Legal notice and terms of use

1. Who is who

This notice uses five words that sound alike and do not mean the same thing. It is worth being clear about them before reading on.

The Community is the residents' body that owns this website: [COMUNIDAD/ASOCIACIÓN — pendiente de acuerdo de junta]. It decides what is published and why personal data is processed.

The board is the Community's governing body (chair, secretary and members). It acts on the Community's behalf; it is not a separate party and does not answer separately.

The property-management firm is the professional agency hired for the day-to-day administration of the urbanisation. It neither provides nor administers this website, does not host it, does not decide its content and has no access to its data.

The resident volunteer is the person from the urbanisation who, voluntarily and free of charge, develops, hosts and maintains this website on the Community's instructions. He acts on the Community's behalf: he provides no service of his own, charges nothing and pursues no purpose of his own.

The user is anyone who visits the site, with or without an account. The private area is the part that requires an account; the public part is everything else.

2. Ownership and identification

This website is not an economic activity, so Article 10 of Spanish Act 34/2002 (LSSI-CE) does not apply to it. The Community publishes its identifying details anyway, for transparency and because it is good practice.

Owner: [COMUNIDAD/ASOCIACIÓN — pendiente de acuerdo de junta] · Tax ID: [VERIFICAR] · Address: [VERIFICAR], Vilamarxant (Valencia, Spain) · Contact e-mail: [email protected].

The [VERIFICAR] markers flag what the board must settle by resolution: the exact name of the owning body, its tax ID and its registered address. They are visible on purpose: this is a known gap, not an oversight.

Hosting: the website runs on a home server located in Spain, at the resident volunteer's home, and is published on the internet through the network of Cloudflare, Inc. (United States). There is no commercial hosting provider.

3. What this website is and what it is not

This website is a neighbourhood tool: a noticeboard and a set of utilities so that neighbours can stay informed, organise themselves and get in touch with one another. The Community pursues no commercial or profit-making purpose through it: it sells nothing, charges nothing for its use, carries no paid advertising and earns no income, direct or indirect.

The Community therefore takes the view that it does not provide an information society service «for remuneration», and that Act 34/2002 and Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 on digital services do not apply. Even so, it voluntarily applies their transparency and content-removal rules, because they are good practice and because they evidence diligence.

In the sections where neighbours deal with one another —car sharing, time bank, lost and found, «Wanted / Giving away / Swap», the book corner, the services directory, loans and exchanges— the Community is not a party to the agreement. It does not organise it, does not set prices or terms, does not charge or take part in any payment, does not check anyone's identity, solvency, licences, insurance or quality of work, does not hold objects or money, and does not guarantee the outcome. Each agreement is a private arrangement and claims must be addressed to the other party.

The «recommended by the board» label that may appear in the directory only means that someone in the community has used or suggested that service. It is not a guarantee, a certification or a professional recommendation, and it shifts no liability to the Community for the provider's work.

What is published here does not replace the official communications of the property-management firm or the resolutions of the general meeting, which are the only binding ones. In particular, publishing something here is not the notification under Article 9.1.h of the Horizontal Property Act, and the votes held in the private area are indicative polls, not resolutions.

4. Scope: public part and private area

The public part is informative and open to anyone. The private area is reserved for registered owners, residents and authorised family members, through a personal account.

Entering the private area requires expressly accepting its general terms and, before using each feature, the terms of that feature. Access credentials are personal and non-transferable: whoever receives them is responsible for keeping them safe.

5. Proper use and user obligations

Accessing and using the public part implies acceptance of this legal notice. The private area also requires express acceptance of its terms.

Users undertake to use the site lawfully and in good faith. In particular, they undertake not to impersonate anyone, not to attempt to reach restricted areas, not to interfere with the operation of the site, not to harvest content or other neighbours' data in bulk, and not to use the contact details they see here for any purpose other than the one they were published for: never for advertising, and never to spread them outside the community.

Data provided must be truthful, current and the user's own, and must be kept up to date.

Anyone who publishes something warrants that they are entitled to do so. If a third party claims against the Community because of content published by a user, that user shall be liable for the damage that content causes (Article 1902 of the Spanish Civil Code).

