Privacy Policy / Terms of Service

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE WEBSITE

Acceptance

1. You agree to be bound by the terms and condition appearing below before using the website.

Ownership

2. www.nominatealawyer.com.au (“the website”) is owned and operated by Nominate A Lawyer Pty Ltd ACN 120 654 195 (“the company”).

3. The company may from time to time enter into agreements with third parties to provide services in respect of the website. The company bears no responsibility for services provided by the third parties.

Information

4. The information provided on the website is subject to change or being updated at any time without notice.

Service provided

5. The company will make every effort to recommend a lawyer suitable for your matter. The company will rely on the information you provide to it in making such recommendation. It is important that you provide all material facts to the company regarding your legal matter.

Engaging the lawyer

6. The service provided by the company is a recommendation only. You agree that you are solely responsible for assessing the appropriateness of that lawyer and for engaging that lawyer.

7. Prior to engaging the lawyer, the company suggests that you visit: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/olsc

Disclaimer

8. Any advice, recommendation, information, assistance or service given by the company through the website or otherwise is given in good faith and is believed to be accurate, appropriate and reliable at the time it is given, but is provided without any warranty or accuracy, appropriateness or reliability and the company does not accept any liability or responsibility for any loss suffered from your reliance on such advice, recommendation, information, assistance or service.

9. The company takes no responsibility whatsoever for the quality of services provided by the lawyer to you and you agree to hold the company, its servants and agents harmless in respect of the lawyer recommended to you.

Indemnity

10. You agree to indemnify the company, its servants and agents in respect of any claim or demand made as a result of your engagement of the lawyer recommended by the company, including but not limited to any legal costs as between solicitor and client incurred by you or for which you are liable.

Exclusion

11. The company, its servants and agents will not be liable for any loss or damage, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, sustained by you which may be sustained in connection with this website or recommendation of a lawyer for your matter. Such loss or damage may include, but is not limited to, loss or damage caused by the negligence or wilful act or default of the recommended lawyer or others, whether consequential or otherwise and whether or not such loss or damage is reasonably foreseeable.

Limitation

12. The terms and conditions of your use of the website and the information provided by the company exclude or limit the company’s liability to the extent permitted by law. Provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (as amended) and other statutes from time to time in force cannot be excluded, restricted or modified or can only be restricted or modified to a limited extent. These terms and conditions must be read and construed subject to any such statutory provisions.

Confidentiality

13. The company agrees to keep any information you provide to it on the website or otherwise confidential and will not disclose it to any person other than the lawyer(s) being recommended to you.

Privacy

14. The company will not commercially or otherwise deal with the information you provide to it without your consent. The company may record statistics for monitoring the use of the website. For further information regarding your privacy rights, please visit: http://www.privacy.gov.au/

Intellectual Property

15. Any material appearing on the website may be protected by intellectual property rights belonging to the company, to third parties or as indicated on the website. You agree not to infringe any such intellectual property rights.

Proper Law

16. These terms and conditions and your use of this website will be governed by and construed pursuant to the laws of New South Wales and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts of New South Wales in connection with any dispute relating to the terms and condition and your use of the website.

Severability

17. If any term and condition or part of a term and condition herein is invalid, illegal, unlawful or otherwise being incapable of enforcement, that term and condition or part of a term and condition will firstly, be read down to give it efficacy and, if that is not possible then, secondly, will be deemed to be severed and be of no force and effect but all other terms and conditions and parts of terms and conditions herein will nevertheless prevail and remain in full force and effect and be valid and fully enforceable.