TERMS OF USE

www.santillana.com (hereinafter, the Website) is a website owned by Grupo Santillana Educación Global, S.L.U. (hereinafter, Santillana), a Spanish company with registered office at Avenida de los Artesanos nº 6 (28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid) and Tax Identity Code (CIF) B-28095420. The company is registered in the Mercantile Register of Madrid in Volume 1.432, general 878, Section 3ª, of the book of companies, sheet 144, Page 5.873, 1st Entry.

E-mail: santillanaclientes@santillana.es. Telephone: 917449060. 

Access to and reproduction and use of the Website’s services requires prior acceptance of the Terms of Use in force at any given time; Santillana reserves the right to modify these Terms whenever it deems it appropriate, through the publication of the new text on the Website. It is the user's responsibility to know the Terms of Use before accessing the products and services of the Website; if you do not agree with the Terms of Use, please refrain from using the Website.

OWNERSHIP

The Website is a product made up of a number of integrated and inseparable elements (text, illustrations, photographs, sounds, music, animated images, videos, computer programs, including the html codes of the Website, etc.), whose Intellectual Property rights are owned by Santillana, with the exception of those materials obtained under licence from third parties. 

Santillana and its licensors retain at all times the Intellectual Property rights over the Website and over the different elements that comprise it, considered individually, in all copies made (regardless of the format they are incorporated into), granting over them solely the rights to use which are described below. Any right which is not expressly assigned is understood to be reserved.

In addition to the foregoing, Santillana is responsible for selecting and designing the structure and layout of the content of the Website, and the entity which has taken the initiative and assumed the risk of making the substantial investments aimed at obtaining, digitalising and presenting the Website, and is therefore entitled to the protection which may be granted under article 12 and Title VIII of Volume II of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act (Ley de Propiedad Intelectual) over the Website, regarded as a database.

Santillana is also the sole owner of the graphic image and design of the Website; it reserves the right to exercise such actions to which it is legally entitled against any persons who carry out imitations or make improper use thereof.

The Trade Marks belonging to Santillana or to third parties which appear on the Website may not be reproduced or used separately outside the places on the Website where they appear.

DATA PROTECTION AND REGISTRATION

Some sections of the Website are freely accessible but in other cases (Parents, Teachers and Newsletter) you must register as a prerequisite to access and benefit from the advantages of certain sections, using the form provided for the purpose, under the terms stipulated in the  Privacy Clause.

The Pupils section will be freely accessible for browsing in any case, without Santillana collecting any personal data about these.

WEB CONTENT AND DOWNLOADS. PERMITTED USES

Permitted uses:

• Browsing the Website, that is, access and viewing of the Website on a device, with any transitory and accessory reproduction being authorised provided that this is not voluntary and it is an essential and integral part of the technological transmission process. Browsing certain sections of the Website requires prior registration.

• Reproducing permanently on any type of computer media (except centres for network servers or equivalent devices) the materials expressly indicated on the Website as being freely downloadable, under the terms outlined below in this clause.

• After registration, benefiting from the services and advantages provided by Santillana through the Website to its registered users, under the terms expressly set out in the various sections.
  The authorised operations may be carried out in the private sphere, and legitimately obtained copies both of the content of the Website and of the products on the Website stipulated as being downloadable may only be used by the users for strictly personal and private purposes.

Any operations with regard to the Website, its content, the products downloaded and copies of all of these which are against the law, proper behaviour and good faith are prohibited, especially:

• Any use outside the personal and private realm, especially any for commercial or professional purposes, including sending advertising or messages and the gathering and processing of data of third parties.

• The modification and, in general, any transformation thereof, including translation, adaptation, adjusting or any other type of transformation, including correcting errors in computer programs, of which neither successive versions nor programs deriving therefrom may be made.

• The loading and/or use thereof in any computer network system, even though access thereto cannot be carried out simultaneously by the different users of the network.

• Any type of extraction, public communication and/or transmission, whether total or partial, through any medium, outside the permitted realm of private use and, especially, the incorporation thereof into any other work, including web pages, collections or databases. Exempt from this prohibition is the publication in the media of the downloadable materials from the Press Room section.

•  The removal, concealment or falsification of the warnings and cautions regarding the Intellectual or Industrial Property of the Website or of any of the products provided through the Website.

•  The operations and activities expressly prohibited in any other sections of these General Terms and Conditions and, in general, any that may disrupt the normal functioning of the Website for Santillana, other users or any third party.

LINKS TO THE WEBSITE

Establishing links or hyperlinks to the Website from other web pages or websites is authorised provided that this is not performed in a way that damages the public and brand image of Santillana, the Website or any of the persons or products refered to therein. When establishing links to the Website, it is expressly prohibited to use techniques that cause confusion as to the identify and ownership of the content, such as framing or other techniques.

It is prohibited to establish links from web pages or websites whose content promotes or seeks to justify, directly or indirectly, any type of violence, discrimination, pornography or illegal activity. It is also expressly prohibited to establish links with commercial purposes.

In creating the links, using elements extracted from the Website without the prior, express content of Santillana is expressly prohibited.

Under no circumstances may it be understood that the links to the Website from third-party web pages or sites signify relationships by Santillana with the titleholders of such pages or sites, or signify any backing, sponsorship or recommendation by Santillana of such pages or sites, and therefore Santillana will not be in any way responsible for their content and lawfulness.

 
CONTENT AND USER CONDUCT

As a customer or user of the Website, you undertake to make appropriate use of the content and services (such as, for example, downloading materials, possible chat services, discussion forums or news groups) offered through the Website and not to use them to (i) carry out activities that are illicit, illegal, or contrary to good faith and public order; (ii) disseminate content or propaganda of a racist, xenophobic or pornographic nature, which seeks to justify terrorism or that infringes human rights; (iii) cause damage to the hardware and software systems of Santillana, its suppliers or third parties, introduce or spread into the network computer viruses or any other hardware or software systems that are capable of causing the aforementioned damage; (iv) disseminate content that attacks the image and reputation of Santillana or of third parties; (v) infringe the Intellectual Property, Industrial Property, image, honour or any other rights corresponding to Santillana or to third parties. 

Santillana will have full freedom of choice over whether the collaborations and messages are ultimately published on the Website or not, and is empowered to remove them when it deems it appropriate. Santillana is authorised to publish on the Website the content supplied by you in a partial, summarised or abbreviated manner.

By simply sending a work, contribution or comment, you authorise Santillana, in addition to including it on the Website, to by itself or through the assignment thereof to third parties, reproduce, distribute and publicly communicate it in complete, condensed, adapted or abbreviated form, for free or for payment, worldwide, in all languages and in other products that it makes. The rights assigned may be exercised in printed form, in any publishing mode, in electronic storage media (optical, magnetic, magnetic-optical or digital) and through any means of transmission and/or distribution.

The inclusion in the Website of elements provided by users does not signify any backing, sponsorship or recommendation by Santillana regarding the aforementioned elements, and therefore we will not be in any way responsible for their content and lawfulness.

The breaching of any of the rules contained in these Terms of Use and, very especially, of the provisions of this clause, will authorise Santillana to deregister you immediately as a user of or subscriber to the Website.

THIRD-PARTY CONTENT

The inclusion in the Website of elements provided by third parties (who are not users) does not signify any backing, sponsorship or recommendation by Santillana regarding the aforementioned elements, and therefore Santillana will not be in any way responsible for their content and lawfulness.

The fact of providing access (through links or banners) through the Website to web pages and sites, information, services, programs or data belonging to third parties does not make Santillana the editor of this content or make it liable, directly or alternatively, for any claims that may arise out of the quality, reliability, accuracy, lawfulness or correctness thereof.

MODIFICATIONS
Santillana reserves the right to carry out, without notice, any modifications that it deems appropriate to the Website, and may change, erase or add both the content and services provided through the Website and the manner in which these are presented or located. 

Although Santillana will make the greatest efforts to keep the information contained in its Website updated and error-free, it offers no guarantees regarding the accuracy and updated status thereof. The achievement of any specific purpose or result is not guaranteed, and therefore access to and use of the Website is the exclusive responsibility of users and customers.

Unless expressly indicated otherwise, transmissions from the Website are not carried out in a secure environment. Consequently, Santillana does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access, and is exempt from any liability due to damage arising out of use or inability to use the Website (including all indirect damage, among others, loss of profit, business opportunities, information, etc.).

LEGAL ACTION

Santillana will pursue failure to comply with these Terms of Use, any improper use of the Website or of its content, and infringements of the rights corresponding to it or its licensors, especially Intellectual and Industrial Property rights, exercising all the civil and criminal actions to which it may have recourse by law.