Legal notice

Introduction

At YouCanQuoteME, we are committed to fully respecting legal regulations and strictly adhering to legislation, both in audiovisual matters and in copyright, freedom of expression, the right to dignity and privacy, as well as data protection (the well-known Organic Law on Data Protection). Therefore, YouCanQuoteME informs you of the following:

Any internet user who accesses this website becomes a user and, therefore, accepts the terms of this legal notice. YouCanQuoteME allows any user to use this website freely and without charge, provided that the user acknowledges their responsibility for its use and agrees to use the website in accordance with the law, adhering to this legal notice. Simply accessing this website confers user status upon the visitor, and it is assumed that they are aware of the website’s legal terms. Any user who does not agree with the terms set forth herein should leave this website.

Legal Protection

YouCanQuoteME is governed by Spanish state regulations regarding all website functionality, content, and data protection. Any legal matter is subject to Spanish courts and jurisprudence, without prejudice to applicable European or international regulations.

Legal Conditions

The content of this website aims to respect morality and the free, secure, and respectful communication of public information. Any comments or information posted on this website that are offensive, defamatory, or disproportionately slanderous or libelous will be removed.

YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for the content, comments, or information provided by internet users on this website, nor for publications containing information, data, or works in the public domain.

YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for what you may do with the information and links on this website.

Use of this website is for personal, non-commercial purposes. You are not authorized to modify, copy, distribute, transmit, disclose, use, reproduce, publish, license, assign, sell, or create derivative works from any information, software, products, or services obtained from this website that are under license, copyright, or similar rights. All content free of licenses and rights may be used freely. Users are also informed that while accessing this website, they may be presented with advertising, promotional materials, offers, discounts, promotions, surveys, etc., under no obligation on their part to consume or contract the services or products presented. It should be noted that this free website may be self-funded through these services.

YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for the use of the website by minors, even though it does not contain any material exclusively suitable for adults. However, due to the large amount of information provided, it is impossible to guarantee this aspect. It should be noted that minors may post on YouCanQuoteME, as this website does not contain material unsuitable for minors. However, we recommend that users access this website in the presence of adults or legal guardians. The website’s webmaster constantly monitors the content, immediately removing any material that may violate any of the website’s terms and conditions outlined in this legal notice. To report inappropriate content, please contact the website administrators via email.

YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for any damage caused by misuse of the website, whether in software or hardware format, including corrupted files, viruses, Trojans, worms, etc., that are not directly related to this website and are affected simply by browsing the web.

YouCanQuoteME is managed and hosted on paid hosting services. It is acknowledged that the security of browsing and data access is the responsibility of the hosting provider, who guarantees it according to their terms of service.

You agree not to carry out any of the actions indicated below:

  • Including, distributing, or otherwise publishing on this website any message, data, information, text, or other material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, contrary to the rights of honor or image, abusive, intrusive, or otherwise objectionable is prohibited.
  • Including, inserting, editing, or otherwise publishing on this website comments related to the content that present information, data, or other elements that do not comply with the Organic Law on Data Protection (LOPD) is also prohibited. You are responsible for the comments you may publish on this website, whether anonymously or with a low profile (any comment that does not comply with this point will be deleted. This also applies to the previous and subsequent points). Including or transmitting any content that constitutes or incites a crime, infringes the rights of any party, or otherwise creates liability or violates any local, state, national, or international law.
  • Including or transmitting any content that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other industrial or intellectual property right of any party. By including any content, you represent and warrant that you have the right to distribute and reproduce such content.
  • Impersonating any person or entity or misleading others about your affiliation with a person or entity; and in any way contravening, disparaging, or infringing upon fundamental rights and public freedoms recognized in the Constitution, international treaties, and other applicable laws. Induce, incite, or promote criminal, denigrating, defamatory, slanderous, violent, pornographic, or generally unlawful acts, or acts contrary to morality, generally accepted good customs, or public order.
  • Induce, incite, or promote discriminatory acts, attitudes, or ideas based on sex, race, religion, beliefs, age, or condition.
  • Include messages that are criminal, violent, pornographic, degrading, or generally unlawful, or contrary to morality, generally accepted good customs, or public order.
  • Induce or may induce an unacceptable state of anxiety or fear.
  • Induce or incite involvement in dangerous, risky, or harmful practices for health and mental well-being.
  • Be false, ambiguous, inaccurate, exaggerated, or untimely, in such a way that they may mislead regarding their subject matter or the intentions or purposes of the communicator.
  • They are protected by any intellectual or industrial property rights belonging to third parties, without the user having previously obtained the necessary authorization from the rights holders to carry out the use they are making or intend to make.
  • They violate the trade secrets of third parties.
  • They are contrary to the right to honor, personal and family privacy, or one’s own image.
  • They infringe regulations on the confidentiality of communications.
  • They constitute, where applicable, illegal, misleading, or unfair advertising and, in general, constitute unfair competition.
  • Due to their characteristics (such as format, size, etc.), they cause difficulties in the normal operation of the service.

