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Conditions of use

  1. All material included in our web site is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal advice. Users are hereby placed under notice that they should take appropriate steps to verify such information. No user should act or refrain from acting on the information contained in this web site without first verifying the information and as necessary obtaining legal and/or professional advice.
  2. The Law Society makes no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy of the information contained in this web site.
  3. The Law Society expressly disclaims all liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage occasioned from the use or inability to use this web site whether directly or indirectly resulting from inaccuracies, defects, errors, whether typographical or otherwise, omissions, out of date information or otherwise, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable and The Law Society had been advised of the possibility of the same. Consequential and indirect loss and damage shall include but not be limited to loss of profits, loss of goodwill, and wasted expenditure.
  4. The user agrees that material downloaded or otherwise accessed through the use of this web site is obtained entirely at the user's own risk and that the user will be entirely responsible for any resulting damage to software or computer systems and/or any resulting loss of data, even if such loss and damage was reasonably foreseeable and The Law Society had been advised of the possibility of the same.
  5. The Law Society does not accept any liability in connection with any third party web sites that can be accessed through this web site and does not endorse or approve the contents of any such site.
  6. Nothing in these conditions of use shall exclude The Law Society's liability for death or personal injury resulting from its negligence.
  7. The representation of the Directory of Solicitors, known as Find a solicitor or Solicitors Online, shall not be construed as a discharge of the Law Society's duties pursuant to the Solicitors Act 1974 and without prejudice to the above provision no representations are made as to its accuracy nor shall the Law Society incur any liability from the user's reliance upon it or from the inclusion in it or omission from it of any individual, solicitors' practice or other organisation. Examination of the roll of solicitors is available by contacting the Law Society's Information Services Department on 0870 606 6575 or at Ipsley Court, Berrington Close, Worcestershire, B98 OTD.
  8. If any provision of these conditions of use or the notice of copyright is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions which shall remain in full force and effect.
  9. The Law Society's omission to exercise any right under these conditions of use or the notice of copyright shall not constitute a waiver of any such right unless expressly accepted by The Law Society in writing.
  10. These conditions of use and the notice of copyright shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales and the user and The Law Society agree to submit any dispute arising out of the use of this web site to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Notice of copyright

  1. Except where expressly stated to the contrary, copyright in the text, graphics and information contained in this web site is owned by The Law Society. You may print or download to a personal computer extracts amounting to no more than six pages of this site for personal use providing that (i) The Law Society web site is the acknowledged source including the reference www.lawgazette.co.uk and (ii) this permission may be revoked at any time by The Law Society.
  2. Permanent copying and/or storage of whole or part of this web site or the information contained therein or reproduction or incorporation of any part of it in any other work or publication whether paper or electronic media or any other form is expressly prohibited.

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Privacy policy

Use of this website by you constitutes acceptance by you of this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to accept this Privacy Policy, please leave this website immediately.

The purpose of this policy is:

to assure you that we recognise and fully respect the privacy and personal data of the visitors to this website and
to explain what personal information we collect from this website and how we ensure its' best protection.
This privacy policy governs both this website at http://www.lawgazette.co.uk and the website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk. Other sites to which either of these websites may be linked are not covered by this policy.

This privacy policy covers only information which is collected by the Law Society from this website and its website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk. It does not cover information which the Law Society holds about solicitors and other regulated persons in pursuance of its statutory functions and duties under the Solicitors Act 1974.

Data protection

The Law Society complies with the Data Protection Act 1998. It is the data controller and sole owner of the personal data collected on this website and on the website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk.

The Law Society does not sell, share or transfer this information except as set out in this privacy policy.

We use up-to-date industry procedures to keep personal data as safe and secure as possible and to protect against loss, unauthorised disclosure or access.

The Law Society use your information for the purposes of advertising, marketing and public relations and only for long as necessary for those purposes.

You can request a copy of the details that we hold about you. A small fee may be payable.

For more information please refer to our Data Protection Policy.

Registration and registration information

When you register on this website you will automatically be registered on our website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk.

It is not necessary for you to register with us in order to access either of these websites. But if you do register it will allow us to personalise our services and offer you some additional benefits.

If you do register, you are responsible for protecting your password and user name and must not share them with or disclose them to anyone else.

When you register, the basic personal information about you which we collect is: your name; your user type (eg solicitor, trainee solicitor, law student, member of the public); your e-mail address; your user ID and password. Depending on what you are registering for, additional information may be collected from you.

We use this information to improve our services to you, for example, by providing you by e-mail with an update of information about our services and products.

Changing the information we hold about you

If you would like to change the registration information we hold about you or want to it to be removed from our registration database, you may do so by returning to the personalisation area and changing or removing your details as you wish.

Third Parties

We do not at present forward the information collected about you to any third parties except where required by law to do so. However, we reserve the right to change this position at any time. If the Law Society choose to employ the services of a third party it will inform you, but the change will only apply in relation to information which we collect from you after we have informed you of the change. We will not disclose any information we have already collected about you without your consent other than where required to do so by law. At all times, the Law Society will control and be responsible for the use of your information.

Cookies

When you visit this website we issue a "cookie" to your computer. This is a small program containing a unique code that allows us to identify your computer. The cookie is used to note the different areas of our website service which have recently been accessed through your computer. This can only be done in relation to this website service and our website service at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk and not in relation to any other sites you might visit.

Information collected in this way is used to develop and manage our online services. The cookie alone contains no information which can identify you personally. However, when you register on this website and our website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk the cookie will be combined with the personal information that you have provided as part of your registration. If you wish, you are able to set up your computer to refuse to accept cookies.

Payment details

We may capture your credit card details if you chose to use the Law Society shop online. These details will be encrypted and processed by our staff in the shop. They will not be passed to any third parties and we will not use online credit card authorisation software.

Changes to Privacy Policy

The internet and data privacy best practice are both developing. We therefore reserve the right to revise this policy at any time. If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Consent

By using this website and the website at http://www.lawsociety.org.uk you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the manner set out above.

The Law Society of England and Wales strives to make its web information accessible to people with disabilities in keeping with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Technical standards

We intend to produce this website to conform with international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

If you require any of our information in another format, or help finding a document, please contact us.

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Accessibility help

All our web pages have an invisible link at the top of the page that allows users with screen-reading software to skip directly to the main content.

There are several keyboard shortcuts ("accesskeys"):

* Alt+h, enter - go to home page
* Alt+c, enter - contact us
* Alt+a, enter - place an advert
* Alt+l, enter - links
* Alt+s, enter - search
* Alt+w, enter - Law Society website

Links to other pages in our website open in the same window. To return to the previous page, use the browser "back" button.

Links to external sites, and to downloadable Law Society documents open a new browser window. To return to the previous window, close the new window.

Adobe PDFs

Many Law Society documents are in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). We are amending them; documents over five pages long will have a "live" table of contents, allowing users to jump directly to the page required. To return to the beginning of the document, press your keyboard's "home" key.

Further information

We are always pleased to receive feedback. For help or to request documents in an alternative format if they are inaccessible on our site, please contact us.

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