This legal notice (hereinafter, the "Legal Notice") regulates the use of the Internet portal service "grupo.renfe.com" (hereinafter, the "Portal") that the public business entity Renfe-Operadora (hereinafter, "The Company") makes available to Internet users.
The public corporation Renfe Operadora is a public institution as defined in Article 43.1.b) of the General State Administration Organisation and Operation Act 6/1997 of 14 April, and is attached to the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento).
Renfe Operadora has its own legal personality separate from that of the State, full capacity to act in the attainment of its corporate purpose, and its own property and assets, under the terms established in the third additional provision of the Railway Sector Act 39/2003 of 17 November, and according to the terms stipulated in its own Articles of Association, which were approved by Royal Decree 2396/2004 of 30 December (published in the Official Gazette on 31 December).
Both the Portal design and its source code, and the logos, brands, drawings, models and other distinctive signs that appear in the Portal belong to Renfe Operadora or to its partners and are protected by the corresponding intellectual and industrial property rights. The Portal content is likewise protected by the intellectual property rights of Renfe Operadora or third parties. Their use, reproduction, distribution, public communication, offering, transformation or any other similar activity is strictly forbidden without the express authorisation of Renfe Operadora, or unless such use is made strictly in accordance with the terms deriving from the contracting of the services offered through the Portal. Renfe Operadora reserves the right to bring appropriate legal action against any Users who infringe its intellectual and/or industrial property rights.
Portal usage: access to the Portal and proper use of the information contained therein are the responsibility of the User, and Renfe Operadora takes no responsibility for any improper, illegal or negligent use by the User.
Content use: Renfe Operadora provides all the content in its Portal in good faith and shall endeavour to ensure that it is permanently up-to-date and current; however, Renfe Operadora assumes no responsibility for any use or access by the Users outside the scope of the Portal, which will at all times be the responsibility of the User. Any User who acts against the image, good name or reputation of Renfe Operadora, or who makes any illegal or fraudulent use of the designs, brands, logos or content of the Portal, shall be responsible vis-à-vis Renfe Operadora for such actions. Therefore, the User must refrain from obtaining or attempting to obtain information, logos, tones, images, drawings, brands, sound files and any other sound and/or graphic material accessible through the Portal by means of mechanisms other than those specified in this Legal Notice and in the Portal.
Viruses: Renfe Operadora undertakes to apply all the measures needed to ensure the absence of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and similar code in its Portal. However, these measures are not failsafe and Renfe Operadora cannot therefore completely guarantee the absence of such harmful code. As a result, Renfe Operadora takes no responsibility for any damages that such code may cause to the User.
Technological failures: Renfe Operadora shall endeavour to prevent any disruption in the Portal, but cannot guarantee the absence of technological failures or permanent availability of the Portal and the services contained therein and, in consequence, assumes no responsibility for the damages that may arise owing to unavailability and to access failures caused by disconnections, breakdowns, overloads or network problems which are not attributable to Renfe Operadora.
Contracting errors: should the User make a mistake when entering the data needed for contracting a service owing to a message being sent with a wrong alphanumeric code, the User will not received the contracted service, without this involving any responsibility on the part of Renfe Operadora.
Any dispute or conflicting construction of the terms that make of this Legal Notice, as well as any other matter related to the services offered in this Portal, shall be settled in accordance with the Spanish law.