Terms of Use

The following sets forth the rules for the use of the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM and for the use of the resources and services available for all users of this website.

Legal Statement and Definitions

1. SOFICA-GROUP.COM (http://www.sofica-group.com) is a website - a virtual informational resource on the Internet owned by Sofica Group JSC which presents Sofica’s activities and services and offers the users the opportunity to use various services and resources.

2. Sofica Group JSC (“Sofica”) is a company duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria, registered under the VAT Act, UIC 131287574, with seat and registered address: Business Park Sofia,  building 3, Mladost District, Sofia, Bulgaria, with correspondence address: Business Park Sofia, building 3, Sofia 1766, Bulgaria, tel.: (+359 2) 400 8500, fax: (+359 2) 400 8502, email info@sofica-group.com. Sofica administers and controls the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM and provides via this website the services and resources subject to the present Terms of Use.

3. User is any natural person who uses the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM.

4. Malicious action is any action or omission violating Internet ethics or causing damages to persons connected to the Internet or associated nets, as well as any actions that could be qualified as crimes or administrative offences according to the Bulgarian or other applicable legislation. The malicious actions include, without being limited to, the following: sending unsolicited communications (SPAM, JUNK MAIL), flooding, gaining access to resources by using somebody else’s rights and passwords, using system imperfections for personal benefit or for gaining information (HACK), committing actions that could be qualified as industrial espionage or sabotage, damage or destruction of systems or information massifs (CRACK), sending systems for unauthorized distant control (“Trojan Horses”) or causing installation of viruses, disturbance of the other user’s normal work on the Internet and associated networks, etc.

5. Web page within the meaning of the present Terms of Use is a component and differentiated part of a website.

6. Information system/System is each particular device or combination of connected or similar devices, which in performance of certain program ensures or one of its components ensures an automated processing of the data.

7. Website is a distinct space on the Internet accessible by its unified address (URL) on a protocol HTTP, HTTPS or other standard protocol and consisting of files, programs, text, sound, picture, image or other materials and resources.

Conclusion and Validity of the Contract

8. By opening a web page, except the web page containing the present Terms of Use,  clicking on a hyperlink on the home page of the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM the User performs an electronic statement within the meaning of the Bulgarian Electronic Document and Electronic Signature Act and declares that he/she wishes to use the services and resources provided by Sofica through the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM, that he/she is acquainted with the present Terms of Use, accepts them and undertakes to observe them.

9. The contract is valid for Sofica and the User from the moment of the performance of the electronic statement under the previous paragraph until any termination of the use of the services and resources by the User through leaving the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM. At any new opening of the website, the User concludes a new contract with Sofica and the general terms of the contract are the Terms of Use valid at the moment of its conclusion. The Terms of Use are accessible on a prominent place on the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM.

Services and Regime for their Provision

10. Sofica provides to the User through the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM a complex of resources and services predefined as free and available on the web pages of SOFICA-GROUP.COM upon strict observance of the present Terms of Use by the User.

11. The computer and other technical equipment, the Internet access and the connection for the transmission of informational packages between the User and the web page necessary for the use of the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM are to be provided by the User him/herself. Sofica is not liable in cases where the User cannot access the services and resources because of the problems which are not under its control (hardware or software problems, problems regarding the Internet connection, etc.). 

12. The number, the features and the regime for the provision of the services as well as all the resources available on the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM may be changed at any time by Sofica. Sofica is entitled to discontinue the provision of these services as well as to block the access to the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM at any time at its sole discretion.

Terms of Use

13. As far as the services provided by Sofica are various, permanently on the increase and subject to their improving and widening, as well as in accordance with the legislative changes that reflect upon the provided services, the present Terms of Use may be amended unilaterally at any time by Sofica. In the event of amendment of these Terms of Use, Sofica undertakes to notify the User by publishing a notice regarding the changes on the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM.

Rights and Obligations of Sofica

14. Sofica does not have the obligation and objective possibility to control the way in which the User uses the provided services and resources.

15. Sofica is entitled, but not obliged, to install cookies on the User’s computers – small text files created by a web page through an Internet server and stored on the User’s hard disk which create an opportunity for recovery of information concerning the User and tracking his/her actions.

16. Sofica may place hyperlinks to other web pages and resources and advertising banners on the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM for selling goods and rendering services by third parties, including hyperlinks and advertising banners to websites that Sofica does have any control on.

Rights and Obligations of the User

17. The User is obliged to observe the terms and conditions determined by Sofica regarding the regime for use of the services as well as regarding any other line of conduct determined by Sofica for the purposes of protection or improvement of the quality and the reliability of the services and resources.

18. When using the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM and the services and resources provided through this website the User is obliged:

• to observe the Bulgarian legislation, present Terms of Use, Internet ethics, rules of morality and good faith;

• not to offend any material or non-material rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights;

• not to interfere in the proper functioning of the information system, including, but not only, not to perform access beyond his/her rights to access, to impede the availability, the reliability and the quality of services for other users, as well as not to use the services in any way that may cause denial of service; 

• not to extract through technical means or in a technical way resources from the databases on the website SOFICA-GROUP.COM or any part of such resources and in this way to create his/her own databases in an electronic or any other form;

• not to perform malicious actions within the meaning of the present Terms of Use.