Copyright Notice

Last updated: 10 May 2026

The text, articles, guides, case studies, photographs, illustrations, logos, layouts and other material published on this website (the “Content“) are protected by copyright and related rights and, where applicable, by trademark and database rights. Unless expressly stated otherwise, all rights in the Content belong to María Teresa Velasco Gómez, trading as Velasco Lawyers, or are used with the authorisation of the rights holder.

1. Legal framework

The Content is protected in Spain by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996 of 12 April approving the consolidated text of the Spanish Intellectual Property Act (LPI), and by Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society and Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market, as transposed into Spanish law.

2. Permitted uses

Subject to our Disclaimer and to the limits set out below, you may:

view the Content on screen and print or download individual pages for your personal, non-commercial reference;
use the Content for limited internal reference within your own business or professional practice, on the same non-commercial terms;
quote brief extracts in articles, presentations or other materials issued to third parties, provided that the source is clearly attributed to “Velasco Lawyers — www.velascolawyers.com” and the quotation is fair, accurate and not misleading;
provide a hyperlink to this website from another website, provided the link is not framed, presented in a way that suggests endorsement or association, or used in a context that is misleading or detrimental to our reputation.

3. Prohibited uses

Except as expressly permitted above, you may not, without our prior written consent:

copy, reproduce, republish, broadcast, display, distribute, sell, license, sublicense or commercially exploit the Content in any form or by any means;
frame, mirror, embed or otherwise present the Content within another website, application or service in a way that suggests it forms part of that other service;
use the Content in any commercial document, marketing material or paid offering;
remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;
extract, reproduce or re-utilise the whole or any substantial part of any database that forms part of the Content (Article 133 LPI).

4. Automated extraction and AI training

Pursuant to Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and Article 67 LPI, we expressly reserve all rights over the Content for the purposes of text and data mining, including for the development, training, fine-tuning, evaluation or operation of generative artificial-intelligence models, large language models or any similar system. The Content may not be scraped, crawled, harvested, mined or otherwise collected for those purposes without our prior written consent. This reservation is intended to be machine-readable and applies to all crawlers, including those identified by user-agents commonly associated with AI training (for example “GPTBot”, “Google-Extended”, “CCBot”, “anthropic-ai”, “ClaudeBot”, “PerplexityBot” and any successor or equivalent).

5. Trademarks

“Velasco Lawyers” and the Velasco Lawyers logo are used as trade names and signs of identity by the firm. Other product, service or company names mentioned on this website may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification purposes only.

6. Third-party content

Where third-party material (including photographs, icon sets, fonts, plug-ins or quoted text) appears on this website, the rights in that material remain with the relevant rights holder and are used under licence or under an applicable copyright exception. Any use you make of such third-party material is subject to the licence terms of the original rights holder.

7. Notice of infringement

If you believe that any material on this website infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line “Copyright” and provide:

your full name, address and contact details;
identification of the material claimed to be infringing and its location on this website;
identification of the protected work that is allegedly infringed;
a statement of the legal basis on which you assert your rights;
your signature (electronic signature accepted).

We will review the notice promptly and, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the material concerned in line with Article 17 of Law 34/2002 of 11 July on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI-CE).

8. Governing law and jurisdiction

This Copyright Notice and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by Spanish law. The Spanish courts have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rules that may apply where you are domiciled.

9. Changes to this notice

We may update this Copyright Notice from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of the document reflects the date of the most recent material change.

10. Contact

Velasco Lawyers — María Teresa Velasco Gómez
Calle Arco del Teatro nº 3, 18690 Almuñécar, Granada, Spain
[email protected] — +34 958 63 01 14