Legal Notice

This legal notice regulates the browsing and use of www.clinicbarcelona.cat (hereinafter, the “Website”) and will be applied without prejudice to any other particular conditions that the user may accept on the websites that form part of it.

The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (hereinafter, the “Entity”), with C.I.F. Q0802070C and with registered address at C/ Villarroel 170 in Barcelona, is responsible for the Website. We can be contacted via our e-mail address comunicacio@clinic.cat

Through this Website, you can access information on the following entities in the area surrounding the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, as well as on the Hospital itself:

Through this website, you can access information on the following entity in the area surrounding the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, as well as on the Hospital itself: 

  • FUNDACIÓ DE RECERCA CLÍNIC BARCELONA-INSTITUT D’INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER (“FRCB-IDIBAPS”), with registered address in Barcelona, Carrer Rosselló, 149-153, with N.I.F. number G-59319681 

Through this website, you can access the following resources:

Institutional information on the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, and the entities in its vicinity.

General information about different health issues (illnesses, conditions, disorders, etc.). The aim of this general information is to make society aware of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona’s knowledge of issues related to people’s health.

El Meu Clínic. El Meu Clínic is a communication platform between HCB and its patients. To access it, it is essential that you register in person at HCB.

The use of the Website is in accordance with the law, this legal notice and the particular conditions that may be applicable.  In the event of non-compliance by the user, the Entity reserves the right to take the appropriate legal action, as well as to restrict access to the Website.

All the people who appear in the videos on this Website have given their consent to the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, and the other entities in the surrounding area, to disseminate their image.

Access to this Website involves the acquisition of the status of user and the acceptance of the conditions of use described below.

On this website, you will find contents protected by copyright and by Creative Commons licences:

On PortalClínic, where all the information on the different health topics specified above is collected, the contents of the articles and texts, graphics and videos on this Website are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence – Non-Commercial – No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND). The textual contents of the work can be copied, distributed and publicly communicated, as long as the author is cited and acknowledged.  No derivative works can be generated or used for commercial purposes.

Likewise, BBV Foundation must also be cited as the funding institution for the project.  In this sense, the following sentence, ‘PortalClínic project Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and promoted by the BBVA Foundation’, will be included.

If you would like to use the PortalClínic contents in a different way to the one indicated in this legal notice, please contact portalclinic@clinic.cat

The rest of the contents of this Website (logos, brands or designs) are the property of the Entity or of third parties who have authorized their use, and are protected by Spanish intellectual and industrial property legislation.

It is forbidden to carry out framing (illicit visualization of selected contents), deep-linking (concealment of the original website address), etc., or any other practice that may lead to errors regarding the origin of the contents.

The establishment of links will at no time imply any relationship, collaboration or support of any kind with the Entity.  In particular, it is not permitted to create a link that fraudulently suggests or establishes any type of relationship with the Entity.

Links to defamatory, pornographic, racist or xenophobic websites, or websites that offer false information on the Entity or any of its collaborators, are prohibited.

The Entity periodically reviews and updates the information contained in this Website, but does not guarantee that the information is accurate, up-to-date and not erroneous.  Consequently, it is not responsible for any damage caused by the decisions made based on the information on or contents of this Website.

Access to the Website is at the user’s own risk, and it is the user’s responsibility to use the appropriate means to avoid any damage or virus.  Likewise, the user undertakes to avoid any contact that could damage, render useless, deteriorate, overload or harm, in any way, the Website or its use.

This Website may contain basic information relating to different aspects of health prepared by professionals and patients.  It offers recommendations and generic guidelines regarding the treatment of certain diseases, which in no case should be used to make diagnoses, administer medical treatment or for any medical action by healthcare professionals.  The contents of this Website are not a substitute for personalized care by health professionals.

This Website is subject to the provisions of Spanish legislation.  The courts of Barcelona will be the competent courts for the resolution of any dispute that may arise from the use of this Website.