About Verity Legal Partners

 

Welcome to Verity Legal Partners

These terms and conditions of use ("Terms") cover your use and access to verity-legal.com website and its associated services and content (collectively "Website"). By accessing and using the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms as well as our Privacy Policy. You may use the Website only if you have the right and legal capacity to enter into this agreement and to adhere to the Terms. You warrant that you are a human individual that is the legal age of majority in your state of residence (but not less than 21 years of age) and that you are not a bot, script or other computer or machine, excluding search engine spiders that comply with the Website’s robots.txt file.  You warrant that you are not prohibited from assenting to this agreement by any pre-existing agreement. You declare that you understand English. If you are using the website on behalf of the third party including but not limited to a business entity, you warrant that you are authorized and have the authority to bind that third party to the Terms. Verity Legal Partners provides a platform for legal services and information. The information provided by VLP along with the content on the Website related to legal matters ("Legal Information") is provided for your private use and does not constitute legal advice. Your use of the Services does not create a lawyer-client relationship between you and VLP, or between you and any VLP employee or representative. Unless you are otherwise represented by a lawyer, including a Participating Lawyer, you represent yourself in any legal matter you undertake through the Website.

 

 

Interactions with Lawyers and/or Staff on the Website

When you use the Website, you will have the opportunity to contact with staff and/or lawyer(s) of VLP. Communicating with staff and/or Lawyers through the Website is not always required. However, if you are in communication through the Website, please note the following: When you are contacted by a Lawyer through the Website, he or she may provide you with an initial consultation, legal review of your documents, or answers to your legal questions. Please note that any such interaction is intended to be a starting point for dealing with a legal matter or addressing basic legal questions. If you wish to create a lawyer-client relationship with VLP that extends beyond your use of our the Website, that relationship will be on whatever terms establish by VLP, wherein you may be asked to sign a formal representation agreement regarding the scope of work they will perform, the cost of their legal services, and the handling of any out of pocket expenses they may incur. Verity Legal Partners reserves the right to refuse to perform legal services on your behalf in their sole discretion.

 

 

Ownership and Preservation of Your Documents

Verity Legal Partners does not claim ownership of any documents you either create or upload and store using the Website ("Documents"). You grant permission for VLP to use your Documents in connection with providing any services to you. You agree that VLP has no responsibility or liability for deleting or failing to store any content maintained or uploaded by the Website.

 

 

Acceptable Use of Communications Services

The Website includes what is collectively called "Communication Services." This includes services such as Ask a Lawyer. You agree to use the Communication Service only to post, send, and receive messages or materials proper to and related to the particular Communication Service. When using a Communication Service, you agree that you will not do any of the following: Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others. Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any names, materials, or information that is considered inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful. Create a false identity, represent yourself as someone else, or otherwise falsify or delete in an uploaded file any significant attributions or notices. Upload corrupted files, files that contain viruses, or any other files that may damage the operation of another's computer. Advertise, offer to sell, or offer to buy anything for business purposes except to the limited extent any particular Communication Service specifically allows such activity. Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services. Harvest or otherwise collect personally identifiable information about others, without their consent. Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines, which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service. Violate any applicable laws or regulations. We, Verity Legal Partners reserve the right, in our own discretion, to review and remove materials posted to a Communication Service, in whole or in part. VLP reserves the right to disclose any materials posted, information or activity as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.

 

 

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

You can only use the services of the Website if they do not conflict with or violate the laws of your jurisdiction(s). The availability of the Website in your jurisdiction(s) is not an invitation or offer by VLP to access or use the Website. By using the Website, you accept the sole responsibility that you or any family member's use of or access to the Website does not violate any applicable laws in your jurisdiction(s). The following are specifically excluded or prohibited: Use in connection with any legal matter that is frivolous, immaterial or illegal in nature, as determined by VLP in its own sole discretion; Use in connection with any legal matter involving an alleged violent crime; Use in connection with any legal matter that, as determined by VLP in its sole discretion, lacks sufficient merit to warrant pursuit or that has been raised an excessive or unreasonable number of times without a change in circumstances; Use in connection with any legal matter that directly or indirectly involves VLP or any of its affiliates, directors, agents, employees, or other VLP service providers; You may not hack, "scrape" or "crawl" verity-legal.com  whether directly or through intermediaries such as spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds, or otherwise access or attempt to access any information VLP has not intentionally made available to you on the Website. Your use of the Website does not entitle you to resell any its content without prior express written consent from VLP.

