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POORANLAW PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION WEBSITE

Before using “www.pooranlaw.com” (the “Site”) or accessing any information on the PooranLaw Professional Corporation website, please carefully read the following terms of use. By accessing the Site you agree with and accept all applicable terms of use and you agree to be legally bound by them. If you are not prepared to accept all of these terms of use, please exit this Site immediately.

You and your organization (included in “you”) agree to the following terms of use, as modified or amended by PooranLaw Professional Corporation (“we”) from time to time. Each time you access this website, you re-confirm your acceptance of this agreement.

 

GENERAL PROVISIONS

The terms of use (the “Agreement”), including any documents referenced herein constitute the entire agreement between PooranLaw Professional Corporation and you pertaining to the subject matter hereof and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between you and PooranLaw Professional Corporation with respect to the Site. A printed version of this Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. PooranLaw Professional Corporation’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provisions or right. If any of the provisions contained in this Agreement are determined to be void, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such determination shall not affect the remaining provisions contained herein. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

 

DISCLAIMER

This Site contains materials and general information relating to our practice areas. These materials are for educational and informative purposes and do not constitute legal or professional advice. Nothing contained on this website should be taken as legal advice. If you require legal advice, you should contact us, or contact the Law Society of Upper Canada for a listing of lawyers at www.lsuc.on.ca. You should not act or fail to act on anything based on any of the material contained herein without first consulting with a lawyer.

The reading, sending or receiving of information from or via the Site does not create a lawyer-client relationship. If you contact any lawyer or member of PooranLaw Professional Corporation, your contact alone does not create a lawyer-client relationship.  A lawyer-client relationship will only form between you and us if we specifically agree to act for you. Until we specifically agree to act for you in connection with a particular matter, please do not provide us with any confidential information or materials.

Although we have made our best efforts to ensure that the materials contained on this Site are accurate, the law changes quickly. We do not guarantee that the content of this website is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

We also do not warrant or guarantee: that the Site will be available without interruption, error or omission; that defects will be corrected; or that the Site and the server(s) that make it available are free from viruses or harmful components.

The Site and the materials provided on the website are provided “as is” and “as available” without representations, warranties or conditions of any kind, either expressed or implied.

 

CONFIDENTIALITY

PooranLaw Professional Corporation cannot guarantee the confidentiality of communications sent by e-mail, through our website or left on telephone voice mail. Unsolicited information and material may not be treated as confidential and will not be protected by solicitor-client privilege. If you choose to communicate with our firm via the internet this does not create a solicitor-client relationship without the express consent of PooranLaw Professional Corporation.

 

COPYRIGHT AND OWNERSHIP

All materials published or otherwise accessible through this Website including but not limited to articles, opinions, photographs, images, illustrations, information, content, reports, data, databases, graphics, interfaces, web pages, text, files, software, products, services, product names, company names, trade-marks, logos and trade names contained on the Website (collectively referred to as the “Content”) and including the manner in which the Content is presented or appears and all information relating thereto are protected by copyright and are owned or controlled by PooranLaw Professional Corporation or used by us with permission. The compilation of all content on this Site is the exclusive property of PooranLaw Professional Corporation. You agree to abide by all additional copyright notices and restrictions contained in any content.

 

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

You agree that you will not, without our prior written permission, use this Site or the content for purposes other than your own personal non-commercial use and benefit. You may not frame the Site or the content or any part thereof on any commercial or non-commercial internet website. You acquire absolutely no rights or licences to the Site or the content other than the limited right to use the Website and the content in accordance with this Agreement.

Certain words, phrases, names, designs or logos used on the Site may constitute the trade-marks or trade names of PooranLaw Professional Corporation or of third parties. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting any licence or right to use any trade-marks or trade names displayed on the Site without our written permission or the written permission of the third party that may own them.

You agree that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, any reproduction, retransmission, distribution, sale, republication, modification, translation of or creation of derivative works based on the Site or the content, in whole or in part, and any decompilation, disassembly, reverse engineering or other exploitation of the Site, without prior written permission, is strictly prohibited.

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

This website and the content are provided “as is” only, with no representations or warranties whatsoever. In no event will PooranLaw Professional Corporation, its partners, employees or agents be liable for any damages whatsoever (including direct, indirect, special or consequential damages) arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site or your reliance on the content, whether in an action of contract, tort (including without limitation negligence), strict liability, breach of a fundamental term, fundamental breach, or otherwise.

You are solely responsible for the retrieval and use of the content.

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

The Site contains links to third-party websites, which are not under our control and are provided for convenience and for your information only. We make no representations whatsoever about any other website which you may access through our Site. When you access another website through this Site, you do so at your own risk and acknowledge that PooranLaw Professional Corporation is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice, or statements made on these sites. A link to another website does not mean that we have endorsed, investigated or verified its content.

 

LINKS TO WWW.POORANLAW.COM

We acknowledge and appreciate links to our Site. Links should go directly to the homepage of our firm or to the biography of one of our lawyers. Linking directly to other pages within the Site or framing content on the Site is prohibited without our prior written consent. You are also prohibited from embedding any content from the Site into your website, and any link to the Site must open a new browser window.

No link(s) may appear on any page on your website or within any context containing content or materials that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third-party rights.

In the event that you link content from www.pooranlaw.com to your website, PooranLaw Professional Corporation shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your website. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold PooranLaw Professional Corporation and its partners harmless against all claims arising out of or based upon your website.

PooranLaw Professional Corporation reserves the right at any time and in our sole discretion to require that you remove all links or any particular link to the Site or a page of the Website from your website.

