Football in Spain

Terms and conditions of use

This legal notice sets out the general conditions governing access to and use of the website, www.footballinspain.com.


COMPANY DETAILS


In compliance with article 10 of Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, the identifying details of the company are set out below.


Name: Asociación Football in Spain (G87003653)

E-mail address: info@footballinspain.com

Branches: Valladolid, Madrid and Valencia


GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS




Access and use of the website implies the express and full acceptance of these general conditions in the version published at the time the user accesses the website, without prejudice to the particular conditions that may apply to some of the specific services of the website.


The user accepts that access to this website and the contents included in it takes place freely and consciously, under his or her sole responsibility. Users access the website freely and free of charge, although FootballinSpain reserves the right to limit access to certain content or services, requiring the registration of their data prior to access. FootballinSpain reserves the right to modify at any time the presentation, configuration and location of the website, as well as the contents, services and conditions required to use them when it deems appropriate or in order to adapt to future legislative and technological changes.




These modifications will be valid from the moment they are published on the website. FootballinSpain reserves the right to interrupt access to this website at any time and without prior notice, whether for technical, security, control, maintenance, power failure, or any other cause. Said interruption may be temporary or permanent, in which case the users will be informed of this circumstance, who may suffer the loss, if applicable, of the information stored in the different services, without giving rise to any compensation whatsoever.


FootballinSpain undertakes NOT TO SEND COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEM AS SUCH, in accordance with the provisions of Law 34/2002 of Services of the Information Society and electronic commerce. For these purposes, all information sent TO THE CLIENTS on behalf of the company will not be considered as commercial communication provided that its purpose is to maintain the existing contractual relationship between the client and the company, as well as the performance of the tasks of information, training and other activities related to the service that the client has contracted with the company.


COPYRIGHT NOTICE


FootballinSpain holds the ownership of this website. All industrial and intellectual property rights on this Internet portal are legally reserved, so that access to it or its use, by the user, should not be considered, in any way, as the granting of any license of use or right on any asset.


Users of the website may only make private, personal or professional use of its contents. It is absolutely forbidden to use the website or any of its elements for commercial or illicit purposes. No acts of reproduction, modification, distribution or public communication of the website may be carried out without the prior written consent of FootballinSpain.


The reproduction of the contents of the website is prohibited, unless it is legally permitted and the source is cited or, failing that, the contrary is authorised in writing. Where prior written permission is required, such permission shall replace the general prohibition above and shall clearly state any restrictions on use. ACCESS USA/David Levin shall not be liable for any use by third parties of the content of the website and may take any civil or criminal action available to it in the event of any infringement of these rights by the user.


DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY


The contents incorporated to the website have been elaborated at all times in good faith with the purpose of providing information to the users, therefore FootballinSpain does not assume any type of responsibility regarding the integrity or accuracy of the mentioned information nor does it guarantee the accuracy or updating of the information that can be obtained from it, which can be modified without prior notice. FootballinSpain is not responsible for any typographical, formal or numerical errors that the website may contain. FootballinSpain is not responsible for the misuse that users may make of the website.


1. Responsibility for the functioning of the website. FootballinSpain will try to minimize the problems caused by technical errors, and may proceed to the temporary suspension of the services and contents of the website to perform maintenance, improvement or repair of the same, without giving rise to any compensation to the user for these concepts. It is warned that some information contained in this website may have been created or collected in files or formats that are not error-free, so it cannot be guaranteed that the service will not be interrupted or affected by such problems.


FootballinSpain assumes no liability whatsoever for any damages that may be caused to the user as a result of consulting this website, or those external websites that are forwarded.


FootballinSpain will not be responsible in case of interruptions of the service, or malfunction of the same that have their origin in cases of unforeseen circumstances, force majeure or other causes beyond its control.


2. Responsibility for the use of links: FootballinSpain does not assume any responsibility derived from the existence of links between the contents of this site and contents located outside of this site, or any other mention of external contents to this site. In the event that FootballinSpain finds by any means the unlawfulness of the website, or that it harms property or rights of a third party liable for compensation, FootballinSpain will remove or disable the link.


The presence of other links on the website has a purely informative purpose, not constituting in any case an invitation or recommendation to purchase products or services offered on the Internet site of destination, and in no case imply support for the persons or entities authors of such content or owners of the sites where they are.


