Legal notice and terms of use

1. General

The owner and responsible party of this website is the Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), a public company of the Department of Health of the Government of Catalonia whose mission is to ensure the supply and proper use of blood and tissues in Catalonia, serving as the reference centre in diagnostic immunology and the development of advanced therapies.

The identification details are as follows:

• Name: Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST)

• Tax ID: Q5856387E

• Address: Passeig Taulat, 106-116, 08005 Barcelona

• Phone: +34 935 513 500

• Email: bst@bst.cat

The use of this website and its content is free (unless otherwise specified for a particular service) and automatically attributes the user ("User") status to anyone who uses it, implying full acceptance of these conditions.

This website provides access to information, products and services supplied or provided by BST to those individuals or organizations interested in them.

The specific provision of services by the Blood and Tissue Bank will be subject to the conditions specified in the service agreements agreed between the corresponding parties.

2. User Obligations

The User undertakes at all times to use this website in accordance with these conditions and the applicable regulations. The User agrees not to take the following actions:

• Register or provide data that is not correct, true, accurate, complete, and/or up to date. The User must use the update tools established on this website to make the necessary changes to the User's data.

• Access the website using another user's username or password or in any other way impersonate any person through the means provided on the website.

• Restrict or prevent any other User from using and enjoying the website.

• Send or disseminate information, codes or content that may limit, harm, disrupt, or prevent the normal use of this website by any User, and/or that may damage or harm the equipment or property of the Blood and Tissue Bank or other Users, including, without limitation, malicious applications, viruses, logic bombs, mass sending of messages, etc. The Blood and Tissue Bank reserves the right to delete information sent by a User or block their access to the website in order to maintain the availability of the website.

3. Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

The content and graphic elements that form part of this website, including texts, images, sound, and any other material, are the exclusive property of the Blood and Tissue Bank or of an organization linked to it that has authorized their use, or of third parties who have authorized the use of this content to the Blood and Tissue Bank.

The contents of the website are subject to intellectual property, with the exceptions provided for in article 13 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of April 12, approving the revised text of the Intellectual Property Law. Therefore, any use or reproduction that users make of this content, or others that may be included in the future, must be done following the provisions and respecting the limitations of the mentioned regulations.

The Blood and Tissue Bank explicitly reserves the rights in general with respect to all the contents disseminated on the website that are subject to intellectual property.

All access to this website is subject to the following conditions: Only non-commercial personal use is authorized.

Modification of the website or its contents is not allowed.

The Blood and Tissue Bank reserves the right to take actions, procedures, and precautionary measures provided for in the legislation on intellectual property, in relation to the commission of infringements of the regulations on intellectual property by users. Infringements committed due to the fraudulent use of the information and content of the Blood and Tissue Bank's website may result in the penalties legally provided in the regulations applicable in each case.

4. Responsibility for Contents

These conditions of use of the website will be governed by the Catalan and Spanish legislation that is applicable.

The use of this website is at the User's own risk. The Blood and Tissue Bank does not guarantee that the website and server are free of viruses and is not responsible for damage caused by accessing the website or the inability to access it. Likewise, the Blood and Tissue Bank is not responsible for the information that can be obtained through links to external systems that are not dependent on the Blood and Tissue Bank.

The Blood and Tissue Bank reserves the right to make changes to the website without prior notice, by adding, modifying, correcting, or deleting the published content or the website design, with the aim of keeping the information up to date.

The Blood and Tissue Bank will not be held responsible for the use that third parties make of the information published on the website.

5. Protection of Personal Data

For the purposes of the provisions of current data protection regulations and other applicable legislation, the Blood and Tissue Bank informs Users and any third party whose personal data it processes about its personal data protection policy, which is available on the website at the following link "Data Protection". Likewise, the website uses cookies, information can be found in the corresponding "Cookie Policy" about their characteristics.

6. Transparency Portal

Through the information published within the transparency website of this website, the Blood and Tissue Bank periodically monitors the principle of active publicity established by Law 19/2013 of December 9, on transparency, access to public information, and good governance, with adequate mechanisms to facilitate accessibility, interoperability, quality and reuse of information, as well as its identification and location.

7. Suspension and Termination of Service

The Blood and Tissue Bank reserves the right to modify, restrict, temporarily or permanently, access and/or use of this website, including the cancellation of the user account, with prior or immediate notification, but not limited to the following situations:

• When the User breaches these conditions.

• When the User inappropriately uses any part of the website or any property or element of the Blood and Tissue Bank.

• When a security error or unauthorized access to the website is detected.

 

Last updated: 16/10/2024