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ATTENTION: These terms and conditions apply to the entire contents of this website under the domain name www.drydenslaw.com (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between Drydens and you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to contact Drydens or are one of our clients. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, do not use this Website. This notice is issued by Drydens of Shire House, 2 Humboldt Street, West Yorkshire, BD1 5HQ (Drydens).

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 You may access some areas of this Website and contact Drydens, Shire House,  2 Humboldt Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 5HQ regardless of whether you are a client of Drydens. However, certain areas of this Website are only open to you if you are a client of Drydens and have logged in.
1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions in full. If you do not accept these terms and conditions in full, you must leave this Website immediately.
1.3 Drydens may revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current terms and conditions, because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these terms and conditions may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.

2. LICENCE
2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:
2.1.1 no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
2.1.2 no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
2.1.3 no downloaded extracts from this Website are passed or transferred to third parties, and
2.1.4 Drydens’ copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.
2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright, trademarks, logos and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation any photographs and graphical images) are owned by Drydens or its licensors. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in these terms and conditions, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without Drydens’ prior written permission.
2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms and conditions are reserved.

3. SERVICE ACCESS
3.1 While Drydens endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, Drydens shall not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond Drydens’ control.

4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT
4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Statement, any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Drydens shall have no obligation with respect to such material. Drydens and its designers shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
4.2.1 that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
4.2.2 for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
4.2.3 which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
4.2.4 which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
4.4 Drydens shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Drydens to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 4.2 or paragraph 4.3.

5. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
5.1 Drydens may from time to time establish relationships with other organisations that will enable you to access their websites directly from the Website. Each such link is provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you do so at your own risk and you leave the Website. Each such organisation should operate its own policy regarding the sale or other disposal of personal data and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest in, or concerns regarding the way your data will be used then you are advised to read the privacy statement and other policies on any website you may have accessed in this way.
5.2 Drydens will try to provide you with links to good quality, reputable websites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you, but please note that Drydens has not reviewed all of these third party websites and they are not under Drydens’ control and Drydens is not responsible for and does not contribute to the content of such websites. When you click through to any of these websites you leave the area controlled by Drydens. Drydens does not endorse or make representations, whether as to quality, propriety or otherwise, about such websites, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained by using them, nor does it accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with the third party’s use of your data, the website content or the services offered to you by these websites.

6. DISCLAIMER
6.1 This Website is provided free of charge and without warranties or guarantees. While Drydens endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, Drydens does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. Information on this website is only intended for general guidance and does not constitute legal advice. Information contained on the Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical mistakes. Drydens may update or make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products, services and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and Drydens makes no commitment to update such material.
6.2 The material on this Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind either express or implied. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, Drydens provides you with this Website on the basis that Drydens excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions as to non-infringement, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.
6.3 You accept the risk that data transmitted electronically to Drydens via the Website or otherwise may be intercepted before reaching Drydens or accessed from Drydens’ data storage means by third parties unauthorised by Drydens and may be exploited unlawfully by the said unauthorised third parties. Drydens does not assume responsibility for guarding against the acts of the said unauthorised third parties.

7. LIABILITY
7.1 Drydens, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of Drydens’, associates or affiliates and the officers, directors, employees, partners, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses, worms, trojan horses or other destructive items that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
7.2 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude or limit Drydens’ liability for:
7.2.1 death or personal injury caused by Drydens’ negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
7.2.2 fraud; or
7.2.3 any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

8. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

9. FINANCIAL SERVICES
We are not authorised by the Financial Services Authority. However, we are included on the register maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on insurance mediation activity, which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts. This part of our business, including arrangements for complaints or redress if something goes wrong, is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at www.fsa.gov.uk/register.
The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 but responsibility for regulation and complaints handling has been separated from the Law Society's representative functions. The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society and the Legal Complaints Service is the independent complaints handling body of the Law Society.
In some cases, civil litigation work may involve investments. As stated above, we are not authorised by the Financial Services Authority and so we may refer you to someone who is authorised to provide any necessary advice. However we can provide certain limited services in relation to investments, provided they are closely linked with the legal services we are providing to you, as we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Legal Complaints Service provides a complaints and redress scheme in the event that you have a complaint with our service which we are unable to resolve via our internal complaints handling system.

Drydens is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A list of the names of the partners is open to inspection at our offices.

Issue Date: 1 September 2008