In this way FootballinSpain is not responsible for the content and availability of the websites to which it links outside its page, for any damage or loss that may arise from the connection or the use of any content, product or service available on the websites to which the links are directed.


Privacy policy


FootballinSpain informs you of its privacy policy applied to personal data. In this way, all personal data under its responsibility will be treated in accordance with the Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, in compliance with the EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.


Visiting the FootballinSpain website does not imply that the user must provide any information regarding their identity, and cannot be associated with a specific user by the company. In the event that personal data is provided, this data will be collected and used in accordance with the limitations and rights set out in the aforementioned data protection regulations.


Users who provide personal data give their clear, exact and unequivocal consent to these conditions.


1. Collection of data. The collection of personal data will be carried out solely and exclusively through the forms published on the website and emails that users can send to FootballinSpain, which will be included in an automated file. The files owned by FootballinSpain are registered in the General Register of the Spanish Data Protection Agency, which can be accessed by the user or visitor to check the status of those.


FootballinSpain will keep your data once the relationship with the user has ended in order to comply with the necessary legal obligations. In turn, it will proceed to the cancellation of the data collected when they are no longer necessary for the purpose for which they were collected.


2. Information security. FootballinSpain has developed all systems and technical and organizational measures at its disposal, provided in the rules of protection of personal data to prevent the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access and theft of personal data provided by the user or visitor, however, the user or visitor should be aware that Internet security measures are not impregnable.


3. Confidentiality and professional secrecy. Private communications that may occur between FootballinSpain. staff and users or visitors will be considered confidential. Access to this information is restricted by means of technological tools and strict internal controls.


4. Links to other websites. This website may contain links to other websites. Please note that FootballinSpain has no control over, and is not responsible for, the data protection policies or measures of other websites.


5. User rights. The user may exercise, with respect to the data collected in the manner provided, the rights recognised by the Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, in compliance with the EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and in particular the rights of access, rectification or cancellation of data and opposition, if appropriate. The rights of cancellation, opposition and revocation of consent for the transfer may be exercised by the user, and where appropriate, whoever represents him/her, by means of a request sent by ordinary mail, signed and accompanied by a photocopy of the ID card, to the address of the FootballinSpain headquarters indicated above.


FootballinSpain informs that the personal data collected, when they are no longer necessary or relevant for the purpose for which they were collected, will be canceled in accordance with the rules of protection of personal data.


CLAUSE FOR FORMS


In the case that FootballinSpain has forms, the identification of the user is full, since it is the user himself who voluntarily enters his data in our forms. The information provided by the user will be used by FootballinSpain exclusively for the purposes reported in each case.


Each of our forms includes a specific privacy clause through which the user will voluntarily consent to the automated processing of the data provided.


FootballinSpain will be the entity responsible for the file generated with the personal data provided by the users of its website in the forms. In accordance with the Organic Law 3/2018, of 5 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, in compliance with the EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, FootballinSpain undertakes to comply with its obligation of secrecy with regard to personal data and the duty to treat them with confidentiality. To these effects, it will adopt the necessary measures to avoid its alteration, loss, treatment or unauthorised access.


The personal data collected will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.


The user that appears in our databases may at any time exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition, by means of a request sent by ordinary mail, signed and accompanied by a photocopy of the ID card, to the FootballinSpain address indicated above.


The user is free to update their personal data, or request the total elimination, at any time via email: info@footballinspain.com


COOKIES


The main obligations regarding cookies are set out below, such as: informing the website user of the type of cookies used by the website, their purpose, user consent, ways of requesting consent, legal notice, cookies policy, etc.


1. Concept of Cookies


Cookies are files that are stored on the user's computer when browsing the Internet and which, in particular, contain a number that allows the user's computer to be univocally identified, even if the user's location or IP address changes.


Cookies are installed while browsing the Internet, either by the websites visited by the user or by third parties with which the website is related, and allow the website to know their activity on the same site or on others with which it is related, for example: the place from which you access, the connection time, the device from which you access (fixed or mobile), the operating system and browser used, the most visited pages, the number of clicks made and data regarding the user's behaviour on the Internet.


The website is accessible without the need for cookies to be activated, although their deactivation may prevent the website from functioning correctly.


2. Types of "Cookies":


2.1. Types of existing Cookies:


Cookies can be classified according to the entity that manages them, according to the time they remain activated in the terminal equipment and according to their purpose.


