GENERAL CONDITIONS OF USE ON THE SOCIEDAD ESTATAL LOTERÍAS Y APUESTAS DEL ESTADO, S.M.E., S.A. (SELAE) WEBSITES AND MOBILE APPS
1. Owner of the websites and mobile apps
The service provider of the information society and owner of the websites and mobile apps available for users is Sociedad Estatal Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, S.M.E., S.A. (from this point forward SELAE), with registered offices in Poeta Joan Maragall 53, 28020 Madrid, and Company Code A86171964, registered in the Mercantile Registry of Madrid in volume 28070, sheet 202, section 8th, paper M- 505970, inscription 1st.
SELAE’s aim is the management, exploitation and commercialisation of the gaming activity in its different ways, as for example, gaming itself, lotteries, raffles, bets and contests, those carried out through in-person media or those carried out by electronic, computer, telematic, interactive or audiovisual channels, or any other which may be created o established in the future.,
SELAE warns no third-party has been authorized to sell any of its products by the Internet or any other electronic or audiovisual means. These are accessible only through the official websites in which SELAE’s gaming activities are managed, as well as mobile apps that SELAE makes available to users. So, SELAE is not and will be not responsible for actions carried out by people or companies that manage or take part in any way on other websites or apps different to those mentioned.
SELAE reserves itself the right of all the actions it considers appropriate for the defence of its legitimate rights and interests in case of any third-party action may cause any harm or impairment.
2. Object of SELAE mobile and websites
The terms and conditions set forth hereunder govern, generally, the access and use of SELAE websites and mobile apps, as well as services and contents associated to those websites and apps (from this point forward also the mobile, website/s, and site/s), subject to the terms and conditions which may regulate in a specific way certain mobile or websites in order to the object of those mobile and website/s and to those which will be applied the present conditions alternatively and complementarily in the cases not covered in those. Within the expression “mobile site/s and website/s”, it is understood – by way of example and in no way limited to- data, texts, graphics, images, animations, musical creations, videos, sounds, drawings, plastic works, photographs and others included in it, and, in general, all creations expressed by any means or medium, tangible or intangible, protected by laws on intellectual property, industrial property and other laws.
User acknowledges the access and use of the services and contents of the mobile sites and websites is carried out under his/her sole and exclusive responsibility.
Access to mobile sites and websites and/or visualisation of the contents or use of the services contained in them implies the user acknowledges the present general conditions of use expressly and then acquires rights and obligations, with the object of guarantying the proper use of the services and contents found in them and SELAE offers to the user.
The user acquires such a condition by accessing to mobile sites and websites. The user may use the services and contents exclusively for particular aims except any modality of subsequent use thereof for profit or any kind of benefit, direct or indirect.
In the case of partial or total substitution of these conditions, the new general conditions will be considered as accepted in the same way as it has been expounded. However, the user of the mobile sites or websites must access these general conditions periodically to know the following versions included here, although it is recommended the user access them every time he/she wants to access or to use services and contents of the mobile sites or websites.
In case the user does not accept these general conditions and/or particular conditions which regulate the use of a specific service and/or content, he/she must decline accessing mobile sites or websites and/or abandon the navigation through them, as well as not to use the services offered.
The user must establish proper technical security measures to avoid unwanted actions in his/her computer/system, files and devices used to access the Internet, and specially, the site, acknowledging Internet is not totally safe.
SELAE may modify unilaterally and without previous warning, provision, configuration, content and services of the mobile sites and websites, as well as its conditions of use and access to the services offered.
The user will be entirely responsible for the cost of access for telephone or any other cost regarding connection to mobile sites and websites.
3. Rights and obligations of the user
The user may:
In no case the user may:
4. Rights and obligations of SELAE
SELAE reserves the following rights:
5. Links
Links to third parties' web sites
The user that wishes to add links in its personal or business website to SELAE websites and cell phones that are not only and exclusively the access to the main site, will have to (i) communicate it in writing to SELAE and (ii) engage to observe any regulation relating to advertisement in the game sector, if applicable. SELAE does not assume any responsibility relating to the links provided by third parties to its websites and cell phones.
