Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions of use

    1. Introduction

    2. These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.
    3. By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
    4. If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
    5. You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

    1. Copyright notice

    2. Copyright (c) 2023 ADVC8 Limited (t/a LawTechReviews).
    3. Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
      1. we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
      2. all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

    1. Permission to use website

    2. You may:
      1. view pages from our website in a web browser;
      2. download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
      3. print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;
      4. stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website; and
      5. use our website services by means of a web browser,
      subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
    3. Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
    4. You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use our website for any other purposes.
    5. Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
    6. Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
      1. republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
      2. sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
      3. show any material from our website in public;
      4. exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
      5. redistribute material from our website.
    7. Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.
    8. We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.

    1. Misuse of website

    2. You must not:
      1. use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
      2. use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
      3. hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
      4. probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;
      5. circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
      6. use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
      7. impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
      8. decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
      9. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
      10. access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
      11. use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
      12. violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
      13. use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or
      14. do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
    3. You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

    1. Use of behalf of organisation

    2. ‌If you use our website or expressly agree to these terms and conditions in the course of a business or other organisational project, then by doing so you bind both: (a) yourself; and (b) the person, company or other legal entity that operates that business or organisational project, to these terms and conditions, and in these circumstances references to "you" in these terms and conditions are to both the individual user and the relevant person, company or legal entity unless the context requires otherwise.

    1. Registration and accounts

    2. You may register for an account with our website by following and completing this process: click the register link in the menu, choose a third party provider account to login with, complete the account information requested.
    3. Accounts that enable you to add reviews are activated automatically, whilst any accounts where you have requested to claim a listing or for a new listing to be added are activated manually as soon as reasonably possible by our team.
    4. You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.
    5. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
    6. You must not use any other person's account to access the website, unless you have that person's express permission to do so.

    1. User login details

    2. If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a third party account to login with from the social account providers we support (such as LinkedIn, Google and Microsoft). .
    3. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of the username and password of the third party account.
    4. You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your login details confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

    1. Cancellation and suspension of account

    2. We may:
      1. suspend your account;
      2. cancel your account; and/or
      3. edit your account details,
      at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation, providing that if we cancel any services you have paid for and you have not breached these terms and conditions, we will refund to you a pro rata amount of your payment, such amount to be calculated by us using any reasonable methodology.
    3. You may cancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the website. You will not be entitled to any refund if you cancel your account in accordance with this Section 8.2.

    1. Reviews

    2. We publish reviews of legal technology products and services on our website.
    3. Reviewers are or may be independent from us; accordingly, reviews published on our website do not necessarily reflect our views and opinions.
    4. You acknowledge that reviews published on our website may be out of date, biased, partial, misleading and/or inaccurate.
    5. You should not rely upon reviews published on our website to make decisions or determine courses of action, and you should conduct your own research before making a decision or embarking upon a course of action.
    6. Subject to Section 20.1, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage arising from any reliance you may place on any review published on the website.
    7. You agree to the publication of reviews relating to you and your business, by others, on our website; you acknowledge that such reviews may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and, subject to Section 20.1, you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such reviews, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such reviews.

    1. User reviews

    2. We publish reviews by users on our website.
    3. If you have registered with our website, you may submit reviews for publication on the website, subject to these terms and conditions.
    4. Your reviews must be honest, reasonable and bona fide reviews of legal technology products or services.
    5. You may only post a review if you have used the product or service you wish to review.
    6. You must not post a review if:
      1. you have a financial interest in the subject matter of the review;
      2. you are an owner, partner, member, employee, business partner or affiliate of any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review; and/or
      3. you are otherwise connected with, or related to, any person who has a financial interest in the subject matter of the review.
    7. For the avoidance of doubt, your reviews constitute "your content" for the purposes of Section 16 and Section 17.
    8. You acknowledge that we may publish and otherwise use, in conjunction with your reviews, the name you provide to us, but we shall have no obligation to do so.
    9. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your reviews to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and warrant that all other moral rights in your reviews have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
    10. You acknowledge that the user reviews published on our website are submitted by users, and that we do not usually review, approve or edit such reviews; accordingly, we do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the user reviews.

    1. Directory

    2. We publish a directory of legal technology products and services on our website and you may use the directory for identifying products or services that may be of interest to you and to check reviews of products or services .

    1. Free directory listings

    2. You may submit a free listing to our directory by following this process: Click the link within the website menu taking you to the "Request a New Listing" page, create a user account (if you haven't done so already), complete the requested information and submit your request.

    3. ‌If a listing has not already been claimed, you may request to manage a free listing on our website by following this process:  Click the "Claim Listing" button within a listing, create a user account (if you haven't done so already), complete the requested information and submit your request.
    4. If we accept your free directory listing submission, it will remain published on our website indefinitely, subject to termination or deletion in accordance with these terms and conditions.
    5. We may delete a free directory listing at any time, with or without notice to you.

    1. Paid directory listings

    2. To become a subscriber to our website services, you may upgrade a free directory listing to a paid listing in our directory by following this process: Go the the Control Panel for your listing, click the "Upgrade Listing" link within the dashboard, complete the requested payment information, authorise us to charge you on an ongoing monthly basis and complete the requested payment information. The contract between us for the supply of the website services shall come into force upon your successful completion of the requested payment information and your listing will automatically be upgraded straight away.
    3. ‌For so long as your monthly subscription remains active in accordance with these terms and conditions, you will benefit from the features specified at https://www.lawtechreviews.com/pricing in relation to your subscription type.
    4. We may delete a paid directory listing at any time, providing that if we delete a paid listing in accordance with this Section 13.3 before the end of the period in respect of which listing fees have been paid, we will refund to you a portion of those listing fees reflecting the unexpired listing period, such portion to be calculated by us on a pro rata basis using any reasonable methodology.
    5. ‌We may from time to time vary the benefits associated with a subscription when we make new features available, remove features or move features between subscription tiers by giving you 30 days written notice of the variation providing that in our reasonable opinion such variation results in a substantial loss of value or functionality, providing you with sufficient time to cancel your subscription before it automatically renews.
    6. ‌At the end of any period of subscription for which you have paid, and subject to any other provisions of these terms and conditions, your subscription will be automatically renewed and you must pay to us the applicable subscription fee, unless you cancel the subscription according to 7.2.

