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 the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL
HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, which is accessed through the URL
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 site
of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA.






1. Accepting the conditions of use


Users must read these General
Conditions of Use of this website.


The use of the website of
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA implies
the knowledge and full acceptance of the legal warnings and
conditions in force at each moment in which it is accessed and that
are specified below.


Likewise, the use of certain
services on this official site may be subject to special conditions,
warnings or instructions that must also be consulted and accepted
without reservation.






2. General information


In compliance with the provisions of
Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Services of the Information Society and
Electronic Commerce, it is reported that the website www.ehu.eus has
been created, is maintained and is owned of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS
VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, name granted by the Order of
February 25, 1980 (BOE of March 3, 1980) and whose address, which
interested persons may contact, is:






UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA


Leioa Campus


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 the
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is free
of charge. However, the contracting of some of the services offered
by this website may be, currently or in the future, conditional on
the payment of a price, in which case it will be conveniently
indicated.






3.2 Registration of users


In general, access and use of this
website does not require prior registration or registration.






However, and exceptionally, access
to certain services is subject to registration in the databases of
the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. In
these cases, the personal data provided to the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS
VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA as a result of the use of the
website will be processed by the same, under the conditions and terms
specified in clause 7 of the these General Conditions of Use.






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






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


Access codes are for the exclusive
use of the person who owns them and their custody, confidentiality
and correct use are his sole responsibility.


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA will not be responsible for any damage
that the user or third parties may incur as a result of other people
using their password, both with their knowledge and without it.


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
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 pertinent judicial requirements or, where
appropriate, legally authorized authority , is required.


3.3 Access and use restrictions


The use of the official site of the
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA must obey
the content of these General Conditions, and any applicable legal
provisions.


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


4. Industrial and intellectual
property


4.1 Industrial Property


The name \"UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS
VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA\" as well as other
distinctive signs (graphics or names) that appear on this website,
are the exclusive property of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA, who has them duly registered. Its
ownership grants, in accordance with Art. 34 of Law 17/2001, of
December 17, on Trademarks, as well as other national laws that may
be applicable, the exclusive right to use the aforementioned
distinctive signs in traffic economic. Consequently, its use by third
parties without authorization is prohibited.






The eventual presence on this site
of distinctive signs of ownership other than that outlined in the
preceding paragraph is carried out without commercial purpose and
with the authorization of those who hold their legitimate property,
always with due respect for their exclusive rights.






4.2 Domain names


In the same sense as that referred
to in the preceding section, the domain name \"ehu.eus\" and
all those that serve to directly access this official site are the
exclusive property of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL
HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA. The improper use of them in economic traffic
would constitute an infringement of the rights conferred by their
registration and will be prosecuted by the means provided for in the
Law.






4.3 Authorship Rights


The contents, texts, photographs,
designs, logos, images, sounds, videos, animations, recordings,
computer programs, source codes and, in general, any existing
intellectual creation on this official site, as well as the site
itself as a whole as Multimedia artistic work is protected as
copyright by the legislation on intellectual property.


Those files or computer programs not
owned by the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO
UNIBERTSITATEA and with free access (freeware) that can be downloaded
from various pages of this site in order to enable access to them are
exempt from this protection. In any case, these are applications that
are in the public domain by express will of their owners.


The user is expressly authorized by
the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA to
view, print, copy or store, in any other way, on their hard drive or
other physical support, the protected intellectual creations and any
other protected content or asset or not by an exclusive right,
provided that this is done for personal and private purposes, without
commercial or distribution purposes 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 copyright and industrial property rights made here are respected
intact and does not imply the granting of any license to the user.


Likewise, museums, libraries, music
libraries, film libraries, newspaper libraries or archives, publicly
owned or integrated in institutions of a cultural or scientific
nature, are exempt from requiring the authorization of the
UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA for the
reproduction of the content material and, in general, of any
intellectual creation existing on this official or active site,
protected or not by an exclusive right, when it is carried out
without profit and exclusively for research purposes.


Any other use will require the
express written authorization of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA.


4.4 Reserve of shares


Whoever uses this website undertakes
to respect the rights set forth and avoid any action that could harm
them.






In line with what has been outlined
so far, the unauthorized use of the industrial and intellectual
property rights owned by the 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 makes express reservation of
the exercise of all actions, both civil and criminal, protect its
legitimate intellectual and industrial property rights.






5. Links


On the website of the UNIVERSIDAD
DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA you can find various
links that lead to independent web pages. Its sole purpose is to
facilitate access to other sources of information on the Internet
related to culture and education and its insertion on this website is
inspired by respect for intellectual property rights that, where
appropriate, may correspond to their headlines.


