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This Web Site www.nm4bl.org belongs to “Fundación BCMaterials – Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures”, which you can contact via:

Address: Bld. Martina Casiano, 3rd. Floor
UPV/EHU Science Park
Barrio Sarriena s/n
48940 Leioa (Bizkaia)
Spain
Phone: (+34) 946 12 88 11
Email: info@bcmaterials.net

Do not hesitate in contacting us through any of this ways, whenever you need it. We will attend you as soon as possible: remember that there is real people behind the website and we have office opening hours.

Legal disclaimer

By using and accessing this website, you accept all the terms and conditions of use. You can check them in detail below and we encourage you to do it.

With the exception of being stated in a different way, all the contents are property of ours, and we take responsibility of our things.

In order to provide further and better information, we provide links to third party websites and contents which are not our responsibility.
In both cases, you are responsible of whatever use you do of the obtained information.

Privacy Policy

We only get the personal data that you give us by filling website forms, with the purpose of granting you the services that you ask for.

We always take responsibility of the correct use and storage of the personal data, and of course you can contact us whenever you want to exercise your legal rights about such data.
Cookies, if used, only apply anonymous information, for the solely purpose of easing your website experience and helping us to improve it.

Original spanish version of all these conditions will prevail over other languages.

On detail…

These general conditions regulate the use and access to the Internet service that Fundación BCMaterials – Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (hereinafter “BCMATERIALS”), a private non-profit foundation, registered on the Registry of Foundations of the Basque Country in Spain, with the number F-340, with address at Bld. Martina Casiano, 3rd. Floor, Barrio Sarriena s/n ,UPV/EHU Science Park of Bizkaia, 48940 Leioa (Bizkaia) – Spain, with Tax ID Code (CIF) number G-95686069, provides USERS at the following electronic address in its Spanish, English and Basque version www.nm4bl.org, and in all the ones called Web Site hereinafter.

BCMATERIALS can be contacted via postal means on the address stated above, by the phone (+34) 946 12 88 11, or by the electronic mail info@bcmaterials.net.

1. Use of this Web Site.

The functioning of the Web Site is regulated in these General Conditions that BCMATERIALS makes available to the User, the main objective of which is to inform about our services and who we are. The use of the Web Site attributes the status of User, and implies full acceptance by the User of all the Conditions of Use of the Web Site in force when he or she accesses it. Consequently, if the User does not agree with any of the conditions laid down herein, he should not use this Web Site.In like manner, the User undertakes not to use the information published in the Web Site, for illegal purposes or effects, contrary to the contents of these General Conditions, that might injure the rights or interests of third parties, or which may in any way damage, render useless, overload, deteriorate the Web Site or information provided in it or impede the normal use or enjoyment of the Web Site by other users.The User shall refrain from obtaining information, messages, graphics, drawings, sound and/or image files, photographs, software and, in general, any class of accessible material through the Web Site or its services, using means other than those that have been made available to it, or, in general, those that are regularly used on the Internet.

2. Right to modify the Web Site, right to restrict access to the Web Site and right to suspend the operability of the Web.

BCMATERIALS reserves the right to modify the presentation or configuration of the Web Site at any time, without prior notice, and also the information, services, the present Conditions of Use of the Web Site, or any other applicable general or specific conditions, instructions or notices. These modifications shall be to improve the User’s services, according to market trends. In addition, BCMATERIALS reserves the right to suspend, interrupt or leave the Web Site inoperative, or to restrict its access, partly or completely, individually or collectively, temporarily or finally, at any time.

3. Web Surfing Cookies.

The BCMATERIALS Web Site service provider uses cookies only to make it easier for the User to surf the Web Site. In no event will they be used to gather personal data. They are only used to improve Web Site surfing and reduce downloading time of Web elements.

Nevertheless, if the User does not want to use these cookies, they can rescind the use of system cookies from their Web browser options. These files can also be deleted without affecting the quality of the Web Site, and the only effect of this configuration is that the Web Site takes longer to download, as the files are not in the User’s cache memory.

4. Access and use of the Web Site is free.

The Web Site service provision by the User is free and requires no prior subscription or registration. The User’s identification is only required in the following situations: When the User asks us for more information on a matter of his interest, he sends us an e-mail to contact use, wants to access the images publications that are available at our library, or asks us to send him press releases or news sheets, or when he decides to send us his Curriculum Vitae.

The registration and identification of the User’s personal data will be governed by the indications in the tenth section: Privacy and confidentiality protection policy of the personal information that the Users freely and voluntarily provide.

Any use of the Web Site and the services and contents existing in it by the User must be made respecting the principles of person’s dignity, no discrimination by means of race, sex, religion, opinion, nationality, incapacity or any other personal or social circumstance, and also respecting the principle of protection of the young and infants.

5. Links.

The Web Site may possibly at times offer the User technical link devices (links, banners or buttons), directories and search tools allowing users to access web sites belonging to and/or managed by third parties. BCMATERIALS does not offer or market on its own or by means of third parties, the services available at the linked sites, or control, exercise supervision or approve the products, services, contents, information, data, files and any other class of material in these linked sites.

BCMATERIALS therefore declines any responsibility regarding the information that falls outside this Web Site and which is not managed directly by BCMATERIALS

If the User wants to establish a link, or make any similar action with regard to the Web Site, this should be previously authorized by BCMATERIALS Any other use, assignment to third parties, communication, and disclosure of the full or partial, public or private Contents is forbidden. BCMATERIALS reserves the right to exercise the respective civil and criminal legal actions to demand the compliance of this clause and to claim for damages.

6. Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights.

