Legal notice
General information about this website
- According to university legislation, the University of Barcelona (hereinafter UB) carries out the public service of higher education through teaching, study and research. As a support tool for accessing its website, the UB has the domain names ub.edu and ub.es, of which it is the owner. Use of the website implies acceptance of the conditions established in this document.
- The information contained on the UB website is intended to publicize the activity and services it provides. The UB works to ensure that the information and services offered and disseminated comply with the necessary integrity, veracity, updating, accessibility and usability. In this regard, the update date indicated in each case must be taken into account. The information that may be offered through this website does not in any case replace the publicity of the laws, general provisions and administrative acts, which must be published in newspapers, official bulletins or the system that the UB itself determines.
- This website and all its contents, including texts, images, sounds, databases, codes and any other material, are the property of the UB or of third parties that have authorized the institution to use them. All this material is subject to intellectual property legislation. The respective owners reserve the right to take appropriate legal action to repair any damages caused by any act that violates the intellectual property rights of the contents.
- The UB has implemented appropriate security measures to keep the website and its servers free of any malicious programs. Secure access to the website (such as intranets) is done through the HTTPS protocol.
- The UB provides links to its social network profiles (such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube) from the website, in order to make known which ones it is present on. Once accessing any of these social networks, users are subject to the policies established by each service.
- The UB allows users to receive news published on its website via RSS.
- Any conflict in relation to the UB website must be resolved in the courts and tribunals of Barcelona, with express waiver of any other jurisdiction.
Personal data protection
In the event that personal data is provided, the processing that may result is subject to the provisions of the regulations on personal data protection. It should be noted that the UB website is not a publicly accessible source as provided for in these regulations.
- Data collected through forms
- The UB website contains various forms with which personal data can be collected. All of these forms contain the respective clauses providing information on the processing of personal data, which comply with the provisions of data protection regulations.
- Likewise, and when required by data protection regulations, the consent of the affected person is also requested to process or transfer their personal data. For these purposes, the provisions of each clause must be taken into account.
- In any case, the UB only processes the personal data of the affected parties that are adequate, pertinent and not excessive for the fulfillment of the specific, explicit and legitimate purposes for which they have been obtained. Likewise, it guarantees the security of the personal data of the website users by applying different types of technical and organizational security measures.
- As provided for in data protection regulations, minors may give consent to the processing of their personal data provided they are over fourteen years of age. In the case of minors under fourteen years of age, the consent of parents or guardians is required. The UB assumes no responsibility for personal data provided by minors under fourteen years of age who do not have the consent of their parents or guardians.
- Transmission data
Transmission data is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols. Data generated by browsing the UB website is only processed for strictly technical purposes and by staff subject to a duty of confidentiality. - Cookie policy
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Accessibility
The University of Barcelona, in its commitment to achieving the total elimination of visual and functional barriers on the website, meets the medium level (AA) of the accessibility guidelines established by the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) working group of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). It should be noted that the website is dynamic and, consequently, it is practically impossible to check each and every web page that can be consulted at a given time. In this regard, if any accessibility problem arises when browsing any of these web pages, please let us know by email (entorns.web@ub.edu).
Regarding the visual design, this website uses style sheets for the visual format of the information and only relative font sizes have been used, compatible with the personal text size options of the browsers. However, if the browser you use does not allow the use of style sheets, it is possible to browse the web pages without any display problems by selecting the option to browse without page styles.
