SHIRE LAW GROUP, PC ® WEBSITE USE TERMS
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Thank you for visiting www.shirelawgroup.com (“our Site”). Our Site is comprised of various web pages operated by the Shire Law Group, PC® (“Shire Law Group”). Use of our Site is conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained in our Website Use (the “Terms”). Please read all Terms carefully. By using our Site, you represent and warrant that you have read and understood, and agree to be bound by, the Terms and Shire Law Group’s Privacy Notice. By using our Site, you further represent and warrant that you are 18 years old or older, and that You are otherwise legally qualified to enter into contracts under applicable law. You agree to abide by the Terms, as they may be amended by Shire Law Group from time to time in its sole discretion. The most current version of the Terms supersedes all previous versions.
If you do not understand the Terms, do not agree to be bound by it or the Privacy Notice, or are not legally qualified to enter into contracts, you must immediately leave the website. If you have any questions or concerns with the Terms, contact us at:
Attention: Alan R. Press, Attorney
Shire Law Group, PC®
1 Overlook Point
Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069
Telephone number:
847-955-9000
Privacy Notice
Shire Law Group respects your privacy. A complete statement of Shire Law Group’s Privacy Notice can be found on our Site. Shire Law Group’s Privacy Notice is expressly incorporated into the Terms by this reference.
INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY
THE WEBSITE DOES NOT CONTAIN OR CONSTITUTE, AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS LEGAL ADVICE OR OPINION. Accessing information on our Site does not create an attorney-client relationship, and you should not act upon this information without seeking professional counsel.
By accessing our Site, you acknowledge and agree that any communication or material you transmit to the Shire Law Group, in any manner and for any reason, will not be treated as confidential or proprietary. You further acknowledge your use of the website does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the Shire Law Group. Similarly, the transmission of information to and from the Shire Law Group by means of our Site is not an attorney-client communication, and you agree that no client/attorney relationship is formed and neither of you nor the Shire Law Group has the power or the authority to obligate or bind the other.
Unless and until you have executed and returned an engagement agreement, and Shire Law Firm has confirmed its receipt, no attorney-client relationship exists. Until you are a client of the Shire Law Group, information provided by you to Shire Law Group may not be protected by the
attorney-client privilege.
The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Shire Law Group from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the content accessed through our Site in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.
COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS
When accessing our Site or using any services connected with our Site (“Services”), you warrant to Shire Law Group that you will not use our Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited or interferes with the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Service and the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.
All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of the Shire Law Group or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. Our Site’s content is not for resale. Your use of our Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of the Shire Law Group and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of the Shire Law Group or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of our Site or Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for You, or logging onto a server or account that You are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, our Site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to our Site or Service, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing;” (d) using our Site or Service to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by Shire Law Group in providing our Site or Service. Any violation of system or network security may subject You to civil and/or criminal liability.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Shire Law Group, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use our Site or Service, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Shire Law Group reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Shire Law Group in asserting any available defenses.
Shire Law Group is making our Site available “as is” without warranty of any kind. You assume the risk of any and all damage or loss from use of, or inability to use, our Site. Shire Law Group expressly disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, regarding the site, including but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Shire Law Group does not warrant that our Site or the Service will meet your requirements or that the operation of the Site or Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to the negligence of Shire Law Group, its agents or service providers, shall Shire Law Group, its agents or service providers be liable for any consequential, direct, incidental, indirect, punitive, or special damages, without limitation, that arise out of or in any way are connected with (a) the use or performance of, (b) the delay or inability to use, or (c) errors or omissions in the contents and functions of our Site or related services, even if Shire Law Group or any of its agents or service providers has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Shire Law Group and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on our site for any purpose. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided “as is” without warranty or condition of any kind. Shire Law Group and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
Some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages. Accordingly, the above limitation may not apply to you. if you are dissatisfied with any portion of the site, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site.
Third Party Services, including but not limited to Dropbox and Facebook Advertising and Google Website Optimizer and Analytics, may collect your IP address, record the pages you visit on our website, and set cookies that will enable widgets to function properly. Your interactions with these widgets are governed by the Privacy Notice of the company providing them, not by this Privacy Notice.
To make our Site and related services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third-party service provider) collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data from you, such as browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit.
Because neither Shire Law Group nor our Site has control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, Shire Law Group makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites. By visiting or using Third-Party Websites, you assume all responsibility and liability for all resulting harms, whether to you or to any third party, including without limitation as resulting from your downloading or use of any content, software or other materials available therefrom.
Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our application. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Privacy Notice of the company providing it.
RESTRICTED ACCESS
Shire Law Group reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate or restrict your access to our Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Illinois in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of our Site. Use of our Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Shire Law Group as a result of this agreement or use of our Site. Shire Law Group’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of the Shire Law Group’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of our Site or information provided to or gathered by the Shire Law Group with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement and Shire Law Group’s Privacy Policy constitutes the entire agreement between the user and the Shire Law Group with respect to our Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and the Shire Law Group with respect to our Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent an d subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.
November 7, 2019