PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING EDGE’S WEBSITE (THE “SITE”) OR OUR SERVICES, YOU HEREBY AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND ALL TERMS INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS USER, CLIENT, OR PROSPECTIVE CLIENT TO READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE PROCEEDING TO USE THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND AND DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE OUR SITE NOR SERVICES.
The present terms and conditions (this “Agreement” or “Terms“) is a binding legal agreement between you, on behalf of yourself and/or your business, and if you are accessing the Site in the course and scope of your employment, on behalf of your employer, and EDGE Legal (US) LLC (and its related entity EDGE Legal (West) LLC (hereinafter, “EDGE“), a company duly organized and validly existing, located at 252 Ponce de León Avenue, 12th Floor, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918. This Agreement governs your use of the EDGE website (edgelegal.com) together with our services available on the Site and annuls and voids all previous agreements.
OVERVIEW
The Site is operated by EDGE. Throughout the Site, the terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to EDGE. EDGE offers this Site, including all information, tools, and services available from this Site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies, and notices stated herein.
By visiting and accessing our Site or using any of our services, you engage in our Services” and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. You agree that all uses of the terms “you” and “your” apply directly to you and, if applicable, your employer, independent of your intent, purpose, or status on the Site. If you do not wish to be bound by and comply with the terms of this Agreement, do not use this Site. This Agreement is in addition to the terms and conditions that apply to specific services offered by EDGE through the Site. If these Terms are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms.
These Terms apply to all users of the Site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, clients, merchants, and/or contributors of content. In the event of an inconsistency between this Agreement and any additional terms or policies referenced herein, the provisions of the additional terms or policies shall control.
Any new features or tools that are added to the Site shall also be subject to the Terms. You can review the most current version of the Terms at any time on this page. We reserve the right to update, change, or replace any part of these Terms by posting updates and/or changes to our Site. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of, or access to the Site following the posting of any changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes.
Accessibility is a fundamental aspect of our commitment to providing equal access to legal information and services. EDGE ensures that this Site complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws and standards related to accessibility. We are dedicated to making our website accessible to individuals with disabilities and aim to continually improve its usability and inclusivity for all users.
SECTION 1 – GENERAL TERMS
By agreeing to these Terms, you represent that you are of legal age in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence, and you have given your express consent to allow any of your minor dependents to access and use this Site.
You agree to use our Site for lawful purposes only. You may not use, or allow others to use, our Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of our Site or our Services, violate any laws in your jurisdiction.
You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
A breach or violation of any of the Terms will result in an immediate termination of your access to our Site and the use of the Services.
We have the right, but not the obligation, to take any of the following actions in our sole discretion at any time and for any reason without giving you any prior notice:
You agree that EDGE will not be liable to you or any third party for taking any of these actions.
You understand and agree that our Site may include communications such as service announcements and administrative or legal notices from us. Please note that you cannot opt out of receiving these notices.
You understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks.
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site or any contact on the Site, without prior written consent from us.
You further agree and undertake not to modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, distribute, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site in any matter whatsoever. The Site content is not for resale. Use of the Site does not entitle users to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use and will make no other use of the content without the prior written consent of EDGE. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of EDGE or our licensors, except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
SECTION 3 – CONDUCT
As a user of the Site, you herein acknowledge, understand, and agree that all information, text, data, software, data, photographs, music, video, messages, tags, or any other content, whether it is publicly or privately posted and/or transmitted, is the expressed sole responsibility of the individual from whom the content originated. In short, this means that you are solely responsible for all content posted, uploaded, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available by way of the EDGE Site and Services, and as such, we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of such content. It is expressly understood that by accessing our Site and using our Services, you may be exposed to content including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content posted, and/or any loss or damage of any kind incurred because of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available by EDGE.
