www.chicandbasic.com is an Internet domain and registered trademark belonging to the trading company CHIC&BASIC GESTION S.A., domiciled for this purpose in the city of Barcelona, postcode 08003, Calle Princesa, núm. 50, with CIF Fiscal Identification Code A-63.040.240, and registered in the Barcelona Business Register, Volume 35,183, Folio 128, Page B-258.894, Inscription 1st, (hereinafter, CHIC&BASIC).

The main purpose of the www.chicandbasic.com website is to offer accommodation services in a variety of hotels, hostels, guesthouses and apartments owned and managed by CHIC&BASIC in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid. Users can make online reservations via the www.chicandbasic.com website for accommodation during the desired period and according to existing availability at one of the establishments listed.  

1) GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

These General Terms and Conditions regulate the running of www.chicandbasic.com website services offered to users by CHIC&BASIC. Use of the website confers the condition of user and implies the user’s full acceptance, without reservations, of each and every one of the General Terms and Conditions herein. If the user does not agree with the General Terms and Conditions, the user will not be entitled to use the www.chicandbasic.com website. Moreover, visiting the www.chicandbasic.como website and browsing the services offered by CHIC&BASIC imply the acceptance of these General Terms and Conditions. Each time the user contracts one of the services offered by the www.chicandbasic.como website, the Specific Terms and Conditions of Contract shall apply and the user will must previously read these General Terms and Conditions, the Specific Terms and Conditions of Contract and proof of acceptance thereof.

2) ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE IS FREE

The provision of the website service by CHIC&BASIC to the user is free of charge and does not require prior subscription or registration. User registration is only required when the user makes an enquiry regarding the www.chicandbasic.com website or when contracting one of the services offered by the website. In these cases, the user must fill in the online form exclusively provided to make an enquiry or to contract one of the services. The form for contracting services is governed by the Specific Terms and Conditions and Legal Notice on Data Treatment.

3) MODIFICATIONS TO THE WEBSITE OR TO THE PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES

CHIC&BASIC reserves the right to unilaterally modify at any time, without prior notice, the website’s presentation or configuration, as well as the services and General and Specific Terms and Conditions. These modifications will be made to improve user services, according to market trends. Variations to service conditions will not be of a retroactive nature for those services that have already been purchased by the user.

4) PROPER USE OF THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES

The user undertakes to use the website, its content and services pursuant to the Law, to these General Terms and Conditions, and to good conduct and public order. The user also undertakes not to use the www.chicandbasic.com website, contents and services offered therein for illicit ends or purposes that are contrary to these General Terms and Conditions, detrimental to the rights and interests of third parties, or that in any way may harm, disable, overload or deteriorate the website, its content or services, or prevent the normal use of or access to the website by other users.

The user should not obtain information, messages, graphics, sound and/or image files, photographs, software and, in general, any type of material that is accessible from the website or services using means other than those made available to the user or, in general, those commonly used online.

The user may not manipulate identifying data of the CHIC&BASIC concept nor the content and services offered by the www.chicandbasic.com website.

The user may not manipulate technical devices for protecting content and information or, in general, the configuration of the www.chicandbasic.com website.

CHIC&BASIC reserves the right to deny access to the www.chicandbasic.com website at any time and without the need for prior warning to those users who fail to abide by these General Terms and Conditions or the Specific Terms and Conditions of Contract that may apply at any given moment.

5) USE OF DATA PROVIDED BY THE USER

When the user supplies personal data to CHIC&BASIC the user consents to its being handled under the terms described below.

CHIC&BASIC will handle and collect the data provided by the user in a file created to manage the contracting of services listed on the www.chicandbasic.como website by the user and to deal with enquiries directly related to the www.chicandbasic.com website that are made by the user through the form. Similarly, with prior express consent by the user, CHIC&BASIC may use the data provided by the user to keep the user informed as to the entity’s new services. In compliance with Organic Law 15/1999 regarding Personal Data Protection (LOPD), the data gathered on the form will be used solely for the purposes described. If the user does not wish to receive information or wishes to exercise his/her rights of access, rectification and cancellation contained in this file, the user should write to us at reservas@chicandbasic.com. The user may also exercise the preceding rights by mail to CHIC&BASIC, calle Princesa, num. 50, stating the reference "Baja de fichero". In both cases, the user should provide documentation confirming his/her identity.

The user is asked to contact us should he/she wish to receive information regarding CHIC&BASIC special offers.

