Information on Terms of Use
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
The services that IES Barcelona provides to you are subject to the
following Terms of Use ("TOU"). IES Barcelona reserves the
right to update the TOU at any time without notice to you. The most
current version of the TOU can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms
of Use" hypertext link located at the bottom of our Web pages.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
Through its network of Web properties, IES Barcelona provides you
with access to a variety of resources, including student material, download
areas, communication forums and product information (collectively "Services").
The Services, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or
the addition of any new Web properties, are subject to the TOU.
PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and
non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit,
display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works
from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services
obtained from the Services.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE
Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases,
datasheets and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that (1)
the below copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright
notice and this permission notice appear, (2) use of such Documents
from the Services is for informational and non-commercial or personal
use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or
broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any Documents are
made. Accredited educational institutions, such as K-12, universities,
private/public colleges, and state community colleges, may download
and reproduce the Documents for distribution in the classroom. Distribution
outside the classroom requires express written permission. Use for any
other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe
civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum
extent possible.
Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the
IES Barcelona.com Web site or any other IES Barcelona owned, operated,
licensed or controlled site. Elements of IES Barcelona Web sites are
protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other laws
and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic,
sound or image from any IES Barcelona Web site may be copied or retransmitted
unless expressly permitted by IES Barcelona.
IES BARCELONA AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS
ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS
AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY PURPOSE.
ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS"
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. IES BARCELONA AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS
HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION,
INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER
EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL IES BARCELONA AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE
SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION
AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES.
THE DOCUMENTS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY
ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. IES BARCELONA AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE
SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR
THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS AND SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THIS
WEB SITE.
IN NO EVENT SHALL IES BARCELONA AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE, DOCUMENTS,
PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE
FROM THE SERVICES.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY.
If any of the Services requires you to open an account, you must complete
the registration process by providing us with current, complete and
accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form.
You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible
for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore,
you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under
your account. You agree to notify IES Barcelona immediately of any unauthorized
use of your account or any other breach of security. IES Barcelona will
not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone
else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.
However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by IES Barcelona
or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission
of the account holder.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services
for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions,
and notices. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage,
disable, overburden, or impair any IES Barcelona server, or the network(s)
connected to any IES Barcelona server, or interfere with any other party's
use and enjoyment of any Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized
access to any Services, other accounts, computer systems or networks
connected to any IES Barcelona server or to any of the Services, through
hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt
to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally
made available through the Services.
USE OF SERVICES
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services,
chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars,
photo albums, file cabinets and/or other message or communication facilities
designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "Communication
Service" and collectively "Communication Services").
You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive
messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related
to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not
as a limitation, you agree that when using the Communication Services,
you will not:
- Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests,
pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative
or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the
legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate,
profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material
or information.
- Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images,
photographs, software or other material protected by intellectual
property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation,
copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity)
unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all
necessary consent to do the same.
- Use any material or information, including images or photographs,
which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes
any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary
right of any party.
- Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs,
cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs
that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of
another.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any
business purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically
allows such messages.
- Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service
that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced,
displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as
author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary
designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other
material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication
Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable
for any particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including
e-mail addresses.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for
a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services
or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
IES Barcelona has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services.
However, IES Barcelona reserves the right to review materials posted
to the Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole
discretion. IES Barcelona reserves the right to terminate your access
to any or all of the Communication Services at any time, without notice,
for any reason whatsoever.
IES Barcelona reserves the right at all times to disclose any information
as IES Barcelona deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation,
legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or
to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in IES
Barcelona's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information
about yourself or your children in any Communication Services. IES Barcelona
does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found
in any Communication Services and, therefore, IES Barcelona specifically
disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and
any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Services.
Managers and hosts are not authorized IES Barcelona spokespersons,
and their views do not necessarily reflect those of IES Barcelona.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to
posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you
are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the
materials.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO IES BARCELONA OR POSTED AT ANY IES BARCELONA WEB
SITE
IES Barcelona does not claim ownership of the materials you provide
to IES Barcelona (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload,
input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review
by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community,
(each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions").
However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting")
your Submission you are granting IES Barcelona, its affiliated companies
and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection
with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without
limitation, all IES Barcelona Services), including, without limitation,
the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display,
publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission;
to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right
to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission,
as provided herein. IES Barcelona is under no obligation to post or
use any Submission you may provide and IES Barcelona may remove any
Submission at any time in its sole discretion.
By Posting a Submission you warrant and represent that you own or
otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described
in these Terms of Use including, without limitation, all the rights
necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by
Posting a Submission that contain images, photographs, pictures or that
are otherwise graphical in whole or in part ("Images"), you
warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images,
or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission
to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images
consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise
permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights
necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms
of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has
provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms
of Use, including, by way of example, and not as a limitation, the distribution,
public display and reproduction of such Images. By Posting Images, you
are granting (a) to all members of your private community (for each
such Images available to members of such private community), and/or
(b) to the general public (for each such Images available anywhere on
the Services, other than a private community), permission to use your
Images in connection with the use, as permitted by these Terms of Use,
of any of the Services, (including, by way of example, and not as a
limitation, making prints and gift items which include such Images),
and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free
license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform,
reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Images without having your
name attached to such Images, and the right to sublicense such rights
to any supplier of the Services. The licenses granted in the preceding
sentences for a Images will terminate at the time you completely remove
such Images from the Services, provided that, such termination shall
not affect any licenses granted in connection with such Images prior
to the time you completely remove such Images. No compensation will
be paid with respect to the use of your Images
NOTICES AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications
of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to Service Provider's
Designated Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE
WILL NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES.
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE IES BARCELONA'S SITE. THE
LINKED SITES ARE NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF IES BARCELONA AND IES BARCELONA
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED
IN A LINKED SITE, OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES. IES BARCELONA
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION
RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. IES BARCELONA IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS
TO YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION OF ANY LINK DOES NOT
IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY IES BARCELONA OF THE SITE.
UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY.
IES BARCELONA OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES DO NOT ACCEPT OR CONSIDER UNSOLICITED
IDEAS, INCLUDING IDEAS FOR NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS, NEW PROMOTIONS,
NEW PRODUCTS OR TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, MATERIALS, MARKETING PLANS
OR NEW PRODUCT NAMES. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY ORIGINAL CREATIVE ARTWORK,
SAMPLES, DEMOS, OR OTHER WORKS. THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY IS TO
AVOID POTENTIAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS OR DISPUTES WHEN IES BARCELONA'S PRODUCTS
OR MARKETING STRATEGIES MIGHT SEEM SIMILAR TO IDEAS SUBMITTED TO IES
BARCELONA. SO, PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR UNSOLICITED IDEAS TO IES BARCELONA
OR ANYONE AT IES BARCELONA. IF, DESPITE OUR REQUEST THAT YOU NOT SEND
US YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS, YOU STILL SEND THEM, PLEASE UNDERSTAND
THAT IES BARCELONA MAKES NO ASSURANCES THAT YOUR IDEAS AND MATERIALS
WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL OR PROPRIETARY.
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Education of Students) 2000-03.
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