Consequently, SELAE will not assume any responsibility for any aspect regarding the platform, web and mobile sites that can be linked from web and mobile sites, as for example but not limiting to, about its functioning, access, data, information, files, quality and reliability of its products and services, links and/or any other content.
In relation to this point, if users know effectively the activities developped through a third parties' platform, mobile and web sites are illegal or disobey moral and/or public order, they must communicate it immediately to SELAE in order to disable their links of access as soon as possible.
In any case, establishing any kind of link from SELAE web and mobile sites to another site will not imply any type of relation, collaboration or dependence between SELAE and the person/entity responsible for such a site.
Links to SELAE channel on other platforms and social networks
SELAE establishes, through several tools and apps, links for the clients to access those channels, mobile and web sites that SELAE has on different platforms (Google play, App Store, etc.) and social networks belonging or managed by others (such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.). By including these links on mobile and web sites, SELAE aims to give the users an easier access to those channels on different platforms and social networks.
Establishing these means does not imply the existence of any relation between SEALE and the owner, manufacturer or distributor of the platform linked, or the acceptance or approval of part of its contents and/or services by SELAE. Only the owner, manufacturer or distributor is responsible for them.
SELAE does not share in any way any type of private information about its users with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube or any other social network; private information is only required for the terms present in the Conditions of Use, as well as in Data Protection Policy of SELAE mobile and web sites. In this case, all the information the user wants to provide these platforms with will be the user’s own responsibility, without SELAE’s participation in such a process.
Activating and using these apps may cause the identification and authentication of the user (login/password) on the corresponding platforms, totally external and out of SELAE’s control. By accessing those external networks, the user enters an environment SELAE does not control, so SELAE will not assume any responsibility on the security configuration of those environments.
Since SELAE does not have any control on the content housed on those channels, the user accepts SELAE assumes no responsibility for the content or the services the user may access on those sites, as well as contents, products, services, publicity or any other material available. Consequently, the user must be aware of the use of the information, contents and services existing on those links, and of the own or third parties' information he wants to share on those channels.
Links on other web sites to SELAE
The user that wishes to add links in its personal or business website to SELAE websites and cell phones that are not only and exclusively the access to the main site, will have to (i) communicate it in writing to SELAE and (ii) engage to observe any regulation relating to advertisement in the game sector, if applicable. SELAE does not assume any responsibility relating to the links provided by third parties to its websites and cell phones.
If users, entities or web sites want to establish links on their mobile or web sites connecting to SELAE, such links may be authorised, however, they must comply with some of the following conditions: a) the link will not reproduce any kind of SELAE content or part of it; b) it is not allowed to create a browser or a border environment on SELAE’s sections; mobile and web sites will not be modified in any way; c) it is not allowed to make false, inaccurate or incorrect statements or indications about SELAE and/or especially, declare or understand SELAE has authorised the link or has supervised or assumed in any way the contents or services offered on the site the link is on; d) the platform, mobile and/or web site which links to the mobile and web sites will not contain illicit information or contents against moral and costumes generally accepted and against public order. It cannot include contents against third parties' rights, including industrial and intellectual copyright and/or right to honour, personal of familiar privacy, right to own image or any other right,or contents against regulation of personal data protection.
SELAE will not authorise under any case links to mobile and web sites offering illicit, illegal, degrading or obscene materials, information or contents, and in general, any general content against the law, moral, public order or social rules generally accepted.
Anyway, SELAE does not have power or human/technical means to know, control or pass all the information, contents, products or services provided by other web sites or apps linked to the platform. SELAE does not assume any responsibility for any aspect regarding a third parties' platform, mobile and/or web site establishing links to those mobile and web sites, specifically, but not limiting to, on their functioning, access, data, information, files, quality and reliability of its products and services, its own links and/or any of its contents.
6.Disclaimer and limitation of responsibilities.
