LEGAL ISSUES
- User Agreement
- Privacy Policy
- Copyright
- Terms and Conditions
USER AGREEMENT
Welcome to the IDENTIA Institute's website (www.identiacentre.net). This website is owned by the IDENTIA Institute. Access to and use of our website are subject to the terms and conditions contained in this User Agreement (hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”), any other agreements contained in our website and all the laws and regulations in force.
By accessing our website, you agree to observe the terms and conditions described below and waive any and all claims against IDENTIA Institute, its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents and representatives arising out of using our website. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please do not access. Otherwise, you may go ahead, use this website and access any information contained in it.
Your use of our website shall be deemed as proof of your awareness of and agreement with each of the terms and conditions set forth below.
The IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time. The user agrees to observe such changes as they may be introduced herein. It is upon the user to monitor any changes and to decide whether or not to continue to access and use the website on the basis of such changes. The website is accessible worldwide at no charge by IDENTIA Institute to anyone with Internet access unless otherwise noted. The user is responsible for all charges imposed by third parties associated with accessing the website, including any computer equipment, telephone or Internet connections and software access.
1. Intellectual Property . The materials displayed on and contained in our website (including, without limitation, all editorial materials, texts, photographs, illustrations, artwork and other graphic materials, names, logos, and trademarks; hereinafter “the Materials”) are property of IDENTIA Institute or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.
2. Display Permission. IDENTIA Institute grants the user the limited right to view the Materials only in his or her personal computer or other personal devices, and to copy and download such Materials provided that: 1) all copyright notices appearing on such Materials are maintained – hiding or removing such notices in any way is strictly prohibited; 2) the download, display, copying or printing of the Materials should be done for personal information purposes only. Such Materials may not be distributed, transmitted, displayed or disseminated in any manner or for any other purposes; and 3) IDENTIA Institute expressly grants permission to view specific materials freely.
The user agrees and undertakes to not modify, edit, alter or change the Materials contained in the publications hosted in or accessible through this website.
The user agrees to not upload or otherwise introduce any software or other materials into this website that may cause damage to computer equipment or the website itself. This includes, but is not limited to, any software or other materials containing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, etc. or other computer programming routines or subroutines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
The user agrees to not access our website for any unlawful purpose. The user agrees to not transmit, distribute, or store any information, data or other material in violation of any applicable law or regulation (whether bylaw or other rule imposed by any governmental authority).
3. Prohibited actions. All user-provided information and the user's access to this website: a) shall not be fraudulent; b) shall not violate any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, password, or other intellectual property, such as proprietary, advertising or privacy rights; c) shall not violate any law, statute, bylaw or regulation; d) shall not involve any defamation, threat or harassment; e) shall not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other computer programmes or routines that directly or indirectly result in damage, detrimental interference with, surreptitious interception of or expropriation of any equipment, system, data or personal information; and f) shall not violate any IDENTIA Institute Policies relating to this website. In any of the above-described instances, user's access to the website may be blocked or terminated immediately by IDENTIA Institute.
4. Right to Terminate User/Remove Content. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to automatically terminate the user's limited access right, without notice, should the user breach any of the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement and in the website. Except as expressly stated herein, the user acknowledges that he or she has no legal right, entitlement or share regarding the Materials, other than a limited right of access and purchase, as provided by law (especially all statutes regulating intellectual property rights). IDENTIA Institute may suspend or terminate user's access to this website if user chooses to market or trade in our users' data or transfers data to any site or venue other than IDENTIA Institute. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to discard or remove any data or materials without notice should they pose a problem or risk for IDENTIA Institute.
5. Termination of restricted access . Should a member-only access be established, the user will be authorised to access the website for the period for which IDENTIA Institute provides a valid password. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to terminate user's access at any time and without notice, for any reason or for no particular reason.