The user gives consent for his/her data to be sent to third-party companies for purposes directly related to the legitimate functions of CHIC&BASIC and the third party in order to improve the response to doubts or enquiries made by the user, as well as to manage the contracting of services listed on the www.chicandbasic.com website.

CHIC&BASIC guarantees that the user’s personal data will be treated confidentially and that the server in which the data will be stored and handled employs the necessary security measures to prevent non-authorised access to the same by third parties.

6) SUBSCRIPTION BY MINORS

People under the age of 18 may not subscribe without express and duly issued authorisation from their parents. If any record reveals that the user is a minor without parental authorisation, CHIC&BASIC reserves the right to deny service or notify the minor’s parents of its intention to collect personal data from the minor. The minor’s parents may check, cancel or refuse the additional collection of the minor’s personal data at any time by sending an e-mail to the following address reserva@chicandbasic.com, or to the CHIC&BASIC postal address.

7) LIMITATION OF GUARANTEES AND LIABILITIES

CHIC&BASIC neither controls nor guarantees the absence of viruses or other elements in the content that may cause changes to the user’s computer system (software and hardware) or to the electronic documents and files stored in the user’s computer system. CHIC&BASIC excludes any liability for damages of any kind that may be caused by the presence of a virus or other elements in the content that may produce changes to the user’s computer system, electronic documents or user files.

CHIC&BASIC will do everything possible to guarantee the security of the information supplied by users. However, it cannot guarantee that information transfers will be completely secure.

Without prejudice to the legally required levels of security for personal data protection, and the installation of all technical means and measures available to prevent the loss, incorrect use, alteration, unauthorised access to and theft of the data provided, the user must know and acknowledge that Internet security cannot be fully guaranteed.

CHIC&BASIC excludes any liability for damages of any kind that may arise from a lack of veracity, exactness, thoroughness and/or topicality of the www.chicandbasic.com website content.

8) COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All the contents of the www.chicandbasic.com website including, without limitation, the graphic design, logos, images, texts, illustrations, photographs, brands and other distinctive signs in any programming languages used or usable, as well as all operating and development software of the website are the exclusive and worldwide property of CHIC&BASIC. The reproduction, distribution, communication to the public, transfer and any other act or form of use that has not been expressly authorised by the holder of the operating rights are expressly prohibited.

CHIC&BASIC does not grant any licence or authorisation for the use of any type of its intellectual and industrial property rights or any other property or right related to the website and the services and products offered.

In the case of data or content provided by the user to the www.chicandbasic.com website, the user grants CHIC&BASIC the non-exclusive right, exempt of copyright or intellectual property rights, in perpetuity, irrevocably and totally transferable to third parties, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative services, distribute or exhibit any such content and comments throughout the world and through any communication media. The user also grants CHIC&BASIC and its sub-licensees the right to use the name that accompanies such content or comment, if applicable, related to such content or comment.

All trademarks and names of services that appear on the www.chicandbasic.com website are registered trademarks and the property of CHIC&BASIC, the remaining cases being trademarks that have been licensed by their legal owners.

9) LINKS

In order to manage the contracting of services described on the www.chicandbasic.com website, CHIC&BASIC offers the interested user a link to the financial institution/company .ihotelier.,  responsible for the economic transaction. During this period of time, the relationship will be between the purchasing user and the financial institution/company ihotelier.
Consequently, CHIC&BASIC accepts no liability with regard to the information and functionality found outside the www.chicandbasic website and that are not directly managed by this website.

10) BROWSING WITH COOKIES

The cookies used by CHIC&BASIC on its www.chicandbasic.com website only serve to keep the user session open and thus only associate a session with an anonymous user in order to provide the service requested. Upon conclusion of the session, any identifying data that has been generated is destroyed and the cookies disappear without being stored on the hard drive of the user’s system.

11) LAW AND JURISDICTION

These General Terms and Conditions, and any relationship between you as the user and CHIC&BASIC, will be governed by Spanish law.

Both parties shall submit any litigation deriving from the existence or contents of these General Terms and Conditions or from the relationships between the User and CHIC&BASIC to the Courts and Tribunals of the City of Barcelona and hereby waive their right to any other jurisdiction that may apply to them.

I HAVE READ AND ACCEPT THESE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE WWW.CHICANDBASIC.COM WEBSITE BELONGING TO CHIC&BASIC IN MY CAPACITY AS A USER.