Legal Index (Ireland) Limited General User Terms

Welcome to Legal Index. Please take time to read our General User Terms.

These General User Terms (“General User Terms” or “User Terms”) are entered into and agreed to by Legal Index (Ireland) Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Ireland, and its Affiliates, and all users of the Legal Index Sites and Services (“Sites and Services”) as a condition of accessing and using those Sites and Services. Among other things, these General User Terms govern use of the Sites and participation in listings.

Users to whom these General User Terms apply may include, without limitation: solicitors, solicitor firms, individuals using the site, industry insiders and media relations professionals (each a “User” or “You”).

We reserve the right to update or otherwise modify these General User Terms from time to time. You are responsible for checking these General User Terms periodically for changes and updates. Your use of the Sites and Services following such posted changes and updates constitutes acceptance of such changes and updates.

NONE OF THE INFORMATION ON OUR SITES IS LISTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING LEGAL ADVICE. WE ARE NOT A LEGAL SERVICE FIRM. WE DO NOT OFFER LEGAL ADVICE IN ANY CAPACITY. WE PROVIDE LISTINGS OF SOLICITORS AND FIRMS FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT CONSTITUTES A SOLICITOR CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. ANY DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND A SOLICITOR FIRM DETAILS OF WHICH YOU RECEIVED FROM ONE OF OUT SITES MUST BE DEALT WITH BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR CHOSEN SOLICITOR.

BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SITES AND SERVICES, YOU ATTEST THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE GENERAL USER TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITES OR SERVICES.

In consideration of the premises set forth above, you the User hereby agree as follows:

DEFINITIONS:

For a glossary of definitions used in these General User Terms, please click here

ELIGIBILITY:

The Sites and Services are intended solely for Users who are 18 years of age or older. Any access to or use of the Sites or Services by anyone under 18 is expressly prohibited. By accessing or using the Sites or Services you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older.

ACCOUNT REGISTRATION:

To the extent our Sites and Services require a User Account

User Accounts:

When creating a User Account, you agree to: (i) provide and keep current accurate and complete information about yourself and your company (“Information”); (ii) maintain the confidentiality of your Account and log-in credentials, if applicable; and (iii) restrict access to all others. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your Account. If we have reasonable grounds to suspect that the information you provide is inaccurate, incomplete or impersonates another person, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Account. All Information will be stored and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy

For guidance on Vendor Accounts, please see our General Vendor Terms.

USE OF WEBSITE:

By accessing and using our Sites, you acknowledge that you are responsible for your actions and for all User Content you post. You represent and warrant, to the best of your knowledge:

That you have all necessary right, power and authority to enter into these General User Terms and to fulfil your contractual obligations hereunder;
That any and all information you post or provide, including, without limitation, as part of any registration or application or to gain access to the Sites or Services, is true, accurate and not misleading and that you will not allow any other person or entity to use your Account;
That the information and User Content you upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available to us or on our Sites, including without limitation reviews, trademarks, logos and screenshots, is accurate and free of third party encumbrances;
That you will, when posting User Content on our Sites bear all liability related to your submission of such User Content through our Sites and/or Services;
That you will not post or otherwise provide User Content that is unlawful, tortious, malicious, defamatory, infringing, libellous, abusive, disparaging, paedophilic, pornographic, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, promotes illegal activities/conduct or violates local, state, national or other applicable laws or regulations;
That you will not post or otherwise provide User Content that you do not have the right to make available under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as insider information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or information protected under nondisclosure agreements);
That you will not post or otherwise provide User Content that contains a software virus or any other code files or programs with the ability to interrupt, destroy, compromise, or otherwise limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
That you will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers for the purpose of disguising the origin of any User Content posted on the Sites;
That you will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information of the Website or our listed firms without our express written consent;
That you will not avoid, bypass, reverse engineer, interfere with, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technical measure implemented by us to administer and protect our Sites and Services;
That you will not use any automated means or form of data scraping or data extraction to access, query, download or otherwise collect Our Content or related information from our Site (except as expressly permitted by us) or otherwise without authorisation use or upload Our Content; or create new links, reposts, or referrals through the use of any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including automated scripts, spiders, robots, crawlers and data mining tools);
That you will not duplicate, download, publish, modify or otherwise distribute Our Content for any purpose other than for your own individual use;
That you will not collect or “harvest” from our Sites the personal information (“Information”) of other Users without their consent for the purpose of transmitting unsolicited commercial mass mailings, “spamming” or for any other unlawful purpose; and
That you will not access our Sites and Services by any means other than through interfaces expressly authorised by us and these General User Terms.

At our discretion, we may, but are not obligated to, monitor and terminate User activity on our Sites, and/or edit or remove User Content, which violates or otherwise fails to comply with these General User Terms.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:

Our Sites are comprised of Content created by us, our Partners and our Users. This section sets out the ownership and usage rights for each type of Content.

Our IP:

Our Sites and all intellectual property rights therein, including without limitation the listings we create from publicly available or licensed Content, our Services and/or our domain names (collectively, “Legal Index (Ireland) IP”), is the property of Legal Index (Ireland) Limited, its Affiliates and/or its authorised licensors, and is protected by Irish. and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.

We grant to User a worldwide, revocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, view and download the Legal Index (Ireland) Limited IP for User’s personal, non-commercial use in accordance with these General User Terms and applicable Irish and international copyright laws.

