Terms Of Use

1. Generally Applicable Terms and Conditions

The Candappa Law Firm offers a range of content, services and other resources on this Site (collectively, the “Site Content”). You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-assignable license to access, view and use the Site Content, subject to your continued compliance with these Terms of Use. Except as expressly permitted, modification, reproduction, redistribution, republication, uploading, posting, transmitting, distributing or otherwise exploiting in any way the Site, Site Content, or any portion thereof, is strictly prohibited without the prior written permission of the Candappa Law Firm.

The information you obtain at this site is not intended to be legal advice. We invite you to contact us and welcome your calls, letters and electronic mail. Contacting us through this website, including completion and submission of the Contact Us Form, does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send any confidential information to us until such time an attorney-client relationship has been established or specifically requested in a separate writing by the Candappa Law Firm.

2. Eligibility

The Candappa Law Firm shall have absolute discretion as to whether or not it permits a particular user to use or access the Site or any Site Content. This Site is available only to individuals and entities that can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. The Site and the Site Content are not available to persons that are minors under the laws of their jurisdiction of residence or persons who do not have the legal authority to enter into binding contracts. The Candappa Law Firm reserves the right to terminate any user’s access to the Site without notice, at any time, for any or no reason.

3. Accepting the Terms

In order to use the Site Content, you must first agree to the Terms of Use set forth herein. You may not use the Site Content if you do not accept the Terms of Use. You accept the Terms of Use by actually using the content, services or other resources on this Site. In using the Site Content, you understand and agree that the Candappa Law Firm will treat such use as acceptance of the Terms of Use from that point onwards. You may not use the Site Content and may not accept the Terms of Use if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with the Candappa Law Firm, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Site Content and all related services therein under the laws of the United States or other countries, including the country in which you are resident or from which you use or access the Site Content.

4. Your Use of the Site Content

In order to access and receive certain content, services or other resources on this Site you may be required to provide information about yourself, such as identification or contact details. You agree that any such information provided by you to the Candappa Law Firm is accurate, correct and up-to-date. You agree to access and use the Site Content only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms of Use and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries). You agree not to access or attempt to access any of the Site Content by any means other than through the interface that is provided by the Candappa Law Firm unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with the Candappa Law Firm. You specifically agree not to access or attempt to access any of the Site Content through any automated means, including use of scripts or web crawlers. You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Site Content or the servers and networks which are connected to the Site Content. Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with the Candappa Law Firm, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Site Content for any purpose. You agree that you are solely responsible for any breach of your obligations under the Terms of Use and that the Candappa Law Firm is not responsible to you or any third party for such breach. You further agree that you are responsible for all consequential loss suffered by The Candappa Law Firm as a result of such breach by you.

5. Privacy and Your Personal Information

For information about how the Candappa Law Firm treats your personal data and protects your privacy please refer to the Candappa Law Firm Privacy Policy. By using our Site, you agree that the Candappa Law Firm can use such data in accordance with the privacy policies published on this Site. You agree to the use of your data in accordance with the Candappa Law Firm’s privacy policies.

6. Proprietary Rights

You acknowledge and agree that the Candappa Law Firm or its licensors own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Site Content, including any intellectual property rights which subsist therein whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist. You further agree that the Site Content may contain information which is designated confidential by the Candappa Law Firm and that you shall not disclose such information without the prior written consent of the Candappa Law Firm. Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with the Candappa Law Firm, nothing in the Terms of Use gives you a right to use any of the Candappa Law Firm’s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand identifiers, features or characteristics. If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand identifiers, features or characteristics in a separate written agreement with the Candappa Law Firm, you agree that such use shall be in compliance with that agreement and any applicable provisions of the Terms of Use. You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices, including copyright and trade mark notices, which may be affixed to or contained within the Site Content. Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by the Candappa Law Firm, you agree that in using the Site Content, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company, organization, or individual in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.

