Last Updated: 7 April 2024
Terms of Use
Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use including the agreements incorporated by reference herein, you must not access or use the Website.
General
This website (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Stephen Bottomley and Stephen Parker (“we”, “our” or “us”). By using the Site, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use that follow and to use the Site in accordance with those Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and any additional terms and conditions that may apply to specific sections of the Site or products and services available through the Site. Accessing the Site, in any manner, whether automated or otherwise, constitutes use of the Site and your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise stated, all written content on this site is owned by Stephen Bottomley and Stephen Parker and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. The Site is provided solely for your personal non-commercial use. You may not use the Site or the materials available on the Site in a manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights or that has not been authorized by us. More specifically, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, translate, sell, create derivative works, exploit, or distribute in any manner or medium (including by email or other electronic means) any material from the Site without prior permission. You may, however, download, print, and/or share one copy of individual pages of the Site for non-commercial use, provided that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.
Your License to Us. By posting or submitting any material (including, without limitation, comments, blog entries, Facebook postings, photos, and videos) to us via the Site, internet groups, social media venues, or to any of our staff via email, text, or otherwise, you are representing: (i) that you are the owner of the material, or are making your posting or submission with the express consent of the owner of the material; and (ii) that you are eighteen years of age or older. In addition, when you submit, email, text or deliver or post any material, you are granting us, and anyone authorized by us, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, copy, modify, transmit, sell, create derivative works from, distribute, and/or publicly perform or display such material, in whole or in part, in any manner or medium, now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose. The foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such posting or submission, including, but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark, service mark, or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. Also, in connection with the exercise of such rights, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, the right to identify you as the author of any of your postings or submissions by name, email address, or screen name, as we deem appropriate.
Limitations on Linking and Framing. You may establish a hypertext link to the Site so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by us or by the Site. However, you may not, without our prior written permission, frame or inline link any of the content of the Site, or incorporate into another website or other service any of our material, content, or intellectual property.
Privacy
Your use of the Website is also subject to our Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Website and informs users of our data collection practices. Your agreement to the Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into these Terms of Use.
Accuracy of Information
While we shall endeavor to ensure that all information on the Site is accurate, we cannot vouch that all information will be accurate and up-to-date at all times. Laws are regularly changed, and each jurisdiction has its own laws. It is impossible to make statements that are accurate for all jurisdictions and types of legal system or at all times.
BY MAKING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE LAW WE ARE NOT GIVING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE LEGAL ADVICE OR ADVICE ABOUT WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
We cannot accept responsibility for any acts, omissions or other reliance on what we say as to the content of a law, or otherwise. If you seek legal advice you should do so from a competent practitioner licensed to practice in your own jurisdiction.
We accept no responsibility for the content of any Site to which a hypertext link from this Site exists. Such links are provided for your convenience on an ‘as is’ basis.
Should you find any inaccurate information on the Site, please inform us at mail(at)lawincontext(dot)com(dot)au and we shall correct it as soon as is practicable.
Non-Guarantee of Results
You agree that we have not made any guarantees about the results of taking any action, whether recommended on this Website or not. We provide educational and informational resources that are intended to help users of this Website understand some fundamentals of law in its context. You nevertheless recognize that your ultimate success or failure will be the result of your own efforts, your particular situation, and innumerable other circumstances beyond our control or knowlege.
Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, INCLUDING IN OUR MESSAGING, BLOGS, COMMENTS OF OTHERS, BOOKS, EMAILS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES, OR THIRD-PARTY MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE OR BY US IN ANY WAY, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SITE, ANY MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES ON THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THE SITE’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE AND THE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND/OR MATERIALS.
Termination and Access Restriction
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Website and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. Use of the Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.
DMCA Notices
We create all of our content and find our images via paid photographers, paid stock photos, Flickr and Creative Commons if we don’t supply them ourselves or get permission from the artist to use their work. We have the deepest respect for others’ rights in their work.
If you feel that your copyright rights have been violated, please send us a DMCA takedown notice and we’ll gladly remove it. You can send the notice to mail(at)lawincontext(dot)com(au) with the following information:
– Your address, telephone number, and email address;
– A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
– A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
– A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by you, the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
– An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and
– A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
Governing Law
These Terms shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia.
CONTACT
If you have questions or comments regarding these Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy, you may reach us at
Email Address: mail(at)lawincontext(dot)com(dot)au