The following terms and conditions govern all use of the PinsonLegal.com website and all content and services available at or directly or indirectly through the website, (individually and collectively, the “Website” or “PinsonLegal.com”). The Website is owned and operated by Pinson Legal Services, PLLC (“Law Firm”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on the Website by Law Firm (collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the Website, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Law Firm, acceptance is expressly conditioned upon (limited to) these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least fourteen (14) years old.
No Review by Any Legal Licensing Authority. No “Licensing Authority,” licensing or authorizing the practice of law has reviewed or approved any of the following: the Website, the availability of the Website an any and all contained or linked publications or other matter on the Website, as well as any website, webpages or other matter to which PinsonLegal.com directly or indirectly links or that directly or indirectly link to PinsonLegal.com (any such information, individually and collectively, “PinsonLegal.com Linked Content”). Such Licensing Authorities include, but are not limited to, The Texas Bar, American Immigration Lawyers Association. No PinsonLegal.com Linked Content, including but not limited to anything contained under any heading containing any variation or combination of the words “skills,” “endorsements” or words having similar meaning, on LinkedIn or any other Third-party Web Service (such being under the control of LinkedIn or or such relevant Third-party Web Service), shall be construed to indicate that Law Firm “specializes” in or is a “specialist” in any area of the law.
No Legal Advice. No PinsonLegal.com Linked Content should be construed as legal or other professional advice on any specific facts or circumstances. All, or any portion of, any PinsonLegal.com Linked Content is intended for general informational purposes only and may not be quoted or referred to in any legal proceeding or as legal or any other form of professional advice without the prior written consent of Law Firm, to be given or withheld at his discretion. No PinsonLegal.com Linked Content, nor the availability of all or any part of such, is intended to create and does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. Any attorney-client relationship shall only be entered into pursuant to an express written agreement with Law Firm and/or an authorized member of Law Firm or with it is affiliated.
No Financial, Investment, Wealth, Tax, Accounting or Other Professional Advice. Provision of all of these types of advice always requires consideration of individual circumstances. If any visitor to the Website; or any reader of any material downloaded from the Website; as well as any reader of any form of any PinsonLegal.com Linked Content; requires professional advice in any of these areas, they should seek the services of an appropriate qualified professional advisor.
Responsibility of Contributors. If you comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, individually and collectively, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that: making the Content available on the Website, as well as the downloading, copying and use of the Content, will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party; if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content; you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms; the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content; the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing); the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party; you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Law Firm or otherwise.
By submitting Content to Law Firm for inclusion on the Website, you grant Law Firm a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying and distributing the Contents so submitted. If you delete Content, Law Firm will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable and that it may remain on Law Firm’s (or his agents’) servers or on any of their back-up or archive media. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Law Firm has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Law Firm’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Law Firm’s reasonable opinion, violates this Agreement or any other Law Firm policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Law Firm’s sole discretion.
Responsibility of Website Visitors. Law Firm has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Law Firm does not represent or imply that he endorses the material there posted, or that he believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Law Firm disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content therein posted.
Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannotreview, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which PinsonLegal.com directly or indirectly links, or that directly or indirectly link to PinsonLegal.com. Other than information actually posted on LinkedIn, Twitter or on any other website or web service (individually and collectively, “Third-party Web Service”) by Law Firm, itself (and not by others relative to any profile of Law Firm or presence of Law Firm on any such Third-party Web Service), Law Firm does not have any control over those non-PinsonLegal.com websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Law Firm.com website or webpage, Law Firm does not represent or imply that he endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Law Firm disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-PinsonLegal.com websites and webpages.
Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Law Firm asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, Law Firm respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by PinsonLegal.com violates your copyright, please notify Law Firm by sending him a message using the “Contact Us” feature on the Website.
Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Law Firm to you any Law Firm or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Law Firm. Law Firm, PinsonLegal.com, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with PinsonLegal.com, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Law Firm or Law Firm’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Law Firm or third-party trademarks.
Changes. Law Firm reserves the right, at his sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Law Firm may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Termination. Law Firm may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement you may simply discontinue using the Website. Law Firm can terminate the Website immediately at any time. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Law Firm and his suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Law Firm nor his suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
Limitation of Liability. In no event will Law Firm, or his suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this Agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; or (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data. Law Firm shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond his reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Law Firm, his contractors, and his licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Law Firm and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by Law Firm or his authorized agent, or by the posting by Law Firm of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law or relevant ethical rules governing attorneys, in either case if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of Texas, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Dallas, Texas, USA. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights, any dispute (including to the maximum extent such is not prohibited by applicable relevant ethical rules governing attorneys, any dispute or any claim of ethical misconduct) arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in Dallas, Texas, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
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