Furthermore, you herein agree NOT to make use of EDGE’s Site and Services for the purpose of:
a. uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any content that shall be deemed unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or invasive of another’s privacy or which is hateful, and/or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.
b. causing harm to minors in any manner whatsoever.
c. impersonating any individual or entity, including, but not limited to, any EDGE attorneys, employees, forum leaders, guides, or hosts or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting any affiliation with an individual or entity.
d. forging captions, headings, or titles or otherwise offering any content that you personally have no right to pursuant to any law nor have any contractual or fiduciary relationship with.
e. uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise offering any such content that may infringe upon any patent, copyright, trademark, or any other proprietary or intellectual rights of any other party.
f. uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise offering any content that you do not personally have any right to offer pursuant to any law or in accordance with any contractual or fiduciary relationship.
g. uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise offering any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional flyers, “junk mail,” “spam,” or any other form of solicitation, except in any such areas that may have been designated for such purpose.
h. uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise offering any source that may contain a software virus or other computer code, any files and/or programs that have been designed to interfere, destroy, and/or limit the operation of any computer software, hardware, or telecommunication equipment.
i. disrupting the normal flow of communication, or otherwise acting in any manner that would negatively affect other users’ ability to participate in any real-time interactions.
j. interfering with or disrupting any of EDGE’s servers and/or networks that may be connected to or related to our Site, including, but not limited to, the use of any device software and/or routine to bypass the robot exclusion headers.
k. intentionally or unintentionally violating any local, state, federal, national, or international law, including, but not limited to, rules, guidelines, and/or regulations decreed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in addition to any rules of any nation or other securities exchange, that would include without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law.
l. providing informational support or resources, concealing and/or disguising the character, location, and or source to any organization delegated by the United States government as a “foreign terrorist organization” in accordance with Section 219 of the Immigration Nationality Act.
m. “stalking” or with the intent to otherwise harass another individual; and/or
n. collecting or storing any personal data relating to any other user in connection with the prohibited conduct and/or activities that have been set forth in the aforementioned paragraphs.
EDGE herein reserves the right to pre-screen, refuse, and/or delete any content currently available through our Site and Services. In addition, we reserve the right to remove and/or delete any such content that would violate the Terms, or which would otherwise be considered offensive to other visitors, and/or users.
EDGE herein reserves the right to access, preserve, and/or disclose information and/or content if it is requested to do so by law or in good faith belief that any such action is deemed reasonably necessary for:
EDGE herein reserves the right to include the use of security components that may permit digital information or material to be protected, and that such use of information and/or material is subject to usage guidelines and regulations established by EDGE or any other content providers supplying content services to EDGE. You are hereby prohibited from making any attempt to override or circumvent any of the embedded usage rules in our Site and Services. Furthermore, unauthorized reproduction, publication, distribution, or exhibition of any information or materials supplied through our Services, whether done so in whole or in part, is expressly prohibited.
SECTION 4 – GLOBAL USE; EXPORT/IMPORT COMPLIANCE
Due to the global nature of the internet, by using our Site and Services you hereby agree to comply with all local rules relating to online conduct and that which is considered acceptable content. Uploading, posting, and/or transferring of software, technology, and other technical data may be subject to the export and import laws of the United States and possibly other countries. Through the use of our network, you thus agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws, statutes and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Export Administration Regulations (http://www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html), as well as the sanctions control program of the United States (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx). Furthermore, you state and pledge that you:
SECTION 5 – SUBMITTED CONTENT
EDGE shall not lay claim to ownership of any content submitted by any visitor, or user, nor make such content available for inclusion on our Site. Therefore, you hereby grant and allow for EDGE the below listed worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licenses, as applicable:
Those areas that may be deemed “publicly accessible” areas of EDGE’s Site are those areas of our Site and Services that are meant to be available to the public, and which would include message boards and groups that are openly available to users. However, those areas which are not open to the public, and thus available to users only, would include our mail system and instant messaging.
CHATBOT
The chatbot feature on our Site is primarily intended for lead generation, providing general information about our firm, and offering basic responses to commonly asked questions. While the chatbot strives to assist users by providing relevant information about our Services, it is not designed to offer personalized legal advice or establish attorney-client relationships. Any information provided by the chatbot is based on pre-programmed algorithms and may not encompass all details of individual legal situations. Users should not rely solely on the chatbot for making legal decisions. For specific legal inquiries or advice tailored to your circumstances, we strongly encourage you to consult with one of our qualified attorneys. We disclaim any liability for actions taken or not taken based on information obtained from the chatbot.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDGE’S WEBSITE
EDGE may provide an area for our users to contribute feedback to our Site. When you submit ideas, documents, suggestions, and/or proposals (“Contributions”) to our Site, you acknowledge and agree that:
SECTION 6 – INDEMNITY
All users agree to insure and hold EDGE Legal US LLC, its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, employees, officers, partners, and/or licensors harmless and not liable for any claim or demand, which may include but is not limited to, reasonable attorney fees, made by any third party which may arise from any content an user of our Site may submit, post, modify, transmit or otherwise make available through our Services, the use of EDGE Services or your connection with these Services, your violations of the Terms of Service and/or your violation of any such rights of another person.
