IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE CONCERNING THIS WEBSITE
Please read this Notice carefully. By continuing to access and use the Website you are deemed to have understood and agreed to be bound by the terms of this Notice.
Disclaimer
1. This Website contains information about Decisis, its areas of legal specialism and general information on certain areas of law.
2. The contents of this Website are intended for general information only. Any reference to legal information, news items, discussion, opinion, case law or any other data of any kind is similarly for information only. This information does not and cannot constitute legal or business advice or services. The situation will differ in each case and depends entirely on its own facts and circumstances. It is emphasised that the reader, when faced with any question relating to any legal area referred to in this Website should obtain specialist professional advice that will address his or her own particular case and circumstances. Accordingly, if you require such specialist professional advice please contact us using the contact details on the Contact page.
3. Whilst Decisis endeavours to ensure that the information contained in this Website is correct at the time of publication Decisis does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of any information contained in this Website. Decisis and its officers, employees or agents accept no responsibility for any errors, omissions, or inaccurate information on this Website or for any loss or damage which may arise from accessing this Website, or reliance on such information contained in this Website, and all liability is accordingly disclaimed.
4. Decisis does not warrant the completeness, performance or fitness for a particular purpose of this Website or that the Website will be uninterrupted or error free or that any defects will be corrected. All implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties as to satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy are excluded.
5. A number of links to other websites and information contained in pages at such websites may be found at this Website. Decisis has no control over such websites or the information contained in them, and therefore accepts no responsibility for such websites or their contents. Accordingly, Decisis disclaims all liability for such websites and their contents and of any other websites or contents which may be accessed from such websites. Similarly, Decisis accepts no responsibility for websites through which access to this Website has been gained, and all liability for such websites and their contents is also disclaimed.
6. Whilst Decisis uses reasonable endeavours to ensure this Website is free from viruses and other hostile elements, Decisis does not warrant that this Website is free of such hostile elements, and accepts no liability for any damage or loss that may arise from the downloading or transmission of any hostile elements via this Website.
7. Decisis has no control over the privacy or data protection policies of websites to which this Website may be linked, and therefore accepts no responsibility for such websites or their privacy or data protection policies. Accordingly, Decisis disclaims all liability for such websites and their privacy or data protection policies, and that of any other websites which may be accessed from such websites. Similarly, Decisis accepts no responsibility for the privacy or data protection policies of websites through which access to this Website has been gained, and all liability for such websites and their privacy or data protection policies is also disclaimed.
8. Copyright, Intellectual Property and Reproduction:
8.1. Unless expressly stated otherwise, all information, designs, concepts and other features contained in this Website are protected by the Copyright Laws of the United Kingdom. Accordingly, no part of this Website may be published, printed, distributed, extracted, re-utilised, or reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication), except as permitted by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, or within these terms, as applicable.
8.2. Limited Licence
8.2.1. This Website may be viewed electronically, and permission is granted to the viewer, for temporary personal/internal use only, to download, save to the viewerÕs individual storage medium, retrieve, display on a computer screen, and print such extracts from this Website as are necessary for such use;
8.2.2. Material extracted from this website may be copied for distribution to individual third parties for their personal use only, provided: (i) an acknowledgement of the source of the material, (i.e. this Website) and the Website address is included in the copied material; (ii) the third party recipients are informed that they are also bound by these conditions; (iii) the material extracted is copied in complete and unmodified form.
8.3. No part of this Website or information contained on this Website may be adapted, modified, copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any manner to any third parties, for commercial purposes or for a fee.
8.4. ÒDECISISÓ, ÒDECISISÓ (stylised), ÒDECISIS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYÓ, and the Decisis logo, are trade marks and may not be used without the express written authorisation of Decisis Limited, other than to refer to Decisis Limited, or the business, services, products or website of Decisis Limited.
9. Privacy Policy and Data Protection
9.1. No personal information is required in order to access and use this Website. However, if you wish to use any of the services provided by Decisis, we will need certain information relating to you or your company for the following purposes:
9.1.1. Verification of your identity or of the office-holders of your company/organisation;
9.1.2 Verification of the good standing/financial standing of your company/organisation;
9.1.3 The provision of legal services;
9.1.4 The administration of files and records;
9.1.5 Transfers of data between other professionals and advisers notified to us by you;
9.1.6 The marketing and promotion of our services;
9.1.7 Legal compliance;
9.1.8 In the course of the provision of our services it may become necessary to provide data relating to you or your company to external providers/managers of IP records or IP portfolio management databases, and/or to lawyers outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area. You agree that should you object to this you will notify us at the earliest opportunity and in any event prior to our incurring any costs.
9.2 Except (i) for the circumstances outlined above; or (ii) as required by law; or (iii) pursuant to any legal proceedings; or (iv)in circumstances where Decisis Limited must enforce or defend its legal rights; we will not disclose to third parties your personal information or that of your company/organisation.
9.3 Decisis will exercise reasonable precautions in preventing the loss, misuse or alteration of clientsÕ personal information.
Decisis Limited
5, St. John's Lane
London
EC1M 4BH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7250 4732
Fax: +44 (0)207250 4733
Regulated by the Intellectual Property Regulation Board