Legal Notice

1. Website ownership

In compliance with the information duty set out in current regulations, it is hereby stated that the owner of this website is the Coordinadora de Colles Castelleres de Catalunya (hereinafter, the CCCC), with the following identifying details:

Name: Coordinadora de Colles Castelleres de Catalunya
Tax ID: G58835075
Registered address: C. Sant Oleguer 9, 43800 Valls (Alt Camp)
Contact email: [email protected]

2. Purpose and acceptance

This Legal Notice governs access, browsing and use of this website.

Accessing the website assigns the status of user and implies full acceptance of this Legal Notice. If you do not agree, we ask that you do not use this website.

The CCCC reserves the right to modify, at any time and without prior notice, the website content, its configuration and this Legal Notice. Periodic review is recommended.

3. Conditions of use of the website

The user undertakes to make correct, diligent and lawful use of the website and its contents, in accordance with applicable legislation, good faith, public order and this Legal Notice.

In particular, the user may not:

1. use the website or its contents for unlawful purposes or in ways contrary to the rights and interests of the CCCC or third parties;
2. damage, disable, overload or impair the website or prevent its normal use;
3. access, or attempt to access, restricted areas of the website without authorisation;
4. introduce or spread computer viruses or any other physical or logical system capable of causing damage;
5. obtain, reproduce or reuse the website contents outside the conditions expressly set out in this Legal Notice or applicable regulations.

4. Liability

The CCCC endeavours to ensure that the information on the website is accurate and up to date, but does not guarantee the absence of errors, omissions or interruptions in access to the website, nor its permanent availability.

The CCCC is not liable for damages or losses of any kind that may arise from, among others:

1. lack of availability or continuity of the website;
2. errors or omissions in the contents;
3. the presence of viruses or other harmful elements;
4. improper use of the website by users.

The user is liable for any damages the CCCC may suffer as a result of non-compliance with this Legal Notice.

5. Links

This website may include links to third-party websites in order to facilitate access to complementary information or resources.

The CCCC is not responsible for the content, services, operation or availability of these external pages, nor for the data processing they may carry out. The inclusion of these links does not imply any association, merger, collaboration, recommendation, supervision or approval by the CCCC, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Persons or entities wishing to establish a link to this website must do so in a manner consistent with the law, good faith and the nature and purposes of the CCCC, and in no case may they create a false appearance of affiliation, support, sponsorship or connection.

6. Intellectual and industrial property

All content on this website is owned by the CCCC or by third parties who have authorised its use. By way of example and not limitation, this includes texts, articles, fact sheets, data, databases, compilations, documents, photographs, videos, images, logos, trademarks, names, designs, structure, selection, ordering and presentation of content, as well as software and technical elements.

This content is protected by intellectual property and industrial property regulations and, where applicable, by other applicable regulations.

Access to the website does not grant any rights over this content beyond the expressly authorised uses. In particular, it does not in any case imply waiver, transfer, licence other than that expressly provided, or total or partial assignment of the aforementioned rights.

7. Licence regime for website content and data

Unless expressly stated otherwise for specific content, the content and data accessible through this website are made available to users under the licence:

Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

This licence allows copying and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, provided that:

• appropriate credit is given to the authorship and ownership corresponding to the CCCC;
• a reference to the applicable licence is included;
• it is not used for commercial purposes;
• no derivative works, transformations, adaptations, remixes or modifications of the original material are disseminated, published or made available to third parties.

In any authorised reuse, the following mention, or an equivalent one, must be clearly indicated:

"Source: Coordinadora de Colles Castelleres de Catalunya (CCCC). Licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0."

The indicated licence is understood without prejudice to the limits, exceptions or authorisations that may be applicable under current legislation.

This licence does not apply to the Coordinadora - Colla Jove database (BDCJ) or to the data it contains, which are governed exclusively by section 8, without prejudice to the consultation and occasional citation of specific data with an indication of the source.

8. Use of the database (BDCJ), mass reuse and uses involving artificial intelligence

The CCCC expressly states its opposition to any use of the contents, data or data structures of this website that exceeds the simple reuse permitted by the aforementioned licence and, in particular, to any use involving:

a) the creation of derivative works;
b) the extraction, mining, automated harvesting (scraping) or large-scale or systematic reuse of all or a substantial part of the website’s database;
c) the use of contents or data for the training, fine-tuning, validation, enrichment, semantic indexing, automatic generation or any other development of artificial intelligence systems or algorithmic models that involve transformation, derivative exploitation or reuse not expressly permitted;
d) any use in environments or projects with a profit-making purpose, whether direct or indirect;
e) any use associated with sponsorships, brands, collaborations or communication actions that may conflict with the sponsorships, institutional agreements, interests or positioning of the CCCC.

Consequently, any derivative use, including, by way of example, uses for artificial intelligence, the generation of websites or services based on the website’s data, the creation of derivative products or the structured reuse of the database, necessarily requires:

1. prior, express and written authorisation from the CCCC; and
2. the prior signature of a collaboration agreement with the CCCC.
Applications for authorisation are resolved in accordance with the criteria set out below.

