Legal

Rules of use and access to the website

The website, whose owner is Aigües de Barcelona, Empresa Metropolitana de Gestió del Cicle Integral de l’Aigua, S.A. (hereinafter, AIGÜES DE BARCELONA), accessible through the URL address www.abdatachallenge.cat, provides access to its visitors and users to content related to the AB Data Challenge contest.
The identifying data of the website’s controller are:
Aigües de Barcelona, Empresa Metropolitana de Gestió del Cicle Integral de l’Aigua,
S.A.

C/ General Batet, 1-7
08028 Barcelona
Tax ID No. (NIF): A66098435

Entered in the Barcelona Companies Register, volume 43889, folio 142, sheet B-441030.

USERS

By accessing and/or using AIGÜES DE BARCELONA’s website, it is understood that you fully accept these general conditions and, if applicable, the special conditions related to certain services and content on the website. If you do not accept the content of these general conditions, you should refrain from accessing the website and operating through it.

USE
You undertake to use the website and its services and content in accordance with current legislation, good faith, generally accepted uses and public order.
It is forbidden to use the website for illicit or harmful purposes against AIGÜES DE BARCELONA or any third party.
You are responsible for complying with the obligations to which you are bound by virtue of these general conditions or current legislation concerning use of the services. AIGÜES DE BARCELONA reserves the right to refuse use of the services and remove the information, data, files and other content made
available to the user, at any time and without any obligation to give prior notice to those users who do not comply with these general conditions.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
All industrial and intellectual property rights on the website, and all the information and elements contained in it and which make up the website (images, graphic designs, source code, design, browsing structure, databases, etc.) are the property of AIGÜES DE BARCELONA. Either on its own behalf or as assignee or licensee, AIGÜES DE BARCELONA is the authorised party or holder of all of the website’s industrial and intellectual property rights and it expressly reserves such rights. Accordingly, it is expressly forbidden to reproduce, distribute, or publicly communicate all or any part of its content, by any means and in any format without the prior authorisation of AIGÜES DE BARCELONA, as set forth in the Consolidated Text of the Law on intellectual property.
Furthermore, the exploitation rights with respect to this website and any of its elements and, in particular, the rights of use, exploitation, distribution, transformation and public communication are held solely, for the maximum period provided in law and for all countries, by AIGÜES DE BARCELONA.
You may not use the brands registered by AIGÜES DE BARCELONA, logos, trade names, designs, know-how, or any other distinctive sign of AIGÜES DE BARCELONA without its express, prior consent.
You must refrain from using any system or device that is able to access the website’s settings or its security system or modify it.
Under no circumstances will your access and browsing of the website, or your use of services offered through the website, be understood to imply a waiver, transfer, license or assignment of all or part of these rights by AIGÜES DE BARCELONA.
You undertake to use the content accessible on the website responsibly, guaranteeing strict compliance with current legislation on the subject of intellectual and industrial property, and to make legitimate use of this content.
With the aim of preserving possible intellectual or industrial property rights, if a user or a third party considers that there has been a violation of their legitimate rights by inserting certain content on the website, they must report this to the company, providing the following information:

– The personal data of the party who owns the allegedly infringed rights. If the claim is made by a third party who is not the claimant, said third party must state the representative status under which it acts.
– Indication of the content protected by the intellectual or industrial property rights and its location in the website.
– Accreditation of these intellectual and industrial property rights.
– A declaration in which the claimant accepts responsibility for the truthfulness of the information provided in the notification.
– The claimant is solely responsible for the legitimacy of the intellectual or industrial property rights corresponding to content provided by third parties.

EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND LIABILITY
AIGÜES DE BARCELONA does not provide any guarantee nor will it be liable under any circumstance for damages of any kind caused by:

– the lack of availability, continuity, access, maintenance and proper functioning of the website and/or its services or content.
– The lack of usefulness, suitability or validity of the website and/or its services or content to meet users’ needs, activities, specific outcomes or expectations.

– The existence of viruses, malware or programmes with harmful content. The receipt, obtainment, storage, dissemination or transmission of the content by users.
– Illicit, negligent or fraudulent use by users of this website, its services or content, in a manner contrary to these general conditions, good faith, generally accepted uses or public order.
– The lack of legality, quality, reliability, usefulness and availability of the services provided by third parties and made available to users on the website.
– Non-fulfilment by third parties of their obligations or undertakings with respect to the services rendered to users through the AIGÜES DE BARCELONA website. AIGÜES DE BARCELONA declares that it has put in place reasonably sufficient security measures to detect the existence of viruses; however, you should be aware that the security measures implemented by IT systems on the internet are not totally reliable and, therefore, AIGÜES DE BARCELONA cannot guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements that cause disruptions in your computer systems or in the electronic documents and files contained in such systems.
You are aware and accept that you use the website’s functionalities, in all cases, under your sole, exclusive responsibility.
AIGÜES DE BARCELONA does not guarantee availability and continuity in the services’ functioning.
Neither does AIGÜES DE BARCELONA guarantee the services’ usefulness for carrying out any activity in particular or their infallibility.
AIGÜES DE BARCELONA will not be liable under any circumstance for any damage of any kind that may be incurred as a result of the lack of availability or continuity of the services’ functioning, and the lack of access to the content and the interruptions in the service and, in particular, although not exclusively, the temporary limitations in access to the comment service’s different pages. AIGÜES DE BARCELONA may suspend any service at any time, temporarily or permanently.
AIGÜES DE BARCELONA will not be liable under any circumstance for the content or services in links that can be accessed from the website.

HYPERLINKS AND LINKED WEBSITES
Any hyperlink or link between a website and any of the pages of the AIGÜES DE BARCELONA website is subject to the following conditions:

– It is forbidden to reproduce, in full or in part, any of the services or content of the AIGÜES DE BARCELONA website.
– No links may be placed that do not lead to the website’s home page (deep links) nor can a browser or frame be created on the website’s pages.
– The website in which the hyperlink is established must not contain any brand, trade name, establishment sign, name, logo, slogan or other distinctive signs belonging to AIGÜES DE BARCELONA.
– AIGÜES DE BARCELONA is not responsible for the content or services made available to the public on the website from which the hyperlink is made, nor for any information or statements included in it. Likewise, the inclusion of these external links does not imply any type of partnership, merger or holding in the linked organisations.

DURATION AND MODIFICATION
AIGÜES DE BARCELONA may modify all or part of these general conditions, publishing any change in the same form in which this legal notice appears or through any type of notification sent to users. AIGÜES DE BARCELONA may terminate, suspend or halt access to the website’s content, at any time and without any obligation to give prior notice, and without giving rise to any entitlement on your part to demand compensation. The prohibitions stated above on use of the content will continue in force after discontinuation of the website.
Furthermore, whenever it considers it appropriate, AIGÜES DE BARCELONA may change the website’s structure and design, unilaterally and without prior notice, or change or remove the website’s services, content and terms of access and/or use.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
These general conditions will be governed by the laws of Spain. AIGÜES DE BARCELONA and the user expressly waive any other jurisdiction that they may be entitled to and submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Law of the City of Barcelona for settling any dispute and bringing any action arising from provision of the website and its services and content. This includes the interpretation, application, fulfilment or non-fulfilment of all that is included herein.