Terms of Use

Last Revised: November 15, 2016

Introduction

For the purposes of these terms of use (“Terms of Use”):

a. each of the words “User”, “you” and “your” refers to you, the person accessing this website and accepting the Terms of Use set forth herein, and

b. each of the words “Company”, “ourselves”, “we”, “our” and “us”, refers to Orbis Juris, LLC or any successor or assign thereof.

These Terms of Use govern your use of this website and the services provided by the Company. By using this website, you accept these Terms of Use in full. If you disagree with these Terms of Use or any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use this website or the services provided by the Company.

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these Terms of Use, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of the privacy policy published on the website (“Privacy Policy”).

Unless otherwise stated, the Company and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.

Restrictions on your use of the website

You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose except as explicitly permitted herein.

You must not use this website in any way that is intended or is likely to cause damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website, or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not intentionally use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without the Company’s express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. The Company reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at the Company’s discretion.

If the Company provides you with a username or used ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the username or user ID and password are kept confidential.

The Company may disable your username or user ID and password in the Company’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

No warranties

This website and the services obtained through the use of this website are provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. The Company makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on or through this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the Company does not warrant that:

a. this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or

b. the information on this website (or obtained via the website) is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Limitations of liability

The Company will not be liable to you for:

a. any actual or claimed damages arising from or related to: i. the information you receive on the website or from another User, ii. the failure of another User to communicate with you or to provide any information to you, or iii. any rating, commentary, critique or criticism made or published by the Company or a User.

b. any indirect, special or consequential loss;

c. any punitive or exemplary damages; or

d. any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if the Company has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Limitations of liability in respect to claims against other Users

In any legal action by you against another User based upon the failure of the other User to provide accurate information, you agree to limit the damages which you seek to the fees which you paid in exchange for the information provided by the other User; and you waive the right to seek any other damages.

Further, you waive the right to bring a legal action against another User on account of or related to the other User’s failure to participate in a call or consultation, or failure to provide you information.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in these Terms of Use are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website or accept the services provided by the Company.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, the Company has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against the Company’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or the services provided by the Company.

Access to the Website

The Company may at any time it deems appropriate suspend your access to the website, prohibit you from accessing the website, block computers using your IP address from accessing the website, and/or contact your internet service provider to request that it block your access to the website. Subject to the restrictions imposed by the Privacy Policy in respect to the Company’s use of the information provided by you, the Company owns any and all information which you supply to the website or the Company (“User Information”). In no event shall the Company have any obligation to return the User Information to you or to compensate you for the User Information.

Privacy Policy

You agree to and accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time-to-time, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Variation

The Company may revise these Terms of Use from time-to-time. Revised Terms of Use will apply to the use of this website and the services provided by the Company from the date of the publication of the revised Terms of Use on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

The Company may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with the Company’s rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these Terms of Use. Any attempt to do the foregoing shall be void ab initio.

Severability

If a provision of these Terms of Use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire agreement

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company in relation to your use of this website and the Company’s services, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website or the Company’ services.

Law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Virginia, and any disputes relating to these Terms of Use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts of Virginia.

Attorneys’ Fees

The prevailing party in any binding arbitration or litigation shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorney’s fees and other costs incurred in the enforcement of these Terms of Use or for the breach thereof, whether incurred before or after the entry of judgment.

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