Portal Terms and Conditions

What's in these terms

These terms tell you the rules for using Harper James’ portal (our portal).

By using our portal you accept these terms

By using our portal, you confirm that you accept these terms of service and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our portal.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our portal:

Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our portal.

Variation of terms

We may update and change our portal and/or these terms from time to time. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms of Use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our website.

We may suspend or withdraw our portal

Our portal is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our portal, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our portal for business and operational reasons, including at the end of a trial period. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our portal through your internet connection are aware of these terms of service and other applicable terms of service, and that they comply with them.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of service.

If you know or suspect that anyone (other than you) knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify your Account Manager.

How you may use material on our portal

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our portal, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may only use any part of the content on our portal in the context of our relationship of solicitor and client.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our portal in breach of these terms of service, your right to use our portal will cease immediately and you must destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these terms).

Authorising others to access our portal

If we authorise you to give access to the portal to additional users from your business, you are responsible for ensuring that those users:

• use the portal in accordance with these terms and conditions; and
• are given appropriate access rights.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our portal or any services provided via, or in relation to, our portal for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our portal or any data, content, information or services accessed via our portal.
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

You shall not use, and we do not consent to the use of, our portal, or any data published by, or contained in, or accessible via, our portal or any services provided via, or in relation to, our portal for the purposes of developing, training, fine-tuning or validating any AI system or model or for any other purposes not explicitly approved by us in writing in advance.

This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

Our portal, its content and any services provided in relation to the same is only targeted to, and intended for use by, our clients.  By continuing to access, view or make use of our portal and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are a client of Harper James.  If you are not a client of Harper James, you must immediately discontinue use of our portal and any related content and services.

Rules about linking to our portal

You must not establish a link between our portal and any website

Clarification in relation to the information on this portal

We aim to provide accurate and complete matter data to you via our portal and to provide it in ‘real time’.  However, we do reserve the right to update that information if we discover errors in it or if there has been a delay in uploading information. 

Our newsletters and other legal resources are provided for general information only.  They are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You should engage with our solicitors before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of content in our newsletters and other legal resources.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our portal contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

We are not responsible for viruses

We do not guarantee that our portal will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our portal. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not introduce viruses

You must not misuse our portal by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our portal or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our portal, the server on which our portal is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our portal, or any other equipment or network connected with our portal. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our portal or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this portal relies in any way. You must not attack our portal via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our portal will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of our services to you, which will be set out in the Terms of Business applicable to you at https://harperjames.co.uk/help/terms/.

Our portal is only for business clients of Harper James:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our portal or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
  • use of, or inability to use, our portal; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our portal without appropriate discussion with the applicable solicitor(s).
• In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

Which country's laws apply to a dispute

These terms of service, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.