TERMS & CONDITIONS CUM USER AGREEMENT

Version 1.0 Of 2012

1.0 GENERAL

1.1 www.globallawdirectories.com means and is a wholly owned unit of M/s United Law House (P) Ltd. Your use of www.globallawdirectories.com products, services and web site hereinafter called the “Services”, is subject to the terms & conditions of this agreement between you and www.globallawdirectories.com ,detailed below.

1.2 The “user”, “registered user”, “member” or any such other terms wherever used in this agreement/terms & conditions means the person who visits and accesses the website of www.globallawdirectories.com by any means


2.0 Acceptance of the Terms & Conditions

2.1 In case you choose not to accept the “Terms & Conditions” laid down in this agreement,you may not use the services,and any such use shall be wholly unauthorized and illegal.

2.2 You can choose to accept the “Terms & Conditions” by:

(a) clicking to accept or agree to the “Terms & Conditions”, where ever this option is made available to you by www.globallawdirectories.com in the user interface for any Service, specially in the registration procedure; or

(b) by actually using the Services,in which case, you understand and agree that www.globallawdirectories.com will treat your use of the Services as an implied acceptance of the “Terms & Conditions” from that point onwards.

2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with www.globallawdirectories.com, or

(b) you are a person barred from entering into a lawful contract under the prevailing laws in force for the time being,in India or in any other countries including the country in which you are residing or from which you use the Services.

2.4 Before you continue, you must print a copy of the “Terms & Conditions” for your records and it shall be deemed that you had done so.

2.5 It is further understood by you that you shall check the updated version of the “Terms & Conditions” at the time of every visit to the website or availing it’s Services,and every such change shall be binding upon you.


3.0 Language of the “Terms & Conditions”

3.1 That it is understood by you that you have read and understood the contents of this document by having it translated and explained to you in your vernacular language.

3.2 That it is further understood by you that in case of any discrepancy in the language, the current version in English language shall prevail over your vernacular language.


4.0 Services provided by www.globallawdirectories.com

4.1 It is understood by you that all the Services provided by the www.globallawdirectories.com to you are being provided free of cost except the Premium Listing in the Law Directories and Advertisements.

4.2 You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the Services which www.globallawdirectories.com provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you.

4.3 You acknowledge and agree that the Listings submitted by the users are subject to Editorial Policy and Guidelines of the www.globallawdirectories.com and www.globallawdirectories.com shall be well within it’s right to forthwith and immediately suspend, remove and permanently delete any Listing which is found to be violative of the said Editorial Policy and Guidelines without any notice to the user.


4.4 Editorial Policy and Guidelines

The Listings submitted by the users must comply with the following guidelines :
4.4.1 The Listing should not contain any material which is not consistent with the Listing.
4.4.2 The Listing should not contain any obscene or sexually explicit content.
4.4.3 The Listing should not contain any offensive or defamatory content.
4.4.3 The Listing should not be a repeated Listing.
4.4.4 The Listing should not be spam.
4.4.5 The Listing should not contain any other material which is considered by the editorial team to be objectionable on any other ground apart from the above grounds.


5.0 Use of the Services by you

5.1 In order to avail the Services, you may be required to provide personal information about yourself as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree that any registration information you give to www.globallawdirectories.com will always be accurate, correct and up to date, and in case of any misdeclaration or furnishing of inaccurate or false information by you, www.globallawdirectories.com shall have a right to withdraw temporarily or permanently, at it’s sole discretion, the Services being provided to you by suspending or deleting your membership and/or directory listing.

5.2 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by

(a) these “Terms & Conditions” and ;

(b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including the prevailing laws in force for the time being, regarding the export of data or software to and from India or other relevant countries).

5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by www.globallawdirectories.com, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with www.globallawdirectories.com. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means.

5.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).

5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with www.globallawdirectories.com, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.

5.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that www.globallawdirectories.com has no responsibility to you or to any third party) for any breach of your obligations under these “Terms & Conditions” and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which www.globallawdirectories.com may suffer) of any such breach.


