Terms of Use for Lawyers Design School
Hey friend!
Please read these terms of use carefully before entering our website or online courses.
Now that you’re here, we need to set some ground rules for our relationship. We have prepared these Terms of Use that will apply when you access and use either our Website or our online training platform, which we call the Service. Our Service consists of online courses that may include live trainings, course videos, downloadable materials and other information.
In addition to these Terms of Use, we have a separate Privacy Policy (and California addendum for California residents) that will explain to you how we collect and use your personal data. Please have a look at that as well. These Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy together form the legal basis for your visit and use of the Website and the Services.
You don’t need to sign anything here. Simply using the Website or the Service is enough for us to know that you have accepted these ground rules and that you agree with them. At some point we may request you to click your acceptance as well. We call your agreement to these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy later as “this Agreement”.
If you don’t want to be bound by these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, do not access the Website and immediately discontinue using the Service.
By the way, when we use the word “You”, we mean both you as a person and the entity you may be representing here.
CONTENTS 1. Most frequently checked topics 2. How to register to the Service 3. Your use of the Service 4. Our right to make changes 5. Payment methods 6. Your license to use our materials 7. Disclaimer 8. Links and Third Parties 9. How we limit our liability 10. Term and Termination of the Service 11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
1. Most frequently checked topics
For your convenience we have collected here the top 3 topics that our users typically check in our Terms of Use. You can find the other more legal stuff further below.
What’s your refund policy?
For self-paced online courses
For self-paced online courses you are entitled to a refund if you cancel your purchase before the second module of the course is released. That’s typically within 7 days after the release of the first module.
However, if you get access to the entire content upon your purchase, refund is not applicable.
For live trainings
You are entitled to cancel your purchase within 14 days after the purchase, unless we have started to deliver the course or training. The delivery of a course or training starts latest one week before the first workshop, and at that point you cannot cancel the purchase even if the 14 day period is not passed.
How to request for refund
In case you wish to cancel your purchase, please send the refund request within the notice period to email: [email protected]. Please make sure to add details about the purchase and to which account the refund is paid.
For how long do I have access to the course materials?
You get access to each course after you have paid the applicable fee for the course. In case of free courses, you get access once you have clicked through the subscription process.
You get access to each of the courses you have enrolled for a period of 12 months of the enrolment. If we decide to close down the Service before the end of 12 months, you won’t be able to access the course after such closing.
Some courses may at some point also include private discussion groups as an additional bonus. If you have been granted access for such a discussion group, that is usually valid for the duration of the live experience of your course enrollment. We inform you about the specifics if there is a group available for your course.
What’s the total fee of my enrollment?
We specify the price for each course or bundle of courses in connection with your purchase. Usually it’s a one-time fee. We may also provide courses free of charge.
We add sales or similar taxes to the fee if they apply to your location.
2. How to register to the Service
You can register to the Service with your email address and a password.
You must make sure that the data you provide at registration is correct. If your data changes after registration, you need to update your profile in the Service. We are not responsible if you have failed to maintain accurate contact or other information in the Service.
If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, like your employer or your own business, you need to have the appropriate authorization to do that. It is your responsibility to make sure that it’s fine for your organization that you use the Service and that you do so on their behalf. The actions you make in the Service, like clicks or confirmations of notifications, are equivalent to your signature on behalf of your organization.
It is very important that you keep your login credentials (the combination of your email address and password) to yourself and not to give that information to any third party.
3. Your use of the Service
Your equipment and connections
You are responsible for the operation of your hardware and software as well as for the functioning of your internet connection. You need to ensure that data security is appropriately addressed in your systems. We have the right to deny access to the Service if your hardware, software or internet connection pose a danger to the security or operation of the Service.
How you can use the materials we provide
You are entitled to download one copy of the content provided in the Service on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial use. You are required to keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not make any copies of any course content.
Please use the Website and the Service only through the interfaces we provide you.
Prohibited ways are for example:
- manners that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Website or the Service;
- manners that could interfere with any other party’s use or enjoyment of the Website or the Service;
- actions to modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer of sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found in the Website or the Service.
How we communicate with you
We may communicate with you through the Service or through other means, such as email, about the use of Service, your account or services associated with us.
How to use Communication Services
The Website and the Service may contain
- discussion areas
- bulletin board services,
- calendars,
- blog comment sections and/or
- other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or within a private group.
We call these collectively “Communication Services”. You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.
You are required not to post or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, libelous, slanderous, commercially disparaging, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
4. Our right to make changes
Changes to the Website and the Service
We have the right to amend this Website and the Service or any material we provide on the Website or in the Service. We can do this in our sole discretion and without notice.
We are not liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website or Service is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, We may restrict access to some parts of the Website the Service, or the entire Website or Service, from you.
Changes to the prices
We are entitled to amend the pricing at any time by notifying of such amendment in the Website or the Service or to users, as the case may be.
Changes to these Terms of Use
We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use. The most current version of the Terms of Use will supersede all previous versions.
Transfer of Our Rights and Obligations
You can only transfer your rights and duties under these Terms of Use with our prior written consent. We may assign or delegate all our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use, fully or partially without prior notice.
5. Payment methods
We inform you about the payment method and available payment currencies in connection of your purchase.
We use an external payment service provider and their terms and conditions apply when transmitting the payment. They might also charge fees for the use of such service, please check for details when you’re making the payment.
