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GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

LIABILITY AND GUARANTEE OF GRUPO SANTANDER

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

 

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

BANCO SANTANDER's official UK Shareholder Website


Hereinafter, any reference to BANCO SANTANDER will be to both BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., and its subsidiaries.

This Website is the property of BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., a financial institution registered with the Banco de España (Bank of Spain) under number 0049, with registered offices at Paseo de Pereda 9-12 Santander, and Tax Identification Code A-39000013.

All of the products and services provided by BANCO SANTANDER are subject to the legislation in force and are under the supervision of the Bank of Spain, the CNMV (Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission) and other regulatory bodies.


LEGAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

- Please read carefully the following terms and conditions. By accessing to this address and any of its pages (hereinafter, the "Website"), you will be considered a user and are thought to have accepted these General Terms and Conditions. Access to any of the pages of this Website may be limited by the laws and provisions of the jurisdictions of different countries. Should this be the case, you will not be given access to part or all of the Santander UK Shareholder Website.

- The information contained in this Website, including certain products and services, is primarily intended for distribution or use by individuals, companies, businesses, trusts, legal individuals or bodies or any other organisation (hereinafter "Persons") residing in Spain or accessing from Spain, for which reason Grupo Santander declines any liability for access by Persons in jurisdictions in which said distribution or use may be contrary to legislation or regulations. Certain products and services may not be available or may be prohibited in all jurisdictions or for all Persons and, as a result, Grupo Santander may restrict or deny access to those not meeting the requirements of residence and access from Spain.


LIABILITY AND GUARANTEE OF BANCO SANTANDER

- CONTENTS

Banco Santander has obtained the Information and materials included on the Website from sources considered to be reliable. However, although reasonable measures have been taken to ensure that the information contained is correct, Grupo Santander does not guarantee that it is exact, complete or up to date and, as a result, should not be relied upon as though this were the case. Banco Santander expressly declines any liability due to error or omission in the Information contained on the pages of this Website.

Banco Santander reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel or restrict the content of the Website, as well as the links or the information obtained through it, without prior notice.

Under no circumstances will Banco Santander, its branches and/or directors, employees and authorised staff be liable for any type of damage, loss, claim or cost of any kind, whether this result from the use of the Website, the Information acquired or accessed through or by it, for any computer viruses, from operating faults or interruptions in the service or transmission or faults on the line. Use of the Website by both direct connection and link or by any other means constitutes a warning to any user that these eventualities may occur.

It is prohibited to transmit or send any illegal or illicit content, computer virus or messages through the Website that generally affect or infringe the rights of Grupo Santander or others.

Banco Santander accepts no liability for external websites that can be accessed by means of links or for any content provided by third parties. Any use of a link or access to an external website is undertaken at the will and exclusive risk of the user. Grupo Santander neither recommends or guarantees any information obtained by or through a link, nor does it accept liability for any loss, claim or damage derived from the use or misuse of a link, or from the information obtained through it, including other links or websites, from interruptions in the service or in access or from the attempt to use or misuse a link, either when connecting to the Website or when accessing information on other websites from the Website.

This Website sometimes uses Cookies, which are small data files created in the user's computer that provide the following information:

- Date and time the user last visited the Website.
- Contents design chosen by the users on his/her first visit to the Website.
- Security elements involved in controlling access to restricted areas.

The user has the option of preventing the creation of Cookies by selecting the corresponding option in his/her browser. However, their disabling may prevent the site from working properly.

- FINANCIAL AND STOCK MARKET INFORMATION

This Website provides no type of investment recommendation or legal, tax or other advice, and nothing included in it should be taken as the basis for investments or decision-making. Similarly, the information contained on this Website is published for general use and does not take into account specific investment objectives, financial status or the particularly requirements of any Person. You should obtain suitable and specific professional advice before deciding on any investment. The value of investments may rise or fall, a circumstance that investors must accept, including the risk of not recovering the sum invested, either partly or in full. Furthermore, the statement of past returns does not constitute a promise or guarantee of future returns.

The contents of this Website are solely for informative purposes and should under no circumstances be used or considered as an offer of sale, request for an offer of purchase or recommendation to undertake any other transaction, except where expressly indicated. Any decision to purchase by the recipient must be adopted according to public information on the security and, where appropriate, in line with the contents of the brochure registered with the CNMV (http://www.cnmv.es), available from the CNMV and from the Governing Body of the corresponding Market or the issuing company.

RESTRICTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: Persons who from outside of the United Kingdom make their investments through a Banco Santander company not resident in the United Kingdom will not be covered by United Kingdom investor protection laws and regulations. These include rights to certain compensation, rights of cancellation, access to claim, arbitration and other bodies.

Publications and reports contained on this Website, when issued in the United Kingdom, have to have the prior approval by the London Branch of Banco Santander, S.A., which is regulated by and is under the supervision of the ¿Financial Services Authority¿.

RESTRICTIONS FOR U.S. CITIZENS (including any citizen or resident in the United States or any legal organisation incorporated in or under U.S. law or any political subdivision thereof): If you are a United States citizen or you are accessing this Website from the United States of America (including its territories, possessions and the District of Columbia), we would like to inform you that through this site, Banco Santander offers the possibility of contracting and information on unregistered securities according to the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and its ammendments. In accordance with the above regulation, these securities must not be purchased, transferred, delivered or sold (directly or indirectly) in the United States of America, except where the laws and regulations of that country relating to securities permit as such, either through registration or exemption.
Under no circumstances will Grupo Santander be liable for the losses, damages, penalties or any other harm that may be derived directly or indirectly from the use of this Website or from its content by U.S. investors.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES REUTERS: Banco Santander may include reports from third parties, occasionally provide advisory services or maintain relationships with issuing bodies, negotiate securities or other investments, hold positions in these companies, act as a market maker or support the business of the companies mentioned in a publication or report of analysis. Banco Santander accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss, direct or induced, as a result of the use of these publications or reports of analysis. Likewise, they may not be reproduced, distributed or published by any recipient, whatever the purpose.



INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT

This Website is the property of BANCO SANTANDER, S.A.. The copyrights and operating and reproduction rights of this Website, its pages, screens, the information they contain, their appearance and design and the hyperlinks from it to other websites of any company belonging to Grupo Santander are the exclusive property of Grupo Santander, unless otherwise specified. All the names, designs and/or logotypes which comprise this Website are duly registered trademarks. Any undue use thereof by a person other than their legitimate owner may be prosecuted in accordance with current legislation. The copyrights and trademark rights of third parties are suitably highlighted and must be respected by anyone accessing this Website. The contents may be downloaded and any page on this Website copied or printed for personal and private use only. It is prohibited to reproduce, transmit, modify or delete the information, content or notices on this Website without the prior written authorisation of Banco Santander, S.A..


APPLICABLE LEGISLATION

These general terms and conditions are governed by Spanish legislation.



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