Terms of Use

Effective Date: [Date]

Introduction

Welcome to the [Law Firm Name] website located at [Website URL] (the “Site”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of our Site and services. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Site.

The information provided on this Site is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to be legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is formed by your use of the Site. For specific legal advice, please contact a qualified attorney directly.

Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise stated, [Law Firm Name] and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the Site and material on the Site. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

License to Use Site

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the Site for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms.

You Must Not:

  • Republish material from this Site (including republication on another website).
  • Sell, rent, or sub-license material from the Site.
  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on our Site for a commercial purpose.
  • Edit or otherwise modify any material on the Site.
  • Redistribute material from this Site, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this Site in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Site or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Site; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this Site to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software.

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this Site is restricted. [Law Firm Name] reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this Site, or indeed this entire Site, at [Law Firm Name]’s discretion.

If [Law Firm Name] provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this Site or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

[Law Firm Name] may disable your user ID and password in [Law Firm Name]’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User Content

In these Terms, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material) that you submit to this Site, for whatever purpose.

You grant to [Law Firm Name] a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to [Law Firm Name] the right to sub-license these rights and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or [Law Firm Name] or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the Site that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaints.

[Law Firm Name] reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this Site, or stored on [Law Firm Name]’s servers, or hosted or published upon this Site.

No Warranties

This Site is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. [Law Firm Name] makes no representations or warranties in relation to this Site or the information and materials provided on this Site.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, [Law Firm Name] does not warrant that:

  • This Site will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  • The information on this Site is complete, true, accurate, or non-misleading.

Nothing on this Site constitutes, or is meant to constitute, legal advice of any kind.

Limitations of Liability

[Law Firm Name] will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts, or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this Site:

  • To the extent that the Site is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
  • For any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or
  • For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits, or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if [Law Firm Name] has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this Site disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this Site disclaimer will exclude or limit [Law Firm Name]’s liability in respect of any:

  • Death or personal injury caused by [Law Firm Name]’s negligence;
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of [Law Firm Name]; or
  • Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for [Law Firm Name] to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify [Law Firm Name] and undertake to keep [Law Firm Name] indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities, and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by [Law Firm Name] to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of [Law Firm Name]’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by [Law Firm Name] arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these Terms, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these Terms.

Breaches of These Terms

Without prejudice to [Law Firm Name]’s other rights under these Terms, if you breach these Terms in any way, [Law Firm Name] may take such action as [Law Firm Name] deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the Site, prohibiting you from accessing the Site, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the Site, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the Site, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

[Law Firm Name] may revise these Terms from time-to-time. Revised Terms will apply to the use of this Site from the date of the publication of the revised Terms on this Site. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

[Law Firm Name] may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with [Law Firm Name]’s rights and/or obligations under these Terms without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

Severability

If a provision of these Terms is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with [Law Firm Name]’s Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and [Law Firm Name] in relation to your use of this Site, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this Site.

Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana, and any disputes relating to these Terms will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Indiana.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

[Law Firm Name]
[Address]
[City, State, ZIP Code]
[Phone Number]
[Email Address]