Introduction
By accessing this website you agree to be bound by these Conditions of Use. If you do not agree, please leave the site immediately.
Content
The information and expression of opinions contained in this website are provided for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice. If specific legal advice is required, please contact the appropriate BTO practitioner for that legal area. BTO accepts no responsibility for any loss or liability which may arise from reliance on information or expressions of opinion that are contained in this site.
BTO is providing this site on an “as is” basis and makes no representations, warranties or undertakings of any kind with respect to this site or any content (including, without limitation, any as to the quality, accuracy, completeness or fitness for any particular purpose of such content).
Computer Viruses
BTO uses appropriate technical measures and will use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that neither the site nor its contents contain or assist the dissemination of viruses or malicious code. BTO recommends that you virus check all materials downloaded from the site before using them.
You are also advised regularly to check your computer for the presence of viruses and malicious code. BTO excludes, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all liability (except liability for death or personal injury) for damage or loss caused by computer viruses or malicious code originating, or contracted, from this site or any third party sites.
Access to the Site
We will use reasonable efforts to make our site and its content available to users, however we do not warrant or represent that access to this site will be uninterrupted, reliable or fault free. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny users access to our site or any part of it without notice and to decline to provide the service to any user that is in breach of these conditions. To the fullest extent permitted by law BTO shall not be liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this site, the information in it or the unavailability of the site or its content.
Alterations
BTO reserves the right at any time without notice to revise the contents of this site including these Conditions. Any changes to these Conditions will be posted on this site and by continuing to use this site following any such change you will signify that you agree to be bound by the revised Conditions.
Ownership and Intellectual Property
The intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright and database rights) in this site are owned by, licensed or authorised to BTO, its assignees, licensees or sub-licensees thereof and the copyright in the text, artwork, graphics and images on the Web Site is owned by BTO or its licensors or its content or technology providers except where otherwise specified. Nothing in these terms and conditions transfers to you any rights of ownership of such intellectual property rights, or constitutes a licence to use such intellectual property rights other than to the extent expressly set out in these terms and conditions.
You may download to a local hard disk and print extracts from this web site for your personal use. You may also recopy downloaded extracts to others provided you do not do so for profit. However, reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited unless for personal use. None of the content of this web site may be copied or otherwise incorporated into or stored in any other web site, electronic retrieval system, publication or other work in any form (whether hard copy, electronic or other). You may not modify, distribute or reproduce the contents of this website in any manner and for any other use without the prior written consent of BTO.
You may not remove any product identification, copyright notices or other notices from BTO’s materials or copies of BTO’s materials on this site which you may have made or printed for your own personal use.For the avoidance of doubt, framing of this site or any part of it is not permitted without express permission. Notwithstanding the above, caching of this site is permitted by an information service provider acting in the normal course of its business as provided for in the Electronic Commerce ( EC Directive) Regulations 2002.
Any third-party product or company names and devices, logos, icons, graphics or designs referred to on the pages of the site are the trade marks of their respective owners and are exhibited only in such a manner as is intended to be for the benefit of such trade mark owners and BTO intends no infringement of such marks.
The appearance or absence of product, services, companies, organisations, home pages or other websites on the Site does not imply the endorsement, or non-endorsement, thereof by BTO. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by BTO.
Links
You are not allowed to make links to the BTO website without our prior written consent. The BTO website contains links to other websites. BTO has no control over the content of other non- BTO web sites. Whilst BTO may believe such sites to be useful to you or of interest to you, BTO makes no warranties, representations or undertakings about any content of any other web site referred to or accessed by hypertext link through this web site (“3rd party site”). BTO does not endorse or approve the content of any 3rd party site, nor will BTO have any liability in connection with any of them (including, but not limited to, liability arising out of any allegation that the content of any 3rd party site infringes any law or the rights of any person or entity.
Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland. No contract is intended to be formed by your use of this site and you agree any such formation of contract will not occur without the written consent of BTO. You hereby agree that in any contract that is formed by your use of this site the place of performance will be Scotland.
The Scottish courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any dispute relating to your access to and use of the site including any contract arising therefrom. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you are accessing the site.
Severability
If any Court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these terms to be void or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of the Court’s finding without in any way affecting the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and do hereby indemnify BTO against all costs, expenses (which shall include but not be limited to reasonable legal costs and outlays), losses and damages arising from or incurred as a consequence of any claims or demands arising from or flowing from your breach of these terms.
Regulatory Information
BTO Solicitors LLP is a law firm practicing in Scotland
48 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5HS
Telephone: +44 (0)141 221 8012
Email: lawyers@bto.co.uk
VAT Registration Number: 260 3714 82
Also at: One Edinburgh Quay, Edinburgh, EH3 9QG
Telephone: +44 (0)131 222 2939
BTO is regulated by the Law Society of Scotland. All solicitors are subject to rules and principles of professional conduct.
Contact
If you have any queries about BTO’s website please email lawyers@bto.co.uk or telephone +44 (0)141 221 8012.