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By accessing or using any of the LegatoApp ("LegatoApp") online facilities including, without limitation, www.LegatoApp.com, mobile applications, social media Site and any other digital services or facilities offered by LegatoApp from time to time (collectively referred to as the "Site"), you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use"). LegatoApp grants you a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website and associated services subject to and in consideration of your compliance with the following terms and conditions of use.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully as well as the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, you must immediately terminate use of the Site.

LegatoApp may terminate your use of the Website and Services if you are in breach of these Terms or if LegatoApp decides to terminate the license granted hereunder for any reason whatsoever.

By using LegatoApp's (the Company, Our, Us,) Website (the "site"), you (the "User", "your") acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Terms contained in this document.

This Terms of Use constitutes an electronic contract between LegatoApp, an Indian private limited company having its registered office at 1st Floor, D.N. Mahajan & Bros., Bldg. No. 1, Mahajan Silk Mill Compound, Nr. Union Bank, LBS Marg, Vikhroli (West), Mumbai - 400079, Maharashtra, and you.

LegatoApp reserves the right to revise these Terms of Use at any time in its sole discretion by posting revised Terms of Use to the Site. Your use of the Site signifies your acceptance of all the terms and conditions contained within the Terms of Use posted at the time of your use. You will be responsible for regularly reviewing the Terms of Use posted to the Site.

Acceptance of Terms

LegatoApp is involved in creating an aggregation of legal professionals on an interactive online platform that connects LegatoApp’s Clients to the legal professionals pan India to provide the Client with adequate legal services with tech and non-tech features by LegatoApp. This cumulative list of professionals is completely non-biased and non-preferential and arranged only based on the Lawyer's practice areas. It is solely dependent on the Client to select a requisite Lawyer based on Lawyers' profiles listed on LegatoApp. LegatoApp shall further facilitate the payments to be made to the Lawyer by the Client.

This Agreement aims to bring out the Terms and Conditions that will apply to use this Site, and the User agrees to comply with all the terms contained in herein. Once a person becomes the Site's User, his/her right to use the Site remains personal and exclusive and is non-transferable to any other person or entity.

To use the Website, you must be: atleast eighteen (18) years old; legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and not in any way prohibited by the applicable law to enter into these Terms in the jurisdiction which you are currently located.

Fees & Charges

LegatoApp reserves the right, to charge fees for accessing whole or part of the Site, at any point of time. In the event, you are required to remit a fee for accessing any part of the Site, you will be given an intimation regarding the same, and you shall be allowed to access such part of the Site only upon payment of a prescribed fee ("Subscription Fee") for a particular period specified at the time of subscription ("Subscription Period"). The Subscription Fee is non-refundable, and during the Subscription Period, you are not required to pay any other charge towards subscription, unless there is a change in applicable tax.

Subscription Fee can be paid by any mode of payment as listed on the Site and updated from time to time. It is to be noted that your payment of Subscription Fee does not guarantee your subscription. However, LegatoApp reserves its right to reject your request for a subscription without assigning any reason for the same, and the Subscription Fee will be refunded on a pro-rata basis, without any interest.

LegatoApp reserves the right to revise the Subscription Fee from time to time and at its sole discretion may allow you to renew the subscription after the expiry of the Subscription Period, upon payment of Subscription Fee prevalent at the time of renewal

Any unauthorized payments made to LegatoApp, including without limitation, in the form of subscription fees or any other payments shall take complete liability on the User and LegatoApp shall not be associated with any part of this unauthorized payment.

Registration

You may be required to create an account as a part of the registration process to use the Site. You will create an account based on your login credentials by choosing a password and providing an email address or linking another account, such as Google or Facebook. You will also be required to provide certain information during the registration process. You warrant that such information provided by you during the registration process is true, accurate, current, authorized, and complete in all aspects. If there is any change in the information provided by you, you shall update the same in your profile.