SECTION 7 – COMMERCIAL REUSE OF SERVICES
The user herein agrees not to replicate, duplicate, copy, trade, sell, resell nor exploit for any commercial reason any part, use of, or access to EDGE’s Site and Services.
SECTION 8 – MODIFICATIONS
EDGE reserves the right at any time it may deem fit, to modify, alter, and or discontinue, whether temporarily or permanently, our Services, or any part thereof, with or without prior notice. In addition, EDGE shall not be held liable to you or to any third party for any such alteration, modification, suspension, and/or discontinuance of our Services, or any part thereof.
SECTION 9 – TERMINATION
As a user of edgelegal.com, you may cancel or terminate your associated email address, and/or access to our Services by submitting a cancellation or termination request thereto.
As a user, you agree that EDGE may, without any prior written notice, immediately suspend, terminate, and/or limit your email address associated with your access to any of our Services. The cause for such termination, suspension, and/or limitation of access shall include, but is not limited to:
Furthermore, you herein agree that all terminations, suspensions, and or limitations of access for cause shall be made at EDGE’s sole discretion and that we shall not be liable to you or any other third party regarding the termination of your email address and/or access to any of our Services.
The termination of your use of our Site shall include any and/or all of the following:
SECTION 10 – LINKS
Either EDGE or any third parties may provide links to other websites and/or resources. Thus, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and as such, we do not endorse nor are we responsible or liable for any content, products, advertising, or any other materials, on or available from such third-party sites or resources. Furthermore, you acknowledge and agree that EDGE shall not be responsible or liable, directly, or indirectly, for any such damage or loss that may be a result of, caused or allegedly to be caused by or in connection with the use of or the reliance on any such content, goods or services made available on or through any such site or resource.
SECTION 11 – PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
You do hereby acknowledge and agree that EDGE’s Services and any essential software that may be used in connection with our Services (“Software”) shall contain proprietary and confidential material that is protected by applicable intellectual property rights and other laws. Furthermore, you herein acknowledge and agree that any content (“Content”) that may be contained in any advertisements or information presented by and through our Services, or by advertisers, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws. Therefore, except for that which is expressly permitted by applicable law or as authorized by EDGE, or such applicable licensor, you agree not to alter, modify, lease, rent, loan, sell, distribute, transmit, broadcast, publicly perform, and/or create any plagiaristic works which are based on EDGE’s Services Content or Software), in whole or part.
EDGE hereby grants you a personal, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right and/or license to make use of the object code or our Software on a single computer, as long as you do not, and shall not, allow any third party to duplicate, alter, modify, create or plagiarize work from, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise make an attempt to locate or discern any source code, sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in and/or otherwise transfer any such right in the Software. Furthermore, you do herein agree not to alter or change the Software in any manner, nature, or form, and as such, not to use any modified versions of the Software, including and without limitation, for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to our Services. Lastly, you also agree not to access or attempt to access our Services through any means other than through the interface which is provided by EDGE for use in accessing our Services.
SECTION 12 – WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS
YOU HEREIN EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT:
SECTION 13 – LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPLICITLY ACKNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT EDGE LEGAL US LLC AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, PARTNERS, USERSa, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE RELATED TO THE LOSS OF ANY PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA AND/OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF SUCH POSSIBILITY THAT SAID DAMAGES MAY OCCUR, AND RESULT FROM:
SECTION 14 – RELEASE
In the event you have a dispute, you agree to release EDGE Legal LLC (and its officers, directors, employees, agents, parent subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, partners, and any other third parties) from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected, or unsuspected, disclosed, and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected to such dispute.
