Terms of use

Firm identity

Pool-services.gr is an online store for product sales on line by Pool-Services, operating under the url www.pool-services.gr under the terms and conditions mentioned hereafter.The use of the online store requires the acceptance of all the following terms and conditions.

Therefore, if the user disagrees with certain or all the terms of use they must abstain from its use, otherwise, it is taken for granted that they have accepted all the terms and conditions that apply for its use.

Pool-Services has set as its primary goal the client’s best possible assistance and satisfaction.This can only be achieved through the build-up of mutual trust between the customer/client and our company.

To us the customer/client must always be informed and ensured.

Thus we consider it our responsibility to inform our e-clients/e-customers in the following issues:

Statement of confidentiality

It is specifically mentioned in another chapter of general information (please read).

How to order – availability – delivery time - cancellation of order

It is specifically mentioned in another chapter of general information (please read).

Methods of payment

It is specifically mentioned in another chapter of general information (please read).

Shipping costs

It is specifically mentioned in another chapter of general information (please read).

Return policy – exceptions – service

It is specifically mentioned in another chapter of general information (please read).

More specifically

For the further completion of the transaction cycle (product dispatch, payment of due price, invoice issuing) pool-services.gr has the liability. Pool-services.gr cannot be held liable for defective products and/or false information referring to its suppliers’ merchandise. Any relevant liability burdens solely its individual suppliers.

 

Force Majeure (superior force)

If due to force majeure (e.g. bad weather conditions, work strikes) we are unable to dispatch the goods in the prescribed time (3 days to 1 week for the whole of Greece later than the day of the receipt of your order, with the exception of unavailability of products), we will contact you as soon as possible so that you can declare whether you wish, under those circumstances, the fulfillment of your order.

Pool-Services cannot be held liable to customers/clients/users of its e-shop for damages that may arise from the non-execution of our order. In addition, we are reluctant as for the dispatch time of its products in the case of force majeure. Finally, pool-services cannot provide any guarantee for the availability of products, but can guarantee the timely information of its final customers regarding their non-availability.

Packaging

The pool-services.gr store, which you have chosen and by which the dispatch of the ordered goods will be dispatched, undertakes the packaging of your order without any additional charge on your behalf.

Guarantee

The customer is offered the guarantee of the manufacturer for all products.

If, prior to a purchase, you have any queries regarding the product or duration of the offered guarantee, the customer may address/contact the Customer Care Department of Pool-Services.

Price Policy

The quoted prices of products are final (VAT included). Pool-Services reserves the right to alter product prices without prior notice of the customer. It is presumed that in case the customer chooses to receive their order from our actual store (not our e-store), they are obliged to pay according to the prices prescribed in its catalogued price lists for the product(s) at the time the order is submitted or and executed.

Terms of Contract

Pool-Services reserves the right to alter, renew or update the terms and conditions of transactions as well as undertakes the responsibility to brief its customers about any changes through this website.

Statement of confidentiality

Security

Pool-Services have incorporated in its e-store the most advanced hi-tech standardized security applications that refer to the user’s personal information and the relentless availability of its provided services.

TRANSACTION SECURITY

All payments made using the card are processed through the electronic payment platform of "Alpha e-Commerce" of Alpha Bank and uses TLS 1.2 encryption protocol encryption with 128-bit (Secure Sockets Layer - SSL). Encryption is a way of coding the information until it reaches its recipient, who will be able to decode it using the appropriate key.

TERMS OF PRIVATE INFORMATION PROTECTION

With the aim or the provision of quality services, the required personal information of customers/clients is gathered for the execution of orders/transactions, for which Pool-services follows the terms of this section and those of the principles for the protection of private information under the Law N.2472/1997, as is currently valid.

Pool-services, always motivated by the margins of the Law, reserves the right to alter the terms of security of private data at the user’s/visitors briefing through this webpage.

Information we gather and its purposes:

When you place an order at our e-shop, we require that you fill in you Surname and Name, your e-mail address, your place of residence and mobile phone number.

Pool-services collects and uses the aforementioned information for:

-the needs of support and completion of the transaction the customer requires of the company (e.g. confirmation of order)

-the purposes of commercial communication/promotion of sales (information on new products and services, or offers e.t.c. by Pool-Services)

-for the sole purpose of the collection of statistical data regarding its customers and/or their purchases on www.pool-services.gr

GDPR

The information you provide on our site is subject to processing as defined in the "Privacy Policy" section. By providing your information and using this website, you declare that you are aware of our company's Privacy Policy and provide your consent to the processing of the information that you provide us. Furthermore, you declare that all information that you provide us is accurate and true.

