Website Terms - Vero Law Limited

1. About these Terms

a. These website terms of use (the Terms) govern your access to and use of this website, currently located at www.verolaw.co.uk and any associated pages, content, functionality, downloads and materials made available through it (the Website).

b. By accessing, browsing or otherwise using the Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use the Website.

c. These Terms apply together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

2. Information about us

a. The Website is operated by Vero Law Limited, a company registered in Scotland under company number SC534310, with its registered office at 5 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 4AN.

b. In these Terms, Vero Law, we, us and our mean Vero Law Limited.

c. If you would like to contact us about the Website or these Terms, you can do so by email at hello@verolaw.co.uk.

3. Important: regulatory status

a. Vero Law is not a firm of solicitors and is not authorised to provide reserved legal services in Scotland or England.

b. Nothing on the Website, and no reference on the Website to legal support, legal services, advice, contracts, data protection, intellectual property or similar wording, should be understood as stating or implying that Vero Law is authorised to provide reserved legal services or is operating as a regulated law firm.

c. The Website describes our commercial and non-contentious legal consultancy support only.

4. No legal advice

a. The Website and all content made available through it are provided for general information only.

b. They are intended to give information about Vero Law, our business, our approach and the kinds of support we may offer. They are not legal advice, are not a substitute for advice on the facts of any specific matter, and must not be relied on as such.

c. You should not act or refrain from acting on the basis of the Website or any content on it without taking appropriate advice on your own circumstances, including from a suitably authorised provider where reserved legal services are required.

d. No part of the Website is intended to constitute:

i. legal advice;

ii. reserved legal services;

iii. a legal opinion;

iv. a commitment to act;

v. a recommendation to proceed in any particular way; or

vi. a substitute for taking advice on the facts and documents relevant to your position.

5. No client relationship, duty of care or retainer

a. Your access to or use of the Website does not create any:

i. client relationship;

ii. adviser or consultancy relationship;

iii. solicitor-client relationship;

iv. fiduciary relationship;

v. duty of care; or

vi. regulated professional relationship, between you and Vero Law.

b. In particular, none of the following will, by itself, create any retainer or obligation on our part:

i. browsing the Website;

ii. downloading or using any material from it;

iii. sending us an email;

iv. submitting an enquiry;

v. completing a contact form;

vi. booking or requesting a call;

vii. arranging or attending an introductory or paid call;

viii. subscribing to updates or other communications; or

ix. sending us documents or information.

c. A relationship with Vero Law will arise only where we have expressly agreed in writing to act for you and the terms of that engagement have been agreed.

d. Until then, we are under no obligation to advise you, review your position, respond to you, preserve any deadline, avoid conflicts, or refrain from acting for another person.

6. No legal professional privilege

a. Communications with Vero Law do not attract legal professional privilege, and you should not assume that they do.

b. This includes, without limitation:

i. emails;

ii. contact form submissions;

iii. call bookings;

iv. documents sent for review;

v. information shared in introductory calls;

vi. information shared in paid calls; and

vii. information shared before any formal engagement is put in place.

c. If legal professional privilege is important to you in a particular matter, you should seek advice from a suitably authorised provider.

7. No confidentiality for unsolicited information

a. Information sent to us through or in connection with the Website will not be treated as confidential, privileged or protected simply because you have sent it.

b. You should not send us confidential, commercially sensitive, legally sensitive, urgent or valuable information unless and until:

i. appropriate arrangements are in place; and

ii. we have expressly agreed in writing to receive that information on that basis.

c. If you send information to us before any engagement has been agreed, we may review it only to the extent reasonably necessary to:

i. understand the nature of your enquiry;

ii. decide whether we may be able to assist;

iii. assess whether any conflict issue arises;

iv. decide whether we wish to offer services; or

v. respond in a general way.

d. We are under no obligation to keep unsolicited information confidential, and receipt of such information does not prevent us from acting for another person unless and until we have agreed otherwise in writing.

8. Introductory calls, paid calls and website enquiries

a. The Website may refer to introductory calls, paid advice calls or similar services.

b. Unless and until separately agreed in writing:

i. an introductory call is for general discussion only and does not create a retainer;

ii. a paid call is limited to the scope expressly stated for that call and does not, by itself, place us under any ongoing obligation after that call ends;

iii. we are not obliged to review background material in advance unless expressly agreed;

iv. we are not obliged to provide written advice, drafting, negotiation support, follow-up work or further correspondence following a call unless separately
agreed; and

v. we remain free to decline to act or to limit the scope of any future engagement.

c. Any formal instructions or ongoing services will be subject to our terms of business.

9. Permitted use of the Website

a. You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms.

b. You may view the Website and print or download extracts from it for your own internal, personal and non-commercial use only, provided that:

i. you do not modify the content;

ii. you do not remove any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary notices;

iii. you do not present the content out of context; and

iv. you do not use it in a way that suggests any association with or endorsement by Vero Law.

10. Prohibited use

a. You must not, and must not permit or assist anyone else to:

i. use the Website in any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation;

ii. use the Website in any fraudulent, unlawful, abusive, defamatory, offensive or harmful way;

iii. upload, transmit or introduce any virus, malware, spyware or other harmful or malicious code;

iv. interfere with, damage, disable, overburden or impair the Website or any server, network or system connected to it;

v. attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, its hosting environment, any underlying systems or any related infrastructure;

vi. scrape, spider, crawl, harvest, extract or collect any content, data or information from the Website by automated means without our prior written consent;

vii. use the Website or its content for the purposes of training, fine-tuning, grounding or developing any artificial intelligence, machine learning model, large *
language model or similar system without our prior written consent;

viii. reproduce, adapt, republish, redistribute or commercially exploit any content from the Website;

ix. frame, mirror or otherwise re-display the Website or its content on another website or platform without our prior written consent;

x. use our name, logo, branding, service descriptions, materials, downloadable resources, wording, know-how, frameworks or content in a way which competes
with us, misrepresents an association with us or any other way not permitted by us;

xi. use the Website in a manner intended to benchmark, reverse engineer, replicate or appropriate our service offering, content structure, propositions, wording,
methodologies, templates or commercial model; or

xii. use any contact information published on the Website for unsolicited marketing or promotional activity.

