1. Ownership
https://academialinguafranca.com/ is a website owned by Academia Lingua Franca Cádiz SLU, with tax ID number: B67682153 and registered address at Calle Benito Pérez Galdós, 84, Bajo exterior, 11002 Cádiz. (hereinafter the Owner).
Academia Lingua Franca provides advisory and intermediary services in the delivery of non-formal education, professional development courses and training, language teaching, exam preparation and competitive examination preparation across all types of academic subjects in general, as well as ancillary activities.
2. Terms of Use
By accessing the Website, the User declares that they accept this Legal Notice in full, including all its terms of use. In any case, this Legal Notice is mandatory and binding; any person who does not accept its terms must refrain from using the Website and/or the services promoted by the Owner through it. These terms do not create any partnership, agency, franchise, or employment relationship between the Owner and Users.
This Legal Notice governs the use of this Website, which the Owner makes available to anyone who accesses it in order to provide information about courses and training programmes, and to facilitate access to and enrolment in them.
3. Applicable Regulations
This Legal Notice is subject to the provisions of Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data and the Guarantee of Digital Rights (LOPDGDD), 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 on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (GDPR), Guidelines 5/2020 on consent under Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Law 11/2022 of 28 June on General Telecommunications, Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, Royal Decree-Law 13/2012 of 30 March transposing directives on internal markets in electricity and gas and on electronic communications, and adopting measures to correct deviations arising from imbalances between costs and revenues in the electricity and gas sectors, Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC (Regulation on consumer ODR), Law 3/2014 of 27 March amending the revised text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 of 16 November, Law 44/2006 of 29 December on improving the protection of consumers and users, Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights, Law 7/1998 of 13 April on General Contracting Conditions, of 17 December 1999, regulating telephone or electronic contracting with general conditions, Law 17/2009 of 23 November on free access to service activities and their exercise, Law 7/1996 of 15 January on the Regulation of Retail Trade, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389 of 27 November 2017 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC, as well as any subsequent regulations that amend or develop them.
Both access to the Website owned by the Owner and any use made of the information and content included therein shall be the sole responsibility of the person doing so. The conditions of access to the Website shall be subject to current legislation and the principles of good faith and lawful use by the User, and any action detrimental to the Owner is strictly prohibited in general. The use of the Website for illegal or unauthorised purposes shall be considered strictly forbidden.
4. Modification of the Terms of Use
The Owner reserves the right to modify, at any time, the appearance and configuration of the Website, as well as this Legal Notice. For this reason, the Owner recommends that the User read them carefully each time they access the Website. The Legal Notice will always be available in a visible location, freely accessible for any queries you may wish to make.
5. Description of Services
https://academialinguafranca.com/ is the Owner’s Website and serves as a tool both for information and for contracting the services offered.
6. Registration
In order to purchase services, prior registration is required. By registering as a Registered User, you confirm that you are of legal age and have the capacity to enter into contracts, or that you have the express authorisation of your legal guardian, and that you (hereinafter also referred to as the “Registered User”) accept all the terms and conditions of this Legal Notice. Once registered, the User will be able to purchase the products/services of their choice, subject to the specific terms and conditions.
Your user identifier will consist of your email address or username and a password. The password must meet minimum security standards. We recommend using a password containing at least twelve characters. To make it stronger, you can also use upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols.
Your identifier and password are personal and non-transferable; their assignment to third parties, even on a temporary basis, is not permitted. In this regard, the User undertakes to use them diligently and to keep them confidential, assuming full responsibility for the consequences of disclosing them to third parties. In the event that a user becomes aware of or suspects that their password is being used by third parties, they must notify us immediately.
The Owner may suspend the service to any User who makes unethical, offensive, illegal, or improper use of the content or services of this Website and/or acts contrary to the Owner’s interests. The Owner also reserves the right to reject any registration request or cancel a previously accepted registration, without being obliged to communicate or explain the reasons for its decision and without this giving rise to any right to compensation or redress.
7. Termination
The Owner reserves the right to interrupt or shut down the Website or any of the services on it, at any time and without prior notice, for technical or any other reasons, and may likewise unilaterally modify both the conditions of access and all or part of the content included therein, all without prejudice to the rights acquired at that time.
8. Liability
Links contained on the Website may direct to third-party websites. The Owner assumes no responsibility for the content, information, or services that may appear on such sites, which are purely informational in nature and do not in any way imply any relationship between the Owner and the individuals or entities that own such content or the sites on which it is found.
