Rules of use
Comment policy
We are looking forward to hearing from you as this is the objective of this blog. However, in order to make it useful for everybody, please try to make your comments on one solely topic at the same time and already raised in a post of the blog.
We also ask you in your comments to be courteous, polite and avoid rude and unfruitful remarks. More specifically, we request you to avoid obscene, racist, offensive or sexually explicit, inappropriate comments or similar.
For your information, Telefónica will systematically review all comments posted in this blog before they are made public and we reserve our right to reject or ban comments if we consider these to be irrelevant and not in line with our Blog content.
All decisions on content posting, rejection and removal are entirely at the discretion of Telefónica.
We reserve the right to ban future posts from commenter’s who repeatedly violate our Comment Policy and we may effect such bans by refusing posts from specific email addresses or IP addresses, or through other means as necessary.
Because we review comments, they do not appear immediately. Please do not resubmit comments more than once.
We also require — but will not publish — your valid e-mail address before posting a comment to our Blog. Your name and entire comment will be public. Do not post private information or any information you do not want to be publicly available.
One final note: If you have an issue with a Telefónica service that requires support from Customer Care, please visit your Telefónica Customer Support in the country where you are a customer or send us a mail. We are happy to help you, but support issues are beyond the scope and purpose of this Blog.
Disclaimer/Terms of use
This Blog is offered to you on your acceptance on these Terms of use. Telefonica reserves the right, at its sole discretion and at anytime, to modify, add or remove any terms or conditions of these Terms of use without notice or liability to you. Any changes to these Terms of use shall be effectively immediately following the posting of such changes on this Blog. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of this Blog constitutes your agreement to the Terms.
Most of the individuals posting to this Blog, including the moderators, are Telefónica employees.
Comments or opinions expressed by Telefónica employees on this Blog are their personal opinions and not necessarily those of the Company.
The views expressed by outside contributors, whether in comments or in material linked from the Blog, do not represent the views of Telefónica, its management or its employees. Telefónica assumes no responsibility for such content and Telefónica shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages arising out of your use of this Blog.
If you wish to know the institutional Company position, please contact our Communication Department.
Telefónica reserves the right, at any time, to modify and discontinue, either temporarily or permanently, the Blog or any part thereof, with or without notice. You acknowledge and agree that Telefónica shall not be responsible to you or to any third party for modification or discontinuance of the Blog.
This Blog is available to the public. No information you consider confidential should be posted to this Blog.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the content of all information you contribute, link to, upload, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Blog, and you release Telefónica from any liability related to your use of the Blog.
You also grant Telefónica a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, transferable (including rights to sublicense) right and license to exercise all copyright, publicity, and moral rights with respect to any content you provide.
By transmitting, uploading, posting or submitting any information or material to the Blog, you (i) represent that such information is not confidential, secret, or proprietary information belonging to someone else; (ii) warrant that no other party has rights to the information and that your transmission, posting, upload, or submission of the information does not violate copyright or other laws; (iii) represent and warrant that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, (iv) you agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information; (v) you further agree not to post advertisements or solicitations of business. You will indemnify and hold Telefónica harmless of for any and all claims resulting from the consent you supply.
We reserve the right to refuse discussion on any topics, in our sole discretion, including but not limited to confidential or proprietary topics.
The content on this Blog is intended for informational and non-commercial use only. Posts of a commercial nature designed to promote a service or product will be deleted.
While we encourage you to link to content on this Blog, no content on the Blog may be otherwise copied, reproduced or disseminated in any manner. Unauthorized reproduction of content from this Blog is strictly prohibited.
While we review material before posting links, Telefónica is not responsible for, nor do we control, the content of third-party Websites.
If you believe that any content posted to this Website violates your intellectual property rights, please provide written notice to Telefónica at this mail and Telefónica shall review the content an inmediately eliminate it from the Blog.
Legal notice
TELEFÓNICA S.A. advises users of the Telefónica Public Policy Blog that the companies comprising the TELEFÓNICA S.A. Group abide by current Spanish legislation on matters of personal data protection, users’ privacy and the secrecy and security of personal data, as provided in Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December, governing Personal Data Protection and in Royal Decree 1720/2007, of 21 December, which approve the Regulations that develop Organic Law 15/1999, by adopting the necessary technical and organisational measures to avoid the loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorised access or theft of the personal data provided, taking into account the state of the technology used, the nature of the data and the risks to which it is exposed.
Specifically, TELEFÓNICA S.A. informs users of its Blog that personal data can only be obtained for processing if they are appropriate, pertinent, and not excessive for the determined area and ends, explicit and legitimate, for which they were obtained. They will be cancelled when they are no longer necessary or pertinent for these ends, or when their owner requests they be cancelled.
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- The obligatory or optional nature of the replies to any questions which may be asked, and the consequences of obtaining data or the refusal to supply them.
- The possibility of exercising the right to access, correct, cancel and oppose this data.
- Name and address of those responsible for data processing.
All responsibility for the completion of forms with false, inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information shall be that of the user.
Any transfer of the personal data of users of this portal to third parties shall be duly communicated to those affected, specifying the identity of the recipients of the data and the uses to which they will be put.
