Legal Notice & Privacy Policy

Legal notice for the ICE-CSIC website. Please, find here the Legal Notice and Cookies & Privacy Policy.


Legal notice


General conditions of use of the portal www.ice.csic.es

The Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) informs you that access to and use of the website www.ice.csic.es and all the subdomains and directories included under it (hereinafter jointly referred to as the Portal) are subject to the terms that are detailed in this Legal Notice, without prejudice to the fact that access to any of said services or contents may require the acceptance of additional General Conditions.

The Institute of Spaces Sciences (ICE-CSIC or ICE) reserves the right to make changes to the Portal without prior notice, in order to update, correct, modify, add or delete the contents or the design. Because the information update is not immediate, we suggest that you always check the validity and accuracy of the information, services and content presented. Likewise, the conditions and terms contained in this Notice may vary, so we invite you to review these terms when you visit the Portal again.

ICE-CSIC is not responsible for any damages that may be caused by the use of the tools and information contained in www.ice.csic.es in relation to the adoption of decisions on the beginning, development or result of administrative procedures. Such decisions must be contrasted in the competent centres, organizations or dependencies. In any case, the information and contents of this website may not be alleged in contradictory processes with the Public Administration, not assuming any responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the printed documents of the competent Administration and the electronic publication on these pages.

Intellectual property and industrial property rights

Both the design of the Portal and its source codes, as well as the logos, trademarks, and other distinctive signs that appear in it, belong to ICE-CSIC or collaborating entities and are protected by the corresponding intellectual and industrial property rights.

The information available on this website, unless expressly stated otherwise, is subject to reuse; being authorized its total or partial reproduction, modification, distribution and communication, for commercial and non-commercial uses, subject to the following conditions:

  • It is prohibited, in any circumstance, the distortion of the content of the information.
  • The user is obliged to cite the source of the documents that are the object of reuse.
  • The user is obliged to mention the date of the last update of the documents subject to reuse.
  • The ICE-CSIC declares its respect for the intellectual and industrial property rights of third parties; therefore, if you consider that this site may be violating your rights, please contact the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) through the email address Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

Links or hyperlinks

Users who intend to establish a hyperlink between their website and that of the ICE-CSIC must take into account the following:

  • The establishment of the hyperlink does not imply, in any case, the existence of relations between ICE and the owner of the website, nor the acceptance and approval by ICE of its contents or services. Therefore, it will not be declared or implied that ICE has expressly authorized the hyperlink, nor that it has supervised or assumed responsibility for the content and services offered or made available on said website.
  • ICE-CSIC is not responsible, in any way, nor does it guarantee the quality, accuracy, reliability, correctness or morality of the content or services that the establishment of the hyperlink may offer. The user assumes under his sole responsibility the consequences, damages or actions that may arise from accessing the hyperlinked Web page.
  • The Webpage in which the hyperlink is established may not contain any trademark, denomination, logo, slogan or other distinctive signs belonging to ICE, except those signs that form part of the hyperlink itself.
  • The Webpage in which the hyperlink is established will not contain information with illicit content, contrary to morality and generally accepted good customs and public order, nor will it contain content contrary to the rights of third parties.

Frames

ICE-CSIC expressly prohibits "framing" or the use by third parties of any other mechanisms that alter the design, original configuration or content of its Portal.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

The applicable law in case of dispute or conflict of interpretation of the terms that make up this Legal Notice, as well as any matter related to the services of this Portal, will be Spanish law.

For the resolution of any conflict that may arise on the occasion of the visit to the Portal or the use of the services that may be offered therein, ICE and the User agree to submit to the Judges and Courts of the User's domicile, provided that the same is located in Spanish territory.


Cookies & Privacy Policy


The Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) informs about the use of cookies and its privacy policy on its website.

Cookies are files that can be downloaded to your computer through webpages. They are tools that play an essential role in order to provide numerous services in our information society.  Cookies allow a webpage, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain, they can be used to recognize the user and to improve the service offered.

Types of cookies

Depending on the entity that manages the domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, two types can be distinguished: own cookies and third-party cookies.

There is also a second classification according to the time cookies remain stored in the client's browser, which may be session cookies or persistent cookies.

Last, there is another classification with five types of cookies according to the purpose for which the data obtained is processed: technical cookies, personalization cookies, analysis cookies, advertising cookies and behavioural advertising cookies.

Guide about the use of cookies in the Spanish Agency of Data Protection.

Cookies used on this website

In order to promote social media, cookies from Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn are being used, so that our visitors may follow us on those networks. Contents from YouTube are also embedded on some of the articles of our webpage.

Acceptance of the Cookies Policy

The Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) assumes that you accept the use of cookies. However, at the bottom of any page of the portal, information about its Cookies Policy is available so that you are informed.

Given this information, it is possible to carry out the following actions:

  • Accept cookies: if the user presses the acceptance button, this notice will not be displayed again when accessing any page of the portal.
  • Review the cookie policy: The user can access this page detailing the use of cookies, as well as links to modify the browser settings.

How to modify cookies' settings

You can restrict, block or delete the cookies from the Institute of Space Spaces o any other webpage by configuring the browser options. In each browser the process is different, the 'Help' function will show you how to do it.

Privacy policy

In accordance with Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD), the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) and concordant legislation, ICE is committed to compliance of the obligation of secrecy with respect to personal data. If you have questions about the use of data, you can send your queries through the email address Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo..

ICE reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy to adapt it to new legislation, jurisprudence or interpretation of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection. In this case, ICE will announce said changes, clearly indicating the modifications made well in advance, and requesting, if deemed necessary, their acceptance.


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