other collaborating parties.
(f) You may not use or access the website or the ERMOFILOS services of the Accessibility Unit in any way that, in the Accessibility Unit’s judgment, adversely affects the performance or function of the website or the services or interferes with the ability of authorized parties to access the website of the services.
(g) You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any portion or aspect of the content or the information, without the express written consent of the Accessibility Unit.
8. Written Document
You may preserve these Terms of Use in written form by printing them for your records, and you waive any other requirement for these Terms of Use to be proved by means of a written document.
9. Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided for under a separate license, service or other written agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Accessibility Unit with respect to the use of the website and all ERMOFILOS services, information and content contained therein and supersedes all discussions, communications, conversations and agreements concerning the subject matter in question.
10. User Service
Questions or comments regarding the website are to be submitted to the Accessibility Unit’s personnel (https://access.uoa.gr/ERMOFILOS/contact.html).
11. Disclaimer
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens makes every possible effort to succeed the good operation of its network, part of which is the ERMOFILOS website. However, it does not guarantee that the functions of the servers will be uninterrupted, error-free, free of viruses, malware or other similar items. Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any damage a user of the webpages, services, options and content may suffer.
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