Legal Notice

This Legal Notice regulates the access and use of all the web pages found under the domain “acciona.com” and the respective subdomains and subdirectories thereof (hereinafter, the “Web Site”), owned by Fundación acciona.org (hereinafter “FUNDACIÓN”), registered at Registro de Fundaciones Asistenciales del Ministerio de Educación, Política Social y Deporte nº 28-1544, actually registered with  nº 917SND at Registro Único de Fundaciones de Competencia Estatal del Ministerio de Justicia; domiciled at Avenida de la Gran Vía de Hortaleza, 3, 28033 (Madrid); holder of Tax ID Code (CIF) G-85577732;; with contact email address fundacion@acciona.org.

 

General Terms of Use of the Web Site and acceptance thereof

Purpose

The purpose of these General Terms of Use of the Web Site is to regulate both the access to said Web Site as well as the disclosure of the information and business relationships that arise between FUNDACIÓN and the Web Site Users.

 

Use

Anyone who accesses or uses the Web Site shall be considered a User. By browsing and/or using any of the services on the Web Site, Users accept, fully and unconditionally, each of these General Conditions as stated in the version published at any given time. Therefore, the User must carefully read the General Conditions each time they intend to use the Web Site.

In the event the Users does not accept the clauses established in this Legal Notice, they must abstain from accessing and/or using the services and/or contents available to them on the Web Site and proceed to leave same. Such Users may not access or use the services available on said Web Site. The Users expressly and unconditionally accept that they are solely responsible for the access to and the use of this Web Site, its services and the contents of said services.

Accessing the Web Site is free of charge and viewing same does not require prior subscription or registration.

The information that appears on the Web Site is effective as of the date of its last update. The Web Site may not be altered, changed, modified or adapted. FUNDACIÓN, however, may unilaterally and at any time modify the configuration of this Web Site, the conditions of the service and the content thereof, as well as eliminate, restrict or suspend same temporarily or definitively and prevent access thereto, without prior notice.

FUNDACIÓN is exclusively responsible for the Web Site in its capacity as an information service provide regarding its own services. FUNDACIÓN is not responsible for any contents that, in breach of these general conditions, a User may send or publish. In such a case the User is solely responsible for the veracity and legality of such contents.

FUNDACIÓN may discontinue the Web Site service being used by the User and immediately terminate the relationship with the User if FUNDACIÓN becomes aware that the Web Site or any of the services available thereon are being used in a manner that could be considered to be in violation of the terms of this Legal Notice. Such violating uses specifically include, but are not limited to, instances where the use of the Web Site is observed to potentially damage the image, interests or rights of FUNDACIÓN or of third parties or to potentially damage, disable or overload the Web Site, or impede the use thereof in any way.

 

Intellectual and Industrial Property

This Web Site in its entirety: texts, images, photographs, trademarks, graphics, logos, icons, buttons, software files, technology, links and other audio-visual or audio content, colour combinations as well as the structure, selection, arrangement and presentation of the contents thereof (hereinafter the “Content”), the graphic design thereof, selection of materials used, IT programmes necessary for the operation, access and use thereof and source codes are protected by the Laws on Intellectual and Industrial Property of the Kingdom of Spain and by any applicable international Treaties and Conventions. Duplicating, distributing, publicly disclosing, extracting, reusing, forwarding, using in any nature and transforming such Content in any manner is prohibited, except where previously authorised or legally permitted, where none of the use rights regarding such Content can be understood to be transferred to the User beyond what is strictly necessary to properly use the Web Site.

The disclosure of all these elements owned by FUNDACIÓN or third parties that appear on the Web Site does not imply, in any case, the transfer of the ownership or of a use right to the User. FUNDACIÓN does not grant any license or permit regarding its industrial or intellectual property rights or any other property or right associated with the Web Site and the available services.

Likewise, reproducing, retransmitting, copying, ceding or rebroadcasting (totally or partially), modifying, altering, adapting or translating the content information in the Website, is allowed for noncommercial purposes and giving the appropriate credit to FUNDACIÓN, or the third party it has indicated as the author, according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Apart from that specifically mentioned above, the reproduction of part or all of the Contents of this Website in any form, including the brand, the creation of any derived work based on this Website and/or on its content or the incorporation of its content in other websites, electronic recovery systems or publications, is forbidden.

The User is authorized to copy or print extracts or documents from this Website, except content that is the property of a third party and has been identified as such, for non-commercial use, always and when, in all these copies or prints, all warnings about copyright and other intellectual property rights feature, and all the exemptions from responsibility are present in them. None of the logos and brands registered by FUNDACIÓN can be used or reproduced without prior written authorization.

