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Welcome to the legal services search and advertising system lawgates.legal. By using the system lawgates.legal you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the provisions of these rules. The system is being constantly improved, upgraded and updated with new features and services; therefore, these rules are being updated accordingly. If you have any questions regarding the content of these rules, you can contact us by E-mail info@lawgates.legal.

 

General Provisions

  1. This document is an agreement (hereinafter – the Agreement) between lawgates.legal (hereinafter – the Service Provider) and you (hereinafter – the User, Registered User, Attorney/Lawyer) regarding the use of the system lawgates.legal.
  2. Definitions used in the present document:

2.1. System – legal services search and advertising website TeisėsVartai.lt (website address lawgates.legal).

2.2. Services of the Attorney/Lawyer – activities of an Attorney/Lawyer (e.g. provision of legal services, representation, consultancy, preparation of documents of legal significance, organisation, and other services), which the Attorney/Lawyer can provide for a person for remuneration.

2.3. Person – a individual person or company (representative of a company: owner, shareholder, director or any other person authorised by the company).

2.4. User – a person who has not registered on the System but has a right to review the information on the System.

2.5. Registered User – individual person or company registered on the System and having a right to review the information on the System, to make enquiries regarding the provision of legal services, and to receive replies from Attorneys/Lawyers as well as having the right to select a specific Attorney/Lawyer.

2.6. Attorney – a member of the specific country Bar Association (individual person) who has registered on the System and created an Attorney’s account on the System (Attorneys represent the clients’ interests in courts, advise on various judicial matters, provide legal services. Attorney must have a valid attorney certificate which he/she will provide to the person selecting him/her or/and must be registered as a member of the specific country Bar Association).

2.7. Lawyer – a natural person who has registered on the System, has higher legal education, and has created a Lawyer’s account on the System (A lawyer advises on various judicial matters, prepares documents of legal significance and etc.).

2.8. Attorney’s/Lawyer’s Account – an account created on the System by an Attorney/Lawyer for the search of Potential Clients, the provision of legal services or the advertisement of the services.

2.9. Message – a personal text message sent to an Attorney/Lawyer or Registered User via the System’s Message Management Tool.

2.10. Services – legal services search and advertising services provided by lawgates.legal.

  1. By using the System you confirm that you have read the terms of this Agreement and the rules (hereinafter – the Rules), agree to the Rules, and undertake to abide by them. The use of the System, within the meaning of these Rules, shall include performing any and all actions that you may make when you connect to the System through an Internet connection. When using the System in any way and form you unconditionally and irrevocably undertake to comply with, and be bound by all of the requirements set out in these Rules. If you do not agree to undertake and comply with all the obligations under these Rules unconditionally and irrevocably, you are not entitled to use the System.
  2. Under no circumstances may the information provided on the System be considered as an advice of lawgates.legal or a requirement to purchase legal services from an Attorney/Lawyer or to provide legal services to a Registered User.
  3. lawgates.legal shall have the right to change the Rules unilaterally at any time by notifying the users on the System itself. The revised Rules shall be binding from the date of notification of their change, i.e. from the publication of the new version of the Rules on the System.
  4. lawgates.legal shall unilaterally establish, modify and restrict the registration of persons, the rules, conditions and procedure for using the System.
  5. If any provision of these Rules is contrary to the laws or, for any reason, becomes partially or completely invalid, it shall not invalidate any remaining provisions of the Rules.

Services Provided and their Use

  1. The System provides legal services search, search for potential clients of Attorneys/Lawyers, advertising and related services.
  2. The use of the Services of the System means consent to receive various information notifications about the activities of lawgates.legal – by E-mail, newsletter, SMS, or other means.
  3. lawgates.legal shall not be liable if an Attorney/Lawyer fails to make offers to Registered Users (responses to the enquiries of the Registered Users) or provides inadequate or poor quality legal services. In addition, lawgates.legal shall not be responsible for the information provided to the Attorneys/Lawyers in the enquires of the Registered Users or for the actions or inactions of the Registered Users and Attorneys/Lawyers with respect to one another. This System is designed only for the search of legal services and/or potential clients of the Attorneys/Lawyers. Any mutual relationships between the Attorney/Lawyer and the Registered User as well as the risks are the matter of the Attorney/Lawyer and the Registered User.
  4. lawgates.legal shall not be liable for any interruption in the provision of the Services on the System, such as the provision of an Internet connection or any kind of cyber-piracy or damage caused by viruses.
  5. The Attorney/Lawyer and the Registered User undertake to use all the Services provided by the System without prejudice to the terms and conditions of use of this System – the Rules, to fair competition and requirements established in the legislation applicable in the European Union.
  6. The User of the System, the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer undertake to refrain from any activities that may result in the interruption to the provision of all the Services, not to collect, store, transfer to any other media, make publicly available, publish or distribute the data of the Registered Users of the System and the Attorneys/Lawyers or the data on any actions of the Registered Users of the System and the Attorneys/Lawyers, including details of services offered and/or searched, their prices, service visuals, etc.