7. Rights in Site Content

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site Content, including all images, illustrations, icons, designs and written and other materials that appear on the Site are copyrights, trademarks, trade dress or other intellectual property owned, controlled, or licensed by the Candappa Law Firm and is the property of its owners and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and conventions. Accessing the Candappa Law Firm web site does not authorize users to use any name, logo, trademark or service mark in any manner. Permission is granted to display, download and print in hard copy format other resources of the Site solely for the purpose of using the Site as an internal or personal business resource. None of the resources may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted electronically or mechanically, transmitted, recorded, in any manner mirrored, photocopied or reproduced without the prior written permission of the Candappa Law Firm.

8. Links to and from Third Party Websites

From time to time this Site may provide links to other websites that will allow you to leave our Site and access another website. Alternatively, you may have accessed our Site from a link provided on another website. Websites linked to or from our Site are not monitored by or under the control of the Candappa Law Firm. The Candappa Law Firm is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. We provide these links as a convenience only, and a link does not imply endorsement of, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the linked site by the Candappa Law Firm. We urge you to err on the side of caution before submitting your personal information to or utilizing the resources of other websites. We accept no responsibility or liability for the conduct, policies or practices of other websites linked to or from our Site.

9. Limitations of Liability; Disclaimers of Warranties

The Candappa Law Firm makes no representations or warranties of any kind regarding the Site and the Site Content. The Site and Site Content are provided in “AS IS” condition, and the Candappa Law Firm expressly disclaims and all warranties, whether express or implied, including all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any and all warranties arising from course of dealing and usage of trade, that the Site and the Site Content will meet your requirements, will always be available, accessible, uninterrupted, timely, secure or operate without error, as to the results that may be obtained from the operation, use or other exploitation of the Site or the Site Content, and as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained from the Site or the Site Content.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from the Candappa Law Firm or through the Site or Site Content will create any warranty not expressly stated herein. You use the Site and the Site Content at your own risk, and the Candappa Law Firm will not be liable for damages of any kind arising from or relating to any of their operation, use or other exploitation. Under no circumstances will you be entitled to recover from the Candappa Law Firm any incidental, consequential, indirect, punitive or special damages, including damages for loss of business, loss of profits, or loss of use, whether based on contract, in tort (including negligence), or otherwise arising from or relating to the Site or the Site Content, even if the Candappa Law Firm (or an affiliate of the Candappa Law Firm) has been informed or should have known of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of warranties or of liability. In such instances, some of the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.

10. Site Restrictions

No user shall submit, upload to, distribute through or otherwise post to the Site any material that: (a) is libelous, defamatory, threatening, abusive, obscene, pornographic or unlawful or that encourages a criminal offense; (b) contains any advertising, promotional, solicitation or other commercial material, including the uniform resource locator (“URL”) of a user’s own website; (c) contains material from other copyrighted works without the written consent of the owner of such copyrighted material, other than reasonable excerpts permitted under the copyright doctrine of fair use; (d) infringes any copyright, trademark or patent, incorporates any material that constitutes a trade secret of a third party, or violates any property rights, rights of privacy or publicity or any other rights of any third party; (e) contains any statement, formula, direction, recipe, prescription or other matter that involves a reasonably foreseeable risk of injury or damage to the material’s readers or others; or (f) contains any software viruses or any other code, file or program that is designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment or to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information. The Candappa Law Firm has no liability or responsibility to users of the Site or any other person or entity for performance or nonperformance of the activities identified above. Users may not: (a) use any automated collection mechanism or any manual process to monitor or copy the web pages comprising the Site or the Site Content without the prior written permission of the Candappa Law Firm; (b) contract employers or freelancers through the Site or use Site Content for the purpose of encouraging persons not to use the Site or any other services offered by the Candappa Law Firm; or (c) engage in personal attacks, negative or unfair criticism or other forms of discourteous and unprofessional online conduct or practices.