Legal notice

Legal notice for users

  1. Legal information

For the purposes of the provisions of Article 10.1 of the society of information and electronic commerce Act 34/2002 of 11 July 2002 (referred to as LSSI), BARCELÓ CORPORACIÓN EMPRESARIAL S.A. (referred to as BARCELÓ) is established as the service provider, with registered address in  Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), C/ Josep Rover Motta, nº 27, CP 07006, holder of Corporate Tax Code  A-07009830, inscribed in the Majorca Mercantile Register, page 136, volume 64 general, book 13 of the 3rd section, page 1.574, 1st inscription. Contact email: sac2@barcelo.com.

  1. Conditions of use of the web

The user of this web page belonging to BARCELÓ, guarantees that they comply with the law, moral code and public order at all times. In the same manner, the user accepts the stated conditions of use, and cannot use the web page in any way that is contrary to the same, with illicit intentions or in any manner that could be damaging to the rights and interests of BARCELÓ or any third party.

The user voluntarily accepts and is aware that the use made of this web, its services or contents will be under their sole and exclusive responsibility.

Barceló will not be held responsible under any circumstances for any possible infringement of the rights of any third party as a result of the participation of users with comments on the blog. Comments made by users on the portal are completely their responsibility and they should take into account the rights of third parties when they decide to include data, images or any other information on the website.

BARCELÓ cannot guarantee the availability and continuity of the web page service and therefore no responsibility that may derive from the lack of availability/continuity of the service will be accepted.

In the same manner, BARCELÓ will do its utmost to prevent the web page being attacked by computer virus. However, given the constant evolution of technology and the appearance of new computer threats, it cannot guarantee that the web page does not contain any computer virus. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the user to have at their disposal all the antivirus programmes and firewalls necessary to prevent any kind of infection by computer virus, and under no circumstances will any responsibility be attributed to BARCELÓ.

BARCELÓ can, at any time, unilaterally modify the mode of operation, image, operating capacity, or any other essential aspect of the said web page, without any form of responsibility arising from the said modifications under any circumstances.

 

  1. Personal data protection and confidentiality

BARCELÓ undertakes to comply with current legislation in terms of automated data treatment and, in particular, with the organic law 15/99 regarding Personal Data Protection, of 13 December 1999, (hereafter, LOPD).  By means of the privacy policy detailed below, BARCELO would like to inform its customers of the following points:

BARCELÓ with the aim of undertaking the provision of services offered via the blog http://micers.meetbarcelo.com/ (newsletter with information relating to the blog, treatment of queries and suggestions made using the form that exists for that purpose, publication of comments on the posts, contributions, etc.), will process the personal data provided by the users in an automated manner and with the sole purpose of sending information and publicity regarding offers, promotions and recommendations aimed at professionals of the MICE sector when expressly indicated that it may do so.

BARCELÓ will not reveal personal data to any third party not belonging to their organisation. BARCELO guarantees that such files are entirely under its responsibility and that they are duly declared and registered in the General Register of the Data Protection Agency, whose data base can be consulted in the following webpage:  www.agpd.es.

BARCELÓ informs its clients that they can exercise their right to access, rectify, oppose to or cancel this data, by writing to the manager of the files where their personal data is stored:

Comité de Seguridad de BARCELÓ CORPORACIÓN EMPRESARIAL S.A. (Ref: Personal Data Protection) Calle José Rover Motta, 27 Palma de Mallorca – 07006, Spain.

BARCELÓ guarantees that it treats your personal data with strict confidentiality, and that the server used to store and process your data complies with the security measures established in the Spanish laws on data protection.

  1. Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies. A cookie is a very small text file which can be saved by a server onto a hard drive to store information about the user. It can only be read by the website that sent the cookie to the device.

Websites normally use cookies to get statistical information on their website and to analyse customer behaviour. Cookies are not computer programmes and cannot be executed as code or used to disseminate viruses, neither can they contain more than 4,000 characters.

BARCELÓ uses cookies for the sole purpose of producing statistics on the usage of its website. The information stored by BARCELÓ in its computers via this mechanism consists solely of a number that identifies a user, as well as preferences such as preferred navigation language, and the date on which the cookie was deposited. This allows us to recognise you on future visits to our website. It does not contain any personal data, financial or medical information.

On this web page the following cookies are used, described below:

  • Cookies strictly necessary for the provision of certain services expressly requested by the user: if these cookies are disabled, the user will be unable to receive our services and content correctly.
  • Analytical cookies (Google Analytics), which help to provide statistical data about the usage of the web in order to improve the content and services we provide.

You can configure your browser to accept or reject the cookies it receives or for the browser to advise you when a server wants to save a cookie: The process of controlling and eliminating cookies varies depending on the navigator that you use.

For information about how to carry out this process according to your specific navigator, you can use the Help function which is found in every navigator system, or if you prefer, you can obtain complete information about carrying out such modifications in any navigating system, by consulting the following websites: www.aboutcookies.org, http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance. In these pages, you will find detailed explanations on how to eliminate the cookies from your computer and more general information on the topic.

BARCELÓ may also register your IP address to diagnose any problem with our server, to administer our website and to analyse user trends.

  1. Industrial and intellectual property

All content included on this website, including but not limited to: articles, texts, designs, photographs, images, logos, videos, audio, databases, software, and the website in its entirety belong to BARCELÓ as owner of the domain or legitimate entity for its use in virtue of the concession for the third-party licence, and its use is therefore prohibited without express prior authorisation.

All trademarks, commercial names, logos and any other distinctive signs appearing on the website are the property of BARCELÓ, or any other entity holding the corresponding user licence for its insertion on the website.

All use and/or operation would require the prior authorisation of BARCELÓ, which can be obtained through the licensing website for content usage at www.barcelobrandsite.com, subject to prior acceptance of its user conditions. In the absence of any express authorisation and notwithstanding the foregoing, any reproduction, public communication, distribution and/or transformation of these contents and/or trademarks for commercial or lucrative purposes are strictly prohibited.

  1. Applicable legislation and jurisdiction

Access and use of the website will be interpreted and governed by Spanish legislation. Any controversy that may arise from the application of the conditions stated can be presented before the courts in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), without prejudice to any other jurisdiction corresponding to the plaintiff, in accordance with the regulations established for the application of due process.