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General conditions of use of the website of the University of the Basque Country – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

These General Conditions regulate the use of the website of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, which is accessed through the URL www.ehu.eus (https://www.ehu.eus).

The existence of these General Conditions of Use does not exclude the presence of other provisions or conditions of access to the various sections that make up the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO site – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA.

1. Acceptance of the conditions of use

Users must read these General Conditions of Use of this web page.

The use of the website of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA implies knowledge and full acceptance of the legal warnings and conditions in force at each moment in which the user accesses it and that are specified below.

Also, the use of certain services available to users of this official site may be subject to special conditions, warnings or instructions that should also be consulted and accepted without reservations by those.

2. General information

In compliance with the provisions of Law 34/2002, of July 11, Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, it is reported that the website www.ehu.eus has been created, is maintained and owned of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, denomination granted by the Order of February 25, 1980 (BOE of March 3, 1980) and whose address, which may be addressed to users, is:

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
Campus of Leioa
48949 Leioa
Tel .: +34 94 601 20 00
Fax: +34 94 601 22 00

3. Conditions of access and use

3.1 Free access

The use of the official site of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is free. However, the contracting of some of the services offered by this website may be, currently or in the future, conditioned to the payment of a price, in which case it will be conveniently indicated.

3.2 User registration

In general, access and use of this website does not require prior registration or registration of users.
However, and exceptionally, access to certain services is subject to the user’s registration in the databases of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. In these cases, the personal data provided to UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA as a result of the use of the website will be subject to treatment by the same, under the conditions and terms specified in clause 7 of the present General Conditions of Use.

The user agrees to use their access codes (username and password) in accordance with the following restrictions:

The password chosen by the user may not harm the rights to honor and the image of third parties, nor infringe in any way the industrial and intellectual property rights of third parties.

The access codes are for the exclusive use of the owner of the same and their custody, confidentiality and proper use are your sole responsibility.

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA will not be responsible for any damage that the user or third parties may incur as a consequence of other people using their password, both with their knowledge and without it.

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes not to disclose the password used by the user to any other person, except in the case that, in strict compliance with the relevant judicial requirements or, where appropriate, legally authorized authority, it is required.

3.3 Restrictions on access and use

The use of the official site of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA must obey the content of these General Conditions, and any applicable legal provisions.

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA reserves the unilateral right to deny access to this website to those users who fail to comply with these General Conditions of Use.

4. Industrial and intellectual property

4.1 Industrial Property

The denomination “UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA” as well as other distinctive signs (graphic or word) that appear on this website, are the exclusive property of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, who has them duly registered. Its ownership grants it, in accordance with Art. 34 of Law 17/2001, of December 17, of Trademarks, as well as with other national legislations that may be applicable, the exclusive right to use the aforementioned distinctive signs in traffic. economic. Therefore, its use by third parties without authorization is prohibited.

The eventual presence on this site of distinctive signs of ownership other than that described in the preceding paragraph is made without commercial purpose and with the authorization of its legitimate owners, always with due respect to their exclusive rights.

4.2 Domain names

In the same sense as referred to in the preceding section, the domain name “ehu.eus” and all those that serve to access directly to this official site are the exclusive property of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. The improper use of the same in the economic traffic would imply a violation of the rights conferred by its registration and will be pursued by the means provided by the Law.

4.3 Copyright

  1. The contents, texts, photographs, designs, logos, images, sounds, videos, animations, recordings, computer programs, source codes and, in general, any intellectual creation existing on this official site, as well as the site itself as a whole multimedia artistic work are protected as copyright by the legislation on intellectual property.
  2. Excluded from this protection are those files or computer programs not owned by UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA and free access (freeware) that the user can download from various pages of this site in order to enable access to same. It is, in any case, applications that have the character of public domain by express will of their authors.
  3. The user is expressly authorized by the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA to view, print, copy or store, in any other way, on his hard drive or other physical support, the intellectual creations protected and any other content or assets covered or not for an exclusive right, provided that this is done for personal and private purposes of the user, without commercial purpose or distribution and without modifying, altering or decompiling the aforementioned rights and contents. This power of personal use is understood to be recognized as long as the warnings to the copyright and industrial property rights herein made are respected intact and does not imply the granting of any license to the user.
  4. Likewise, museums, libraries, phono-libraries, archives libraries, archives or archives, of public ownership or integrated in cultural or scientific institutions, are exempt from requiring the authorization of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA for the reproduction of the content material and, in general, of any intellectual creation existing in this official or active site protected or not by an exclusive right, when that is done without profit purpose and exclusively for research purposes.
  5. Any other use will require the express and written authorization of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA.

4.4 Reserve of shares

The user of this website undertakes to respect the rights enunciated and to avoid any action that could harm them.

In accordance with what has been outlined above, the unauthorized use of the industrial and intellectual property rights owned by UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA and related or contained in this website, as well as any violation of the peaceful possession and ownership of the aforementioned rights will be prosecuted with the means that the legislation, both Spanish and international, foresee.

In this sense, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA has expressly reserved the exercise of all actions, both civil and criminal, that protect its legitimate intellectual and industrial property rights.

5. Links

On the website of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA the user can find various links that will lead to independent web pages of it. Its sole purpose is to facilitate access to other sources of information on the Internet related to culture and education and its inclusion in this website is inspired by the respect of intellectual property rights that, where appropriate, may correspond to its authors.

Likewise, the establishment of links to the website of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA must respect the intellectual and / or industrial property rights owned by UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA outlined in these General Conditions.

6. Disclaimer

6.1. For the contents

6.1.1. INFORMATION

The information, both its own and that of third parties, that appear on the website “www.ehu.eus” are provided “as is”, without guarantees of any kind as to their accuracy and updating. Consequently, the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not responsible for the possible damages that the use of the same could cause.