Unless otherwise expressly mentioned, each registration is for a single user only. You cannot share/provide your login credentials or give your login credentials to anyone else. We may cancel or suspend your access to the Site if you share your login credentials. You are responsible for safeguarding your password.

You shall not use the login credentials of any other person without the combined authorization of that person and LegatoApp. Failure to comply with these terms may result in immediately suspending or terminating your account, and you shall be liable for appropriate legal action. You shall notify LegatoApp immediately if you notice any breach or unauthorized activity of your account.

Restricted Activities

You hereby agree not to use the service for the purpose of uploading, post, email, transmit or otherwise in order to make available any content: -

  • That is illegal, unlawful, harmful, threatening, destructive, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable in any manner.
  • That may harm or cause injury to minors in any way.
  • That you do not have a right to make available any inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements under any law or contractual or fiduciary relationships.
  • That causes infringement of any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party or support or promote any unauthorized advertising.
  • That impersonates any individual or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  • That contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

The User hereby warrants as under:

  • While using the Site, the User shall not violate any applicable local, state and central laws and regulations.
  • While submitting any information to the Site, the User will not provide incomplete, inaccurate, untrue or unauthorized information.
  • The User shall not interfere with the operation of the Site or interfere with the use of the Site by others;
  • The User shall not use the Site in any manner which is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, hateful, racial or otherwise objectionable;
  • Unless otherwise permitted, the User shall not use the Site for any promotional activities or advertisement purpose or to send unsolicited commination (including spams, bulk mails, messages, etc).
Intellectual Property Rights

The contents of the Site including but not limited to, (i) LegatoApp's trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, brand names and other distinctive identification; and (ii) information, data, texts, materials, interfaces, computer code, databases, products, services, software applications and tools, text, images, photographs, audio and video material, including podcasts, and artwork, and (iii) the design, structure, selection, compilation, assembly, coordination, expression, functionalities, applications, look and feel, and arrangement of any content contained in or available through the Site (the list of items mentioned in subsections (i) (ii) and (iii) shall be hereinafter for the sake of brevity collectively referred to as "Contents"). The Contents are the property of LegatoApp and/or its licensors and are protected under the provisions of Indian laws including laws relating to trademark, copyright, and other intellectual property rights. You hereby agree that you shall not modify, publish, transmit, contribute or facilitate in the transfer or sale of, and/or reproduce, create new works from, distribute, perform, display (including framing and inline linking). You further agree not to communicate to the public or exploit any of the Contents in whole or in part. You may copy and download the Contents of the judgments, orders, laws, regulations or articles from the Site for your personal and non-commercial use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein.

User Material

You may be allowed to provide your views, comments, feedback, opinion, articles, images, video or advertising materials on the Site. You are solely responsible for the material you submit. You shall ensure that such material complies with applicable law and you are affirming that you alone created or own the materials submitted by you and no one else has any rights to it or could claim they own it or that it infringes on rights of others. LegatoApp does not approve, endorse, or adopt any material submitted by the others, and assumes no liability whatsoever. You will indemnify and hold harmless LegatoApp against all third-party claims, demands and actions brought against LegatoApp, which arises from or relates to the materials submitted by you.

LegatoApp could use views, comments, feedback, opinion, articles, images, video etc. submitted by you for its internal and external purpose including but not limited to use for marketing; you understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public and grant LegatoApp a nonexclusive license to display, reproduce, transmit, modify such content. You understand that you won't have the right to approve how we use such contents submitted by you.

Submission of Graphic Material

The photograph(s) or other graphical material sent to us by you, shall be in accordance with these Terms. This implies that you hereby agree that you have permission from or are authorized by the owner of the photograph(s) to send it to us or you have taken the photograph (s) you have sent to us or, and you are granting us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish or otherwise use the photograph(s) at any time and in any way we want on the Site.

You confirm and agree that the photograph(s) must not be defamatory and shall not break any laws. You will not be paid, even if your photograph(s) and/or graphic material is /are published, and the selected photographs and graphical material will be published at the editor's discretion. We are entitled to cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on the Site, and we reserve the right to remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time from the Site.

Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or graphic, but we reserve the right to edit or delete any comments, which you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.

Disclaimer

For the purpose of information, the Site and Contents are provided on "As is" and "As available" basis. However, they do not constitute an advice and should not be relied upon in any decision making. LegatoApp does not endorse or represent the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement, or other information displayed, uploaded, or distributed through the Site in any manner. In the event, you place reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum, or information, you acknowledge that the same shall be at your sole risk.

The Site may contain links to third-party website, resources, and advertisers (hereinafter collectively referred to as, "Third Party Content"). LegatoApp does not and shall not at any time control, endorse, sponsor, recommend or otherwise accept responsibility for any of this Third-Party Content.

Some parts of the Site may also contain material submitted by users. LegatoApp accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy and conformity to applicable laws of such material and shall at no point of time be held accountable for the same.

LegatoApp does not warrant that the content will remain unchanged or accessible on the Site. LegatoApp reserves the right to alter, modify, discontinue or remove any Contents without notice to the User.

LegatoApp does not make any express or implied representation or warranty of any kind or nature, including without limitation, any representation or warranty that (i) the Site or any shall at all times will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (iii) the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you through the Site will meet your expectations. All warranties express or implied are disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and/or non-infringement of intellectual property.

You shall first take professional advice before relying on any statement we have published on the Site. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

LegatoApp gives no warranties of any kind and without any representations for material information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons found in the Site. You can access other sites via links from the Site. However, these third-party sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents. LegatoApp is not liable for any of the following losses or damages (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):

  • loss of data;
  • loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of opportunity;
  • loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
  • losses suffered by third parties; or
  • any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of barandbench.com regardless of the form of action.

You must take your own precaution in this respect, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus, by other contamination or by anything that has destructive properties.

Governing Laws and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the republic of India. In the event of any dispute between the parties, such dispute shall be settled through arbitration through a single arbitrator appointed by LegatoApp in accordance with Arbitration & Conciliation Act of 1996 or any amendment or replacement thereof. The seat of arbitration shall be at Mumbai and the language of the arbitration shall be in English. Any award rendered pursuant to such arbitration shall be final and conclusive.

Subject to aforesaid, courts in Mumbai shall have jurisdiction over this Terms of Use.

Miscellaneous
  • In case, LegatoApp fails to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use or to respond to a breach by you, and it shall not in any way constitute a waiver of our right to enforce subsequently any terms or conditions of these Terms of Use or to act with respect to similar breaches.
  • The provisions of these Terms of Use or any part thereof shall constitute any partnership or agency relationship between LegatoApp and you.
  • If any provision of the Terms of Use or any part thereof is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government, or by any court or arbitrator, the parties hereby agree that such provision will be replaced with a new provision that accomplishes and undertakes the original business purpose, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.
  • LegatoApp shall not be liable to you for any interruption or delay, to access the Site irrespective of the cause.
  • LegatoApp makes no claims regarding access or use of any of the Content of the Site outside India. If you use or access the Site or Content outside India, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws and regulations of your jurisdiction as well as these Terms of Use.
  • Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to imply any employer-employee relationship between the Parties. It is expressly understood that they are independent contractors and no employment or partnership of any kind is intended between the Parties.
  • If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining part of the Agreement will nevertheless remain in full force and effect. With respect to particular circumstances, if any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will nevertheless remain in full force and effect in all other circumstances.
  • LegatoApp will endeavor to do its best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the Site; however, LegatoApp does not guarantee, nor does it accept any responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.
Data Protection and Privacy Policy

LegatoApp may send information and offer products and services to you from time to time. For information about LegatoApp’s data protection practices and LegatoApp's use and protection of your personal information, please read LegatoApp's Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into and made a part of these Terms of Use.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, LegatoApp reserves the right to disclose any information submitted or collected from you in connection with any governmental, administrative, regulatory or judicial proceeding or as may be required under any law or regulation applicable to LegatoApp.