The conditions stated herein regulate the use of the Internet Website www.ie.edu
that Instituto de Empresa (hereinafter referred to as IE) places at the Users disposal
(the User). Use of the Website presupposes the full acceptance at all times by the
User of all the General Conditions of Use currently in force, for which reason if
the User does not agree with any of the conditions established herein, he/she should
not use this Website. IE reserves the right to modify these General Conditions of
Use of the Website at any time or any other general or specific conditions, regulations
for use, instructions or warnings that appear in this application. IE also reserves
the right to suspend, interrupt or cease operating the Website at any moment. 1.
OBJECT
Through the Website, IE provides Users with access to different content, information
and data (the "Contents") placed at the disposal of Users by IE or third party service
and content suppliers. IE reserves the right to modify at any moment the presentation
(including the "look-and-feel"), configuration and location of the Website, as well
as the Contents and conditions required to use them. The so-called Contents include
a restricted access area for previously Registered Users ("Registered Users"), whose
access and use is subject to the conditions stated in section 3 of this document.
2. CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE
2.1. Access and use of the Website. The User recognises and accepts that access
and use of the Website and/or its Contents take place freely and consciously under
his/her own responsibility. Access to the Website and/or its Contents does not imply
any kind of guarantee with regard to the aptness of the Website and/or its Contents
for personal or specific use by Users. IE may establish limitation and/or additional
conditions for the use of and/or access to the Website and/or its Contents, which
should be observed by Users at all times.
2.2. Authorised use of the Website and its Contents. The User agrees to make licit
and appropriate use of the Website and its Contents, in accordance with applicable
legislation, the General Conditions of Use of the Website, and generally accepted
moral standards and public order. The User must abstain from (i) non-authorised
or fraudulent use of the Website and its Contents; (ii) accessing or trying to access
restricted resources or areas of the Website, without meeting the conditions required
for said access; (iii) using the Website and/or it Contents for purposes that are
illicit or illegal, contrary to the general conditions established herein or to
good faith and public order, harmful to the rights and interests of third parties,
or which may damage, overload or render inoperative the Website or prevent normal
use or enjoyment of the Website; (iv) causing damage to IE systems, both physical
and logical, or those of its suppliers or third parties, (v) introducing any kind
of computer network virus or any other physical or logical systems that are susceptible
to causing damage to the physical and logical systems of IE, suppliers and third
parties, (vi) attempting to access, use and/or manipulate data of IE, third parties,
suppliers and other Users; (vii) reproducing or coping, distributing, permitting
access to the public through any means of public communication, transforming or
modifying the Contents, unless with the express authorisation of the owner of the
corresponding rights or if said modification is legally permitted. (viii) suppressing,
hiding or manipulating notes about intellectual or industrial property rights and
other identification data of IE or of a third party included in the Website Contents,
as well as technical protection devices or any other information mechanism that
may be inserted in the Contents; (ix) obtaining and attempting to obtain Contents
using means or procedures different to those which, depending on the case at hand,
have been placed at their disposal to this effect or have been expressly indicated
on the web pages that contain said Contents, or, in general, those which are habitually
used on the Internet and do not pose any risk of damage or rendering inoperative
the Website and/or its Contents.
2.3. Introduction of links. . Those Users who wish to establish a link between their
website and the IE Website must previously obtain authorisation from IE, presenting
a request to the following e-mail address soluciones.web@ie.edu, said link being
subject to the following obligations: (i) the link must only permit access to the
Website, it may not reproduce it in any way; (ii) links may not be established with
pages other than the homepage of the IE Website; (iii) it is not permitted to create
a frame or a border environment on the Website; (iv) it is not permitted to make
false, inexact or incorrect declarations or indications about the Website; (v) it
is not permitted to state or insinuate that IE has supervised or assumed in any
way the contents or services offered or advertised on the website that establishes
the link; (vi) the website on which the link is established must not contain any
brand, commercial name, logo, denomination, slogan or other distinctive signs pertaining
to IE and/or third parties, without their authorisation; (vii) the website on which
the link is established must not contain illicit information, contrary to generally
accepted moral standards and public order, or contrary to the rights of any third
parties. The establishment of the link does not in any case whatsoever indicate
the existence of any relation between IE and the owner and/or operator of the website
that establishes the link, nor does it imply IE's knowledge, acceptance and/or approval
of the contents and/or services of said owner and/or operator's website. Under no
circumstances will IE be answerable for the consequences that might arise form the
introduction of links by third parties, nor the content, information and/or services
offered on the websites on which the link is established.
3. RESTRICTED ACCESS AREA
In order to access and use the restricted access area, Users should register beforehand
by filling in the form (Registration Form) that appears in each case on the Website.
IE reserves the right to accept or reject freely a User's request to register. Data
entered by Users in the Registration form must be exact, up to date and true at
all times, and will be processed by IE as stipulated in the personal data protection
policy. Once the registration form has been received, IE will assign a personal
password that is exclusive to each Registered User. From that moment, the Registered
User may access the restricted access area and use the Contents in the manner stated
in these General Condition for use of the Website. Registered Users will be responsible
at all times for the integrity of their password, assuming responsibility for any
damage that might result from wrongful use, or its transfer, revelation or loss.
Access to restricted areas and/or the use of Contents that occur under the password
of a Registered User will be deemed to have been carried out by said Registered
User, who will answer in every case to said access and use. Registered Users may
modify their exclusive password at any time by sending a request to IE. If the User
forgets his/her password or in the case of any other circumstance that implies a
risk of access or use by a non-authorised third party, Registered Users must inform
IE immediately in order for IE to proceed to block access via said password and
substitute it for another.
4. INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The User recognises and accepts that all industrial and intellectual property rights
related to the Contents and/or any other elements on the Website (including, with
no limitation, brands, logos, commercial names, texts, images, graphics, designs,
sounds, databases, software, flow charts, presentation, "look and feel", audio and
video) belong to IE and/or third parties. In no case shall access to the Website
imply any type, neither total nor partial, of renunciation, transmission, granting
of licence of said rights, unless the contrary is established expressly. The General
Conditions of Use of the IE Website do not give Users any other right to use, alter,
exploit, reproduce, distribute or communicate the Website and/or its Contents publicly
in any way different to those expressly stated here. Any other use or exploitation
of any rights will be subject to prior, express authorisation specifically granted
to that effect by IE, or a third party that owns the rights in question. IE authorises
Users to use, look at on-screen, print, download and store Contents and/or elements
on the Website exclusively for personal, private and non-profit use; On the condition
that in each case the origin and/or author of the Contents appears, along with any
pertaining copyright symbol and/or note on industrial property and its owners. It
is strictly forbidden to use said elements, or reproduce them, communicate them
and/or distribute them for commercial or lucrative purposes. It is also strictly
forbidden to modify said elements, make any alteration or rearrange them. For any
other use except those expressly permitted, it will be necessary to obtain the previous
consent in writing of the owner of the rights of the element in question.
5. EMPLOYMENT OF COOKIE TECHNOLOGY
The User recognises and accepts that IE will be able to use cookies when a User
enters its Website. The IE cookies are associated solely with an anonymous User
and his/her computer and will not provide references that permit the deduction of
the User's personal data. The User will be able to configure his/her browser in
order to notify the User of and reject the installation of cookies sent by IE, without
preventing the User from accessing the Website Contents.
6. EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND RESPONSIBILITY
6.1. Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility for the correct functioning of the
Website. IE does not guarantee the availability or continuity of correct functioning
of the Website or those other Websites with which it has established a link. Furthermore,
IE is in no case responsible for any damages that may be derived from (i) lack of
availability or accessibility to the IE Website, or to those sites with which IE
has established a link; (ii) the interruption of the functioning of the Website
or computer faults, telephone breakdowns, disconnections, delays or blocks caused
by deficiencies or overloads of telephone lines in the Internet system or in other
electronic systems that occur when the Website is functioning; (iii) if the web
site does not meet the specific needs of the Users and (iv) other damage that may
be caused by third parties who undertake non-authorised actions that are beyond
IE's control. In order to reduce the risk of virus on the Website IE uses virus
scan programmes to control all Contents that are entered into the Website. Nevertheless
IE cannot guarantee the absence of all viruses nor other elements that may have
been introduced into the Website by third parties that have nothing to do with IE,
and which may cause problems in the physical or logical systems of Users or in electronic
documents and files that are stored in their systems. Consequently, IE will in no
case be responsible for any damage of any kind that is derived from the presence
of a virus or other elements that may cause problems in Users' physical or logical
systems, electronic documents or files. IE has adopted several protective measures
to protect the IE Website and its Contents against attacks by third parties. Nevertheless,
IE cannot guarantee that non-authorised third parties cannot gain access to the
type of use of the Website that the User makes, or the conditions, characteristics
and circumstances in which they carry out said use. Consequently, IE will in no
case be responsible for damages incurred by said non-authorised access.
6.2 Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility for the use of the IE Website. IE
will in no case be responsible for the use made by Users and/or third parties of
the Website or its Contents, nor for the damages that may result from said use.
6.3 Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility due to Contents IE does not edit
the Contents of third parties published on the Website and consequently it does
not guarantee, nor is it responsible for the (i) licit nature, reliability, usefulness,
veracity, exactness, exhaustiveness and updatedness of Contents placed by third
parties; (ii) the inappropriateness for any particular purpose, and non-fulfilment
of expectations generated by the Contents; (iii) decisions or actions taken or avoided
by the User as a result of the information or data facilitated or provided by the
Contents, including, loss of profit, of whatever amount, or business opportunity.
6.4 Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility for links. The Website places at
the disposal of Users technical devices used for links, directories and search tools
that permit Users to access pages and/or websites that belong to or are run by third
parties. IE checks existing Contents of said pages at the time the link is established
and does so in the belief and good faith that such Contents are in compliance with
applicable legislation. Nevertheless, in no case is IE responsible, nor does IE
approve nor recognise as its own the products, services, Contents, information,
data, files and any kind of existent materials on said web pages. IE does not control
and is not responsible for, nor does it approve or claim as its own any subsequent
modifications of said materials. In the case that it deems it advisable or if it
is requested by a legal or administrative order, IE will remove links to those web
pages that infringe applicable legislation and/or affect third parties' rights.
7. NON-FULFILMENT OF GENERAL CONDITIONS
IE reserves the right to take whatever action it has at its disposal by law to demand
responsibilities for non-fulfilment by the User of any of these General Conditions
of Use of the IE Website. 8. PARTIAL ANULMENT
The declaration that any of these general conditions are null and void will not
affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining conditions, which will still
be binding. The renouncement by any party to demand at any given time the fulfilment
of any of the general conditions stipulated herein will not imply a general renouncement
of the fulfilment of another condition or other conditions, nor will it give the
other party any more rights. 9. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
The rendering of the Website service and the general conditions described herein
are governed by Spanish law. In accordance with the law, the parties expressly renounce
any other local or regional law that may correspond to them, agreeing to submit
to the jurisdiction of the Courts and Tribunals of the city of Madrid, Spain.