Likewise, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not liable for the legality of the content provided by suppliers, users and other third parties through any way of using this website.

In any case, the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to act with diligence to avoid the existence of illegal content on its website and, if it becomes aware of these contents, eliminate them or prevent access to them. same.

6.1.2. MISTAKES

In relation to what is mentioned in the previous paragraph, the published documents may contain technical inconsistencies or involuntary typographical errors, of which the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not responsible, but undertakes to correct them, as soon as possible , from the moment you have knowledge of them.

6.1.3. HYPERLINKS

The links, with or without advertising content, existing on this website allow the user to leave the website of UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. The linked sites are not related, unless otherwise indicated, to the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, who is not responsible for the contents that are accessed by virtue of the aforementioned links, nor for the modifications that are carried out performed in them, or the use made of them, or the technical availability of them.

In any case, the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to do everything possible to avoid the existence on its website of links to sites of illegal content, which promote illegal activities and, in general, susceptible to violate the principles of freedom and human dignity or violate the values and rights recognized by the Spanish Constitution and by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Also, if you become aware of the existence of the above links to sites with illegal content, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to act with diligence to suppress them immediately.

6.1.4. DISCUSSION FORUMS AND GATHERINGS

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not responsible for the opinions that could be expressed in the different permanent forums and in the occasional gatherings that take place within this site. In any case, it is the purpose of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA to ensure the correct use of these mechanisms, with the utmost respect for the dignity of people and the freedom of expression protected by the Spanish Constitution.

6.1.5. MODIFICATION OF CONTENTS

The information, presentation and services offered by this site may be subject to periodic or occasional changes, which may be carried out freely by UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA without being obliged to notify users.

6.2. For the operation of the site

6.2.1. PRIVACY

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA does not guarantee absolute privacy in the use of this site, since the possibility that unauthorized third parties may have knowledge of it and the circumstances in which it is performed should not be ruled out.

6.2.2. VIRUS

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA does not accept any responsibility for possible damages caused by computer viruses, whose absence is not guaranteed.

6.2.3. TECHNICAL DYSFUNCTIONS

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is exempt from any liability arising from the malfunction of the site or any of its services that has its origin in an accidental circumstance, force majeure, necessary maintenance work or any other cause not attributable to the same

6.2.4. COOKIES

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs users that they may have “cookies” installed on their systems. Cookies are small files of information that are generated through the instructions that web servers send to browsers, and which are stored in a specific directory on the user’s computer. Cookies by themselves can not personally identify the user, although they can contain the IP address of the user.

However, most browsers accept the use of cookies automatically, the user has the possibility to prevent access to your computer, by choosing the corresponding option of your browser.

6.2.5. PROXY-CACHE

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs users that it may have implemented a service called “proxy-cache” whose purpose is the intermediate storage of web pages and ftp files for the improvement of network performance as well as verification that they do not pose a danger to the corporate network. The log files or “log” of this service, which exclusively contain the URLs requested by each IP, will be removed as often as determined in accordance with the Computer Security Regulations and their data will not be transferred by the UNIVERSITY OF THE COUNTRY BASQUE – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA except in the case that, in strict compliance with the relevant judicial requirements or, where appropriate, legally authorized authority,

6.2.6. MONITORING OF THE NETWORK SERVICE

The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs users that it can have monitoring services for its network activity in anticipation of incidents that endanger the security of Information Systems. This monitoring can be assisted by an alert system that requires specific interventions that require the identification of potentially hazardous equipment to, if necessary, isolate it from the network until the normalization of its operation.

7. Policy of protection of personal data

7.1 Responsible for the treatment

The personal data that could be collected directly from the person concerned will be treated confidentially and will be incorporated into the corresponding treatment activity owned by the UPV / EHU.

7.2 Purpose

The purpose of data processing corresponds to each of the treatment activities carried out by the UPV / EHU.

7.3 Legitimation

The processing of your data is done for compliance with legal obligations by the UPV / EHU, for the fulfillment of missions carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of public powers conferred on the UPV / EHU, as well as when the purpose of the treatment requires your consent, which must be provided by clear affirmative action.

7.4 Data preservation

The personal data provided will be kept for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose for which they are collected and to determine the possible liabilities that may arise from the purpose, in addition to the periods established in the regulations on files and documentation.

7.5 Data communication

In general, personal data will not be communicated to third parties, unless it is so provided by law.

7.6 Rights of interested persons

Anyone has the right to obtain confirmation about the treatment of their data that is carried out by the UPV / EHU.

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, deletion and portability of your data, limitation and opposition to its treatment, as well as not being subject to decisions based solely on the automated processing of your data, when appropriate, before the University of the Country Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, to the attention of the Delegate of Data Protection, Barrio de Sarriena S / N48940 Leioa (Bizkaia) or at the e-mail address .

7.7 Additional information

All the information related to the data protection policy of the UPV / EHU is available at the link https://www.ehu.eus/babestu (https://www.ehu.eus/babestu), where you can consult, among others, the updated list of the activities of treatment that the UPV / EHU carries out, the legal basis for each treatment, possible recipients of the data for each of the treatment activities, as well as extended information on each of the rights that assist you in relation to your data, including standardized forms to facilitate your exercise.

8. Termination

Although, in principle, the duration of this site is indeterminate, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA reserves the right to suspend or terminate the provision of some or all of its services, without this decision being communicated with advance to the users of the same.

9. Law and applicable jurisdiction

These General Conditions of Use are governed by Spanish Laws.

Any dispute regarding the website of the UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY – EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA will be conducted before the Spanish jurisdiction, subjecting the parties to the Courts and Tribunals of the city of Bilbao, and their superiors, with express waiver of their privileges if they had it and they were different from the reviewed ones.