6. Minors

The private area is intended for adults. Underage family members of a registered person may be listed as authorised users and may use the facilities, but always under the responsibility of whoever holds parental authority or guardianship, who answers for their use of the site and for whatever they publish.

No accounts are opened for children under fourteen: below that age their data may only be processed with the consent of a parent or guardian (Article 7 of Organic Act 3/2018).

Images of identifiable minors may not be published without the written consent of both parents or guardians, and are not published in the part open to the internet even where such consent exists. Even with permission, the Community may decline to publish, or may remove, an image that could harm the child (Article 4.3 of Organic Act 1/1996). If you see an image of a child published without permission, report it through the channel in section 8: it will be removed immediately.

In the sections where neighbours deal with one another, minors may only take part accompanied by a responsible adult.

7. Content published by neighbours and third parties

Much of what you see here —adverts, journeys, service listings, artworks, stories, comments, ratings and photographs— is published by users. It is third-party content: the Community hosts it, it does not adopt it as its own.

Whoever posts it is solely responsible for its truthfulness, lawfulness and currency. The Community does not generally monitor what is published, but it does review before publication in the sections where this is stated (Art and The Memory) and removes anything unlawful or contrary to these terms as soon as it becomes aware of it.

It is forbidden to publish: other people's personal data without their permission; images of identifiable people without their consent; identity documents, bank cards, prescriptions or envelopes showing addresses; insults, threats or content attacking honour, privacy or one's own image; works protected by someone else's copyright; unauthorised advertising; and any unlawful content.

8. How to report content and how it is removed

Anyone —resident or not, with an account or without— may request the removal of content by writing to [email protected] with four things: the exact link where it appears, what the problem is, their name and contact details, and a statement that what they report is true and made in good faith.

The easiest way is the Ask for content to be removed form, which asks for those four things one by one and logs the request with its date; writing an email works just the same.

The Community undertakes to: acknowledge receipt within 24 hours; remove immediately and as a precaution, without prior legal analysis, content that is manifestly unlawful (images of minors without permission, intimate data, identity documents, insults or threats); and decide, with reasons, within 7 days in all other cases, keeping the content hidden while it decides.

Whoever published the content is notified and may respond within 7 days. If they stand by it, the content stays down and both parties remain free to pursue whatever route they see fit: the Community does not arbitrate disputes between private individuals.

Every report and every decision is logged with its date. The details of whoever published the content are not handed over to the complainant: they are handed over, where appropriate, to the judicial or police authority that requests them.

9. Intellectual property

The site's own texts, images, logos, emblem and other elements are protected by intellectual and industrial property rights. Neighbours may use and share their informative content within the community; exploiting them outside that scope without authorisation is prohibited.

What each neighbour publishes remains theirs. By publishing it they grant the Community a free, non-exclusive, revocable licence to reproduce, store, technically adapt (size and format) and display it on this website for as long as it remains published. Nothing is assigned exclusively, nor over future works, nor for creative transformation, nor for commercial use. Whoever publishes may request removal at any time.

Whoever publishes warrants that they are the author or have authorisation, and that any identifiable people shown have consented.

The software that runs this website is the work of the resident volunteer, who retains authorship (Articles 5 and 95 et seq. of the consolidated Spanish Intellectual Property Act) and has granted the Community a free, non-exclusive licence of unlimited duration to use it. The third-party libraries it uses keep their own licences.

Map imagery comes from its respective providers and is displayed with the attribution each of them requires.

10. Data protection

Which personal data is processed, why, on what legal basis, for how long, who receives it and how to exercise your rights is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of this legal notice.

In two lines: the data controller is the Community; the resident volunteer acts as processor on its behalf; and the property-management firm does not process this website's data.

The private area logs access to documentation for security and traceability, because the minutes record arrears with names (Article 19 of the Horizontal Property Act).

11. Cookies and connections to third parties

This website uses two cookies and no more, both strictly technical: one keeps your private-area session and the other remembers the language you chose. There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, which is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.

