Legal Notice

In compliance with the duty of information set out in Article 10 of Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, Animal Ethics, as the owner of the website seantience.org, hereby states:

1º Identification Details

• Animal Ethics, Inc
  
  
• EIN: 46-1062870
  
  
• info@animal-ethics.org

This notice establishes and governs the conditions of use, the limitations of liability, and the obligations that users of the website published under the domain name seantience.org accept and agree to observe.

2º Definitions

• Page: the domain www.seantience.org made available to Internet users.
  
  
• User: any natural or legal person who uses or navigates the website.
  
  
• Content: all pages comprising the entire seantience.org domain, which constitute the information and services that Animal Ethics provides to Internet users. This includes messages, texts, photographs, graphics, icons, logos, technology, links, textures, drawings, audio and/or video files, recordings, software, appearance, graphic design, source codes, and, in general, any type of material contained on the website.
  
  
• Web: a technical term describing the system for accessing information via the Internet, configured through pages created with HTML or similar languages, and programming mechanisms such as Java, JavaScript, PHP, or others. These pages, designed and published under an Internet domain name, are the result of the information that the owner makes available to Internet users.
  
  
• Hyperlink: a technique by which a user can navigate different pages on the web or the Internet with a single click on the text, icon, button, or indicator containing the link.
  
  
• Cookies: a technical means for tracking and monitoring navigation on websites. These are small text files stored on the user’s device (such as computer, tablet, or smartphone). This method has privacy implications, so Animal Ethics will provide timely and reliable notice of their use when they are implemented on the website.
  
  

3º Users and Terms of Use

Access to and/or use of the website seantience.org grants the status of user, who, from such access and/or use, accepts these terms of use without reservation of any of the clauses and general conditions included in the Legal Notice.

If the user does not agree with the clauses and conditions of use of this Legal Notice, they must refrain from using the website.

4º Use of the Website

seantience.org provides access to articles, information, and data (hereinafter, “the contents”) owned by Animal Ethics. The user assumes responsibility for the use of the website.

Some pages on the seantience.org website may allow participation through comments. In such cases, any user may submit texts via the designated form. By submitting these texts, by clicking the corresponding link, the user agrees to make appropriate use of the contents provided by seantience.org through its website and not to use them for:

• Engaging in unlawful or illegal activities, or actions contrary to good faith and public order.
  
  

• Disseminating content or propaganda of a racist, speciesist, xenophobic, or illegal pornographic nature.
  
  

• Causing damage to the physical or logical systems of seantience.org, its service providers, or third parties, including introducing or spreading computer viruses or any other physical or logical systems that could cause the aforementioned damages.
  
  

• Attempting to access and, if applicable, use the email accounts of other users and modify or manipulate their messages.

In short, users must comply with applicable law, generally accepted morals and customs, public order, and these general conditions of access and use.

Likewise, the user acknowledges:

• That Animal Ethics will not be responsible in any way for the opinions expressed by users, who participate under their sole and exclusive responsibility.
  
  

• That user comments do not represent the opinions of Animal Ethics or the members of its team.
  
  

• That Animal Ethics does not guarantee, under any circumstances, the publication of contents submitted by users. All comments received will be automatically screened by an anti-spam filter and moderated regarding form by a website administrator, who will act while respecting democratic freedoms of expression and information.

Furthermore, Animal Ethics reserves the right to remove any comments or contributions that violate respect for human dignity, are discriminatory, xenophobic, racist, speciesist, pornographic, harmful to youth or children, threaten public order or safety, or that, in its judgment, are not suitable for publication.

In any case, seantience.org will not be responsible for the opinions expressed by users through the blog or other participation tools that may be created, in accordance with applicable regulations.

5º Privacy and Data Protection Policy

Animal Ethics is aware of the importance of data protection, as well as user privacy, and has therefore implemented a data processing policy aimed at providing the highest level of security in the use and collection of personal data. This policy ensures compliance with current regulations in the field and constitutes one of the fundamental pillars of the organization’s operational guidelines. For this reason, Animal Ethics emphasizes the mandatory reading of its Privacy Policy.

