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Terms of Use

General Information

We welcome you to www.gvcworld.eu, the official website of Global Visa Center World (heneceforth referred to as “We” or “GVCW”). 

Visitors of this website, whether potential visa applicants or not (henceforth referred to as “You” or “User(s)”) are urged to read our Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy and our Fraud Disclaimer. Use of this website and of all services provided via this website are subject to acceptance of the Terms of Use stated in the aforementioned notices. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you should immediately refrain from making any use of this website and avoid accessing or using it in the future.

Our company offers several services and some of them are described in this website. However, it is important to understand that even when some services provided by GVCW aim at facilitating one or more stages of a visa application procedure (for example: data collection, logistic and procedural facilitation), GVCW does not have the right or the authority to issue or deny a Visa, as this function is an exclusive right of the issuing country and its competent consular authorities.

Please note that this website (www.gvcworld.eu) provides general information about GVCW, an overview of its services and other general information that might be of interest to a potential visa applicant. 

Accordingly, provision of any services related to a visa application is not possible directly at www.gvcworld.eu. Should you choose to use such services as offered by GVCW, you will have to visit a dedicated website, depending on your country of residence. You may be forwarded to such a website by clicking on the automatic links found at www.gvcworld.eu. Upon first visiting a dedicated website and before making any use of its offered services we urge you to read the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Legal Disclaimer applicable to the dedicated website.

Content of the Website

As already stated, www.gvcworld.eu is intended to provide general information about GVCW, an overview of its services and other general information that might be of interest to a potential visa applicant. Accordingly, such information should not be relied upon for any specific purpose and GVCW does not warrant or represent its reliability, accuracy and completeness. Should you rely on the aforementioned information , GVCW shall not be held responsible and/or liable for any loss or damages you or a third party might suffer, regardless of whether such loss or damages might be direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential. 

We do not warrant that the functions of this website and/or the websites offered via or in conjunction with this website will be uninterrupted and/or free from errors, viruses or other similar harmful technologies. Accordingly, should any of the aforementioned phenomena occur, GVCW shall not be held responsible and/or liable for any for loss or damages you or a third party might suffer, regardless of whether such loss or damages might be direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential. 

Please also note that GVCW reserves the exclusive right to edit the content of this website without providing any notice.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge that, as between GVCW and you, except for any content created by you or any other user, content included in advertisements or promotions and content created by governmental or other incumbent agencies and posted at this website for your convenience, GVCW is the only owner of all content in this website or content e-mailed to you or otherwise supplied to you in conjunction with this website. Such content may include, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, designs trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and other material appearing on this website and are thus protected by Law. Unless GVCW explicitly permits otherwise, access to such content can by no means by understood as direct or implied license to use or own the content and/or the Intellectual Rights it includes. You may however browse through the website and make use of its services for your personal, strictly non-commercial, purposes. In such capacity you may copy, print or store parts of the content of this website which are necessary for the said purposes. Should you in any way share this content with third party, you agree to always make reference to its source and owner.

Unlawful/Prohibited use of this website

While accessing and/or making use of any of the services offered by this website a User shall not attempt to:

  • Violate any laws
  • Violate any policies of GVCW
  • Violate any third-party rights (IP or other)
  • Hide his/her IP address or bounce his/her communication by use of an intermediate hardware or software
  • Post content that is
    • inappropriate, 
    • harmful,
    • inaccurate or false,
    • discriminatory,
    • defamatory or libelous,
    • or irrelevant to the purposes of the website
  • Interfere with the operation or the content of the website. The following actions or omissions constitute such interference (the list is indicative and by no means exhaustive):
    • Plant, distribute or place viruses or other technologies which may be proven harmful to the rights, interests and property of GVCW or any third party.
    • Alter or modify logs
    • Gain root access the website or its source code
    • Make use of robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, web beacons, cookies, hacking software, search engines or any other existing or future means, whether manual, mechanical, automated, electronic, electrical, software or hardware in order to:
      • Cause denial of access to the website or some of its features or services
      • Slow down the website or any of its features, components or services 
      • Cause the website to function for any purpose other than the ones for which it is intended. 
  • Copy and or distribute original or modified content from this website and GVCW intellectual property (such as copyrights and trademark)
  • Erase or modify contents of the website
  • Gain access to and/or collect information about other users or any information related to other users 
  • Gain access to parts of the website that are restricted and which he/she is not authorized to access
  • Impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on GVCW software, hardware, networks or other infrastructure

Should you be perceived to be attempting or making such unlawful or prohibited use, GVCW reserves its rights to hold you responsible and/or liable under applicable Law. 