6. Limitation of Liability. Your use of the website is at your own risk and responsibility. Neither IDENTIA Institute nor any of its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents, representatives or licensors shall be liable to any user or anyone else for any loss, injury, or direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or similar damages should any action based on this Agreement result in negligence or any other legal issues, arising out of your access or use of, or your ineptitude to access or use, the website and the information contained therein or arising out of any action taken in response to or as a result of any information contained in the website. You hereby waive any and all claims against IDENTIA Institute and its affiliates, agents, representatives and licensors arising out of your use of the website and the information available therein.
7. User information. Any information or material that the user sends or transmits to or through this website is and will be considered not confidential and unpatented. The user accepts full responsibility for any sent or transmitted material or communication and grants IDENTIA Institute and its affiliates the rights of edition, copy, publication and distribution of any information or content sent or transmitted by the user for any reason. This does not apply to personal details as set forth in our Privacy Policy.
8. Disclaimer . The IDENTIA Institute, its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents, representatives and licensors refuse responsibility for the suitability or appropriateness of the content contained in this website. All such content is provided “as is”, without justification or authorisation of any kind. The IDENTIA Institute, its subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, agents, representatives and licensors refuse responsibility for any opinion, advice, announcement, or statement appearing in the website; such responsibility pertains to the authors of the relevant information or materials.
9. Links to/from other websites. The IDENTIA Institute and its affiliates do not review or monitor any websites linked to our website and thus are not responsible for the content of any such linked websites. Your use of such websites is at your own risk.
10. Voluntary Disclosure of Personal Information . The user should be aware that voluntary disclosure of personal information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) in a form, chat room, or otherwise involves the risk that third parties beyond our control might collect and use such information, resulting in unsolicited messages for which the IDENTIA Institute is not liable. IDENTIA Institute collects personal information that you choose to provide on our website. IDENTIA Institute uses this information for internal purposes, to sporadically send you information about IDENTIA Institute and its publications or other topics. If you would like to change any of the information that you have provided to IDENTIA Institute , or if you would like to be removed from the IDENTIA Institute mailing list, please contact IDENTIA Institute at identia@identiacentre.net
11. Security Passwords . The user accepts entire responsibility for any password issued to him or her. The user agrees to immediately notify IDENTIA Institute if such password is lost, stolen, disclosed to an unauthorized third party or otherwise may have been compromised. The user agrees to immediately notify IDENTIA Institute of any other breach of security in relation to our website that is known to you. The user is entirely responsible for any and all activities involving the personal password, even if performed by others.
12. Severability . If any provision hereof is held invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision and such invalid provision shall be deemed to be severed from the Agreement.
13. General considerations . A) Our Website contains information (including pricing or costs information) concerning IDENTIA Institute products and/or services and such information may contain typographical inaccuracies or other errors. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to make changes to this information, at any time and without notice. Your continued use of our website will be deemed to be an acceptance of any modification to the terms of this Agreement made by IDENTIA Institute; B) This Agreement and any disputes arising out of or related to the Website shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the Spanish and EU laws and all international treaties signed by Spain related to intellectual property; C) If you refuse or fail to abide by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to contents of our Website; D) The parties User and IDENTIA Institute are independent. Neither party may direct or control the day-to-day activities of the other; neither party may create or assume any legal obligation on behalf of the other nor shall this agreement be construed as creating any agency, partnership or joint venture between them; E) IDENTIA Institute shall provide notice to User via email or via conventional mail, to the address provided in the registration form or such other address provided by User to IDENTIA Institute; F) This Agreement, including the website's Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire general user agreement between User and IDENTIA Institute and supersedes any prior agreements or understandings between User and IDENTIA Institute. No amendment or modification hereof will be valid or binding upon either party unless made in writing and signed by the authorized representatives of both parties and; G) User acknowledges and agrees that this Agreement shall in no event be construed as a third party beneficiary contract and that it is not intended for the benefit of any person or company whomsoever except the parties hereto.
