WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These website terms of and conditions (Terms and Conditions) govern how the use of our website and legal content, as well as the other resources found on our website (the Site). This Site is owned and operated by Empower Legal Solutions ABN 26 492 758 387.
By using this Site, you indicate that you have read and understood these Terms and Conditions and agree to abide by them at all times. In these Terms and Conditions, the terms we, us or our means Empower Legal Solutions.
How you consent to these Site Terms and Conditions
If you access or use, or download any of our information, you are taken to have agreed to these Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy, found below (Terms). We ask you to please read these Terms carefully. If you don’t agree with our Terms, then you must cease using our Site immediately.
The information on our Site is general information only
Please note that materials and content on this Site are not comprehensive. Our Site is designed for you to be able to inform yourself, generally, of common legal concepts and issues. Our Site is not deemed to be legal advice. Before you act, or rely on any information contained on our Site, you need to seek your own legal or other advice.
While we use reasonable effort to ensure that our information is accurate, current and complete, we don’t represent, warrant or guarantee its accuracy, currency or completeness (to the maximum extent permitted by law).
Using this Site doesn’t mean that you become our client, or that we become your lawyers
If you use this Site, receive any information from us or download any information from our Site, this does not mean that we become your lawyers or that a solicitor-client relationship is created.
Acceptable Use
As a user of our Site, you agree to use our Site legally and appropriately, not to use our Site for illegal purposes, and not to:
do anything that would be a breach of any other person’s privacy (including if you upload personal information about an individual without their consent) or any other legal rights;
use our SIte to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person;
interfere with anyone using our Site;
tamper with or modifying our Site, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our Site, including using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our Site;
use our Site to send unsolicited email messages; or
F. violate the intellectual property rights of the Site owners or any third party to the Site;
G. hack into the account of user of the Site;
H. act in any way that could be considered fraudulent; or
I. post any material that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive.
facilitate or assist a third party to do any of the above acts.
If we believe you are using our Site illegally or in a manner that violates these Terms and Conditions, we reserve the right to limit, suspend or terminate your access to our Site. We also reserve the right to take any legal steps necessary to prevent you from accessing our Site.
Intellectual Property
All content published and made available on our Site is our property. This includes, but is not limited to images, text, logos, documents, downloadable files and anything that contributes to the composition of our Site.
So that you can use and access our Site, we grant you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, worldwide, non-transferable licence to use our Site in accordance with these Terms. All other uses of our Site are prohibited unless we give you our written consent.
Providing us with testimonials
If you review us, or provide us with a testimonial, you permit us to post or otherwise transmit the review or testimonial on our social media or other channels. You can email us and ask us not to do this, at any time.
Third Party Links
Our Site may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Unless we tell you otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites. We recommend that you make your own investigations to ensure those websites are suitable for you.
Changes and variations to these Terms and Conditions
These Terms and Conditions may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to the way we operate our Site and the way we expect users to behave on our Site. We may at any time and at our discretion vary these Terms and Conditions by publishing the varied Terms and Conditions. The Terms and Conditions are subject to change without notice.
Discontinuing our Site
We have a right to discontinue this Site. This can be at any time and may be without notice. We may also exclude any person from using our Site, at any time and at our sole discretion. We are not responsible for any liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.
Warranties and disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our Site, including that:
they are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;
access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses; or
our Site will be secure.
You read, use and act on our Site and the information at your own risk.
Our liability is limited
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (Liability) suffered by you or any third party, arising from or in connection with your use of our Site and/or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage of our Site and/or any loss or corruption of data and/or the fact that the information is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.
Indemnity
Except where prohibited by law, by using this Site you indemnify and hold harmless and our directors, officers, agents, employees, subsidiaries and affiliates from any actions, claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses including legal fees arising out of your use of our Site or your violation of these Terms and Conditions.
This indemnity is a continuing obligation, independent from the other obligations under these Terms, and continues after these Terms end. It is not necessary for us to suffer or incur any Liability before enforcing a right of indemnity under these Terms.
Jurisdiction
Use of our Site and these Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in Victoria and any courts entitled to hear appeals from those courts and waive any right to object to proceedings being brought in those courts.
If you access our Site and you are based overseas, we do not represent that our Site complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of the country in which you reside (if you reside outside Australia). You are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our Site and please note that you access our Site at your own risk.
Contact Details
Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns at:
Empower Legal Solutions ABN 26 492 758 387
PO Box 277 Doncaster VIC 3108