Legal Notice, Privacy Policy and Attributions

On this page you can read about our legal notice (uses, limitations, rights and duties) regarding the use of the website and the protection of personal data (methods, limitations, rights) that we perform in DIY-Pallet-Furniture.com. Also the attributions to authors that collaborated with this website through free icons and media we are using in it. 

Table of Contents

Part One: Legal Notice

Below you can read information about the rights and obligations you have to comply with when using our website.

INTRODUCTION

This Legal Notice is intended to inform you of your rights and obligations as a user of this website. Here you will find all the information you need about this website, its activity, the personal data it collects and its purpose, as well as the rules of use that regulate the use of this website.

When you access this website (https://DIY-pallet-furniture.com), you assume the condition of user, so the content of this Legal Notice affects you directly. Therefore, it is important that you read it to dispel any doubts you may have and to be aware of the conditions you are accepting.

To begin with, you should know that this website complies with current data protection regulations, with the aim of providing you with the guarantees, security and transparency that, as a user, you are entitled to when using this website.

  • The RGPD (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons) which is the new European Union regulation that unifies the regulation of the processing of personal data in the different EU countries.
  • The LOPD (Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December, on the Protection of Personal Data and Royal Decree 1720/2007, of 21 December, the Regulations for the development of the LOPD) which regulates the processing of personal data and the obligations that those responsible for a website or blog must assume when managing this information.
  • The LSSI (Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce) which regulates economic transactions by electronic means, as in the case of this blog.

IDENTIFICATION DATA

The responsible and owner of this website is Xevi Baena.

The owner’s contact details are:

Activity of the website: Content and information on how to proceed with the construction of furniture, pieces of furniture and various objects with pallets, as well as information on safety and tips on how to build furniture with recycled pallets.

The data you provide us with your consent, and in accordance with the use established in our Privacy Policy, will be incorporated into an automated file duly registered with the Spanish Data Protection Agency, in which the person responsible for the file is: Xevi Baena. This means that your data is safe, in accordance with the law.

RULES OF ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE

As a user of our website, you also have a series of obligations:

  • You may not use this website to carry out activities contrary to the law, morality, public order and, in general, to use it in accordance with the conditions set out in this Legal Notice.
  • You may not carry out advertising or commercial exploitation activities by sending messages using a false identity.
  • You will be solely responsible for the truthfulness and accuracy of the content you enter on this website and for the personal data you provide for the purposes set out in our Privacy Policy.
  • You will also be solely responsible for carrying out any type of illegal, harmful, harmful and/or damaging action on third party sites to which we may refer you from this website for the development of our activity.
  • As the party responsible for the website, Xevi Baena may interrupt the service of the page being used by the user and immediately terminate the relationship if it detects any use of the website or any of the services offered on it that may be considered contrary to what is expressed in this Legal Notice.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

The whole of this website (text, images, trademarks, graphics, logos, buttons, software files, colour combinations, as well as the structure, selection, arrangement and presentation of its contents) is protected by the laws in force on Intellectual and Industrial Property, and its reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation is prohibited without the express permission of the website owners. Exempt from this protection are the logos, brands and designs from other authors, which we mention in the third part of this document.

As the owner of this website, Xevi Baena does not guarantee that the contents are accurate or free of error or that the free use of the same by users does not infringe the rights of third parties. The good or bad use of this page and its contents is the responsibility of the user.

Likewise, the reproduction, retransmission, copying, transfer or rebroadcasting, in whole or in part, of the information contained in the page, whatever its purpose and the means used for it, is prohibited without the prior authorisation of Xevi Baena.

LINKS

This website includes links to third party sites. The pages belonging to these third parties are not checked nor are they subject to continuous controls by us, so Xevi Baena cannot be held responsible for the contents of these third party websites, nor for the measures adopted in relation to your privacy or the treatment of your personal data or any other data that may arise.

We therefore recommend that you carefully read the conditions of use, privacy policy, legal notices and/or similar of these sites.

AFFILIATION LINKS

This website, in accordance with its purpose, uses affiliate links.

This means that you will find links to products and services that you can access directly from our website but that, if applicable, you will purchase from another website, under its own conditions at that time.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In exercise of its right as owner of this website, we inform you that Xevi Baena is not responsible in any case for the following:

  • The quality of the service, the speed of access, the correct functioning or the availability or continuity of the functioning of the page.
  • The existence of viruses, malware, malicious or harmful programs in the contents.
  • A use of this website that is ilegal, negligent, fraudulent or contrary to this Legal Notice.
  • The lack of legality, quality, reliability, usefulness and availability of the services provided by third parties and made available to users on this website.
  • Damages that may arise from the illegal or improper use of this blog or website.

COOKIES POLICY

As we inform you as soon as you access our website, this site uses its own and third-party cookies in order to provide you with the best user experience and to develop our activity.

At any time, you will have the option to configure your browser to reject the use of these cookies which, in some cases, will affect your user experience.

To access full information on the use of cookies on this website, their purpose and their rejection, you can consult our COOKIES POLICY.

ADVERTISING NETWORK

This website has display ads inserted through the Google AdSense display network.

AdSense providers, including Google, use cookies to display relevant ads based on a user’s previous visits to your website or other websites (including this one).
The use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on users’ visits to their websites or other websites on the Internet.

Users can opt out of targeted advertising. To do so, you will need to go to Ad Preferences. Also, if you do not want third-party vendors to use cookies for targeted advertising, you should visit www.aboutads.info.

