Terms of Use

1. TERMS OF USE

1.1 This website (“the Site”) is comprised of various web-pages, which are owned operated, monitored and updated by William Sturges LLP.

1.2 William Sturges LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership constituted under the laws of England and regulated by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority. All the Partners of William Sturges LLP are solicitors qualified in England. If we provide legal advice at your request we do so only regarding the laws of England and not any other territory in any part of the world.

1.3 The Site is available subject to the terms conditions and notices contained herein (“the Terms of Use”), and the use of the Site constitutes agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices.

1.4 The Site is for your personal use only.

1.5 We make no promise that the Site is appropriate or available for use outside the United Kingdom. If you choose to access the Site from outside the United Kingdom, you are responsible for compliance with local laws where they apply.

2. MODIFICATION OF THE TERMS OF USE

2.1. We reserve the right to change the terms, conditions and notices relating to the Site, including but not limited to any changes associated with use of the Site, from time to time, and may notify you of such changes by any reasonable means, including by posting the revised version of the Terms of Use on the Site.

2.2 Your continued use of the Site following changes to the Terms of Use will constitute your acceptance of those changes. You can determine when we last changed the Terms of Use by referring to the Last Updated Statement below.

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

3.1 Unless otherwise stated, we and our licensors own the intellectual property rights to all text, pictures, videos, and any other content made available on the Site (Content).

3.2 Subject to the licence at Clause 4 below, we and our licensors reserve all our intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, all copyright, trade marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, patents and all other intellectual property rights of any kind) whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world. This means, for example, that we remain owners of them and are free to use them as we see fit and you must not, without the express prior permission in writing from us:

(i) remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights notice from the Site
(ii) remove any materials originating from the Site
(iii) print or otherwise make copies of any content of the Site

4. LICENCE TO USE THE SITE

Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you any legal rights in the Site or the Content other than the right to access it. You may view, download or print pages from the Site for your own personal use, for legal referencing and information purposes only but you may not:

(i) republish material from this website (including republication on another website)
(ii) sell, lease or otherwise sub-license material from the Site
(iii) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit any material on the Site or use or access any portion of the Site for a commercial purpose
(iv) try to circumvent or delete any notices contained on the Site or the Content (including any intellectual property notices) and in particular, in any digital rights or other security technology embedded or contained within the Site or the Content.

5. NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

Subject to Clause 4, as a condition of the use of the Site you will not use the Site for any purpose that is fraudulent, unlawful or prohibited by the Terms of Use.
You may not use the Site:

5.1 In any manner which could:

(i) damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site or the servers or networks used to make the Site available
(ii) violate any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of such networks
(iii) interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site

5.2 To defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights of others, including without limitation others’ privacy rights or rights of publicity.

5.3 To impersonate any person or entity, falsely stated or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with the Site; or express or imply that we endorse any statement(s) you make.

5.4 To obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided through the Site.

5.5 To misuse or attack our Site by introducing any virus, worm, Trojan, malware programme or other computer code that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software, or equipment.

5.6 To modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Site.

5.7 To frame or mirror any part of the Site without our express prior written consent.

5.8 To create a database by systematically downloading and storing Site content.

5.9 To use any manual or automatic device in any way to gather Site content or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site without our express prior written consent.

5.10 To attempt to gain access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site.

6. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES

6.1 The Site provides links to other websites and online resources. We have no direct involvement in the monitoring of these websites and are not responsible for the content of any third party website, including without limitation any link contained within a third party website, or any changes or updates to a third party website.

6.2 We are not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any third party website. The links are available to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by us of the website or any association with its operators.

6.3 Your use of any third party links on the Site is at their own risk.

7. MATERIALS PROVIDED TO US OR POSTED ON THE SITE

Your privacy and personal information are important to us. Any personal information that you provide to us will be dealt with in accordance with our Privacy Policy , which explains what personal information we collect from you, how and why we collect, store, use and share such information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

7.1 The Site does not require you to provide any personal information in order to use most of this Site. Certain services may require you to supply personal information.

7.2 We may send information to you by email or post which we think may be of interest to you. You can inform us at any time if you no longer require such information to be sent by emailing us at law@williamsturges.co.uk

8. ACCESS TO THE SITE

8.1 You are responsible for all access to the Site using your Internet connection, even if the access is by another user.

8.2 We reserve the right to restrict your access to the Site or part of it. Access to restricted areas of the Site may be subject to registration and other conditions.

8.3 Where we grant you permission to access a restricted area, we may withdraw that permission at any time (including where you are in breach any of the Terms of Use).

8.4 We will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site is available at all times. However, we do not guarantee that the Site or any individual function or feature of the Site will always be available and/or error free. In particular, the Site may be unavailable during periods when we are implementing upgrades to or carrying out essential maintenance on the Site.

8.5 Links to the Site are not permitted without our written consent.

8.6 We may suspend or terminate access or operation of the Site at any time as we see fit.

9. LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

9.1 The Site is provided on an ‘as is’ basis without warranty or condition of any kind and we make no representation as to the quality, completeness or accuracy of any content made available on the Site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude:

(i) all conditions, warranties and other terms that might otherwise be implied by law into the Terms of Use; and
(ii) any and all liability to you, whether arising under the Terms of Use or otherwise in connection with your use of the Site.
This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.

9.2 Notwithstanding Clause 9.1 nothing in the Terms of Use is intended to exclude or limit any liability that may not by law be excluded or limited (such as for death or personal injury), and in particular none of the exclusions and limitations in this clause is intended to limit any rights you may have as a consumer under local law or other statutory rights which may not be excluded, nor in any way to exclude or limit our liability to you for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees or agents.

9.3 Any material appearing on the Site is of general interest only and does not constitute legal advice from us. All material received from the Site should not be relied upon for personal, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.

9.4 Our general terms and conditions of business is available here. The terms and conditions of business will prevail in the event of a conflict between those terms and the Terms of Use of this Site.

9.5 Under the Data Protection 2018 you may request details of personal information that we hold about you which is set out in more detail in our Privacy Policy.