following terms and conditions constitute an agreement between you and Sharks of Law (“sharksoflaw.com,” “we,” or “us”), the operator sharksoflaw.com (the “Site”). BY USING THE SITE, AND/OR BY REGISTERING WITH US, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, including that you consent to the information practices disclosed in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference, and that you are agree to comply with applicable laws, governed and interpreted by the country (hereinafter referred to as “India”). Please note that we offer the Site "AS IS" and without warranties. If you are registering an account or using the Site on behalf of an individual or entity other than yourself, you represent that you are authorized by such individual or entity to accept these Terms of Use on such individual or entity's behalf.
In addition, you understand that the specific method, features and services offered on Sharksoflaw.com may be altered, improved, removed or adapted at any time by Sharksoflaw.com in its sole discretion and without any notice. If you do not agree with any of these terms, do not use this site.
General Terms:
1. Sharksoflaw.com is no way, directly or indirectly responsible for the advice and assistance provided by the Advocates. We are an independent third party enablers who have built a platform where the clients can communicate with, and if the need be, meet the Advocates. Sharksoflaw.com has no control over the Services provided by the Advocate. Sharksoflaw.com will not be responsible in case of any issues/discrepancies with the Services provided by the Advocate.
2. Sharksoflaw.com has full rights to publish the free advice provided to their clients on their portal and in any external communication for public knowledge sharing. However, in none of the published content the user details will be displayed. We strongly advice you NOT TO mention any person / party / company's name as part of your Question, as you may be liable for defamation if the person / party / company takes objection to the same.
3. Sharksoflaw.com has multiple Advocates for the same practice area and there might be instances wherein a similar question has been answered in two different ways by the Advocate(s). Sharksoflaw.com takes no liability towards these different opinions and answers of the Advocates and encourages you to take another opinion from ‘your’ Advocate / alternately decide which opinion to go ahead with based on merits and logical conclusions.
4. As a part of the Services , you will also be eligible to avail the benefit of online video consultation with one of the Advocates listed at Sharksoflaw.com. Please note that the benefit of a video consult is merely a consulting model and any interactions and associated issues with the selected Advocate, including but not limited to your legal issues and/or your experiences is strictly between you and the selected Advocate. You shall not hold Sharksoflaw.com responsible for any such interactions and associated issues. Any video consultation that you have had with the selected Advocate is completely confidential and Sharksoflaw.com DOES NOT have access to and / or DOES NOT store these consultations on their servers.
Whenever we use the words "your Advocate" or "your Professional" or "service provider" or similar words on Sharksoflaw.com, including in these Terms of Use, we mean your personal Advocate / professional with whom you have of an actual, mutually acknowledged, Advocate-client relationship (or the same kind of formal, real-world relationship between you and your personal professional service provider). Sharksoflaw.com Advocates are not "your" Advocates / professionals or service provider.
Sharksoflaw.com, Advocates / Professionals using Sharksoflaw.com to provide online consultations (collectively “Advocates”), Affiliates and Third-party providers (collectively “Affiliates”) would serve you to the best our ability under the following terms and conditions:
1. Using the Sharksoflaw.com website
All users must be eighteen years or older. In the case of minor Clients (under eighteen (18) years), a parent or guardian must accept this Agreement and guide all consultations under the services offered.
The User takes full responsibility for ensuring that the information submitted is accurate. Sharksoflaw.com shall make no effort to validate any information provided by the Client for availing in Services with respect to content, correctness or usability. We with an intention to provide the best service possible could ask you to share more information as and when needed.
Use of Sharksoflaw.com Services requires basic familiarity with the Internet and the Client is expected to possess the necessary internet-usage skills and knowledge to avail Sharksoflaw.com Services.
2. How does it work?
If you choose to submit a Free Question on Sharksoflaw.com, you will not be charged any fees; however, Free Questions may be delayed before processing. Also, any answers you receive from Advocates to Free Questions will not involve any Advocate-client relationship and will be publicly displayed and viewable by all Users. You cannot choose the Advocate that’ll answer the Free Question submitted by you – this is decided by the system automatically. The Advocate may choose NOT to answer your question with or without assigning a reason for the same. You will be intimated in such cases via email, SMS and / or phone. Our Advocates might be unavailable at times owing to existing questions lined up with them, and we will not be accepting free questions during such times.
Though listing on Sharksoflaw.com may increase the exposure and accessibility of a Advocate, we are not an advertising portal where businesses are listed on a priority driven by any fees paid. Our search and sort functionality is purely driven by the user entered information and the built-in algorithm.
WE DO NOT IN ANY WAY ENDORSE ANY INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED HEREIN. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DECISION MADE OR ACTION TAKEN BY YOU IN RELIANCE ON SUCH INFORMATION.
