Terms & Conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR GLOBAL LEGAL GROUP WEBSITES

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING A GLOBAL LEGAL GROUP WEBSITE

1. OUR WEBSITES

Global Legal Group Limited (“We”) operate the following websites www.glgroup.co.uk, CDR News, GLI, ICLG.com, African Law and Business.

2. GLOBAL LEGAL GROUP

Global Legal Group Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 04570471. We have our registered office at Lawford House, Albert Place, London N3 1QA, UK. Our main trading address is 59 Tanner Street, London SE1 3PL. Our VAT number is GB 268 3061 95. To contact us, please email [email protected].

3. BY USING OUR WEBSITE(S) YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS

By using our Website(s), you confirm that you accept these terms and conditions and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Websites. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Websites through your internet connection are aware of these terms and conditions and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

4. THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO YOU

These terms and conditions refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Websites:

Our Privacy Policy iclg.com/privacy. See further under How we may use your personal information.
Our Cookie Policy iclg.com/about-cookies, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
If you purchase goods from our site, our Terms and Conditions of Sale iclg.com/terms-of-sale- will apply to the sales.

5. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website(s), please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

6. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO OUR WEBSITES

We may update and change our Websites from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.

7. WE MAY SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW OUR WEBSITES

Our Websites are made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our Websites, or any content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Websites for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

8. WE MAY TRANSFER THIS AGREEMENT TO SOMEONE ELSE

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation.

9. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS SAFE

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

10. HOW YOU MAY USE MATERIAL ON OUR WEBSITES

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Websites, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties, and database right laws, around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Websites.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Websites must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our Websites for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Websites in breach of these terms and conditions, your right to use our Websites will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Any unauthorised downloading, re-transmission or other copying or modification of any of the contents of the Websites may be in breach of our rights (or those of our licensors) and could be the subject of legal action. The Websites must not be accessed, monitored or copied by any manual process or by any robot, spider or other automated device.

11. DO NOT RELY ON INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITES

The content on our Websites is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice (including legal advice) on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Website(s).

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Website(s), we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website(s) is accurate, complete or up to date.

12. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO

Where our Website(s) contain links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

13. USER-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOT APPROVED BY US

Our Websites may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Website(s) (“User Content”). This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our Websites do not represent our views or values. User Content is the exclusive responsibility of the person who posted or uploaded such User Content.

14. HOW TO COMPLAIN ABOUT CONTENT UPLOADED BY OTHER USERS

If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact us at [email protected].

15. UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload or post content to our Website(s), you must comply with the User Content Rules set out in section 16 below.

You warrant that your actions in uploading or posting such User Content and the User Content itself does comply with the User Content Rules set out in section 16 below, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload or post to our Website(s) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our Website(s) a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website(s) constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with these terms and conditions (including the User Content Rules set out in Section 16 below).

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content. We do not store terrorist content.

By posting User Content on our Websites you waive any moral rights which you may have with regard to the User Content.
Users are solely responsible for their interactions with other Users. Global Legal Group reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between Users.

Users agree that Global Legal Group may establish, in its sole discretion, any limitations, conditions or rules concerning the use of the Websites, including, for example, the maximum number of posts (of User Content) on the Websites in a given day, the number of days that post will be available, or the maximum size of a given post. Users acknowledge that Global Legal Group has the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice.

16. USER CONTENT RULES

All users must comply with the User Content Rules set by us in this Section 16.

Users must not:

post, link to or otherwise publish any User Content containing any form of advertising or promotion for goods and services or any chain content or “spam”;
post, link to or otherwise publish any User Content which contains any confidential information of or about a third party except with such third party’s explicit consent/authority;
post, link to or otherwise publish any User Content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, libellous, indecent, or which infringes copyright or any other rights of any third party or which contain any form of illegal content;
disguise the origin of any User Content;
impersonate any third party or misrepresent any affiliation to any third party;
collect or store other Users’ personal data;
restrict or inhibit any other User from using the Websites;
infringe the rights of any third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights and privacy or image/publicity rights;
upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that (1) is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, or invasive of another’s privacy; (2) consists of instructional information on illegal activities, including but not limited to, hacking and cracking; (3) violates or infringes in any way the proprietary rights of others, including, without limitation, software, music, photographs, text, videos or artwork; (4) constitutes pornography, or sexual material of an obscene nature that violates the law in a relevant jurisdiction; (5) is the private information of another; (6) Users do not have the right to upload or post due to contractual or other legal obligations; or (7) contains software viruses, Trojan horses or other computer code, files or programmes designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

17. RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD

When you upload or post content to our Website, you grant us the following rights to use that content: a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform and sub-license that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the Websites and across different media forever.

18. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

(a) We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions of Sale iclg.com/terms-of-sale-.

If you are a business user:

(a) We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.

(b) We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

use of, or inability to use, our Websites; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Websites.

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
business interruption;
loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

19. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy iclg.com/privacy. Global Legal Group reserves the right to contact you by e-mail with regard to your use of the Websites.

20. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRUSES AND YOU MUST NOT INTRODUCE THEM

We do not guarantee that our Websites will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Websites. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Websites by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Websites, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Websites will cease immediately.

21. RULES ABOUT LINKING TO OUR WEBSITES

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our Websites in any website that is not owned by you. Our Websites must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms and conditions.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our websites other than that set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

22. WHICH COUNTRY'S LAWS APPLY TO ANY DISPUTES?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms and conditions, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms and conditions, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

23. TRADE MARKS

Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics and designs displayed on the Websites constitute trade names or registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Global Legal Group. The display of any trade names or registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks on the Websites does not imply any licence has been granted to any third party in respect of the same. The appearance or absence of products, services, companies, organisations, home pages or other websites does not imply any endorsement or non-endorsement thereof by Global Legal Group. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Global Legal Group.