Legal & Privacy Policy
Your use of the Laura Duty & Associates website is governed by the following terms and conditions; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to Laura Duty & Associates’ use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy.
License to use website: Unless otherwise stated, the Laura Duty & Associates and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below granted to you, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may: view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or briefs from the website for your own personal use; redistribute material from this website within your organization and with external stakeholders but only with attribution to Laura Duty & Associates and link to this or the original content author’s website; redistribute for educational purposes printed copies of briefs that you downloaded subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not: republish material from this website onto another website without seeking and gaining Laura Duty & Associates’ express permission and providing full attribution and a link back to Laura Duty & Associates website; sell, rent or sub-license material from the website; reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose; or edit or otherwise modify any material on the website. You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
Acceptable use: You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity. You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software. You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website.
Restricted access: Laura Duty & Associates reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Laura Duty & Associates’ discretion. If Laura Duty & Associates provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
User content: In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit or agree to share to this website, for whatever purpose. Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Laura Duty & Associates or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. Laura Duty & Associates reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Laura Duty & Associates or its licensee or agents’ servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
No warranties: This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Laura Duty & Associates makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Laura Duty & Associates does not warrant that: this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading. Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, legal advice of any kind.
Limitations of liability: Laura Duty & Associates , its assigns, employees, contractors, agents, fiscal sponsors, licensees and licensors, will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website, to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss; for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data. These limitations of liability apply even if Laura Duty & Associates , its assigns, employees, contractors, agents, fiscal sponsor, licensees and licensors, has been expressly advised of the potential loss. Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit.
Reasonableness: By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Indemnity: You hereby indemnify Laura Duty & Associates , its assigns, employees, contractors, agents, fiscal sponsor, licensees and licensors and undertake to keep them indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses) and any amounts paid by Laura Duty & Associates or its fiscal sponsor to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute incurred or suffered by Laura Duty & Associates , its assigns, employees, contractors, agents, fiscal sponsor, licensees and licensors arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of these terms and conditions: Without prejudice toLaura Duty & Associates other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Laura Duty & Associates may take such action as it deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation: Laura Duty & Associates may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment: Laura Duty & Associates may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with its rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
Severability: If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement: Through this website, you are able to link to other websites. We have no control over the nature, content, and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them. These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Laura Duty & Associates in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction: These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Texas state law and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Texas.
You can contact Laura Duty & Associates by email to laura@lauraduty.com.
Privacy Policy
Laura Duty & Associates takes your privacy seriously. This privacy policy describes how and why we obtain, store and process data which can identify you. We may update this policy from time to time and shall indicate on the website when changes have been made.
Information collected: Laura Duty & Associates is committed to protecting your privacy and to holding any information received in strict confidence. We will not collect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer, and we are the sole owner of all information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others outside of Laura Duty & Associates. We collect information about you so that we can personalize your use of the site, assist your use of the site, improve the site generally and alert you to upcoming events or new content. Information is collected from you when you register with us, or when you contribute to or use some of the advanced features on the site. The information we collect is clearly set out on the web page on which we collect it. See, for example, our e-newsletter registration and event registration. We will only pass on information about you as an individual (as opposed to aggregate information) to enable us to perform services requested by you or with your prior consent. Any personal information provided is confidential and protected and may be disclosed only under specific conditions and with prior written authorizations and consents. In certain circumstances, we may need to disclose information about you if you breach this privacy policy or if you breach the Terms and Conditions. We may also disclose or access your account if required to do so by law.
Cookies: A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Cookies are commonly utilized by most Internet users. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Security: Keeping information about you secure is very important to us and certain sections of the site may encrypt data using SSL or a comparable standard. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Personal information: We strive to protect your personal information, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you send to us, and you do so at your own risk. We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you disclose both in your browsing and to only release this information to third parties we believe share our commitment to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of these parties.
Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. We have no control over the nature, content, and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.
Liability: The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Laura Duty & Associates and while we endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. Laura Duty & Associates’ website is not intended to provide legal advice. Any person needing legal advice should consult an attorney. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage, nor without limitation, for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from actions taken, loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.
Questions?
If you wish to change any information you have given us, or have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at laura@lauraduty.com. Please note ‘Privacy Policy’ in the subject line of your e-mail.