Terms of Use
Date of Last Revision: Friday, January 06, 2012
These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) are available for users to view on the website with the most up-to-date version. Please review all of the information before signing up or continuing to use our services, this will prevent You, the User (“User”), from violating our Terms of Use.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF USE, YOU’RE HEREBY BOUND TO THEM BY VISITING AND USING THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS IN THE TERMS LISTED HERE THEN YOU’RE TO LEAVE THE WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY. ALL SERVICES PROVIDED AT BESTATTORNEYSONLINE.COM AND OTHER HOSTED SERVICES BY BESTATTORNEYSONLINE.COM LLC ARE BOUND BY THESE TERMS.
This website is made for adults at or above the age of 18. The content provided here for individuals who can legally form binding contracts within the applicable law. You may use this site and the services available here during the time You are a registered user.
Please note that none of the information on this website, in the Terms of Use, or in connection with our website’s services can be considered legal advice or legal counsel. We do not serve as an attorney-client relationship and only provide access to attorneys through an online ranking, directory, and contact system.
Description of Services
The website “bestattorneysonline.com” can hereby be referred to as “Best Attorneys Online”. The service is provided “as is” and “as provided” by bestattorneysonline.com LLC (“Bestattorneysonline.com”) without any warranty as an online ranking and information service.
Privacy Policy
Information on how information is maintained and distributed is posted in the Privacy Policy located here. (When integrating into the website, include a link to the privacy policy in the document.)
Copyrights
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all content displayed, distributed, or maintained on bestattorneysonline.com is owned by bestattorneysonline.com LLC and may not be transmitted elsewhere outside of the website without express written permission of the copyright holder. We take copyright infringement very seriously and will report all instances of infringement to the proper authorities.
Linking
You, as a user of this website, may not link to the website from websites with illegal or pornographic content or to make claim to sponsorship without having gained sponsorship rights from bestattorneysonline.com. We take steps to ensure the integrity of our reputation through linking to our website.
Intellectual Property Complaints
In an effort to comply with Intellectual Property laws, we respect the copyrights of others. We will work our best to identify and remove content that infringes on the rights of other people and in accordance to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable intellectual property laws in the United States of America. A portion of the content of the website may be posted by users of the website and not by the owners and will therefore be moderated if a complaint is received. We will remove content that is believed to be stolen at request of the copyright holder provided that it does not infringe upon content provided by the copyright holder to our website.
To contact us in regards to a copyright complaint, please provide a written account of the content on the website that violates Your copyright to our P.O. Box provided below. We will get in touch with individuals who send in complaints as soon as possible. You, as the User or visitor of this website, agree to pay for any and all legal fees (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if You are found to be materially misrepresenting an activity that is infringing Your copyright.
Information Accuracy
The information located on this website is only accurate to the best of our knowledge and may not be accurate according to other sources outside of our website. To report inaccuracies in our website, send an e-mail to content@bestattorneysonline.com regarding the issue. If the accuracy is in Your own user-created content, You should log into the website and fix the inaccuracy on Your own with Your log-in details.
User Obligations
Any user, registered or unregistered on the website, will follow the following obligations or else their access to this website may be terminated with their consent.
1) Users will never participate in behavior that goes against the Terms of Use.
2) Users will never engage in activity that could result in a change in behavior of function of this website.
3) Users will never attempt to hack, alter, or defame the content on the website.
4) Users will never attempt to gain access to unauthorized or private locations on the website.
5) Users will provide accurate information and will not provide inaccurate information.
6) Users are responsible for the content that they add to the website.
We will investigate all forms of fraud and abuse on our website and will terminate anyone found to be participating in illegal activities and report them to the property ISP and authorities. We reserve the right to disallow access to our website from proxy and bypass services.
Denial of Service
We reserve the right to deny service to any user for any reason that is not illegal and will never discriminate based on age, gender, or race. No user reserves the right to deny another user of their service to this website through their own connection to the internet. Access to this website through anonymous or public services is expressly prohibited.
Security
We cannot provide assistance with establishing a secure connection to our website unless otherwise stated on the website in specific sections for information transfer. The user is responsible for all forms of data transfer over the internet including connections that may be intercepted through public access points, an unstable connection, an insecure internet service provider, or through browser/service vulnerabilities of any kind. This also includes connections to non-public internet connections that have become compromised such as wireless connections or local access networks.
Liabilities
bestattorneysonline.com, in no event, shall be liable under any circumstance in respect to the website, service, or content for any lost profits or other types of damages of any kind whatsoever for any direct damages in excess of $100. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply to you.
In the case that any legal action is taken against bestattorneysonline.com LLC, the action must be taken in the courts of Plymouth, Indiana in Marshall County. This includes any court time and the actual filings for a law suit. You agree to this by being a user and visitor of this website.
Registration
Users of the website will be expected to register on the website in order to edit their information, add content, or to access user-related services that are not available to non-users of the website. Information obtained from the user section on the website will be used as posted in the Privacy Policy as explained above. We will attempt to ensure the integrity of all registered firms and will remove any that we deem are not being represented by the actual firm or any false accounts used to spam or otherwise cause problems on the website.
We reserve the right to report any connection information to the user’s Internet Service Provider if we find it to be malicious in intent.
Limitations of Use
This website holds a specific purpose to provide a service to both law firms and individuals looking to work with a law firm. We do not provide legal advice nor do we intend to work as an attorney-client service. The information on this website is only as accurate as the members on the website include their information, therefore Users are encouraged to do their own research to make sure a certain attorney or law firm is legitimate and will be able to provide the services that they claim to provide. Law firms can be contacted through the contact form provided on the website.
Our registration process is only open to those who are certified in the field of law and are currently registered with a law firm. Please note that by registering on this website, you certify that you’re are a law firm that has legal right to practice law in the area of the country you are in. Falsifying this information will have you reported to the proper authorities for fraud. We will report all dishonest actions to the appropriate bar after contacting the law firm in question.
This website is only available for individuals at or above the age of 18, we only provide access to our list of law firms as a way to connect to Users and to help Users find the best law firms in their area to help them with their cases. We do not claim to have inside information on finding the best lawyer, we only claim to have a process that may or may not be the best way to identify a lawyer or attorney.