6.0 Your passwords and account security

6.1 You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of password associated with the account you use to access the Services and agree that you will be wholly and solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account.

6.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify www.globallawdirectories.com immediately at contact@globallawdirectories.com


7.0 Privacy and your personal information

7.1 For information about the privacy policy of www.globallawdirectories.com, it is understood that you have seen, read and understood the same at www.globallawdirectories.com/privacypolicy.This policy explains how www.globallawdirectories.com treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Services.

7.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with privacy policy of www.globallawdirectories.com


8.0 Content in the Services

8.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text,articles,news,judgments,acts and any other legal information) which you may access during the use of Service is subject to the Legal Disclaimer which you have seen, read and understood at www.globallawdirectories.com/legaldisclaimer and the www.globallawdirectories.com shall not be responsible for any discrepancy in the information or the services.

8.2 You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including but not limited to advertisements in the Services and sponsored Content within the Services may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide that Content to www.globallawdirectories.com

8.3 You understand that any information submitted by you on the website in form of an article,text,comments,jokes,questions,answers and in any other form shall be wholly owned by the www.globallawdirectories.com and all the intellectual rights in respect of such content including the copyright shall vest in the www.globallawdirectories.com,inspite of the fact that such content might have been submitted by a user and further inspite of the fact that the www.globallawdirectories.com may not agree or subscribe to the views or intent of such content.

8.4 You understand that by using the Services you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the Services at your own risk and shall not hold www.globallawdirectories.com responsible or liable.

8.5 You agree that you are solely responsible for and that www.globallawdirectories.com has no responsibility to you or to any third party for any content that you create, transmit or display while using the Services and you shall be solely and wholly responsible and liable for the consequences of your actions , including any loss or damage which www.globallawdirectories.com may suffer.


9.0 Intellectual Property rights

9.1 You acknowledge and agree that www.globallawdirectories.comor the licensors of www.globallawdirectories.com own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that you shall not disclose or disseminate, by any means, such information without the prior written consent of www.globallawdirectories.com

9.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by www.globallawdirectories.com, in writing.


10.0 Content license from you

10.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you givewww.globallawdirectories.com a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

10.2 You understand that www.globallawdirectories.com, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit www.globallawdirectories.com to take these actions.

10.3 You confirm and warrant to www.globallawdirectories.com that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.


11.0 Online Purchase and Payment on the Website

11.1 The www.globallawdirectories.com has arrangements with Paypal (www.paypal.com) and CCAvenue (www.ccavenue.com) for accepting online payments through their secure payment gateways ,and you agree that any transactions made by you at the website online shall be at your own risk and responsibility and shall take all precautions and measures that a prudent person should adopt while and after making the online payments to ensure that your account or credit has been charged exactly the same amount that was intended to be paid by you and discrepancy, if any, shall be your own responsibility.


12.0 Exclusion of Warranties

12.1 You expressly understand and agree that your use of the services is at your sole risk and that the services are being provided on "as is" and “as available” basis and the www.globallawdirectories.com does not provide any warranty whatsoever in respect of availability of services.

12.2 Apart from the general exclusion clause narrated above it is specifically understood by you in particular, that www.globallawdirectories.com do not represent or warrant to you that: (a) your use of the services will meet your requirements,

(b) your use of the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error,

(c) any information obtained by you as a result of your use of the services will be accurate or reliable, and

12.3 Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the services is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or other device or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.

12.4 No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from www.globallawdirectories.com or through or from the services shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the terms.


