LEGAL INFORMATION AND ACCEPTANCE

In conformity with the provisions of Act 34/2002, on information society and electronic commerce services, INTERPROFESIONAL AGROALIMENTARIA DEL PORCINO DE CAPA BLANCA hereinafter the “INTERPORC” with Tax Identification Number G85661577, is a private corporation with its headquarters at C/ Marqués de Urquijo nº 10, 2º izda. 28008 Madrid, SPAIN and with email address lopd@interporc.es makes available to its users, through its Internet Portal www.eupork.com (hereinafter the “Portal”).

This Portal was created to implement the promotion campaign EU Pork, the Smart Choice, financed with the aid of the European Union. The content of this promotion campaign represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility. The European Commission and the European Research Executive Agency (REA) do not accept any responsibility for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

These General Conditions have been drafted in conformity with the provisions of Act 34/2002, on information society and electronic commerce services; Organic Law 3/2018, on Personal Data Protection and digital rights guarantee; Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, dated 27 April 2016 on the protection of physical persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of said data; Act 7/1998 on General Contract Conditions; Act 3/2014, dated 27 March, modifying the amended text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary legislation, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, dated 16 November; Act 47/2002, dated 19 December, amending Act 7/1996, dated 15 January, on Planning of Retail Trade, for transposing to Spanish legislation Directive 97/7/CE, in respect of distance selling, and for adapting the Act to different EC Directives, and all applicable legal provisions.

The User, merely by using this Portal, expresses full acceptance of these General Conditions, which are subject to modification by INTERPORC at any time. Consequently, the User must, under his or her sole liability, carefully read these General Conditions upon each intended use of the Portal.

INTERPORC informs that any mandatory procedures to obtain the services offered are those described in these General Conditions and, when applicable, the corresponding Specific Conditions, as well as any other specific conditions indicated on-screen when browsing, wherefore the User must declare his or her knowledge and acceptance of these procedures as necessary for accessing the services offered in the Portal.

    CONDITIONS OF ACCESS, USE AND UTILISATION OF THE PORTAL

The Services offered by INTERPORC in its Portal are, in principle, and unless otherwise specified, free of charge. Access to the Services supplied through the Portal does not require, in general, a prior User subscription or registration.

INTERPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

The User assumes the obligation to use the Contents and Services available through the Portal in conformity with these General Conditions and the Specific Conditions established for certain Services, as well as in accordance with legal provisions, morality, customs and public order.

Additionally, The User assumes the obligation to respect the intellectual and industrial property rights of INTERPORC, including its domain name, and/or third parties, and to this end will abstain from illegally, fully or partially, reproducing, copying, distributing, making available, creating derivative products, or in any other way making public, transforming, or modifying the Contents, unless the User is authorised in writing by the holder of the corresponding rights or is legally permitted to do so, as shown below.

INTERPORC does not guarantee the utility of the Portal for any specific activity or the suitability of its contents and services for specific purposes, wherefore the User is solely and exclusively liable for the use of information, contents and services.

The contents included in the Portal are provided in good faith by INTERPORC with information from both internal and external sources. Given this circumstance and the large amount of information made available to the User through the Portal, INTERPORC cannot guarantee full reliability, legality, exactness or suitability of the same, despite its best efforts in this regard. Therefore, INTERPORC cannot control the Users’ use of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the illegal, incorrect, inappropriate or unsuitable use by Users of the Portal, its services or contents.

In the event that a User causes damages to any third parties, given its use of any products, service, content and/or tool facilitated through our website, as well as for improperly using the same, the User expressly exempts INTERPORC from any liability which may be attributed to INTERPORC.

    CONTENTS AND SERVICES OF THE PORTAL

The languages used in the Portal will be English, Chinese and Vietnamese, INTERPORC is not responsible for the User’s lack of understanding of the languages used. INTERPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Contents in the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

Any User who intends to establish a hyperlink from his or her own website to the Portal must not use INTERPORC as a metatag or to attract users to his or her own website or hinder the User’s access to the Portal. The inclusion of a hyperlink to the Portal in no way implies the existence of a relationship between INTERPORC and the owner of the website in which it is inserted, nor the acceptance or approval by INTERPORC of its contents or services, wherefore no declaration may be made or insinuated as to authorisation granted by INTERPORC for the hyperlink, or as to the supervision or use of the services offered in said website that includes the hyperlink.

