This Legal Notice aims to complement the Privacy Policy of the website www.sefeltas.com, owned by Sefeltas Advocacia, and present the applicable conditions of use for the user.
Accessing and/or using the page www.sefeltas.com confers the status of user upon the individual doing so, who accepts from that moment onward and without reservations these Terms of Use. This is without prejudice to other conditions that may be established by Sefeltas Advocacia, or “Sefeltas”, for the regulation of certain services or content. If the user is under 13 (thirteen) years of age, they must obtain prior authorization from their parents, guardians, or legal representatives, who will be deemed responsible for all acts performed by minors under their responsibility, for all purposes.
The owner of the website is Sefeltas Advocacia, headquartered at Rua José Rocha, n.º 570, 2º, V.N de Gaia, 4430-124, Porto, using this address for communication purposes, with the tax ID number 311726380, and email address: info@sefeltas.com.
The user undertakes to use the page www.sefeltas.com in accordance with applicable laws, good faith, public order, and generally accepted customs. Similarly, the user undertakes not to use the aforementioned webpage for illicit purposes or purposes detrimental to the rights and/or interests of Sefeltas and/or third parties, and not to hinder or impede the normal functioning of the page.
The user’s use of the page www.sefeltas.com will be their sole and exclusive responsibility, with Sefeltas exempt from any damage and/or harm that may be directly or indirectly caused to the user or third parties due to the user’s failure to comply with these Terms of Use. In this regard, Sefeltas reserves the right to deny access and/or use of the website or any of its content and/or services to any user who may have breached these Terms of Use. Sefeltas informs that the legal conditions governing the use or Privacy Policy of the website will be expressly and fully accepted simply by accessing the website and/or using its services or content. Therefore, it is the user’s responsibility to access and consult the legal conditions governing the use and privacy of the website periodically to become acquainted with successive versions published by Sefeltas Advocacia.
Sefeltas is not liable for damages and/or losses of any nature that the user or third parties may incur, particularly in the following situations:
(1) When a third party disregards the security measures established by Sefeltas and uses the website, its content, and/or services to send viruses or engage in unauthorized processing of data stored by the website owner;
(2) In general, in the event of any use of the page www.sefeltas.com, its content, and/or services by the user or a third party contrary to the conditions of access and use established by Sefeltas Advocacia. In this regard, Sefeltas reserves the right to deny access and/or use of the website or any of its content and/or services to any user who may have breached these Terms of Use.
Sefeltas holds all industrial property rights to the trademark and logo related to the name Sefeltas Advocacia, as well as to the domain www.sefeltas.com. It is also legally empowered to use the Sefeltas Advocacia trademark. Therefore, any use or reproduction beyond the purposes explicitly established in these Terms of Use without prior authorization is expressly prohibited.
The user’s access to the website, the provision of services, and the publication of content for personal use never imply, under any circumstances, the transfer, waiver, or transmission, in whole or in part, by Sefeltas Advocacia, of the corresponding intellectual and industrial property rights. Indeed, the user may never engage in any use of the website, its content, and services that is not exclusively personal.
Except for acts of temporary, transitory, or accessory reproduction that are an integral part of the technological process to facilitate access and use of the website, none of its components may be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, copied, publicly communicated, or transformed, in whole or in part, by any manual, electronic, or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or any information retrieval and storage system through any medium currently known or to be created in the future), without prior authorization from Sefeltas. Should the user’s actions or omissions, willfully or negligently, directly or indirectly result in a violation of Sefeltas Advocacia’s intellectual and industrial property rights or those of third parties – regardless of whether the user benefits from it – causing damages, losses, joint liabilities, expenses of any nature, sanctions, coercive measures, fines, and other charges resulting from any claim, action, or procedure, whether civil, criminal, or administrative, Sefeltas will have the right to take action against the user through all legal means at its disposal and claim compensation, including – by way of example and without limitation – moral and reputational damages, direct and consequential damages,
advertising costs or of any other nature, amounts or penalties imposed by a final judgment, late payment interest, the cost of financing any amounts in which Sefeltas may have suffered harm, legal costs, and the value of defense in any process where Sefeltas may be a defendant due to the reasons mentioned above, for the damages and losses incurred, without prejudice to the possibility of exercising any other actions legally permitted.
Sefeltas Advocacia has established a Data Protection Policy (Privacy Policy) that governs the collection, storage, processing, and utilization of personal data provided by the user. In this regard, Sefeltas ensures compliance with this policy, in its respective part, which can be reviewed by the user through access to the Privacy Policy LINK located in the bottom menu of the page www.sefeltas.com.
Sefeltas reserves the following rights:
- To modify, wholly or partially and whenever deemed appropriate, the page www.sefeltas.com, its configuration, content, and/or services, as well as these Terms of Use.
- To interrupt, temporarily suspend, or definitively cancel the page www.sefeltas.com or any of the content and/or services it comprises.
- To establish specific conditions, such as, if necessary, a price or other requirements for accessing certain services and/or content of the website.
- To limit, exclude, or condition user access whenever they do not provide all the guarantees for correct use of the website, in accordance with the obligations and prohibitions assumed by them.
- To cease the provision of a service or provide content without entitlement to compensation when users use it unlawfully or contrary to the conditions regulating it.
- To undertake any legal or judicial action necessary or convenient for the protection of Sefeltas Advocacia’s rights or those of third parties providing their services or content through the website, whenever possible.
- To claim compensation resulting from the improper or unlawful use of the content and/or services provided through the website.
Sefeltas is exempt from any liability for damages and losses of any nature in the following cases:
- Inability or difficulty to connect to the communication network through which access to the website is made, regardless of the connection category used.
- Interruption, suspension, or cancellation of access to the website, as well as the availability and continuity of the operation of the same services and/or content, when such events are (i) due to interruption of technical maintenance services; (ii) due to any cause beyond Sefeltas' control scope.
- Sefeltas Advocacia assumes no responsibility for the services and content, nor for the availability and conditions, technical or otherwise, of access to them, offered by third-party service providers, especially concerning communication service providers. Communication service providers are considered to be natural or legal persons that provide the following services to the public:
(i) transmission over a communication network of data provided by the service recipient;
(ii) access services to said network;
(iii) data storage or hosting services;
(iv) provision of content or information;
(v) temporary copying service of data requested by users;
(vi) provision of links for accessing content or search tools.
- Damages or losses that may be caused by information, content, products, and services – including but not limited to – provided, communicated, hosted, transmitted, displayed, or offered by third parties unrelated to Sefeltas, including information society service providers, through the website and the links published therein.
- The processing and subsequent use of personal data carried out by third parties unrelated to Sefeltas, as well as the relevance of the information requested by them.
- The quality and speed of access to the website, and the technical conditions that the user's equipment must meet in order to access the website and its services and/or content.
- Sefeltas shall not be held responsible for delays and failures occurring in the access and/or operation of the services and/or content of our websites and mobile applications due to force majeure events.
Sefeltas Advocacia prohibits the use of hypertext links without authorization, as well as the framing of content available on web pages and online products. Consequently, Sefeltas reserves the right to deactivate such elements and expressly disclaims any responsibility arising from the content available on other web pages, services, tools, or online applications linked to the page www.sefeltas.com and its services. Thus, any user accessing any of these elements will be doing so under their sole responsibility.
For information about the storage and retrieval of data on users' terminal devices when using the Sefeltas website, the user can refer to the corresponding Cookie Policy LINK
Sefeltas Advocacia is not obligated to review the messages, information, or content that users choose to disclose through web pages and online products. Therefore, Sefeltas disclaims all liability related to such publications. Nevertheless, Sefeltas reserves the right to monitor such content whenever it deems appropriate and to refuse or delete content that includes:
- Unlawful, defamatory, threatening, vulgar, obscene, blasphemous, offensive, aggressive, violent, discriminatory (particularly based on ethnic or racial reasons), or objectionable content for any other reason, including but not limited to content that encourages conduct that could result in civil or criminal penalties or that violates any applicable local, national, or international laws.
- Advertisements or requests of any kind (except on pages where the publication of classified ads is permissible).
- Messages posted under false identity.
- Messages containing personal data such as phone numbers, social security numbers, account numbers, addresses, or employment references.
- Messages posted under a false identity attributable to representatives of Sefeltas Advocacia
- Messages that enable the unauthorized download of information violating privacy or intellectual or industrial property.
The parties, expressly waiving their own jurisdiction, agree that Portuguese law governs these Terms of Use, and for the resolution of disputes and conflicts that may arise from them, they agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Arbitral Courts of Porto.