TERMS OF USE

By using the Parkston Lawyers (we, us, our) website (Site), you agree to be bound by, and abide by, these Terms of Use (Terms).

CONSENT

Parkston Lawyers may amend these Terms at its discretion and without notice. By continuing to use this Site, users accept the Terms as they exist from time to time. The Terms will not be affected by, and will take precedence over, any other Terms or conditions on this website.

WEBSITE MATERIAL NOT LEGAL ADVICE

The publications provided on this Site are for the information and reference of the website’s users and for no other purpose. The contents of this Site are not intended to be comprehensive, and do not constitute, and are not intended to be relied upon as, legal advice.

While Parkston Lawyers attempts to ensure that the content of this Site remains up-to-date, it does not provide any assurances or warranties in this regard. Users of the Site should seek their own legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the content of this Site.

Any user who accesses this Site does so at their own risk.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Parkston Lawyers ® is a registered trade mark.

Unless otherwise indicated, Parkston Lawyers owns all 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 without the prior written approval of Parkston Lawyers:

(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 its content, including (without limitation) altering or modifying any of the content, causing any of the content to be framed or embedded in another website or platform, or creating derivative works from the Content.

PRIVACY

Parkston Lawyers Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and conditions.

PROHIBITED CONDUCT

You must not do or attempt to do anything: that is unlawful; prohibited by any laws applicable to our Site; which we would consider inappropriate; or which might bring us or our Site into disrepute, including (without limitation):

(a) posting any comment that is inflammatory (commonly referred to as ‘trolling’);

(b) posting any comment is xenophobic, racist, abusive, harassing or hateful;

(c) posting any comment that is false, defamatory, inaccurate, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or constitutes personal abuse directed at other users;

(d) posting any comment is obscene, sexually explicit or pornographic, or contains links to other Sites that contain or promote obscene, sexually explicit or pornographic material;

(e) posting any comment constitutes commercial advertising, the promotion of gambling or the promotion of your own Site (commonly referred to as ‘spamming’);

(f) anything 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;

(g) using our Site to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person;

(h) interfering with any user using our Site;

(i) tampering with or modifying our Site, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our Site, including (without limitation) using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our Site;

(j) using our Site to send unsolicited email messages;

(k) violating any laws; or

(l) facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

LINKING AND FRAMING

This website may contain links to other websites, and may display content or information from other websites within frames on this website (Third Party Content). Parkston Lawyers provides no warranty or endorsement of the accuracy, currency, or suitability for any purpose of any Third Party Content or its author or owner. You should make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those websites.

Third parties may link to this Site with the prior consent of Parkston Lawyers provided any such links:

(a) clearly attribute the link’s content as being owned by Parkston Lawyers; and

(b) are in no way misleading or deceptive.

COOKIES

Parkston Lawyers may use cookies to identify individual users on its server, and to monitor the use of its Site by website users. In limited circumstances, Parkston Lawyers may use cookies to collect and store personal information about website users.

USE OF EMAIL ADDRESSES

Parkston Lawyers publishes the email addresses of its staff on this Site for business purposes only. The publication of these email addresses does not constitute consent by Parkston Lawyers or its staff to receiving unsolicited emails that do not directly relate to the recipient’s role or function at Parkston Lawyers.

CONTENT FROM USERS

You may be permitted by Parkston Lawyers 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 an irrevocable, royalty-free licence to use and 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 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); and

(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.

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.

DISCLAIMER

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Parkston Lawyers makes no representations or warranties about our Site or its Content, including (without limitation) that:

(a) it is complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;

(b) access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from virus, malware or other harmful technology; or

(c) our Site will be secure.
By accessing and using our Site, users assume all risk in this regard and release Parkston Lawyers from all applicable liability and responsibility.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Parkston Lawyers excludes any liability which may arise as a result of the use of this Site or its content. Where liability cannot be excluded, any liability incurred by Parkston Lawyers in relation to the use of this website or its content will be limited to the extent provided for by the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010). To the extent permitted by law, Parkston Lawyers will not be liable to any person for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any direct, indirect or consequential liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, downtime costs, loss of profit, loss of or damage to reputation, loss under or in relation to any other contract, loss of data, loss of use of data or loss of anticipated savings or benefits), whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, suffered or incurred by any person in connection with or in any way relating to the website or any content or services provided or made available through this Site.

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.

TERMINATION

These Terms are effective until terminated by Parkston Lawyers, 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.

JURISDICTION

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia and, in the event that a dispute arises in relation to this Site or the Terms of Use, Victorian courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.
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Email: info@parkstonlaw.com.au or contact us.

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