Terms and conditions of the website

The use of this Website is subject to the following conditions:

1.- Parties

This legal warning contains the general conditions of use of the Website under the domain name www.rodriguezycavelier.com (hereinafter the “Website”), owned by the law firm Rodriguez & Cavelier, domiciled in Bogotá, Colombia in Cra. 9 n° 74-08 office 504, and with e-mail rodriguez@rodriguezycavelier.com. The user, visitor, client or subscriber (hereinafter, the “user” or the “client”) accepts the present conditions. The access, permanence in the Website and the use of it by the user implies the reading and acceptance, without any exception, of the present conditions of use.

2.-Content of the Website

The Website contains articles or literary and scientific works (hereinafter “articles”) prepared by Rodriguez & Cavelier and by the lawyers of Rodriguez & Cavelier or other lawyers or professionals invited by Rodriguez & Cavelier, only with informational and divulging purposes. These articles may not reflect the present state of the law or the jurisprudence. Also, the articles deal with general situations, which is why this content cannot be applied by the user to specific cases. Rodriguez & Cavelier can at any time modify, develop, update or withdraw these articles at any time without previous warning. The opinions given in the articles do not necessarily reflect those of Rodriguez & Cavelier.

The content of the articles published in this Website cannot be considered, in any case, a substitute of legal or other advice. The access to these articles does not intend or imply a relation between lawyer and user, nor any other type of confidence or professional relation between Rodriguez & Cavelier and the user. For this reason, the user cannot act based on the information contained in the articles, without having previously the proper professional advice.

It is specifically prohibited the use of the Website or its content with harmful purposes of goods or interests of Rodriguez & Cavelier or of third parties, or that in any other form overloads, damages or makes unusable the computer networks, servers and other equipment or products and computer science applications of Rodriguez & Cavelier, or of third parties.

Rodriguez & Cavelier is not liable for the uninterrupted or mistake free service of the Website, nor guarantees the accuracy and/or trustworthiness of the content of this Website. Rodriguez & Cavelier delivers its best efforts so that the content provided is of optimal quality, and in such sense, the user accepts to use the service.

This Website contains or will be able to contain links to other websites operated by natural or legal persons other than Rodriguez & Cavelier. Rodriguez & Cavelier is not responsible for the contents nor for the current condition of this Website, and the access to such websites through the Website does not imply that Rodriguez & Cavelier recommends or approves its contents.

Also, the user exonerates of responsibility Rodriguez & Cavelier by the use that could make of the contents of the page Web without previously counting on the necessary legal advice of a professional of Rodriguez & Cavelier. Rodriguez & Cavelier could not be considered liable for the damages derived from the use of this Website, nor by any action based on the information provided on the Website.

3.-Intellectual and industrial Property

The intellectual property of the contents of Rodriguez & Cavelier’s website is owned thereby or, if it is the case, by third parties invited by Rodriguez & Cavelier, without deemed assignment to the user of the intellectual property exploitation rights beyond the strictly necessary for the correct use of the Website. The reproduction or transmission of the content of this Website is solely allowed for informative or divulging purposes as long as the user respects authorship by Rodriguez & Cavelier and/or the third party. The reproduction or transmission of the content of the Website, including on a non-exhaustive manner, texts, graphs, design code, is not allowed for different purposes from the above mentioned without the written previous authorization of Rodriguez & Cavelier.

The texts and graphical elements that constitute the Website, as well as its presentation and mounting, are exclusively owned by Rodriguez & Cavelier, or has the necessary exploitation rights. Notwithstanding the above, the commercial names, trademarks or slogans that appear or that are referenced in this Website belong to their respective owners and subject to protection by the law in force.


Any use, transformation or exploitation of the contents included in the Website, with commercial or promotional purposes, except with prior authorization, is forbidden, and any use against the law and public order is prohibited in any event.


All the logos and trademarks of the Website are property of Rodriguez & Cavelier. The other people's logos to that could appear in the Website, belongs to their respective owner, being, in any case, responsible of any possible controversy that could occur with respect to them.


The claims that could be filed by the users in relation to possible breaches of the rights of intellectual or industrial property with respect to any of the contents of this Website will have to be directed to the e-mail address specified in this document.


The user undertakes to correctly use the Website in accordance with the Law and this legal notice. The user will be liable before Rodriguez & Cavelier or third parties, for any damage or damages that could result from the breach of this obligation.

