Terms and Conditions

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE

ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.thelegaldirector.co.uk (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website. This notice is issued  by  The Legal Director (Company).


1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 You may access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of this Website may only be open to you if you register.

1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.3 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the current legal notice, because it is binding  on  you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.


 

2. LICENCE

2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:
(a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
(b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
(c) the Company´s copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.

2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any  downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other  website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company´s  prior  written permission.

2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.


 

3. SERVICE ACCESS

3.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that this Website is available 24 hours a day, the Company shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company´s control.


 

4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under our  Privacy Policy, any  material  you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal  offence,  give  rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights  of  any  third  party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

4.4 The Company shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material  in  breach  of  paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.


 

5. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

5.1 Links to third party websites (if so provided) on this Website are provided solely for  your  convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed any  third  party  websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any  material  found there,  or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party  websites  linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that  you  link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:
(a) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of The Legal Director’s logo;
(b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
(c) you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products  or  services  other  than its own;
(d) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
(e) you do not otherwise use any of The Legal Director’s trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Company;
(f) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and
(g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive  or  controversial,  infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person  or  otherwise  does  not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

5.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for  breach  of  these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company and/or its owner(s) for any loss or damage suffered  by  the  Company  and/or its owners or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 5.2.


 

6. REGISTRATION

6.1 Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your  user  name (if any) and password (if any) with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.

6.2 Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.


 

7. DISCLAIMER

7.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may  make  changes to the material on this Website, or to any products and/or prices described in  it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no  commitment to update such material.

7.2 The material on this Website is provided "as is", without any conditions,  warranties or other  terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you  with  this Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms  (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.


 

8. LIABILITY

8.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining  or  delivering  this Website), and any of the Company´s group companies and the officers,  directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for  any  amount  or  kind  of  loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and  whether  in  tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in any way or in connection with:
(a) this Website;
(b) the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website;
(c) any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites;
(d) your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this  Website ;or
(e) viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or  other  property  on  account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website.

8.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company´s liability for:
(a) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
(b) fraud; or
(c) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
(d) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

8.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction  of  equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.


 

9. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Issue Date: 1st January 2007.

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