Terms of Use

The following terms (Terms of Use) constitute an agreement between the Law Office of Lauren Vázquez (LOLV) and you that governs your use of this website and all of its associated services, content, and functionality, located at https://www.fireduplawyer.com (Website).

Your use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, the following Terms of Use. LOLV reserves the right to modify, alter, amend, or update the Website, policies, and these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change without notice. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use the Website.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES THE WEBSITE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

The only personal information the Website directly collects is the information that you enter into the Website’s forms. This information is transmitted through secure email and is not stored on the Website. This personal information is used to assess potential services only and is not collected, stored, used, or sold for any other purpose including marketing communications.

The Website may receive and store certain types of usage-related information when you interact with the Website, including, but not limited to, your computer’s IP address and browser information. The information we collect is used for technical purposes only.

The Website uses Google Analytics to track statistics regarding our audience and Website traffic. All personal identifiable information is anonymized, and no personally identifiable information is transferred from the Website to Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.

The Website and/or third party services such as Google Analytics may use cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, and customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type. All personal identifiable information is anonymized and no personally identifiable information is transferred from the Website to any third party.

From time to time the Website may engage in re-marketing efforts with third-party companies such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website. At any time, you may opt out of Google Ads by modifying your Google Ad settings.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Website may provide personal information to an applicable third party in order to provide services. At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. If a new service provider is engaged, these terms will be amended accordingly.

WILL THE WEBSITE SHARE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION IT COLLECTS?

Except when required by law, the Website will not sell, distribute, or reveal users’ email addresses or other personal information without their consent.

MODIFICATION OR DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can decline to submit personal information at any time. If you decline, LOLV may not be able to provide services to you. You may request deletion of your personal information by sending an email to lauren@fireduplawyer.com but in some cases we may be required to keep your information by law. In such a case, it would no longer be stored digitally.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that the Website has personally-identifiable information of a specific child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately at lauren@fireduplawyer.com and LOLV to promptly remove such information from our records.

AFFILIATE MARKETING

The Website does not engage in affiliate marketing.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER

LOLV has made every effort to ensure that all information on the Website has been tested for accuracy. LOLV makes no guarantees regarding the results that you will see from using the information provided on the Website or from the Services.

The Website was developed strictly for informational purposes. You understand and agree that you are fully responsible for your use of the information provided on the Website. LOLV makes no representations, warranties or guarantees. You understand that results may vary from person to person. LOLV assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions that may appear in the Website.

USE OF THE WEBSITE

Unless otherwise stated, LOLV owns the intellectual property and rights to all content and material on the Website. Subject to the license below, all intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download (for caching purposes only), and print pages for your personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use.

The following uses are not permitted:

  • Republication of content from the Website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for republication;
  • Sale, rental or sub-license of any content from the Website;
  • Reproduction or duplication of any content on the Website for commercial purposes;
  • Modification of any content on this website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for modification;
  • Redistribution of content of the Website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for redistribution. Users are permitted to share blogs and content on social media channels, as long as a link to the Website is included.

From time to time, the Website will utilize various plugins or widgets to allow sharing of content via social media channels, email or other methods. Use of these plugins or widgets does not constitute any waiver of LOLV’s intellectual property rights. Such use is a limited license to republish the content on the approved social media channels with full credit to LOLV.

You must not use the Website in a way that causes or may cause damage to the Website or impair the availability of access to the Website. You must not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Website, except to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law. You must not use the Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit and/or other harmful code or malicious software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities, including, but not limited to scraping, data mining, data extraction or data harvesting on or in relation to the Website without LOLV’s express written permission. You must not use the Website to transmit or send any unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use the Website for any third-party marketing without LOLV’s express written permission.

COPYRIGHT

Unless otherwise noted, the design, content, and all components of the Website are copyrights owned by LOLV or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.

TRADEMARKS

LOLV’s service marks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not LOLV’s in any manner likely to cause confusion among consumers or in any manner that disparages or discredits LOLV.

From time to time the Website will legally utilize trademarks owned by third parties. These trademarks are the respective property of their owners.

TAKEDOWN REQUESTS

From time to time the Website will publish posts with images from other third-party websites. Any such use is intended to be considered fair use under copyright laws and is fully attributed to the owner. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been used on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement and falls outside of fair use, please send a request to lauren@fireduplawyer.com and we will remove the image within 2 business days.

COMMUNICATION

If you send LOLV an email, submit the Website service request form, or provide your email to LOLV in any other way, you consent to receive communications from LOLV electronically. You agree that all legal notices provided via electronic means from LOLV satisfy any requirement for written notice.

THIRD PARTIES

The Website contains links to third-party websites that are not governed or controlled by LOLV. LOLV assumes no control or liability over the content of any third-party sites. You expressly hold harmless LOLV from any and all liability related to your use of a third-party website.

Prior to engaging in any events or commercial transactions with any third parties discovered through or linked on the Website, you must complete any necessary investigation or due diligence. If there is a dispute for any events or commercial transactions with a third party discovered through or linked on the Website, you expressly hold LOLV harmless from any and all liability in any dispute.

NO WARRANTIES

The Website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any representations or warranties, expressed or implied. LOLV makes no representations or warranties in relation to the Website or the information and materials provided therein. LOLV makes no warranty the Website will meet your requirements; will be available uninterrupted; timely and free of viruses or bugs; or represents the full functionality, accuracy, and reliability of the Website. The Website is written in English and makes no warranty regarding translation or interpretation of content in any language.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

LOLV WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, HOWEVER CAUSED, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR USE, INCURRED BY YOU, WHETHER UNDER THEORY OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), WARRANTY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold LOLV, its members, employees, officers, directors, managers and agents harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, suits, actions, liabilities, obligations, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) which LOLV suffers as a result of third-party claims based on: (i) your negligence or intentional misconduct, (ii) your breach of any provision of the Terms of Use (including representation or warranty); (iii) materials prepared or provided by you including, but not limited to, any claims of infringement, or misappropriation of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property or proprietary right, infringement of the rights of privacy or publicity, or defamation or libel; or (iv) death, personal injury, or property damage arising out of, or relating to, your obligations hereunder.

GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of California, without regard to conflict of law principles, and shall benefit and be binding upon the Parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Further, all actions or proceedings instituted by any Party relating to this Agreement shall be instituted in the appropriate court in Alameda County, California. The Parties do hereby waive all questions of personal jurisdiction or venue for the purpose of carrying out this provision.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

If any provision(s) of the Terms of Use is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall be severable and enforceable. If a provision is excessively broad, such a provision shall be limited or reduced in scope so as to be enforceable.

The Terms of Use are the final, complete, and exclusive agreement of the parties with respect to the Website offered by LOLV.

All notices with respect to the Terms of Use must be in writing and may be via email to lauren@fireduplawyer.com.