Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Privacy policy
PRIVACY POLICY/USE TERMS
1. Purpose and acceptance
This legal warning regulates the use of this website: www.iac.es.
The navigation through the web www.iac.es attributes the user’s condition and implies the full acceptance without reservations of each and every regulation included in this Legal Warning, which can undergo modifications. The user is obliged to use the website correctly, according to the law, the good faith, the public order, trading uses and this Legal Warning. The user will respond to INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS and to a third party, about the damages and prejudices that could be caused as a consequence of the non-fulfillment of the mentioned obligation.
2. Access and use conditions
The website and its services are of free access. But, the use of certain services of the private area is only allowed after filling out the sign up form.
The user guarantees the authenticity and relevance of all the data provided to INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS, and will be held as the only responsible of the false or inexact signs.
The user commits to properly use the offered contents and services and not to use them to:
- Spread criminal, violent, pornographic, racist, xenophobic, offensive, with terrorism apology or, in general, against the Law or public order.
- Introduce a virus in the web or make updates that can alter, damage, suspend or create errors or damages in electronic documents, data or physical and logical systems of INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS or a third party; or hinder the access of other users to the website and its services.
- Try to access restricted areas of the computer systems of INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS or a third party, and extract information.
- Damage the rights of intellectual or industrial property, and also damage the confidentiality of the information of INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS or a third party.
- Impersonate another user, from the public administrations or a third party.
- Duplicate, copy, distribute or any other form of public communication, transform or modify the contents, unless they have the authorization of the holder of the relevant rights and it is legally permitted.
- Obtain data for advertising purposes and send advertising of any kind for selling or other kind of commercial purposes without previous request or consent.
All the contents of the website, texts, pictures, graphics, images, icons, technology, software, as well as its design and source codes, constitute a work property of INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS, and cannot be thought as transferred to the user any of the exploitation rights of the contents over the strictly necessary for the correct use of the website.
Definitively, the users that access this website can visualize the contents and make, given the case, authorized private copies as long as those elements will not be transferred afterwards to a third party, they will not be installed in servers connecting webs either, neither will they be object of any kind of exploitation.
Also, all the brands, commercial names or any kind of distinctive icons that appear in the website are property of INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS, without this use or access being thought as an attribution to the user of any right over them.
It is forbidden the distribution, modification, transferring or public communication of the contents or any other action that has not been specifically authorized by the holder of the exploitation rights.
3. Privacy policy
When we need to get information from you, we will always specifically ask you to give it voluntarily to us through the forms of information gathering in the website. The obtained data through this forms and from the e-mail that you send us asking for information about our services will be added to an automated file of personal data with the name “WEB USERS”, of which INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS is responsible, that will confidentially treat the data and with the only purpose of offering the requested services and the information reference, with all the legal and security guarantees that imposes the Organic Law 15/1999, from December 13th, on Personal Data Protection and the Law 34/2002, from July 11th, on Services for the Society of the Information and Electronic Trade. The fields marked with an asterisk are of obligatory filling out, if you do not fill them out we cannot agrees to your appliance.
INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS commits not to transfer, sell or share the data with a third party without your specific approval. Likewise, INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS will cancel or correct the data if they are inexact, incomplete, unnecessary or irrelevant for its purpose, according to the Organic Law 15/1999, from December 13th, on Personal Data Protection.
The user will be able to revoke the given consent and exercise the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and objection addressing this address to do so:
INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS
Vía Láctea s/n
38205 La Laguna (Tenerife)
SPAIN
giving the proper identification and indicating visibly the specific right to be exercised.
INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS adopts the security levels required by the Security Measures Regulations, approved by the Royal Decree 1720/2007, from December 21st, through which the Regulations of the development of the Organic Law 15/99, from December 13th, on Personal Data Protection are approved. Nevertheless, INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS does not assume any responsibility for the damages and prejudices resulting from the alterations that a third party could cause in the computer systems, electronic documents or the user’s files.
INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS can use the “cookies” through the services provided by the website. The “cookies” are physic files of personal information stored in the user’s computer. The user has the possibility of configuring his/her own internet explorer to avoid the creation of these files or even be warned about their creation.
Our policy about the e-mail address is based on sending only communications that you had already consented on receiving. If you would rather not receive these messages through e-mail we offer you the possibility of exercise your rights of cancellation and renunciation of receiving these messages, according to the Art. 22 of the Law 34/2002 on Services for the Society of the Information and Electronic Trade.
4. Procedure in case of carrying out illicit activities
If any user or a third party considers that there are facts or circumstances that reveal an illicit use of any contents and/or any activity in the websites included or accessible through the website, he/she will have to send a notification to INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS with the proper identification, specifying the alleged infractions and specifically declaring, and under his/her responsibility, that the information provided in the notification is accurate.
5. Notifications
All the notifications and communications between the users and INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS will be considered effective, to all intents and purposes, when they are carried out through post or e-mail or telephonic communication. The users will have to address INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS through:
a) Post to the following address:
INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS
Vía Láctea s/n
38205 La Laguna (Tenerife)
SPAIN
b) E-mail to the following address:
wexterna@iac.es