SELAE is exempt of any type of responsibility for any damages and harm of any kind in the following cases:
7. Intellectual and industrial property
The user acknowledges the contents and services offered through mobile and web sites as well as brands, commercial names and distinctive signs; they are protected by industrial and intellectual property laws. The copyright and economic exploitation of the mobile and web sites corresponds to SELAE and/or third entities.
In no case will the supplying of the services and publication of the contents through mobile and web sites imply cession, renunciation or transfer, totally or partially, of the ownership of the corresponding rights of intellectual and industrial property by SELAE and/or its third legitimate owners.
Under no concept, the user may use the services and contents existing on the mobile and web sites in a different way than the exclusively personal one.
No part of the mobile and web sites may be reproduced, distributed, transferred, copied, communicated publicly, transformed, partially or totally through any system or manual, electronic or mechanic method (including photocopying, recording or any system of recovery or storage of information)through any base currently known or invented in the future, without SELAE’s consent. The use, under any modality, of all or part of the content of the mobile and web sites is subject to the necessity of requesting previous authorisation from SELAE and/or third legitimate owners and the acceptance of the corresponding license, in its case, except for the points regarding the rights acknowledged and conceded to the user in these general conditions or what SELAE may determine in the particular conditions in order to regulate the use of a specific service and/or content offered through mobile and web sites.
If the action or omission responsible for or neglicent direct or indirectly chargeable to the user who originates the infraction of the rights of intellectual and industrial property of SELAE or a third-party – with benefit or not – originates any damages, losses, duty of solidarity, costs of any type, penalties, coercive measure, fines and other quantities arisen or derived from any claiming, lawsuit, action, or procedure, civil, penal or administrative, SELAE will have the right to address against the user with all the legal means in his power and claim any compensatory quantity, including but not limiting to – image and reputation damage, general damages and loss of profits, commercial costs or any other type that may result for its reparation, amount of fines or judgement of conviction, interests charges, the cost of the financing of all the amounts in which SELAE could result damaged, judicial costs and the amount of the defence in any process in which SELAE could end up sued because of the previously expounded causes, any damage resulting from this action or omission, maintaining the right to start any legal action assisted by law.
SELAE is not legally responsible for any type of download or use of the mobile apps. SELAE gives the user a non-exclusive and non-transferrable license of use for his personal and private use during the period of time the license is active in the following conditions: (i) Any non-private use is forbidden, as well as the alteration of any of the parts of the apps including functionality, reprogramming and inverse engineering, with any purpose. (ii) It is forbidden to transfer, distribute, rent or sell the apps or any other act of temporal or permanent disposal, distribution or public communication, freely or not. (iii) It is forbidden to alter, modify or eliminate any symbol or protection mechanisms aimed to preserve SELAE’s copyright.
8. Data protection
SELAE will carry out the processing of the personal data of the user in compliance with the current law on protection of personal data in Spain, that is, the Organic Law 15/1999, 13th of December, on Protection of Personal Data (LOPD) and the Royal Legislative Decree 1720/2007, 21st of December, by which the Regulation of development of the LOPD is passed (RDLOPD). For more information, refer to Privacy Policy.
9. Use of cookies and beacons
To obtain more information about the new storage devices and recovery of data in users’ terminals of the mobile and web sites of SELAE, visit our Cookies Policy.
10. Miscellany
The fact of SELAE not demanding in a specific moment the respect of any of the conditions established in these general conditions cannot be interpreted by the user as the renounce of SELAE to demand its subsequent fulfilment.
If any clause of these general conditions is annulled or invalid, totally or partially, this invalidity or annullability will not affect la validity of the other clauses in them, which will remain totally valid, but the part claiming their invalidity or annullability proves that without the clause resulting invalid or annulled the aims of the current conditions cannot be fulfilled.
The parties expressly waive their own law, and subject to the Courts of Madrid to any resolution of the disputes which might derive.
Last update: July, 31, 2016. Copyright © Sociedad Estatal
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