 

 

Legal Services for Consumers and Refund Policy

The Website provides a number of methods by which you can purchase legal services or have a direct, confidential discussion of your legal issues with a Lawyer. Some of these methods involve VLP processing a transaction on your behalf. You are liable for paying the service provider for the services delivered. VLP reserves the right to revise its Fees, including by increasing or adding new Fees, at any time on ten (10) days’ notice. Such notice may be sent to you by email to your most recently provided email address or posted on the Website or by any other manner chosen by VLP in its commercially reasonable discretion. You will be deemed to have received any such notice that is posted on the Website on the day it was posted.

 

 

License Grant

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Website as we intend for them to be used. As a Website user, you are licensed to keep, for your own personal records, electronic or physical copies of documents you have created on the Website. Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by VLP. When you transmit user content on the Website, you hereby grant VLP and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any such content, including throughout the world in any media. If you submit feedback or suggestions about the Website, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights

VLP retains all right, title and interest in and to its products and services, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, service marks, copyrights, photographs, videos, music, and all related intellectual property rights. Except as otherwise provided in this agreement, you may not, and may not permit others to: (i) reproduce, modify, translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or create derivative works of any of our products and services; (ii) sell, license, sublicense, rent, lease, distribute, copy, publicly display, publish, adapt or edit any of our products and services; or (iii) circumvent or disable any security or technological features of our products and services.

 

 

Links to Third Party Sites

The Website may contain links to third-party resources and businesses on the Internet, called here "links" or "Linked Sites." Those links are provided for your convenience to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest to you. VLP does not sponsor and is not legally associated with any third party Linked Sites. VLP is not legally authorized to use any trade name, registered trademark, logo, official seal or copyrighted material that may appear in the link. VLP does not control, endorse or monitor the contents of any Linked Site. That includes, without limitation, any further link contained in a Linked Site, and any changes or updates to a Linked Site. VLP is not responsible for webcasting or for any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. These Terms do not cover your interaction with Linked Sites. You should carefully review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third party sites. If you use any service provided on a Linked Site, (a) VLP will not be responsible for any act or omission of the third party, including the third party's access to or use of your customer data and (b) VLP does not warrant or support any service provided by the third party.

 

 

Disclaimer of Representations and Liability

The information, software, products, and services made available through the Website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. VLP and/or its affiliates may at any time make improvements or changes to the Website. Information received via the Website should not be relied upon for personal, medical, legal, or financial decisions. You should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation. In short, your use of the Website is at your own risk.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, VLP and its affiliates, make no warranties, either express or implied, about the Website, which is provided “As is”. We also disclaim any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

 

 

Indemnity and Release

You agree to release, indemnify and hold Legal VLP and its affiliates and their respective partners, employees and staff harmless from any and all losses, damages, expenses, including reasonable lawyers' fees, rights, claims, actions of any kind and injury (including death) arising out of any third party claims relating to your use of the Website, your violation of these Terms or your violation of any rights of another.

 

 

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall VLP or any of its affiliates, or any of their respective partners, employees and staff, be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (a) the outcome of any legal matter; (b) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Website; (c) any conduct or content of any third party relating to the Website; or (d) unauthorized access, use or alteration of legal information.

 

 

Modifications

VLP may, from time to time, modify, limit, change, discontinue, or replace the Website. VLP reserves the right to modify, limit, change, discontinue, or replace the Website in its sole and absolute discretion. In the event VLP modifies, limits, changes, or replaces the Website, your use of the Website after said modification, limitation, change, or replacement constitutes your manifestation of assent to the modification, limitation, change, or replacement. By using or continuing to use or access the Website after any revisions have come into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.

 

 

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and VLP with respect to the subject matter of these Terms and supersede and replace any prior version of the Terms. These Terms create no third-party beneficiary rights.

 

 

Questions & Contact Information

Verity Legal Partners welcomes your comments. Please send us your inquiries via the Contact us form or by email info@verity-legal.com