LEGAL NOTICE
GENERAL
This website phottic.com is owned and operated by Photo Memory S. L. (hereafter Phottic) whose complete details are as follows:
- Corporate name is Photo Memory S. L.
- CIF: B70463062
- Social address: C/Xílgaro no1 SS - 15100 - Carballo (A Coruña)
- Phone number: 698 16 87 82
- FAX: 981 75 78 64
- Contact email address: [email protected]
All notices and communications between the users and Photo Memory S. L. shall be deemed effective for all purposes when conducted through postal mail or any of the aforementioned media.
Company registered in the Mercantile Register of A Coruña, Volume 3562, Sheet 75, Page no. C-53375
PURPOSE
Using any of the services provided on the website phottic.com confers the condition of user on you from the beginning and shall be deemed an express, voluntary acceptance without any reservations of these terms of use.
The website and the services therein can be accessed free of charge by all. Nevertheless, the use of certain services offered on the website is dependent on having previously filled in the corresponding form.
Phottic makes this legal notice available to users with the purpose of informing them of the website's terms of use, in compliance with the provisions established in Law 34/2002 for Information Society and Electronic Commerce Services (LSSI-CE).
phottic.com is a platform that will vary over time, to keep up with the users' needs and new technologies. Due to that, Phottic reserves the right to change any information that may appear on the website, and is not obliged to notify users in advance of said modifications, with publication on their website being understood to be sufficient.
LIABILITY
Phottic holds itself free from any liabilty derived from the information published on its website, providing that said information has been manipulated or introduced by an external third party not belonging to them.
Phottic accepts no responsibilty for the stored information and content, including but not limited to forums, blog generators, comments, social networks or any other medium that allows third parties to publish content independently on phottic.com. In the event that the user considers there is content on the website likely to affect or contravene national or international legislation, the rights of third parties (with particular reference to intellectual property rights), public morals and order, he is asked to notify [email protected] immediately.
Phottic reserves the right to take legal action and report to the competent authorities of actions contrary to law by USERS, and the USER will be liable for all damages caused by his comments, uploaded materials, etc., holding Phottic harmless in any event.
Photo Memory S.L. is not responsible for the content of websites that the user may access through links established on its website and declares that in no case will it examine or exercise any type of control over the content of other websites. In addition, Photo Memory S. L. will not guarantee the technical availability, exactitude, truthfulness, validity, or legality of foreign websites to it that the user could access through said links.
The user obliges himself to make correct use of the website in accordance with the law, the good faith, the public order, uses of traffic and this Legal Notice. The user will be liable to Phottic or to any other third party, against any damages and injuries that may be caused as a consequence of breaching this obligation.
Phottic does not accept any responsibility that might be derived from the use that users make of the informations and contents on the website.
Despite having taken all necessary precautions to provide up-to-date, accurate information on the website, Phottic cannot guarantee that all the information provided is up-to-date or free from errors or omissions.
All opinions contained in posts, links, magazines, and articles accessible from phottic.com belong to their respective authors.
phottic.com has been reviewed and checked to ensure its proper functioning. Nevertheless, this does not rule out the possibility that certain programming errors may exist, or events caused by force majeure, natural disasters, strikes, or similar circumstances that make it impossible to access the website at all times.
LIMITATIONS ON USE AND DUTY OF CUSTODY
The user undertakes not to use the website for illegal purposes or in a manner that will violate the rights of third parties.
The user commits to refrain from using the application for illegal or forbidden purposes, contrary to the provisions set forth in this document and in the application, harmful to the rights and interests of Phottic and third parties, or that may damage, render useless, overload or deteriorate the application or impede the normal use or enjoyment of the application by other users.
The user may not -in an exemplary, non-exhaustive way-: reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, reproduce, translate, modify, version, duplicate, trade, transform or assign to a person or entity, whether partially or completely, using any medium, whether mechanic, magnetic, photocopying, etc. or delete any proprietary notices or legends on the application, including but not limited to, logic diagrams, source code, data objects or models, without previous express authorization from PHOTO MEMORY, S.L.
Phottic cannot guarantee that the availability of the service will be continuous and uninterrupted, due to the potential appearance of technical problems with the network or telecommunication service providers, equipment failure, as well as other unforeseeable contingencies such as repairs, maintenance, and software updates. In any event Phottic guarantees that it will try to solve said problems as quickly as possible.
The user acknowledges and accepts that the access to and use of the website and/or the contents therein is made freely and consciously, under his exclusive responsibility. Accessing the site and/or the contents therein does not entail any type of guarantee regarding the suitability of the portal and/or the contents therein for the users' particular or specific purposes. Phottic may establish additional limitations and/or conditions on the use and/or access to the website and/or its contents, which must be observed by users under all circumstances.
INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
All contents, trademarks, designs, logos, icons, buttons, software, trade names, domain names, and any other signs or elements subject of protection under industrial and intellectual property rights that form part of this website are the property of Phottic or third parties which have duly authorized their inclusion in it and are listed as authors or holders of the rights.
The exploitation rights to the website are held by Phottic and are protected by the Intellectual Property laws of Spain and by all applicable laws in the country in which it may be used. The structure, organisation and codification of the website are valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Phottic. Thus, the user shall treat the web application in the same manner as he would any other material protected by intellectual property law and may not copy it without previous written express authorization from its holders.
Under no circumstances shall it be construed that a license is granted or that a waiver, transmission or assignment, total or partial, of said rights is made, or that any right is conferred, and in particular, of exploitation, reproduction, distribution, transformation or public communication of said contents without previous written express authorization from Phottic (with regard to the website's design or the use of the trademark “Phottic”) or the corresponding third parties.
The trademarks must be used in accordance with commercial uses, including reference to the name of the owner thereof.
The photos that the user may assign to PHOTO MEMORY, S.L shall be in accordance with the following conditions ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS[IPI1]
GENERAL TERMS OF PARTICIPATION IN THE PHOTTIC PROJECT
1. DEFINITION OF THE CONTRACTUAL DOCUMENTS AND ACCEPTANCE
1.1. These general terms (hereafter, “General Terms”) govern the contract made between PHOTO MEMORY, S.L., with VAT no. B- 70.463.062 and registered office in C/Xílgaro no1 SS - 15100 - Carballo, A Coruña, (hereafter “PHOTTIC”) and you (hereafter, the USER), regarding the provision, via the web, of the services offered in phottic.com, as well as the participation of the USER in the PHOTTIC project (hereafter, “the Project”), detailed below. All of this will be done under the conditions established in these General Terms.
1.2. Hereafter, PHOTTIC and the USER shall be jointly referred to as the “parties” and, any of them, ocassionally as appropriate, as the “party.”
1.3. The establishing of contact, registering on the website, joining the PHOTTIC project, sending images o any other action that suggests the establishment of a contractual relation between the parties will confer upon you the condition of USER of the website and of the PHOTTIC project, which will entail the full and unconditional acceptance on your part of these terms, along with the provisions established in the LEGAL NOTICE and the PRIVACY POLICY.
1.4. You understand that the information contained in phottic.com, with respect to both the specifications of the services provided and the general terms of the agreement and its coming into force, are sufficient to exclude any error in the formation of consent. Nevertheless, PHOTTIC shall be obliged to inform the USER of any other technical specification of the services or the project, as well as legal information about the contractual relation between the parties on first demand by any means that provides a record, providing that PHOTTIC has such information at its disposal.
1.5. These General Terms, along with the Specific Conditions regulating each particular service that may exist, will form a part of the contract at the time of acceptance, which will be verified by the USER's first access to the restricted area of the website &s after it has been made available to USER. As this is an electronic contract, these clauses fully apply between the agreeing parties pursuant to article 23 and those following of the Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Act 34/2002 of 11 July (LSSICE).
2. PURPOSE
2.1. PHOTO MEMORY, S.L. is the managing company of the website &s, hosting the “PHOTTIC” project, a global platform dedicated to the sorting of historical photography where local communities bring their past back to life; a platform in which we offer an application that allows you to georeference old photographs on Google Street View. However, its true value lies in the involvement of the community, who rate and comment on the photos.
2.2. In order to develop the aforementioned project, PHOTO MEMORY has created a photo digitizing and distribution programme which consists of making their web platform available to users on the website phottic.com.
2.3. The USER is interested in participating in the aforementioned programme and adheres to this agreement, for which he will facilitate diverse images, either by uploading them through his public profile on the aforementioned digital platform, or by supplying the materials to collection points designated to that end, where the materials provided will be scanned to be later added onto the project and the platform. The USER shall be able, after registering on the platform, to upload materials, purchase materials that are part of the project, and interact through the platform.
2.4. If the USER decides to register as a COLLECTOR or FREEMIUM USER, it will mean that the USER wants to open a particular project where he can decide whether third parties may upload materials to said project or not. In this sense, the COLLECTOR or FREEMIUM USER must comply with the same operating conditions and offer the same guarantees as a standard USER, which are all those mentioned in this document.
3. OPERATING CONDITIONS OF THE PROJECT
3.1. The USER states that he holds sufficient intellectual property rights (and industrial property, where applicable) of the visual material for the acceptance of these General Terms.
3.2. Furthermore, the USER guarantees that the visual material provided is not in conflict, but rather in full keeping, with the rights of third parties and is in line with current legislation, especially -by way of example, and not as a limitation- with regards to rights of the child and rights to self-image. In addition, the USER states that he has not assumed or will not assume any commitments or charges of any sort that may violate any rights that correspond to PHOTTIC or third parties, in accordance with the stipulations of these General Terms.
3.3. Any USER who uploads photographs to the PHOTTIC website understands that they are granting the rights to show them on the website phottic.com. In addition, they shall also permit the use of these photographs in the promotion of the aforementioned platform, and in this way these may be published on other forms of electronic or printed media.
3.4. When uploading photos to the aforementioned platform to a specific project, it shall be implied that rights are also being granted, for the sponsor of that project, for reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation, for any methods of use existing at the time when the rights are granted, with the duration corresponding to the period legally established until the work passes into the public domain and with a worldwide scope. The transfer is free.
3.5. The USER accepts that PHOTTIC may watermark all pictures that the former uploads from his profile, or hands in at the collection points created to that end, once these have been digitized; and PHOTTIC undertakes to respect the USER's moral rights and notify him of any violation of said rights perfomed by a third party that PHOTTIC may be aware of.
3.6. The USER undertakes to refrain from any action or omission that may impede the exercise of the rights assigned under this agreement, or that may hinder or make impossible in any way the exercise of said rights.
3.7. The USER shall have the power to decide if they want to put their graphic material up for sale. The final price must be agreed upon between PHOTTIC and the USER.
Once the final price is established, if the same is accepted by a third party, the sale will be considered formalized.
Finally, once the price is paid by the third party, the USER will receive the percentage agreed upon regarding the profit obtained, according to the rates and percentages stated on www.phottic/tarifas, which are permanently available to the USER, and which include the fees and taxes that may apply.
3.8. Regardless of the foregoing, if the company PHOTO MEMORY, S.L. is sold as a whole, then the user will not receive any amount, but the acquiring third company (or companies) of the former will be subrogated to the position of the latter.
3.9. This contract is binding on the parties and their respective successors.
3.10. In the event that the USER decides to delete his profile on the platform he authorizes PHOTTIC to continue using the photographs provided by the USER on PHOTTIC's General Project. However, said photographs will no longer be available to the public through said USER's profile. At the time a USER informs PHOTTIC of his intention to delete his profile from the project, the deletion of his public profile shall be carried out, and the material provided by said USER can no longer be assigned to third parties as from that moment. Nevertheless, this will not affect material that may have been assigned prior to the deletion of the USER's profile pursuant to clause 3.7 in this document; i. e., the USER accepts that the assignment, where appropriate, to third parties of the material he provided shall not be revoked, providing that said assignment had been made prior to the date of deletion of his profile.
3.11. In any event, the USER shall hold PHOTTIC harmless from any claims by third parties to PHOTTIC that may occur, providing that said claims by third parties are caused by the USER's wilful misconduct or negligence.
3.12. The USER undertakes to use the Services provided by the website in accordance with the law, moral standards, and generally accepted behaviour and public order, as well as to refrain from using the Service for illegal or forbidden purposes, contrary to the contents of these General Terms, harmful to the rights and interests of third parties, or that may damage, render useless, overload or deteriorate the Services, the computer equipment of other Clients or Internet users (hardware and software), as well as documents, files, and all sorts of contents stored in their computer equipment (hacking), or hinder the intended use and enjoyment of said services, computer equipment and files, documents, and contents by other Clients and Internet users.
3.13. In the event that the USER decides to interact on the platform by submitting comments related to materials found therein, he will be responsible for the content of his comments, and must respect in any event the rights of third parties and use appropriate, respectful language. In this sense, the USER will be exclusively liable for any possible consequences that might arise from the comments he may post from his personal account, exempting PHOTTIC from the potential liabilities that might be derived from such comments.
3.14. Each of the stipulations contained in these General Terms must be interpreted separately and independently from the rest. If any term becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable under any legal norm or is declared void or ineffective by any court or administrative authority, such invalidity or ineffectiveness shall not affect the rest of the stipulations, which will maintain full validity and efficacy. The parties agree to substitute the affected clause or clauses for others that will have the appropriate effects in order to pursue the intended goal by both parties in these General Terms.
3.15. These General Terms incorporate all existing pacts between the parties, and are complementary to the clauses set forth in the LEGAL NOTICE and in the PRIVACY POLICY. This document can only be modified via written agreement between the parties.
3.16. This Contract shall be governed and construed in accordance with the provisions in the Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of 12 April, approving the Restated Text of the Law on Intellectual Property, and, in general, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable Spanish legislation.
3.17. The intervening parties agree that any and all disputes, disagreement, question or complaint resulting from the implementation or interpretation of these general terms or related to them, directly or indirectly, shall be finally settled by subjecting to the courts and tribunals of Carballo, in the province of A Coruña, with an express waiver of any other jurisdiction that may be applicable to them without prejudice to the provisions of the following clause
3.18. The above paragraph shall not be applicable in the event that one of the parties has the status of consumer or user, in which case, the place designated in the user and consumer protection rules shall enjoy preferential applicability.