The User acknowledges and accepts that all Industrial and Intellectual Property rights on the Contents and/or any other elements inserted in the Web Site (including, without limitation, trademarks, logotypes, trade names, texts, images, graphics, designs, sound, databases, software, flow charts, presentation, “look-and-feel”, audio and video), are the property of BCMATERIALS and/or third parties. In no event does access to the Web Site imply on the part of BCMATERIALS and/or the third parties who own the Web Site’s contents, any kind of waiver, transmission, license or total or partial cession of such rights, unless otherwise expressly established.

7. Exclusion of guarantees and responsibility.

7.1. Of functioning of the Web Site.

BCMATERIALS does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Web Site and shall in no event be held liable for damages or losses that might be derived from (i) lack of availability or accessibility to the Web Site or those other sites with which a Link has been established; (ii) interruption in the functioning of the Web Site or computer faults, telephone failures, disconnections, delays or blocking caused by deficiencies or overloads on the telephone lines, in the Internet system or in other electronic systems produced in the course of its functioning; (iii) lack of suitability of the Web Site for the specific needs of the Users and (iv) other damages that might be caused by third parties through unauthorized intromissions or hackers outside the control of BCMATERIALS

BCMATERIALS does not guarantee the absence of virus or any other elements in the Web Site introduced by outside third parties that may produce changes in the Users’ physical or logic systems or in the electronic documents and files stored in their systems, and shall in no event be responsible for damages or losses that might be derived from the presence of virus, malware or other elements that could produce alterations in the physical or logic systems, electronic documents or User files.

However, BCMATERIALS adopts various protection measures to protect the Web Site and Contents against hackers. However, this does not guarantee the unauthorized use by third parties to access the type of use of the Web Site made by the User or conditions, characteristics and circumstances in which that use is made. BCMATERIALS shall consequently in no event be responsible for damages or losses derived from such unauthorized access.

7.2. For the use of the Web Site.

BCMATERIALS shall in no event be responsible for the use that users and/or third parties may make of the Web Site, or for any damages arising therefrom.

7.3. For the Contents.

The Contents of the Web Site are the sole property of BCMATERIALS and are made available by it in good faith and with the best professional quality standards. BCMATERIALS however excludes any kind of liability for damage of any nature that might be due to lack of truthfulness, accuracy and/or current importance of the contents of the Web Site.

BCMATERIALS warrants that all of the contents of the Web Site respect the principles of person’s dignity, no discrimination by means of race, sex, religion, opinion, nationality, incapacity or any other personal or social circumstance, and also respecting the principle of protection of the young and infants.

8. Partial nullity.

Should any of these general conditions be declared null, invalid or ineffective this shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of the other clauses that shall continue to be binding between the parties. The waiver by any of the parties to demand the compliance at a given time of any of the conditions stipulated herein, shall not imply a general waiver to comply with the other condition or conditions, nor shall it create an acquired right for the other party.

9. Applicable law and jurisdiction.

The provision of the Web Site service and present Conditions of Use of the Web Site are governed by the applicable legislation in the territorial regulations of the European Union, and specifically by the laws that make up Spanish legal regulations applicable to information society and electronic commerce services and Spanish legislation on personal data protection. For any disagreements in the performance, interpretation, fulfilment of these Conditions, or in the relations between the User and BCMATERIALS, both parties expressly waive any other privileges that might correspond to them and agree to submit to the jurisdiction and exclusive competence of the Law Courts and Tribunals of Bilbao.

10. Privacy and confidentiality protection policy of the personal information that the users freely and voluntarily provide:

10.1. Identification of the File Manager and information recipients.

In accordance with the Organic Law on Personal Data Protection, we inform you that the personal data you voluntarily provide us with in our Web Site shall be included in a file that is registered in the General Data Protection Register under the ownership of BCMATERIALS (with registered office at the address stated at the beginning of this document).

The recipients of this personal information gathered in the Web Site’s forms will only be the departments of BCMATERIALS and, in certain cases, the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates.

Sending information to BCMATERIALS or to the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates, will be carried out complying with the following premises:

Sending information regarding candidate profiles that may be interesting for selection processes in BCMATERIALS.
Sending contact information when the provision of services requested requires the intervention of BCMATERIALS or the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates.
Sending information requesting publication, press releases and news, when sending the requested publication requires the intervention of BCMATERIALS or the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates.

If the User does not want BCMATERIALS to send his personal information to the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates, he may notify this to the electronic mail or postal address referred at the beginning of this document, and his request shall be satisfied immediately.

Nevertheless, the Data Protection Law obliges us to inform him that his refusal to send the information could restrict depending on the case, the assessment of his candidate profile in the Group’s companies, the presentation of services adapted to his specific needs or limit his knowledge of the articles and Publications requested.

10.2. Rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition.

The User’s exercise of rights of access, cancellation, rectification and opposition is guaranteed to his personal data in our file. To do so, he will send his request to the electronic mail or postal address referred at the beginning of this document.

10.3. Safety measures for personal data protection.

The Web Site has adopted the necessary technical and organization measures necessary, according to the level of data protection safety that legally corresponds to you, to guarantee the safety of the personal information data processing that make up your automated file. The User should however be aware that the safety measures today on Internet are not impregnable and consequently you are not safeguarded from possible illegal intromissions and hackers, for which BCMATERIALS shall not be held responsible, because it has acted with the due diligence to protect the information as determined by Law.

10.4. Updating personal data.

BCMATERIALS and the companies or entities with which BCMATERIALS collaborates will do everything possible to always keep your information updated. The responsibility about the quality of the data however depends on its owner. Therefore, if there is any modification in the User’s data, he should notify this to the File Manager, and declines any responsibility if the User omits its obligation to notify the changes.