8.1. Nature of the BDCJ contents
The BDCJ comprises two levels of content, which are treated differently:
● the facts: the information that a colla performed a given castell (human tower) on a given date is publicly accessible and is not subject to ownership. Any person or entity may compile it by their own means and from their own sources, without requiring authorisation from the CCCC;
● the compilation: the ongoing collection, verification, arrangement and updating of these facts constitute a substantial investment by the CCCC, carried out by its technical team, which gives the BDCJ its reliability and official status.
Consequently, what is protected is not the information but the investment made in obtaining, verifying and presenting it, in accordance with the sui generis right that Articles 133 et seq. of the Spanish Consolidated Text of the Intellectual Property Law grant to the maker of a database. Independently building one’s own database does not require authorisation; reusing the compilation produced by the CCCC does.

8.2. Member colles of the CCCC
Full member colles of the CCCC are the source of the data contained in the BDCJ and are therefore not considered third parties for the purposes of this section. They do not need to apply for authorisation to use their own data, and the CCCC provides each of them with API access that allows them to use this data and synchronise it with their websites.

8.3. Grounds for refusal
Applications submitted by third parties are assessed successively, in accordance with sections 8.3 to 8.6. Firstly, any application involving the following shall be refused outright:
● the sale to third parties of data obtained from the BDCJ;
● the extraction of the database to train language models or artificial intelligence systems, whether private or commercial, without a specific prior agreement;
● refusal to specify in a verifiable manner how the data will be processed and, where applicable, which automated systems will be applied to it;
● the inclusion of advertising in spaces where BDCJ data is displayed or consulted, or obtaining any advertising revenue derived from its exploitation.

8.4. Treatment according to purpose
Applications that do not fall under any ground for refusal are processed according to their purpose:
● non-profit academic or university research and historical dissemination: simplified procedure and favourable conditions, with attribution of the source as the main requirement, without prejudice to the general conditions set out in section 8.7;
● journalistic projects: assessed on a case-by-case basis;
● other cultural, outreach or cultural-interest projects open to the public: facilitated access, with attribution of the source and without financial consideration, provided that access to the result is open and rigorous and respectful treatment of both the data and the casteller tradition is guaranteed;
● commercial, corporate or derivative product projects: assessed in accordance with sections 8.5 and 8.6.

8.5. Added value
In the case of commercial, corporate or derivative product projects, the CCCC assesses whether the proposal reproduces a service already offered by the CCCC website or already authorised to a third party:
● if it provides no new functionality, search or service, the application is refused or postponed, and initiatives that have been promoted and maintained over time are respected;
● if it provides genuine added value, such as forms of search or visualisation offered neither by the CCCC nor by any existing authorisation, the application proceeds to section 8.6.
The order in which applications are submitted acts as a tie-breaking criterion. Priority is given to the existing use, without prejudice to the authorisation of a new one, whether as an alternative or compatible use, if it provides sufficient added value.

8.6. Conditions of agreements for commercial and derivative uses
The alignment of a commercial project with the purposes of the CCCC does not exclude consideration in return. Any authorisation for commercial or derivative use is formalised through an agreement that must include, at a minimum:
● explicit and visible attribution of the source (BDCJ / CCCC);
● a return to the casteller community, comprising free access for the CCCC member colles to the tools or findings derived from it and the communication to the CCCC of any data corrections and improvements detected;
● compensation for the CCCC’s investment, proportional to the commercial use made of it;
● technical access limits, which must include request caps and a prohibition on bulk downloading;
● a fixed term and the revocable nature of the authorisation, in accordance with section 8.7.

8.7. General conditions of any authorisation
Any authorisation to use the BDCJ, regardless of its purpose, is subject to the following conditions:
● attribution: the source must be indicated in all cases;
● prohibition of assignment: the authorised person or entity may not assign, sublicense or resell access to third parties;
● revocable nature: all authorisations are granted on the basis of the use declared in the application. Any change in actual use with respect to the declared use shall result in the termination of the authorisation, and no authorisation is granted for an indefinite period;
● term and review: authorisations have an expiry date and are subject to periodic review;
● equivalent protection: the authorised person or entity must apply to the data provided protection measures equivalent to those of the BDCJ, such as bot blocking, request limits and measures against bulk querying and against use by artificial intelligence systems.

8.8. Procedure
The CCCC issues a reasoned decision on each application, recording how each of the above criteria has been applied. The assessment is the responsibility of the body designated by the Board of the CCCC.

Where there is doubt as to the purpose of an application or the treatment it should receive, the CCCC may request from the applicant any additional information or documentation it deems necessary before reaching a decision.

To request authorisation, a reasoned request must be sent to: [email protected].

The CCCC responds to all requests received. The absence of an express response shall not be construed, in any case, as tacit authorisation. In any event, the CCCC reserves the right to refuse authorisation for any initiative that does not meet the aforementioned principles or that, in the CCCC's judgement, is not appropriate or opportune.

9. Reservation of rights

The CCCC expressly reserves the exercise of all legal actions available to it in defence of its rights and legitimate interests against any unauthorised use of the website, its contents or the database.

10. Personal data protection

When access to certain services or functionalities of the website involves the processing of personal data, such processing shall be governed by the corresponding Privacy Policy, which the user must consult.

11. Applicable law and jurisdiction

This Legal Notice is governed by the legislation applicable in Catalonia.

For any dispute that may arise from access to or use of this website, the parties submit to the courts and tribunals that are competent under applicable regulations.

Last updated: 13 April 2026.