PRIVACY POLICY
CONFIDENTIALITY
Phottic undertakes to comply with the obligation regarding secrecy of personal data and its duty to store said data confidentially, and shall take the necessary measures to avoid its modification, loss, unauthorized access or treatment, taking into account the state of the technology.
DATA SECURITY
The user guarantees the authenticity and timeliness of all information reported to Photo Memory S. L., and shall be solely responsible for any false or inaccurate statements he may provide.
De acuerdo con el artículo 24y ss. del Reglamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 27 de abril de 2016, relativo a la protección de las personas físicas en lo que respecta al tratamiento de datos personales y a la libre circulación de estos datos y por el que se deroga la Directiva 95/46/CE (en adelante RGPD) Phottic garantiza la adopción de las medidas oportunas para asegurar el tratamiento confidencial de dichos datos. Por ello, ha implantado todas las medidas de seguridad técnicas y organizativas necesarias que garanticen la integridad, confidencialidad y disponibilidad de los datos personales facilitados por el usuario, en particular, seguirá manteniendo las estipuladas en la Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (LOPD) y su Reglamento de Desarrollo RD 1720/2007 por ser adecuadas al nivel de los datos objeto de tratamiento.
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
PHOTTIC a los efectos de la normativa de protección de datos y, en especial, del Reglamento UE 2016/679, del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo, de 27 de abril, informa a los usuarios de la página web que los datos recabados en cualquiera de las secciones de esta serán tratados conforme a esta legislación. Igualmente serán incluidos en ficheros cuyo responsable es PHOTTIC. Las categorías de datos corresponderán a datos de identificación, tales como nombre y apellidos, datos de contacto, como el número de teléfono y la dirección electrónica. Los mismos serán conservados durante el tiempo que dure la relación establecida con la entidad y no solicite su cancelación.
Las finalidades fundamentales del tratamiento de dichos datos son: La gestión y control de la relación que se pueda establecer entre el usuario y Phottic, gestión de clientes, respuesta a consultas y contactos genéricos mediante el correo electrónico, el envío de nuestra Newsletter con información, promociones y novedades de nuestra actividad que sean de su interés o bien la gestión de compras de los productos puestos a disposición a través de la web.
On the website various questionnaires may appear. The fields marked with an asterisk (*) will be considered mandatory and failure to fill them in may mean that Photo Memory S. L. may be unable to attend your request.
Asimismo, mediante la facilitación de sus datos, el interesado autoriza expresamente a PHOTTIC a que le envíe información comercial por correo electrónico, o medio similar, en cumplimiento del artículo 21 de la Ley 34/2002, de 11 de julio, de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico (LSSICE).
El tratamiento de los datos personales llevados a cabo por PHOTTIC responde exclusivamente a los fines establecidos anteriormente y correspondientes a los que le fueron requeridos, estando legitimada para ello por el consentimiento que expresamente se ha otorgado al aceptar las presentes condiciones.
De igual forma no serán transferidos a terceras personas sin el correspondiente consentimiento previo, ni fuera de los casos expresamente previstos en la legislación de protección de datos.
Por medio de la aceptación de las presentes Condiciones Generales, el Usuario garantiza que los datos e informaciones proporcionados a PHOTTIC a través del Sitio Web o por cualquier otro medio son los suyos propios; en caso contrario, el Usuario garantiza disponer del consentimiento expreso de los titulares de los datos e informaciones para su comunicación a PHOTTIC, con el objeto de que puedan ser incorporados a nuestros ficheros en las condiciones y con las finalidades establecidas en las presentes Condiciones Generales. Así mismo, por medio de la aceptación de las presentes condiciones, el Usuario garantiza que los datos e informaciones proporcionados a PHOTTIC verdaderas; el Usuario garantiza deberá responder de cualquier falsedad y de todos los daños y perjuicios que ocasione.
PHOTTIC garantiza el ejercicio de los derechos para ello el interesado podrá ejercitar los de acceso, rectificación, cancelación o supresión, oposición, a la limitación de su tratamiento o a la portabilidad de datos dirigiéndose por escrito a Photo Memory S.L., en la siguiente dirección C/Xílgaro nº2 , bajo - 15100- Carballo (A Coruña), o bien a través del siguiente correo electrónico [email protected], identificándose debidamente e indicando de forma visible el concreto derecho que se ejerce y adjuntando, en ambos casos, copia de su DNI.
Se le informa que también tiene usted derecho a presentar una reclamación ante la Agencia Española de protección de Datos en caso de que así lo considere.