4. Personal data privacy and protection policy

4.1 Treatment of personal data

Through Rodriguez & Cavelier’s Website no personal information of the user is collected or kept, nor is said information assigned to third parties without knowledge of the user. Rodriguez & Cavelier warrants confidentiality to personal information made available by the user and the automated treatment thereof according to the law in force on personal information protection, especially the Habeas Data Law (Law 1266/2008).

The collection and automated treatment of personal data, as a consequence of Website surfing, consulting, request, contracting or subscribing to any service offered by Rodriguez & Cavelier has the following purposes: (i) procurement, management and rendering of the services to which the user decides to unsubscribe, use or contract; (ii) the quantitative and qualitative study of the visits and the use of the services by the users; and (iii) the sending of traditional and electronic media of the information on the products and services offered by Rodriguez & Cavelier.

4.2- Subscription and automatic updating service. User rights of the users of these services in relation to their personal information.

The automatic updating service or the subscription via electronic feed/e-mail of the Website is provided by Feedburner, Inc on a gratuitous basis. Rodriguez & Cavelier does not keep, store, assign nor uses personal information for purposes of the rendering of these services by third party companies. Rodriguez & Cavelier only makes the appropriate tools available to the user, this party deciding on the subscription as preferred.

The sending of updated Website contents via e-mail is made on a daily, automated, free of charge, and unilateral manner by Feedburner, Inc with the prior express authorization of the user. If you are subscribed via e-mail to the Website feed, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link at the end of the updating message received in you e-mail. Additionally, if you wish, you can contact Rodriguez & Cavelier to request help on the unsubscribing procedure, without prejudice to the absolute exoneration of liability of Rodriguez & Cavelier for the rendering of the service by Feedburner, Inc.

4.3- User rights in relation to their personal information

In compliance with the applicable regulations, the existence of an automated personal information data index is hereby informed. Users are recognized access, rectification, cancellation and objection rights, to the use of the personal data, and will be able to exercise them by communication addressed to Rodriguez & Cavelier, providing sufficient identification, to the following e-mail address subscribe@rodriguezycavelier.com.

4.4- Use of Cookies and activity data file. Website monitoring

The Website uses cookies. The cookies used by Website are data files sent by a browser by means of a Web server to register the activities by the user of the Web and enable a more fluid and personalized browsing. The user has the possibility to configure his/her browser to avoid the entry thereof, block or, delete them. To use this Website, it is not necessary by the user to permit the downloading or installation of cookies.

In the same manner, the Website servers detect in an automatic manner the IP address and the name of the network used by the user. All this information is temporarily registered in the activity data file of the server which permits the subsequent data processing aimed at obtaining the statistical measurements that enable knowledge of the number of printed pages, number of visits made to the Web services, etc.

Aside from own Website monitoring systems, this one uses external statistical tools such as Google Analytics, an analytical Web service provided by Google, Inc., a Delaware company with a place of business at Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View (California), CA 94043, U.S.A. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files located in your computer, to assist the Website in analyzing the use thereof by users. The information generated by the cookies on the use of the Website (including the IP address), will be directly transmitted and filed by Google in the servers in the U.S.A. Google will use this information on behalf of said company with the purpose of tracking the use of the Website, compiling Website activity reports, and rendering other services related to the Website activity and use of the Internet. Google will be able to transmit said information to third parties when so required by law, or when said third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google will not associate its IP address with any other data available to Google. You can reject the use of data or the information rejecting the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate configuration of the browser, notwithstanding, you must know that if you choose to do so, the Website may not be fully functioning. Upon use of this Website, the user consents to the use of the information on the user by Google in the form and for the purposes mentioned above.

4.5- Assignment of users’ personal data to third parties

Rodriguez & Cavelier will not assign the personal information of the users that are collected via the Website to third parties without their express consent. Without prejudice to the foregoing, the user consents in the assignment of their personal information when required by the administrative authorities having jurisdiction or by court order.

5.- Confidentiality

The information provided by the client will be treated in any event as confidential, without being able to use it for purposes other than the contracted services with Rodriguez & Cavelier. Rodriguez & Cavelier undertakes not to divulge or reveal information on the clients’ intendments, the reasons for the requested service or the duration of the relationship therewith.

6.- Jurisdiction

The parties agree that the resolution of any dispute, conflict or claim derived from the present agreement, will be subject to the laws of the Republic of Colombia.

7. - Modifications to the conditions of use

Rodriguez & Cavelier will be able to amend the terms and conditions herein established, on its own discretion and at any time, and such amendments will be effective once they have been published in the Website.

The user undertakes to review this section periodically to be informed of such amendments, and the access to the Website will be considered an implied acceptance of the new conditions.