Who we are
Introduction
Welcome to vital-foods.gr
Vital-foods provides you through this website gourmet foods mainly from Greece.
Vital-foods and vital-foods.gr are trading names for HOMEFEED SMPC. Legal use of the services provided means your unreserved acceptance of the terms herein and your compliance when using these services with the current Greek legislation that governs the transactions in question. The acceptance of the terms herein does not in any case constitute the conclusion of any form or employment relationship, cooperation or partnership with the Company.
The Company hereby does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted and secure access to the services of vital-foods.gr as its operation is likely to be affected by external factors that cannot be controlled.
Conditions of Use
- Reviews – Comments – Contact forms
Visitors may post reviews, comments and other content; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions or other information, as long as the content is not illegal, obscene, abusive, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of “spam”. You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. We reserve the right to remove or edit such content.
If you post customer reviews, comments, customer questions or answers, or other content generated by you for display on the website (including any images, video or audio, all together “content”, you grant Vital- Foods.gr (a) a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publish, make available, translate and modify such content throughout the world and (b) the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content. No moral rights are transferred by this provision.
You may delete your content from public view or, where such functionality is offered, change settings so that it is only shown to people to whom you grant access.
You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that, as at the date that the content or material is posted: (i) the content and material is accurate; and (ii) use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable policies or guidelines and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). By deleting content from public view, you withdraw your license for Vital-foods.gr to publish and make available that content publicly.
- Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
- Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
4. Our liability
We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the Vital-foods Services will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to Vital-foods may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.
Vital-foods will not be responsible for (i) losses that were not caused by any breach on our part, or (ii) any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure), or (iii) any indirect or consequential losses that were not foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the Vital-foods.gr website.
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your legal right to have goods sent or services provided within a reasonable time or to receive a refund if goods or services ordered cannot be supplied within a reasonable time owing to a cause beyond our reasonable control.
The laws of some countries do not allow some or all of the limitations described above. If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above limitations may not apply to you and you might have additional rights.
- Ownership
This website is owned and maintained by HOMEFEED SMPC
Tax No: 800816076, Registration No:141924507000
Conditions of Sale
These Conditions of Sale govern the sale of products by Vital-Foods to you. For conditions relating to the sale by third parties to you on Vital-foods.gr see the Participation Agreement . When you use Vital-foods (for example Your Profile, Gift Cards or Vital-foods applications for mobile), you will also be subject to the terms, guidelines and conditions applicable to that Vital-foods Service (“Service Terms”). If these Conditions of Sale are inconsistent with the Service Terms, those Service Terms will control.
Please read these conditions carefully before placing an order with VITAL-FOODS. By placing an order with VITAL-FOODS, you signify your agreement to be bound by these conditions.
- Our contract
Your order is an offer to Vital-foods to buy the product(s) your order. When you place an order to purchase a product from Vital-foods, we will send you an e-mail confirming receipt of your order and containing the details of your order (the Order Confirmation E-mail). The Order Confirmation E-mail is acknowledgement that we have received your order, and does not confirm acceptance of your offer to buy the product(s) ordered. We only accept your offer, and conclude the contract of sale for a product ordered by you, when we dispatch the product to you and send e-mail confirmation to you that we’ve dispatched the product to you (the Dispatch Confirmation E-mail). If your order is dispatched in more than one package, you may receive a separate Dispatch Confirmation E-mail for each package, and each Dispatch Confirmation E-mail and corresponding dispatch will conclude a separate contract of sale between us for the product(s) specified in that Dispatch Confirmation E-mail. Your contract is with Vital-foods. Without affecting your right of cancellation set out in section 2 below, you can cancel your order for a product at no cost any time before we send the Dispatch Confirmation E-mail relating to that product.
You consent to receive sales invoices electronically. Electronic invoices will be made available in pdf format in the Your Account area of the web site. For each delivery, we will inform you in our Dispatch Confirmation E-mail if an electronic invoice is available. For further information about electronic invoices and instructions on how to receive a paper copy please refer to our help pages.
