I. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS – PERSONAL DATA

 

1. PREAMBLE:

These Terms of Use constitute the terms and conditions of use of this website ynelaw.com (hereinafter the “Website”).
The Website is addressed exclusively and only to Users over the age of eighteen (18).
If, however, underage users declare a false date of birth when entering the Website or enter a false date of birth when using the services of the Website, the Law Firm (hereinafter referred to as the Firm) shall not be liable, reserving all its legal rights against the parents, guardians or persons exercising parental care for any damage that the Firm may suffer from their false declaration.

The mere access and use of the Website constitute full and unconditional acceptance of the Terms of Use. It is thus presumed that the Client – User has carefully read, understood and accepted the Terms of Use, as well as the compliance with the Greek and European legislation.
The Client – User is responsible and must ensure that all persons accessing our website through his own internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply with them.

The Firm reserves the right to prohibit and/or terminate the transmission of the Website (or the operation of some of its services) to any user, in cases where we reasonably consider that such access may endanger us and/or the user or another third party, as well as when the user has violated the Terms of Use and/or the law.
It is prohibited to post in any way obscene or defamatory material on the Website or any similar action and the distribution of content that constitutes a criminal offence and is punishable by law. In case of posting of such material by a Client – User on the Website, the Firm shall immediately terminate the access of such Client – User to the services of the Website, shall report this incident to the competent authorities, reserving all other legal rights.

2. PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE AND SERVICES

The provision of legal advice and services by our firm is provided by members who are registered with the Athens Bar Association, where our firm is located. When providing legal services, members may employ other persons working in or in cooperation with the firm. These persons are not allowed to provide independent services to the Client on an autonomous basis outside the framework of the operation of the law firm named “ YNE Law Firm – Yvette Nadia Evangelatou & Associates”, hereinafter referred to as the Firm. These persons operate in an auxiliary capacity on an exclusive and confidential basis under the supervision of our Firm. A list of individuals who provide legal services on behalf of our Firm is available on our official website.

Legal services are provided by our Firm under a contract under the title “Assignment of mandate”, which is drawn up in writing in Greek and English in original form and contains the description of each case and more specific terms of agreement concerning the fee or regulating other issues relevant to the case.
Any employment or cooperation of external professionals or other law firms or companies in other jurisdictions, other than Athens, shall require the prior consent of the Client-User. The Firm shall not be liable for fees and expenses charged by external partners. The Client-User shall pay fees and expenses to cooperating external professionals upon prior agreement.

3. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT OF MANDATE – AUTHORISATION TO USE PERSONAL DATA

With the written Assignment of Mandate, the Client – User shall give written permission for the use and processing of personal data in the context of processing and fulfilling the purposes of the Assignment.

4. SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Firm exclusively provides legal advice and services. Any other services, such as, but not limited to, accounting, financial, tax, technical and other specialties, are outside the scope of the Firm’s services and its scope of responsibility. The Firm may, however, express opinions on relevant legal issues or matters of another domain, but this does not constitute official legal advice and the Firm does not assume responsibility for the correctness of such opinions.
The Client-User shall provide the Firm with all necessary information and documents related to the Assignment of the Mandate and shall inform the Firm of any change of circumstances. The Client-User is responsible for the correctness and completeness of all information and documents provided in the context of the Mandate Assignment and for the purposes thereof.

After signing the Assignment of the Mandate, the Firm does not need to modify the content of the Mandate or update any information, opinions or documents provided or prepared for the Client-User as a result of amendments or revocation of legal acts, development of case law or change of circumstances.

5. FEES – PRICING

The Client-User shall pay the Firm for legal services provided on the basis of the provisions set out in the text of the Contract of Engagement or agreed between the Client-User and the Firm in more specific terms by email.

The fee estimates provided by the Firm are always indicative and based on information available to the Firm at the time of the estimate. The Firm may undertake any action it deems necessary or appropriate for the performance of the case under the Assignment of the Mandate, and may charge reasonable costs, in addition to the fee, in providing the services (including, but not limited to, costs associated with transportation, translations, photocopying, long distance calls, notary fees, stamps) for which the Client agrees in advance to pay in the performance of the Assignment.

In addition to the fees, the Client-User is charged with the foreseen and applicable value added tax at the rate set by the Law. If the Client-User is required to deduct or withhold any taxes or other amounts (such as bank charges) from any amount payable under an invoice from the Law Firm, then the Client-User shall pay and bear such taxes or other amounts and shall ensure that the Firm receives the full amount of the invoice as if no such deduction or withholding was required. If payment of an invoice is late, the Firm may suspend the provision of legal services and charge interest at the rate of 0.06% on the overdue amount for each day of delay until full payment by the Client-User of the overdue amounts.