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION

This Legal Notice is subject to the legislation in force in EU territory.

If necessary, in the event of any legal dispute, Xevi Baena and the user, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction, shall submit to the Courts and Tribunals of the User’s domicile for any dispute that may arise.

In the event that the user’s address is outside Spain, Xevi Baena and the user shall submit to the courts and tribunals of Barcelona (Spain), expressly renouncing any other jurisdiction.

If you have any doubts about this Legal Notice, you can send us an e-mail to xevibaena@hotmail.com

Part Two: Privacy Policy

Below you can read about our privacy and data protection policy for users of our website.

INTRODUCTION

This website complies with current legislation on data protection, which means that, as a user, you must give your express consent before providing us with personal data through the various forms made available in the sections of our website.

To this end, for the sake of transparency and the exercise of your right, our duty is to inform you about the personal data we collect, store and process and for what purposes, having at any time the possibility to freely revoke your consent.

This Privacy Policy applies only to personal data collected on this website, and does not apply to information collected by third parties or other websites, even if these websites are linked to or embedded within DIY-pallet-furniture.com.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT THEM

We only collect data that you voluntarily give us when you contact us by telephone, email or contact form.

In addition, we may also need other information such as VAT number, ID number or postal address in the event that you contract our services and require an invoice.

In addition, when you visit our website, certain information is automatically stored for technical reasons, such as the IP address assigned by your Internet access provider.

PURPOSE OF COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

As stated in the regulations, the USER is informed that, through the contact forms or emails sent to us, data is collected and stored in a file for the sole purpose of communicating with the user. The fields marked as obligatory are essential for the purpose expressed.

The purpose of collecting this data is as follows:

  • The sale of services or products related to pallet furniture and furniture building to users and visitors.
  • The sale of products or services of third parties through affiliation.
  • The sale of products or services to companies in the furniture design and building niche.
  • Provision of content for blogs
  • Provision of web design services

COMMENTS

When visitors and users leave comments on the website (such as on our blog or place listings in our online directory), we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in the detection of spam and comments written by bots.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy for the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

MEDIA

If you upload images to the site you should avoid uploading images with location data (GPS EXIF) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

CONTACT FORMS

By means of the contact forms on our website, the user automatically and voluntarily submits personal data such as name, surname and e-mail address.

This data will only be used for communication with the user.

COOKIES

  • If you leave a comment on our site you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
    • These cookies will last for one year.
  • If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies.
    • This cookie does not contain any personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
  • When you log in, we will also set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen display options.
    • Login cookies last for two days, and display options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will last for two weeks.
    • If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.
  • If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited.
    • This cookie expires after 1 day.

For more information about cookies, please see our cookie policy.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles, pages and directory listings on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking from third parties, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

ANALYTICS

We use web analytics tools to help us better understand how users use our website. All data we collect through these services is completely anonymous.

The analytics tool we use is Google Analytics. For more information about the privacy policy of this tool you can visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH

We do not share your data with third parties, with the exception of our collaborators who help us to provide any of the services you contract with us.

In this case, you agree that we may occasionally share your information with third parties, for the purpose of negotiating our services and during or after the start of our professional collaboration.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognise and approve successive comments automatically rather than keeping them in a moderation queue that costs us a lot of time to clean-up.

For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.

We retain this information until the date specified in the regulations or until you request its deletion.

For such a request you can write to: hello@diy-pallet-furniture.com

WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have an account or have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an export file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA

Visitor comments may be reviewed by an automated spam detection service. We also have an encrypted and secure email service where all emails and communications you send to us are stored.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

  1. All our web traffic is encrypted by SSL certificate (secure connection) and we use secure passwords for access.
  2. The analytics tools we use are encrypted against data breaches, use SSL certificates and we use secure passwords for them.
  3. We use a powerful and professional hosting service that keeps our website secure and attack-proof and provides backups so that your data is not lost.

WHAT PROCEDURES DO WE USE AGAINST DATA BREACHES?

Our web storage system is operated by a specialised company, namely Loading.es.

Loading.es protects its clients’ data through its own security systems (in this case our data, and therefore also yours), although it cannot guarantee 100% that there will never be a personal data breach. In the event that such a breach is detected, they will contact us and if we deem it appropriate, we will contact you.

PUBLISHING POLICY OF THE SITE

DIY-pallet-furniture.com is planned and designed based on compliance with the following standards and code of ethics and professionalism:

  1. We are committed to providing information about building furniture and various objects with pallets, promoting the preservation of the natural environment and reducing waste.
  2. We advocate sustainable shopping based on the preservation of the planet, the reduction of waste and the reuse of objects.
  3. The information provided here is intended to help any person interested in building furniture and objects with pallets and reusing objects that in other situation would end up as trash.
  4. We want to provide an agile and attractive web environment for companies and businesses that are related with the DIY, construction, furniture building and furniture design, so that visitors can find their services easily and quickly.
  5. We defend the small local business and shops and all our website is designed to give these businesses a balanced and homogeneous visibility.
  6. You, as a user of the website, you also commit to promote sustainable shopping and promoting the reusing of objects, in this case, pallets.
  7. We reserve the right to remove any comment and / or assessment made by an external user unilaterally if we consider that it does not concern or goes against any of the above 6 points of this publishing policy.

Part three: attributions

We have used icons from designers that are freely available online but require attribution.

These attributions are: