the present terms and conditions regulate the use and access to the web site and all services that forvo media, s.l., provides through it.
forvo is a company that provides services to an international audience. therefore, the language in which these terms and conditions are written is english. however, for the interpretation, clarification or dispute concerning these terms and conditions, the official version that will be taken into account will be the spanish language version.
these terms and conditions constitute a binding contract or agreement between, on one hand, the person who accesses and/or creates a user account on www.forvo.com and, on the other hand, forvo media sl.
the website www.forvo.com is owned by forvo media, s.l., (hereinafter also forvo) a spanish company registered with n.i.f. b20987541 in the gipuzkoa commercial registry (spain) (vol.:2.408- folio: 153 vto-inscrip: 2ª-section: 8º- sheet: ss-31.114) with legal offices in c/ txirrita maleo 1, planta 1, 20100, renteria, gipuzkoa, (spain).
the access, use or registration as a user on the website www.forvo.com necessarily implies that the interested person previously accepts the full content of these terms and conditions, in addition to the terms of the privacy policy and other information, descriptions, methodologies, etc., related to the general functionality of forvo which are available at any moment on in the form of faqs ( frequently asked questions) or in any other way, which will also be applicable in addition to and/or as a complement with these terms and conditions.
for the legal purposes of these terms and conditions of service, the website , as well as the applications (app) for mobile terminals or other smart devices that are owned or developed by forvo media, s.l., will be collectively referred to as "the service" or "the services".
in the same way, the following terms designated below likewise shall have the following meanings:
"application(s)": refers to application(s) for mobile (apps), tablets and other smart devices and application programming interfaces (apis), web pages or websites, necessary for or linked to the provision of the services.
"user(s)": refers to members or registered users of
"forvo content" means any content that forvo media, s.l., creates or makes available on for the provision of the services, including content licensed or authorized by a third party for its use on , while excluding user content.
"user content" means any content such as text, photos, audio, video or other materials and information which a user publishes, uploads, submits, transmits or includes in their user profile, whether on a public or private manner.
"applicable law" is any legal rule, spanish or foreign, or resolution issued by an administrative, judicial or arbitral authority, spanish or foreign, of obligatory application.
"intellectual property rights" means ks8凯发官方网站 copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade names or equivalent sources of protection, of any nature and originating in any country under applicable law.
the forvo platform is addressed to users who are over 18 years of age and have the legal capacity to conclude legally valid contracts or agreements under the applicable law. likewise, users may be persons over 14 years of age who obtain the prior consent of their parents, legal tutors or legal representatives and are legally capable of entering into legally binding agreements or contracts under the applicable law. in the latter case, forvo may require the user to provide documentary evidence of such circumstances and ultimately reserves the right to accept the user as a user of forvo.
in order to use the services, it is required to register validly in the sites or forms inserted for this purpose in , providing a user name for your profile, a valid email address and other registration data that will be requested in each case depending on the type of registration.
in any case, the registration process will ask you to choose a password of your choice in order to have access to your user profile. you must be aware that the responsibility for choosing and protecting your password is solely the user's, and you may never transfer or share your password, keeping it secret at any time. the user shall be solely responsible for all activities that are carried out on the platform using his/her user profile or password access, even if not authorized, completely excluding forvo from any liability or damage that may arise for this cause.
the user's profile or account shall not be shared or exposed to third parties. if you should become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or account, you must immediately inform forvo in written form through the contact means set forth in these terms and conditions, as well as of any other breach of security of your data of which you become aware.
to the extent requested by the registration process, the user agrees to provide forvo with true, accurate, updated and complete information regarding his/her personal profile, being the user responsible for any damage or prejudice that may arise from non-compliance with this obligation.
service description. forvo media, s.l., offers an open and collaborative translation service and pronunciation guide created by people interested in sharing this knowledge and who have subscribed to a user account on . once registered, users may submit their translations and pronunciations to be shared by other users or any other person who visits .
in no case, forvo media s.l., operates as an intermediary between users or establishes any commercial, labor or any other kind of relationship between the user and the service itself. in general, the translation and shared dictionary service is provided free of charge to users and/or visitors of , and users may only use it for academic or personal and non-commercial purposes. in this case of free use of the service, there is a maximum daily volume of 500 requests per user.
in the case of agreements between forvo media, s.l., and third parties interested in the commercial use of the service or the provision of an application service through the api owned by forvo media, s.l., may be established in each case agreements and commercial rates depending on the use or volume of requests, as well as the corresponding license of use.
the users agree to use and the services in accordance with the applicable law, with the provisions of these terms and conditions or any future amendments, with generally accepted good practices and uses of the internet and with the public order.
