Legal notice

1. Details of the site owner

In compliance with the duty to inform set out in article 10 of Spanish Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE), the following details of the owner of this website are given:

• Owner: Sergio Madrigal Salvador, acting as a private individual.
• Site name: WAnimals
• Contact email: wanimals@info.com

As at this update, WAnimals is a personal project in its launch phase. The owner does not currently operate as a self-employed professional or as a registered company; should the activity be formalised, these details will be updated on this same page.

2. Purpose

This legal notice governs access to and use of the WAnimals website (hereafter “the website”), a content and community platform about the animal kingdom described in more detail in our Terms of service. Accessing the website makes you a user and implies acceptance of this legal notice, of the terms of service and of the privacy policy.

3. Conditions of access and use

Access to the website is free, except as regards buying products in the shop or transactions in the marketplace, which are governed by the Terms of service. The user undertakes to make proper and lawful use of the website, in accordance with the applicable law, this legal notice, the terms of service, generally accepted standards of decency and public order.

4. Intellectual and industrial property

The design of the website, its source code, logos, trade marks and other graphic elements are the property of the owner or are used with the corresponding authorisation, and are protected by intellectual and industrial property law. The content of species entries, facts, parks, dive sites and articles has been compiled and written from public and bibliographic sources, cited where appropriate, for information and educational purposes.

Content published by users themselves (sightings, photos, comments, forum and pet posts) belongs to whoever publishes it, on the terms described in the “User content” section of our Terms of service.

Reproduction, distribution or public communication of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes, in any medium and by any technical means, is forbidden without the owner's authorisation.

5. Exclusion of warranties and liability

The owner does not guarantee the availability, continuity or infallibility of the website's operation, and accepts no liability for damage that may arise from a lack of availability or continuity of the service, or from technical faults that may occur during its use.

Information about species, conservation, parks and geographic locations is offered for information and entertainment, and is no substitute for professional advice from vets, certified guides or conservation authorities, as set out in our Terms of service.

6. Third-party links

This website may include links to third-party pages (for example, as sources cited in species entries). The owner accepts no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of those external websites.

7. Data protection

The processing of users' personal data is governed by our privacy policy.

8. Applicable law and jurisdiction

This legal notice is governed by Spanish law. For any dispute arising from access to or use of the website, and without prejudice to any rights the user may have as a consumer to go to the courts of their domicile or to online dispute resolution platforms, the parties submit to the Spanish courts.

9. Changes

The owner reserves the right to amend this legal notice to bring it into line with legislative developments or changes in how the website works. We will publish the new version on this page with the corresponding update date.

10. Contact

For any query about this legal notice, you can write to us through our contact form or at wanimals@info.com.