Any attempt to obtain the Contents of the Website by any means different to those it makes available to the Users, or those commonly used in the Internet, is prohibited, always in the interest of not causing any harm to the FUNDACIÓN Website.

In the event that any User or third party considers there has been a violation of FUNDACIÓN immediately of the event at fundacion@acciona.org, by giving their personal data or the representation with which they act, indicating the protected content and its location on the Website, and the accreditation of the rights. The User will be responsible for the accuracy of the information provided in the notification.

Users who voluntarily provide images or other graphic or multimedia information to FUNDACIÓN simultaneously yield the corresponding copyrights as long as said material remains on the web server. In any event, FUNDACIÓN assumes no obligation with regard to the User regarding such information and reserves the right to eliminate same at any time and without prior notice.

FUNDACIÓN does not guarantee that the content is accurate or free of errors or that the free use thereof by the User does not violate third parties’ rights. The User is solely responsible for the use and misuse of this web page and its contents. 

 

Links

The Web Site may include links to third party sites. Web pages belonging to third parties have not been reviewed and are not controlled by FUNDACIÓN. Any links contained on this Web Site shall solely be suggested as informative references, with there being no type of judgement regarding the content, owners, services or products available at said links.

In any case, FUNDACIÓN and/or any web site of an FUNDACIÓN GROUP company may not be held responsible for the content of these web sites or for the measures adopted regarding their privacy, their personal data processing or their terms of use.

FUNDACIÓN recommends carefully reading the terms of use and the privacy policies of these sites.

If you are interested in creating a link to the FUNDACIÓN web pages, you must notify such interest and must have express consent for the creation of such a link. FUNDACIÓN reserves the right to oppose the activation of links to its Web Site.

 

Minors

FUNDACIÓN reminds Users of legal age who are responsible for minors that they are exclusively responsible for determining what services and/or content are not age-appropriate for said minors.

FUNDACIÓN informs these Users that there are IT programmes that allow them to filter and block access to certain content and services, such that parents and guardians, for example, can decide which Internet content and services minors can and cannot access.

FUNDACIÓN will contact the User pursuant to the data provided by the latter upon registering on the Web Site. Users who contract services through the Web Site must state that they are of legal age pursuant to Spanish law, and minors who contract services must be authorised by their parents or guardians in order to be able to receive the contracted service.

 

Responsibility

FUNDACIÓN grants access and the use of its Web Site diligently and responsibly. However, FUNDACIÓN does not assume direct or subsidiary responsibility for the following:

  • Any damages resulting from interference, omissions, disruptions, computer viruses, telephone failures or shutdowns in the operations of this electronic system due to reasons not attributable to FUNDACIÓN; delays or restrictions regarding the use of this electronic system due to failures or overloads in their Data Process Centre, telephone lines, Internet system or other electronic systems.
  • Any damages sustained by the User’s equipment from using the Web Site.
  • Cases wherein a third party, breaching the established security measures and/or through unlawful interference, accesses messages or uses same to send computer viruses.

All manner of defects and flaws in transmitted, disseminated, stored or disclosed content. The legality, reliability and usefulness of the content that Users transmit by means of the Web Site or that of the services available on same, or the accuracy or veracity thereof. FUNDACIÓN does not control how Users use the Web Site and neither does it guarantee that Users use same pursuant to the terms of this Legal Notice.

The items for which Users are responsible include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • The content provided by said Users, especially the data and information entered and sent to FUNDACIÓN by means of the Web Site or on the Web Site.
  • The perpetration of any act that is illicit, harmful, damaging or that is detrimental to human rights.
  • The provision of untrue or incorrect data.

Furthermore, FUNDACIÓN is exempt from all responsibility with regard to any damages Users may sustain as a result of errors, shortcomings or omissions in information provided that comes from an external source. Notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstance shall the contracts between FUNDACIÓN and its clients be affected, except in cases of unforeseen circumstances and force majeure.

 

User Obligations

In general, the User undertakes to comply with these General Conditions, as well as with the special warnings or instructions for use contained herein or on the Web Site, to always operate in accordance with the law, the principles of morality and good faith, to act with the diligence that suits the nature of the service received, and to refrain from using the Web Site in any manner that may impede, damage or deteriorate the proper operation thereof, the assets or rights or the good trade name and corporate image of FUNDACIÓN, its suppliers, other Users, or in general, any third party.