6º Hyperlinks

As a service to visitors of our website, it may include hyperlinks to other sites that are not operated or controlled by Animal Ethics. Therefore, Animal Ethics does not guarantee and is not responsible for the legality, reliability, usefulness, accuracy, or timeliness of the contents of such websites or their privacy practices. Please note that before providing your personal information to these external websites, their privacy practices may differ from ours.

7º Modification of the Legal Notice

In order to improve the services of the website, Animal Ethics reserves the right to make, at any time and without prior notice, modifications and updates to the information contained on the website, its configuration and design, this legal notice, as well as any other specific conditions. Therefore, users must read the legal notice on each and every occasion they access the website.

8º Intellectual and Industrial Property

Animal Ethics owns all intellectual and industrial property rights of its website. The user agrees to respect these rights.

The contents of this website may not be used for commercial purposes without the express authorization of Animal Ethics.

Use is permitted under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and the work is shared under the same license.

The user undertakes not to use the contents for unlawful purposes, those prohibited by applicable law, or in ways that could damage, disable, or overload the contents, computer systems, or documents and files of Animal Ethics, other users, or any other person on the Internet.

Furthermore, the user may not reproduce, copy, distribute, make available, transform, or modify the contents, unless they have written and explicit authorization from Animal Ethics or if such use is legally permitted, including the uses authorized under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

The user must also respect the copyright and other identifying information of Animal Ethics or its rights holders, as well as digital identifiers or technical means established for their recognition, and refrain from obtaining the contents through means other than those made ordinarily available, provided that this does not pose a risk of damage or disablement of the website or the contents.

Unauthorized use of the information contained on this website, as well as infringement of the intellectual or industrial property rights of Animal Ethics or third parties who have contributed content to the site, will give rise to the legally established liabilities.

9º Cookies

Cookies are a technical means for tracking and monitoring navigation on websites. They are small text files stored on the user’s computer. This method has privacy implications, so Animal Ethics informs users that cookies may be used to generate statistics on website usage as well as to identify the user’s computer, allowing recognition on future visits. In any case, users can configure their browser to block the use of cookies during their visits to the website.

Animal Ethics is aware of the importance of data protection and user privacy and therefore emphasizes the need to read the Cookies Policy on our website.

10º Website Availability

Animal Ethics does not guarantee the absence of interruptions or errors in access to the website or its contents, nor that the contents are up to date, although it will make its best efforts to avoid, correct, or update them when applicable. Therefore, Animal Ethics is not responsible for any damages or losses of any kind suffered by the user resulting from failures or disconnections in telecommunications networks that cause suspension, cancellation, or interruption of the portal service during its provision or beforehand.

Animal Ethics excludes, except as provided by applicable law, any liability for damages of any kind that may result from the lack of availability, continuity, or quality of the website and its contents, or from the failure to meet the usefulness expectations that users may have attributed to the website and its contents.

The purpose of the hyperlinks on this website is exclusively to inform the user about the existence of other websites containing information on the subject. These hyperlinks do not constitute any suggestion or recommendation.

Animal Ethics is also not responsible for security errors that may occur, nor for damages that may affect the user’s computer system (hardware and software), or the files or documents stored on it, as a result of:

• The presence of a virus on the user’s computer used to connect to the website’s services and contents.
  
  

• Malfunction of the browser or the use of outdated versions of it.

Animal Ethics is not responsible for the contents of these linked websites, the functioning or usefulness of the hyperlinks, or the outcome of these links, nor does it guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements in them that may cause alterations to the user’s computer system (hardware and software), documents, or files, excluding any liability for damages of any kind caused to the user for this reason.

Accessing the website does not imply an obligation on the part of Animal Ethics to ensure the absence of viruses, worms, or any other harmful computer elements. In all cases, it is the user’s responsibility to have adequate tools to detect and remove harmful software. Therefore, Animal Ethics is not responsible for possible security errors that may occur during the provision of the website service, nor for possible damages to the user’s or third parties’ computer systems (hardware and software), files, or documents stored therein, as a result of the presence of viruses on the user’s computer used to connect to the website’s services and contents, browser malfunctions, or the use of outdated browser versions.

11º Possibility of claims

If someone wishes, and considers that rights have been violated, the person concerned shall always have the right to file a complaint with the authority responsible for this matter.

All texts included in this website are the property of Animal Ethics. They can be used under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.