Legal Notice

In this Legal Notice, it collects all the information related to the legal conditions that define the relations between users and the person responsible for the website accessible at the URL address www.bitandblocks.com (hereinafter the “Web” or the “Web Portal”) , including the contents and services made available in them. 

Any person who accesses the portal www.bitandblocks.com agrees to submit to the conditions of this Legal Notice of the Web Portal in force at all times. Consequently, the User of the Web Portal must carefully read this Legal Notice on each of the occasions in which he intends to use the web, since the text could undergo modifications at the discretion of the owner of the web, or because of a legislative, jurisprudential or business practice change.

DATA OF THE RESPONSIBLE OWNER OF THE WEB PORTAL

In compliance with the duty of information contained in article 10 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce, the following data are identified below:

This website, www.bitandblocks.com, is owned by the company BITANDBLOCK, S.L. (hereinafter, referred to as “BITANDBLOCK”), with CIF no. B16793994, with the following email: info@bitandblocks.com and domiciled in Barcelona (CP 08006), Tuset street, number 11, 4th Floor. It is registered in the Mercantile Registry of Barcelona in Volume 47994, Folio 141, Sheet B-568739.

BITANDBLOCK is responsible for the Website and undertakes to comply with all national and European requirements governing the use of users’ personal data.

This Website guarantees the protection and confidentiality of the personal data provided to us in accordance with the provisions of the General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, in Organic Law 3/2018, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights, as well as in the Law on Services of the Information Society and Electronic Commerce 34/2002 of July 11 (LSSI-CE).

OBJECT

The Web Portal provides users of the same access to information and services provided by BITANDBLOCK to those people or organizations interested in them.

The access and use of the Web Portal attributes the condition of user of the Web Portal (hereinafter, the “User”) and implies the acceptance of all the conditions included in this Legal Notice, as well as its modifications. The provision of the Web Portal service has a limited duration to the moment in which the User is connected to the Web Portal or to any of the services that are provided through it. Therefore, the User must carefully read this Legal Notice on each of the occasions in which he intends to use the Web Portal, since it and its conditions of use contained in this Legal Notice may be modified.

ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEB PORTAL

The domain name www.bitandblocks.com provides access to a wide variety of products, information and/or data (hereinafter, “the contents”) belonging to BITANDBLOCK or its licensors, to which the User may have access. In any case, the User assumes responsibility for the use made of the aforementioned Web Portal. Such responsibility extends when registering. In the registration document , the User will be responsible for providing truthful and lawful information, as well as keeping their data updated. As a consequence of this registration, a password will be provided for which the User will be responsible, committing to make diligent and confidential use of it.

In the case of minors, the consent of the parents or guardians is required for the processing of their personal data.

In no case will data relating to the professional, economic or privacy situation of the other members of the family be collected from the minor without their consent. If you are under fourteen years of age and have accessed this website without notifying your parents, you should not register as a user.

On this website, the personal data of users are respected and taken care of. As a user you should know that your rights are guaranteed.

BITANDBLOCK reserves in any case the right to make those modifications it deems appropriate in the Web Portal. This implies that BITANDBLOCK may change, delete or add both the contents and the services provided through it, as well as the way in which they are presented or located on its Web Portal.

The User undertakes to make appropriate use of the contents, products and / or services that BITANDBLOCK offers through its Web Portal.

PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

The data obtained and those provided by the User will be treated in accordance with the Bitandblock Privacy Policy which can be accessed through the following link: Privacy Policy.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

All industrial and intellectual property rights, as well as all the information contained in the Web Portal (images, trademarks, graphic designs, source code, design, navigation structure, databases, and any other content that appears in it) are the exclusive property of BITANDBLOCK or, where appropriate, are duly licensed by the owner. The names of other products, services and companies that appear in this document or in the Web Portal may be trademarks or other distinctive signs registered by their respective and legitimate owners, without it being understood that the access or use of the Web Portal attributes to the Usuario any right over the aforementioned trademarks and the other registered distinctive signs. Likewise, all the information and contents of the Web Portal are protected by copyright and the intellectual property thereof belongs to BITANDBLOCK or, where appropriate, its use and exploitation has been duly authorized by the owner, without being understood to be transferred to the user, none of the exploitation rights related to them beyond what is strictly necessary for the correct use of the Web Portal.

In the context described, the user is only authorized to view and obtain a temporary private copy of the contents for their exclusive personal and private use in their computer systems (software and hardware) and are not subsequently transferred to third parties. With the above exceptions, the user is expressly prohibited from reproducing, transforming, distributing, publicly communicating, making available, extracting, reusing, forwarding or using any nature, by any means or procedure, of any of them, except in cases where it is legally permitted or expressly authorized in writing by BITANDBLOCK and/or the owner of the corresponding rights. 

EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND LIABILITY

BITANDBLOCK reserves the right to interrupt access to its Web Portal, as well as the provision of any or all of the contents and / or services offered through it at any time and without prior notice, whether for technical, security, control, maintenance or any other reason. Consequently, BITANDBLOCK does not guarantee the reliability, availability or continuity of its Web Portal or the contents offered therein, so access to said website and its contents by the user is at their own risk.

Likewise, BITANDBLOCK will not be responsible for temporary interruptions of the service, delays, errors, malfunctions and, in general, other inconveniences that have their origin in causes beyond the control of BITANDBLOCK, and / or are due to the fraudulent or culpable action of the user and / or are caused by Force Majeure.

In this sense, BITANDBLOCK, excludes to the fullest extent permitted by the legal system, any liability for damages of any kind that may be due to the lack of availability or continuity of the operation of the Web Portal, the services, the fallibility of the Web Portal and the services, the failures in accessing the different web pages of the Web Portal or those from which the services are provided.

BITANDBLOCK adopts reasonably adequate security measures to detect the existence of viruses. However, the user must be aware that the security measures of computer systems on the Internet are not entirely reliable and that, therefore, BITANDBLOCK cannot guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements that may cause alterations in the computer systems (software and hardware) of the user or in their electronic documents and files contained therein.

In this sense, BITANDBLOCK, excludes to the fullest extent permitted by the legal system, any liability for damages of any kind that may be due to the presence of viruses or other elements in the contents of the Web Portal, which may cause alterations in the computer system, electronic documents and / or in the files of the Users.

Finally, BITANDBLOCK does not assume responsibility for the use that the user makes of the content of the Web Portal that may involve a violation of any type of standard, national or international, of the rights of intellectual or industrial property or any other right of third parties.

Both access to the Web Portal and the use that may be made of the information contained therein is the sole responsibility of the person who makes it. BITANDBLOCK will not be liable for any consequence, damage or harm, that may arise from such access or use of the information. BITANDBLOCK is not responsible for any possible security errors that may occur or for any damage that may be caused to the user’s computer system (hardware and software), the files or documents stored therein, as a result of a malfunction of the browser or the use of non-updated versions thereof.

BITANDBLOCK is not responsible for any damages arising from the use of the contents of the Web Portal. In particular, BITANDBLOCK is not responsible for the contents or the state of the links contained in this Web Portal and that may lead the user to other sites and web pages managed by third parties. BITANDBLOCK is not responsible for the contents or the state of these websites and web pages. Access to them through this Web Portal does not imply that BITANDBLOCK recommends or approves their contents.

LINKS POLICY

It is expressly forbidden to introduce hyperlinks or technical link devices (for example, links, banners or buttons) for commercial purposes on web pages outside BITANDBLOCK, which allow access to this domain, without the prior written consent of BITANDBLOCK. In any case, the existence of such hyperlinks will not imply, in any case, the existence of commercial or commercial relations with the owner of the Web Portal where the hyperlink is established, nor the acceptance by BITANDBLOCK of its contents or services.

In any case, BITANDBLOCK reserves the right to prohibit or disable at any time any hyperlink or technical link device (e.g. links, banners or buttons) to its website, especially in cases of illegality of the activity or contents of the website in which the hyperlink is included or in the technical link device.

On the other hand, BITANDBLOCK does not guarantee or assume any type of responsibility for the damages suffered by the access to contents of third parties through the possible connections, links or links of the sites linked from www.bitandblocks.com. The function that, where appropriate, such hyperlinks or technical link devices (e.g. links, banners or buttons) may have is exclusively to inform Users about the existence of other sources of information or other Internet content and services. BITANDBLOCK will not be in any case responsible for the result obtained through said hyperlink or technical link devices (e.g. links or buttons) or the consequences arising from access by Users to them (linked sites). These third-party contents are provided by them, so BITANDBLOCK cannot control the legality of such content or the quality of the services offered therein.

BITANDBLOCK does not offer or commercialize by itself and / or through third parties, the information, contents and services available on the linked websites, nor does it approve, supervise or control in any way the contents and services, as well as any material of any nature existing in them, assuming the user exclusively all responsibility for browsing through them.

NOTIFICATIONS

All notifications and communications (hereinafter, “Notifications”) by the BITANDBLOCK user will be considered effective, for all purposes, when they are addressed to the Customer Service at the following email address info@bitandblocks.com. Likewise, all Notifications made by BITANDBLOCK to the user will be considered validly made if they have been made using the data and through the aforementioned means. For these purposes, the User declares and guarantees that all the data provided by him are true and correct and that he will keep them duly updated.

This Web Portal has been prepared at all times in accordance with the principles of good faith by BITANDBLOCK. However, in the event that any third party considers that their intellectual and/or industrial property rights have been infringed, they may notify them by means of a communication addressed to the BITANDBLOCK address indicated above.

WITHDRAWAL AND SUSPENSION OF SERVICE

BITANDBLOCK may withdraw or suspend at any time and without prior notice the provision of the services offered through the Web Portal to those Users who fail to comply with the provisions of this Legal Notice.

DURATION, MODIFICATION AND TERMINATION

The existence of the Web Portal as well as the provision of the services offered therein has, in principle, an indefinite duration. However, BITANDBLOCK is entitled to terminate or suspend the provision of the aforementioned services and cancel the Web Portal at any time. When reasonably possible, BITANDBLOCK will previously warn Users about the termination or suspension of the Web Portal, as well as, where appropriate, of the services offered therein.

BITANDBLOCK may modify this Legal Notice according to legislative or regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt said policy to the instructions of the competent authorities, so users are advised to visit it periodically.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Legal Notice shall be interpreted and governed in accordance with Spanish law. The parties submit, at their option, for the resolution of conflicts and waiving any other jurisdiction, to the courts and tribunals of the domicile of Barcelona, unless the rules of protection of consumers and Users provide otherwise.

This Legal Notice and Conditions of Use of the Web Portal www.bitandblocks.com are updated as of [22] [April] 2022.

PRIVACY POLICY

OBJECT

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform all those who access and browse the Web Portal (hereinafter, the “User”) accessible through the domain name www.bitandblocks.com and its subdomains (hereinafter, “the Web Portal”) about the data processing that BITANDBLOCK carries out through this Web Portal.

Access to our Web Portal does not require prior registration as a User. However, access and navigation through it implies that the User accepts this privacy policy in its entirety.

RESPONSIBLE

responsible for the processing of personal data collected in the Web Portal BITANDBLOCK, S.L. (hereinafter, referred to as “BITANDBLOCK”), with CIF no. B16793994, with the following email: info@bitandblocks.com and domiciled in Barcelona (CP 08006), Tuset street, number 11, 4th Floor. It is registered in the Mercantile Registry of Barcelona in Volume 47994, Folio 141, Sheet B-568739.

PRINCIPLES APPLICABLE TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

The processing of the User’s personal data will be subject to the following principles set out in Article 5 of the RGPD and in Article 4 et seq. of Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights:

  • Principle of legality, loyalty and transparency: the consent of the User will be required at all times after completely transparent information of the purposes for which the personal data are collected.
  • Principle of purpose limitation: personal data will be collected for determined, explicit and legitimate purposes.
  • Principle of data minimization: the personal data collected will only be those strictly necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
  • Principle of accuracy: personal data must be accurate and always up-to-date.
  • Principle of limitation of the conservation period: personal data will only be kept in such a way as to allow the identification of the User for the time necessary for the purposes of its treatment.
  • Principle of integrity and confidentiality: personal data will be treated in a way that guarantees its security and confidentiality.
  • Principle of proactive responsibility: the Controller shall be responsible for ensuring that the above principles are complied with.

PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

For the purposes of the provisions of Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data, as well as Royal Decree-Law 5/2018, of July 27, on urgent measures for the adaptation of Spanish Law to European Union regulations on data protection, we inform you of the existence of a personal data file created by and under the responsibility of BITANDBLOCK with the data obtained in the Web Portal through any of its forms.

The purpose of this file is to manage the contractual relationship that may exist with Users, the services we provide to Users through the Web Portal, as well as to keep the User informed, including by electronic means, about the services and news of BITANDBLOCK through communications and / or commercial Newsletters. If you do not wish to receive this type of communication, you must check the corresponding box at the bottom of the data collection forms.

LEGITIMACY OF THE TREATMENT

a) Contractual relationship: It is the one that applies when you contract any of our services.

b) Legitimate interest: To attend to the queries and claims that you raise with us and to manage the collection of the amounts owed.

c) Your consent: If you are a user of our website, by checking the box that appears in the contact form, you authorize us to send you the necessary communications to respond to the query or request for information raised.

RECIPIENTS

The User’s personal data will not be transferred to any third party, except for those public or private entities whose assignment is determined by a legal precept. By way of example, the tax regulations and their implementing provisions oblige the Tax Agency to provide certain information on economic operations that exceed a certain amount.

In the event that BITANDBLOCK must disclose the User’s personal data to a third party other than those outlined above, the User will be informed to obtain their freely given consent.

COMMUNICATION

BITANDBLOCK will not make international transfers of personal data for any of the purposes indicated.

CONSERVATION

The conservation of the User’s personal data will be carried out for the time strictly necessary for the purposes for which they were collected. To determine the appropriate retention period, BITANDBLOCK will examine the risks involved in the processing, as well as the contractual, legal and regulatory obligations, internal data retention policies and our legitimate business interests described in this Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy.

In this sense, BITANDBLOCK will keep the User’s personal data once their relationship with them has ended , duly blocked, during the limitation period of the actions that may arise from the relationship maintained with the interested party.

Once blocked, your data will be inaccessible to BITANDBLOCK, and will not be processed except for its availability to public administrations, judges and courts, for the attention of the possible responsibilities arising from the treatments, as well as for the exercise and defense of claims before the Spanish Agency for Data Protection.

SECURITY MEASURES

BITANDBLOCK undertakes to use the data included in the file, to respect its confidentiality and to use them in accordance with the purpose of the file, as well as to comply with its obligation to save them and adapt all the security measures (technical and organizational) necessary to avoid alteration, loss, treatment or unauthorized access, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulations.

EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

The User has over BITANDBLOCK and may, therefore, exercise against the Data Controller the following rights recognized in the RGPD and in Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights:

  • Right of access: It is the right of the User to obtain confirmation of whether or not BITANDBLOCK is processing their personal data and, if so, to obtain information about their specific personal data and the treatment that BITANDBLOCK has carried out or carries out, as well as, among others, the information available on the origin of said data and the recipients of the communications made or planned thereof.
  • Right of rectification: It is the right of the User to have their personal data modified that turn out to be inaccurate or, taking into account the purposes of the treatment, incomplete.
  • Right of deletion (“the right to be forgotten”): It is the right of the User, provided that current legislation does not establish otherwise, to obtain the deletion of their personal data when they are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or processed; the User has withdrawn his consent to the treatment and this does not have another legal basis; the User opposes the treatment and there is no other legitimate reason to continue with it; the personal data have been unlawfully processed; the personal data must be deleted in compliance with a legal obligation; or the personal data have been obtained as a result of a direct offer of information society services to a child under 14 years of age. In addition to deleting the data, the Controller , taking into account the available technology and the cost of its implementation, shall take reasonable steps to inform the controllers who are processing the personal data of the data subject’s request to delete any link to that personal data.
  • Right to restriction of processing: It is the right of the User to limit the processing of their personal data. The User has the right to obtain the limitation of the treatment when he contests the accuracy of his personal data; the processing is unlawful; the Data Controller no longer needs the personal data, but the User needs it to make claims; and when the User has objected to the processing.
  • Right to data portability: In the event that the processing is carried out by automated means, the User will have the right to receive from the Data Controller their personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit them to another data controller. Whenever technically possible, the Controller shall transmit the data directly to that other controller.
  • Right of opposition: It is the right of the User not to carry out the processing of their personal data or to cease the treatment of them by BITANDBLOCK.
  • Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling: It is the right of the User not to be subject to an individualized decision based solely on the automated processing of their personal data, including profiling, existing unless otherwise established by current legislation.