 

LINKING AGREEMENT

If you want to link to our website, you may do so, provided you agree to the link conditions described below:

  • A link may be established to the following page of our website: http://www.pooranlaw.com.  Links may not be established to any other pages of our Site without the prior written permission from PooranLaw Professional Corporation.
  • If you link to PooranLaw Professional Corporation’s website, your website:
      1. may not imply that our firm is endorsing you or your products or services;
      2. may not imply an affiliation between you or any entity on whose behalf you may be acting without the prior written consent of our corporation;
      3. may not misrepresent your relationship with PooranLaw Professional Corporation or present false or misleading impressions about our firm or our services; and
      4. may not contain content that may be interpreted as distasteful or offensive.
  • We shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your website.
  • We may at any time, in its sole discretion, immediately terminate your right to link to our website, with or without cause.  If we exercise this right, you must immediately remove all links to our Site from your website.
  • We may amend these Link Conditions at any time.  You agree to abide by these Link Conditions and the other terms of use on this Site, as amended from time to time.

By establishing a link to our website, you will be deemed to have agreed to these Link Conditions.

 

PRIVACY

Our website is governed by the PooranLaw Professional Corporation privacy policy.

 

GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement is governed by the laws of Ontario and these laws apply to the use of the Site or the content by you, notwithstanding your domicile, residency or physical location. The Site and its content are intended for use only in jurisdictions where it may lawfully be offered for use.

 

TERMINATION

Notwithstanding any of these terms of use, we reserve the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to terminate your license to use this Site, and to block or prevent future access to the Site if you violate any of the terms of use. Upon termination, the terms of use shall continue to apply.

 

SEVERABILITY

If any term of this Agreement is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining portions shall not be affected. The Agreement shall thereafter be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s) were omitted.

 

APPLICABLE LAW

PooranLaw Professional Corporation’s website is controlled by PooranLaw Professional Corporation from our offices within the Province of Ontario in Canada.  Our website can be accessed from all provinces and territories of Canada, as well as from other countries around the world.  As each of these jurisdictions has laws that may differ from those of the Province of Ontario, all matters relating to access to, or use of, this Site or any website linked to this Site, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

 

INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS

 

COMMUNICATIONS NOT PRIVATE OR CONFIDENTIAL

PooranLaw Professional Corporation welcomes the opportunity to communicate with you via the internet. However, please be advised that our law firm cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of any communication made through the internet. We cannot guarantee information sent through the internet will not be intercepted by a third party. If you wish to provide information of a confidential, personal or sensitive nature to one of the members of our firm, please contact the member directly by telephone.

 

UNINTENDED RECIPIENT

Any email originating from PooranLaw Professional Corporation may be privileged and is intended for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. Any other person is strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing or reproducing such email or the content thereof. If you receive communication from our firm and you are not the intended recipient please inform us immediately by telephone at (416) 860-7572 at our expense and delete the email and destroy all copies.

 

LIMITED LIABILITY

If you chose to send confidential, personal or sensitive information through this website you do so at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall PooranLaw Professional Corporation be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable, based on a claim (including, but not limited to, for damages, loss of profits or loss of business opportunities, delay or inability to use the site, the provision of or failure to provide services, mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion or corruption of files, errors, defects, delays in preparations or transmissions) arising out of or in any way connected with the use of the website whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

 

MODIFICATIONS TO THE TERMS OF USE

PooranLaw Professional Corporation reserves the right to change these terms of use at any time. Notice of any change to the terms of use will be posted on this screen. You agree to review the terms of use periodically and, in any event, each time such notice is posted. Your continued use of this Site will constitute agreement to abide and be bound by the terms of use as modified.

 

LEGAL ADVICE NOT PROVIDED

The information on our website is provided for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal or other professional advice. It is not intended to be legal advice or an opinion of any kind. You are advised to seek specific legal advice from a member of our firm (or your own legal counsel) in relation to any decision or course of action contemplated.

 

NO WARRANT OR GUARANTEE

PooranLaw Professional Corporation does not warrant or guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any information provided on our website. The information contained in articles published is current as of its original date of publication, but should not be relied upon as certain information (which may be significant) may now be out of date and no longer applicable.

 

NO LIABILITY

Your use of the Site is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Site and any data and/or information associated with the Site is provided on an ‘as is’ basis without representations, warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to representations, warranties or conditions of title or implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, PooranLaw Professional Corporation is not responsible or liable for the suitability, accuracy, validity or reliability of the Site for any purpose.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall PooranLaw Professional Corporation be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable, based on a claim (including, but not limited to, for damages for loss of profit or loss of business opportunity, delay or inability to use the Site, the provision of or failure to provide services, mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion or corruption of files, errors, defects, delays in preparations or transmissions) arising out of or in any way connected with the use of the Site whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

 

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

As a condition of your use of this Site, you represent and warrant that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms of use.

 

OWNERSHIP OF CONTENT

The materials used and displayed on the Site, including but not limited to text, software, photographs, graphics, illustrations, artwork, video, music, sound, and names, logos and trade-marks are the property of PooranLaw Professional Corporation or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trade-mark and other laws. Any such content may be displayed solely for your personal, non-commercial use and you agree not to modify, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any such material without the prior written permission of PooranLaw Professional Corporation or the applicable third-party licensor.

 

THIRD PARTY SITES

PooranLaw Professional Corporation may provide links to third party sites. These links are provided for convenience only and the firm does not endorse the information contained in those sites or guarantee its accuracy, timeliness or fitness for any purpose. The content in any linked site is not under our control and if you choose to access any such site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

 

CONTACTING US

For more information about the use of this Website and its Contents, please contact info@pooranlaw.com.