General Terms and Conditions
www.hoobing.com is an internet domain, whose proprietor is the commercial society HOOBING HOTEL INTERACTIVE SOLUTIONS, S.L., having its registered office in the city of Barcelona, PO Box, 08008, calle Provença, number, 242, entresòl, 3ª, with CIF number. B-64.791.742, and registered in the Mercantile Register of Barcelona, Book 40258, Page 0178, Sheet 361218, Inscription 1ª (hereinafter, HOOBING).
www.hoobing.com is a directory/ search engine for the exclusive use of hotels or hotel chains equipped with an internal booking engine in their official website. Therefore the website www.hoobing.com is addressed to:
a) Hotels or hotel chains wishing to contract a space in the portal with the aim to obtain public presence in the same (hereinafter, HOTEL);
b)Potential users, hotel customers. The mentioned will as well have an interactive participation in the website www.hoobing.com through their register by means of the form “HOOBING USER”, located in the website (hereinafter, PRIVATE USER).
1) GENERAL CONDITIONS
These General Terms and Conditions regulate the operation of the services of the website www.hobbing.com that HOOBING offers to the users –both HOTEL and PRIVATE USER. The use of the web site attributes the condition of user in general and means the complete user’s acceptance, without any reserves of all General Conditions. If the general user does not agree with these General Conditions then the user is not authorized to use this website www.hobbing.com. Likewise, the visit to the website www.hobbing.com and the use of its services mean the acceptance of the present General Conditions. Every time the user contracts, depending on if it is an HOTEL or a PRIVATE USER, any of the services offered by the web site www.hobbing.com it will be under the PRIVATE CONTRACTING CONDITIONS and/or THE APPLICABLE LEGAL NOTICES. The user will be requested to read carefully the present General Conditions, Private Contracting Conditions and to provide a proof of acceptance of the same.
www.hobbing.com is a directory / search engine of hotels and hotel chains which are in possession of an own booking engine in their official website. All information related to room availability, prices and offers is provided by the Hotel or publicized through its website. Hoobing informs its users that the bookings are carried out directly with the hotel. Hoobing does not intervene at any moment in the booking process and does not have access to the data provided by users carrying out this process, being Hoobing a search engine, a mere informative tool about hotel accommodations, prices, offers and opinions from other users, aiming to facilitate the election of the user following his/her preferences or needs.
Likewise, Hoobing brings to its users the possibility to share opinions and reviews about the hotels with the rest of the community of users, through the insertion of contents, data, text, information, pictures…
2) FREE ACCESS AND USE OF THE WEBSITE
The service provided by Hoobing to the general user is free and does not require a previous inscription or registration. Nevertheless, user registration is only requested whenever the general user carries out a query regarding the website www.hobbing.com or when any of the services offered in the website is contracted, this case falls within the category of HOTEL or PRIVATE USER. In these cases the general user shall proceed to fill in the corresponding on-line form, exclusively provided either to carry out a private query or to formalize the contract of any of the offered services. The service contract form is governed by its own Private Terms and Condition and/or Legal Notice for Private Data Protection.
Liability. The User will be the only responsible for the access data and identification (username and password, these data are private and non-transferable, the user is responsible in all security and confidentiality issues), on his/her behalf or in representation of a third party, as well as for the actions, messages, communications or statements sent from his/her account. The user will be as well the only responsible for the utilization of the service and for the contents included in the comments he/she sends.
HOOBING will not be responsible or liable for any statements, comments, information, photographic and video contents, links… provided by the Users (personal data, links, comments, etc), being HOOBING exempted of all responsibility for the actions, demands, and/ or claims relating the said contents and data, given that HOOBING does not have the means to ensure the identity of the registered users, nor the truthfulness of the provided data and information.
HOOBING assumes the statements, reports, comments, pictures or any other content provided by the User are entirely responsibility of the same, and HOOBING assumes that the User owns the rights regarding the Copyright of the provided contents, or otherwise has the permission of the owners of the said rights.
The User commits himself not to provide obscene contents, contents which could go against the law or constitute a crime or could result offensive for the rest of the users. HOOBING reserves the right to remove any content that could constitute a breach of these criteria. Likewise, we inform that HOOBING could cancel your account to access the website if it detects any breach of the regulations that govern the operation of the said.
HOOBING informs about the possibility to upload pictures and videos. More info .
3) MODIFICATIONS IN THE WEBSITE OR IN THE PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES
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4)CORRECT USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES
The General user is committed to utilize the website, the contents and the services according to the Regulations, and to the present General Conditions, to the good manners and the public order. Likewise, the general user is committed not to utilize the website www.hoobing.com, its contents or its services with illegal purposes or against these General Terms and Conditions, damaging for the interests or rights of third parties, or that could in any way damage, render useless, overload or deteriorate the website, its contents, its services or interfere in the normal usage or enjoyment of the website by other users.
The User shall refrain himself from obtaining information, messages, graphics, drawings, audio/video files, pictures, software or, in general, any kind of content accessible through the website or the services, using for that purpose means different to those provided or, in general, different to those commonly used on the internet.
The general user shall refrain himself from manipulating identification data of the HOOBING concept, as well as the contents and services offered in the website www.hoobing.com.
The general user shall refrain himself from manipulating the technical devices for data and information protection and, in general the configuration of the website www.hoobing.com.
HOOBING reserves the right to deny the access to the website www.hoobing.com, in any moment and without necessity of a previous notice to those users which do not comply with these General Terms and Conditions or with the Private Contract Conditions derived from the application at every moment.