The Client-User shall reimburse the Firm’s expenses for the collection of any amounts due. The tax documents are sent to the Client-User in electronic form to the e-mail address indicated in the Mandate Agreement and in accordance with the terms and conditions of their issuance set by the applicable national legislation (Greece), as the place of provision and performance of legal services and, consequently, their invoicing.
Fees and any expenses incurred in the context of the fulfilment of the purposes of the Assignment of the Mandate shall be paid either by credit card of the client or to a business account indicated in the text of the agreement and in euro currency.

The payment of 50% of the agreed fee and part of the expenses by the Client-User is made upon the assignment of the order and the payment of the remaining 50% of the fee and other expenses is made before the completion and delivery – execution of the service.
See more details about our Charging Policy.

The Firm reserves the right to retain the file and not to send copies of such documents to the Client-User until it has been paid in full by the Client-User for all actions taken to service his/her case under the Agreement.

6. CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

Before accepting the assignment, the Firm shall conduct an internal conflict of interest check to verify that the Firm is free to accept the assignment in accordance with the rules of the local bar association governing the Firm.

Notwithstanding the verification procedures, circumstances may arise that prevent the Firm from acting for the Client-User in an ongoing or future matter. In such cases, the Local Bar Association’s Rules of Professional Conduct and Ethics governing conflicts of interest shall apply, and the Firm may terminate the Agreement. In such case, the Firm shall return to the Client-User all documents, if any, with written proof of the actions and fees and expenses that have taken place up to the delivery, in discharge of the mutual rights and obligations of the Firm and the Client-User pursuant to the written Assignment of Mandate.

7. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND INITIAL DOCUMENTS

The Client-User agrees to exchange communication electronically. The Client-User is aware and accepts the risks involved in electronic communication, including but not limited to, that messages may be delayed or lost, confidential and personal information may be intentionally or unintentionally altered, or stolen or disclosed to third parties. In this regard, the Firm is not responsible for risks associated with electronic communications.
The Firm uses commercially produced IT systems (including electronic communication systems, document management systems) containing information about the Firm’s clients, legal services provided to them and documents relating to them.

The measures taken to protect electronic communication and to ensure its confidentiality and preservation by the Firm may in some cases preclude communication by e-mail by the Client-User. The Client-User will monitor important e-mails by telephone or ask the Firm to confirm receipt of an e-mail.
Upon completion or termination of a case under the Assignment of the Mandate, the Firm shall return all original documents in its possession in connection with the Mandate, and the Firm need not store or dispose of any documents or information relating to a completed case.

8. IDENTIFICATION OF CLIENT – USER

In accordance with the regulations on the prevention of money laundering, in certain cases the Firm may and must identify the Client, persons acting on behalf of the Client-User, and ultimate beneficiaries of the Client-User or determine the origin of the Client-User’s assets in certain cases. The Firm may be required to reject or suspend an assignment and to report to the authorities if the Client-User does not provide the required information, if a transaction is suspicious, or if there is a suspicion that assets are being used to finance illegal activities or money laundering.

Although the Firm has a professional and legal obligation to avoid disclosing information about its clients and the legal services provided to them, applicable law may require the Firm to inform the competent authorities about transactions involving the use of cash that exceed specified thresholds, or if it becomes known to the Firm or the Firm has reason to suspect that any given transaction carried out in the name of the Client-User may violate applicable laws and regulations.
If it is deemed necessary for the Firm to notify about money laundering at any time while acting on behalf of the Client-User, the Firm may not be allowed to inform the Client-User about the notification or the reasons for it.

In certain circumstances defined by the Law, the Firm may need to provide information to the tax, revenue and customs authorities regarding the Client-User’s VAT registration number and the value of the services purchased by the Client-User or also make information available to external service providers for the fulfilment and enforcement of the rules of the relevant legislation.
The Client-User understands and accepts that such measures, which are mandatory obligations of the Firm, do not constitute a violation of the provisions on professional secrecy.

9. DISCLAIMER

Content – Validity of the disclaimer
The “ YNE Law Firm – Yvette Nadia Evangelatou & Associates”, as well as the other partners associated with the Firm, reserve the right to disclaim liability for the timeliness, completeness, accuracy or quality of the information provided, as well as for any interruption, discontinuation or poor quality of the services of the website, for viruses, Trojan Horses that may be transmitted from the website or any third party using the website. Liability claims relating to any damages arising from the use of this information, including any information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected. This disclaimer shall be deemed to be part of the Internet publication to which we refer.

