Terms and conditions for using of the website

  1. Introduction

1.1     This website is operated by LEXACT SOLUTIONS LTD. We are registered as a limited liability company Cyprus and our registration number is HE214808. Our VAT number is 10214808G

1.2     In these terms and conditions of website use we also go by “WE”, “US” and “OUR”.

1.3     These terms and conditions govern your use of our website, Cityoflaw.com (the ‘website’), as a visitor, purchaser, subscriber, owner, provider or right holder or as independent sellers, licensors or suppliers of products, services or material offered on or through our website or in any other capacity.

1.4     By using our website, you fully accept these terms and conditions in full. If you don’t agree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must leave our website and refrain from using it.

1.5     Through our website, we sell books and we provide free and subscription-based access to legal material of all kinds. We also undertake other services, such as translation services. Furthermore, we provide the venue and/or technical facilities through which third parties can sell, license or supply their own goods or services.

  1. Intellectual Property (IP)

2.1     Except where a different copyright owner or other IP right holder is expressly stated:

(a)      we own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b)      all the copyright and other intellectual property rights on our website and the material on our website excluding third party rights, such as authors’ rights in relation to books sold or material not licensed to us.

2.2     If you believe that any content on or advertised for sale or licensed on our website contains a defamatory statement, or that your intellectual property rights are being infringed by an item or information on our website please notify us by email.

  1. Permission to use the website

3.1     You may browse our website, view its content, create an account and use it for any other lawful purpose which is specifically allowed through our website.

3.1     Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

3.2     Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)      republish material from our website

(b)      sell, rent or sub-license material from our website

(c)      show any material from our website in public

(d)      exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e)      redistribute material from our website

(f)      translate, copy, reproduce, store in a retrieval system, decompile or transmit in any form or by any means any material from our website.

3.3     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

4.1     You must not:

(a)      use our website in any way nor 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;

(b)      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;

(c)      hack or otherwise tamper with our website;

(d)      probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;

(e)      circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;

(f)       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;

(g)      impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h)      decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;

(i)       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;

(j)       access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k)      use our website except by means of our public interfaces;

(l)       violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;

(m)    do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

4.2     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, authorised, and non-misleading.

  1. Registration and accounts

5.1     To be eligible for an account on our website, you must be at least 18 years old, unless parental or similar consent is provided.

5.2     You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and by clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you.

5.3     If you are using your account as buyer, you must not allow any other person to use your account, username and password to access the website. A buyer account is provided for use by a single person/user only and you are not entitled to authorise another person to use it. You may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

5.4     You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

5.5     You must not use any other person’s account to access the website.

  1. User login details

6.1     If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and a password. You will then receive an email asking you to complete email verification in order to be able to login.

6.2     You must keep your password confidential.

6.3     You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

6.4     You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

  1. Cancellation and suspension of account

7.1     We may suspend or cancel your account at any time in our sole discretion with or without notice to you if we notice activity contrary to these terms and conditions, including in case of use of your single buyer account by any person other than you and/or the single user to whom the account was provided.

7.2     We will usually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 36 months.

7.3     You may cancel or delete your account on our website by sending us an email or by deleting your account though our website.

  1. Third party content, goods or services

8.1     In these terms and conditions, “content” means all works and materials (including without limitation, books, publications, 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 or sale or licensing via, our website].

8.2     You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website and to sub-license this license to other parties for the purpose of selling or licensing your content through our website.

8.3     Content also covers product or service reviews submitted to our website. You are allowed to submit reviews provided your review’s content complies with the rules of Section 9 of these terms and conditions.

8.4     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 and we will notify you of such measures beforehand or immediately thereafter to limit the possibility of any damage arising.

8.5     You agree to indemnify us for all claims brought by a third party against us arising out of or in connection with the content and material you supply.

8.6     You are fully responsible to comply with all laws and regulations, including consumer protection rules, that govern the promotion, sale, license or supply of your content, goods or services.

8.6     You will not be considered an agent or an employee of City of Law; you will not have authority to make any representation, contract, or commitment on behalf of City of Law and you shall not purport to have any such authority.

  1. Rules about your content

9.1     You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

9.2     Your content must not be unauthorised, illegal or unlawful, it must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to any legal action against any person, including us (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

9.3     Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a)      be libellous or maliciously false;

(b)      be obscene or indecent;

(c)      infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;

(d)      infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e)      constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f)       depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(g)      be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(i)       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;

  1. No warranty

10.1   We do not warrant or represent:

(a)      the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b)      that the material on the website is up to date;

(c)      that the website will operate without fault; or

(d)      that the website or any service on the website will remain available at all times.

10.2   We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, as well as to correct any typographical errors, inaccuracies or omissions 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.

10.3   To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 11.1, 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

11.1   Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a)      limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)      limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)      limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)      exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

11.2   The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 11 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a)      are subject to Section 11.1; and

(b)      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.

11.3   In relation information and services on our website that are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

11.4   We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

11.5   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.

11.6   We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data.

11.7   We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

11.8   You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers, directors, shareholders 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, directors, shareholders 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).

11.9   You understand that we do not manufacture, store, or inspect any of the items sold through our website by independent third parties, including merchants. We provide the venue to them only; most of the items on our website are produced, listed, and sold directly by independent sellers or providers, thus we cannot and do not make any warranties about their quality, safety, authenticity, or their legality. Any legal claim related to an item you purchase must be brought directly against the seller of the item. You release us from any claims related to items sold through our website, including for defective items, misrepresentations by sellers, or items that caused physical injury (like product liability claims). Said independent third parties are fully responsible to comply with all laws and regulations including consumer protection rules that govern the promotion, sale, license or supply of their content, goods or services.

None of the third parties offering goods, services or digital content through our website acts with our authority or under our control but are wholly independent third parties. The contract you conclude through the cityoflaw.com website will in most cases not be with City of Law or the company operating it but with an independent third party unless it is clearly stated otherwise.

11.10 If any of the above clauses are found by any court of law to be ineffective, any liability that we may have is hereby limited to the value of the product or service purchased or acquired through our website.

  1. Breaches of these terms and conditions

12.1   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:

(a)      send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)      temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c)      permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)      block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e)      commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(f)       suspend or delete your account on our website.

(g)     Terminate our relationship and disallow you from using our website to sell, license or supply your content, goods or services.

12.2   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. Amendment

13.1   We may amend these terms and conditions from time to time.

13.2   If we have your contact details, i.e., because you have created an account on our website, we will give you notice of any amendment of these terms and conditions via email, and the amended terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the amended terms and conditions, you must stop using our website. If we do not have your contact details, the publication of the amended terms and conditions on our website shall constitute sufficient notice to you. By continuing to use our website, you will be deemed to have accepted the amended terms and conditions.

13.3   If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any amendment of these terms and conditions. If you do not give your express agreement to the amended terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must forthwith stop using the website.

  1. Assignment

15.1   You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2   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 and you must not allow any other person to use your single user account.

  1. Severability

15.1   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.

15.2   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. Law and jurisdiction

16.1   These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Cyprus law.

16.2   Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus.

  1. Third party links

18.1   The links displayed on our website may in some cases direct users to websites of third parties unrelated to us. These websites are not under our control and we bear no responsibility for the content of any such website or any link included in an associated website or any changes or updates to such websites.

  1. Applicability of Consumer Protection Law

19.1 When the third party from whom you buy a product or with whom you enter into a contract through our website is not a trader, the consumer rights stemming from Union and national consumer protection law do not apply to the contract and those rights and more generally, consumer protection law will not apply said contract.