The third-party viewers on the wildfire page (Windy, Google traffic and the Blitzortung lightning map) do not load by themselves: they appear covered and only connect when you press their button, after telling you which provider it is, which country it is in and that it will receive your IP address. Your choice is remembered only for the current visit and is not stored in any cookie.

Maps do load when you open them, because they are the content itself: when you use them, your browser requests the imagery directly from OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, Esri, NASA GIBS and Copernicus EFFIS, and the wildfire page also queries the Open-Meteo forecast. All of them receive your IP address. Each map says so right underneath.

More detail in the Privacy Policy.

12. Links to other websites

The site links to third-party pages (the Town Council, the property-management firm, weather services, libraries, or WhatsApp to message another neighbour). Following a link takes you off this website: the Community does not control those sites and is not answerable for their content or their privacy policies.

13. Service availability

This website runs on a home server and is maintained by a volunteer in his spare time. Availability is not guaranteed: it may go down because of a power or internet outage, a hardware failure, maintenance or a cyber-attack, and it may be suspended, withdrawn or modified, in whole or in part, without notice.

Backups are taken and the service is restored diligently, but nobody should depend on this website for anything urgent.

An outage releases nobody from their obligations as an owner or resident —paying the fees, attending meetings, complying with the board's resolutions— and interrupts no deadline. The official channels remain the property-management firm and the board.

14. Limitation of liability

Information is provided «as is» and for guidance only. The Community strives to keep it correct and current, but does not guarantee its accuracy or that it is up to date.

The service is voluntary and free of charge. The standard of care owed by both the Community and the resident volunteer is that of a non-professional neighbour giving up their spare time, not that of a technology company (Articles 1104 and 1726 of the Spanish Civil Code).

Within that framework, the Community and the resident volunteer are liable only for direct and foreseeable damage caused by their fault. Loss of profit and indirect damage are excluded, as is damage arising from unforeseeable or unavoidable events (Article 1105 of the Civil Code), from improper use by the user, and from content and agreements between neighbours.

This limitation never applies to wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for which liability always stands: waiving the action for wilful misconduct is null and void (Article 1102 of the Civil Code). Nor does it reach the Community's mandatory statutory duties, such as maintaining the common elements and facilities (Article 10.1.a of the Horizontal Property Act): a facility rule saying «use at your own risk» does not release the Community from damage caused by poor maintenance.

None of the above limits the rights granted by law regarding data protection, honour, privacy and one's own image, nor does it affect anyone who has not accepted these terms, who is not bound by them (Article 1257 of the Civil Code).

15. Governing law and dispute resolution

This legal notice is governed by Spanish law.

No submission to a particular court is imposed: in a standard-form text such as this it would be ineffective (Article 54.2 of the Spanish Civil Procedure Act). The competent courts are those designated by law; in horizontal-property matters, those of the place where the property is located.

Before going to court, an appropriate means of dispute resolution must be attempted (Article 5 of Organic Act 1/2025). In neighbourhood disputes, the Community suggests starting by talking to the board, which can mediate without imposing anything. Trying does not prevent going to court afterwards.

16. Languages of this text

This notice is published in Spanish, Valencian, English and German. Spanish and Valencian are both authentic versions and have full effect: the Valencian version is not a courtesy translation and is not downgraded against the Spanish one.

The English and German versions are courtesy translations. Where a discrepancy between versions affects the meaning, the Spanish version prevails.

17. Changes to this notice

The Community may amend this notice to reflect legal or service changes. Every version carries its number and date.

Substantial changes are announced at least 30 days in advance through a visible notice on the site and, for account holders, by e-mail; in addition, the private-area terms will have to be accepted again. Minor changes —corrections, clarifications, contact details— are published directly. The Community may not unilaterally alter what has already been agreed (Article 1256 of the Civil Code).

Anyone who does not accept a new version of the private-area terms may stop using it: their account and data continue to be processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy for as long as their link with the urbanisation lasts, because that processing does not depend on their consent but on the law.

18. Partial invalidity

If a court were to declare any clause of this notice void or unenforceable, the rest would remain in force and that clause would be construed, or replaced, by the one that comes closest to its purpose within the law.

Obscure clauses will not be construed in favour of the party that drafted them (Article 1288 of the Civil Code).