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Using this site
We may amend these terms from time to time. When we do, any revised terms will be effective when shown here.
If you use this site, you will be treated as having accepted these terms (as amended from time to time).
This site is intended for use by people acting in the course of a business only. By using this site, you confirm to us that you are acting in the course of a business.
This site is not intended for use or access by anyone in any jurisdiction where the use or access of it would cause us to be in breach of any law or regulation in that jurisdiction.
About the contents of our site
We have prepared the contents of our site (which also form the basis of e-mail updates where you subscribe for these) for general information purposes. None of them constitute legal or professional advice. If you would like our advice on any of the issues raised, please contact us.
Although we take care to try and ensure that the information we post on our site is accurate when posted, please bear in mind that the law will change from time to time. We may not have updated and may not in future update any information posted to reflect those changes.
Unless we specifically state otherwise, the information we post on our site (and which forms the basis for e-mail updates where you subscribe for these) applies to the situation in England & Wales only. For other countries, the position may be significantly different.
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Disclaimer
This site and its contents are provided on an "as is", "as available" basis. We give no warranties, representations or undertakings (including any that may otherwise be implied) about the accuracy, completeness, currency, availability, quality or fitness for purpose of this site or the contents of e-mail updates for which you may subscribe (or any information or services that are referred to or included within them).
We accept no liability for any losses or damages (whether direct or indirect, special, consequential or otherwise (including, but not limited to, loss of business, revenue, profits, contracts, goodwill, use, data) and whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise arising directly or indirectly from or in connection with the use of this site, the e-mail updates and/or their contents.
Further, no representations, warranties or undertakings are given that this site will be available on an uninterrupted basis. The e-mail update service for which you may subscribe is provided by a third party and not by us. We do not accept any liability in respect of losses arising out of the unavailability or for any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in operation of our site or the e-mail update service.
Access to and use of this site and the e-mail update service is at your sole risk. We do not give any representations, warranties or undertakings that the use of them will not cause virus infection or damage to property. You have sole responsibility for ensuring the proper protection and back-up of your data and/or equipment and to take suitable precautions to scan for computer viruses or other destructive properties.
We have no control over the content or security of other sites to which this site may contain links. You follow those links at your own risk. We accept no liability for any such sites (including, but not limited to, the use, availability, reliance on or contents of any such sites). If a link to any other site is included on this site, this does not mean that we approve or endorse its content or its provider.
Nothing in these terms is intended to restrict or exclude our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation by us or any other liability to the extent that it cannot be excluded or restricted by law.
In this "Disclaimer" section of these terms, each reference to us not having or accepting liability and not giving any warranty, representation or undertaking also includes our employees and consultants personally from time to time not accepting such liability and not giving any such warranty, representation or undertaking.
Intellectual property
The contents of this site (and e-mail updates based on the contents of this site) may include certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs that are trade names, unregistered trade marks or registered trade marks that belong to us or third parties. These must not be reproduced without the consent of the relevant owner. Nothing in this site or those e-mail updates shall be construed as conferring any licence or right whether by implication, estoppel or otherwise to use any such marks or any patents or design rights belonging to any person.
This site and the e-mail updates contain copyright material and other proprietary information. The contents are protected by copyright and other applicable laws. Unless otherwise expressly stated, the copyright in all materials on this site are owned by afl Solicitors.
You may download to a local hard disk and print extracts from this site for your personal internal reference. This is provided that they are marked to indicate this site as its source and that you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices on such extracts. This is a licence, not a transfer of title.
Except as expressly permitted by these terms, you must not copy, publish, modify, reproduce, republish, distribute, store, frame, or exploit all or any part of this site, e-mail updates or their contents in any way without our prior written consent. Requests for consent should be submitted to enquiries@finance-law.info. All rights reserved.
If you submit comments on articles to us through this site, then you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, disclose, distribute and exercise all copyright, database, and publicity rights with respect to that material, information or other communication and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or not currently known for the full term of any rights that may exist in your submission and, to the extent applicable, in accordance with our Privacy Policy in effect at the time of your submission. If you do not want to grant us the rights set out above, please do not submit comments on articles to us through this site. By submitting any such comments to us, you waive any moral rights in it for the above purposes and warrant that you have the right to make it available to us for all of the purposes referred to above.
Privacy
By using or accessing this site you agree to our Privacy Policy.
General
In these terms:
· references to "you" and "your" include you and any business or organisation on whose behalf you are using or accessing this site and/or our e-mail update service;
· references to our site shall also include RSS feeds;
· references to "we" and "us" means afl Solicitors of 99 Harewood Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, BH7 6NW. Our VAT registration number is GB 760443541. Our telephone number is 01202 729999. Direct marketers please note that we are registered with the Corporate Telephone Preference Service.
You agree to use this site for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict, impede, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of it by anyone (including, but not limited to, by hacking into this site, altering its content, transmitting any spam or defamatory, abusive, misleading, racist, sexist, obscene, offensive or illegal content or in breach of copyright or other intellectual property rights).
Except for our employees and consultants from time to time in relation to the Disclaimer above, no person is entitled to enforce any rights pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 under the agreement reached by your acceptance of these terms but this does not affect any such rights that exist independently of such Act. No third party consent (including, but not limited to, from any of our employees or consultants from time to time) is required to their variation or recission.
Any application of Regulations 9(1), 9(2) and 11 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 is excluded.
Any delay or failure by us to exercise any right or remedy under the agreement concluded by your acceptance of these terms shall not be a waiver of any such right or remedy. Any rights or remedies that we may have may be enforced separately or concurrently. All of our rights shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
If any of these terms (or part of them) shall be found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, this will not affect any other terms (and the remaining parts of such terms).
These terms are governed by English law. For our exclusive benefit, the English courts shall have jurisdiction to determine any dispute that may arise out of or in connection with them. This shall not limit our rights to bring proceedings in any other court of competent jurisdiction whether concurrently or not.
