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It is your responsibility to ensure your computer system meets all the necessary technical specifications to enable you to access and use the Site and is compatible with the Site.

We may, from time to time, restrict access to certain features, parts or content of the Site to users who have registered with us. You must ensure that any registration details you provide are accurate. If you choose, or you are provided with, a log-in ID (such as a username and password or other identifier) as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not reveal it to anyone else. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your log-in ID and must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use or other security breach of which you become aware. We reserve the right to disable any log-in ID, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use or if any details you provide for the purposes of registering as a user prove to be false.

We cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error-free operability of the Site. There may be times when certain features, parts or content of the Site, or the entire Site, become unavailable (whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis) or are modified, suspended or withdrawn by us, in our sole discretion, without notice to you. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any unavailability, modification, suspension or withdrawal of the Site, or any features, parts or content of the Site.

You may only use the Site for non-commercial use and only in accordance with these terms of use. You may retrieve and display content from the Site on a computer screen, print and copy individual pages and, subject to the next section, store such pages in electronic form. Additional terms may also apply to certain features, parts or content of the Site and, where they apply, will be displayed before you access the relevant features, parts or content.

We may process your personal data (which we have either obtained directly from you or from somewhere else) if:

  • you are our prospective client, client or supplier;
  • you otherwise use our services;
  • you work for a client or a supplier of ours, or for someone who otherwise uses our services;
  • you are someone (or you work for someone) to whom we want to advertise or market our services, our events; or
  • you are alumni.

Personal data which is not collected directly from you may be collected from:

  • your employer in connection with your job and how it relates to us;
  • third parties we work closely with, including but not limited to family members, trustees, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, analytics providers, and search information providers;
  • Governmental bodies, regulators, institutions, courts or any other similar establishments; or
  • any websites or applications (“Apps”) operated by us which you use.

Personal data collection methods we may use include:

  • communication in person;
  • communication by phone, email, fax, SMS or any other electronic communication method;
  • communication by letters, notices, information sheets or any other paper-based communication methods;
  • using our website, social media channels, Apps or other technologies; or
  • ·visiting us (for example, if you sign in or are recorded on CCTV while visiting our offices, or you give us the registration details of your vehicle).

Personal data relating to you that we may process includes:

  • “Identity data” including first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, gender, your job function, your employer or department;
  • “Contact data” including billing address, postal address, email address and telephone numbers including frequency of contact (these details may relate to your work or to you personally, depending on the nature of our relationship with you or the company that you work for);
  • “Financial data” including bank account and other payment method details;
  • “Transaction data” including details about payments to and from you and other details of services you have received from us;
  • “Profile data” including your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. It also includes information you give us or that we obtain when you use our website, obtain or subscribe to our services, supply us with goods or services, enquire about a service, place a service request, enter a survey, or contact us to report a problem, or do any of these things on behalf of the person that you work for;
  • “Client data” including information about how you use our services, website, and applications, as well as personal data which can include Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction and Profile Data of you and/or your family members, beneficiaries, employees or employers, or other third persons about whom we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you;
  • “Special categories of personal data”: Client Data may include special categories of personal data where it is relevant to the legal services that we provide, such as settlement of insurance claims which may require us to obtain health reports;
  • “Marketing and communications data” including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. This may include information about events to which you or your colleagues are invited, and your personal data and preferences to the extent that this information is relevant to organising and managing those events (for example, your dietary requirements, but excluding sensitive data); and
  • “Technical data” including:
    •  The Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
    • Information about your visit to our website/Apps, such as the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), services viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from a page, any phone number used to call our central switchboard number, and direct dials or social media handles used to connect with our fee earners or other employees; and
    • Location data which we may collect through our website/Apps and which provides your real-time location in order to provide location services (where requested or agreed to by you) to deliver content or other services that are dependent on knowing where you are. This information may also be collected in combination with an identifier associated with your device to enable us to recognise your mobile browser or device when you return to the website/App. Delivery of location services will involve reference to one or more of the following: (a) the coordinates (latitude/longitude) of your location; (b) look-up of your country of location by reference to your IP address against public sources; and/or (c) your Identifier for Advertisers (IFA) code for your Apple device, or the Android ID for your Android device, or a similar device identifier. See our cookie policy for more information on the use of cookies and device identifiers on the website/Apps.

Except to the extent expressly set out in these terms of use, you are not allowed to:

  • store pages of the Site on a server or other storage device connected to a network or create an electronic database by systematically downloading and storing all of the pages of the Site
  • remove or change any content of the Site or attempt to circumvent security or interfere with the proper working of the Site or the servers on which it is hosted, or
  • create links to the Site from any other website, without our prior written consent, although you may link from a website that is operated by you provided the link is not misleading or deceptive and fairly indicates its destination, you do not imply that we endorse you, your website, or any products or services you offer, you link to (and do not frame or replicate) the home page of the Site, and the linked website does not contain any content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, indecent, offensive or which infringes on the intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party.

You must only use the Site and anything available from the Site for lawful purposes (complying with all applicable laws and regulations), in a responsible manner, and not in a way that might damage our name or reputation or that of any of our affiliates.

All rights granted to you under these terms of use will terminate immediately in the event that you are in breach of any of them.

  • the data subject (you) has given consent to the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes (“consent”);
  • the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract you are party to or in order to take steps at your request prior to you entering into a contract;
  • the processing is necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations;
  • the processing is necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate business interests;

All intellectual property rights in any content of the Site (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trade marks and logos) are owned by us or our licensors. Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these terms of use gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading content from the Site. In the event you print off, copy or store pages from the Site (only as permitted by these terms of use), you must ensure that any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced.

We may change the format and content of the Site from time to time. You agree that your use of the Site is on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis and at your sole risk.

Whilst we try to make sure that all information contained on the Site (other than any user-generated content) is correct, it is not intended to amount to authority or advice on which reliance should be placed. You should check with us or the relevant information source before acting on any such information.

We make or give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of any content of the Site and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind are hereby excluded and we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of you or anyone else using the Site or relying on any of its content.

We cannot and do not guarantee that any content of the Site will be free from viruses and/or other code that may have contaminating or destructive elements. It is your responsibility to implement appropriate IT security safeguards (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements as to the safety and reliability of content.

Use of your personal information submitted to or via the Site is governed by our Privacy and Cookies Policy.

The Site may, from time to time, include links to external sites, which may include links to third party offers and promotions. We include these to provide you with access to information, products or services that you may find useful or interesting. We are not responsible for the content of these sites or for anything provided by them and do not guarantee that they will be continuously available. The fact that we include links to such external sites does not imply any endorsement of or association with their operators or promoters.

Nothing in these terms of use shall limit or exclude our liability to you for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability that may not, under English law, be limited or excluded.

Subject to this, if you are a consumer and not a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any business losses, and if you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential losses, or for any loss of profit, revenue, contracts, data, goodwill or other similar losses, and any liability we do have for losses you suffer is strictly limited, in all cases, to losses that were reasonably foreseeable.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law, except that (if you are a consumer and not a business user) and if you live in a country (which, for these purposes, includes Scotland or Northern Ireland) of the European Union other than England, there may be certain mandatory applicable laws of your country which apply for your benefit and protection in addition to or instead of certain provisions of English law.

You agree that any dispute between you and us regarding these terms and conditions or the Site will only be dealt with by the English courts, except that (if you are a consumer and not a business user) and if you live in a country (which, for these purposes, includes Scotland or Northern Ireland) of the European Union other than England, you can choose to bring legal proceedings either in your country or in England, but if we bring legal proceedings, we may only do so in your country.

Please email any questions, concerns or comments you have about these terms or the Site: