Terms and Conditions

This website is operated by Tasman Legal Pty Ltd ABN 86 673 805 591 referred to in these terms as 'we,' 'us,' or 'our'.

By using this website, you are indicating your agreement to abide by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept these terms of use, kindly refrain from using this website. We reserve the right to modify these terms of use periodically. Any amendments will become effective immediately upon being notified on this website. Your continued use of this website following such notification signifies your agreement to be bound by the terms as amended.

As part of Terms and Conditions, your utilisation of this website is also subject to our Privacy Policy which is incorporated by reference into these Website Terms of Use.

Prohibited Conduct

You must not do or attempt to do anything that is unlawful, prohibited by any laws applicable to our website that we consider inappropriate including but not limited to:

Use any device, routine or software that interferes, or attempt to interfere, with the proper working of this site;
Engage in any action that requires, or may require, an unreasonable or excessively large load on our infrastructure;
Use this site to decipher passwords or security encryption codes, transmit any worms, viruses or Trojan horses, transfer or store illegal, threatening or obscene material or otherwise violate the security of any computer network;
Use this site to violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, to engage in any misleading or deceptive online marketing practices or for any fraudulent or malicious purposes;
Use any spider, robot or search/retrieval application or any screen scraping, data mining or similar data gathering device, process, program or means to access, retrieve or index any portion of this site;
Use this site by any automated means;
Use this site to transmit junk mail, spam or chain letters or pyramid schemes or engage in other flooding techniques or mass distribution of unsolicited email;
Access, retrieve or index any portion of this site for use in constructing or populating any database that is searchable online or for the purpose of soliciting or sharing reviews;
Interfere with the display of any advertisements appearing on or in connection with this site;
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, adapt, modify, translate, frame or reformat any of the material contained on this site;
Reproduce, duplicate, copy or store any of the material appearing on this site other than for your own personal and non-commercial use;
Falsely imply that any other website is associated with this site;
Do anything that leads, or may lead, to a decrease in the value of the Company's intellectual property rights in this site;
Use or exploit any of the material appearing on this site for, or in connection with, any business or enterprise (whether for profit or otherwise), including any business or enterprise that is in competition with this site;
Release to the public any news release, advertising material, promotional material or any other form of publicity or information relating to the Company without the Company's prior written consent;
Use this site to transmit any information or material that is, or may reasonably be considered to be:
Abusive, threatening, harassing, harmful, obscene, indecent, lewd, inflammatory, violent, vulgar, profane, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or offensive in any way;
Libelous, defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or plagiarized;
Infringing upon or violating any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary right;
In breach of any duty of confidentiality by which you are bound, whether by way of a fiduciary or contractual relationship;
In breach of any person’s privacy or publicity rights;
A misrepresentation of facts, including the impersonation of any person or entity or a misrepresentation of an affiliation with any person or entity (including any sponsorship or endorsement);
In violation of any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encouraging of others to do so;
Containing any political campaigning material, advertisements or solicitations; or
Likely to bring us or any of its staff into disrepute.

15 Mins No-obligation Online Consultation

We reserve the right to cancel this service on this website at any time in its sole discretion and any such changes will, unless otherwise noted, be effective immediately. This service is strictly limited to:

To online meetings via Microsoft Team or telephone call (time and mode of communication will be confirmed at our sole discretion);
To new clients of the firm;
Can only be utilized once by the new client.

During this call, we only provide general direction on your matter and a fee estimate quote. We do not provide tailored legal advice to your circumstances as you would appreciate that we would need to gather the relevant instructions to tailor our advice to your unique legal needs. If the online consultation goes beyond the agreed 15 mins, we reserve the right to charge you at our applicable rates.

Violation of Terms and Conditions

We reserve the right to exercise all available remedies in law or equity. We retain the authority, without prior notice to temporarily or permanently suspend your access to this site or decline service provision if:

You breach of any provision in Terms and Conditions;
We are unable to verify or authenticate information provided by you;
We believe that your actions may lead to damage and/or legal liability to us, its customers, suppliers, or any other party;
Eliminate or restrict access to any information and/or materials (either wholly or partially) deemed in violation of any applicable law, intellectual property rights, or these Website Terms of Use, at our sole and absolute discretion.

Warranties and Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the company and its officers, employees, agents, consultants, licensors, partners and affiliates expressly disclaim all conditions, representations and warranties (whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise) in relation to this website and any services purchased or obtained through this website, including any implied warranty/guarantee of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not represent, warrant, or guarantee that the content in our website:

They are complete, accurate, reliable, up-to-date and suitable for any particular purpose;
Access will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses; or
Our website will be secure.

Limitation of Liability

We are not liable for any loss or damage, however caused (including, but not limited to, by our negligence) suffered by you in connection with these Terms and Conditions or your use of this website.

Where a warranty may be implied by law into these Terms and Conditions, to the maximum extent possible, our liability for breach of that warranty will be limited to the resupply of the information, material or services accessed from the website.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us for all damages, losses, penalties, fines, expenses and costs (including legal costs) which arise out of or relate to your use of this website, any information that you provide to us via this website or any damage that you may cause to this website. This indemnification includes, without limitation, liability relating to copyright infringement, defamation, invasion of privacy, trademark infringement and breaches of the law.

Third Party Sites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not control, endorse or approve, and are not responsible for, the content on those websites. It is advisable to conduct your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those websites.

Intellectual Property Rights

All intellectual property rights in this website, including design, text, graphics, logos, icons, sound recordings and all software relating to this website belong to or are licensed by us. These intellectual property rights are protected by Australian and international laws.

You may only share the information contained on this website for the purpose of private use, research, or review as permitted under copyright legislation.

You must not copy, adapt, reproduce (other than for the purpose of viewing the website in your browser), store, modify, distribute, print, upload, display, perform, remove any credits, publish post frame within another website or create derivative works from any part of this website or commercialize any information obtained from any part of this website without our prior written permission or, in the case of third party material, from the owner of the intellectual property rights in that material.

Variation

We reserve the rights to amend these Terms and Conditions and any other policy on this website at any time in its sole discretion and any such changes will, unless otherwise noted, be effective immediately. We recommend you to check our website regularly so you are aware of the current Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right, without notice and at our sole discretion, to change, suspend, discontinue or impose limits on any aspect or content of this website or the services offered through this website.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions will be governed in all respects by the laws of New South Wales. The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts of appeal from them.

Last updated: TasmanLegal_TermsandConditions_V1.0, March 2024