Thus, the User may exercise their rights by written communication addressed to the Data Controller with the reference “RGPD-BITANDBLOCK”, specifying:

  • Name, surname of the User and copy of the DNI. In cases where representation is admitted, it will also be necessary to identify by the same means the person representing the User, as well as the document accrediting the representation. The photocopy of the DNI may be replaced by any other means valid in law that proves the identity.
  • Request with the specific reasons for the request or information to which you want to access.
  • Address for the purpose of notifications.
  • Date and signature of the applicant.
  • Any document that proves the request you make.

This request and any other attached document may be sent to the following address and/or email:

UPDATES TO THE DATA DEPRIVATION POLICY

BITANDBLOCK reserves the right to modify its Privacy and Cookies Policy, according to its own criteria, or motivated by a legislative, jurisprudential or doctrinal change of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection. Changes or updates to this Privacy and Cookies Policy will be explicitly notified to the User.

This Privacy and Cookies Policy was updated on [22] April 2022 to adapt to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of these data (RGPD) and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights.

COOKIES POLICY

In order to comply with the provisions of article 22 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on services of the information society and electronic commerce, we inform you that in BITANDBLOCK, S.L. (hereinafter, referred to as “BITANDBLOCK”), with CIF no. B16793994, with the following email: info@bitandblocks.com and domiciled in Barcelona (CP 08006), Calle Tuset, number 11, 4th Floor, we use cookies for the operation of our Website.

The purpose of this Policy is to inform the User, in a clear and complete way, about the operation and purpose of the cookies used on our Website.

By clicking on any button, checkbox or link contained on the Website, filling out a form or identifying himself to access web services, download any content or scroll through the contents of the website, the User declares his acceptance of the use of cookies made by the Website and the installation of the same on the computer used by it to access and navigate through it (including, mobile devices and browsers); as well as the collection and processing of the User’s personal data in the manner and purposes described in this Cookies Policy.

This Cookie Policy may be subject to change. Consequently, we recommend the User to review this policy each time he accesses our Website to be informed about any changes in it, which would be applicable to him.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your browser when you access certain web pages. Such a text file allows a web page, 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 and the way they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize the User, monitor, store and retrieve information about the User’s browsing habits (for example, preferences, profile, access codes, etc.) as well as obtaining technical information related to the navigability of the web pages. Cookies also contribute to the functionality, usability and accessibility of web pages.

What types of cookies does this Website use?

Own cookies

They are those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by us and from which the service requested by the User is provided. These cookies remain in your browser, allowing us to identify you as a recurring User of the Website and customize its content to offer you content adjusted to your preferences.

Session cookies

They are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the User accesses a web page.

Third-party cookies

They are those that are sent to the User’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by us, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.

How can I block or delete cookies?

The User can disable, reject and delete the cookies – totally or partially – installed on his device through the configuration of his browser (among which are, for example, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Explorer). In this sense, the procedures for rejecting and deleting cookies may differ from one Internet browser to another. Consequently, the User must go to the instructions provided by the Internet browser he is using. In the event that you reject the use of cookies – in whole or in part – you may continue to use the Website, although you may have limited use of some of its features.

Updates to the Cookies Policy

BITANDBLOCK reserves the right to modify its Privacy and Cookies Policy, according to its own criteria, or motivated by a legislative, jurisprudential or doctrinal change of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection. Changes or updates to this Privacy and Cookies Policy will be explicitly notified to the User.

This Privacy and Cookies Policy was updated on [22] April 2022 to adapt to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of these data (RGPD) and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, Protection of Personal Data and guarantee of digital rights.