13.0 Limit of liability

13.1 Subject to overall provision in paragraph 12, you expressly understand and agree that www.globallawdirectories.com shall not be liable to you for:

(a) Any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages which may be incurred by you,under any theory of liability.This shall include, but not be limited to any loss of profit or any other intangible loss;

(b) Any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage as a result of:

(i) any reliance placed by you on the correctness, accuracy or existence of any fact,service or product advertised on the website, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the services;
(ii) any changes which www.globallawdirectories.com may make to the services, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the services;
(iii) the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content or data
(iii) your failure to provide www.globallawdirectories.com with accurate account information;
(iv) your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential;


13.2 In case of online purchase of any product(s) or service(s) at www.globallawdirectories.com subject to any rights or legal defense that may be available to www.globallawdirectories.com, shall not in any case be liable for any amount more than what has actually been received by www.globallawdirectories.com and no liability for any direct or indirect losses shall be claimed by you more than the actual amount received by www.globallawdirectories.com


14.0 Third Party Content

14.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. www.globallawdirectories.com may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than www.globallawdirectories.com 14.2 You acknowledge and agree that www.globallawdirectories.com shall not be responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources and www.globallawdirectories.com shall not be liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of reliance placed by you on the correctness, accuracy or existence of any advertising displayed on such external web sites or resources.


15.0 Changes in the “Terms & Conditions”

15.1 It is expressly understood by you that www.globallawdirectories.com may make changes to the “Terms & Conditions” from time to time,which shall be displayed at www.globallawdirectories.com/terms&conditions , which shall be binding on you and no separate notice shall be necessary for such changes and it shall be solely your responsibility to check the changes made therein.


16.0 Miscellaneous

16.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or group of persons or website. Your use of such services, software or goods shall be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned.

16.2 You agree that www.globallawdirectories.com may serve upon you any notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services, which shall be deemed to be lawful and effective service of such notice or communication.

16.3 You agree that if www.globallawdirectories.com does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which www.globallawdirectories.com has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of www.globallawdirectories.com rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to www.globallawdirectories.com.

16.4 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.


17.0 Termination of agreement

17.1 The “Terms & Conditions” will continue to apply until terminated by either you or www.globallawdirectories.com in any of the manners given below:

(a) By notifying www.globallawdirectories.com at any time by way of a written notice , through registered or recorded delivery, addressed to United Law House (P) Ltd, B-16, Industrial Estate, Kichha Bypass Road, Rudrapur-263153,Uttarakhand (India) ; and/or

(b) By closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use. 17.2 Apart from the above, www.globallawdirectories.com may in it’s sole discretion ,without any prior notice,at any time, terminate it’s legal agreement with you in the following circumstances:

(a) Your acts or omissions which amount to a breach of any provisions of these “Terms & Conditions”

(b) Being required by any law,order or decree of a court,tribunal,forum,judicial authority or any other authority lawfully competent to make such orders.

(e) If and when the www.globallawdirectories.com decides in it’s sole discretion that providing Services to you and/or other users is no longer commercially viable.


17.0 Termination of agreement

17.1 The “Terms & Conditions” will continue to apply until terminated by either you or www.globallawdirectories.com in any of the manners given below:

(a) By notifying www.globallawdirectories.com at any time by way of a written notice , through registered or recorded delivery, addressed to United Law House (P) Ltd, B-16, Industrial Estate, Kichha Bypass Road, Rudrapur-263153,Uttarakhand (India) ; and/or

(b) By closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use. 17.2 Apart from the above, www.globallawdirectories.com may in it’s sole discretion ,without any prior notice,at any time, terminate it’s legal agreement with you in the following circumstances:

(a) Your acts or omissions which amount to a breach of any provisions of these “Terms & Conditions”

(b) Being required by any law,order or decree of a court,tribunal,forum,judicial authority or any other authority lawfully competent to make such orders.

(e) If and when the www.globallawdirectories.com decides in it’s sole discretion that providing Services to you and/or other users is no longer commercially viable.


18.0 DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND JURISDICTION

18.1 It is specifically understood by you that in the event of any doubt or dispute in respect of these “Terms & Conditions cum User Agreement”, or any claim arising therefrom; or in case of any dispute or claim arising in respect of the services or usage of this website, the same shall be resolved exclusively by way of arbitration process to be undertaken by a Sole Arbitrator to be appointed by the United Law House (P) Ltd. under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act,1996,as amended up to date and in force for the time being in India, and the place of arbitration shall be at a place in India to be decided by such arbitrator.