Legal Notice - 'Duskward House'

Legal Notice (Duskward House)

1. LEGAL NOTICE AND TERMS OF USE

In accordance with Article 10 of Spanish Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), the user is informed of the following:

1.1. Identification details of the owner

Owner: Liliana Cardona
Tax ID (NIF): 45171347Z
Address: Apartado de Correos 13 (17857), Girona, Spain
Contact email: contact@duskwardhouse.com
Activity: Digital entertainment platform for adults, based on erotic narrative fiction and original literary content, distributed online by chapters or via subscription.

1.2. Purpose of the website

The services offered on Duskward House include:

Creation, publication and distribution of original erotic narrative fiction (+18).
Online access to chapters and novels through registration or subscription.
Sending of updates, notices and communications to registered users.
Management of the reading platform and private access to content.

1.3. Users

Access to this website confers the status of USER, which implies full acceptance of this Legal Notice.

The user declares that he/she:

Is over 18 years of age.
Accesses erotic literary content voluntarily.
Understands that this content is intended exclusively for adults.

Access to the website does not imply the existence of any commercial, labour or editorial relationship between the owner and the USER.

1.4. Use of the website

The USER undertakes to use the contents of this website in an appropriate manner and not to use them for:

a) Illegal activities or those contrary to public order.
b) Disseminating racist, xenophobic, discriminatory content or illegal sexual material.
c) Introducing viruses or causing technical damage to the website.
d) Manipulating or attempting to access third-party accounts.

Moderation of comments and user participation

The owner may remove any comments or contributions that:

Attack human dignity.
Are discriminatory, racist or violent.
Contain illegal sexual material, child pornography, threats or any content prohibited by law.
Are, in her opinion, not appropriate for publication.

Duskward House does not publish pornographic audiovisual content.
It only publishes erotic literary content for adults over 18 years of age.

Fiction disclaimer

All characters, situations and events represented on this platform are fictional.
Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

1.4.1. Collection of information

The website may collect:

Data entered in contact forms.
Subscription data (name and email).
Billing data in case of purchase.
Analytics and usage cookies (see the Cookies Policy).
Technical browsing data (IP address, browser, date, time, referring URL).

The owner reserves the right to modify the design, structure or contents of the website at any time and without prior notice.

1.5. International compliance (EU – Canada – USA)

Duskward House operates from Spain and complies with:

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation – European Union).
PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act – Canada).
General applicable privacy laws in the United States, including transparency requirements regarding the use of personal data under relevant state regulations (e.g. CCPA in California).

Users can find detailed information in the Privacy Policy.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Liliana Cardona, either in her own right or as assignee, is the owner of all intellectual and industrial property rights over this website and all the elements contained therein (including but not limited to images, sound, audio, video, software, texts, trademarks or logos, colour combinations, structure and design, choice of materials used, computer programs necessary for its operation, access and use, etc.), owned by Liliana Cardona or her licensors. All rights reserved.

Any use not previously authorised in writing by Liliana Cardona will be considered a serious breach of the author’s intellectual or industrial property rights.

The reproduction, distribution and public communication of all or part of the contents of this website, including the method of making them available, for commercial purposes, in any format and by any technical means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written authorisation of Liliana Cardona.

The USER undertakes to respect the intellectual and industrial property rights owned by Liliana Cardona. The USER may only view the elements of the website without being allowed to print, copy or store them on the hard drive of his/her computer or any other physical medium. The USER must refrain from deleting, altering, evading or manipulating any protection device or security system installed on the pages of Liliana Cardona.

It is strictly forbidden to share access licences with other people. Each licence is personal and non-transferable. The owner reserves the right to take all civil and criminal actions available to protect her rights, including the offences against intellectual property set out in Articles 270 et seq. of the Spanish Criminal Code, which may be punished with prison sentences of up to 4 years.

3. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

Liliana Cardona shall not be liable, under any circumstances, for any damages of any nature that may arise, including but not limited to: errors or omissions in the contents, lack of availability of the website – which may be subject to periodic downtime for technical maintenance – or the transmission of viruses or malicious or harmful programs in the contents, despite having adopted all the necessary technological measures to prevent it.

4. MODIFICATIONS

Liliana Cardona reserves the right to make any modifications she deems appropriate to her website without prior notice, and may change, remove or add both the contents and services provided through it and the way in which they are presented or located on the website.

5. LINK POLICY

Persons or entities that intend to create a hyperlink from another website or Internet portal to the website of Liliana Cardona must comply with the following conditions:

Total or partial reproduction of any of the services or contents of the website is not permitted without the prior express written authorisation of Liliana Cardona.
No deep-links, image links (IMG) or frames with the website of Liliana Cardona may be established without prior express authorisation.
No false, inaccurate or incorrect statement about the website of Liliana Cardona or about its services or contents shall be made. Except for the signs that form part of the hyperlink, the website on which it is established shall not contain any trademark, trade name, business name, logo, slogan or other distinctive signs belonging to Liliana Cardona, unless expressly authorised.
The establishment of the hyperlink shall not imply the existence of any relationship between Liliana Cardona and the owner of the website or portal from which it is made, nor the knowledge or acceptance by Liliana Cardona of the services and contents offered on that website or portal.
Liliana Cardona shall not be liable for the contents or services made available to the public on any website or portal from which the hyperlink is made, nor for the information and statements contained therein.

The website of Liliana Cardona may provide links to other websites managed and controlled by third parties. These links are provided solely for the purpose of facilitating the search for information, content and services on the Internet, and in no case shall they be considered a suggestion, recommendation or invitation to visit them.

Liliana Cardona does not market, direct, previously control or own the contents, services, information and statements available on such third-party websites. Consequently, she assumes no liability, whether direct, indirect or subsidiary, for any damages that may arise from access to or use of those sites.

6. RIGHT OF EXCLUSION

Liliana Cardona reserves the right to deny or withdraw access to the portal and/or the services offered without prior notice, at her own request or at the request of a third party, to those users who fail to comply with these General Terms of Use.

7. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Liliana Cardona will pursue any breach of these conditions, as well as any improper use of her website, by exercising all civil and criminal actions that may correspond to her in law.

8. MODIFICATION OF THESE CONDITIONS AND TERM

Liliana Cardona may modify the conditions set out here at any time, and they shall be duly published as they appear here. The validity of these conditions shall depend on their exposure and shall remain in force until they are modified by other conditions that are duly published.

9. CLAIMS AND QUERIES

Liliana Cardona informs users that official complaint forms are available upon request. Users may send an email to contact@duskwardhouse.com stating their full name, the product or service purchased and the reason for their complaint.

They may also submit their complaint by postal mail to:
Liliana Cardona, Apartado de Correos 13, 17857 Girona, Spain.

10. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

The relationship between Liliana Cardona and the USER shall be governed by current Spanish law, and any dispute shall be submitted to the Courts and Tribunals of the city of Girona (Spain), unless the applicable law provides otherwise.