Any use by you of this website ashbyandpartners.com (the ¨Site¨) is conditional upon your acceptance of these Terms & Conditions, including our Privacy Policy. Your use of the Site indicates that you accept these Terms & Conditions, regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. We reserve the right to amend these Terms & Conditions from time to time without notice and at our discretion. Any such amendments shall come into effect immediately once posted, therefore it is your responsibility to periodically review this page.

Your continued use of the Site will be deemed acceptance of any such amended Terms & Conditions.

IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

1. License

1.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Site solely for your lawful, personal, non—commercial use on the following basis:

• no text, documents, graphics, or other content on the Site are modified in any way;
• no graphics on the Site are used separately from accompanying text; and
• the Company’s copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies

1.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material and content on the Site (including, without limitation, text, images, web pages, sound, software (including code, interface and website structure), video, photographs, and graphical images, and the look and feel, design and compilation thereof) are owned by the Company. For the purposes of these Terms & Conditions, any use of extracts from the Site other than in accordance with paragraph 1.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of these Terms & Conditions, your permission to use the Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Site.

1.3 The Company is the owner of all trademarks, service marks, patents, copyrights, database rights, and all other intellectual property appearing on or contained within the Site, unless otherwise indicated.

1.4 Subject to paragraph 1.1, no part of the Site may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.

1.5 Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms & Conditions are reserved.

2. Service Access

2.1 While the Company endeavors to ensure that the Site is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3. Visitor Material and Conduct

3.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to the Site will be considered non—confidential and non—proprietary. The Company will have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate, and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non—commercial purposes.

3.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Site any material:

(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy, or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; (b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals; (c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party in the UK or any other country in the world; or (d) which is harmful in a technical sense (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4. Links to and from other Websites

4.1 Any links to third-party websites on the Site are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave the Site. The Company has not reviewed all of these third-party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content. The Company, therefore, does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

4.2 If you would like to link to the Site, you may only do so on the basis that you link to (but do not replicate) the home page of the Site.

5. Electronic Communications

When you visit the Site,  you are communicating with the Company electronically. The Company may communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Site. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This paragraph does not affect your statutory rights.

6. Indemnification

You will indemnify the Company against any loss, damage, or cost incurred by the Company arising out of your use of the Site, any of its services or any information accessible over or through the Site, including information obtained from linked sites, your submission or transmission of information or material on or through the Site or your violation of these Terms & Conditions or any other laws, regulations, and rules. You will also indemnify the Company against any claims that information or material which you have submitted to the Company is in violation of any law or in breach of any third party rights (including, without limitation, claims in respect of defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of confidence, infringement of copyright or infringement of any other intellectual property right). The Company reserves the right to exclusively defend and control any claims arising from the above and any such indemnification matters. You agree that you will fully cooperate with the Company in any such defenses.

7. Disclaimer

7.1This website (the "Site") is a general service that provides information over the Internet. We are not a law firm and our employees are not acting as your attorney. The information contained in the Site is general information and should not be construed as legal advice to be applied to any specific factual situation.

7.2 While the Company endeavors to ensure that the information on the Site is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on the Site. The Company may make changes to the material on the Site, or to the products, services, and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on the Site may be out of date and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

 

7.3 Ashby and Partners does not endorse any content provided by any linked sites, nor does it assume any responsibility for the interpretation or application of any information originating from such content. In addition, Ashby and Partners do not endorse any content contained in any advertising on the Site, nor does it assume any responsibility for the quality or integrity of such work.

8. Liability

8.1 The Company exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, whether in tort (including, without limitation, negligence) contract or otherwise) in connection with the Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Site, any websites linked to the Site or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing of the Site, or your uploading of any material to or your downloading of any material from the Site or any websites linked to the Site.

9. Entire Agreement

These Terms & Conditions, including the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company in relation to its subject matter and supersede any and all prior promises, representations, agreements, statements, and understandings whatsoever. The failure by the Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms & Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

10. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law in England and Wales. Disputes arising in connection with these Terms & Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in England and Wales.