Terms & Conditions

TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
Please read these terms and conditions (“Terms”) carefully before using this website (“Site”).

1. Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.goodlawsolicitors.co.uk is a site operated by GoodLaw Solicitors LLP (“We”). GoodLaw Solicitors LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered at Companies House (Reg. No. OC424408). GoodLaw Solicitors LLP is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (registered number 654350). A list of our members is available for inspection at our registered office – 6 The Drive, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3JA which is also our main trading address. We are VAT Registered and our VAT number is 152 3602 41.

To contact us please email advice@goodlawsolicitors.co.uk or telephone us on 01273 956270.

2. By using our Site you accept these Terms

By using our Site, you confirm that you accept these Terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Site. We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

3. There are other Terms that may apply to you

These Terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Site:

• Our Privacy Policy
• Our Acceptable Use Policy
• Our Cookie Policy
• If you agree to accept our services based on anything set out on our Site, our Terms and Conditions will apply to the services we will provide

4. We may make changes to these Terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 18 May 2018.

5. We may make changes to our Site

We may update and change our Site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities, or to reflect changes in the law.

Our Site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

6. How you may use material on our Site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you print off or download from our Site, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

7. Do not rely on information on this Site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content of our Site. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Site is accurate, complete or up to date.

8. We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

9. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services to you, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Site or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our Site, or

use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site.

• In particular, we will not be liable for:

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

business interruption;

loss of anticipated savings;

loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

• Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
• If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.

10. How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

11. Uploading content to our site

If there is a feature on our Site which allows you to upload content to our Site, or to make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content which you might upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store, and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties (in accordance with these Terms).

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

12. We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platforms to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or any other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attach or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

13. Rules about linking to our Site

• You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
• You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
• You must not establish a link our Site in any website that is not owned by you.
• Our Site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page.
• We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
• The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
• If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Site other than that set out above, please contact advice@goodlawsolicitors.co.uk.

14. Law and jurisdiction

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland or Scotland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland or Scotland respectively.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both