SECTION 15 – NOTICE
EDGE Legal LLC may furnish you with notices, including those with regards to any changes to the Terms, including but not limited to email correspondence, regular mail, MMS or SMS, text messaging, postings on our Site, or other reasonable means currently known or any which may be herein after developed. Any such notices may not be received if you breach the Terms by accessing the Site or using the Services in an unauthorized manner. Your acceptance of this Agreement constitutes your agreement that you are deemed to have received all notices that would have been delivered had you accessed our Services in an authorized manner.
SECTION 16 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
You herein acknowledge, understand, and agree that all the EDGE trademarks, copyrights, trade names, service marks, and other EDGE logos and any brand features, and/or product and service names are trademarks and as such, are and shall remain the property of EDGE Legal LLC. You herein agree not to display and/or use in any manner the EDGE Legal LLC logo or marks without obtaining EDGE’s prior written consent.
EDGE will always respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask that all our users do the same. With regards to appropriate circumstances and at its sole discretion, EDGE may disable and/or terminate the access of any email that breaches the Terms and/or infringes the rights of others. If you feel that your work has been duplicated in such a way that would constitute copyright infringement, or if you believe your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, you should provide us with the following information:
EDGE’s agent for notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be contacted as follows:
Mailing Address:
EDGE Legal LLC
Attn: Copyright Agent-Management
252 Ponce de León Avenue, 12th Floor.
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918
Telephone: 787.522.2000
Email: info@edgelegal.com
SECTION 17 – ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and EDGE and shall govern the use of our Services, superseding any prior version of this Agreement with respect to EDGE Legal LLC. You may also be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use or acquire certain other Services offered by EDGE Legal LLC, affiliate services, third-party content, or third-party software.
SECTION 18 – CHOICE OF LAW AND FORUM
It is at the mutual agreement of both you and EDGE with regard to the Agreement that the relationship between the parties shall be governed by the laws of Puerto Rico without regard to its conflict of law provisions and that any and all claims, causes of action and/or disputes, arising out of or relating to the Agreement, or the relationship between you and EDGE, shall be filed within the courts having jurisdiction within the San Juan Court District, or the U.S. District Court located in Puerto Rico. You and EDGE Legal LLC agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts as previously mentioned and agree to waive all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over the parties by such courts and to the venue in such courts.
SECTION 19 – WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY OF TERMS
At any time, should EDGE Legal LLC fail to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms or this Agreement, such failure shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 20 – STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
You acknowledge, understand, and agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or action arising out of or related to the use of our Site Services, or the Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after said claim or cause of action arose or shall be forever barred.
SECTION 21 – VIOLATIONS
Please report all violations of this Agreement to EDGE as follows:
Mailing Address:
EDGE Legal LLC
252 Ponce de León Avenue, 12th Floor.
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918
Telephone: 787.522.2000
Email: info@edgelegal.com
SECTION 22 – GOVERNMENT REQUESTS
To cooperate with governmental requests, subpoenas, or court orders, to protect our systems, or to ensure the integrity and operation of our business Site and systems, we may access and disclose any information we consider necessary or appropriate, including and without limitation, your information, IP address, and usage history. Our right to disclose any such information is governed by the terms of our Privacy Policy.
SECTION 23 – FOREIGN ACCESS OF SITE
The Site is controlled, operated, and administered by EDGE, from our offices in Puerto Rico, within the United States of America (USA). If you access the Site from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use EDGE’s Content accessed through the Site Services in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions, or regulations.
SECTION 24 – ERRORS, INACCURACIES AND OMISSIONS
Occasionally there may be information on our Site that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, and to change or update information or cancel orders if any information on the Site or on any related site is inaccurate at any time without prior notice.
We undertake no obligation to update, amend, or clarify information on the Site or on any related site, including without limitation, pricing information, except as required by law. No specified update or refresh date applied on the Site or on any related site should be taken to indicate that all information on the Site or on any related site has been modified or updated.
SECTION 25 – IRS CIRCULAR 230 DISCLOSURE
Any federal tax advice contained on this website, or any information or service provided through this website, is not intended, or written to be used, and it cannot be used, by any Person for the purpose of (i) avoiding any penalty that may be imposed by the Internal Revenue Service or (ii) promoting, marketing, or recommending to another Person any transaction or matter addressed.
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