The owner of this website is not responsible for any potential data loss, regardless of the cause. YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for the content collected and published on this website, as its maintenance is not guaranteed due to its free nature. It should be noted that the philosophy of this website is to maintain the published material indefinitely, with backups being made to keep all information online, although this is not subject to any obligation on the part of the website provider.

We may investigate any reported violation of our policies or complaints and take any appropriate action we deem necessary. Such action may include, but is not limited to, issuing warnings, suspending or canceling the service, and/or removing the included content. We reserve the right to remove, display, or edit any content that violates these stipulations or is otherwise objectionable. We also reserve the right to report any activity we suspect violates any law or regulation to the appropriate officials or regulators.

YouCanQuoteME will not accept third-party links that do not comply with the terms of this legal notice. The use of this website for illegal purposes or purposes that do not comply with the terms of this legal notice is also prohibited.

YouCanQuoteME reserves the right to modify the terms, conditions, and communications under which this website is offered. Likewise, it reserves the right to discontinue the service for maintenance, software repair, updates, or website migration. YouCanQuoteME has the full and exclusive right to terminate the service and delete the website, as well as all published material, without any repercussions or harm to the authors who have published their works, who have assigned their rights and are aware that the service is free of charge and offered altruistically with the sole intention of promoting the works online, not for commercial or any other purpose.

For resolving problems or questions related to the website, for information requests, or to request advertising, please contact the webmaster at the following email address: contact@youcanquote.me

Publishing on YouCanQuoteME

YouCanQuoteME offers all its users the opportunity to publish their works (thoughts, quotes, poems, etc.) free of charge and without any compensation from YouCanQuoteME. Anyone publishing on YouCanQuoteME must agree to the following legal terms:

  • The rights (if any) to works published on YouCanQuoteME by amateur, professional, or any other type of author are fully assigned to YouCanQuoteME for indefinite publication.
    The works will remain the property of their authors, although the full rights of use will be assigned to YouCanQuoteME indefinitely or until YouCanQuoteME decides to discontinue publishing the work for justified reasons.
  • Published works must comply with this legal notice and, above all, must not promote socially harmful behaviors such as hatred, xenophobia, racism, or any other content that incites violence, suicide, or similar situations or actions.
  • YouCanQuoteME reserves the exclusive right to accept or reject submitted works for publication, and is under no obligation to inform authors of the reasons for rejection (although, out of courtesy, every effort will be made to provide accurate and justified explanations).
  • To publish a work, the author must complete the publication form and provide all the requested information. Missing information or providing insufficient context will result in rejection.
  • All works must adhere to the following technical specifications:
    • Word count: maximum 250
    • Total character count (including spaces and punctuation): maximum 1,500
  • YouCanQuoteME protects all publications on www.frasea.me under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (attribution to the author, no modifications, commercial use, and the right to copy and share): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
  • Works may be copied, keeping in mind the purpose and functionality of this website, which is solely the publication and dissemination of literary works. Please note that various works may be protected by copyright, which has been assigned to YouCanQuoteME solely for publication and distribution. Therefore, any copying, editing, or other processing of copyrighted works without YouCanQuoteME’s express written consent will be the sole responsibility of the person doing so, and YouCanQuoteME will be excluded from any liability.