We are entitled to determine the available payment methods, currencies and locations for payment. We are not liable for the correctness or accuracy of any payment made through the payment service provider.
We may correct any billing errors or mistakes even if the payment has already been requested or received from you.
6. Your license to use our materials
Unless otherwise noted, all materials, including, but not limited to,
- videos,
- articles,
- images,
- illustrations,
- designs,
- icons,
- photographs
that are part of the Website and the Service (we call them collectively the “Content”) are protected by copyright. The Content is owned, controlled or licensed by us, or the party credited as the provider of the Content.
You are required to abide by all additional copyright notices, information or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Website or the Service.
We grant You a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicenseable, revocable license to access and use the Website and, if you have paid the applicable fee, the Service but only strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use.
7. Disclaimer
We provide the information on this Website and in the Service for educational and informational purposes only.
We have not intended any information on this Website and in the Service for legal, financial, tax, medical, health or any other professional advice.
We have used reasonable efforts to ensure that the information provided on this Website and in the Service are accurate and provide valuable information, but we do not guarantee the accuracy of the information.
Neither we nor any of our owners or employees can be held liable for any errors or omissions on this Website or in the Service or for any damage you may suffer as a result of the use or non-use of the information or content available on this Website or the Service.
You accept your personal responsibility for the results of your actions. We provide educational and informational resources that are intended to help participants in the courses succeed. You nevertheless recognize that your success or failure will be the result of your own efforts, your particular situation and innumerable other circumstances beyond our control and knowledge.
In the event we offer access to private discussion groups, the role of such group is to provide a forum for the course members to seek guidance and support. We do not make any guarantees about participation by any of our employee, founders or members in the group. If you fail to follow the rules of the group, you will lose your right to participate in the group. Such group, if any, is provided as an additional bonus to the respective course and is not an integral part of the course content.
We have no obligation to monitor the discussion groups or other Communication Services. However, we reserve the right to review materials posted to a discussion group or other Communication Service and to remove any materials in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to terminate your access to any or all of the discussion groups or other Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
8. Links and Third Parties
The Website and the Service may contain links to or content created by or sourced from web-sites controlled or offered by third parties that are not our affiliates.
We disclaim liability for any information, materials, products or services posted or offered at any such third party sites or interfaces.
You are responsible for viewing and abiding by the privacy statements and terms of use posted at such third party site.
If you deal with any third parties, also including possible advertisers, included in the Website or the Service such dealings are solely between you and the advertiser or other third party. We are not responsible for any part of such dealings or promotions.
9. How we limit our liability
We provide the Website and the Service and any content therein on “as is” basis.
No warranties
We do not make any representations or warranties of any kind regarding
- the up-to-dateness, accuracy, timeliness or, completeness of any information in our Website or the Service or
- the results obtained from the use of the Website of the Service and
- any information provided by third parties that can be accessed through the use of the Website or the Service.
We disclaim any express or implied warranties and conditions, including without limitation, any warranties as to non-infringement, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the Website or the Service or any content in there will be uninterrupted or error free or that defects will be corrected.
Our maximum liability
In any event our total aggregate liability with respect to any damage, claim or cost based on these Terms of Use, Privacy Policy or applicable law, is limited to the fee invoiced from you by us during the previous six (6) months. This limitation prevails any other provision in these Terms and Conditions or otherwise and applies whether it is related to the use of the Website or the Service or not.
No liability for consequential or indirect damages
We are not liable to you or to any third party for
- loss or damage of any kind whatsoever arising as a result of information published or furnished through the Website or the Service or any errors or omissions of the Website or the Service
- any indirect, special, incidental, punitive or consequential loss or damages or
- any other similar damages under any theory of liability that are directly or indirectly attributable to the use of or inability to use the Website or the Service or any content therein, even if we have been informed of the possibility of such damages.
Force majeure
Neither we or you are liable for damages caused by force majeure.
With force majeure we mean a circumstance that prevents either of us from fulfilling our obligations and which is unforeseeable, is beyond reasonable control of either of us and causes a non-fulfillment of an obligation of either of us. This might be situations like disturbance of electricity distribution, data communication or data system, a fire, a natural disaster, pandemic, endemic, a war, revolt or strike, a lock-out or other industrial action.
Your remedy
If you are dissatisfied with the Website or the Service, you need to discontinue the use of the Website and the Service. This is your sole and exclusive remedy.
These limitations of Clause 9 do not apply if and to the extent mandatory applicable law is in contradiction with the limitations.
10. Term and Termination of the Service
This Agreement enters into force when you accept this Agreement or start using the Service.
You may terminate your use of the Service for any or no reason at any time with a notice to us. See “what’s your refund policy” above.
We are entitled to terminate your Agreement for the Service without cause at any moment, with a 14 days prior notice.
We may terminate your Agreement for the Service with immediate effect if you substantially violate the provisions of this Agreement.
The provisions of this Agreement which by their nature reasonably should survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The laws of Finland are applied to this Agreement and to any operations or use of the Website, the Service and our relationship. We exclude the application of the provisions on choice of law and CISG.
We will try to solve any dispute amicably by way of good faith negotiations.
Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach, termination or validity, will be finally settled by arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the Finland Chamber of Commerce. The number of arbitrators is one. The seat of arbitration is Helsinki, Finland.
Update October 2022