Items that are stored, are divided in two domains:

  • Creating and maintaining a customer account in our online store in order to facilitate user roaming, direct ordering and tracking of orders. Stored data is strictly used for order execution.

Customer Account Data
SAVED DATA
First Name
Last Name
Birth Date
E-mail
Address (possibly more than one)
Customer Orders
Order Amount
Purchased Products
Latest messages between customer/e-shop
Latest automated ordering messages
Latest Customer Connection
Abandoned Carts

  • Sending a message via the pool-services.gr contact form where the customer enters his / her details in order for us to be able to answer his / her message.

Contact Form Data
SAVED DATA
E-mail
Order Reference

Safety

We use encryption software to protect data handled by the Site. The decryption of your data is extremely strong and it is considered impossible .

COOKIES

Like most sites on the internet, we also use cookies in order for pool-services.gr to identify the user and offer personalized services. More specifically, the page uses cookies _ga cookie, _gat_gtag and _gid through Google Analytics to track the mobility of the e-shop. Furthermore, an e-shop cookie is created which stores the items necessary for the proper operation of the e-shop. The items that are stored are as follows:

Cookies' Data Table
SAVED DATADESCRIPTION
date_add The date and time the cookie was created (in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format).
id_lang The ID of the selected language.
id_currency The ID of the selected currency
last_visited_category The ID of the last visited category of product listings
ajax_blockcart_display Whether the cart block is "expanded" or "collapsed"
viewed The IDs of recently viewed products as a comma-separated list
id_wishlist The ID of the current wishlist displayed in the wishlist block.
checkedTOS Whether the "Terms of service" checkbox has been ticked (1 if it has and 0 if it hasn't)
id_guest The guest ID of the visitor when not logged in.
id_connections The connection ID of the visitor's current session.
id_customer The customer ID of the visitor when logged in.
customer_lastname The last name of the customer.
customer_firstname The first name of the customer.
logged Whether the customer is logged in.
passwd The MD5 hash of the _COOKIE_KEY_ in config/settings.inc.php and the password the customer used to log in.
email The email address that the customer used to log in.
id_cart The ID of the current cart displayed in the cart block.
checksum The Blowfish checksum used to determine whether the cookie has been modified by a third party. The customer will be logged out and the cookie deleted if the checksum doesn't match.

 

Personal information end-user

Regarding personal information relevant to the purchase of goods and/or services through its e-shop:

Pool-services store, which you choose for the execution of your order/orders,

-is likely to assign to a third-party business firm the supply of support services for the purpose of commercial communication of our company with the customers/clients of our e-shop.

- whenever there is an assignment for support services to a third party business firm, Pool-Services demands and commits that firm to comply with the principles of confidentiality which it itself observes regarding its customer/client personal information.

Information disclosure to third-parties

By no means does Pool-services disclose, sell, trade, provide, hire or in any other way supply to Legal or Physical Entities the information we are trusted with. The only exception to this case is made in case there has been a prior briefing to the customer/client, and they have consented during the gathering of their personal information, or in the case of personal information being required by Law and/or is necessary for the execution of the order through the actual shop (not the e-shop) of Pool-Services which they have chosen, and/or for the most complete protection of pool-services.gr and the users from third-party malevolent actions which can jeopardize the security of the aforementioned.

Promotional Advertisement messages

Pool-Services will not arbitrate its capability of contacting its e-shop users at their e-mail or postal addresses for promotional purposes of new products and services or information concerning offers. At the same time, the users are given the capability of termination of reception of such messages.

Personal information usage circumstance check

Our company observes a record of the aforementioned information for as long as you are a registered member of www.pool-services.gr.

The users of www.pool-services.gr reserve the right of access to their personal information (Article 12 Law 2472/1997) as well as the right to request the alteration or deletion of their personal information and are, generally, able to make objections regarding the processing of information that regards them.

Term and Condition Consent regarding Personal Information

Our e-shop www.pool-services.gr, with Γ.Ε.Μ.Η no.:135680508000 ,in accordance with Law orders regarding individual protection from the processing of personal information, supplies the users with the capability of not consenting to the processing of their personal information for the purpose of product or service commercial promotion during the time they fill in the special e-form with their personal information.

Child protection

Pool-Services and our e-shop www.pool-services.gr austerely observes the clear-cut policies in support of children.

  1. The collection, usage and disposal of their personal information as well as their family information is carried out only following the explicit written consent of their parents/guardians.

    www.pool-services.gr e-shop assures its customers/clients that it has taken all the necessary measures so that the content of commercial advertisements or messages:

  1. Does not bias/affect negatively at a spiritual or ethical level.

  2. Does not give a false or misleading image regarding the quality, size, value or performance of the advertised merchandise.