Legal Notice

• Website Ownership
• Users
• Use of the Website
• Industrial and Intellectual Property
• Exclusion of Guarantees and Responsibilities
• Links
• Cookies
• Right of Exclusion
• Change and Validity of These Conditions
• Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

WEBSITE OWNERSHIP

The website http://www.ieseinsight.com and http://www.iesep.com ("the WEBSITE") and the brand, IESE INSIGHT and IESE PUBLISHING, are the property of the ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L., registered in Barcelona, Spain, at Avenida Pearson 21, with the Tax Identification Number (Código de Identificación Fiscal) of B-58364753.

USERS

Access to and/or use of the ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE constitutes the condition of USER. The USER, by accessing the WEBSITE and/or using it, accepts the General Conditions of Use reflected in this Legal Notice. These conditions shall apply independent of the Contracting General Conditions, which are also binding.

USE OF THE WEBSITE

All contents included in the ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE WEBSITE, including the navigation architecture, databases, services, graphics, videos and other contents and/or sensory stimuli that make up the WEBSITE ("the CONTENTS"), belong to ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE and/or to a third party that has ceded rights to ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE.

The USER assumes responsibility for using the WEBSITE. This responsibility extends to the register that the USER needs to pass through in order to gain access to certain contents or services. In that register, the USER is responsible for giving truthful and lawful information. In registering, the USER provides a password for which the USER is responsible, undertaking to make diligent and confidential use of it.

The USER undertakes to make good use of the contents and services offered by ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE through its WEBSITE, in accordance with the current General Conditions of Use, and to not use the contents and services to commit, without limitation, illicit, illegal or malicious activities. In no event shall ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE be held responsible for any fraudulent use by the USER regarding the contents of the WEBSITE.

This website is governed by the laws and regulations applicable exclusively in Spain, to which all USERS of this website are subject.

INDUSTRIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The USER recognizes and accepts that all the industrial and intellectual property rights regarding the contents and/or any other element inserted in the WEBSITE (including, but not limited to, all the elements that make up the visual appearance, graphic image and other sensory stimuli of the different webpages of the WEBSITE, that is, the "look and feel," brands, logotypes, trade names, texts, reviews and comments, images, graphics, designs, sounds, databases, software, flowcharts, presentation, navigation architecture, as well as the source codes of the different webpages) belong to ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE and/or to a third party that has ceded its rights.

For that purpose, we consider WEBPAGES all those creations included and expressed by any means and/or tangible or intangible medium, known or unknown, which are the object of protection under the current regulations in force regarding industrial and intellectual property rights.

The total or partial visualization, printing, downloading or temporary storage of the contents and/or elements inserted in the WEBSITE, or in the pages that make it up, is permitted, provided it is for a personal, private or non-commercial use and the origin and/or author is mentioned or, failing that, the copyright symbol and/or notes of industrial property of ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE are clearly legible.

In no case does access to the WEBSITE imply any kind of permission, relinquishment, transmission, or total or partial assignment of said rights by their owners, except where express requisite authorization has been granted. These General Conditions of Use of the WEBSITE do not confer USERS any other right different from those foreseen and expressed in this Legal Notice to use, alter, exploit, reproduce, distribute or diffuse publicly the WEBSITE and/or the contents. Any other use or exploitation of any right is subject to the express prior written permission from authorized personnel of ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE and/or any applicable third-party rights holder.

It is strictly forbidden to use any elements, including total or partial reproduction, distribution and/or diffusion, for commercial purposes. It is also strictly forbidden to change, alter, dismantle and/or in any other way manipulate or exploit the WEBSITE, its pages and/or the contents inserted in them. These misconducts could give rise to the exercise of whatever legal or extrajudicial action may concern ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE in the exercise of its rights.

IESE, IESE Insight and IESE Publishing are registered trademarks. Any reproduction, imitation, use or insertion of these trademarks without our permission is prohibited.

EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In no event shall ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE be held responsible for damages of any nature that might arise from errors or omissions in contents, lack of availability of the WEBSITE, or transmission of viruses or malicious or damaging programs in the contents, despite taking all necessary technological measures to avoid them.

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE does not guarantee the accuracy, truthfulness or validity of the content, information, articles, opinions, offers and other elements of this web site, whether its own, produced by third parties, or linkable to other websites, and is completely released from any responsibility arising from the use of said content.

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE does not guarantee the correct functioning of our websites in terms of continuing availability. Consequently, ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE shall be exempt from any liability arising from the malfunction or interruption of our websites.

Any action by the USER in relation to our portal that leads to an overload of our computer systems and any attempt to introduce viruses or install robots or other software that alters the normal functioning of our websites is prohibited.

The USER assumes full responsibility for the USER's use of our websites, having sole responsibility for any direct or indirect effect such use may have on the websites, including, without limitation, any adverse financial, technical or legal effect, as well as any disappointment of the expectations generated by our portals, and undertakes to hold ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE harmless from any and all claims arising directly or indirectly from such effects.

The USER acknowledges that the USER has understood all the information regarding the terms of use of our portals, and acknowledges that said terms are sufficient to prevent misunderstanding, and so fully and expressly accepts them.

The USER is fully aware that mere browsing of this web site, or use of its services, implies acceptance of these terms of use.

LINKS

If, in the WEBSITE, there are links or hyperlinks to other sites on the Internet, ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE will not exercise any control over those sites and contents. In no event shall ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE be held responsible for the contents of any link belonging to someone else's website. ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE will not guarantee the technical availability, quality, reliability, accuracy, range, veracity, validity and constitutionality of any material or information contained in any of those hyperlinks or other sites on the Internet. Likewise, the inclusion of these external connections does not imply any association, merger or participation with the entities connected.

USERS will be able to make links or hyperlinks to the ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE WEBSITE provided that they fulfill the following criteria in accordance with these General Conditions of Use and the applicable laws. All websites or services linking to the ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE WEBSITE must fulfill the following conditions:

· It is allowed to link to pages of ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE where it is not necessary to register.

· The link must not imply, and must not be open to misinterpretation, that IESE supports or endorses the products, services, website or titleholder of the linked website.

· It must not falsify, distort or alter the true relationship, if one exists, with ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE or present wrong information about ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE.

· The linking website must not infringe any intellectual property right, or any right of any other nature, or break any legal requirement announced by the legislation currently in force.

· The sites, services or products must not have any content opposed to moral or public order. Moreover, that content must not be defamatory, illegal, obscene or offensive.

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE reserves the right to protect its own interests if the above mentioned terms and conditions are broken, and ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE could order, if necessary, that the link be eliminated.

COOKIES

We hereby inform you that we use cookies with the sole purpose of shaping and improving our relationship with the USER and adapting to the technological aids of the USER. The USER can configure the web browser to be informed about the reception or rejection of cookies in the hard disk. For further information, please consult your browser instructions.

RIGHT OF EXCLUSION

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE reserves the right to refuse or withdraw access to the WEBSITE and/or services offered without prior notice, at the initiative of itself or a third party, to any USER who breaches these General Conditions of Use.

CHANGE AND VALIDITY OF THESE CONDITIONS

ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE can modify these conditions at any time, being duly disclosed in the present notice. The validity of such conditions will depend on their exhibition, and they will be valid until they are modified by other conditions duly disclosed.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

The relationship between ESTUDIOS Y EDICIONES IESE, S.L. and the USER is subject to current Spanish regulations. To resolve any controversy or dispute, both parties submit to the Junta Arbitral de Consumo de Cataluña (Consumer Arbitration Board of Catalonia), which is in charge of designating the arbitrator or arbitrators and managing the arbitration process. If arbitration is not executed by joint agreement or is declared null and void, or when findings need to be executed, both parties will submit to the courts and tribunals of Barcelona, relinquishing expressly their own jurisdiction if necessary.

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