Terms of Use

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our websites which includes www.rationabilis.co.uk, and www.londoncommerciallawyers.com (our “Website” or “Websites” when referenced collectively), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of any of our Websites includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our Websites.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our Websites, as these will apply to your use of our Websites.

By using any of our Websites, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our Websites.

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

• Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Websites, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
• Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Websites. When using our Websites, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
• Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Websites.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

We may update our Websites from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our Websites may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our Websites, or any content on them, will be free from errors or omissions.

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. Access to our Websites are permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Websites without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Websites are unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Websites.

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

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

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Websites 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 copy or download any part of our Websites in breach of these terms of use, 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.

The content on our Websites is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to 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 Websites.

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

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Websites or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user 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.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

• 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, please note that we only provide our Websites for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Websites 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.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Websites or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our Websites. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any services by use to you, which will be set out in our terms and conditions of business which we will provide to you.

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Websites, or to make contact with other users of our Websites, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, 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 to our Websites 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 the Websites a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the next paragraph (Rights you license).

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 Websites constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our Websites.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Websites if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

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 in order 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 which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Websites, the server on which our Websites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Websites. You must not attack our Websites 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.

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 website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Websites 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 our acceptable use policy below.

If you wish to make any use of content on our Websites other than that set out above, please contact us by email.

Where our Websites contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.

We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its 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.