11. Intellectual property rights

a. The Website and all intellectual property rights in and to it are owned by us or licensed to us.

b. This includes, without limitation, rights in and to:

i. the Website’s design, layout and look and feel;

ii. text, copy and wording;

iii. service descriptions;

iv. legal commentary and insights;

v. articles, guides and downloads;

vi. graphics, icons, images, branding and logos;

vii. templates, frameworks, structures and methodologies;

viii. databases and compilations;

ix. software and source materials; and

x. all copyright, database rights, trade marks, design rights, know-how and other intellectual property rights, whether registered or unregistered.

c. All rights are reserved.

d. Nothing in these Terms gives you any right, title or interest in or to the Website or any of its content other than the limited right to use it in accordance with these Terms.

12. Brand, trade marks and content protection

a. Vero Law, our logo, our brand assets, and the names of our services, products or materials may be protected by trade mark, passing off and other rights, whether or not formally registered.

b. You must not use, copy or reproduce our branding, visual identity, slogans, service naming, wording or distinctive materials without our prior written consent.

c. You must not use the Website or any Website content:

i. to create competing legal or consultancy materials;

ii. to create derivative templates, policies, clauses or know-how products for sale or distribution;

iii. to reproduce substantial parts of our content in your own website, marketing, services or training materials; or

iv. in a way likely to cause confusion, dilute our brand, or suggest endorsement or affiliation.

13. Downloadable materials and free resources

a. From time to time, we may make guides, downloads, checklists, resources, insights or similar materials available through the Website.

b. Unless we expressly state otherwise in writing:

i. they are provided for general information only;

ii. they remain our intellectual property;

iii. they may not be copied, adapted, resold, relicensed, republished or redistributed;

iv. they may not be used as a substitute for tailored advice;

v. they may not be incorporated into your own products, services, templates, client materials or commercial documents; and

vi. access to them may be withdrawn or changed at any time.

14. Feedback, submissions and ideas

a. If you send us feedback, comments, suggestions, ideas or other submissions relating to the Website, our services or our materials, we may use that feedback on a non-confidential basis to improve our business, services and Website.

b. You should not send us any patentable ideas, confidential materials, commercially sensitive concepts, proprietary templates or other material you would not want us to review on that basis.

c. Nothing in these Terms obliges us to adopt, review, compensate you for, or restrict our use of any non-confidential feedback or suggestions you provide.

15. Accuracy and completeness

a. We try to ensure that the Website is accurate and reasonably up to date. However, we do not guarantee that the Website or any content on it is:

i. accurate;

ii. complete;

iii. current;

iv. error-free; or

v. suitable for your purposes.

b. The Website may include technical inaccuracies, omissions, out-of-date material or typographical errors. We may update, amend, remove or replace content at any time without notice.

16. Availability, operation and security

a. We do not guarantee that the Website will be available at all times or that access will be uninterrupted.

b. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Website without notice.

c. We do not guarantee that the Website will be secure or free from bugs, malware or other harmful components. You are responsible for ensuring that your own systems, devices and software are adequately protected.

17. Third-party links and platforms

a. The Website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms or resources, including social media platforms, embedded tools or booking functionality.

b. Those links are provided for convenience only. We do not control and are not responsible for:

i. the content of third-party sites or platforms;

ii. their availability;

iii. their terms of use;

iv. their privacy practices; or

v. any goods, services or information they provide.

c. A link to a third-party site does not imply endorsement by us.

18. Linking to our Website

a. You may not link to the Website in a way that is unfair, misleading, damaging to our reputation or suggests any association, approval or endorsement where none exists.

b. We reserve the right to require you to remove any link to the Website at any time.

19. Privacy and cookies

a. Our processing of personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy and our use of cookies is explained in our Cookie Policy.

b. You should read those policies carefully.

20. Liability

a. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

b. Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability to you arising out of or in connection with the Website and its content.

c. In particular, we shall not be liable for:

i. any reliance placed on the Website or its content;

ii. any decision made or not made on the basis of the Website;

iii. any interruption, unavailability, delay or error affecting the Website;

iv. any viruses, malware or harmful code transmitted through the Website;

v. any incompatibility between the Website and your systems, software or devices;

vi. any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, opportunity, goodwill, anticipated savings or data; or

vii. any indirect, consequential or special loss.

d. If you become a client of Vero Law, any services we provide to you will be governed by separate written terms, including any agreed limitations or exclusions of liability in those terms.

21. We may transfer or reorganise our business

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms in connection with any business reorganisation, restructuring, sale, merger or transfer of all or part of our business or assets.

22. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable. If that is not possible, it shall be deemed deleted. Any such modification or deletion shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these Terms.

23. No waiver

If we delay in enforcing, or do not enforce, any right or remedy under these Terms, that does not mean we have waived it.

24. Changes to these Terms

a. We may amend these Terms from time to time.

b. Any revised version will take effect when published on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after that point constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

25. Governing law and jurisdiction

a. These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Website, including any non-contractual dispute or claim, shall be governed by Scots law.

b. The courts of Scotland shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim.