Legal Notice

Access to the portal of Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, hereinafter BSC-CNS, and the information relating to any of the services contained therein, implies acceptance of the conditions set out in this legal notice. We therefore recommend that you read this notice carefully if you wish to access and use the information and services offered via this portal.

LSSIYCE LEGAL NOTICE

Pursuant to the obligations provided by Law 34/2002, on services of the information society and electronic commerce (hereinafter, LSSIYCE), the BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACIÓN (BSC-CNS) states that the domain www.bsc.es is the property of the BSC-CNS, with tax code S-0800099-D and registered office at Plaça Eusebi Güell 1-3, Barcelona (Barcelona).

TERMS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE AND FORBIDDEN ACTIONS

Accessing and using the website confers the status of user and therefore involves express acceptance, without reserves, of the terms of use provided in this legal notice. These terms shall be applicable regardless of the general terms and conditions for contracts and electronic commerce that may apply to the functions offered by the websites.

The user undertakes to use the services and information provided by the portal www.bsc.es in a proper and legal manner, refraining from any illegal activities or activities in bad faith or against public order. In any case, the user is responsible for any use of the information contained in this website. Should the use of certain functions or services included in websites require prior registration by the user, such registration shall be carried out through forms that gather data in accordance with personal data protection regulations. Minors must be authorized by their legal guardians in order to use this website, the latter being responsible for their use.

LIABILITY

BSC-CNS assumes no liability whatsoever that may arise from the incorrect, inappropriate or illegal use of the information shown in its pages.

With the limits established by the law, BSC-CNS assumes no liability that may arise from the lack of veracity, integrity, currency or accuracy of the data or information contained in its webpages. The contents and information from BSC-CNS' webpages are prepared by professionals who are duly qualified to exercise their profession. However, such contents and information do not bind BCS-CNS or constitute any kind of opinions or advice, as they are merely provided as a service for informational and educational purposes.

BSC-CNS' webpages may contain links to pages from third parties. BSC-CNS cannot assume any liability for the contents that may appear in third-party pages. The texts, images, sounds, animations, software and other contents included in this website are the exclusive property of BSC-CNS or its licensors. Any total or partial transfer, distribution, assignment, reproduction, storage or public communication must have the express content of BSC-CNS.

INFORMATION ON PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, you hereby authorize us to include the personal data you provide into files under the control of the BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER - CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACIÓN (BSC-CNS) with tax code S-0800099-D and registered office at Plaça Eusebi Güell 1-3, Barcelona (Barcelona). The purpose of this data processing is to manage your request, which, depending on the section to which you have subscribed, consists in:

  • Newsletter: regularly receiving the BSC-CNS newsletter.
  • Job alerts: receiving information of the vacancies that may arise at BSC-CNS.
  • Recruitment: managing applications for the vacancies at BSC-CNS.
  • Folks: receiving information relating to the activity of the Folks BSC-CNS group.
  • Events: managing the organization of events such as workshops, meetings, etc.
  • User: managing the data of persons external to this institution who may take part in some of the projects.
  • Projects: managing the data of the persons taking part in the different projects.
  • Forums, chats and surveys: managing the data of the persons who post messages or communicate through different channels or the data collected in order to ask questions or gather their opinion on a specific subject.

These data shall not be transferred to third persons and shall be kept for as long as it is required or legal for the purpose for which they were collected.

In any case, you may withdraw your consent or exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection to processing, as well as the right to data portability. These requests must be sent at Plaça Eusebi Güell 1-3, Barcelona (Barcelona) or to the data protection officer of the BSC-CNS at the following address: dpo [at] bsc [dot] es

You may also file a complaint before the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

This website is the property of BSC-CNS but it is provided under the following Creative Commons licence:

Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC  

This licence allows others to remix, transform and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, and even if new creations must attribute their authorship and cannot be used for commercial purposes, they need not be licensed under the same terms.

CHATS, FORUMS, SURVEYS AND NEWSLETTERS

BSC-CNS may now or later have public participatory sections such as chats, forums, surveys, etc., which shall be accessible to all users in general, for their interaction. Some of these establish certain conditions for participating, which must be previously accepted, and require the user's registration, in which case, in addition to the conditions for participating, the user must accept the assignment of personal data in order to comply with the requirements of the personal data regulations.

The following terms of use are established:

BSC-CNS assumes no liability for the contents of the messages, informations or opinions given by users. BSC-CNS also reserves the right to prevent and/or remove illegal content or content that may harm legitimate interests of any kind, especially in case of incompatibility with these terms of use.

BSC-CNS shall be entitled to reproduce, modify (by means of abstracts, summaries, reviews), adapt and publish any contents, whether they be texts, photographs, graphics, etc., in order to promote the section on which they have been published, and to use them in future activities and publications of the BSC-CNS, in any formats and media. The licence is free and its duration shall extend until it becomes public domain under the intellectual property regulations in force. Users may only send contents authored by them or authorised by the rightholders, without prejudice to the obligation to report the URL of the owner or any right to link to the said contents.

The personal data included in interactive functions and their contents cannot be used for purposes other than those expressly authorised by the data subject. Users shall be liable for the veracity of any data they provide.

Users or participants shall refrain from including language in their opinions that may be considered offensive, slanderous, racist or violent.

Unauthorised commercial communication is forbidden.

Users are warned that any personal details they provide may be seen by other users or participants. In order to provide personal data from third parties, their express consent shall be required. In the case of surveys, users can participate anonymously and the BSC-CNS shall assume no liability regarding their use of the results.

Subscription – with or without charge – to (newsletters) edited by BSC-CNS through www.bsc.es shall be voluntary and shall involve express acceptance of the conditions that may be established in each case, and it shall also involve the user's consent to receive information from BSC-CNS.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

These general terms and conditions are governed by Spanish law, and the Spanish courts and tribunals of the city of Barcelona shall be competent to try any controversies that may arise from their interpretation, application and performance.

The user, by virtue of his/her acceptance of the general terms and conditions included in this legal notice and whenever possible, expressly waives any jurisdiction that may be applicable according to the Spanish Civil Procedure Law.