In this sense, the Portal may redirect information, content, products and services of independent third parties, at the User’s disposal. INTERPORC is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, integrity, validity, the author´s rights fulfilment, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect of the web pages and/or third parties’ content. INTERPORC does not guarantee, support, assume or take responsibility for any content or web pages or any other materials, products or services belonged to the third parties.

    INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

All of the contents, understood as the following and not limited to the same, texts, photographs, illustrations, graphs, software, databases, graphic designs, source codes, audio-visual and audio contents, as well as any names, domain names, logos, trademarks, tradenames, designs and brands accessible in the Portal are subject to intellectual and industrial property rights owned by INTERPORC or authorized third parties. In this regard, these are considered works protected by Spanish and EU legislation jointly in the realm of intellectual and industrial property rights.

Access by the User to the contents and services of the Portal in no way implies, in any case, any type of waiver, transmission or transfer, whether full or partial, of the aforementioned rights. Users have the right to use, modify, exploit, reproduce, distribute or publicly communicate the contents for commercial or non-commercial purposes, except if authorisation is specifically required, provided that Users fulfil the following conditions:

– Under no circumstances may information content be denatured.

– The User is obliged to properly provide source references for the contents used (including a link to this Portal).

– The User is obliged to include the date on which the contents were last updated.

EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND LIABILITY

As stated above, INTERPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

INTERPORC does not guarantee the utility of the Portal for any specific activity or the suitability of its contents and services for specific purposes, wherefore the User is solely and exclusively liable for the use of information, contents and services.

The Portal makes available to the users’ technical devices for links (such as, among others, links, banners, directories, etc.), that enable access to the website(s) owned and/or managed by third parties and of which INTERPORC is neither the owner nor has any type of association. As a result, INTERPORC will not be liable for controlling and monitoring the contents, wherefore INTERPORC will assume no liability whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly, for said website(s). The User must exercise due caution when evaluating and using said information, contents and services made available through these devices.

Likewise, INTERPORC excludes any liability derived of the rendering of services or of making available goods or products that may be acquired or contracted from third parties by accessing the Portal, especially in those cases in which the purchase or contract procedure is implemented directly in the third-party website.

INTERPORC does not guarantee privacy and security when using the Portal and, in particular, does not guarantee that unauthorised third parties will not be knowledgeable of the type, conditions, characteristics and circumstances of the use which Users make of the Portal, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to these unauthorised accesses.

In the event that a User causes damages to any third parties, given its use of any products, service, content and/or tool facilitated through our website, as well as for improperly using the same, the User expressly exempts INTERPORC from any liability which may be attributed to INTERPORC.

To this end, the User will solely and exclusively assume any liability which may derive as a result of the foregoing. Likewise, the User will assume all expenses, costs and, when applicable, compensation which may derive of legal proceedings initiated on the grounds of noncompliance with the provisions of these Conditions and applicable regulations.

If the User were to consider any of the contents or information available in the Portal illegal or in violation of their rights, the User can contact INTERPORC via email at lopd@interporc.es, including a reference to the illegality of the contents.

CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS OF THESE GENERAL CONDITIONS

INTERPORC may, at any time, modify these Terms of Use or introduce new conditions either for the entire service or for the use of specific contents or features, only by notifying said modification to the users via the Portal.

In the event of modifications to the service or to these General Conditions, and if you the User do not express your opposition in writing and continue to access the Portal, we will understand that the User has accepted the new General Conditions.

In the event of a regulatory action, legal or regulatory measure which, in the opinion of INTERPORC, prohibits, substantially restricts or makes the provision of the Service unfeasible, INTERPORC shall be entitled to: (i) modify the service or the General Conditions in order to adapt them to the new circumstances, (ii) interrupt the provision of the service.

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION AND JURISDICTION

These General Conditions are bound to Spanish legislation.

For any controversy which may derive from the application of the services or the interpretation or application of the General Conditions, INTERPORC and the User, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction to which they may be entitled where permitted by applicable law, will submit themselves to the Courts of Madrid (Spain).