Rights and Obligations of a Registered User

  1. Using any Service the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer confirm that he/she:

14.1. is over 18 years of age, is a capable individual person with all authorisations and rights to conclude and execute transactions offered on the System;

14.2. will properly fulfil his/her obligations specified in these Rules;

14.3. is aware of and agrees that after the Registered User and/or the Attorney/Lawyer agrees to these Rules, only such legal relations shall be created between the Registered User and/or the Attorney/Lawyer as well as lawgates.legal which are directly and expressly stipulated by these Rules;

14.4. is aware of and agrees that in case the user name and password of the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer, which are required in order to use the System, become available to any third parties, such third parties may undertake obligations which will become binding to the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer, and shall oblige him/her to undertake such obligations and properly fulfil them, and lawgates.legal shall have no obligation to verify the identity of the Registered User, Attorney/Lawyer by any means other than verifying the name and password of the Registered User, Attorney/ Lawyer;

14.5. is aware of and agrees that lawgates.legal will process and manage the data of the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer in accordance with the legislation of the European Union as well as the Rules and the provisions of the Privacy Policy.

14.6. when making enquiries/responding to enquiries he/she shall:

14.6.1. use the English alphabet;

14.6.2. write in coherent and clear sentences;

  1. The Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer shall be obliged:

15.1. to provide correct and complete personal information:

  • The Registered User undertakes to provide actual name and surname, E-mail address and telephone number, and when making an enquiry for the Attorney/Lawyer – a realistic, correct and complete description of the legal issue, the expiration date of the enquiry, the city, country, legal field, the expected response date.
  • The Attorney/Lawyer undertakes to provide correct and complete personal information: actual name and surname, E-mail address and telephone number, name of the firm/organisation he/she is representing, legal field, city, country, and when responding to the enquiries of the Registered User – the price of the offer.
  • In case a legal entity is being registered: the name of the legal entity, code of the legal entity, code of an Individual Activity Certificate, VAT payer’s code, address for correspondence (if such address is different from the registered address);

In case of violation of the condition provided in clause 15, the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer shall be notified by lawgates.legal, and if the violation is not rectified within the specified time, the information uploaded by such Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer to the System and the content created shall be removed from the System.

15.2. to keep the login password of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer (if such has been provided to the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer) in a way that it does not become available to third parties, except for the persons the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer has authorised to represent him/her using the System;

15.3. to immediately notify lawgates.legal of any changes in the information provided by the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer (especially provided during the registration on the System) and/or data on the System;

15.4. to immediately notify lawgates.legal by E-mail info@lawgates.legal in case the system login details of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer have been lost or became available to any third parties.

When creating an account for a legal entity, the conditions established in clauses 15.1-15.3 shall also apply. Therefore, the name, surname and contact details of the natural person representing the legal entity shall be indicated in such an account.

Rights and Obligations of an Attorney/Lawyer

  1. The Attorney/Lawyer confirms that he/she understands that when providing legal services to individuals, the Attorney/Lawyer has an obligation to pay taxes to the State for the activities they carry out independently.

 

  1. The Attorney/Lawyer shall be obliged:

17.1. to comply with all the obligations of the Registered User specified in clauses 14-15;

17.2. when providing services through a legal entity, the Attorney/Lawyer shall be obliged, upon the registration on the System, to indicate the name of the firm/organisation he/she is representing;

17.3. the Attorney/Lawyer shall not register on the System more than once. The Attorney/Lawyer who violates this condition shall be blocked, and the Personal Pages created by him/her shall be deleted from the System;

17.4. to ensure that the offered legal services or the information and data provided by the Attorney/Lawyer on the System, including e-mails and etc. (hereinafter – the Information of the Attorney/Lawyer):

17.4.1. is not misleading or incorrect. N.B. lawgates.legal assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the information and data provided by Attorneys/Lawyers, this responsibility lies with the Attorneys/Lawyers themselves or those who have been falsely registered as Attorneys/Lawyers. It is possible to check whether the person is an attorney on the specific country Bar Association;

17.4.2. does not offer services which are contrary to the legislation of the European Union;

17.4.3. does not infringe property or personal rights of any third party (including intellectual property rights);

17.4.4. does not violate the requirements of the legislation (including the legislation regulating the consumer protection or competition);

17.4.5. is not contrary to public order and good morals;

17.4.6. has no viruses or other computer programs or files that may interfere with the normal operation of the System and/or provision of the Services, may be copied to the computer of another User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer and thus cause harm to another User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer or their property, to interfere with the use of the System, Services and/or computer by another User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer;

17.4.7. does not promote or publish information that mentions any third parties directly or indirectly competing with lawgates.legal or the services and/or goods of such persons as well as references to such persons, services and/or products;

17.5. to provide objective, correct, comprehensive and complete information about the offered services of the Attorney/Lawyer when using the System; i.e. the information must properly describe the services offered. In addition, the Attorney/Lawyer confirms that he/she meets the definitions provided in clause 2.6. or 2.7. of the Rules and is authorised to provide legal services.

  1. The Attorney/Lawyer shall have the right to:

18.1. remove the account (deleting the account will permanently delete all member information in the account of the Attorney/Lawyer and such information cannot be restored).

Rights and Obligations of the Service Provider

  1. The Service Provider shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to restrict or terminate the right or access of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer to the System at any time, including alteration, deletion of any information provided by the User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer on the System, removal of the account of the Attorney/Lawyer or the Registered User, and prohibition for the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer to re-register on the System, in case a Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer:

19.1. breaches these Rules or fails to fulfil his/her obligations stipulated in these Rules;

19.2. provides incorrect, incomplete and/or misleading information when registering or using the System;

19.3. intentionally and knowingly disseminates fraudulent or incorrect information on the System, insults other persons or otherwise, in the opinion of lawgates.legal, behaves inappropriately.

  1. The Service Provider shall have the right (though not an obligation) to monitor the actions of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer on the System at any time. The Service Provider shall have the right to investigate all violations of the Rules using legal means.
  2. The Service Provider shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to remove any information provided by a Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer from the System at any time, in case the Service Provider considers that it violates these Rules, applicable legislation or is contrary to good morals.
  3. The Service Provider undertakes not to use the information of a Registered User and/or Attorney/Lawyer, provided in enquiries regarding the provision of legal services and in replies to the enquiries (i.e. names and descriptions of legal issues of the Registered Users – enquiries, replies of Attorneys/Lawyers to the enquiries of the Registered Users, prices of the offers and comments), in promotional material of lawgates.legal or other sources as well as not to disclose any personal information provided by the Registered User on lawgates.legal System to any third parties. The purpose of lawgates.legal is to enable Registered Users to find suitable legal services that meet their expectations, and to enable Attorneys/Lawyers to find potential clients; therefore, any information of a Registered User and/or Attorney/Lawyer provided in the enquiries regarding the provision of legal services and in replies to the enquiries is solely a matter of the Registered User and/or Attorney/Lawyer, for which lawgates.legal assumes no responsibility.
  4. The Service Provider shall have the right to use the information of an Attorney/Lawyer (i.e. name, surname of an Attorney, represented firm, address, phone number and e-mail address of the firm) in any promotional material of the System lawgates.legal only with the express and additional written consent of the Attorney/Lawyer, e.g.: on social networks, newspapers/magazines, other websites, banners, and etc. The aforementioned information of an Attorney/Lawyer shall be used solely for the purpose of promoting and publicising the System lawgates.legal and the services of its members.
  5. The Service Provider shall have the right at its sole discretion at any time:

24.1. to modify or rearrange the information of a Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer provided on the System in order to make the System more user-friendly;

24.2. to terminate the activities of the System without prior notice to the User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer.

Services of the System

  1. Any Attorney or Lawyer who provides legal services that are not in conflict with the legislation of the European Union may register on the System lawgates.legal and provide respective services in a certain territory.
  2. Registration and the services of the search for services are provided on the System free of charge.
  3. The service of the System – the enquiry function of a Registered User (“Find an Attorney/Lawyer”) – is designed to make it easy and quick for individuals to find Attorneys/Lawyers providing specific legal services in a particular city. Once the Attorneys/Lawyers receive such an enquiry with a description of a legal issue from the Registered User, they respond to it and provide their offers (price of the services, comments). The Registered User selects the offer of the Attorney/Lawyer which best meets his/her expectations (according to the price of the services, city, country and etc.). lawgates.legal is not liable for and assumes no responsibility for the results of the searches for legal services; i.e. once the Registered User selects and confirms the specific Attorney/Lawyer for the solution of his/her legal issue, further relations between the Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer (availability, communication, provision/payment of the services, etc.) are purely their own matter, and depend solely upon the Registered User and the selected Attorney/Lawyer. lawgates.legal assumes no responsibility in case the Registered User and/or the Attorney/Lawyer fails to find any necessary information (legal services, clients, etc.) when using the System.
  4. Registered Users shall be prohibited from sending messages of promotional content to Attorneys/Lawyers through the enquiry function and offering to purchase goods/services not related to the search for legal services. The enquiry function is designed only for the search of services provided by Attorneys/Lawyers. When replying to the enquiries of the Registered Users, the Attorneys/Lawyers shall be prohibited from sending messages of promotional content to Registered Users which are not related to the legal services they provide and from offering to purchase goods/services not related to the services their provide. Advertising or offering to buy anything without the prior consent of the person is strictly prohibited. In case the Users, Registered Users or Attorneys/Lawyers send messages of promotional content, the Service Provider shall have the right to remove such person from the System lawgates.legal, and to forward all information about the person and his/her offenses to the competent law enforcement authorities for investigation.

Consequences for Violating the Rules

  1. Information of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer provided on the website which is misleading, does not correspond to the reality and does not comply with the indicated instructions for the provision of information as well as to these Rules or the legislation of the European Union may be blocked by the Service Provider; knowingly incorrect information may be edited by the Service Provider.
  2. The Service Provider may, without a separate notice, edit the account of an Attorney/Lawyer in case the Attorney/Lawyer provides additional information that is different from or does not match the previously provided information.
  3. The Service Provider reserves the right to terminate the access of the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer to the System or the use of services it provides for the violation of the Rules or legislation at any time without prior notice.

Provision of Personal Data

  1. Personal data of the Users, Registered Users and Attorneys/Lawyers shall be collected, provided and processed in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of the European Union and in compliance with the provisions of the Privacy Policy of lawgates.legal.

Intellectual Property

  1. The Service Provider owns all rights to the content of the System and has the exclusive right to use it.
  2. All trademarks, designs, names, logos, etc. which are provided and referenced or described on the System, are the property of the Service Provider and only the Service Provider is entitled to use them.
  3. Trademarks and logos contained on the System may not be reproduced, published or distributed without the prior written consent of their owners.
  4. Any processing, copying and/or other use of the content and design of the System by the Users, Registered Users, Attorneys/Lawyers or third parties without the written permission of the Service Provider and/or in violation of the Rules constitutes a violation of copyright, related rights and other rights, the liability for which is governed by the legislation applicable the European Union.
  5. The Registered User and the Attorney/Lawyer agree that the publications and other information provided by the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer, including any intellectual property, shall become a part of the System Database, and shall be stored and used by the Service Provider and his authorised persons in accordance with the law. When using information about the Registered Users, Attorneys/Lawyers and any third parties and/or the published information about them, the Service Provider shall not be obliged to pay the Registered User or the Attorney/Lawyer any royalties or other remuneration for the use of such information.
  6. Attorneys/Lawyers shall provide only such material on the System, to which they hold the copyright or the material to which they have otherwise obtained such right. The Attorney/Lawyer providing the material, when such material is provided, shall be deemed to have given the consent to the Service Provider to store, distribute and publish such material electronically or otherwise.

Liability

  1. The User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer agree that the Service Provider is not and shall not be liable for any malfunction of the System and/or Services and the consequent loss or damage to the User, Registered User, Attorney/Lawyer or third parties.
  2. The Service Provider is not and shall not be liable for the quality of the legal services which the Registered Users will find and which will be provided to the Registered Users using the System.
  3. The User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer are aware of and agree that the System and/or Services are provided without any additional representations or warranties from the Service Provider that the System will operate and the Services will be provided in a proper and timely manner, without interruption, of high quality and intended scope or that it will have no adverse consequences for the User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer or third parties. The Service Provider is not and shall not be liable for the unlawfulness, inconsistency, inaccuracy or falsehood of the information contained on the System (except for information provided by the Service Provider itself) and any resulting adverse consequences to the User, Registered User, Attorney/Lawyer or third parties.
  4. The Service Provider shall not be liable for any loss and/or damage which the User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer may incur when using the System and/or Services as well as when sending, publishing or otherwise transmitting any information or making it publicly available.
  5. The User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer are aware of and agree that the Service Provider, in the light of these Rules, shall never, for any reason whatsoever, be responsible for any and all acts or omissions in relation to the use of the System and/or Services by the User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer as well compliance with these Rules.
  6. The User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer shall assume all liability for any kind of damages or losses which they or third parties may incur in any way whatsoever in connection with the use of the System or Services or information contained therein by the User, Registered User and Attorney/Lawyer.
  7. The User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer shall be obliged to ensure that the Service Provider shall never have any legal liability, obligation to pay, indemnify or otherwise compensate for any loss, damage or other expenses incurred as a result of the use of the System and/or Services by the User, Registered User or Attorney/Lawyer.

Legal Disputes

The Service Provider shall carry out its activities in accordance with the legislation applicable in the Republic of Lithuania and the procedures established therein. Any disputes arising will be resolved in accordance with the procedure established by the legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania and in the court of the Republic of Lithuania according to the location of the registered office of the Service Provider.


 

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