 

Specifically, and without restricting the obligation undertaken by the User in general according to the previous paragraph, the User undertakes to use the services and contents of the Web Site in accordance with the law, these General Terms of Use and is obligated to do the following: (i) provide accurate data and keep same up to date; (ii) not enter, store or disseminate, on or from the Web Site, any information or material that is defamatory, offensive, obscene, threatening, xenophobic or that incites violence or discrimination based on race, sex, ideology, religion or that in any manner undermines morality, public order, fundamental rights, public liberties, honour, privacy or the image of third parties or that in general violates the regulations in force. FUNDACIÓN reserves the right to remove all comments and contributions that infringe upon respect for personal dignity, that are discriminatory, sexist, xenophobic, racist, pornographic, that threaten young people or children, public order and/or safety, among others, or that, in its opinion, are not suitable for publication. In any event, FUNDACIÓN shall not be responsible for or redress any damages that result from the views expressed by Users in the forums, chats, or other participatory tools; (iii) not use the Web Site to enter, store or disseminate any IT programme, data, virus, code, applets, macros, ActiveX controls, hardware or telecommunications equipment or any other instrument or electronic or physical device that might damage the Web Site, in any of the Services or in any of the equipment, systems or networks of FUNDACIÓN, of any User, of FUNDACIÓN suppliers or of any third party in general, or that in any other manner may cause any type of alteration or hinder the normal operation of thereof; (iv) properly safeguard the “Username” and “Password” FUNDACIÓN provides Users as tools for identifying and accessing the different services available on the Web Site, where the User undertakes to not transfer the use thereof or allow third parties access thereto and assumes responsibility for any damages resulting from the misuse thereof. Likewise, the User undertakes to notify FUNDACIÓN, as soon as possible, of the loss or theft of the “Username” and/or “Password” or of the risk of third party access thereto; (v) not use the Web Site to carry out advertising, promotional or commercial operation activities, not use the content and specifically the information obtained via the Web Site to send advertising or send messages in order to make direct sales or for any other commercial purpose, and not collect or store personal data belonging to third parties; (vi) not use false identities or impersonate others when using the Web Site or when using any of the services of the Web Site, including, where appropriate, the use of passwords or access keys belonging to third parties or in any other manner, as well as trying to access and, where appropriate, use other Users’ email accounts and modify or tamper with their messages; (vii) not destroy, alter, use for their own purposes, misuse or damage data, information, programmes or electronic documents belonging to FUNDACIÓN, its suppliers or third parties; (viii) not use the Web Site to enter, store or disseminate any content that infringes upon intellectual or industrial property rights or trade secrets belonging to third parties, or in general any content for which the User, according to law, does not have the right to make available to a third party.

 

Privacy Policy and Cookies

Users can access the Privacy Policy, which includes the Personal Data Protection Policy, as well as the Cookies Policy of the Web Site at the following links:

 

Applicable Legislation and Jurisdiction

These General Conditions and Policies of the Web Site were drawn up in Spanish and translated into English. In the event of a discrepancy between the two versions, the Spanish version shall take precedence.  The terms of the Web Site shall be interpreted in accordance with and subject to Spanish law.

These conditions are in line with FUNDACIÓN’s internal Code of Conduct and Ethics, which defines FUNDACIÓN’s conduct and commitment to comply with the terms of said code in association with one or more commercial practices or business sectors. A copy of this Code can be obtained at Customer Service upon request and can be consulted at www.acciona.com/sustainability/corporate-governance/ethics-and-integrity/.
For any legal dispute derived from the existence, access, use or content of the General Terms of Use of the Web Site, both the Client and FUNDACIÓN submit themselves exclusively to the jurisdiction and competency of the Courts and Tribunals of the city of Madrid and expressly waive any other jurisdiction.

 

Contact

For any questions regarding these terms and conditions, please do not hesitate to contact us at Avenida de la Gran Vía de Hortaleza, 3, 28033 (Madrid), or at the email address fundacion@acciona.org.

 

Security

The Website disposes of the certificate SSL (Secure Socket Layer) signed by the certifying entity DiciCert with the aim of ensuring the security of data transmission between your browser and our Website.

The secure server establishes a connection transferring algorithmically coded data at a speed of at least 128 bits, which is only readable by the user’s computer and the Website. In this way, by using the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol, the following is guaranteed:

  1. That the User is communicating his or her data to the Website server center and no other.
  2. That, between the User and the Website, the data transferred is coded, avoiding its possible reading or manipulation by third parties.

To verify he or she is in a secure environment, the User must verify that the Website address begins with https://. It can also be verified that the Website is identified as secure when the padlock icon appears in the address bar of your navigator.

Finally, you can also verify the presence of the SSL certificate by checking the properties of the Website in your navigator, for which you should consult the characteristics of the same.

 

Last updated: June 28th, 2023.