User acknowledges that he or she has read this Agreement, understands it and agrees to abide by its terms and conditions. User also agrees that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between User and the IDENTIA Institute and supersedes all proposals or prior endorsements, oral or written, and any other communications between you and IDENTIA Institute or any representative of IDENTIA Institute relating to the subject matter of this Agreement.
PRIVACY POLICY
The Privacy Policy of IDENTIA Institute may change from time to time so please re-visit this notice periodically.
User information policy
IDENTIA Institute is committed to respect and protect the personal information of each and every person who visits this website and grants that all personal information on operations done in this website will comply at all times with the recommendations established by the “Agencia de Protección de Datos” ( Information Protection Agency ) and by the law. The personal and/or financial information that the user voluntarily gives to IDENTIA Institute as a consequence of a financial transaction or operation will not be disclosed or sold to third parties in any case. This information will be safeguarded to avoid being accessed by unauthorized individuals.
All statistical and aggregate data –excluding personal information- from transactions and operations done by IDENTIA Institute are property of IDENTIA Institute. IDENTIA Institute will use this information as may deem fit.
IDENTIA Institute realises the importance of protecting the privacy of the information that may be collected from visitors and users. We try and strike a balance between the legitimate interest to collect and use the information received from and on the user and the user's reasonable privacy expectations. What follows is a description of how data collected on the user's visit to this website is managed and administered.
IDENTIA Institute educates all IDENTIA Institute employees about the importance of safeguarding privacy. IDENTIA Institute has the duty to allow access to user information only to those employees who may require it in order to fulfil their responsibilities.
Policy about minors
This website is not addressed to minors in particular (under the age of 18). However, minors are advised to check with a parent or legal guardian before filling out any form in this website, especially as regards the purchase of information or products by credit card; credit card misuse is unnoticeable to IDENTIA Institute , so parents/legal guardians are responsible for the custody of any credit cards which might be used by minors.
Use of cookies
Your hard drive will store pieces of information called cookies when opening some pages in this website. These cookies are re-used by your computer only if the user returns to the same webpage. Cookies can provide information on how and when the pages are visited and by how many individuals. This technology does not store personal, identifying data; these data is obtained in an aggregate, not identifying manner. The data compiled through this technology may help to improve future websites.
Personal identifying information
IDENTIA Institute stores personal identifying information such as: name, address, e-mail address, etc., only when it is voluntarily given by the User and as provided by Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December, on Personal Information Protection ( Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de 13 de Diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (LOPD ), which regulates the treatment of personal information. In order to exercise his or her legitimate access, amendment and cancellation rights envisaged in the law, the user needs to send a letter to IDENTIA Institute. The User is kindly asked to request the necessary mailing address by writing at identia@identiacentre.net
Linked Sites
As an added-value service for the user, IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to offer links to other websites, in which case we strive to carefully select websites of potential interest for the user and which meet certain minimum standards. Nevertheless, as web pages change extremely fast, compliance with standards cannot be guaranteed and, thus, we refuse responsibility for the contents of linked websites.
Disclaimer of responsibility
IDENTIA Institute undertakes to devote all its technical, organizational and human means available to protect the user's privacy. Nevertheless, IDENTIA Institute disclaims all civil and financial liability deriving from any technical error in the services rendered, caused by the inherent features of computer equipment and the Internet, and any loss, misuse, theft, manipulation, unauthorised access, theft, fire, floods or natural disaster that could affect the data.
This Notice is Not a Contract
This notice of Privacy Policy is for your information only; it is not an agreement or an offer and does not establish contract or other rights for you, the User. In particular, you have not created or entered into a contract by reading this notice and then submitting information.
Any change in the Privacy Policy will be included in this web page.
COPYRIGHT
All information and materials on this site, including but not limited to text, trademarks, logos, graphics and images (“the Materials”), are the copyrighted works and other forms of intellectual property of IDENTIA Institute, or of third parties who have authorized use of the Materials on this site. The notices “© IDENTIA”, “© (year) IDENTIA Institute”; “© IDENTIA Institute (year)” displayed in any of the products or materials offered or included in this website indicate that such products or materials are copyrighted works of IDENTIA Institute , as such notices are the equivalent of “© IDENTIA Institute ”.
