General Information
Terms and Conditions
Legal aspects and terms of use of the participation platform https://heuristica.participa.cloud/
Basic information on data protection
- Data controller: Heurística cultural association.
- Purpose of processing: to manage the contact with people interested in participating more actively in the participatory spaces of the heuristica.barcelona platform.
- Legal basis for the treatment: is the user's consent through the acceptance of the terms and conditions of use.
- Data recipients: data will not be communicated to third parties except by legal obligation.
- Rights: to exercise your rights of access, rectification and deletion as well as other rights recognised by law you can do so through this email: [email protected]
- The person accessing this platform agrees to accept and comply with all the provisions of this legal notice and all applicable provisions. You also agree to make lawful and appropriate use of the content and services and to refrain from any illegal conduct or conduct contrary to good faith.
A. Scope of application of these terms of use
The terms of use for participation in the https://heuristica.participa.cloud/ platform are binding on all persons participating in this website. At the time of registration you will be asked to accept these conditions.
The Heurística cultural association reserves the right to modify the present conditions for the platform and will publish the latest version of these conditions on this website. To keep you informed of future changes, we advise you to visit this page from time to time. Users will be informed of modifications when they affect privacy and/or security.
B. Purpose of Heurisitica.participa
This initiative allows interaction with the participatory spaces proposed by the Heuristica Cultural Association, such as the participatory processes and the assemblies of the different projects.
General aspects of participation in the platform https://heuristica.participa.cloud/
Any natural person over 14 years of age who has previously registered on the platform may participate. By accepting these terms of use, the registered person declares that he/she is 14 years of age or older. The adults on whom the minors depend are responsible for the performance of these minors on the heuristica.participa platform. The platform also allows the possibility of opening the registration to institutions, collectives, groups and/or citizen organisations and relevant actors.
C.Uses
- The cultural association Heuristica is not responsible for the incorrect use made by users or for the contents they provide on the heuristica.participa platform. Each user is responsible for using the platform correctly, as well as for the legality of the contents and opinions shared.
- It is not allowed to add any illegal or unauthorised content to the website, such as information that has the following characteristics: that is false or misleading; that infringes any rights of cultural association Heurística or any third party, such as copyright, trademarks or other intellectual and industrial property rights or other related rights; that infringes on the privacy of a third party, such as posting personal details of participants, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, photographs or any other information of a personal nature; that contains viruses, Trojans, robots or other programs that may damage the website or systems of cultural association Heurística or the website or system of any third party, or that are intended to circumvent the technical measures designed for the proper functioning of the platform; is intended to spam users or overload the system; has the character of a message chain, pyramid game or game of chance; has commercial purposes, such as posting job offers or advertisements; is not in accordance with public decency; therefore, the content must not incite hatred, discriminate, threaten, provoke, or have a sexual, violent, rude, or offensive meaning or character; violate an applicable law or regulation; campaign to promote mass voting for other proposals unrelated to the process and the framework of the debate; and create multiple users pretending to be different people (astroturfing). The Heuristics cultural association is not responsible for the quality, originality, authenticity, legality or security of the content that users contribute to the platform. However, the Heuristica cultural association reserves the right to remove from the heuristica.participa platform any opinions, information, comments, proposals or files that contradict these terms of use, and may install filters to that effect. This will be done solely in order to preserve the fundamental objective of the heuristica.participa platform.
- The Heurística cultural association also reserves the right - without prior notice - to temporarily suspend a participant's activities on the platform, deactivate his/her account in any way, delete his/her content, delete the account or send a warning, in particular, and without limitation, in the following cases: if there is a violation of these terms of use of the participation platform and if the Heurística cultural association believes that the activity of the participant is harmful to others, to the website or to the Heurística cultural association.