any user content shared through the forvo platform, no matter if it is publicly displayed or privately exchanged, is the sole and exclusive responsibility of the user from whom that content was originated. under no circumstances will forvo be liable for any user content that any user may upload, publish, transmit, submit, or in any other way make available through the service. forvo does not have any prior control over user content posted via the service and, therefore, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, quality or legality of any such user content.
the user expressly acknowledges and agrees that forvo may, in its sole discretion, decide whether to reject, disable or remove any user content that is available through forvo, such user content breaches or is contrary to these terms and conditions or to applicable law. forvo also reserves the right to refuse or suspend all or part of the service to any user who breaches these terms and conditions or the applicable law.
the user guarantees to not share, send or distribute, in any way, contents or applications that may violate the applicable law or that involve the infringement of any third-party rights.
these actions are expressly prohibited in forvo:
forvo can at any moment proceed to investigate or report any of the aforementioned conducts, in accordance with the applicable law, as well as to inform and cooperate with the authorities in the investigation of these actions.
the user acknowledges and hereby agrees that all intellectual property rights included in the services, which is not user content, belongs to forvo and/or its licensors; and that, except for the limited license rights granted by forvo in this clause, forvo and/or its licensors expressly reserve all intellectual property rights included in the services and in the content included in them.
translation and shared pronunciation dictionary services: in the case that the contents generated from the translation and shared dictionary of pronunciations service originate or generate any intellectual property rights or ks8凯发官方网站 copyright in favor of the user, the user retains all rights over the pronunciations and translations that he/she inserts, shares or publishes in his/her profile, granting to forvo media, s.l. a permanent, non-exclusive and free worldwide license that allows forvo to reproduce, distribute and publicly communicate them, with the right to transfer them to third parties; as well as add any information and/or to transform it in order to adapt it to the technical requirements of the service.
forvo media s.l., is the legal owner of the "sui generis" ks8凯发官方网站 copyright over the database(s) created and/or generated from the contents incorporated by the users to the translation service and shared dictionary of pronunciations, as this right is defined in the applicable law (art. 133-134 and 135 of the royal legislative decree 1/1996, of april 12, which approves the revised text of the intellectual property law, lpi).
users may use the pronunciations and translations made available on forvo within the legal limits established, but not for commercial purposes. in all circumstances, the extraction and/or re-utilization of a substantial part of the content of the database may not be made in a way that causes unjustified damage to the legitimate interests of forvo media, s.l., or that is in prejudice of the normal commercial exploitation of the protected content.
grant of general license. subject to user's compliance with the provisions of these terms and conditions, forvo hereby grants to the user a revocable, limited, personal, not transferable, not sublicensable, worldwide and exclusive license for the use of the services for his/her personal use, and in any case, in accordance with the specific license or licenses that the software or content involved has been incorporated at the time it was made available by forvo or its licensors.
this general license to use the services, as it concerns or relates to software programs or computer applications, is limited to the use of the object code of such software, and does not include the execution by the user or a third party any of the following actions: copying, modification, derivative works, reverse engineering or other types of activities to attempt to discover the source code, the sale, transfer, cession, sublicensing, transfer of a warranty right to the ks8凯发官方网站 copyrights in the software or the transfer of those ks8凯发官方网站 copyrights. the user further acknowledges that, in order to use the software or third-party content, he/she may be required to agree to terms and conditions in addition to those contained in these terms and conditions.
the user acknowledges and agrees that he/she may not access the service by any methods other than the interfaces provided by forvo, and he/she may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the service or the software, in whole or in part.
the term of the services accessible through the website is unlimited, however, forvo reserves the exclusive right, at its sole discretion, to definitively interrupt or stop providing these services.
forvo may terminate or suspend the service in cases of breach of these terms and conditions by users.
in addition, forvo may terminate or suspend a user's profile for inactivity or non-use for a continuous period of twelve (12) months, or for any circumstance that, in forvo's sole discretion, constitutes a breach of these terms and conditions or other applicable specific terms or conditions.
the user may at any time voluntarily unsubscribe and terminate these terms and conditions by cancelling or closing his/her user profile and deleting from his/her devices the programs or applications that are part of forvo.
the registration data, as well as the rest of the information that according to your user profile is requested in the registration process or through the use of the services, are subject to our privacy policy.
forvo hereby reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify the services, as well as these terms and conditions, at any time and without prior notice.
these terms and conditions, their interpretation together or separately, the provision of the forvo services and the relation that the users maintain with forvo, shall be governed by the laws and courts of the kingdom of spain, notwithstanding any other international law dispositions related to the determination of the applicable law and the competent court that may be applicable in each case.
if any clause of the terms and conditions of service is declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the parties agree that the mentioned court may attempt to give effect to the intentions of the parties as reflected in the invalid clause, and the remaining provisions of the terms and conditions of service shall remain in full force and effect.