The Materials are for your personal use only and cannot be reformatted, reposted, resold or distributed by electronic means or otherwise without the written permission of IDENTIA Institute. IDENTIA Institute grants the user the limited right to display the Materials only on his or her personal computer or personal wireless device, and to copy and download such Materials provided that any copyright, trademark or other notice appearing on such Materials is preserved, displayed, copied or downloaded as inherent part of the Materials and is not removed or erased. If, for any particular reason, the user requires special permission to breach these rules, please write to identia@identiacentre.net .
As provided by the User Agreement, the user agrees to not modify, edit, alter or change any of the Materials in any manner without written permission from IDENTIA Institute. Except as expressly stated herein, you acknowledge that you have no legal right, title or share as regards the Materials other than a limited right of display in a personal computer or device.
Links from other websites
We encourage and appreciate links from your own website pages to the IDENTIA Institute website. Permission is expressly granted to any person or organisation that wishes to post a link in his/her own website to the www.identiacentre.net website. As a courtesy, please notify us of any such linking at identia@identiacentre.net. Please note that any such linking does not necessarily constitute an endorsement by IDENTIA Institute. IDENTIA Institute undertakes no obligation to monitor such sites, and User agrees that IDENTIA Institute is not responsible for the content or technical difficulties of any such sites. User further agrees that he/she will immediately discontinue such a link upon receiving written notice from IDENTIA Institute of its objection to any such link.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
General terms
By visiting the website of IDENTIA Institute , the user agrees to abide by the following TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Precondition
All Users must make an appropriate use of this website and its contents. IDENTIA Institute WILL NOT be responsible for damages arising out of or caused by the use of the information contained in it. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to change, revise, remove or alter this information at any time and in any manner. The User will be legally liable before the courts in the event that he or she attacks or performs actions that could damage this website in any manner.
Orders
Orders can be placed online through the website of IDENTIA Institute or by e-mail, letter, fax or phone. In all cases IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to accept the order.
Pricing Policy
The prices and costs of the products may be increased as appropriate according to tax requirements, handling costs, shipping, etc. In all cases all added costs will be displayed during the automated purchasing process in the webpage. IDENTIA Institute reserves the right to not ship an order in the event of mistaken prices or error in the systems that calculate added costs or taxes.
Paying Methods
Ordered items are shipped right after full payment completion. For online orders, just follow the guided payment process, which depends on the selected payment method.
Delivery of Tangible Items or Goods
Orders are delivered in compliance with the stated deadlines, which run starting on the payment day. Delivery timeframes are indicated before payment. Delivery dates should always be taken as approximate. IDENTIA Institute will do its best to honour them. Nevertheless, a delivery delay will not imply cancellation of the order and does not give the User the right to receive compensation.
Deliveries are considered “completed” upon receipt of the product and signature of the delivery note by the addressee. Should the received items differ from those stated in said delivery note, the addressee may file a complaint within seven (7) days after the delivery.
Shipping costs are on the User, unless expressly stated otherwise.
IDENTIA Institute is not responsible for any damages caused during the shipment, except for items carried by IDENTIA Institute personnel.
Product Information
The images that illustrate the products may not be exactly identical to the product itself due to unexpected changes, error, or faulty web configuration. Therefore, the images are not binding and involve no commitment for IDENTIA Institute .
Returns Policy
The purchase of a product implies and constitutes a donation (equivalent to at least the item's cost price). We do not accept returns, in other words, we do not return donations.
Miscellanea
These general terms and conditions for offer and sale of items, as well as any signed contracts, will be governed by all applicable laws and regulations.
Any dispute related to the interpretation or execution of the general terms and conditions of sale and purchase, and any signed contract with a customer, will be the exclusive competence of the Courts or as provided by applicable law.