The following terms and conditions govern all use of silverdalelaw.co.uk (the “Website”) and all content, functionality, services and products available at or through the website.

For purposes of these Terms of Service, the term “Content” includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, written posts and comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through the Website. For the purposes of these Terms of Service, “Content” also includes all User Content (as defined below).

Acceptance
The Website is owned and operated by Silverdale Solicitors Ltd. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, the Privacy Policy and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Silverdale Solicitors (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement.

If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Silverdale Solicitors, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.

General Representation and Warranty
You represent and warrant that
    (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Silverdale Solicitors Privacy Policy, Disclaimer & Copyright notice, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United Kingdom or the country in which you reside) and
    (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

Intellectual Property Rights and Use Guidelines
The Website and its original content, features and functionality (including look), are owned by Silverdale Solicitors and are protected by International copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

You agree to not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, any of our copyrighted material except to the extent permitted by the Website itself. If you have doubts about whether and how to use of material on the Website, please address your concerns to: [email protected].

This means that Silverdale Solicitors’ design, features and original copy are covered by copyright.

Where we source information from external sources for our content, we will endeavor to provide an attribution link to the original content / content owner. If you feel we have not applied an attribution link to any relevant content, please email [email protected].

You are permitted to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use, or own internal business purposes (limited to within your own business to better adhere to practices and not to resell, exploit, extract, publish, distribute, or reproduce to other businesses for your commercial betterment) provided that your activities are lawful and in accordance with these Terms of Service.

Prohibited uses include violation of laws and regulations, hacking the Website in any manner, passing off our original copy as your own or violating the Terms of Service. No right, title or interest in or to the Website or any content on the site is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Service is a breach of these Terms of Service.

We encourage your feedback, in the form of reviews, comments, and suggestions or recommendations for modifications, improvements or changes to the Services or the Site that you may choose in your sole discretion to provide us from time to time (“Feedback”). When you provide Feedback, you grant us, under all right, title and interest in and to the Feedback, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable, perpetual license to use that Feedback or to incorporate it into the Website or other products or services.

The Website may contain Content specifically provided by us, our partners or our users and such Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You shall abide by and maintain all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Website.

Content is not intended to be legal advice nor form an attorney-client relationship, nor among the users, nor between the users and Silverdale Solicitors. Use of the Website should never be understood to be replacing use of qualified professionals.

Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitations of Liability and Indemnification
We disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We are not liable for damages, direct or consequential, resulting from your use of the Website and its Content, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses, liability costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising out of your use of the Website and its Content, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement or your violation of any third-party’s rights. Because the Website is not error or bug free, you agree that you will use it carefully and avoid using it ways which might result in any loss of your or any third party’s property or information.

Neither Silverdale Solicitors nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

In no event will Silverdale Solicitors, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for:
(i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; or
(ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services.

Silverdale Solicitors shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law

Responsibility of Contributors & Content Standards
If you post, submit, distribute, upload material to the Website, comment on an article, post links on the Website, or otherwise make material available by means of the Website (any such material, “User Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that User Content. That is the case regardless of the type of User Content posted.

You acknowledge that all Content, including User Content, accessed by you using the Website is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to you or any other party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that any Content you access on or through the Website is or will continue to be accurate.

By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

All Content provided by you is accurate, complete, up-to-date, and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations;
The downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;

You have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;

The Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

The Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);

The Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;

Your content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;

Your content is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company; and you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Sense or otherwise.