Terms of Use

Website Terms of Use

Date of Last Update: 11 November 2021

These website terms of use (Terms) outline how you are able to use our website.  In these website terms of use, we, us or our means LawBase Pty Ltd ABN 22 616 262 018.

Your agreement to these website terms of use

If you access or use this website, you are taken to have agreed to these Terms and our privacy policy.  Please read these Terms carefully.  If you don’t agree with our Terms, then you must cease using our website immediately.

The information on our website is general information only

We intend for the information on the website to serve only as a general overview on matters of interest.  The information on the website is not intended to be comprehensive, nor does it constitute advice in any way.  We attempt to ensure the content is current and accurate, but we do not guarantee its currency and accuracy.  You should seek advice from us before acting or relying on any of the information contained on the website.

Using our website does not create a client / solicitor relationship

We do not become your lawyers when you use this website, receive any information from us via this website or download any documents from our website. 

You can’t do certain things on this website

To use our website, we expect you to abide by a certain standard of behaviour.  You must not do or attempt to do anything that is unlawful, prohibited by any laws applicable to our website, anything which we would consider inappropriate, or which might bring us or our website into disrepute.  This includes:

1. anything that would be a breach of any other person’s privacy (including if you upload personal information about an individual without their consent) or any other legal rights;
2. using our website to defame, harass, threaten, menace or offend any person;
3. interfering with anyone using our website;
4. tampering with or modifying our website, knowingly transmitting viruses or other disabling features, or damaging or interfering with our website, including using trojan horses, viruses or piracy or programming routines that may damage or interfere with our website;
5. using our website to send unsolicited email messages; or
6. facilitating or assisting a third party to do any of the above acts.

Our intellectual property

Unless we indicate otherwise, we own all rights, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in our website and its content.  Your use of our website and your use of and access to any of our content does not grant or transfer to you any rights, title or interest in relation to our website or our content.  In relation to any documents that we offer on this website, you must not reproduce, exploit or use any of those documents for the purpose of re-sale.  You may amend those documents in order to tailor them to your specific non-law related business requirements.  You must not breach any intellectual property rights connected with our website or our content, including (without limitation) altering or modifying any of our content or creating derivative works from the content.  You may use our website and content for personal use only.  Any other use is prohibited.

Links to websites operated by third parties

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties.  We do not endorse, control or support, and are not responsible for the content on, those websites.  We recommend that you make your own investigations to ensure those website are suitable for you.

Varying these Terms

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary these Terms by publishing the varied terms on our website.  We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current terms. 

Discontinuing our website

We have a right to discontinue this website.  This can be at any time, and may be without notice.  We may also exclude any person from using our website, at any time and at our sole discretion.  We are not responsible for any liability you may suffer arising from or in connection with any such discontinuance or exclusion.

Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representations or warranties about our website or the content, including that:

1. they are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;
2. access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses; or
3. our website will be secure.

You read, use and act on our website and the content at your own risk.

Our liability to you is limited

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss, damage or expense, howsoever arising, whether direct or indirect and/or whether present, unascertained, future or contingent (Liability) suffered by you or any third party, arising from or in connection with your use of our website and/or the content and/or any inaccessibility of, interruption to or outage of our website and/or any loss or corruption of data and/or the fact that the content is incorrect, incomplete or out-of-date.

Our right to be indemnified by you

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 website or any breach of these Terms or any applicable laws by you.  This indemnity is a continuing obligation, independent from the other obligations under these Terms, and continues after these Terms end.  It is not necessary for us to suffer or incur any Liability before enforcing a right of indemnity under these Terms.

Jurisdiction

Use of our website and these Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia.  You irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts operating in that State and any courts that are entitled to hear appeals from those courts.  You waive any right to object to proceedings being brought in those courts.

Privacy

We are committed to protecting your personal information.  Please refer to our Privacy Policy which describes how we collect and manage your personal information. 

Feedback

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@lawbase.com.au