Terms and Conditions

In AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A, we are committed to providing the users that visit our website with the greatest security and privacy. To this effect, we present herein the Terms and Conditions wherein the users may find information and specifications on how AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. complies and applies the legislation in force.

This website belongs to AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A., based in Quinta da Bellavista – Rua do Estádio, Lote E – 4, 8200 – 127 Albufeira.

These Terms and Conditions apply to users of our website.

By using our website, filling in our forms and providing your data, directly or indirectly, you imply knowing and accepting the conditions of these Terms and Conditions. By providing your personal data, you are authorizing the collection, processing, use and disclosure of the same in accordance with the rules set out herein and under the applicable legislation in force.

1. Users

The user undertakes to use this website without committing any act that may be considered illicit or illegal and that may affect the rights of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or third parties or that may attempt against morals or good customs.

The user obliges themselves specifically not to perform any of the following acts:

damage to data, programs or electronic documents of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or third parties included in this website. The practice of these acts may constitute a damage crime, foreseen and punished by articles 212 and following of the Penal Code;

prevent or hinder access by other users to the AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. website by using excessive recourse to computer means that cause damage, interrupt or cause errors or distortions in access to the website;

sending excessive email messages for commercial or advertising purposes without the consent of the recipient;

reading, deleting, copying or altering emails from other users, or attempting to carry out any of these acts. The practice of these acts may constitute the crime of violation of telecommunications, provided and punished by Article 194 of the Criminal Code;

use the website to try to access restricted areas of the computer systems of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or third parties;

try to increase the privileges of a user person in the system;

introduce programs, viruses, macros, applets, ActiveX controls or any other logical device or sequence of characters that cause or may cause any type of alteration to this website or to the computer systems of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or third parties.

2. Do AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A.

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. reserves the right to deny access to its website, totally or partially, to any user who does not comply with the previously established terms, at any time and without the need for any basis or prior notice.

3. Intellectual and Industrial Property

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. is the sole owner of all the rights to the information, tools and other contents of its website, as well as the graphics and codes existing therein, except when it is expressly indicated that another entity is the owner of such rights.

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. does not grant any licence or authorization of use regarding intellectual property rights or any other rights related to its website.

The user recognizes that the use, reproduction, copy, total or partial distribution, alteration or commercialization of the aforementioned contents, whatever the purpose, and regardless of the means used, without the prior and express consent of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A., is absolutely prohibited and violates the rights of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or of the owner of the contents identified as such in the website.

The user acknowledges that the information he/she can access through the website may be protected by industrial, intellectual or other property rights. AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. is not responsible, under any circumstances, for any infringement of these rights by the user.

All trade names, brands or any other distinctive commercial signs contained in the website of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. are legally protected.

4. Liability

4.1 For the operation of the AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. website

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. shall not be liable for any interferences, failures, interruptions, computer viruses, errors, telephone breakdowns or connection failures occurring in the operation of the electronic system due to causes beyond the control of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A., and shall not be liable for the damages, direct or indirect, arising therefrom. AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. shall also not be liable for delays or blockages in the use of the electronic system caused by defects or overloads in the telephone lines or in the Internet, nor for the damages, direct or indirect, arising therefrom. AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. will also not be responsible for damages caused by third parties through illegal intromissions in the system and that are beyond the control of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A.

4.2 Services or content included on the website

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. does not guarantee the thoroughness and accuracy of the information on its website, warning that it may be incomplete, may contain errors, inaccuracies or be out of date. The user and any interested person must verify the information obtained through the website of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A., contacting the company before taking any action following its content. The information contained in this website is totally free of charge for the users and the mere access to it does not create any type of commercial or professional relationship between the users and AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A.

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. may freely make, at any moment and without previous notice, changes in the information contained in its website. AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. does not assume any type of commitment, but acts in good faith to update the information contained in its website.

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. is not responsible for any damages or losses, direct or indirect, arising from the use of the information contained in its website.

4.3 Services or content provided by third parties

The links and hypertext contained in this website that allow the user to access services provided by third parties do not belong nor are under the control of AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. Therefore, AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. is not responsible for the information contained in them, nor for the eventual contractual relationship that may arise.

Electronic communications for direct marketing may be sent, provided that the data subject’s right of objection is guaranteed at the time of collection and in each message sent, in the event that a customer relationship exists, or, subject to prior and express consent, in the event that no prior legal relationship exists.

AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. will not be responsible for any damages or losses that may result from the services made available or provided by third parties through its website.

4.4 Disputes

To settle any question or dispute that may arise from the use of this website or the contractual relationship that may be established between the user and AQUALAB – Laboratório Clínico e de Saúde Pública S.A. or between the user and a third party through this website, the Court of Albufeira will be the competent court, with express waiver to any other jurisdiction.

Albufeira, 24 March 2022

The Administrative Board,