The Owner shall not be held responsible under any circumstances for any type of damage that Users may cause to this Website, or to any other, through illegal or improper use of it, or of the content and information accessible or provided through it.
The Owner shall not be liable for infringements committed by users of its Website that affect third parties.
The Owner does not guarantee the reliability, availability, or continuity of its Website or Services; therefore, their use by the user is carried out entirely at the user’s own risk, and the Owner may not be held liable in this regard at any time.
The Owner shall not be liable in the event of service interruptions, delays, malfunctions, or, in general, other inconveniences arising from causes beyond the Owner’s control, and/or due to wilful or negligent conduct by the user, and/or arising from circumstances of force majeure or acts of God. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 1105 of the Civil Code, the concept of force majeure shall also be understood to include, for the purposes of this Legal Notice, all events beyond the Owner’s control, such as: failure of third parties, operators, or service companies, acts of Government, lack of access to third-party networks, acts or omissions of Public Authorities, those arising as a consequence of natural phenomena, supply outages, etc., and attacks by hackers or third parties specialising in computer system security or integrity, provided that the Owner has adopted reasonable security measures in accordance with the state of the art. In any case, whatever the cause, the Owner shall not assume any liability, whether for direct or indirect damages, consequential loss, and/or loss of profit.
The Owner will endeavour, as far as possible, to update and correct any information hosted on its Website that does not meet minimum standards of accuracy. However, it advises that unintentional errors may exist, and the User is free to verify the content independently.
The Owner cannot be held responsible for the use of this Website by third parties or for any references that may exist on external sites.
It is also noted that the Owner makes available to Users a virtual space that allows the purchase of various courses and training activities. The Owner will at all times ensure that the products/services offered meet the highest quality standards and will facilitate returns or exchanges if a product/service does not satisfy Users for any valid reason.
9. Indemnification
Users shall hold the Owner harmless from any claim or demand by third parties related to activities promoted on the Website or arising from non-compliance with the Legal Notice and other policies incorporated into this document, or from the violation of any laws or third-party rights.
10. Invalidity and Ineffectiveness of Clauses
If any clause included in this Legal Notice or in any other legal or informational text on the Website is declared, wholly or partially, null and void or ineffective, such nullity or ineffectiveness shall affect only that provision or the part of it that is null or ineffective, with the remaining conditions continuing in full force and effect, and the affected provision, or the affected part thereof, being deemed not included.
11. Notifications
All notices, requests, demands, and other communications to be made by the parties in connection with this Legal Notice or any other legal or informational texts must be made in writing and shall be deemed duly made when delivered by hand or sent by ordinary post to the other party’s address or to their email address, or to any other address or email address that each party may indicate to the other for these purposes.
12. Intellectual and Industrial Property
The intellectual property rights of this Website, its source code, design, navigation structures, and the various elements contained therein are the exclusive property of the Owner, who holds the right to exercise the exploitation rights thereof in any form, and in particular the rights of reproduction, distribution, public communication, and transformation, in accordance with applicable Spanish and European Union legislation.
The total or partial reproduction of the content of this Website without the express written consent of the Owner is strictly prohibited, with the exception of the company that created it. The unauthorised use of this content by any other person or company will give rise to the legally established liabilities.
The Owner markets its products under its own Registered Trademarks and commercial identifiers, of which it is the legitimate owner, as well as of the promotional material displayed on the Website. The Owner will defend against any unauthorised use of its trademarks by third parties. Use by third parties is only authorised with the express consent of the Owner.
Any form of exploitation is prohibited, including all types of reproduction, distribution, assignment to third parties, public communication, and transformation, by any means and on any medium, of the aforementioned works, creations, and distinctive signs without the prior express authorisation of their respective owners. Failure to comply with this prohibition may constitute an infringement punishable under current legislation.
Unless expressly authorised by the Owner, it is prohibited to present this Website or the information contained therein within frames or using the distinctive signs, trademarks, or corporate or commercial names of another person, company, or entity, including expressly the photographic content, which is considered the exclusive property of the Owner.
The infringement of any of the aforementioned rights may constitute a breach of these terms, as well as a criminal offence punishable in accordance with Articles 270 and following of the Penal Code.
The Owner shall not be held responsible for the use that the User makes of the Website’s Services, nor for any material that the User themselves includes on this Website, which may infringe intellectual or industrial property rights or any other third-party rights.
13. Jurisdiction
For all matters arising from the interpretation, application, and compliance with this Legal Notice, as well as any claims that may arise from its use, all parties involved submit to the Courts and Tribunals that have jurisdiction according to their applicable forum.