If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain unaffected by this fact.
The Firm shall not be liable for damages caused by advice or documents provided to the Client-User if they are used for any purpose other than that for which they were originally prepared. The Firm shall only be liable for the person who entered into the Agreement with the Firm under the terms set out in Chapter 13 of the General Conditions herein and shall not be liable for any damage that may be caused to any third party.

The Firm does not assume liability for services provided by outside professionals regardless of whether they are engaged at the initiative of the law firm or the Client, provided that the Client-User has been informed of the engagement of such other professionals.

The liability of Lawyers or persons involved in the Firm in the provision of legal services is excluded to the extent permitted by law.
The Firm shall not be liable for the exceeding of time schedules in connection with the performance of an agreed service due to reasons of force majeure, which cannot be controlled or foreseen in advance by the Firm and which are related to objective malfunctioning of the technical services of the Greek State or due to reasons of extraordinary circumstances, such as, but not limited to, total or partial suspension of the operation of public services and courts of the country due to COVID 19. In this case the payment of the fee and expenses shall not be affected but shall be paid by the Customer – User in accordance with the terms provided for in Chapter 4.

10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – copyright

This website is owned by the ““ YNE Law Firm – Yvette Nadia Evangelatou & Associates”.
All copyrights including, but not limited to, the domain name, copyright, source code, software, services offered, photographs, images, pictures, graphics, texts, illustrations, audio and/or image files and audio-visual and database files (hereinafter referred to as “Content”) used by or licensed to ““ YNE Law Firm – Yvette Nadia Evangelatou & Associates”, according to the law, belong to it. It is expressly forbidden to make this Content, in whole or in part, the subject of transfer, sale, assignment, cession (with or without consideration), commercial exploitation, copying, modification, reproduction, retransmission, transmission, distribution, sale or downloading in any way or means by the Users and/or by any third party. Copyright and other intellectual property rights in all work products created by the Firm in the course of the assignment of a case belong to the Firm.

However, the Client-User may use such attorney work product for the purposes for which the Client received the service product. The Client-User may access the contents of the Site for his or her own personal or private use, but not for commercial purposes or for public use.
The copyright or subject matter relating to this website is reserved. Any copying or reprinting of texts, such as diagrams, texts, images or other electronic or printed forms in public is not permitted without our prior written consent.
The Firm reserves the right to exercise all its legal rights to recover any damage it may suffer as a result of the infringement of rights by the client and/or third parties or due to improper or illegal use of the Website.

11. OBLIGATIONS OF CLIENTS – USERS

The Clients – Users agree and accept that the use of the services of the Website by them will be done in a way that does not offend and does not threaten in any way another User or third parties and does not constitute an indirect or direct threat to any other User or third party, is not contrary to the law, does not violate in any way the privacy, personal data, individual and social rights of Users or third parties, does not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party, and does not mislead or harm in any way the Firm or any third party, User or not, by knowingly promoting false, misleading or erroneous information or otherwise. Otherwise, the Firm reserves the right to exercise all its legal rights.

Clients – Users are prohibited to install and promote, in any way, malicious software or any kind of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising not requested by the recipient, such as but not limited to spam emails, chain letters, pyramid schemes and any other form of unsolicited content promotion.
The User-Customers are prohibited from installing, promoting and/or distributing content containing digital viruses or any other electronic code, files or programs designed to interfere with, destroy, limit or in any way affect the operation of any software or any other service of the Website or to prevent other User-Customers from using the Website and any other service connected to it.

12. LINKS / RELATIONS WITH THIRD PARTIES

The Website may contain links to other websites which are under the responsibility of third parties, natural or legal entities. The Firm may not control the availability and generally the correctness and completeness of the content of these websites, the information and/or services provided, the personal data protection policy followed on each other website (third party websites), as well as the services and/or shops to which each website may refer through links and hyperlinks. Therefore, the Firm is not responsible for any problem that may occur when visiting or using the services of third-party websites or third-party services, to which the Client – User should report.
The Firm in no way endorses or accepts the content or services of the websites to which it may refer, and/or that it is linked to all of the above in any other way, such as, but not limited to, a relationship of mandate, project, work, etc.

