Terms of Service

Welcome to the Showusmeaclipcompss Mediterranean Flora Institute web resource (the "Site"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and utilization of our scientific monographs, morphological tools, habitat coordinates, and interactive anatomy archives. By accessing or browsing this website, you explicitly acknowledge and agree to be bound by these Terms in full.

1. Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights

All content published on this site—including but not limited to taxonomic matrices, comparative morphology diagrams, historical timelines, text, graphics, vector icons, source code, and design architecture—is the proprietary intellectual property of Showusmeaclipcompss Mediterranean Flora Institute or its licensors, protected by Greek copyright laws (Law 2121/1993 as amended) and international intellectual property conventions.

You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access, view, and print single copies of published academic texts solely for non-commercial educational, scientific, or personal research purposes, provided that full bibliographic attribution is maintained.

2. User Conduct and Habitat Protection Obligations

Given the threatened status of Phoenix theophrasti under European conservation law, users agree not to utilize any scientific location data published on this website for harmful activities, including:

• Unauthorized harvesting, uprooting, cutting, or field removal of wild germplasm, fronds, shoots, flowers, or seeds from Natura 2000 designated reserves.
• Introducing non-native ornamental palm species, soil samples, or commercial date plants into fragile buffer zones surrounding Vai, Preveli, or Asterousia canyons.
• Deploying automated scrapers, web spiders, bots, or data harvesting scripts to overwhelm our scientific database or compromise server infrastructure.

3. Scientific Accuracy and Disclaimer of Warranties

While our botanical editorial staff strives to ensure that taxonomic determinations, phenological dates, and ecological assessments are rigorous and current, all information is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.

We make no representations that field access directions, hiking paths through Cretan gorges, or microclimate descriptions are free of hazardous terrain, cliff falls, flash floods, or seasonal closures enforced by regional forestry services. Users visiting wild locations do so entirely at their own risk.

4. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permissible under applicable Greek and European law, Showusmeaclipcompss Mediterranean Flora Institute, its trustees, botanists, researchers, and officers shall not be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages resulting from:

• Your access to, use of, or inability to access the website materials.
• Physical injuries, trespass disputes, or penalties incurred while visiting wild palm locations mentioned on the site.
• Any inaccuracies, errors, or omissions within botanical identification guides.

5. External Hyperlinks

Our pages may contain hyperlinks pointing to external websites maintained by academic institutions, European research consortia, or environmental agencies. Showusmeaclipcompss has no control over the content, security practices, or privacy policies of third-party domains and assumes no responsibility for external resources.

6. Governing Law and Exclusive Jurisdiction

These Terms of Service and any contractual or non-contractual disputes arising from the use of this website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the Hellenic Republic (Greece), without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal proceeding shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Courts of Heraklion or Lassithi, Crete, Greece.

7. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to revise or update these Terms at any time without prior individual notice. The updated terms become effective immediately upon posting to this URL. Your continued interaction with the portal constitutes formal acceptance of the modified Terms.