- Right of cancellation Up To 14 Days, Exceptions To Cancellation And Our Voluntary Returns Guarantee
STATUTORY RIGHT
You can cancel your order without giving any reason within 15 days from the day on which you or a third party indicated by you (other than the carrier) receives the goods purchased (or last good, lot or piece if it relates to goods or multiple lots or pieces delivered separately) or from the day of the conclusion of the contract.
You must inform us of your decision to cancel your order. You may submit your request by contacting us, or using this Cancellation Form.
EFFECTS OF CANCELLATION
We will reimburse all payments received from you for the goods purchased and will also reimburse delivery charges for the least expensive type of delivery offered by us, no later than 15 days from the day on which we received the above communication. We will use the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise. In any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement. We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest. If reimbursement occurs after the maximum time period mentioned above, the amount due to you will as of right be increased.
Note that you must send back the goods by following the instructions available on our return center no later than 14 days from the day on which us you communicate your cancellation. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning these goods. You may be liable if the value of the goods returned diminishes due to the handling of the goods (except when it was necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods).
OUR VOLUNTARY RETURNS GUARANTEE
All products from the Vital-foods site can be returned within 30 days of receipt of the products to Vital-foods if the products are complete and are in an unused and undamaged condition.
If you return products according to these voluntary returns guarantee, we will refund to you the purchase price already paid by you, but not the delivery costs of your initial purchase. Likewise, the transport risk and return costs might be borne by you This returns guarantee does not affect your statutory rights and therefore does not affect your right of cancellation as described above.
3. PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
All prices are inclusive of legally applicable VAT.
We list availability information for products sold by us on the website including on each product information page. Beyond what we say on that page or otherwise on the website, we cannot be more specific about availability. As we process your order, we will inform you by e-mail as soon as possible if any products you order turn out to be unavailable and you will not be charged for those products.
Please note that unless otherwise stated on the website, delivery estimates are just that. They are not guaranteed delivery times and should not be relied upon as such.
4. PRODUCT INFORMATION
Unless expressly indicated otherwise, Vital-foods is not the manufacturer of all the products sold on this website. While we work to ensure that product information on our website is correct, actual product packaging and materials may contain more and different information to that displayed on our website. Ingredients may also change. All information about the products on our website is provided for information purposes only. We recommend that you do not rely solely on the information presented on our website. Please always read labels, warnings and directions provided with the product before use.
7. OUR LIABILITY
HOMEFEED SMPC and its affiliates will not be responsible for (i) losses that were not caused by any breach on our part, or (ii) any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure), or (iii) any indirect or consequential losses that were not foreseeable to both you and us when the contract for the sale of products by us to you was formed.
The laws of some countries do not allow some or all of the limitations described above. If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above limitations may not apply to you and you might have additional rights.
Nothing in these conditions limits or excludes our responsibility for fraudulent representations made by us or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or willful misconduct.
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your right to have the products sent to you within a reasonable time. If the delay occurs before the products are dispatched, we will not charge you for the products until they are dispatched and you may cancel your order at any time prior to dispatch.
8. APPLICABLE LAW
These conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the Greek Laws. In any case, for any dispute arising between the Company and the visitors or members of the Website, the Courts of the city of Athens are competent and Greek Law is applicable. If you are a consumer and have your habitual residence in the EU or the UK, you additionally enjoy the protection afforded to you by mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.
9. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONDITIONS OF SALE
We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and terms and conditions, including these Conditions of Sale at any time. You will be subject to the terms and conditions, policies and Conditions of Sale in force at the time that you order products from us, unless any change to those terms and conditions, policies or these Conditions of Sale is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it may apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these Conditions of Sale is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
11. CHILDREN
We do not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children’s products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18 you may only use vital-foods.gr with the involvement of a parent or guardian.