PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR WEBSITE AND/OR THE LITIGATION MARKETPLACE
This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the content standards that apply when you upload content to our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace, make contact with other users on our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace, link to our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace, or interact with our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace in any other way.
www.fundinglinks.net is a site operated by LF Links Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 14052211 and have our registered office at Kemp House, 160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX To contact us, please email info@fundinglinks.net.
By using our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace, you confirm that you accept the terms of this policy and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our website and/or the Litigation Marketplace. We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
You agree that all the policies (including this Acceptable Use Policy) are fully incorporated into the Agreement with us as if they were set out in full here and you shall abide by the obligations set out in all the policies which can be found in the case of privacy policy, terms and conditions of use, Litigation Marketplace access request https://fundinglinks.net/terms-and-conditions.html and in the case of Pricing Policy to be provided to the Fee Paying Customers separately. We may make changes to the terms of this policy We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
You may not use our website and/or Litigation Marketplace:
• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply our content standards set out below.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our website and/or Litigation Marketplace in contravention of the provisions of our terms of website use.
• Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• any part of our website and/or Litigation Marketplace;
• any equipment or network on which our website and/or Litigation Marketplace is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our website and/or Litigation Marketplace; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
We may from time to time provide chat services on our website and/or Litigation Marketplace. We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our website and/or Litigation Marketplace, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our website and/or Litigation Marketplace, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not. Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise. We do not store terrorist content.
These content standards apply to any and all material which you upload and/or provide to our website and/or Litigation Marketplace (Contribution), and to any interactive services associated with it. The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole. LF Links will determine, in its discretion, whether a Contribution breaches the Content Standards. A Contribution must:
• Be accurate (where it states facts).
• Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).
• Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.
A Contribution must not:
• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Promote any illegal content or activity.
• Be in contempt of court.
• Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
When we consider that a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of our agreement with you upon which you are permitted to use our website and/or Litigation Marketplace, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Contribution uploaded by you to our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.
We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
The rights of the Customers shall be determined by reference to the category of a Customer. The representatives of legal profession (“Legal advisors”) shall be only allowed to have access to Litigation Marketplace so that they can input information relation to the Qualifying Case (as defined below), view profiles of funders/after the event insurance providers/brokers; track progress of the Qualifying case, communicate with potential funders/after the event insurance providers/brokers; select from the pool of available potential funders/after the event insurance providers/brokers and grant access to the Qualifying case to potential funders/after the event insurance providers/brokers. Each Permitted Customer shall be able to amend and submit application to secure funding and/or after the event insurance. The representatives of funders and after the event insurance providers/brokers shall be only allowed to have access to Litigation Marketplace so that they can review information provided by the Legal Advisors or individual claimants in relation to the Qualifying Case, request granting access to any Qualifying Case, communicate with Legal Advisors of individual claimants, mark the Qualifying Case as “approved” or “Declined”.
You - the Customer acknowledge and agree to:
• Provide accurate, up-to-date and truthful information to other Customer(s);
• Use the information provided to you by other Customer(s) only for the purpose for which it was made available to you;
• Ensure confidentiality of information provided to you by other Customer(s); and
• Disclose to other Customer(s) any actual or potential conflict of interest as soon as reasonably practicable.
You agree to:
• Provide to us any and all information relating to a case for which the funding and/or after the event insurance was sought/secured/provided using our website and/or Litigation Marketplace (the “Qualifying Case”);
• Provide to us progress update as requested by us in relation to the Qualifying Case;
• Provide to us update and or information in relation to the resolution of the Qualifying Case (whether through court or out of court settlement);
• Provide to us information in relation to the amount awarded by court or the settlement amount agreed (whichever is applicable) in relation to the Qualifying Case;
• Disclose information in relation to the Qualifying Case to any of our successors and assignees as directed by us;
• Emit any payment due to us in relation to the Qualifying Case to any of our successors and assignees as directed by us;
• Furnish any third party with the necessary information relating to the Qualifying Case where there is an assignment or sale of our right to receive payment in relation to the Qualifying Case to that party;
• Be disconnected from using our Litigation Marketplace (with no liability accruing to us) if you withhold information in relation to the amount due to us in relation to the Qualifying Case and/or withhold the payment due to us in relation to the Qualifying Case; and
• Provide confidential feedback to us in relation to other Customer(s) as requested by us from time to time. The feedback provided by you will be used solely for the purposes of statistical analysis.