3. Independence of Advocates
The opinions, statements, answers (collectively “consultation”) provided by the Advocates via Sharksoflaw.com are solely the individual and independent opinions and statements of such individuals and do not reflect the opinions of Sharksoflaw.com, its affiliates or any other organizations or institutions to which such Advocate or such specialist or professional is affiliated or provides services. Sharksoflaw.com does not recommend or endorse any specific tests, Advocates, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned on Sharksoflaw.com or by a licensee of Sharksoflaw.com.
The inclusion of professionals and specialists on Sharksoflaw.com or in any professional directory on Sharksoflaw.com does not imply recommendation or endorsement of such professional nor is such information intended as a tool for verifying the credentials, qualifications, or abilities of any professional contained therein. Such information is provided on an "as-is" basis and Sharksoflaw.com disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for particular purpose.
You agree that you understand that the Advocates who participate in the Sharksoflaw.com are not employed by or agents of Sharksoflaw.com. Although Sharksoflaw.com does require Advocates to provide basic information about themselves to Sharksoflaw.com (for example, information about the jurisdictions in which they are licensed, information about areas in which they practice and consider themselves competent and knowledgeable), and although Sharksoflaw.com does rely upon and pass on this information to Users for their use, Sharksoflaw.com does not separately verify this information and makes no representations as to the qualifications of any Advocates. No listing of any Advocate on this site, and no information of any kind or answers provided by any Advocate, constitutes an endorsement, recommendation or referral of any Advocate. Advocates do not provide any compensation or make any payment to Sharksoflaw.com in order to become Advocate of Sharksoflaw.com or in order to answer any questions by Users on Sharksoflaw.com.
In connection with their participation on Sharksoflaw.com, Advocates do make certain representations and warranties regarding the information they provide about the jurisdictions in which they are licensed to practice their profession and in good standing. Nevertheless, you are encouraged to investigate or perform your own due diligence concerning the Advocates and their qualifications.
No representation is made that the quality of the professional services to be performed is greater than the quality of professional services performed by other Advocates. We urge all potential clients to make their own independent investigation and evaluation of any Advocate being considered.
4. Website Usage Terms
You represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen years of age and that you possess the legal right and the ability to enter into agreements pertaining to Terms of Use, to register on the Sharksoflaw.com Services under your own name and to use the Sharksoflaw.com Services in accordance with the Terms of Use and abide by the obligations hereunder.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all activities carried out under your Sharksoflaw.com account. You agree to prohibit anyone else from using your password and immediately notify Sharksoflaw.com of any unauthorized use of your password or other security concerns.
No party has the power or authority as agent, employee or in any other capacity to represent, act for, bind or otherwise create or assume any obligation on behalf of the other party for any purpose whatsoever.
International members acknowledge and agree that Sharksoflaw.com may collect and use your Information and disclose it to other entities outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, such Information may be stored on servers located outside your resident jurisdiction. By providing us with your Information, you acknowledge that you consent to the transfer of such Information outside your resident jurisdiction as detailed in our Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to such transfer, you may not use our Content or Services.
Your affirmative act of using this Site and/or registering for the Site or the Services constitutes your electronic signature to these Terms of Use and your consent to enter into agreements with us electronically.
The Site may only be used in good faith and may not be used to transmit or otherwise make available any information that is false or that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements), to threaten, abuse, harass, or invade the rights of any person or entity, to infringe on any person or entity's intellectual property rights, or in any other way that could reasonably be deemed unethical, illegal, or offensive.
You may not misidentify yourself or impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity (e.g., pretend to be a different person or from a different company or organization).
Unless you have our prior written consent, you will not post advertisements or promotional materials, solicit participants and/or visitors of the Site, reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site or its Services, use of the Site or it Services, or access to the Site or its Services.
You are prohibited from using any type of computer 'worm,' 'virus' or any other device that is intended or is likely to disrupt, overload, or otherwise impair the workings of any part of the Site. If you do engage in such conduct, the resulting damage will be hard to quantify as a fixed amount and thus you hereby agree to pay us liquidated damages in the amount of Rs. 1,00,000 for each day that the Site is damaged until the Site is completely repaired and further unquantified damages which will occur due to your act will be accessed and you shall be liable to pay the same. This amount is derived by estimating the value of (1) the loss of good will caused by an inoperable site, (2) the time and money it will take to repair the Site and to address the concerns of visitors. We are required to use reasonable efforts to repair the Site as quickly as possible. This clause will not prohibit us from seeking additional compensation if your conduct injures us in a way not expressly contemplated herein.
You are not permitted to collect or store personal data about other users.
You are not permitted to access the Site for the purpose of data mining or extracting content from the Site beyond your personal end use.
You are permitted to use the Site to find an Advocate to perform services for you related to your problem and to obtain general information about similar cases (each, a "Permissible Use"). You are not permitted to use the Site for any other reason other than a Permissible Use as described above. Impermissible Uses shall include, but are not limited to, using the Site to order to solicit, hire, engage or otherwise work with the employees or affiliates of Sharksoflaw.com or the Advocates, to interfere or attempt to interfere in the relationship between Sharksoflaw.com and such employees, affiliates, Advocates, or for any other purpose other than described herein (each, an "Impermissible Use"). If you do engage in such conduct, the resulting damage will be hard to quantify as a fixed amount and thus you hereby agree to pay us liquidated damages in the amount of Rs.2,50,000 for each Impermissible Use, and further unquantified damages which will occur due to your act will be accessed and you shall be liable to pay the same. You further agree that this liquidated damages provision reasonably approximates actual costs, losses, and expenses which would be incurred by Sharksoflaw.com due to any such Impermissible Use. You also agree that nothing in this section is intended to limit Sharksoflaw.com’s right to obtain injunctive and other relief as may be appropriate.
You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Site.
You agree to not harm minors in any way.
In the event you submit information through the Site, you agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information and agree to promptly update the information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, and/or we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your participation in the Site and/or refuse any and all current or future use of the Site or its services (or any portion thereof).
You understand and agree that all information, statistical data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (Content), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted by you and other users of our service, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not us, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Site. We do not control all of the Content posted via the Site and, as such, do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Site, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via the Site.
You acknowledge that we may or may not pre-screen Content, but that our designees and we shall have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to prescreen, refuse, or move any Content that is available via the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, our designees and we shall have the right (but not the obligation) to remove any Content that violates this agreement or is otherwise objectionable.
The decision to form Advocate-client relationship is an important one and is between you and the Advocate. You may wish to seek and retain the advice of other Advocates so as to meet all applicable deadlines that govern your query / problem. You hereby agree that, by taking any of the actions described above, you are soliciting and requesting a contact by telephone and as such, you may be contacted by telephone or e-mail as set forth in this Agreement, notwithstanding the listing of your telephone number and/or e-mail address in any applicable do-not-call registries.
5. Scope of Services
Sharksoflaw.com (the owners and the employee staff of the Site) and third-party professionals who offer services through the Site accept no responsibility for any medical, legal or financial events or outcomes related to services achieved through the use of the Site.
Sharksoflaw.com does not guarantee that a web-based consultation, over-phone consultation or in-person / video consultation is the appropriate course of treatment / solution for your particular problem.
6. User’s Profile at Sharksoflaw.com
Your Sharksoflaw.com Profile is created to store record of your consultations and your personal query / problem information online, including history, etc.
Any information provided as part of a web, over-phone or an in-person / video consultation becomes part of your Sharksoflaw.com Record. You agree to provide accurate information to help us serve you best to our knowledge, to periodically review such information and to update such information as and when necessary.
Sharksoflaw.com reserves the right to maintain, delete or destroy all communications and materials posted or uploaded to the Sharksoflaw.com Service according to its internal record retention and/or destruction policies.
You might be contacted via email to review the information provided by you for Sharksoflaw.com Record or for Online Consultations. Please make sure you provide a valid email-id and you update it as and when needed.
For additional information regarding use of information about you, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
7. Supplementary Communication
Sharksoflaw.com may send you newsletters and other information regarding common related topics or preventive care messages containing specific services’ related information, links to other related websites and specific questions related to your Sharksoflaw.com Record. Additionally, Sharksoflaw.com makes available self-care informational services that provide general, and specific services’ information.
These communications and resources are not comprehensive and do not include complete potential information pertaining to the subject matter. These are solely meant for general, educational and informational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for user-specific query / problem evaluation or construed, directly or indirectly as the practice of that particular service or dispensing of that particular service by Sharksoflaw.com.
The information contained in these communications and resources is compiled from a variety of sources and may or may not be authored by Sharksoflaw.com. Sharksoflaw.com makes no warranty with respect to the content of these materials or the information contained therein.
We are not responsible for anything outside of Sharksoflaw.com. Now or in the future, the Content and Services may link you to other web sites or information, software, data, or other contents, on or off the Internet. These other sites or and contents are not Sharksoflaw.com, and the information there is outside of our control. We do not control, endorse, or review the content of these sites, and we are not responsible for such content.
8. Protection of Proprietary Information
You agree that the Services, which include all software and information, both electronic and printed media, contain trade secrets and other proprietary intellectual property and are the proprietary property of Sharksoflaw.com. They are protected by trademark laws and other proprietary rights and laws, and they may only be used or accessed as specifically provided for, in this Agreement.
