IRTA.cat (http://www.irta.cat) is a domain of the Institute of Agro-Food Research and Technology (IRTA) with NIF nº Q-5855049-B and address at Torre Marimon, C-59, Km. 12,1de Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona) CP-08140, tel. 93 467 40 40 and address irta@irta.cat.
IRTA is a public company of the Generalitat de Catalunya, regulated by Law 4/2009 of 15 April of the Parliament (BOE of 23 April 2009) whose purposes are to contribute to the modernization, improvement and promotion of competitiveness; to the sustainable development of the agricultural, food, agroforestry, aquaculture and fishing sectors, and also those directly or indirectly related to the supply of healthy and quality food to final consumers; to food safety and food processing, and, in general, to the improvement of the well-being and health of the population.
IRTA carries out its activity directly or also through a network of consortium centers (between IRTA, Universities, CSIC, Provincial Councils, etc.) which can be defined as that of a cooperative R&D system.
Through the IRTA.cat domain, the company manages its web portal, without prejudice to the fact that there may be other electronic addresses that also allow access to the contents and services provided through the IRTA.cat website, either periodically or permanently.
Access and/or use of the IRTA portals confers the status of user and implies acceptance of the conditions of access and use contained in this legal notice, as well as the privacy and personal data policy. The aforementioned conditions will apply regardless of the general conditions of contracting and e-commerce that may apply to the functionalities offered by the portal. The user undertakes to use the services and information provided on the IRTA.cat portal under good faith criteria.
Initial access to the portal is free. However, there may be functionalities or services subject to payment of a price under the conditions established in each case.
In the event that user registration is required to use certain functions or services, this will be done through data collection forms and subject to the provisions of the personal data protection legislation described in this legal notice.
To use the portal, minors must have the permission of their parents or legal representatives, who will be responsible.
IRTA owns the Intellectual and Industrial Property rights of the IRTA.cat portal, which includes the contents and graphic elements, its source code, design, navigation structure, databases and other elements that form part of the website. Therefore, IRTA is exclusively responsible for exercising the rights of exploitation in any form and, specifically, the rights of reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation. Any use or reproduction that users make of these contents, or others that may be included in the future, must be done in accordance with the provisions and respecting the limitations of the Intellectual Property regulations and in any case with the authorization of IRTA, without prejudice to the limits established in Royal Decree 1/1996, of April 12, which approves the consolidated text of the Intellectual Property Law.
IRTA explicitly reserves rights in general with respect to all the contents disseminated on the website that are the subject of intellectual and industrial property. In accordance with the provisions of article 32 of the revised text of the Intellectual Property Law, IRTA expressly opposes the use of any of the contents of the portal in any format, for the purpose of making press reviews or magazines, audiovisual productions or any other for commercial purposes, without its prior express authorization.
This legal notice does not imply any transfer of rights in favor of the user in relation to any of the elements of the website or its contents.
The following is not authorized in any case:
The user may view the contents of this portal, copy them, print them on their computer or any other medium for their exclusive personal and private use.
A) Data collected through the form
IRTA, as the person responsible for the website, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, of April 27, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (hereinafter, “RGPD”), and Law 34/2002, of July 11, on information society services and electronic commerce (LSSICE), informs you that it has implemented the necessary security measures, of a technical and organizational nature, to guarantee and protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data entered.
Consult the PRIVACY POLICY of the website www.irta.cat at the following link: www.irta.cat/ca/politica-de-privacitat
B) Navigation data
The navigation system and software necessary for the operation of this website collect, as a standard, some data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols. This category of data includes the IP address or domain name of the computer used by the user to connect to the website, the URL address of the requested resource, the time, the method used to query the server, the size of the file obtained in the response, the numerical code that indicates the status of the response to the server, and other parameters related to the operating system of the user’s computer environment.
This information is not associated with specific users and is used for the exclusive purpose of obtaining statistical information about the use of the website www.irta.cat.
IRTA reserves the right to modify the contents of the website and to eliminate them, as well as to limit or prevent access either temporarily or permanently, without prior notification.
IRTA is not responsible for the technical access, information or contents of other websites to which it refers or to which it may link from the IRTA.cat portal.
IRTA does not necessarily identify with the opinions expressed by its collaborators.
IRTA reserves the right to deny or withdraw access to its websites and/or the services offered without prior notice, at its own request or that of a third party, to those users who fail to comply with these general conditions.
The IRTA.cat portal may have sections of a public and participatory nature (forum, chat, surveys, etc.), understood as those that are accessible to all users in general, to interact. In certain cases, the conditions of participation are established that must be previously accepted, as well as the mandatory registration of the user, in which case, in addition to the conditions of participation, the transfer of personal data must be accepted for the purposes of complying with the policy and legislation on the protection of personal data.
Regarding the content that the user decides to send for inclusion in these spaces, the following conditions of use and access are established:
1.- Responsibilities: IRTA is not responsible for the content of the messages, information, opinions made by users and reserves the right to prevent access to illicit or illegitimate content or that may harm legitimate rights of any kind or to withdraw or eliminate those that have been contributed, especially in the event of breach of these conditions.
2.- Intellectual Property: IRTA will have the right to reproduce, modify (through extracts, summaries, reviews), adapt and publish, including public communication, the contents, whether texts, photographs, graphics, etc., with the aim of promoting the section to which they are related, as well as to use them in IRTA activities and publications, in any format and support. The license is free and is established for the time until its passage into the public domain as permitted by the current Intellectual Property legislation at any time. Users will only send content that they are the original authors of or have the rights of its owner, without prejudice to informing the URL of the owner or having the right to link to said content.
3.- IRTA will not return any content sent nor does it acquire any obligation to respond to users.
4.- The personal data contained in the interactive functionalities and their contents cannot be used for benefit or uses that have not been expressly authorized by their owner. The user will be responsible for the veracity of the data provided.
5.- Users will respect the opinions of other users or participants, and will refrain from using offensive or defamatory, racist or violent language or language that violates current law.
6.- No commercial or unauthorized communications may be made.
7.- Please note that the personal data provided by users may be seen by any other user or participant. If it is third-party data, their express consent must be obtained.
8.- In the case of surveys, the user may participate anonymously, and IRTA is not responsible for the use that users may make of their results.
Subscription, free or not, to products or newsletters published by IRTA that are made through this portal IRTA.cat will be voluntary and will imply acceptance of the conditions that are established in each case and that the user must expressly accept. It will also imply acceptance to receive commercial information about products and services from IRTA and related companies or concerted centers. The fact of registering for these services entails authorization for IRTA to make this type of communications, and the user may revoke the authorization with a written communication in the form that IRTA will indicate in each case.
IRTA will pursue any breach of these conditions as well as any improper use of its websites by exercising all civil and criminal actions that may correspond to it by law.
IRTA cannot guarantee that the portal and the server are free of viruses, so it is not responsible for any damages or losses that may be caused by these anomalies or any other technical nature.
IRTA may modify the conditions determined here at any time, being duly published as they appear here. The validity of the aforementioned conditions will depend on their exposure and will be in force until they are modified by others duly published.
The relationship between IRTA and users will be governed by current Spanish regulations and any controversy will be submitted to the courts and tribunals of the city of Barcelona.
In accordance with article 17.1 of Law 19/2014, the ©Generalitat de Catalunya allows the reuse of content and data provided that the source and the date of update are cited and that the information is not distorted (article 8 of Law 37/2007) and that it does not contradict a specific license.
