Village Family Lawyers Website Terms and Conditions

Village Family Lawyers
Unit 1 / 24A Ranelagh Drive
Mount Eliza VIC 3930
1300 413 997
admin@villagefamilylawyers.com.au
Effective Date: 01 January 2025

This web page represents a legal document and is the Terms and Conditions (Agreement) for our website, www.villagefamilylawyers.com.au (Website). By using our Website, you agree to fully comply with and be bound by the following Agreement each time you use our Website. Please review the following terms carefully.

Definitions

The terms “us”, “we”, and “our” refer to Village Family Lawyers, the owner of this Website. A “Visitor” is someone who merely browses our Website. A “Member” is someone who has registered with our Website to use our Services. The term “User” is a collective identifier that refers to either a Visitor or a Member. The term “Product” refers to any products we sell or give away.

All text, information, graphics, design, and data offered through our Website or Services, whether produced by our Members or by us, are collectively known as our “Content”. We distinguish content posted by our Members as “Member Content”.

Acceptance of Agreement

This Agreement is between you and Village Family Lawyers.

This agreement contains warranty disclaimers and other provisions that limit our liability to you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully and in their entirety, as using, accessing, and/or browsing our Website constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to be bound to each and every term and condition set forth herein, please exit our Website immediately and do not use, access, and/or browse it further.
Except as otherwise noted, this Agreement constitutes the entire and only Agreement between you and Village Family Lawyers and supersedes all other Agreements, representations, warranties, and understandings with respect to our Website, Services, and the subject matter contained herein. However, for you to use our Website and/or Services, you may also be required to agree to additional terms and conditions. Those additional terms and conditions will be incorporated into this Agreement unless otherwise stated.

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is considered part of this Agreement and is available on this website. You must review our Privacy Policy by clicking on this link. If you do not accept and agree to be bound by all the terms of this Agreement, including the www.villagefamilylawyers.com.au/privacy-policy, do not use this Website or our Services.

Arbitration

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of, relating to, or in connection with this contract, including any question regarding its existence, validity, or termination, shall be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the ACICA Arbitration Rules. The seat of arbitration shall be Melbourne, Australia. The language of the arbitration shall be English. The number of arbitrators shall be one.

Choice of Law

This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Victoria, Australia, without regard to conflict of law principles. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Any cause of action by you with respect to our Website or Service must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred.

Limited License

Village Family Lawyers grants you a nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to access and use our Website and Services strictly in accordance with this Agreement. Your use of our Website and Services is solely for internal, personal, non-commercial purposes unless otherwise provided for in this Agreement. No printout or electronic version of any part of our Website or Services may be used by you in any litigation or arbitration matter whatsoever under any circumstances.

Legal Compliance

You agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations regarding your use of our Website, Content, Services, and any software provided therein.

Our Relationship to You

This Agreement in no way creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and Village Family Lawyers.

Our Intellectual Property

Our Website may contain our service marks or trademarks as well as those of our affiliates or other companies in the form of words, graphics, and logos. Your use of our Website or Services does not constitute any right or license for you to use our service marks or trademarks without the prior written permission of Village Family Lawyers. Our Content, as found within our Website and Services, is protected under Australian and international copyrights. The copying, redistribution, use, or publication by you of any such Content is strictly prohibited. Your use of our Website and Services does not grant you any ownership rights to our Content.

Errors, Corrections, and Changes

We do not represent or otherwise warrant that our Website will be error-free or free from viruses or other harmful components, or that we will correct any errors. We do not represent or otherwise warrant that the information available on or through our Website will be correct, accurate, timely, or otherwise reliable. Village Family Lawyers reserves the right at our sole discretion to change any content, software, and other items used or contained in our Website or Services at any time without notice.

Disclaimer

Our Website publishes content supplied by third parties, Users, Advertisers, Merchants, and Sponsors. Accordingly, Village Family Lawyers has no editorial control over such content. Any opinions or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers, Users, or any other user of our Website, are those of the respective author(s) and not of Village Family Lawyers. Village Family Lawyers does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose nor the legality of any content provided by any of these parties.

You hereby acknowledge that nothing contained in our Website will constitute financial, investment, legal, and/or other professional advice and that no professional relationship of any kind is created between you and Village Family Lawyers or our Members. You hereby agree that you will not make any financial, investment, legal, and/or other decision based in whole or in part on anything contained in our Website or Services.

Warranty Disclaimer

Village Family Lawyers is not responsible or liable in any manner for any Content posted on our Website or in connection with our Services, whether posted or caused by Members of our Website, or by Village Family Lawyers. Although we provide rules for Member conduct and postings, we do not control and are not responsible for what Members post, transmit, or share on our Website or Services, and are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable content you may encounter using our Website or Services. Village Family Lawyers is not responsible for the online or offline conduct of any User of our Website or Services.

Our Website or Services may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. Village Family Lawyers assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, unauthorized access to, or alteration of Member communications. Village Family Lawyers is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any telephone network or service, computer system, server or provider, computer or mobile phone equipment, or software, or for any failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, or for any combination thereof – including injury or damage to Members’ or any other person’s computer, mobile phone, or other hardware or software – related to or resulting from the use or downloading of materials in connection with our Website or Services, including, without limitation, any software provided through our Website or Services.

Under no circumstances will Village Family Lawyers be responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage, personal injury, or death resulting from anyone’s use of our Website or Services, or any interactions between Users of our Website or Services, whether online or offline.

Reference to any products, services, processes, or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, recommendation, or any affiliation with our Website by third parties or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised by our Services.

Limitation of Liability

In no event will Village Family Lawyers or its directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including for any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of our Website, Content, Services, or any related software accessed through or downloaded from our Website or Services, even if Village Family Lawyers is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Village Family Lawyers’ liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us for Website and/or Services accessed during the previous month of your membership prior to the event giving rise to liability.

Changes to Our Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by giving you advance notice of the changes by email or in writing. We will also post these changes on our website. These changes will become effective 30 days after receipt of the notice. Your continued use of our Website, Services, and Products after any change to these Terms and Conditions and our notifying you will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you do not agree with the changes to these Terms and Conditions, you can choose to discontinue the use of our Website, Services, and Products.