5) HANDLING OF DATA PROVIDED BY THE GENERAL USER
Whenever the general user provides HOOBING with his personal data, he/she consents in the handling of the same in the following terms and conditions detailed below.
HOOBING will handle and incorporate the data provided by the general user in a file created for that specific purpose to manage the contract of the services listed in the website www.hoobing.com by the general user, as well as to attend all those queries related directly to the website www.hoobing.com that the general user may carry out by means of a form. Likewise, and with previous express consent from the general user, HOOBING will be in position to utilize the data provided by the general user to keep him/her informed about new services provided by the entity. According to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (LOPD), the data collected in the form will be used solely for the described purposes. If the general user does not wish to receive information or wishes to exercise his/her rights to access, edit and cancel the data contained in the said file, please notify it through an email to the address lopd@hoobing.com. You will have also the option to exercise the said rights by regular post to HOOBING, address carrer Provença, 242, 3ª, Barcelona, 08008 indicating the reference "Protección de datos Hoobing.com". In both cases, the general user must provide documentation confirming his/her identity.
The general user grants his express and unequivocal consent to communicate his/her data to third party companies for the fulfilling of purposes directly related to the legitimate functions of HOOBING and the third party company, with the aim to better manage the doubt or query carried out by the general user, as well as the contracting of any of the services publicized in the website www.hoobing.com.
HOOBING guarantees that your data will be handled confidentially. Likewise the server where the data will be stored and handled has the necessary security measures to stop non-authorized access to the said data. More info.
6) WARRANTY AND LIABILITY
HOOBING does not control or guarantee the absence of virus or any other dangerous elements in the contents which may alter your software or hardware, or the electronic documentation and files stored in your computer. HOOBING is relieved from any liability for the damages of any kind that may be attributed to the presence of virus or other malicious elements in the contents which may cause alterations in your computerized system, electronic documentation or user files.
HOOBING will do its best to guarantee the security of the information provided by users. Nevertheless, HOOBING cannot guarantee a completely risk-free information transfer.
The general user is aware of the fact that in the www environment security cannot be guaranteed 100% notwithstanding all pertinent protection security levels and the installation of all means and technical measures within reach to avoid data loss, misusage, alteration, non-authorized access and steal of the provided data.
HOOBING is relieved from any responsibility for the damages of any kind which may arise from a lack of truthfulness, accuracy, reliability and/or updating in the contents of the website www.hoobing.com.
HOOBING informs its users about the IP addresses storage in accordance with the “artículo 12 of La Ley the Servicios de la Sociedad de la información y el Comercio Electrónico”. Likewise, HOOBING informs that any illegal usage carried out in the website will be notified to the competent authorities, who will be provided with the user‘s connection data in the case these are requested by a judicial organization.
7) COPYRIGHT, INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
All contents included in the website www.hoobing.com are exclusively and globally owned by HOOBING, including, with no limitations, all graphic design, logos, images, illustrations, pictures, brands and other distinctive signs, in any of the existing or future programming languages, as well as all the operative and development software of the website. Reproduction, distribution, communication to the public, transfer and any other act or exploitation modality which has not been expressly authorized by the owner of the exploitation rights are strictly prohibited.
HOOBING does not grant any license or authorization of any kind over its intellectual and industrial property rights or over any other property or right related to the website, and the offered products and services.
In the case of data or contents provided by thye user of the website www.hoobing.com, the user grants HOOBING the non-exclusive right, free of author rights and/or industrial property, perpetually, irrevocably and completely transferable to third parties, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derived services, distribute and exhibit the said contents and comments all over the world and on any media. The user will also grant HOOBING and his authorized agents the rights to use the name associated to the said contents or comments, if this exists, regarding the said content or comment.
If any of the contents included in this website is deemed be a breach of the laws of the copyright, please notify it through the email address info@hoobing.com to proceed to the removal of the said content.
All brands and service denominations displayed in the website www.hoobing.com are registered brands and property of HOOBING. In the rest of the cases these are brands licensed by their legitimate owners.
8) LINKS
HOOBING is not responsible for those other websites or archives impossible to access by means of hypertext links included among the comments and other contents provided by the users; given that these linked pages will be in any case provided by the own users of the website, and are responsibility of their respective owners. Therefore this website, neither approves, nor appropriates the products, services, contents, information, data, archives and any other kind of existing content in those websites or archives. HOOBING does not control and is not responsible of the quality, legality, reliability and accuracy of the information and contents included in the linked sites, which are alien to this website.
9)BROWSING WITH COOKIES
Whenever you visit www.hoobing.com,, one or more cookies– a small file containing a chain of characters - are sent to your computer, these identify your browser in a singular way. Cookies used by HOOBING in its website www.hoobing.com are useful to keep open the user’s session, so the presence of cookies will only be useful tio associate an user’s session with a specific user with the purpose to better satisfy the services requested by the user. Most browsers are initially installed with a configuration that accepts cookies but you can adjust them to reject them or to warn the user whenever a cookie is sent. Nevertheless, it is possible that some of the functions and services offered by HOOBING may not work properly if the cookies are disabled or rejected.
10)APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
The present Terms and Conditions, as well as any relationship between you as user and HOOBING, will be governed by the Spanish Regulations.
Regarding any dispute derived from the existence or content of these General Terms and Conditions or which may arise from the relationships between the User and HOOBING, both parties, with express renounce to any other Regulations which may be applicable, are expressly subject to the exclusive competence of the Court of the City of Barcelona, to the extent permitted by the Law.
