1.- The henceforth Terms and Conditions of Use apply to your use of the SEATRACENET Network property of the SEATRACES Consortium. Your registration in this network and its use or browsing acknowledges that you have read, understood, and agreed to be constrained by these terms which take effect from the date on which you first use the network. Your participation in the SEATRACENET Network conveys that you are the only responsible for your conduct and the content that you post in the network as well as your full compliance with these terms.

2.- The SEATRACES Consortium informs you that the access and use of the website www.seatracenet.eu and all the subdomains and directories included within it (from now on, jointly referred as the Website) depend on the terms detailed in this Legal Notice, without prejudice to the access to some of the mentioned services or contents might require the acceptance of Additional General Conditions.

3.- The SEATRACES Consortium reserves the right to make changes in the Website without notice, with the purpose of updating, correcting, modifying, adding or deleting contents or the design. As far as the information update is not immediate, we suggest you to always check the validity and accuracy of the information, services and contents presented. Likewise, the terms and conditions collected in the present Legal Notice might vary, hence we invite you to review these terms when you visit the Website.

4.- The SEATRACES Consortium shall not be liable for damages and prejudices resulting from the use made of the tools and information contained in www.seatracenet.eu regarding decision-making about the start, development, or outcome of administrative procedures. Such decisions must be verified with the official centres, organisms or competent governmental agencies. In any case, the information and contents of this website may not be quoted in trial proceedings with the Public Administration, the latter assuming no liability for any discrepancies that might arise between the printed version of the documents of the competent Administration and the electronic ones.

5.- You agree to use this Network only for legitimate objectives, and in a way, that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use of this Network by any third party. Such constraint or reserve includes, without limitation, conduct which is illicit, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene, offensive or scandalous material, or any material that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, likely to give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violates any law and causes disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this Network. We will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials on this Network.
6.- You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use in this Network in a way that:

  • infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party’s intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
    interferes or attempts to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons’ ability to use this Network;
  • enables the illicit distribution of copyrighted content;
  • includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person’s explicit consent;
  • constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests;
  • is insulting or offensive, or in a way that is otherwise intimidating, vicious, violent, bullying, hateful or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another’s privacy;
  • has irrelevant content or is recurrently posted the same or similar content or otherwise is enforced an unnecessary or excessively large load on the SEATRACENET Network’s infrastructure.

7.- Your permission to use SEATRACENET Network automatically ceases without notice if, at our sole discretion, you fail to comply with any of the Terms and Conditions. On cessation, you must terminate all use of SEATRACENET Network and destroy all and any materials copied directly or indirectly from SEATRACENET Network. This does not limit our right to terminate at any time for any reason whatsoever.

8.- Intelectual and Industrial Property Rights. Both the Website and its source codes, as well as the names, images and logos identifying the SEATRACENET Network, third parties and their information, products and services are intellectual property and proprietary marks of the SEATRACES Consortium, and/or or collaborating bodies, and are protected under the corresponding intellectual and industrial property rights. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted as awarding by implication or otherwise any license or right under any trademark or patent of the SEATRACENET Network, government department or any other third party. The copying and use of the SEATRACENET Network logo, or any other third party logos accessed via SEATRACENET Network are not permitted without prior approval from the copyright owner. Request for permission to use the SEATRACENET Network logo, or third party logos should be directed to: info@seatracenet.eu.

Any material found on the SEATRACENET Network, including text or images, may not be printed, copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, displayed, modified, reused, broadcast or transmitted in any way, except for your own personal noncommercial use and for the use of registered community organizations. Permission for any other use must be obtained from SEATRACENET Network. Applications should be made to: info@seatranet.eu.

Material presented on the SEATRACENET Network that is subject to copyright protection will be specified. The copyright protected material may be downloaded free of charge to file or printer without requiring specific permission. This is limited to the material being replicated accurately and not being used in a disapproving manner or in a deceptive context. Where this material is being distributed to others, the source (including URL) and copyright status must be recognized.

The SeaTraceNet Consortium declares its respect for the intellectual and industrial property rights of third parties; therefore, if you consider that this site could be violating your rights, please contact the SeaTraceNet Consortium (info@seatracenet.eu).

9.- Links or Hyperlinks. Links contained in the SEATRACENET Network will lead to other websites not under our control, and we are not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. Links provided on the SEATRACENET Network are provided to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply reliability and endorsement by us of, and we accept no liability in respect of, the content.
Users who wish to set up a hyperlink between their website and that of the SEATRACENET Consortium (www.seatracenet.eu) should be aware of the following:

The set-up of a hyperlink in no way implies that any relationship exists between the SEATRACES Consortium and the owner of the website that sets up the link, nor the acceptance or approval by the SEATRACES Consortium of its contents or services. Therefore, there will be no statement nor will it be led to be believed that the SEATRACES Consortium has expressly authorised the hyperlink nor that it has in any way supervised or assumed the services offered or made available on the website from where the hyperlink is set up.

The SEATRACES Consortium assumes no liability whatsoever, nor guarantees the quality, accuracy, reliability, correctness or moral nature of the contents or services that may be offered by the setting up of the hyperlink. Users assume the consequences, damages or actions that may result from access to the hyperlink website under their exclusive responsibility.

The website on which the hyperlink is set up may not contain any brand, name, logotype, slogan or other distinctive signs belonging to the SeaTraceNet Consortium, except those signs forming part of the hyperlink itself.

The website on which the hyperlink is set up will not contain information with unlawful content, content that is indecent or contrary to generally accepted good customs and public order, and neither will it have contents that contravene the rights of third parties.

10.- Privacy Policy: The gathering and automated treatment of the personal data collected through this web site have the purpose of managing the service requested by the user as well as its tracking. The treatment’s legal basis is the consent of the user, which is needed for the development of the public functions and missions of the SEATRACES Consortium that is the responsible of this treatment.  Registration Data and all other information about you are subject to the provisions of the EU Regulation 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

11.- Cookies: A cookie is a small file that is automatically downloaded and installed on the user’s device through their browser when visiting a website. We use technical cookies for the correct operation of the website.