Terms & Conditions

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the “Terms of Use” on which you may make use of our website www.shipleysolicitors.com (“our Website”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our Website. By using our Website, you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not access our Website.

About our Website:

www.shipleysolicitors.com is a site operated by Shipley Solicitors Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 05760725 and have our registered office at Liverpool Science Park, 131 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TF.

We are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, with whom our registration number is: 00468016.

Accessing our Website

Access to our Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide. We will not be liable if for any reason our Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our Website, or our entire Website, to users who have registered with us.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use, and that they comply with them.

Acceptable use of our Website

You may use our Website only for legitimate purposes purposes. For instance, you may not use our Website:

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards, detailed below.
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website unless in contravention of the Terms of Use allow it.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our Website;
any equipment or network on which our Website is stored;
any software used in the provision of our Website; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. 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 Website for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our Website.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our Website must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the materials on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Website in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Reliance on information posted

Commentary and other materials posted on our Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Our Website changes regularly

We aim to update our Website regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our Website, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability

The material displayed on our Website is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to address your requirements. All material is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.

To the extent permitted by law we hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.

In no event shall we be responsible for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Website or any websites linked to our Website and any materials posted on it.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Information about you and your visits to our Website

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our Website 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 Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

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

Linking to our Website

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, but 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 from any website that is not owned by you. Our Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. If you wish to make any use of material on our Website other than that set out above, please address your request to team@shipleysolicitors.com.

Links from our Website

Where our Website 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 sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Website although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These Terms of Use are governed by English law.

Variations

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Website.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach the standards expected in the course of your use of our Website. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with our Terms of Use, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website.
Issue of a warning to you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.

We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of these Terms of Use. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Changes to these Terms of Use

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in t may also be superseded by provisions or notices published

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Website, please contact team@shipleysolicitors.com. Thank you for visiting our Website.

All solicitors are subject to the rules and principles of professional conduct. Shipley Solicitors is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Solicitors Regulation Authority website can be accessed at www.sra.org.uk.