Site Terms of Use
This website located at the internet address www.laurierlawyers.com.au and which may be available through other addresses or channels (Site) is operated by H Mumford Pty Ltd A.C.N. 679 743 670 ATF the LL Trust trading as Laurier Lawyers A.B.N. 25 7975 17271 (we, our or us).
Consent: As consideration for us allowing you (User or you) to view, access and use our Site, you agree to the following terms of use (Terms). Please read these Terms carefully and immediately cease using our Site if you do not agree to them.
Privacy Policy: In using the Site, you are deemed to also accept the terms of our Privacy Policy available on our Site.
Changes to Terms: We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied terms on our Site. We recommend you check our Site regularly to ensure you are aware of our current terms. Materials, documents, information, graphics, all the works shown in physical form and any feature or facility that appears on the Site for Users to use that is not Content located on this Site (Content) are subject to change without notice. We do not undertake to keep our Site up-to-date and we are not liable if any Content is inaccurate or out-of-date.
Licence to use 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 are prohibited without our prior written consent.
Prohibited conduct: In your access and use of this Site you must not:
(a) use our Site, or any of the Content for commercial purposes, including any advertising or advertising revenue generation activity on your own Site or any other platform, without obtaining a licence to do so from us;
(b) data mine or conduct automated searches on our Site or the Content, whether using additional software or otherwise;
(c) use, reproduce, communicate, publish, or distribute any of the Content, unless this constitutes a fair dealing for the purposes of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (Act);
(d) other than for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Act as otherwise provided for in this copyright notice, without our prior written permission reproduce, adapt, store in a retrieval system or transmit any part of the Content in any form or by any means (including framing, screen scraping, electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying or recording);
(e) abuse, defame, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate our legal rights;
(f) frame or mirror our Site;
(g) delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded;
(h) do anything that is unlawful;
(i) do anything prohibited by any laws applicable to our Site;
(j) do anything which we would consider inappropriate;
(k) advertise or offer to sell any goods or services, or conduct or forward surveys, contests, or chain letters from our Site or our domain;
(l) do or attempt to do anything which might bring us or our Site into disrepute, including (without limitation):
(i) undertake any act that would constitute a breach of an individual’s privacy (including uploading private or personal information without an individual’s consent) or any other legal rights;
(ii) use our Site to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person;
(iii) interfere with any user using our Site;
(iv) tamper with, hinder the operation of, or modify our Site or any of its Content, knowingly transmit viruses or other disabling features, damage or interfere with our Site, including (without limitation) using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our Site;
(v) use our Site or domain to send commercial, unsolicited or bulk electronic messages to anyone or in any other way which would constitute an infringement of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth); or
(m) facilitate or assist a third party to do any of the above acts.
Exclusion of competitors: You are prohibited from using our Site, including the Content, in any way that competes with our business.
Information: The Content is not comprehensive and is for general information purposes only. It does not consider your specific needs, objectives or circumstances, and it is not advice. While we use reasonable attempts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the Content, we make no representation or warranty in relation to it, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Content: Unless otherwise indicated, Laurier Lawyers reserves all copyright in the Content and design of the Site. We own all such copyright or provide it to Users under the terms of a limited licence embodied in these Terms each time you visit the Site.
You may download, print or copy Content provided on the Site for your own use.
User Content: You may be permitted to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit relevant information and content (User Content) on our Site. By making available any User Content on or through our Site, you grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free licence to use the User Content, with the right to use, view, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, communicate, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, or otherwise exploit such User Content on, through or by means of our Site.
You agree that you are solely responsible for all User Content that you make available on or through our Site. You consent to any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an infringement of your moral rights. You represent and warrant that:
(a) you are either the sole and exclusive owner of all User Content or you have all rights, licences, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to us the rights in such User Content (as contemplated by these Terms);
(b) neither the User Content nor the posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmission of the User Content or our use of the User Content on, through or by means of our Site will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation;
(c) you will not knowingly transmit any worm, virus or other disabling feature to our Site;
(d) you are authorised to provide the information submitted;
(e) the information is not defamatory or a malicious falsehood in relation to any product, service, person or corporation.
We do not endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, any User Content. We may, at any time (at our sole discretion), remove any User Content.
Third party sites: Our Site may contain links to Sites operated by third parties. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those Sites. You should make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those Sites.
Service: We may without notice at any time suspend access to the Site or disconnect or deny Users access to any part of the Site during any technical failure or maintenance period. We may also choose at our sole discretion to block or deny any User with access to any of the Content contained on the Site. We may make improvements and or changes to Site and the Content at any time without notice. We do not warrant that the information, architecture or navigation will not change now or at any time in future. We may, at any time and without notice to you, discontinue our Site, in whole or in part. We are not responsible for any liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any actions taken by us under this part.
Intellectual Property rights: Unless otherwise indicated, we own or licence all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in our Site and all the Content. Your use of our Site and your use of and access to any Content does not grant or transfer to you any rights, title or interest in relation to our Site or the Content. You must not:
(a) copy or use, in whole or in part, any Content;
(b) reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any Content to any third party; or
(c) breach any intellectual property rights connected with our Site or the Content, including (without limitation) altering or modifying any of the Content, causing any of the Content to be framed or embedded in another Site or platform, or creating derivative works from the Content.
Warranties and disclaimers: To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our Site or the Content, including (without limitation) that:
(a) they are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;
(b) access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses; or
(c) our Site will be secure.
You access, read, use and act on our Site and the Content at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your own jurisdiction in addition to these Terms.
Limitation of liability: To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect 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 or the Content or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage of our Site or any loss or corruption of data or the fact that the Content is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.
Indemnity: To the maximum extent permitted by law, you must indemnify us, and hold us harmless, against any Liability suffered or incurred by us arising from or in connection with your use of our Site or any breach of these Terms or any applicable laws by you. 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.
Termination: These Terms are effective until terminated by us, which we may do at any time and without notice to you. In the event of termination, all restrictions imposed on you by these Terms and limitations of liability set out in these Terms will survive.
Disputes: In the event of any dispute arising from, or in connection with, these Terms (Dispute), the party claiming there is a Dispute must give written notice to the other party setting out the details of the Dispute and proposing a resolution. Within 7 days after receiving the notice, the parties must, by their senior executives or senior managers (who have the authority to reach a resolution on behalf of the party), meet at least once to attempt to resolve the Dispute or agree on the method of resolving the Dispute by other means, in good faith. All aspects of every such conference, except the fact of the occurrence of the conference, will be privileged. If the parties do not resolve the Dispute, or (if the Dispute is not resolved) agree on an alternate method to resolve the Dispute, within 21 days after receipt of the notice, the Dispute may be referred by either party (by notice in writing to the other party) to litigation.
Severance: If a provision of these Terms is held to be void, invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision must be read down as narrowly as necessary to allow it to be valid or enforceable. If it is not possible to read down a provision (in whole or in part), that provision (or that part of that provision) is severed from these Terms without affecting the validity or enforceability of the remainder of that provision or the other provisions in these Terms.
Jurisdiction: Your use of our Site and these Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria. 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.
Our Site may be accessed throughout Australia and overseas. We make no representation that our Site complies with the laws (including intellectual property laws) of any country outside Australia. If you access our Site from outside Australia, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction where you access our Site.
For any questions and notices, please contact us at:
LAURIER LAWYERS 1485A Malvern Road, Glen Iris, Victoria 3146
Email: info@laurierlawyers.com.au
Last update: 23 September 2019