Legal Notice

In compliance with the duty of information stipulated in article 10 of Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U, S.M.E., as the owner of the website www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com, hereby states:

• Company name: MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E.

• Registered Office: Calle de Ruiz de Alarcón, 13 - 28014, Madrid

• VAT NUMBER (CIF): A84888056

• E-mail address: info@museodelpradodifusion.es

• Registration data in the COmpany Register: Volume 23578, Entry 1, Section 8, Sheet M-423094, 74 Folio 74

This information conforms and regulates the conditions of use, the limitations of liability and the obligations that the users of the Website published under the domain name www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com assume and undertake to respect.

"Website". The domain  www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com which is made available to internet users.

"Content": The pages that make up the entire domain

  www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com, which comprises the information and services that MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. makes available to Internet users. They contain the messages, texts, photographs, graphics, icons, logos, technology, links, textures, drawings, sound and/or image files, recordings, software, appearance, graphic design and source codes and, in general, any kind of material contained on the Website.

"Web". Technical word that describes the information’s access system via the Internet, which is configured by means of pages made with HTML or similar language and programming mechanisms such as java, JavaScript, PHP or others. These pages ,designed and published under an Internet domain name, are the result of the information that the owner makes available to internet users.

"Hyperlink". Technique by which an user can browse through different pages of the website, or the Internet, by simply clicking on the text, icon, button or sign containing the link.

"Cookies". Technical method for the "traceability" and tracking of browsing habits on websites. They are small text files that are written in the user's computer. This method has implications on privacy, so MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. will give a timely and reliable warning of their use when they are implemented on the Website.

Access and/or use of the website www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com  confers  the status  of USER, who accepts, from the time of such access and/or use, these terms of use, with unreserved acceptance of each and every one of the clauses and general conditions included in the legal notice.

If the user does not agree with the terms and conditions of use contained in this Legal Notice, he/she/them shall refrain from using the Website.

www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com provides access to articles, information and data (hereinafter, "THE CONTENTS") owned by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. The USER assumes responsibility for the use of the Website.

1. Engage in any activity that is illicit, illegal or contrary to good faith and public order.
2. Disseminate content or propaganda of a racist, xenophobic, pornographic-illegal nature. 
3. Cause damage to the physical and logical systems of www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com, its suppliers or third parties, introduce or spread computer viruses or any other physical or logical systems that are likely to cause the aforementioned damage.
4. Attempt to access and, where applicable, use the e-mail accounts of other users and modify or manipulate their messages.
5. In short, to respect the applicable legislation, morality and generally accepted good customs, public order and these general conditions of access and use.

To this effect, THE USER is obliged and undertakes NOT to use any of the Contents for illicit purposes or effects, prohibited in the Legal Notice or by the current legislation, which may be harmful to the rights and interests of third parties, or that in any way may damage, render useless, overload, deteriorate or impede the normal use of the Contents, the computer equipment or the documents, files and all kinds of contents stored in any computer equipment owned or contracted by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., of other users or of any Internet user (hardware and software).

THE USER agrees and undertakes not to transmit, disseminate or make available to third parties any kind of material contained in the page, such as information, text, data, content, messages, graphics, drawings, sound and/or image files, photographs, recordings, software, logos, trademarks, icons, technology, photographs, software, links, graphic design and source codes, or any other material to which he/she/them has access as a user of the page, without this list being limited in nature.

Likewise, in accordance with all of the above, THE USER may not:

• Reproduce, copy, distribute, make available or in any other way publicly communicate, transform or modify the Contents, unless they have the written and explicit authorization of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., who is the owner of the corresponding rights, or unless it is legally permitted.
• To remove, manipulate or in any way alter the copyright and other identifying data of the reservation of rights of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. or of its owners, of the fingerprints and/or digital identifiers, or of any other technical means established for their recognition.
• THE USER must refrain from obtaining or even attempting to obtain the contents by using means or procedures other than those that, as the case may be, have been made available for this purpose or have been made available for this purpose on the web pages where the contents are found or, in general, those which are normally used on the Internet for this purpose, provided that they do not entail a risk of damage or disablement of the Website and/or its Contents.

Likewise, the USER acknowledges:

• That MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. will not be responsible in any way for the opinions expressed by the users, who participate under their sole and exclusive responsibility.
• That users' comments do not represent the opinions of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., its partners or its employees.
• That MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. does not guarantee, in any case, the publication of the contents sent by the users. In this sense, all comments received will be automatically reviewed by an anti-spam filter and moderated, as to their form, by an administrator of the website, who will act in any case respecting the democratic freedoms of expression and information.

Likewise, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. reserves the right to remove all those comments and contributions that violate the respect for the dignity of the person, that are discriminatory, xenophobic, racist, pornographic, that attempt against youth or childhood, public order or security or that, in its opinion, are not appropriate for publication.

In any case, www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com will not be responsible for the opinions expressed by users through the blog or other participation tools that may be created, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulations.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is aware of the importance of data protection, as well as the privacy of THE USER and therefore, has implemented a data processing policy aimed at providing maximum security in the use and collection of the same, guaranteeing compliance with the current regulations on the subject and configuring said policy as one of the basic pillars in the lines of action of the entity. Therefore, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. insists on the mandatory reading of its Privacy Policy.

As a service to our visitors, our website may include hyperlinks to other sites that are not operated or controlled by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. Therefore, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. does not guarantee and is not responsible for the legality, reliability, usefulness, accuracy and timeliness of the contents of such websites or their privacy practices. Please, before providing your personal information to these websites outside www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com, be aware that their privacy practices may differ from ours.

Likewise, those who intend to establish hyperlinks between their website and ours (www.imagebankmuseodelprado.com) must observe and comply with the following conditions:

• No prior authorization will be necessary when the Hyperlink only allows access to the home page, but may not reproduce it in any way. Any other form of hyperlink will require the express and unequivocal authorization in writing from MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E.
• Frames will not be created with the Websites or over the Website  of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E.
• No false, inaccurate or offensive statements or indications shall be made about MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., its directors, employees or collaborators, or the persons related to the page for any reason, or the users of the page or the contents supplied.
• It shall not be stated or implied that MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. has authorized the hyperlink or that it has supervised or assumed in any way the contents offered or made available on the web page where the hyperlink is established.
• The Website on which the Hyperlink is established may only contain what is strictly necessary to identify the destination of the hyperlink.
• The Website on which the Hyperlink is established shall not contain information or contents that are illicit, contrary to morality and generally accepted good customs and public order, nor shall it contain contents contrary to any third party rights.

In order to improve the performance of the Website, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. reserves the right to carry out, at any time and without prior notice, modifications and updates of the information contained in the Website, to its configuration and design and to the present legal notice, as well as of any other particular conditions. Therefore, THE USER must read the Legal Notice each and every time they access the Website.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is the owner of all the intellectual and industrial property rights of its Website, as well as of the elements contained thereon (including but not limited to: images, sound, audio, video, software or texts; trademarks or logos, color combinations, structure and design, selection of materials used, computer programs necessary for its operation, access and use, etc.), owned by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., S.M.E. or its licensors, all rights being reserved.

Any use not previously authorized by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. will be considered a serious breach of the author's intellectual or industrial property rights.

The USER undertakes to respect the intellectual and industrial property rights owned by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. The USER may view the elements of the Website and even print, copy and store them in the hard disk of his/her computer or in any other physical support as long as it is, solely and exclusively, for his/her personal and private use. The USER must abstain from deleting, altering, evading or manipulating any protection device or security system that may be installed on the Website of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E.

All the brands, commercial names or distinctive signs of any kind that appear on the page are owned by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. or, where applicable, by third parties that have authorized their use. Use or access to the Portal and/or the Contents does not attribute to the user any right over the mentioned brands, commercial names and/or distinctive signs, and none of the exploitation rights that exist or may exist over said Contents can be deemed to have been transferred to the USER.

