Legal notice

We put at your disposal the following general information and identification details of the holder of this website:

Holder: The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean
Address: Palacio de Pedralbes, Pere Duran Farell, 11, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: communication@ufmsecretariat.org; adminandlegal@ufmsecretariat.org
Telephone: 00 34 93 521 4100
Tax code: V6536269

CONDITION OF USER

The access and use of the website attributes the condition of user, who from this moment accepts the present terms of use.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean informs you that access to and use of the website and all its subdomains or directories, as well as the services or contents that may be obtained through it, are subject to the terms and conditions detailed in this document, although access to some of these services or contents may require acceptance of some additional general conditions.

Therefore, if you do not agree with the points detailed in this Legal Notice, do not use the website because any use of this or its services and contents will imply acceptance of the legal terms and conditions included in this text.

The terms and conditions included in this Legal Notice may vary, so we invite you to review them when you visit the website again.

MANAGEMENT OF THE CONTENTS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE

The user agrees, by the mere fact of accessing the website and its use, to make appropriate use of the contents and services that the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean provides through it, and in an enunciative but not limiting manner, to not use them for:

1. a) engaging in activities that are illicit, illegal or contrary to good faith and public order;
2. b) spreading content or propaganda of a racist, xenophobic, pornographic or illegal nature, advocating terrorism or violating human rights;
3. c) causing damage to the physical (hardware) and logical (software) systems of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean or third parties, introducing or spreading computer viruses on the network or any other hardware or software systems that are likely to cause the aforementioned damage;
4. d) attempting to access and using the email accounts of other users and modifying or manipulating their messages.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean is not responsible for any political, religious, ideological or any other kind of ideas expressed in the publications. In addition, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean is not responsible for the personal data provided to third parties in the framework of privacy policies.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean reserves the right to suppress all comments and contributions that violate respect for human dignity, that are discriminatory, xenophobic, racist or pornographic, that attack youths or children, public order or safety, or which, in its opinion, are not suitable for publication.

BASIC INFORMATION ON DATA PROTECTION

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean is committed to ensuring that your personal data is protected and not misused.

The data you provide in the different forms enabled on this website is collected in accordance with current legislation on data protection and for the sole purpose of delivering the service requested.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean manages the personal information provided based on the privacy principles set out in the Privacy Policy document. These principles reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of our users and managing their personal information appropriately.

ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER, SUBSCRIPTION TO PUBLICATIONS

Through this website, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean gives users the option to sign up to a newsletter service, through which we will send you information about our activity.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean also offers users the opportunity to subscribe to and unsubscribe from any of the publications distributed by the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean will only send these publications at the express request of the user.

COPYRIGHT

Both the design of the website and its source code, such as logos, brands, including the design, structure, distribution, answers to queries made by users, texts, content, buttons, images, drawings, documentation, as well as all intellectual and industrial copyright and any other distinctive signs that appear on the website, belong to the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean, its associated bodies or, as the case may be, the persons or organisations listed as authors or holders of rights, and are protected by the corresponding intellectual and industrial copyrights. Moreover, the images and other graphic elements contained on the website are also protected by the corresponding intellectual and industrial copyrights, and their reproduction, modification, distribution or manipulation is prohibited.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean does not assume any responsibility that may arise from unauthorised manipulations or alterations. Similarly, any total or partial reproduction, transmission, distribution or storage of the contents of this website without the express authorisation of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean is prohibited, initiating from that moment, and in the case of non-compliance with the aforementioned, the implementation of legal actions in defence of the Institute’s legitimate interests.

The total or partial reproduction of the texts provided for this purpose by the website is authorised as long as their integrity is maintained and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean or online platforms in which it directly participates are cited as a source of information. The licence of use is limited to the download by the user of this content for private use, provided that such content remains unchanged.

Consequently, its use, reproduction, distribution, public communication, transformation or any other similar or analogous activity are totally prohibited other than with the express authorisation of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. Reproduction or exploitation in whole or in part, by any means, of the contents of this website for uses other than the legitimate not-for-profit information of users is prohibited.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean does not grant any licence or authorisation of use of any kind for its industrial and intellectual copyrights or any other right related to the website, services or contents.

The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean expresses its respect for the intellectual and property copyrights of third parties that may appear on this website. Here, it acknowledges that they are NOT the property of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean but belong to their respective owners and, consequently, the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean recognises the corresponding intellectual and industrial copyrights of their owners. Therefore, for the purpose of preserving the possible intellectual or industrial copyrights, in the event that any user or third party considers that there has been a violation of their legitimate rights by the inclusion of certain content on the website, they must notify this to the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean by email atadminandlegal@ufmsecretariat.org , indicating:

– Personal data of the interested party holding the rights allegedly infringed. If the claim is filed by a third party other than the interested party, they must accredit the representation exercised.

– Indication of the contents protected by intellectual or industrial copyrights, and their location on the website.

– Accreditation of the aforementioned intellectual or industrial copyrights.

– Express declaration in which the interested party assumes responsibility for the veracity of the information provided in the notification.

The legitimacy of the intellectual or industrial copyrights corresponding to the contents provided by third parties is the sole responsibility of the same.

Access to this website does not grant the user any rights or ownership over the intellectual and industrial copyrights of the corporate elements.