The main obligation for companies or service providers in the information society or internet, through media such as websites, platforms or computer applications, is established in art. 22.2 of the LSSI, which states:


"Service providers may use data storage and retrieval devices on recipients' terminal equipment, provided that the recipients have given their consent after having been provided with clear and complete information on their use, in particular on the purposes of the data processing, in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, in compliance with EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. .”


Likewise, cookies used for any of the following purposes are exempt from compliance with the obligations established in article 22.2 of the LSSI;


Only to allow communication between the user's equipment and the network.


Strictly to provide a service expressly requested by the user.


In this sense, the cookies that would be exempt from the obligations set out in art. 22.2 are those that have the following purposes;


User input cookies.

User authentication or identification cookies (session cookies only).

User security cookies. (erroneous and repeated connection attempts).

Media player session cookies.

Session cookies for load balancing.

User interface customisation cookies.

Add-on cookies for social content sharing.


These cookies are excluded from the scope of application of art. 22.2 of the LSSI, and therefore, it would not be necessary to inform or obtain consent for their use. On the other hand, it would be necessary to inform and obtain consent for the installation and use of any other type of cookies, whether first-party or third-party, session or persistent, being subject to the scope of application of article 22.2 of the LSSI, on which the guidelines in this document will be useful.


Cookies, depending on the entity that manages them, may be;


First-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.


Third-party cookies: These are those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.


Cookies can be distinguished according to the length of time they remain activated on the terminal equipment;


Session cookies: These are a type of cookie designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a website.


Persistent cookies: These are a type of cookie in which the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the party responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.


Cookies, depending on their purpose, may be:


Technical Cookies: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it as, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the buying process of an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcast video or sound or share content via social networks.


Personalisation cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined according to a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser used to access the service, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.


Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of the users of the service.


Advertising Cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.


Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed in order to display advertising based on the same.


2.2. Types of Cookies that are used on the website


The present web property of FootballinSpain, uses the following cookies:


Google Analytics

Monitoring of conversions through Facebook.

LinkedIn conversion monitoring

Google Adwords conversion monitoring.


3. Information on the legal obligations regarding the use of cookies.


The legal obligations imposed by the regulations are twofold: the duty to provide information and to obtain consent.


Firstly, the first thing to do is to identify the cookies that are being installed or used, analysing whether they are own or third-party cookies, session or permanent cookies, and specifying their function in order to decide whether or not they fall within the scope of application of article 22.2.


The second paragraph of Article 22 of the LSSI establishes that users must be provided with clear and complete information on the use of data storage and retrieval devices and, in particular, on the purposes of data processing, in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December, on the protection of personal data.


Therefore, the information on cookies provided at the time of requesting consent must be sufficiently complete to allow users to understand the purpose for which they were installed and to know the uses to which they will be put.


In the event that a user consents to the use of cookies, information on how to revoke consent and delete cookies should be made available to the user in an accessible and permanent manner.


The mandatory information may be provided in a variety of ways. As we will see below, these means will generally not only provide the necessary information, but may also seek the user's consent to the installation of the devices. Among the most common methods are;


Providing the information in a header bar or footer, in a sufficiently visible manner.


When applying for a service, or before downloading a service or application, this information may be provided together with the privacy policy, or in the terms and conditions of use of the service.


Likewise, information shall be provided on how to deactivate or delete the cookies listed through the functionalities provided by the publisher, as well as how to revoke the consent already given.


4. Consent to the use of cookies


In accordance with the cookie notice that appears on the website page, the user or visitor to the website accepts that, by browsing the website, they expressly consent to the use of cookies as described below, except to the extent that they have modified their browser settings to reject the use of cookies.


5. Browser settings


The Owner reminds its users that the use of cookies may be subject to their acceptance during the installation or updating of the browser used by them.


This acceptance may be revoked by means of the content and privacy configuration options available in the browser. The Owner recommends that users consult their browser's help or access the help web pages of the main browsers:


Firefox.

Chrome.

Safari.

Explorer.


If the user has any questions about the Website's Cookies Policy, he/she can contact the Owner at the following address: info@footballinspain.com indicating "Cookies Policy" in the subject line.


Users are free to update their personal data at any time through this link. Similarly, you can request the complete deletion of your personal data by sending an e-mail to: info@footallinspain.com.


This document was last updated on February 12, 2021.