Legal

 Introduction

For the rest of this Terms of Service, we will use these case-insensitive words to describe important things:

We will call this Terms of Service the "Terms".

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We will call you "You", "Yours", "You're" and "You are". We will call other users "Others", "Their", and "Theirs".

We will call ourselves "Lawwly", "we", "us", "our" and "ourselves". Lawwly is a sole proprietorship with its principal place of business in Boston, MA and operating under the laws of the USA. We are located at Ngo Business Group DBA Lawwly, 3358 Sharon Ave. SW, Wyoming, MI 49519 USA. 

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We will call our services "Service" or "Services". Lawwly provides our Services to You. All of our presently available Services, as well as any future Services, will be subject to these terms. Currently, our Services include:

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Use of our website at Lawwly.com, including mobile applications, mobile versions of our website, and the desktop version of our website. This encompasses any webpage for any device with the root domain of "Lawwly.com". For example, this means Lawwly.com/blog, our blog section, is included.

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We will call certain age-based requirements "Age Requirements". We do so in order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Age Requirements requires You to be at least 18 years old to use our Services. If you do not meet the Age Requirements or you appear to us that you do not meet the Age Requirements, we may disable your account. Additional Age Requirements are described in our "Age Requirements" section and supplement this Terms of Service through incorporation by reference.

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 What you can expect from us

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You can expect Lawwly to provide a broad range of useful services to you, subject to these terms.

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You can expect Lawwly to improve our services. We may sometimes add or remove features and functionalities of our services, increase or decrease limits to our services, and start offering new services or stop offering old ones. If we make a material change that will negatively impact the use of our services, or if we stop offering a service, we will provide you with reasonable advance notice and an opportunity for you to export your content, except in urgent situations such as preventing abuse, responding to legal requirements, or addressing security and operability issues.

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 What we expect from you

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The permission we provide to you to use our services continues as long as you meet your expectations as set forth below. We expect you to:

Follow these rules. You are expected to follow these rules, along with any additional terms, which could, for example, include things like additional Age Requirements, as well as our other policies that we have created or will create, such as our Privacy Policy, Help Center, and other pages accessible from our "Legal" section. Although we give you permission to use our services, we retain any and all intellectual property rights we have in the services to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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Respect others. Our services may involve you interacting with others. Since we want to maintain a respectful, courteous environment for everyone involved, you will: comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws; respect the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights; not abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm); and not abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the services. If you find that others are not following these rules, you may report abuse using the "Contact Us" section of our "About" page. If we act on it, we will provide a fair process of resolving the issue.

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Give us permission to use Your Content. Some of our services are designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive or share your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you are free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure the content is lawful and that you have the necessary rights to use it. We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. You provide Lawwly the following permissions in this License:

License. Your content remains yours, which means you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content. You may also have the right to share others' content if they've given you their permission. This License only covers your content only if that content is protected by intellectual property rights. This means this License does not affect your privacy rights for publicly-available factual information that you provide since it's considered common knowledge that everyone is free to use. This License does not include feedback that you offer, such as suggestions to improve our services as well as any information you provide when you report abuse.

This License is a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license, meaning you give us permission to use your content anywhere in the world, without charging us any fees, and that you are free to license your content to others. This License allows us to: host, reproduce, distribute, communicate, and use our content, which could include, for example, saving your content on our systems and making it accessible from anywhere you go; publish, publicly perform, or publicly display your content, if you've made it visible to others; modify and create derivative works based on your content, such as reformatting or translating it; sublicense these rights to other users to allow the services to work as designed, such as enabling you to share your status updates with people you choose; and to sublicense current and potential contractors who have signed agreements with us that are consistent with these terms, only for the limited purposes described in the Purposes section below.

Purpose. This License is for the limited purposes of: operating and improving our services, which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities; using content you've shared publicly to promote our services, such as, for example, if you write a review about us, we may use it to promote ourselves; and for developing new technologies and services for Lawwly consistent with these terms.

Duration. This License lasts for as long as your content is protected by intellectual property rights. If you remove any content from our services that are covered by this License, our systems will stop making that content publicly available in a reasonable amount of time, subject to two exceptions: one, if you already shared your content with others before removing it; and two, if you make your content available through another companies' services.

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 Our Content

Your Lawwly Account. You can create a Lawwly Account only if you meet the previously mentioned Age Requirements. Some of our services require you to have a Lawwly Account. You are responsible for what you do with your Lawwly Account, including taking reasonable steps to keep your Lawwly Account secure.

Using Our Services on Behalf of an Organization.  You may use our services on behalf of an organization, such as a business, non-profit, or school as long as you are an authorized representative of that organization, and You agree to these terms. Your organization's administrator may assign a Lawwly Account to you, and this may require you to follow additional rules. The administrator may also access or disable your Lawwly Account.

Service-related Communications. To provide you with our services, we sometimes send you service announcements and other information. Please see our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we communicate with you. If you choose to give us feedback, such as suggestions to improve our Services, we may act on your feedback without obligation to you. This paragraph also applies to communications as a result of You using our Report Abuse to report abuse.

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Your Content in Lawwly Services. Some of our services give you the opportunity to make your content publicly available, such as, if you post your thoughts about a case that you enjoyed reading on our website. Our use of your content is subject to the License that was previously mentioned in these terms. If you remove any of such content, it will be subject to the same terms mentioned in the License.

Your Intellectual Property Rights. If you think someone is infringing on your intellectual property rights, you can send us notice through our Contact form. Be sure to include details of the infringement. We will then appropriate action, with or without prior notice to you.

Lawwly Content. Some of our services include content that belongs to Lawwly. You may use Lawwly’s content as allowed by these terms and any additional terms, however we retain any and all intellectual property rights that we have in our content. Please don’t remove, obscure, or alter any of our branding, logo, or legal notices. If you want to use our branding or logos, please contact us through our Contact form.

Other Content. Finally, some of our services give you access to content that belongs to other people or organizations. For example, a law firm may link their homepage on a listing we provide. You may not use this content without that person or organization’s permission, or as otherwise allowed by law. The views expressed in other people or organizations’ content are theirs’, and don’t necessarily reflect Lawwly’s views.

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Software in Lawwly Services. Some of our services include downloadable software. We give you permission to use that software as part of the services in our Lawwly License. Further, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our services or software, and you may not reverse engineer or attempt to extract any of our source code unless you have our written permission or applicable law lets you do so.

Our Lawwly License. The Lawwly License that we provide to you is worldwide (which means it’s valid anywhere in the world), non-exclusive (which means that we can license the software to others), royalty-free (which means there are no fees for this license), personal (which means it doesn’t extend to anyone else), and non-assignable (which means you are not allowed to assign the license to anyone else). Some of our services may include software offered under common open source license terms that we make available to you. Be sure to read those licenses as some of those terms may override parts of these terms. We can also terminate this license at any time, without warning or notice, for any reason, so please do not abuse these terms.

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 If Problems or Disagreements Arise

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Consumer Rights. By law, you (1) have the right to a certain quality of service and (2) have ways to fix problems if things go wrong. This only applies to services that you actually pay for, however, so it doesn’t apply to, for example, accessing our database under SimpleSearch. As a paying customer, you will continue to enjoy all legal rights granted to consumers under applicable law, and these terms do not limit or take away any of those rights.

Warranties. For our premium services (services that we charge you to use), we promise to use reasonable skill and care in providing those services. Subject to the disclaimers below, if we don’t meet the level of quality described in this warranty, you agree to talk to us first through our Contact form, and we agree to work with you to try and resolve the issue as best we can.

Disclaimers. The only commitment we make about our services, the content in the services, the function of our services, and the reliability, availability, or ability of them to meet your needs are fully described in the Warranty section. Other than that, we do not make any other commitments about our services. Unless required by law, we don’t provide implied warranties, such as the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Liabilities. These terms only limit our responsibilities as allowed by applicable law. Additionally, these terms do not limit our liability for death or personal injury, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, or willful misconduct. Other than the rights and responsibilities described in this section that arise from problems or disagreements, Lawwly is not responsible for any other losses, unless they were directly caused by our breach of these terms as well as any of our other policies. If we are liable, then our total liability relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) Five Hundred (500) United States Dollars or (2) 125% of the fees that you paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the breach.

Indemnification. To the extent allowed by applicable law, you’ll indemnify Lawwly and its directors, officers, employees and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of the services or violation of any of our other policies. This includes indemnifying us for any liability or expense that comes from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs and legal fees. Lawwly is not responsible for loss of profits, revenues, business opportunities, goodwill, anticipated savings, indirect losses, consequential losses, or punitive damages.

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What we will do in the case of problems.  Before taking any of the actions below, we will provide you with advance notice when reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action, and give you an opportunity to fix the problem, unless we reasonably believe that doing so would: violate the law or a legal enforcement authority’s order; compromise an investigation; cause harm or liability to a user, third party, or Lawwly; compromise the operation, integrity, or security of our services, or for any other reason that relates to our safety and security.

Removing your content.  If we reasonably believe that any part of your content (1) breaches these terms or our other policies, violates applicable law, or (3) could harm our users, third parties, or Lawwly, then we reserve the right to take down some or all of that content in accordance with applicable law.

Suspending or terminating your access to Lawwly services. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to our services at any time, subject to applicable law. Reasons may include: repeated material breaches of these terms or other policies; complying with a court order or law; because we reasonably believe your conduct causes or will cause harm or liability to a user, third party, or Lawwly, or if you or we believe your Lawwly Account was hacked. You may appeal a suspension or termination through our Contact form. You are always free to stop using our services at any time.

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Governing Law.  The laws under the commonwealth of Massachusetts will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these terms, our services, our other policies and content owned by you or us, regardless of the conflict of laws rules. Disputes between us must be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and you and Lawwly consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. To the extent that applicable local law prevents certain disputes from being resolved in a Massachusetts court, then you can file disputes in your local courts. If applicable local law prevents your local court from applying Massachusetts law to resolve those disputes, then the dispute will be governed by the applicable local laws of your country, state, or other place of residence.

About these terms. By law, you have certain rights that cannot be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict such rights. These terms describe the relationship between you and Lawwly, and do not create any legal rights for other persons or organizations, even if others benefit from our relationship under these terms. Despite mentioning our services in our examples, some or all of our services may not be available in your country. For any service that has any additional terms that conflict with these terms, the additional terms will govern for that service. If it turns out that any particular sentence or term in these terms are not valid or enforceable, then it won’t affect any other terms. In the event that we don’t take action right away for a breach of these terms, we do not give up any rights that we may have, such as taking action in the future. Finally, we reserve the right to update these terms and add or modify any additional terms for any reason reasonably related to our services or how we do business, for legal, regulatory, or security purposes, or to prevent abuse or harm. If we do materially change these terms or any of our additional terms, we will provide you with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes except when we launch a new service or feature or in urgent situations. If you don’t agree to the new terms, or these terms, you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time by closing your Lawwly Account.

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