Likewise, the establishment of links
to the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
website must respect the intellectual and / or industrial property
rights owned by the 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 our own and
those of third parties, that appear on the website \"www.ehu.eus\"
are provided \"as is\", without guarantees of any kind as to
its 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, the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS
VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not responsible for the
legality of the content provided by those who provide it, users and
third parties through any use of this website.


In any case, the UNIVERSIDAD DEL
PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to act
diligently to prevent the existence of illegal content on its website
and, in the event that it becomes aware of these contents, eliminate
them or prevent access to the themselves.


6.1.2. MISTAKES


In relation to what is mentioned in
the previous paragraph, the published documents could 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 you to leave the
website of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO
UNIBERTSITATEA. The linked sites are not related, unless otherwise
indicated, with the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO
UNIBERTSITATEA, who is not responsible for the content accessed by
virtue of the aforementioned links, nor for the modifications carried
out carried out in them, nor of the use made of them, nor of their
technical availability.


In any case, the UNIVERSIDAD DEL
PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to do
everything possible to avoid the existence on its website of links to
sites with illegal content, which promote illegal activities and, in
general, susceptible to violate the principles freedom and human
dignity or violate the values ​​and rights recognized by the
Spanish Constitution and by the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.


Likewise, in the event that it
becomes aware of the existence of the aforementioned links to sites
with illegal content, the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL
HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA undertakes to act diligently to suppress them
immediately.






6.1.4. DEBATE FORUMS AND GATHERINGS


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is not responsible for the opinions
that may 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 UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - 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. CONTENT MODIFICATION


The information, the presentation
and the services offered by this site may be subject to periodic or
occasional changes, which may be made freely by the UNIVERSIDAD DEL
PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA without being obliged to
communicate it.






6.2. For the operation of the site


6.2.1. PRIVACY


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
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
carried out should not be ruled out.






6.2.2. VIRUS


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA does not accept any responsibility for
possible damages caused by computer viruses, the absence of which is
not guaranteed.






6.2.3. TECHNICAL DYSFUNCTIONS


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA is exempt from any responsibility
derived 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
herself.






6.2.4. COOKIES


The UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY
- EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs that it may have \"cookies\"
installed on its systems. Cookies are small information files that
are generated through the instructions that web servers send to
browser programs, and that are stored in a specific directory on the
computer that is being used. Cookies by themselves cannot personally
identify the user, although they can contain the IP address from
which it was accessed.






Although most browsers accept the
use of cookies automatically, the user has the possibility of
preventing access to their computer, by choosing the corresponding
option on their browser.






6.2.5. PROXY-CACHE


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs 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 the verification that they do not
imply a danger to the corporate network. The registry files or \"log\"
of said service, which exclusively contain the URL addresses
requested by each IP, will be eliminated with the periodicity
determined in accordance with the Computer Security Regulations and
their data will not be transferred by the UNIVERSITY OF THE COUNTRY
VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA except in the event that, in
strict compliance with the pertinent judicial requirements or, where
appropriate, legally authorized authority, they are required.






6.2.6. NETWORK SERVICE MONITORING


The UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO -
EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA informs that it may have services for
monitoring the activity of its network in anticipation of incidents
that endanger the security of the Information Systems. This
monitoring can be assisted by an alert system that requires specific
interventions that require the identification of equipment in a
situation of potential risk generation in order, if necessary, to
isolate it from the network until its operation is normalized.






7. Personal data protection policy


7.1 Responsible for the treatment


The personal data that could be
collected directly from the interested person 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 processing activities carried out by the
UPV / EHU.






7.3 Legitimation


The processing of your data is
carried out for the fulfillment of 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 through a clear affirmative action.






7.4 Data retention


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 responsibilities 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, except as provided for by law.






7.6 Rights of interested persons


Anyone has the right to obtain
confirmation of the processing 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, of
limitation and opposition to its treatment, as well as not to be the
subject of 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 for
Data Protection, Barrio de Sarriena S / N48940 Leioa (Bizkaia) or at
the email address dpd@ehu.eus.






7.7 Additional information


All the information regarding the
UPV / EHU's data protection policy is available at the link
https://www.ehu.eus/babestu, where you can consult, among others, the
updated list of treatment activities that the UPV / EHU carries out,
the legal basis for each treatment, possible recipients or 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 their exercise.






8. Termination


Although, in principle, the duration
of this site is indeterminate, the 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 having to be communicated with advance to those who make use
of it.






9. Applicable
law and jurisdiction


These General Conditions of Use are
governed by Spanish Laws.






Any controversy in relation to the
website of the UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAÍS VASCO - EUSKAL HERRIKO
UNIBERTSITATEA will be conducted before the Spanish jurisdiction,
submitting the parties to the Courts and Tribunals of the city of
Bilbao, and their hierarchical superiors, expressly waiving their
jurisdiction if they had it and were different from those reviewed.