PERSONAL DATA

The Firm is committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of its clients’ personal data. As part of its commitment to privacy, the Firm shall on a regular basis review its privacy practices in order to be compliant with any requirements imposed by relevant legislation.
If necessary to provide legal services, or if required by law, the Firm may disclose to third parties (including notaries, translators, banks and government authorities) confidential information and documents relating to the Client without separate consent from the Client. If the Client instructs the Firm to use the services of other service providers to provide legal services or if the Client agrees to the use of other service providers proposed by the Firm, the Firm may, unless otherwise agreed, disclose to them confidential information and material as the Firm considers necessary for the overall performance of the Work.

As a consequence of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on 25 May 2018, together with other regulations applicable to ensure and maintain privacy, if for any reason you do not wish us to make available and process your personal data for purposes related either to the fulfilment of the request or case you entrust to us under the mandate contract, or to profiling to the extent related to any future promotions of our services, either by processing credentials to consider future job opportunities or for the purposes of servicing a specific request that may never arise, please feel free to let us know. In this case we will delete all your personal data from our records immediately without undue delay.

Our customers’ personal data are protected at all stages of data processing and are held by our firm under the strict requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will not be used for any purpose other than that related to your request or case. Your personal data will be held securely in our records, under strict confidentiality and will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required in relation to the services requested.

13.COMPLETION – TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT

The Customer may terminate the Agreement at any time by notifying the Firm in writing.
The Firm may terminate the Agreement – Assignment of the Mandate for any reason by serving fourteen (14) calendar days written notice for due cause with immediate effect. A valid reason for termination by the Firm includes the appearance of a conflict of interest, a material breach of the Agreement by the Client, the Client’s failure to pay the Firm’s fees and expenses in a timely manner, the Client’s refusal to cooperate with the Firm or to follow the Firm’s advice on a material matter, or any event or circumstance that would render the Firm’s continued representation of the Firm illegal or unethical, including where the Firm determines an activity or event, including where the Firm identifies an activity or events the characteristics of which relate to the use of criminal proceeds or the financing of illegal activities or the commission of related offences or an attempt to do so, or in relation to which the Firm suspects or knows that it constitutes money laundering or the financing of illegal activities or the commission of related offences.

During the term of the Mandate Agreement and for 12 months after its expiration or termination, the Client agrees to refrain from soliciting a lawyer, employee or proxy who worked for the Firm during the term of the Agreement for employment or services under another contract.
Upon termination of the Agreement, the Client shall pay the Firm any outstanding fees for legal services rendered, as well as expenses incurred prior to and up to the termination of the Agreement.

14. APPLICABLE LAW

The Agreement shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction where the registered office of the Firm is located.

CLAIMS

If the Client has a complaint or claim concerning activities of the Lawyer or other person engaged by the Firm in the performance of a Work, it must be delivered in writing to the Firm no later than 12 months from the date of provision of the legal service. After 12 months, the Client’s right to submit a claim will expire.
The Firm shall be liable to the Client only for proven wilful misconduct or gross negligence in relation to the provision of the service. If the Client settles a claim, compromises or otherwise takes action on a claim involving indirect damage against third parties without the consent of the Firm, the Firm shall not be liable for the claim. If the Customer makes a claim for compensation against the Firm for damage suffered as aforesaid, or claims such from the Firm’s insurers for indirect damage, the Customer assigns the right of action against third parties to the Firm or, if requested by the Firm, to its insurers.

The Client undertakes to indemnify the Firm against any claim by any third party against the Firm if during the term of the Agreement the Firm accepts liability to such third party in relation to the services provided to the Client. The Law Firm shall only be liable for the person who has entered into the Agreement with the Firm and shall not be liable for any loss that may be caused to any third party.

15.DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Any dispute, conflict or claim arising out of or relating to the Agreement shall be settled by negotiation or mediation.
In case of non-amicable settlement, the dispute shall be referred to the court having jurisdiction and where the law firm is located (jurisdiction of Greek courts).

16.NOTICES

All notices, requests and other communications under the Assignment Agreement shall be in writing or by e-mail and shall be deemed to have been duly given when sent by courier, registered mail, ordinary mail or e-mail to the addresses of the parties set forth in the Special Terms of the Agreement.
Each party will promptly notify the other party of any change in its contact information set forth in the Specific Terms.

17.AMENDMENTS

The Law Firm may unilaterally amend these General Terms and Conditions at any time, by notifying the Client by e-mail, at least 30 calendar days in advance. The Law Firm shall publish any amendments to the General Conditions on its website www.ynelaw.com. If the Client does not agree to an amendment to the General Terms, the Client may terminate the Agreement in accordance with clause 11 of the General Terms.

 

Last revision of terms of use was on the 10th June 2023