Except to the extent otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, User will not copy, reproduce, modify, use, distribute, display, create derivative works of or otherwise exploit the Legal Index (Ireland) Limited IP without the express written consent of Legal Index (Ireland) Limited or the applicable copyright owner.

User IP:

User certifies that User owns or has secured all necessary intellectual property rights in the Content that User uploads, posts, e-mails, transmits or otherwise makes available to us or on our Sites (“User IP”), and User further agrees to be liable for all such User IP.

By posting User IP on our Sites or otherwise submitting to User IP to us, User grants to to us, our Affiliates and Partners a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, communicate and distribute (either electronically or via other media now known or hereafter devised) the User IP in the ordinary course of our business.

All intellectual property rights not expressly granted hereunder are expressly reserved to us.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and will not tolerate infringing activity on our Sites.

If you are a copyright owner or agent, and you believe your rights under applicable Copyright laws are being infringed by us or another person or entity using our Sites or Services, you may submit to our Designated Copyright Agent copyright@legalindexireland.com a written which includes the following information:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the work(s) that has/have been allegedly infringed;
Identification of the work or material being infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
Your contact information, including phone number and e-mail address at which you may be contacted;
Your good faith statement that the use of the work or material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in your notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the allegedly infringed copyright.

We reserve the right to seek damages from any person who knowingly, materially submits a notification claim under this section in violation of the law.

DATA PROTECTION:

Each of us and User agrees, in fulfilling its respective obligations under these General User Terms, to comply with all applicable data privacy legislation and with the terms of our Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use and safeguard your personal information (Information) to administer your Services and Site experience. By communicating with us via e-mail or by submitting content, including reviews or any other transactional exchange on our Sites, you consent to receive e-mail or other electronic communications from us and our Affiliates. We also take Security seriously and endeavour through the use of industry standard technical, physical and operational controls to ensure that our Services and Sites are compliant with all applicable laws.

REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES:

User represents and warrants to the best of its knowledge: (i) that it has all necessary right, power and authority to enter into these General User Terms and to fulfil its contractual obligations hereunder; (ii) that the information that it uploads, posts, e-mails, transmits, or otherwise makes available to us or on our Sites, including without limitation content, reviews, screenshots, is accurate and free of third party encumbrances; (iii) that it has not breached any third party rights, including without limitation: intellectual property, publicity or privacy, consumer protection, tort and product liability rights; (iv) that it complies with all applicable security standards and is free from any viruses, including without limitation malware or Trojan horses; and (v) that it complies with all applicable laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations.

DISCLAIMER:

YOUR USE OF OUR SITES AND SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR SITES AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, TITLE, CUSTOM, TRADE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY OF INFORMATIONAL CONTENT OR SYSTEM INTEGRATION. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT OUR SITES WILL BE SECURE, AVAILABLE OR OPERATE IN AN UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE MANNER; THAT ERRORS OR DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE CONTENT ON OUR SITES IS ACCURATE OR APPROPRIATE FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.

INDEMNIFICATION:

Each of us and User (in its capacity as “Indemnitor”) agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other party, its agents, affiliates and employees (in its capacity as “Indemnitee”) from and against any and all third party claims, liabilities, losses and expenses (including damage awards, settlement amounts and reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to a violation of these General User Terms, except to the extent such losses and expenses arise from the negligence or wilful misconduct of Indemnitee.

TERMINATION:

Termination by Us:

We reserve the right in our sole discretion, without penalty and at any time without notice, to modify or discontinue (temporarily or permanently) User’s access to our Sites and Services, or any part thereof if we believe that User is violating these General User Terms. If User uses or attempts to use our Sites and/or Services for any purpose that contravenes these General User Terms (including without limitation tampering, hacking, data scraping, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of our Sites and Services), User may also be subject to civil and criminal liability.

Termination for Convenience by User:

User may terminate its User Account at any time by sending an email request to privacy@legalindexireland.com. We will endeavour to remove your User Account within 5 (five) business days. While you still may be able to access certain portions our Sites and Services following termination of your Account, you will no longer have access to the full functionality. By Us: We may in our sole discretion terminate your User Account, or impose limits on or restrict your access to parts or all of our Sites and/or Services at any time, without notice or liability.

For guidance on termination of vendor accounts, please see our General Listing Terms.

FORCE MAJEURE:

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay of performance under these General User Terms resulting from a force majeure event beyond the reasonable control of a party, including without limitation, natural disasters, acts of God, government regulations, war, terrorism, labour disputes and power failures.

GOVERNING LAW:

These General User Terms are governed by the laws of Ireland except for its conflicts of interest principles. All claims arising out of or relating to these General User Terms will be litigated exclusively in the courts of Ireland and each of legalindexireland.com User consents to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

WAIVER & SEVERABILITY:

Our failure to act with respect to a breach of these General User Terms will not constitute a waiver and does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. If any of these General User Terms shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable under applicable law, then that term shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining term or provision of these General User Terms.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT:

These General User Terms, along with our General Vendor Terms and our Privacy Policy and Glossary of Definitions and further terms that may be contained on our websites constitute the entire and exclusive agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof; and supersede, replace any/or nullify any conflicting or additional terms.

Terms Last Updated: January 2019