You agree that you will not store, copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, transfer, transmit, display, reverse-engineer, reverse-assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any programming code or any source code used in or with the Services. You will not otherwise attempt to transfer any right in the Services (which includes its software, design and content), create derivative works based on it or in any manner commercially exploit the Services in whole or in part. You agree that violations by you, any other person or entity, of these trade secrets and / or other intellectual property protections or the terms of this Agreement will be lead to prosecution under the Indian Laws and Bylaws. The final choice of whether the Client is in violation of any of these policies is at the sole discretion of Sharksoflaw.com.
Only for the duration of being logged into the Clients’ valid Sharksoflaw.com account, the consumer is hereby granted a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the services for personal, non-commercial purposes; subject to terms and qualifications of Agreements of Sharksoflaw.com.
With the exception of your case records, Sharksoflaw.com retains all rights, titles and interests pertaining to Sharksoflaw.com, the Sharksoflaw.com Services and any content, products, documentation, software or other materials on the Sharksoflaw.com web site along with any trade secret, trademark, service mark or other intellectual property or proprietary right in any of the foregoing.
Sharksoflaw.com welcomes comments, suggestions and submissions by its Consumers including but not limited to messages, notes, feedback, artwork, communications, computer code or creative materials provided to Sharksoflaw.com The act of commenting, suggesting or submitting shall act as a full assignment of all rights whatsoever (Intellectual property) to Sharksoflaw.com. Sharksoflaw.com shall have the right to use the same as its own for all legal purposes including but not limited to reproduction, disclosure, publishing, distribution and the like without any compensation to the Consumer.
Except as expressly provided herein, no other right or license with respect to any trademark rights or other proprietary rights are granted under this agreement. All rights not expressly granted hereunder by Sharksoflaw.com are expressly reserved to Sharksoflaw.com and its licensors and information and content providers.
Contact us if you believe information on our website infringes your copyright. If you believe any materials accessible on or from Sharksoflaw.com infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials.
No part of the materials including graphics or logos, available in this Site may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form, in whole or in part, without specific permission.
Your license to access and use the Site and its services are subject to the following additional restrictions and prohibitions on use. You may not (1) copy, print (except for the express limited purpose permitted by paragraph 8, above), republish, display, transmit, distribute, sell, rent, lease, loan or otherwise make available in any form or by any means all or any portion of the Site, or any information or materials retrieved therefrom; (2) use the Site or any other materials from the Site to develop, or as a component of, an information storage and retrieval system, database, infobase, or similar information resource (in any media now existing or hereafter developed), that is offered for commercial distribution of any kind, including through sale, license, lease, rental, subscription, or any other commercial distribution mechanism; (3) create compilations or derivative works of the Site or any other materials from the Site; (4) use the Site or any other materials from the Site in any manner that may infringe any intellectual property right, or proprietary right of Sharksoflaw.com or any third parties; (5) remove, change, or obscure any proprietary notice or terms of use contained in the Site; (6) make any portion of the Site available through any timesharing system, service bureau, the Internet, or any other technology now existing or developed in the future, without our express written consent; (7) remove, disable, defeat or change any functionality or appearance of the Site; (8) decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any Site software or use any network monitoring or discovery software to determine the site architecture; (9) use any automatic or manual process to harvest information from the Site; (10) use the Site for the purpose of gathering information for or transmitting (a) unsolicited commercial email or SMS; (b) email or SMS that makes use of our name or trademarks, including in connection with invalid or forged headers, invalid or nonexistent domain names, or other means of deceptive addressing; and (c) unsolicited telephone calls or facsimile transmissions; (11) use the Site in a manner that violates any state or federal law regulating commercial email, facsimile transmissions or telephone solicitations; and (12) export or re-export the Site or any portion thereof, or any software available on or through the Site, in violation of the export control laws and regulations of the United States.
9. Etiquette and Privacy
The resources of Sharksoflaw.com should not be used to impersonate another person or misrepresent authorization to act on behalf of others or Sharksoflaw.com. All messages transmitted via Sharksoflaw.com should correctly identify the sender. The Consumer should never alter the attribution of origin in electronic mail messages or while posting any information.
Sharksoflaw.com has zero-tolerance for unsolicited bulk email, bulk SMS, unsolicited posting to news groups, marketing gimmicks/spam/scams in community resources, or other illegal activities. The Consumer shall not infringe upon the rights of others, spam, propagate computer worms or viruses, use a false identity, attempt to gain unauthorized entry to any site or network, infringe trademarks, or other intellectual property rights.