For more in-depth information on the technical and specific aspects of publishing your works, we recommend consulting our dedicated FAQ section.

Data Protection Policy

YouCanQuoteME informs you that it complies with Organic Law 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data (LOPD) and Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and Guarantee of Digital Rights, and does not collect, accumulate, archive, store, memorize, or manage personal data protected under the aforementioned law. Therefore, personal data revealing ideology, trade union membership, religion, beliefs, racial or ethnic origin, or sexual life will never be published (if published in comments, they will be deleted upon detection by the webmaster). These matters are especially protected (Art. 7.2 of the aforementioned Law) as they constitute the core of the individual’s most intimate sphere of privacy, which we will never infringe upon nor allow to be infringed. Under no circumstances is it permitted to publish personal data of individuals or legal entities that are protected under the LOPD. All personal data published is done so with the express consent of its owner. Only first and last names are published, without any further information that could reveal or expand data protected by the Spanish Data Protection Act (LOPD).

YouCanQuoteME does not maintain any personal data files; no data will be published, stored, or collected in any database or file. YouCanQuoteME will not use personal data for any activity, nor will it manage or sell data under any circumstances. Any data that could be considered personal but was not provided by its owner (published in comments) will be completely removed from the website and its files if necessary.

When you contact YouCanQuoteME by email, this communication channel is used solely to answer questions or other inquiries from users. Email will never be used for promotion, advertising, publicity, or any other matter unrelated to the email received from the user. If there is no response to the email received, no reply will be sent. Similarly, YouCanQuoteME does not guarantee a response to emails received, nor the usefulness or reliability of the information provided, which is always subject to the website’s legal terms and conditions. All email contact content will be deleted from any data management system and will only be collected for the sole purpose of managing and responding to inquiries, with the sender’s authorization.

Comments

YouCanQuoteME may use comments to enrich the information and allow users to express themselves, expand on the information, or comment on each post. YouCanQuoteME manages comments from its own interface or from external applications and services. Therefore, YouCanQuoteME is not responsible for the management of personal data (when managed by third parties) and has no access to the data collected when comments are posted. Any communication related to this type of data should be directed to the service provider, whose contact information appears next to the comment box.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with its principal office at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information on our behalf to track your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the processing of data or information by rejecting the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of information about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Advertising or Tracking Cookies

These cookies are used to show you ads that may be relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.

They are installed by our advertising network partners and help fund our investment in the websites, allowing us to keep our prices as low as possible. They may also be used to show you relevant ads on other websites you visit.

The cookies they install may change from time to time, so instead of listing them, we identify the companies themselves.

Disabling Cookies: If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you can take steps to disable their installation, as well as change your browser settings to block certain types of cookies.

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Google AdSense

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this website. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. Google uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce Act

In compliance with Article 10 of Law 34/2002, of July 11, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce, the identifying information of the website owner and/or administrators is provided below: Owner and webmaster: MonCedo Initiative; 1312BCN00164 (IDFra); city/province: Girona (Spain); Contact us via email at: contact@youcanquote.me

Intellectual Property

The source code, graphic designs, logos, icons, images, photographs, sounds, animations, software, texts, as well as the information and content found on www.youcanquote.me, youcanquote.me, and its associated sites are protected by Spanish and international intellectual and industrial property laws. The reproduction and/or publication, in whole or in part, of the website, its processing, distribution, dissemination, modification, transformation, or decompilation, as well as any other rights legally recognized to its owner, are prohibited without prior written permission.

It should be noted that virtually all the material displayed on the website is copyright-free (please inform the webmaster of any copyright infringement), as indicated in the footer regarding Creative Commons intellectual property rights (the sole intellectual property protection entity managed by YouCanQuoteME). Please note that if copyright protection exists, the author grants these rights to YouCanQuoteME for publication and distribution via the internet. Works without copyright protection will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (attribution of author, no modification, commercial use, and copying and sharing permitted): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/