General Terms of Use
Welcome to The Legal Rooms ("TLR").
By using the website, or registering to the platform as a Legal Consultant or as Client (collectively referred to as "users"), you agree to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use and agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. If at any time you find these Terms of Use unacceptable or if you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this site. We may revise these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.
If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us oninfo@thelegalrooms.com
By using this website (referred to as "website" or "platform") , you agree that you are at least 18 years of age and you are legally able to enter into a contract.
1- Services
TLR is the leading website in the legal industry, which aims to connect Clients to Legal Consultants, lawyers and professionals. TLR facilitates interactions with Legal Consultants and platform Clients. This website does not provide legal advice and TLR is not a law firm.
The platform allows you to: - schedule a 30 minutes call with the Legal Consultant of your choice;
- request a review or draft of a document or agreement or an opinion; and
- organise and participate in legal masterclasses.
2- Registration
Registering as a Legal Consultant:
By logging into your dashboard, you can manage your account information. The dashboard allows you to manage your profile information and your professional activity.
In order to have access to your dashboard, you must register for a Legal Consultant profile with your email address. For your account to be validated, you will be guided through the process of entering your personal, professional and payment information. A law degree or license to practice is required for your registration process.
You will be able to select your areas of expertise, languages spoken, countries of expertise and your detailed professional resume.
Once completed, your account will be submitted for validation within 24 hours.
You represent and warrant that you will only provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as part of your use of the platform and you will promptly update the information contained in your profile to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
You agree to create only one profile on this platform.
You can update your information from your dashboard at any time and at no additional cost by following the steps in your profile.
The use of the platform is subject to acceptable use policy. You may not misuse the platform or help anyone else do so in any way.
Registering as a Client:
In order to use the platform, you must register for a Client profile. For the approval of your account, you will be guided through the process to enter your personal and payment information.
You represent and warrant that you will only provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as part of your use of the platform and you will promptly update the information contained in your profile to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.
You can update your information from your personal profile account at any time and at no additional cost by following the steps in your profile.
3- Third Party Accounts
You will be able to connect your TLR account to third party accounts. By connecting your TLR account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with your privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature.
4- Your Account
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that TLR is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. TLR and its associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel service, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.
5- Scheduling a 30 minutes call with the Legal Consultant :
To schedule an appointment with a Legal Consultant, Clients must first verify the Legal Consultant's schedule and availability. Next, Clients should select the "Book Now" button on the consultant's profile and, depending on the Legal Consultant's area of expertise, describe their request with the option to attach documents and materials. To facilitate the process, it is strongly recommended that Clients outline their request by describing and attaching documents and materials to their booking request.
When the time slot is chosen, Clients will be directed to the payment section. Once the payment is processed, Clients must confirm the chosen time slot and make the reservation.
The Legal Consultant and the Client will receive a booking confirmation email with the corresponding invoice.
6- Requesting a review or draft of a document or agreement or an opinion:
The Legal Consultants will have 72 hours to assess and propose a quote to Clients. When proposed, Clients will have to accept or reject the quote within 48 hours.
Upon acceptance, Clients will be able to proceed to the online payment via the platform.
7- Materials Provided to the platform or posted on any TLR Web Page
TLR does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to https://www.thelegalrooms.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any TLR Site or our associated services (collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting TLR, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. TLR is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in TLR's sole discretion.
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
8- Fees, payment and cancelation policy
Fees Quotations- Each Legal Consultant has sole control over the pricing of their services.
Clients and Legal Consultants acknowledge that out of the total fee paid by Clients, Legal Consultants will receive 85% of that amount. TLR will withhold 15% of the total fee as a platform fee to ensure the operation of the platform.
Fees paid to Legal Consultants are exclusive of any bank transfer or money exchange fees, applicable taxes or other similar exactions imposed by a legal, governmental, or regulatory authority in any applicable jurisdiction.
Cancelation policy- Clients have the right to cancel their scheduled legal call at least four hours before the appointment time. Cancellations charges may apply.
If the cancellation occurs less than four hours before the appointment time, no refund will apply.
Clients may also re-use their booking within the platform with another legal counsel. For questions please contact info@thelegalrooms.com.
In all circumstances, fees paid for requesting a review or draft of a document or agreement or an opinion cannot be refunded.
In the event of cancellation of the scheduled appointments or legal requests by the Legal Consultant, the Client shall receive a full refund of the fees paid.
TLR reserves the right to change its refund and withholding percentage policies at any time and without prior notice.
Payments and withdrawals- Payments and withdrawals can only be made via PayPal or by providing bank account details. The minimum amounts that may be withdrawn from the Legal Consultant’s account is A 200 USD. Exchange rates as well as bank charges apply and shall be borne by the Legal Consultant.
9- Usage instructions and restrictions
The platform may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (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.
By using this platform, you specifically agree and confirm that you will not do anything to harm TLR or third parties, including, but not limited to, the following actions (not exhaustive):
- Abuse, harass, threaten, stalk, defame or otherwise seek to violate the rights of another user or third party. For this purpose, TLR reserves the right to filter these messages and to contact the sender directly.
- Publish or seek to distribute any material or information that is unlawful, harmful, obscene, indecent, libelous, profane, defamatory, racist, or in any other way inappropriate or objectionable;
- Use or harvest data provided by other TLR users in a way that they would object to;
- Encourage illegal activity or activity that violates the rights of other users or third parties, whether individuals or organizations;
- To transmit or transfer any viruses, trojans, worms or any other malicious programs or code intended to spy on, gain control over, disrupt, destroy or in any other way impair any computer hardware or software or any other equipment;
- Attempt to gain access to the TLR servers or other equipment in order to disrupt, impair, overload or otherwise hinder or compromise the safety, security or privacy of any of the TLR services or other services provided by or relied upon by users and TLR;
- Send junk or spam email or emails or posts promoting pyramid schemes, chain letters or any other activity that invites users and others to participate in wasting their time and/or money; and
- Use any robot, spider, scraper or other technical means to access the TLR services or any content on the TLR services.
TLR has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. TLR reserves the right to suspend and delete any account that does not comply with the above mentioned instructions.
10- Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services
https://www.thelegalrooms.com may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of TLR and TLR is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. TLR is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by TLR of the site or any association with its operators.
Certain services made available via https://www.thelegalrooms.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the https://www.thelegalrooms.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that TLR may share such information and data with any third party with whom TLR has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of https://www.thelegalrooms.com users and customers.
11- Support
For the use of the platform, TLR will provide reasonable support during normal business hours within 4 hours time. All support inquiries can be initiated via email and web support at info@thelegalrooms.com or via the chat box available on the website.
12- Licence to use website
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use https://www.thelegalrooms.com strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to TLR that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.
All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of TLR or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, 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. TLR content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular 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 express written permission of TLR and the copyright owner. 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 TLR or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
13- Intellectual Property
By accessing https://www.thelegalrooms.com, you agree to obey the law and you agree to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the website is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright, trademark and other intellectual property ownership. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit or otherwise distribute any information or content in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third party rights caused by any content you provide or transmit or that is provided or transmitted using your TLR account.
TLR retain all right, title and interest in and to its products and services, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, service marks, copyrights, photographs, videos, music, and all related intellectual property rights. Except as otherwise provided in this agreement, you may not, and may not permit others to: (i) reproduce, modify, translate, enhance, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or create derivative works of any of our products and services; (ii) sell, license, sublicense, rent, lease, distribute, copy, publicly display, publish, adapt or edit any of our products and services; or (iii) circumvent or disable any security or technological features of our products and services.
14- Unlawful Diversion
It is strictly prohibited to communicate email addresses, phone numbers and any other information aimed at diverting Clients or legal counsels from the platform. Any attempt to divert Clients or legal counsels will be subject to a 10,000 (ten thousand) USD penalty and permanent suspension of the account.
15- Liability
By accepting these Terms of Use, Legal Consultants acknowledge and agree that they are qualified to practice law or qualified to provide legal counseling to Clients in accordance with the laws and regulations of their local country.
Legal Consultants are solely responsible for the management of their activity, including without limitation: updating their profile, managing their schedules.
Legal consultants are solely responsible for the services they provide, including without limitation the drafting of an agreement, consultation or review of a document etc. In no event shall TLR be liable for such content.
Legal Consultants are solely responsible for their registration and are liable for any legal consequences that may arise from it, such as, without limitation, any exclusivity clause binding them to a third party.
TLR makes best effort to control the quality and truthfulness of the information related to qualifications but can in no way guarantee them.
Under no circumstances shall legal counsel be considered an employee of TLR. Legal counsel acknowledges and agrees that legal counsel is solely responsible for the manner and form by which legal counsel performs their services. Legal counsel is responsible for the withholding and payment of all taxes and other assessments arising out of their performance of services.
Clients are solely responsible for the choice of legal counsels, services, and use of legal information.
TLR is not the publisher or author of the Clients and legal counsels content. TLR takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content sent or posted by them or any third party.
16- Liability Disclaimer:
TLR does not warrant that:
your use of the platform will be uninterrupted or error-free and you acknowledge that platform may be interrupted by planned or unplanned maintenance. We are not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or any other loss or damage resulting from the transfer of data over communications networks and facilities, including the internet, and you acknowledge that the platform may be subject to limitations, delays and other problems inherent in the use of such communications facilities. The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. TLR and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the site at any time.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall TLR and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the site, with the delay or inability to use the site or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if TLR or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the site, or with any of these Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site.
By using https://www.thelegalrooms.com, you acknowledge and agree that internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send using https://www.thelegalrooms.com may be read or intercepted by others.
You must treat your credential information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party unless authorised to do so by us. In the case of loss, theft or fraudulent or non-authorised use of any user IDs and/or passwords, you shall immediately notify us. We have the right to disable any user account or password, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the platform. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the platform through your internet connection are aware of these Terms, and that they comply with them.
17- Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless TLR, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the platform or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. TLR reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with TLR in asserting any available defence.
18- Class Action Waiver
Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN EACH'S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/ OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless both you and TLR agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.
19- Confidentiality and Data Privacy
For confidentiality and data privacy, please see TLR's privacy policy.
20- Termination/Access Restriction
TLR reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the platform and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and TLR as a result of this agreement or use of the platfomr. TLR’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of TLR's right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the platform or information provided to or gathered by TLR with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and TLR with respect to the platform and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and TLR with respect to the platform. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.
21- International Users
The platform is controlled, operated and administered by TLR from our offices within the UAE. If you access the platform from a location outside the UAE, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the TLR Content accessed through https://www.thelegalrooms.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.
22- Electronic Communications
Visiting https://www.thelegalrooms.com or sending emails to TLR constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
23- Changes to Terms
TLR reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which https://www.thelegalrooms.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. TLR encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
24- Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
This Agreement is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Arab Emirates. You and TLR agree that we will attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute or claim arising out of or in relation to this Agreement through negotiations between a representative of each of the parties with authority to settle the relevant dispute. If the dispute cannot be settled amicably within fourteen (14) days from the date on which either Party has served written notice on the other of the dispute then the remaining provisions of this arbitration clause shall apply. Any dispute, conflict, claim or controversy arising out of or broadly in connection with or relating to the Services, or this Agreement, including those relating to its validity, its construction or its enforceability (any "Dispute”) shall be exclusively and finally resolved by arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC Arbitration Rules”). The Dispute shall be resolved by one (1) arbitrator to be appointed in accordance with the ICC Arbitration Rules. The place of arbitration shall be Dubai, UAE. The language of arbitration shall be English. The existence and content of the arbitration proceedings, including documents and briefs submitted by the Parties, correspondence from and to the International Chamber of Commerce, correspondence from the arbitrator, and correspondence, orders and awards issued by the sole arbitrator, shall remain strictly confidential and shall not be disclosed to any third party without the express written consent from the other party unless: (i) the disclosure to the third party is reasonably required in the context of conducting the arbitration proceedings; and (ii) the third party agrees unconditionally in writing to be bound by the confidentiality obligation stipulated herein.
25- Contact Us
TLR welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms on info@thelegalrooms.com