    1. Rules about directory submissions

    2. Each submission to our directory must be a listing in respect of a legal technology products or services.
    3. For the avoidance of doubt, your directory submissions constitute "your content" for the purposes of Section 16 and Section 17, and must comply with the acceptable use rules set out in Section 4.
    4. You must keep your directory submissions up to date using our website interface.
    5. Your directory submissions must not relate to any unlawful business, product or service; and you must not make any directory submission with a view to conducting any unlawful activity or entering into any unlawful contract or arrangement.
    6. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, we reserve the right to reject or delete directory submissions that breach these terms and conditions.
    7. If we reject or delete a directory submission in accordance with this Section 14, we will not refund any applicable charges.

    1. Fees

    2. The fees in respect of our website services will be as set out on the website from time to time at https://www.lawtechreviews.com/pricing
    3. All amounts stated in these terms and conditions or on our website are stated exclusive of VAT.
    4. You must pay to us the fees in respect of our website services in advance, in cleared funds, in accordance with any instructions on our website.
    5. We may vary fees from time to time by posting new fees on our website, but this will not affect fees for services that have been previously paid.
    6. If you dispute any payment made to us, you must contact us immediately and provide full details of your claim.
    7. If you make an unjustified credit card, debit card or other charge-back then you will be liable to pay us, within 7 days following the date of our written request:
      1. an amount equal to the amount of the charge-back;
      2. all third party expenses incurred by us in relation to the charge-back (including charges made by our or your bank or payment processor or card issuer);
      3. an administration fee of GBP 25.00 including VAT; and
      4. all our reasonable costs, losses and expenses incurred in recovering the amounts referred to in this Section 15.6 (including without limitation legal fees and debt collection fees),
      and for the avoidance of doubt, if you fail to recognise or fail to remember the source of an entry on your card statement or other financial statement, and make a charge-back as a result, this will constitute an unjustified charge-back for the purposes of this Section 15.6.
    8. If you owe us any amount under or relating to these terms and conditions, we may suspend or withdraw the provision of services to you.
    9. We may at any time set off any amount that you owe to us against any amount that we owe to you, by sending you written notice of the set-off.

    1. Our rights to use your content

    2. In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
    3. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.
    4. You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 16.2.
    5. You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 16.2.
    6. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
    7. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.
    8. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

    1. Rules about your content

    2. You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
    3. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
    4. Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
      1. be libellous or maliciously false;
      2. be obscene or indecent;
      3. infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;
      4. infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
      5. constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
      6. constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
      7. be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;
      8. be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
      9. be blasphemous;
      10. be in breach of official secrets legislation;
      11. be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
      12. depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
      13. be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
      14. be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
      15. consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
      16. constitute spam;
      17. be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
      18. cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
    5. Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
    6. You must not use our website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our website, breach the provisions of these terms and conditions.
    7. You must not submit to our website any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

    1. Report abuse

    2. If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our website, or any material or activity that breaches these terms and conditions, please let us know.
    3. You can let us know about any such material or activity by email, or if the concern relates to a particular review clicking "Request Moderator Review" within the review listed .

    1. Limited warranties

    2. We do not warrant or represent:
      1. the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
      2. that the material on the website is up to date;
      3. that the website will operate without fault; or
      4. that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
    3. We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
    4. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 20.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

    1. Limitations and exclusions of liability

    2. Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
      1. limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
      2. limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
      3. limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
      4. exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
    3. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 20 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
      1. are subject to Section 20.1; and
      2. govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.
    4. To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
    5. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
    6. We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
    7. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
    8. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
    9. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
    10. Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these terms and conditions shall not exceed the greater of:
      1. £200; and
      2. the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract.

    1. Indemnity

    2. You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our website or any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.

    1. Breaches of these terms and conditions

    2. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
      1. send you one or more formal warnings;
      2. temporarily suspend your access to our website;
      3. permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
      4. block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
      5. contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
      6. commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
      7. suspend or delete your account on our website.
    3. Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

    1. Third party websites

    2. Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.
    3. We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and subject to Section 20.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

    1. Competitions

    2. From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and/or other promotions on our website.
    3. Competitions will be subject to separate terms and conditions (which we will make available to you as appropriate).

    1. Variation

    2. We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
    3. The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

    1. Assignment

    2. You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
    3. You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

    1. Severability

    2. If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
    3. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

    1. Third party rights

    2. A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
    3. The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

    1. Entire agreement

    2. Subject to Section 20.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

    1. Law and jurisdiction

    2. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
    3. Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

    1. Statutory and regulatory disclosures

    2. We will not file a copy of these terms and conditions specifically in relation to each user or customer and, if we update these terms and conditions, the version to which you originally agreed will no longer be available on our website. We recommend that you consider saving a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.
    3. These terms and conditions are available in the English language only.

    1. Our details

    2. This website is owned and operated by ADVC8 Limited.
    3. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 11586535, and our registered office is at 41 Bridgeman Terrace, Wigan, England, WN1 1TT .
    4. Our principal place of business is at 41 Bridgeman Terrace, Wigan, England, WN1 1TT .
    5. You can contact us:
      1. by email, using the email address privacy @ lawtechreviews.com