Likewise, the contents are intellectual property of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. or of third parties, as the case may be. Therefore, the intellectual property rights are owned by MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. or by third parties who have authorized their use, to whom corresponds the exclusive exercise of the exploitation rights of the same in any form and, especially, the rights of reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation. The reproduction, distribution and public communication, including its modality of making available, of all or part of the contents of this web page for commercial purposes, in any support and by any technical means, without the authorization of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., S.M.E., are expressly prohibited.

The unauthorized use of the information contained in this website, as well as the infringement of the intellectual or industrial property rights of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. or of third parties included in the page that have transferred contents will give rise to the legally established responsibilities.

Cookies are the technical means for the "traceability" and tracking of navigation on Websites. They are small text files that are written in the user's computer. This method has implications on privacy, so MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. informs that it may use cookies with the purpose of elaborating statistics of use of the website, as well as to identify the user's PC, allowing to recognize it in its next visits. In any case, the user can configure his browser to not allow the use of cookies in his/her visits to the website.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is aware of the importance of data protection as well as the privacy of THE USER and, therefore, insists on the reading of the Cookies Policy of our website.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. does not guarantee that there will be no interruptions or errors in the access to the page, to its contents, or that they will  be updated, although it will make its best efforts to avoid them, correct them or update them. Consequently, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is not responsible for damages of any kind caused to THE USER due to failures or disconnections in the telecommunication networks that produce the suspension, cancellation or interruption of the service of the portal during the provision of the same or previously.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. excludes, with the exceptions contemplated in the legislation in force, any responsibility for damages of any nature that may be due to the lack of availability, continuity or quality of the functioning of the page and the contents, to the non-fulfillment of the expectation of usefulness that the users may have attributed to the page and the contents.

The function of the hyperlinks that appear on this website is exclusively to inform the user about the existence of other websites that contain information on the subject. Such hyperlinks do not constitute any suggestion or recommendation.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is not responsible for the security errors that may occur, nor for the damages that may be caused to the user's computer system (hardware and software), or to the files or documents stored in it, as a consequence of:

• The presence of a virus in the user's computer used to connect to the services and contents of the Website.
• A malfunction of the browser or the use of non-updated versions of the same.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. will not be held liable for the contents of said linked websites, for the operation or usefulness of the Hyperlinks, nor the result of said links, nor does it guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements in them that may cause alterations in the computer system (hardware and software), documents or user files, excluding any liability for damages of any kind caused to the user for this reason.

Access to the page does not imply the obligation on the part of MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. to control the absence of viruses, worms or any other harmful computer element. It is up to the user, in any case, the availability of adequate tools for the detection and disinfection of harmful computer programs, therefore, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. is not responsible for the possible security errors that may occur during the provision of the page service, nor for the possible damages that may be caused to the computer system of the user or third parties (hardware and software), the files or documents stored in the same, as a consequence of the presence of a virus in the user's computer used for the connection to the services and contents of the web, of a malfunction of the browser or of the use of non-updated versions thereof.

Given the dynamic and changing environment of the information and services provided through the website, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. makes its best effort, but does not guarantee the complete truthfulness, accuracy, reliability, usefulness and/or timeliness of the Contents.

The information contained on the pages that make up this Portal is of a merely informative, advisory, and promotional nature. In no case do they offer or have the character of binding or contractual commitment.

MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. excludes all responsibility for the decisions that 

THE USER may take based on this information, as well as for the possible typographical errors that the documents and graphics of the page may contain. The information is subject to possible periodic changes without prior notice of its content due to expansion, improvement, correction or updating of the Contents.

The provision of the service of the website and its contents has, in principle, an indefinite duration. MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E., however, is authorized to terminate or suspend the provision of the service of the page and/or any of the contents at any time. Whenever reasonably possible, MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSIÓN, S.A.U., S.M.E. will give prior notice of the termination or suspension of the Website.

For any questions that may arise regarding the interpretation, application and compliance with this Legal Notice, as well as any claims that may arise from its use, all parties involved submit themselves to the Judges and Courts of Madrid.

These terms and conditions are governed by Spanish law.