LawDepot™ Terms and Conditions
The following are the terms and conditions for use (the "Terms") of the LawDepot™ web site (the "Site") and LawDepot™ services. Please read the Terms carefully.
- Acceptance
By using the Site Material (as defined below) you are
deemed to accept the validity of and be bound by the Terms as stated
herein without modification.
LawDepot™ Material is defined as any legal materials, documents, contracts, software, products, web links, email, information, partial LawDepot™ Material or any other materials provided by LawDepot™, the Site or any LawDepot™ service in any way.
- Nature of the Service
LawDepot™ is not a law firm and does not provide Legal Advice (as defined below). Your use of the Site or any LawDepot™ service does not create a solicitor-client relationship between you and LawDepot™.
- Legal Advice, Information and Decision Making Responsibility
You agree that all decisions you make on legal matters are your full responsibility and you agree to retain legal counsel licensed to practice in your jurisdiction regarding any legal issue of enough importance to reasonably require it.
If you receive any communication from LawDepot™, its agents, its employees or any other associated entity, which is Legal Advice, you understand that it is NOT a communication authorized by LawDepot™ and you agree to disregard it.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms, you agree to accept full responsibility for determining the value of and for any use you make of LawDepot™ Material, and for obtaining any needed assistance from a properly licensed attorney to assess the value of and appropriate uses for any LawDepot™ Material.
For the purposes of these Terms, Legal Advice is defined to include the following:
- any legal related communication, work or service which, under the governing law of your jurisdiction, is only allowed to be performed by or under the supervision of a properly licensed attorney;
- advice related to your specific legal or fact situation;
- advice on which legal document or documents you need or are best for your situation;
- advice applying the law or drawing any legal conclusions;
- determining the legal consequences that will or could result from how you have created your legal document;
- whether you have included inappropriate, conflicting, or ambiguous information in your legal documents;
- whether you have omitted any necessary provisions or details from your legal documents; and
- whether you require any additional legal documents or legal procedures.
- Use of LawDepot™ Material
A. Generally
You agree not to use any LawDepot™ Material for any purpose which is against any law in your jurisdiction or for any purpose which would not give full effect to the Terms even if that purpose is otherwise allowed under the Terms of this agreement.
You may view the Site using a web browser for evaluation purposes as a potential customer or supplier.
Final Contract is defined as the finished legal document created through the use of a LawDepot™ product such as a licensed automated contract.
B. Single Use License and Divorce Package
Purchase of a Single Use License or Divorce Package entitles you to:
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use the Final Contract for a single transaction,
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make one electronic backup copy of the Final Contract for your personal use,
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to make necessary mechanical copies (e.g. photocopies or scans) of the Final Contract for your personal records and as required for completion of the specific transaction for which the Final Contract is intended.
C. Multiple Use License
Purchase of a Multiple Use License entitles you to:
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use of many Final Contracts for which the license is purchased for one year from the date of purchase for many transactions,
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make one backup electronic copy of each Final Contract for your personal use,
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to make necessary mechanical copies (e.g. photocopies or scans) of the Final Contracts for your personal records and as required for completion of the specific transactions for which the Final Contracts are intended.
D. Subscription
A subscription gives you the rights of a multiple use license for the products identified on the order page. You may end the subscription in the manner specified on the order page, your account area or the help documentation. LawDepot™ retains the right to cancel the subscription at any time, in which case you will only be charged for the time in which the subscription was in effect. LawDepot™ retains the right to increase the price of the subscription not more than 25% in any year; in this case, LawDepot™ must give you reasonable notice and you will have the right to terminate the subscription if you do not accept the price increase.
E. Site License
A Site License is equivalent to a Multiple Use License for all of the products identified on the order page.
- Legal Information Service
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Unless otherwise stated in sections (B) and/or (C), the Terms and Conditions of the Legal
Information Service are governed by the Terms and Agreements of our Legal Policy.
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Our staff will review your questions to the form that supports the Legal Information Service, but
at no time does the Legal Information Service look for legal sufficiency, draw legal
conclusions, provide legal advice or apply the law to the facts of your particular situation.
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Except as specified in these Terms, the maximum liability of LawDepot™ is double the
amount paid to LawDepot™ by a customer for using the Legal Information Service.
- Programs
LawDepot™ retains the right to make changes to its Affiliate Program or other programs as it sees fit.
All Affiliate Program payment schedules and percentages are subject to change without notice. LawDepot™ also retains the right to terminate its relationship with any Affiliate or program partner at any time without penalty.
- Services
These Terms apply to any services provided by LawDepot™ such as the Legal Information Service and the Accuracy Review service.
In an accuracy review, our staff will review your answers and choices for completeness, spelling, internal consistency and grammar. At no time does our accuracy review provide Legal Advice.
- Restrictions
To the maximum extent allowable under applicable law, you agree not to publish, re-publish, lend, license, give away, look at the software source code, modify the software source code, post to an Internet web site, or use in an automated system any LawDepot™ Material, nor will you allow or assist a third party to do so.
The rights granted under these Terms are granted to you only.
If you are an organization, a License or service purchase allows one individual within your organization to exercise the rights granted by these Terms. If multiple individuals within your organization require access, a License or service must be purchased for each individual. The appointed individual may not be changed.
LawDepot™ retains the right to prohibit organizations, groups, or individuals from using its websites or LawDepot™ Material at its discretion.
- Assignment
This agreement cannot be assigned.
- Ownership of Intellectual Property
LawDepot™ DOES NOT transfer to you title to any copy, or original, of the documents or any other LawDepot™ Material. All ownership, copyright and other intellectual property rights to any LawDepot™ Material belongs solely to LawDepot™ and its suppliers except as expressly licensed in these Terms.
Without reducing or restricting any other remedies that LawDepot™ may be entitled to, you agree that to the extent allowable under applicable law any automated system using any LawDepot™ Material will be the property of LawDepot™.
- Client Privacy
LawDepot™ does not share customer information of any kind with anyone. We will not sell or rent your name or personal information to any third party. We DO NOT sell, rent or provide outside access to our mailing list.
LawDepot™ only collects such personal information that is necessary for you to access and use our Site and services. This personal information includes, but is not limited to, first and last name, physical address, zip code, email address, phone number, social security number, birth date, credit card information, financial information, loan information, vehicle information, marital information, and other personal information necessary to generate proper legal documents.
LawDepot™ may release personal information if LawDepot™ is required to by law, search warrant, subpoena, court order or for fraud investigation.
We may also use personal information in a manner that does not identify you specifically nor allow you to be contacted but does identify certain criteria about our Site's users in general (such as we may inform third parties about the number of registered users, number of unique visitors, and the pages most frequently browsed).
- Refund Policy
LawDepot™ aims to provide high quality automated documents to the public at a cost that is lower or equal to most 'fill in the blank' online contracts.
Once a person has purchased a license, they are automatically given access to our site and the features of that document. While our software and site should enable almost everyone to be able to print or save their contracts, LawDepot™ cannot warrant that any specific customer will be able to print, save or edit its document. However, LawDepot's technical support is more than willing to assist you in changing your settings or browser so you are able to print or save or edit your documents. You agree to answer any questions and otherwise assist our technical support team in determining why your computer is unable to fully utilize the Site's features. Our technical support will respond to your requests as soon as possible during our regular business hours.
LawDepot™ has minimal control over how a customer prints or saves a document as the printing and saving is controlled by your browser's preferences and your printer's fonts.
Given the above facts and the fact that there is an accounting overhead with each order and there would be a further accounting overhead to manually refund any sale, LawDepot™ has had to make it a general policy to not refund any sales except in special circumstances or when a product is explicitly labeled as having a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee". The 100% Satisfaction Guarantee only applies to the purchase of single-use licenses and multi-use licenses. It does not apply to the purchase of a Site Subscription. Refund requests for products that are labeled as having a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee must be made within 14 days of the purchase of a license. Our maximum liability for any product labeled as having a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee is the purchase price of the product at the time of purchase. Refunds will be made within 5 business days of the request.
- LIMITED WARRANTIES
Except as expressly provided in these Terms, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, LawDepot™ Material is provided "as is" without any kind of warranty.
You accept full responsibility for determining whether LawDepot™ Material is suitable for any particular purpose and for protecting yourself against any possible consequential damages.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms, we are not responsible for any loss, injury, claim, liability, damage, or consequential damage related to your use of Site Material, or for inaccessibility of Site Material whether from errors or omissions in the content of Site Material or any other linked sites or for any other reason. Use of Site Material is at your own risk.
LawDepot™ does not represent or warrant that Site Material, its server or any linked sites are free of any harmful materials.
- Maximum Liability
Except as expressly provided in these Terms, the maximum liability of LawDepot™ is the amount paid to LawDepot™ by the customer.
- Guarantees
The amounts specified in this section are the limits to any guarantees provided in any Site Material.
A. Quality Guarantee
Our maximum liability for any Quality Guarantees specified on the Site is 100 USD for United States customers, 100 CAD for Canadian customers, 100 GBP for United Kingdom customers and 100 USD for other customers.
We will pay a person up to our maximum liability under the quality guarantee if:
- the person purchased a license for a contract covered by the guarantee;
- the person advises us of a mistake in our wording, not theirs;
- the mistake must be related to the wording of the legal contract and not other text on the Site;
- the mistake existed in the contract at the time the customer purchased the license; and
- the customer was the first person to mention that mistake.
- We are only required to pay a person for one mistake no matter how many mistakes they may bring to our attention.
The Quality Guarantee is not applicable to any LawDepot™ service.
B. Service Guarantee
The maximum limit to any service guarantee given in any LawDepot™ Material is double the amount paid to LawDepot™ by a customer for the specific service item.
- Other
To the maximum extent possible, the Terms take precedence over any conflicting material on the Site.
- Indemnification
The user agrees to indemnify and hold LawDepot™, its directors, officers and employees, harmless from any claim, demand, or damage, including legal fees, asserted by any third party due to or arising out of the user's use of or conduct on the Site.
- Modification to Terms
LawDepot™ reserves the right to change the Terms
or policies regarding the use of the Site at any time and
to notify you by updating the Site.
- Severability
The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms or the Site’s Disclaimer will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of these Terms or the Site’s Disclaimer and such invalid provision will be deemed to be severable.
- Whole Agreement
The Terms and the Site’s Disclaimer constitute the whole agreement between you and LawDepot™.
- Waivers
No failure or delay, on the part of LawDepot™, in exercising any right or power under these Terms will operate as a waiver of such right or power.
- Governing Law
The Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta in Canada. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Alberta, Canada.
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