TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By using and accessing our website you are deemed to have accepted the terms and conditions as set out below.

The information contained on our site has been prepared solely to provide general information relating to our firm, the services we offer, our legal team and location. Our site does not offer or contain any general or specific legal advice and you should not take (or refrain from taking) any legal action without first obtaining detailed and specialist advice from a lawyer familiar with your specific circumstances.

1 Our promises

1.1 We will permit you to access, use and interact with our site subject to these terms and conditions.

1.2 We will:

1.2.1 exercise reasonable care in compiling our site; and

1.2.2 take the steps set out in our privacy policy to endeavour to secure any personal data you give us.

2 Exclusions

2.1 We do not represent or warrant that access to our site, or any part of it will be uninterrupted, reliable, virus or fault free.

2.2 Whilst we take every care in compiling and updating our site and ensure that all material included on our site is correct, reputable and of high quality we do not represent or warrant to you that our site or any of its contents will be accurate, complete or reliable.

2.3 We do not represent or warrant that any services forming part of this site (whether or not provided by us) will be provided with due care and skill.

2.4 To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise and whether or not due to our negligence) which we may otherwise have to you as a result of:

2.4.1 any technical, factual, textual, or typographical inaccuracies, errors or omissions on or relating to our site or any information on our site;

2.4.2 the unavailability of our site or the services we offer;

2.4.3 any delay in providing, or failure to provide or make available, our services; or

2.4.4 any misrepresentation on or relating to our site, or the services we offer (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation made by us or on our behalf).

2.5 Each of the above exclusions shall be construed as a separate, and severable, provision of these terms and conditions.

3 Links to other sites

Certain links, including hypertext links, on our site will take you outside our site. Links are provided for your convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked site, its operator or its content. We are not responsible for the content of any website outside our site.

4 General

4.1 Variations

We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our site (including the services offered by us) and these terms and conditions. Any changes to these terms and conditions will be posted on our site and by accessing and using our site following any such change you agree to be bound by the revised terms and conditions of use.

4.2 The use of your information

You agree that we may collect, store, and use information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. You acknowledge and agree to be bound by the terms of our privacy policy (see below).

4.3 Copyright

The content of our site is protected by copyright, trade marks, database rights and other intellectual property rights. You may retrieve and display the content of our site on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disc (but not any server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on our site without our prior written permission.

4.4 Access

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny users access to our site or any part of our site without giving prior notice.

4.5 Events beyond our control

We shall not be liable to you for any breach of these terms and conditions of use or any failure to provide or delay in providing our services through our site resulting from any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, strikes, acts of terrorism, lock-outs and other industrial disputes, breakdown of systems or network access, fire, explosion or accident.

4.6 Applicable law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions (and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to them or their formation) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and, for these purposes, the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of English courts.

4.7 Unenforceability

The enforceability or otherwise of any provisions of these terms and conditions shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of these terms and conditions.

4.8 Miscellaneous

4.8.1 You may not transfer any of your rights under these terms and conditions to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these terms and conditions to anyone else where we reasonably believe that your rights will not be affected.

4.8.2 You may not provide any hypertext or other link to our site without obtaining our prior written consent.

4.8.3 If you have any queries concerning these terms and conditions or any aspect of our site please contact

5 Definitions

In these terms and conditions:

5.1 "our site" means our presence on the internet;

5.2 "our", "we" and "us" means Pickerings Solicitors LLP and, where applicable, its members, employees and authorised agents; and

5.3 "you" and "your" means any user of our site.

5.4 "Pickerings" is a trading name of Pickerings Solicitors LLP.

PRIVACY POLICY

Pickerings Solicitors LLP believe strongly in protecting a user's privacy. We will never disclose information about our users to a third party without their consent unless required to do so by law or in accordance with this privacy policy.

This privacy policy explains how we use the information we collect about you, how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

1 The information we collect and how we use it

1.1 We may use aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop the website and our services.

1.2 We may wish to provide you with information about special features of our website or any other services we think may be of interest to you. We may contact you via e-mail, by post or otherwise. If you would rather not receive this information, please send an e-mail to us. Any request to de-register will be dealt with within 14 days of receipt of the request and should be sent to

2 How we protect your information

2.1 The internet is not a secure medium. However we have put in place various security procedures and measures to protect the loss or misuse of your personal information in our control.

2.2 We keep your information confidential. Our internal procedures cover the storage, access and disclosure of your information.

3 Sale of business

If our business is sold or integrated with another business your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and will be passed on to the new owners of the business.

4 Updating your details

If any of the information that you have provided to us by using our website changes, for example if you change your e-mail address or name then please let us know the correct details by sending an e-mail to

5 Your consent

By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. Continued use of the service will signify that you agree to any such changes.

6 How to contact us

We welcome your views about our website and our privacy policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments please send an e-mail to