Limitation of access and use of this website

GVCW may at any time by use of any technically appropriate means, temporarily or permanently limit, suspend, restrict or terminate your access to this website, any content you may have posted on this website and/or any services GVCW provides or may provide in the future. GVCW may also remove any content you may have posted on the website.

Such limitation is at GVCW’s unrestricted discretion but is most likely to occur especially when you are perceived to be making unlawful/prohibited use of this website (see above), regardless of other legal or other permitted means or remedies deployed or deployable by GVCW. 

Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy

The information that you provide about yourself to GVCW will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In the Privacy Policy you may find our Cookies Policy, a dedicated section regarding Cookies we currently use or may use in the future and how we use them. 

Fraud warning

It has been noted in the past, that certain individuals or organizations may approach users of services, such as the ones GVCW may be offering, and falsely present themselves as our employees, affiliates agents or representatives.

Please note that under no circumstances shall GVCW be held liable or responsible for any claims, losses, damages, expenses or other inconvenience resulting from or in any way connected to the actions of such imposters.

You can learn more about detecting and dealing types of such fraudulent behavior by reading our Fraud Disclaimer.

Advertisements and Promotions

GVCW may post or otherwise run advertisements and promotions from third parties on this website. Should you choose to interact with such third parties because of such advertisements and promotions, you agree and accept that any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such interactions, are solely between you and the said third parties. GVCW shall not be held responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such interactions or as the result of the presence of third-party advertisers on the website.

Links to other websites

The website may contain automatic links to other websites. Apart from the country specific websites mentioned in the section “General information”, such websites are unrelated with GVCW. Accordingly, such websites shall not be understood as affiliates, (sub) contractors, agents or officers of GVCW, or in any way related to GVCW. As a result, GVCW and its officers, employees, (sub)contractors and agents shall bare no responsibility or liability arising out of or in any way connected to these websites or any information contained therein. 

Indemnity

Should you be found in breach or violation of any of these Terms of Use you agree to Indemnify GVCW and its employees, agents, (sub)contractors and affiliates against any claim by any third party arising out of or related to your aforementioned breach of violation. 

The terms of the previous paragraph apply should you be found in breach of local laws or third-party rights while making use of this website or any information or services offered on this website. 

Under no circumstances shall GVCW be held responsible or liable for damages of any kind, including without limitation, direct or indirect, incidental or consequential damages, legal costs and attorney fees arising out of the use of or failure to access or use GVCW's website, or any information or services offered on the website.

Severability & Waivers of breach

Should any provision of these Terms of Use be held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall be considered valid and enforceable.

Should GVCW not take action following a breach by you or any other User, this should not be perceived as waiver of any of its right with respect to this breach or any subsequent breach.

Captions and Headings

All captions and headings in these Terms of Use are intended for convenience of reference only and shall not be construed as having any substantive value or use.

Amendments

These Terms of Use may be amended at any time. Unless stated otherwise in these Terms of Use or Law, all amended terms shall automatically become applicable upon being posted on this website, without you being notified or asked for your consent.

Entire Agreement/ Pre-existing agreements and contracts

These Terms of Use, including our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement and understanding between GVCW and you. Moreover, each Party clearly states that in entering into this agreement, it has not relied on any Pre-Contractual statement.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with Greek law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of Athens, Greece shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms of Use or any legal relationship established by them. 

However, and while Greek Law shall still be the only applicable law, GVCW shall retain the exclusive right to alternatively bring proceedings in the country of your residence or your principal place of business.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about these Terms of Use, you can contact us at info@gvcworld.eu