Access to and use of our Web Site (“the Site”) and access to the services provided through the Site is governed by the terms and conditions of use and the terms and conditions of business (together “terms and conditions”) set out below. Legal service is the principle offering of the Site. By using the Site you agree to accept these terms and conditions. If you do not wish to accept these terms and conditions, please do not use this Site. This Site is owned by JM Family Law Limited, trading as Julie McDonald Family Law, a firm authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (number 835268). Julie McDonald Family Law may at any time revise these terms and conditions by updating this posting. On each occasion that you visit this site, therefore, you are advised to review the terms and conditions, as these will govern any contract that is made at any time after such terms and conditions have been posted to the Site.
Terms and conditions
1 – Disclaimer
1.1 – Julie McDonald Family Law’s relationship with you is as a user of this site and as a company or individual who may wish to purchase services offered by the firm maintaining this site. As an introducer of third parties who may wish to purchase services from the site there will be no contractual relationship arising between you and Julie McDonald Family Law out of any arrangement to introduce third parties who may or may not proceed with the purchase of services from the firm owning this URL. Julie McDonald Family Law itself makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, satisfactory quality or suitability for any purpose of:
(i) the information contained in the pages and related graphics published in the Site; or
(ii) any of the services of whatever nature details of which appear on the Site.
1.2 – Julie McDonald Family Law assumes no responsibility and shall not be held liable for any damages to or viruses that may infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio material from the Site.
1.3 – All such documents and related graphics are provided, and such services (where ordered) are accepted by you on an “as-is basis”. Your statutory consumer rights are not affected.
1.4 – The security of information transmitted by the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Any losses incurred or sustained by users who transmit information by means of e-mail or other Internet links will be borne solely and exclusively by such user and in no event will any such losses in whole or part be borne by us.
1.5 – All brand names, product names and titles used in the Site are trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. No permission is given in respect of the use of any of the above and moreover any such use may constitute an infringement of the holders’ rights.
1.6 – This Site is intended for general and specific marketing, and its sole purpose is to extend information to interested clients.
1.7 – The Internet is an inherently unstable medium and errors, omissions, interruptions and delays of service may occur at any time. This may result in information being held up and not presented when requested. Julie McDonald Family Law shall not be liable to you for any loss or damages that you may suffer as a result of such errors, omissions, interruptions or delays.
1.8 – Nothing in these terms and conditions affects your statutory rights as a consumer or will exclude or restrict Julie McDonald Family Law’s liability for personal injury or death arising out of the negligence of Julie McDonald Family Law.
2 – Materials You Provide To Us
If you send ideas, remarks, questions, data, graphics or the like (“Feedback”) to the Site, these will be deemed to be non-confidential and we will be entitled to use or disclose the Feedback in any manner whatsoever, without liability or notice to you. Furthermore, Julie McDonald Family Law shall be free to use any Feedback for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to, developing services for sale using such information subject only to our privacy policy set out in clause 5 below. Feedback, submissions, or any other information you send to the Site should not be, or contain material that is offensive, pornographic, defamatory, blasphemous, unlawful or likely to infringe any applicable law. You agree that all material submitted to us is original to you, and not copied in whole or part from any third party. Please do not send anything which is required to be kept confidential or which you do not wish us to use.
3 – Exclusions – The information on this Site is given for general information purposes only. We do not give any warranty as to the availability, accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of the information and material published on the Site and expressly disclaim (to the maximum extent permitted by any applicable law) all liability for any damage or loss resulting from your use of or reliance on the information and material published on the Site. We shall not be liable for any damage (including, without limitation, damage for loss of profits or loss of business) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use of, or inability to use this Site or any information contained on it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using this Site or any such information. We accept liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or responsibility for fraudulent misrepresentation that cannot, under English law, be excluded.
4 – Linked Sites – We are not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site nor have we reviewed any such site. These links are not endorsements of those sites but rather resources for visitors to the Site. If you link to any off-site pages or other sites, such action will be at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for the contents of any web site that is electronically linked to the Site and which is not maintained by us. Julie McDonald Family Law is not a party to any service or other contract made through any off-site pages or other sites electronically linked to this Site. These Terms and Conditions apply to the whole of the Site designated www.jmfamilylaw.co.uk. Some pages may contain additional Terms and Conditions. These pages are to be treated as off-site pages or linked sites and the disclaimer contained in clause 4.1 applies to them. You are advised to verify the accuracy of any information set out there before relying on it and to seek clarification or further details as you may require from the relevant service provider.
5 – Copyrights
5.1 – All Site design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software (including applets), and all other material on this Site are the copyright of Julie McDonald Family Law or their content and technology providers. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
5.2 – Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print in hard copy portions of the Site for the sole purpose of making a future purchase or informational appointment through the Site or using the Site to obtain information on services available through Julie McDonald Family Law. Any other use of materials on this Site, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, or any modification, distribution, or reproduction thereof without our prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
6 – Privacy Policy
6.1 – At Julie McDonald Family Law we are committed to protecting your privacy and to full compliance with the Data Protection Laws applicable to the UK. We use the information collected from you/your request form only to process requests and to provide a more personalised service.
6.2 – When you make a request for information or a meeting through the Site you will need to provide details about yourself. We need to know your name, phone number and email address. This allows us to process your request. We do not sell, transmit or pass on any of your details to any third party company.
7 – Online Security – Any losses incurred or sustained by users who transmit information by means of e-mail or other Internet link will be borne solely and exclusively by such user and in no event will any such losses in whole or part be borne by us.
8 – Documentation – We reserve the right to supply all documentation for all information requests/follow-ups in electronic format and to deliver such documentation via e-mail.
9 – General
9.1 – The services available through this site are sold primarily in England and Wales.
9.2 – If any part or parts of these terms and conditions are deemed invalid, void or unenforceable, then that part or those parts will be considered severable from these terms and conditions thereby not preventing the remainder from being enforceable or effective.
9.3 – These terms and conditions may be revised at any time and we reserve the right to do so.
10 – Governing Law – Please note that English Law will govern your use of this Site.
11 – Cookie Policy – Cookies and how they benefit you: Our Site uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Our cookies help us:
We do not use cookies to:
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:
If the settings on your software that you are using to view the Site (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our Site, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our Site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our Site will not work as you would expect.
We do not use our own cookies. Our Site is purely for information so there is no need for us to do so.
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our Site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the Site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our Site. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us how people reached this Site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services.
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our Site and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.EU regulation No 524/2013 on Consumer Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)If you are a client and we have made a contract with you by electronic means you may be entitled to use an EU online dispute resolution service to assist with any contractual dispute you may have with us. This service can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/odr. Our email address is Julie@jmfamilylaw.co.uk
