This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use of our website legaladviceanddocs.co.uk (our site), whether as a guest, a registered user or expert. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.
Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as these will apply to your use of our site.
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.
Other Applicable Terms
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
Changes to these Terms
We revise these terms of use from time to time. Please see the Terms and Conditions before making your payment.
Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any new changes we made, as they are binding on you.
Information About Us
Legaladviceanddocs.co.uk is a site operated by Lawson Browne Limited ("We"). We are a limited company, registered in England and Wales under company number 10235795, and have our registered office at 44 Broadway, London E15 1XH.
We are a limited company.
All legal advice provided through this site is delivered by Anderson Browne Solicitors Limited which is a registered company in the UK, company No. 7463068 or by our expert partners under their own individual responsibility.
The Experts
We have a team of Solicitors and Barristers who have been in practice in the UK for many years, and have experience in various parts of the law.
The Site
Legaladviceanddocs.co.uk is an online venue where you can:
- Ask legal questions on a pay as you go basis
- Pay for legal documents to be checked by experts (coming soon)
- Arrange a legal consultation
The vision
We aim to:
- Quickly provide answers to legal questions online as required
- Provide legal documents that are easy to use and understand, by individuals and small businesses
- Check and report on legal documents
- Make these services available at affordable and less than high street prices, in and out of working hours
Ask a Question Service
If you ask a legal question, select urgency, the detail required, and pay a fee, a legal expert will answer your question. The fees are determined by the urgency and amount of detail that you require. It is for you to decide if the service is suitable for you, before paying the fee.
Document Template Service
You may select any document from our document library pay the appropriate fee and then use for your purposes. You will be responsible for the appropriate use and editing of the documents that you buy from us. You must decide if a document is suitable for your purposes, and we do not give any legal, financial, tax or other advice about the documents. We exclude all legal responsibility and costs for reliance placed by anyone on this site and on the template documents.
Document Check Service
We will check legal agreements, contracts, or documents and report on it’s contents, how it affects your interests, and on any specific sections that you request. We will also check legal applications, and report to you, suggesting any amendments as necessary.
Legal Consultation
A free 20 minutes initial legal consultation is available to some customers as stated in the offers contained within the website which is provided by Anderson Browne Solicitors Ltd. The legal consultation is limited to 20mins, each customer is entitled to one session, and the 20 minutes can only be used for one legal issue.
You agree that the 20 minutes legal consultation does not constitute legal advice.
Prices
Our site contains various services. It is always possible that, despite our reasonable efforts, some of the services on our site may be incorrectly priced. If we discover an error in the price of the service you have ordered we will contact you by email to inform you of this error and we will give you the option of continuing to purchase the service at the correct price or cancelling your order. In some cases, we may decide to honour your order at the price quoted. We will not process your order until we have your instructions. If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the order process, we will treat the order as cancelled.
Changes to our Site
We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content or pricing at any time. The applicable price will be as quoted on our site when you submit your order.
Accessing our Site
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
[Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate or available in other locations. We may limit the availability of our site or any service or product described on our site to any person or geographic area at any time. If you choose to access our site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk.]
If you are a business customer, this additional clause applies:
- If you are not a consumer, you confirm that you have authority to bind any business on whose behalf you use our site to purchase Products. These Terms [and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede and extinguish all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.
- You acknowledge that in visiting and using this site you do not rely on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms or [any document expressly referred to in them.
- You and we agree that neither of us shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation [or negligent misstatement] based on any statement in this Contract.
Your Account and Password
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@andersonbrownesolicitors.co.uk
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
Unless expressly authorised, you must not duplicate, republish, transmit or modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded from our site in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
No Reliance on Information
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.
Limitation of our Liability
Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
- use of, or inability to use, our site or
- use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:
- loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue
- business interruption
- loss of anticipated savings
- loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation or
- any indirect or consequential loss or damage
If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Refunds
Due to the nature of the services we offer, we will only issue refunds in the circumstances described below:
- Ask a question – If the question is not answered at all or the initial answer is not provided within the stated timeline, and no notice of delay has been sent.
- Templates – where the templates you have paid for are not made available to you.
- Document Check service – If the service is not provided or not provided within the stated timeline, and no notice of delay has been sent.
- Legal consultation – refunds will only be issued for paid consultation, if cancelled at least 24 hours before the consultation is scheduled to take place.
Where we have determined that a refund is due to you, this can be made in the form of a credit to your account (to be used towards any service on our site) or a refund to the credit card or debit card used for payment.
Uploading Content to our Site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our terms and conditions.
You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. [If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.]
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us [and other users of the Site] a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our terms and conditions.
The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
The Security of this Site
Viruses & Computer Offences
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
Linking to our Site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our terms and conditions.
Third Party Links and Resources in our Site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Applicable Law
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Uses Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- Information you give to us. We will use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us
- to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about
- to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the [order form OR registration form])
- To notify you about changes to our service
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- Information we collect about you. We may use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
- Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).
Where we Store your Personal Data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password, which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Complaints
We are committed to make every visitor to our site a satisfied customer, and to that end we aim to provide an excellent service. However, if for some reason we fall short, and you are dissatisfied with any aspect of your experience on our site, please contact us by email info@andersonbrownesolicitors.co.uk giving details of your questions or concerns. We operate a formal complaints procedure, and will acknowledge your email in the first instance, and do our best to resolve the issue promptly.
Contact Us
To contact us with questions, comments or feedback about our site, please send an email to: info@andersonbrownesolicitors.co.uk.
Thank you for visiting our site.