Term of Website use
1. Introduction
Welcome to our website of Adam Bernard Solicitors.
This page tells you the terms on which you may use our website. Please read these
Terms of Use carefully and ensure that you understand them. Your agreement to
comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use is deemed to occur upon your
first use of this site. If you do not agree to comply with and be bound by the Terms
of Use you must stop using our Site immediately.
2. About Us
Adam Bernard Solicitors is a firm of solicitors duly regulated by the Solicitors
Regulation Authority. Our registered office is at 25 Barking Road, London E6 1PW
United Kingdom.
3. Payment & Refund Policy
We offer pre-booked consultation by collecting payments upfront, and a full refund
is provided if a booking has been cancelled 24 hours prior to the date and time of
the appointment. Payments made for any services provided would be final with no
refund.
4. Use of the Site
Your use of our site is permitted subject to the following conditions:
You agree that your use of our site shall be expressly limited to noncommercial personal use;
We grant you permission for temporary use of the site, but we can withdraw
our permission or change our service at any time without notice, and with no
legal responsibility to you;
By continuing to use our site, you agree to follow our Acceptable Use Policy set
out at Clause 9 below;
If you allow anyone else to use our site on your device(s), you must make sure
that they read these Terms of Use first, and that they follow them;
You may only use the site as allowed by law and these Terms of Use. If you do
not, we may suspend your usage, or stop it completely;
When you provide your contact details to us, you agree to be contacted by
telephone, SMS, email or post by the Adam Bernard Solicitors. By using the
site, you agree to us handling this information and confirm that any data you
provide is accurate; and
We follow our Privacy Policy in handling information about you. You can read
our Privacy Policy on our website. We also refer you to our Cookie Policy,
which sets out our use of cookies on the site.
5. Intellectual Property Rights
All intellectual property rights in the site (including but not limited to the
copyright, trademarks, and any rights in the designs or content of the site) are
owned solely by us and are protected by copyright.
We grant permission for you to print one copy and download extracts of any
page on the site for your reference only, but not for commercial use without a
licence from us. You must not alter anything, or use any illustrations, video,
audio or photographs separately from the text that goes with them.
If you breach this clause, we reserve our rights to withdraw our consent for
your use of our site, and you must destroy or return any copies you have
made.
6. Our Liability and Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permissible by law, we accept no liability to any user for
any loss or damage, whether foreseeable or otherwise, in contract, tort
(including negligence), for breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising out of
or in connection with the use of (or inability to use) our site or the use of or
reliance upon any content included on our site;
If you are a business user, we accept no liability for loss of profits, sales,
business or revenue; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; loss
of anticipated savings; business interruption; or for any indirect or
consequential loss or damage;
We also exclude, as far as legally possible, all terms and warranties or
promises implied by law or by statute;
Insofar as is permitted by law, we make no representation, warranty, or
guarantee that our site will meet your requirements, that it will not infringe the
rights of third parties, that it will be compatible with all software and hardware,
or that it will be secure;
We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the content on our site is complete,
accurate, and up-to-date. We do not, however, make any representations,
warranties or guarantees (whether express or implied) that the content is
complete, accurate, or up-to-date; and
Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or restricts our liability for fraud or
fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from
negligence, or for any other forms of liability which cannot be excluded or
restricted by law.
7. Computer Viruses
Our site security has been enhanced to stand in line with industry best practice
standard but it is important that you update your system with the latest antivirus signatures and security patches, and that you use anti-spyware software
and a personal firewall. However, we accept no liability for any loss or damage
resulting from a virus or other malware, a distributed denial-of-service attack,
or other harmful material or event that may adversely affect your hardware,
software, data or other material that occurs as a result of your use of our site
(including the downloading of any content from it) or any other site referred to
on our site; and
We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability arising out of any
disruption or non-availability of our site resulting from external causes
including, but not limited to, ISP equipment failure, host equipment failure,
communications network failure, natural events, acts of war, or legal
restrictions and censorship.
8. Links to Our Site
You may link to our Site provided that:
you do so fairly and legally;
you do not do so in a manner that suggests any form of association,
endorsement or approval on our part where none exists;
you do not use any logos or trade-marks displayed on our site without our
express written permission;
you do not do so in a way that is calculated to damage our reputation or to take
unfair advantage of it; and
the content on the site providing the link meets with the standards in our
Acceptable Use Policy in Clause 9.
If you do not comply with the provisions set out in Clause 7.1 above, we can
end this permission at any time.
9. Links From Our Site
Our site may contain links to other websites for information purposes, neither
operated by nor controlled by us. You acknowledge and agree that we are not
responsible for the availability of any third party websites or material accessed
via this site;
We do not endorse nor can be held responsible or liable for any content,
product or services available via third-party websites, and do not accept any
responsibly for any loss suffered as a result of using those links.
10. Acceptable Use Policy
You may only use our site in a manner that is lawful and that complies with the
provisions of this Clause 9. Specifically:
you must ensure that you comply fully with any and all applicable local, national
or international laws and/or regulations;
you must not use our site in any way, or for any purpose, that is unlawful or
fraudulent;
you must not use our Site to knowingly send, upload, or in any other way
transmit data that contains any form of virus or other malware, or any other
code designed to adversely affect computer hardware, software, or data of any
kind;
you must not use our site in any way, or for any purpose, that is intended to
harm any person or persons in any way;
You do not have permission to copy in any way or re-sell any part of our site
(unless we allow it under our Terms of Use);
You must not interfere with or damage any part of our site, equipment, server,
network, software, database or other storage arrangements.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to our site if you
materially breach the provisions of this Clause 9 or any of the other provisions
of these terms. Specifically, we may take one or more of the following actions:
suspend, whether temporarily or permanently, any account or profile and/or
your right to access our site;
remove any content submitted by you that violates this Acceptable Use Policy;
issue you with a written warning;
take legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of any and all relevant
costs on an indemnity basis resulting from your breach;
take further legal action against you as appropriate, including but not limited to
reporting any criminal offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990;
disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as required or as we
deem reasonably necessary, including your identity; and/or
Any other actions which we deem reasonably appropriate (and lawful).
We hereby exclude any and all liability arising out of any actions (including, but
not limited to those set out above) that we may take in response to breaches of
these terms.
11. Miscellaneous
We may change these terms from time to time and you must check them for
changes because they are binding on you. It is not our responsibility to advise
you of any changes and you are deemed to have accepted the latest version of
our Terms of Use whenever you use our site.
If a provision of these Terms of Use is determined by any court or other
competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions
will continue in full force and effect.
If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these Terms of Use would be
lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part shall be deemed to be
deleted, and the rest of the clause shall continue with full force and effect.
Nothing under these Terms of Use, express or implied, is intended to be for the
benefit of or enforceable by any third party.
These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, shall
constitute the entire agreement between you and us to your use of our site,
and shall supersede all and any previous agreements or terms between you
and us with your use of the site.
12. Applicable Law
These Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy shall be governed by and
construed following English law.
Any disputes arising pursuant to the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy or Cookie
Policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and
Wales.
The parties shall use their best efforts to negotiate in good faith and settle any
dispute that may arise out of or relate to these Terms of Use or any breach
thereof.
All negotiations connected with the relevant dispute(s) will be conducted
without prejudice to the rights of the parties in any further proceedings.
Any dispute shall not affect the parties’ ongoing obligations under these Terms
of Use.
13. Contact Us
Please email us on info@adambernards.co.uk about any issues.