- The participant is responsible for the content of his or her contributions and for any damages or claims by third parties that may arise. In no case shall the Heurística cultural association be responsible for the improper use of the site, the platform or the content shared, nor shall it be liable for the use that a natural person makes of the ideas contributed, nor for the suitability of these ideas, nor for the results that derive from them. In the event that the content includes a link to another website, cultural association Heurística assumes no liability whatsoever for any damage and/or harm resulting from access to the contents of this link, nor for the content that may be contained in this link. In the event of a dispute of any kind or for any reason whatsoever between the participants in the website or a third party, Heurística cultural association is exempt from any liability for claims, demands or damages of any nature whatsoever that are related in any way to this dispute.
D. Operation of the platform
- Participants can access and navigate the heuristica.participa platform freely and anonymously. Only when they want to perform any action involving the creation, support or comment of a proposal or participation in a debate will it be necessary for them to register beforehand. Registration, which will allow participation in the platform by commenting on a section or creating proposals, must be done by entering the following data: user name, e-mail, password and acceptance of the terms of use.
- The platform also allows the possibility of registering entities, groups and/or organisations, and in this case, the following data will be requested: name of the organisation, responsible person, e-mail, telephone, password and acceptance of the conditions of use.
- The registered person can interact with the platform through the different functionalities enabled for each of the participation processes (debates, proposals, meetings, ...). The verified person will be able to support the proposals and participate in the prioritisation processes of the proposals.
E. Conditions for the treatment of the contents provided by the users
- The present conditions regulate the terms applicable to the content sent by the users of this platform through the corresponding form (hereinafter, the "content"). The content does not include personal data (except the public name of the user) that are provided at the time of registration and verification, it only includes the public content provided by the user (comments, proposals, ...). These conditions apply both to the content initially submitted on the heuristica.participa platform and any content that is subsequently submitted or manifested in the Heurística cultural association.
- Non-confidentiality: All content submitted by the user on heuristica.participa must be susceptible to be known by the general public. Therefore, the Heurística cultural association will treat such content as non-confidential information.
- Procedure: In case cultural association Heurística is interested in the content sent by the user, it may contact him/her to request additional information, without cultural association Heurística acquiring -by this fact- any commitment with respect to the user. This information will have the character of non-confidential, without prejudice that, in case the parties consider the need to exchange confidential information, a confidentiality agreement will be signed. All this without prejudice to the provisions of the section on "Intellectual and industrial property rights".
- Publicity or dissemination of the contents presented: Participants in the heuristica.participa platform of the Heurística cultural association declare that they are aware of and accept the fact that the information provided may be published on the websites owned by the Heurística cultural association, as well as through other means that the organisation deems appropriate to publicise this initiative.
- Intellectual property: Unless otherwise indicated, the contents protected by intellectual property that the user contributes to this website will be subject to a Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license.
- Notice and removal procedure: Any person, with reasonable grounds, may request the removal of content that violates the legal notice and conditions of use present. The request can be made through the website heuristica.barcelona. The cultural association Heurística will process these requests and reserves the right to make the appropriate checks or verifications prior to the removal of any content.
F. Copyright, reuse of information and other rights to the website and its contents
- The cultural association Heurística encourages the use of open licenses, the creation of derivative works and the reuse and modification of the works contained in this website, as long as the original authorship is acknowledged and the same license is maintained on the resulting work. Unless otherwise indicated, the contents protected by intellectual property disseminated on this website are subject, by default, to a Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) license. According to this license, any person may make use of the protected contents, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes, provided that the authorship is acknowledged and the resulting work is disseminated under the same CC-BY-SA license. This license will be applied both to the contents provided by cultural association Heurística and to the contents provided by the users of this website.
- Cultural association Heurística allows the reuse of all information and data disseminated through this website, subject to the following conditions: it must properly acknowledge authorship, provide a link to the license and indicate whether changes have been made; it may not imply that cultural association Heurística sponsors or supports the activity in which the information is reused.
- Cultural association Heurística will respect all intellectual or industrial property rights over the content submitted by users, and assumes no responsibility, directly or indirectly, for any type of controversy, dispute and/or litigation that may arise from the publication, disclosure and/or dissemination of the content provided without the mandatory consent of its rightful owners or without the protection of any use permitted by law.