Terms & conditions

INTERPRETATION

In these Terms and Conditions, the following words and phrases shall bear the following meanings:
- "The Lawyer.com" is a product owned and operated by The Lawyer Group, which is a division of Centaur Communications Ltd ('Centaur'), whose registered office is at St. Giles House, 50 Poland Street, London, W1F 7AX.
- "Services" means services provided by The Lawyer.com and includes but is not limited to "Lawyer News" and "Lawyer News Weekly", "LawyerJobs" and "LawyerJobs Alert", "Lawyer Diary" and "Lawyer Diary Events Alerter", "Lawyer Directories", and "LawZone", "LawZone Newswire" and "LawZone Specialist Newswires".
- "User" means any person who accesses or uses The Lawyer.com or any of the Services.
- "Data" means data or information in any format, whether existing at the time of registration or not, which is communicated or transmitted to the User in accordance with a Service.
- "Personal Information" means Personal Data as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 as amended.

USER RESPONSIBILITIES

1. By accessing or using any of the Services the User acknowledges and agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
2. The User agrees to fully comply with these Terms and Conditions, including the acceptance of liability as detailed in clauses 4 and 5.
3. Each User is allocated a unique user name and password for the authorised use of the User only. These are not transferable, and the User shall keep them strictly confidential and secure.
4. The User shall indemnify Centaur against any unauthorised use of his/her user name and password, including use by a third party where the User has allowed or facilitated that third party to have access to any Data received in conjunction with any of the Services, however so received.
5. The User shall indemnify Centaur against all costs, claims, demands or expenses incurred by or made against Centaur or The Lawyer.com as a result of any breach of these Terms and Conditions or howsoever arising.

PRIVACY POLICY

6. Centaur takes the privacy of its Users seriously. It is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its Users. Please refer to Centaur's Privacy Policy.

LIABILITY

7. Centaur, its agents or representatives shall have no liability whatsoever to the User for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or special loss or damage, cost or expense suffered or incurred by the User (whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise, and whether arising from the negligence, breach of contract, defamation, infringement of copyright or other intellectual rights) caused by use of The Lawyer.com or from the negligence of its employees or agents or licensors, and whether asserted against Centaur, The Lawyer.com or against any third party in relation to the use of Services.
8. Centaur does not make any representation or give any warranty, either express or implied:
- in relation to any information, goods or services offered, accessed or obtained through The Lawyer.com;
· in relation to warrantees of title, non infringement of copyright or patent rights of others, merchantability, or fitness or suitability for any purpose;
· for the content, accuracy, integrity, lawfulness or otherwise of information on websites over which Centaur has no control;
· as to the suitability of the information and data on The Lawyer.com site for any particular purpose;
· that the information and data on The Lawyer.com site is free of infection by computer viruses or other contamination.
9. Centaur and its agents or representatives do not endorse or in any respect warrant any third party products or services by virtue of any information, material or content referred to, or included on, or linked from or to The Lawyer.com site or services.
10. The Lawyer.com site and The Lawyer.com Services do not purport to provide legal or other professional advice. Centaur is not responsible for Users taking or refraining from taking actions on the basis of information provided by The Lawyer.com or The Lawyer.com Services.
11. Although every care is taken in the preparation of information supplied by The Lawyer.com and The Lawyer.com services, Centaur is not responsible for any loss suffered as a result of any action taken or refrained from being taken as a result of any information contained in The Lawyer.com site or supplied by The Lawyer.com.

TRADE MARKS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

12. All rights in "The Lawyer", "The Lawyer.com", "Lawyer News" and "Lawyer News Weekly", "LawyerJobs" and "LawyerJobs Alert", "Lawyer Diary" and "Lawyer Diary Events Alerter", "Lawyer Directories", and "LawZone" and other marks owned by Centaur are reserved.

MISCELLANEOUS

13. Centaur reserves the right to prohibit access by person(s) to the Services at its sole discretion.
14. Centaur reserves the right to remove, alter, change or vary the Services at any time without notice.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

15. The provision of the Services is governed by the Laws of England and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

VARIATION

16. Centaur reserves the right to vary or amend these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice.