The entire contents of the website under the domain name www.vshlaw.co.uk (including the website area accessed by registering your details and accepting these terms and conditions (’Registered Area’)) (’Website’) are governed by the privacy policy and website terms and conditions.
This legal notice applies to the Registered Area. Please read these terms carefully before using any part of the Registered Area. By registering your details with us you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
If you do not accept these terms, do not continue with the registration process. This notice is issued by Vincent Sykes &Higham LLP (Company).
1.1 By accessing the Registered Area, 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 the Registered Area immediately.
1.2 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check the Registered Area from time to time to review the then 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 Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website.
2.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
2.2 Access to the 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.
3.1 The trade marks, trade names, service marks, trade dress, logos, URLs or identifying slogans of any party, whether or not registered that are displayed on the Website (’Marks’) are the property of Vincent Sykes &Higham LLP and other parties. Users are prohibited from using any Marks for any purpose including, but not limited to use as metatags on other pages or sites on the World Wide Web without the written permission of Vincent Sykes &Higham LLP or such third party which may own the Marks.
3.2 All information and content including any software programs available on or through the Website (’Content’) is protected by copyright. Users are prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, creating derivative works or using any Content available on or through the Website for commercial or public purposes.
4.1 Links to third party websites on the Website are provided solely for your convenience and have been chosen by the Company as possibly being of interest to you. If you use these links, you leave the Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these 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 the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
4.2 All Content, products and services on the Registered Area or obtained from a website to which the Website is linked (’Linked Site’) are 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 the Website and access to any Linked Site 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 the Website and any Linked Site.
5.1 Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.
5.2 Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.
6.1 Clicking through to a Linked Site from the Restricted Area may result in the Company receiving a fixed commission (’Commissions’) calculated in any one of the following ways:
(a) A payment per visitor forwarded from the Website to a Linked Site; and/or
(b) A % of the amount spent by you on the Linked Site.
6.2 By accepting these terms and conditions you consent that the Company has informed you that they may receive commissions from the third party provider of a Linked Site and agree to the Company retaining such Commissions.
While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Website. The Company may make changes to the material on the Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.
8.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the 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 connection with the Website or any Linked Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Website, any Linked Site or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or ot her property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or any Linked Site or your downloading of any material from the Website or any Linked Site.
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); 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 the Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
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: 26th October 2007