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GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF THE
URÍA MENÉNDEZ ABOGADOS, S.L.P. WEB SITE
OBJECT
The following General Conditions regulate the use (including
mere access) of the web pages which are part of the Uría Menéndez
Abogados, S.L.P. (“URÍA MENÉNDEZ”), web site, including the contents
and services made available therein (the “URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site”). Any person
who has access to the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site (“User”) hereby accepts the
General Conditions which shall be in force each time the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site is
visited.
The contents and services that URÍA MENÉNDEZ makes available to
User in the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site (hereinafter referred to as the “Contents”
and the “Services”, respectively) may likewise be regulated by
special conditions which shall prevail over the General Conditions in
the event of a discrepancy (the “Special Conditions”). User
likewise accepts the applicability of the relevant Special Conditions
each time the corresponding Content or Service is used.
Consequently, User must read the General Conditions
carefully each time s/he intends to use the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site and, if applicable,
the corresponding Special Conditions, each time s/he intends to use the
relevant Content or Service.
In any event, URÍA MENÉNDEZ reserves the right to modify at any
time and without prior notice, the appearance and structure of the URÍA
MENÉNDEZ Site, as well as the General Conditions and/or the relevant Special
Conditions.
USE OF THE URÍA MENÉNDEZ SITE
The URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site does not purport to constitute a source of advice or a
means to establish a professional client-attorney relationship or of any
other kind.
Except as otherwise provided in the Special
Conditions, the use of the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site shall be free of charge,
notwithstanding the connection charge paid by the User to gain access
through the relevant telecommunications network.
User acknowledges and voluntarily and expressly
accepts that the use of the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site is made under his/her sole and
exclusive responsibility at all times.
While making use of the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site, User undertakes not
to act in any way that may damage the image, interests or rights of URÍA
MENÉNDEZ or of third parties, or that may damage, render useless or overload the
URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site, or that may impede, in any way, the normal use of the
URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site.
URÍA MENÉNDEZ implements reasonable security measures which are
adequate to detect the existence of viruses. Nevertheless, User must be
aware that the existing security measures for computer systems on the
Internet are not entirely trustworthy and that, therefore, URÍA MENÉNDEZ cannot
guarantee the non-existence of viruses or any other elements that may
cause alterations to User’s computer systems (hardware and software) or
to his/her electronic docURÍA MENÉNDEZents and files contained in the said systems.
The Contents of the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site are made available to
User by URÍA MENÉNDEZ with information taken from its own and from third party
sources.
URÍA MENÉNDEZ tries to ensure that the Contents are of the best
possible quality and reasonably updated, however, URÍA MENÉNDEZ does not guarantee
the usefulness, preciseness, completeness, relevance of the Contents and/or
whether such Contents are up to date.
The inclusion of the Contents in the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site does
not in any way constitute the provision of legal advice services. User
acknowledges that, as the application of law to specific cases is not
automatic and can vary depending on a wide range of circURÍA MENÉNDEZstances, the
information contained in the Contents is not sufficient to take
decisions of any nature whatsoever. Therefore, the information contained
in the Contents cannot be considered as an alternative to the provision
of legal advice, likewise, URÍA MENÉNDEZ does not recommend User to take decisions
based on the information contained in the Contents without obtaining
adequate professional advice.
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Rights
The General Conditions herein contained shall not be
construed as to assign any industrial or intellectual property rights
over the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site or over any of the parts thereof. User is therefore
expressly prohibited to carry out any reproduction, transformation,
distribution, public communication, making available, extraction,
reusing, resending or in any way using, by any means or procedure, of
any of the parts of the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site, except when it is lawful to do so or
authorisation has been provided by the holder of the relevant rights.
User may visualise and obtain a temporary private
copies of the Contents for exclusive and private use in his/her computer
systems (hardware and software), provided that the intended purpose is
not to develop any commercial or professional activity. User must
abstain from obtaining or attempting to obtain, the Contents by means or
procedures other than those which have been made available to him/her or
indicated for that purpose, or which are normally used on the Internet (provided
that the latter do not imply a risk of damage or uselessness for the
URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site). User shall respect at all times all the industrial and
intellectual property rights existing over the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site, whether owned
by URÍA MENÉNDEZ or by third parties.
- Hypertext links and Linked Sites
a) Hypertext links
User and, in general, any legal or natural person who
intends to provide a hypertext link or technical link device (such as,
text links or buttons) from its web site to the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site (the “Hyperlink”)
must obtain previous
written authorisation from URÍA MENÉNDEZ.
The insertion of the Hyperlink shall in no event
imply the existence of any relationship between URÍA MENÉNDEZ and the owner of the
site or the web page where the Hyperlink is inserted, or the acceptance
or approval by URÍA MENÉNDEZ of its contents or services.
In any event, URÍA MENÉNDEZ reserves the right to prohibit or
cancel any hyperlink to the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site at any time, especially, in
circURÍA MENÉNDEZstances where the activity or contents of the web site where the
hyperlink has been inserted are unlawful.
b) Linked Sites
The URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site makes available to User, solely for the
purposes of searching and accessing information, contents and services
available on the Internet, hyperlinks or technical link devices (such
as, text links or buttons), which allow User to access Internet sites or
portals which belong to or are managed by third parties (the “Linked
Sites”).
URÍA MENÉNDEZ does not offer or commercialise on its own behalf
or through third parties the information, contents and services
available in the Linked Sites, nor does it approve of, supervise or
control in any way whatsoever the contents and services or any material
of any nature therein available. Thus, User shall be exclusively
responsible for the navigation between the said sites.
PERSONAL DATA
The mere fact that a User visits the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site does
not automatically register any personal data which identify User.
However, there is certain non-personal information that does not
identify a specific User which is collected and recorded in the URÍA
MENÉNDEZ
Internet servers (such as, User’s Internet navigator, User’s operating
system, IP address from which the web pages and URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site are accessed)
for the purpose of improving navigation for User and management of the
URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site.
Notwithstanding the above, URÍA MENÉNDEZ may request personal
data from User in order to use certain Contents or Services. URÍA
MENÉNDEZ will
provide User with the necessary information so that the latter can
provide his/her prior consent, in order for URÍA MENÉNDEZ to proceed with the
processing of his/her personal data and to include them in the relevant
files owned by URÍA MENÉNDEZ.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These General Conditions shall be governed by Spanish
law.
CONTACT DATA
Should User have any queries in connection with these
General Conditions or any other comment to make about the URÍA MENÉNDEZ Site,
please contact webmaster@uria.com
© Copyright 2003 Uría Menéndez Abogados, S.L.P.
Total or partial reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved.
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