These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) are between you and The Law Offices of Hector Vega and its corporate affiliates (collectively “the Company”), for the use of the website and other related sites owned and operated by the Company (collectively referred to as “the Sites”). The terms and conditions set forth in these Terms of Use, as well as our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the Company, by and on behalf of its subsidiaries and affiliates, and users and members of the Sites. By using the Sites, you signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms of Use on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the Terms of Use’s effective date. Your continued use of Sites after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms of Use, please do not use or access Sites. It is your responsibility to regularly review these Terms of Use.YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE TO USE THIS WEBSITE.You agree to use the Sites only for purposes that are permitted by these terms and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries). Subject to your performance of all of the provisions of these Terms of Use, the Company hereby grants you a limited, terminable, non-transferable, personal, non-exclusive license to access and use the Sites and the Services solely as provided herein. You may download material displayed on the Sites for non-commercial, personal use only, provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, broadcast, publicly perform, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Sites for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without the Company’s prior written permission. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all rights not specifically granted in the license set forth above shall be reserved and remain always with the Company. Your right to use the Sites is not transferable. You acquire no rights or licenses in or to the Sites and materials contained therein other than the limited right to access and utilize the Sites in accordance with these Terms of Use.

User Representations and Warranties

By using the Sites, you represent, warrant and covenant that you: (i) have the power and authority to enter into and be bound by the Terms of Use; (ii) shall not use any rights granted hereunder for any unlawful purpose; (iii) shall use the Sites only as set forth in these Terms of Use; and (iv) are thirteen years of age or older. If you are under the age of 13, you are not allowed to use the Sites.

You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the services available on the Sites (the “Services”) by any means other than through the interface that we provide, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with us. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including, without limitation, use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge that the Sites have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected and arranged by the Company and others through the expenditure of substantial time, effort and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property and trade secrets of the Company and others. It is our policy to enforce our intellectual property rights to the fullest extent permitted under law. The trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Sites are the property of the Company or third parties and cannot be used without the written permission of the Company or the third party that owns the Marks. The Site is also protected as a collective work or compilation under U.S. copyright and other foreign and domestic laws and treaties. Users are prohibited from using (except as expressly set forth herein), transferring, disposing of, modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, broadcasting, publicly performing, displaying, publishing, selling, licensing, or creating derivative works of any content on the Sites for commercial or public purposes. Nothing contained herein shall be construed by implication, estoppel or otherwise as granting to the user an ownership interest in any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of the Company or any third party.

The Company exclusively owns all worldwide right, title and interest in and to all documentation, software, contents, graphics, designs, data, computer codes, ideas, know-how, “look and feel,” compilations, magnetic translations, digital conversions and other materials included within the Sites and related to the Sites and all modifications and derivative works thereof, and all intellectual property rights related thereto.

Copyright Infringement Policy

The Company respects the rights of all copyright holders and in this regard, the Company has adopted and implemented a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of users who infringe the rights of copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the Company’s Copyright Agent the following information: A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; a description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; a description of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. The Company’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: P.O. Box 2748, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; Attn: Copyright Agent. The Company will remove the infringing posting(s), subject to the procedures outlined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

User Conduct

You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Sites or the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).

Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with us, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.

Please note that at any time, we may, in our sole discretion, terminate our legal agreement with you and deny you use of our Services if:

(A) you have breached any provision of these terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of these terms); or

(B) we are required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of our services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or

(C) the partner with whom we offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with us or ceased to offer their services to you; or

(D) we are transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services; or

(E) the provision of the Services to you is, in our opinion, no longer commercially viable.

You further agree that your use of the Services shall be lawful and that you will comply with the usage rules. In furtherance of the foregoing, and as an example and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Service in order to:

• post, upload, transmit or otherwise disseminate information that is obscene, indecent, vulgar, pornographic, sexual, hateful or otherwise objectionable
• post spam links, and/or personal referral links in an aggressive, wanton, or otherwise inappropriate fashion both on or on any other public site on the web
• defame, libel, ridicule, mock, stalk, threaten, harass, intimidate or abuse anyone, hatefully, racially, ethnically or, in a reasonable person’s view, otherwise offensive or objectionable
• upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or transmit) files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files or data, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Service, other users’ computers, or the access to or functionality of the Sites
• violate the contractual, personal, intellectual property or other rights of any party including using, uploading, transmitting, distributing, or otherwise making available any information made available through the Service in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other right of any party (including rights of privacy or publicity)

Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability; Indemnification

You agree that your use of the Services shall be at your sole risk. Subject to your rights under any Consumer Law referred to below and to the maximum extent permitted by law and unless restricted or prohibited by law, the Company, its officers, managers, directors, employees, and agents disclaim all guarantees, warranties and conditions, express or implied, in connection with the Services, the Sites and your use thereof including implied guarantees or warranties of title, merchantability or acceptable quality, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, accuracy, authority, completeness, usefulness, and timeliness. Subject to you rights under any Consumer Law referred to below and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company makes no warranties, conditions or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the content of the Services of the content of any sites linked to the Services and assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content, (ii) personal injury (including death) or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the Services, (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein, (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the Services, (v) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through the Services by any third party, and/or (vi) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Services.

Subject to your rights under any Consumer Law referred to below and to the maximum extent permitted by law, and unless restricted or prohibited by law, in no event will the Company, its directors, managers, officers, agents, contractors, partners and employees, be liable to you or any third person for any special, direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages whatsoever including any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the Sites, the Services or other materials or content on, accessed through or downloaded from the Services, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including without limitation negligence), or any other legal theory, and whether or not the Company has been advised of the possibility of these damages. The foregoing limitation of liability shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction. You specifically acknowledge that the Company shall not be liable for user submissions or the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of any third party and that the risk of harm or damage from the foregoing rests entirely with you.

You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, and each of its directors, managers, officers, agents, contractors, partners and employees, harmless from and against any loss, liability, claim, action, cause of action, application, demand, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, arising out of or in connection with (i) your use of and access to the Sites and the Services; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Use; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; (iv) any claim that one of your user submissions caused damage to a third party; or (v) any content you post or share on or through the Service.

Applicable Law

By visiting or using the Service, you agree that the laws of the United States and the State of California, without regard to principles of conflict of laws and regardless of your location, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and the Company. Any claim or dispute between you and the Company that arises in whole or in part from your use of the Service shall be decided exclusively by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Los Angeles County, California, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to venue and jurisdiction in the state and federal courts of California. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND THE COMPANY AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE.

Consumer Laws

Despite any other provision of these Terms of Use, if any legislation affects your rights under these Terms of Use (a “Consumer Law”), then to the extent that any term or provision contained in these Terms of Use:

(A) becomes void or unenforceable for any reason; or

(B) would be unfair under the applicable consumer law if applied or relied upon in a particular way,

that term or provision will be severed such that all remaining terms and provisions of these Terms of Use will continue to be in full force and effect and be unaffected by the severance of any other term or provision.

No provision of these Terms of Use limits, excludes or modifies any right or remedy, or any guarantee, warranty or other term or condition implied or imposed by any Consumer Law which cannot lawfully be excluded, limited or modified.

No Waiver

The Company’s failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed to be a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms remain in full force and effect.

English Language

The parties hereto confirm that it is their wish that these Terms and Conditions, as well as all other documents relating hereto have been and shall be drawn up in the English language only.