TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Questions or Concerns about Our Terms of Use

Welcome to CLEadvantage.com By using our Web site, you agree to the following terms of use, which constitute an agreement between CLEadvantage.com and you. We may change these terms from time to time. You will always be able to view the most current version by clicking on a link at the bottom of any page on our site.

Scope of These Terms

These terms of use apply to your use of our CLEadvantage.com Web site. www.CLEadvantage.com is owned and operated by CLE Advantage, a California sole proprietorship. CLEadvantage.com is our Web site for attorneys and other legal professionals who regularly participate in or are required to obtain continuing legal education credits. When we refer to ourselves as "we" or "CLEadvantage.com", we mean our organization, CLE Advantage.

Our Information

We include a lot of information on CLEadvantage.com, including articles, references, tools, continuing education for legal professionals. Please remember that all of the information on CLEadvantage.com is meant for adults who are licensed legal professionals. While we hope you find it helpful, you should remember that it is not meant to serve as a substitute for your own judgment and experience as a legal professional. If you are a consumer who chooses to use the professional-level information on CLEadvantage.com, you should not rely on that information as professional legal advice or use it to replace any relationship with your attorney or other qualified legal professional. For legal concerns, including decisions about causes of action, rights and remedies and courses of actions, consumers should always consult their own attorney.

We follow a standard set of editorial procedures for information that we put on CLEadvantage.com. However, we do not offer you any warranty or guarantee related to our Web site. We specifically disclaim any warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is your job to evaluate the information and results from tools we provide. If you are an attorney or legal professional, you should exercise your professional judgment in evaluating any information, and we encourage you to confirm the information contained on our Web site with other sources before undertaking any action based on it. If you are a consumer, you should evaluate the information together with your own attorney.

Some information on our Web site comes from you or from other users. We are not responsible for that information. Whether the information comes from us or from you, we are not liable for any damages resulting from your use of the information on our Web site.

In addition, whether you are an attorney, legal professional or consumer, the materials on our website are intended for informational purposes only and are not intended to be treated as legal advice. Each legal problem depends on its particular facts, and different jurisdictions have different laws and regulations. Because of these differences, if you are a consumer you should not act or rely on any information herein without seeking the advice of a competent attorney licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction, or if you are a licensed attorney you should not act or rely on any information herein without verifying its compliance with the laws in your jurisdiction.

Consumer use of the information on our website does not create an attorney-client relationship under any circumstances. In engaging a lawyer and deciding what lawyer to engage you may consider the information herein but, of course, should consider all other relevant factors as well. The information herein constitutes both a communication and/or solicitation as defined by California Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 1-400.

Although we are selective about the organizations we link to, we do not assume any responsibility for any Web site that are linked to our site or that you browse to after following a link from our site.

While we welcome your feedback on CLEadvantage.com., we must make the final decisions about the content that is posted on the site to make sure it meets the needs of all our readers. You can contact us via the methods listed on our website to send us comments and criticisms, but if you are dissatisfied with our response or with the contents of CLEadvantage.com, your only remedy is to stop using the Web site.

Our Tools and Databases

We include tools and databases intended for the use of legal professionals on our Web site. Our tools don't give professional advice or recommend particular courses of action. Attorneys and other legal professionals who use our tools or databases should exercise their own professional judgment as to the results. Consumers who use the tools or databases do so at their own risk.

Individuals with any type of legal issue are specifically cautioned to seek professional legal advice. For legal concerns consumers should always consult their own attorney or other qualified legal professional in their jurisdiction.

Ownership of CLEadvantage.com

Copyright

We or our partners own the information on CLEadvantage.com. In fact, the entire contents and design of CLEadvantage.com are protected under U.S. and international copyright laws. You may look at our Web site online, download individual articles or seminars to your personal or handheld computer for later reading or listening. You must not remove any copyright notices from our materials. We reserve all our other rights. Among other things, this means you must not sell our information, rewrite or modify it, redistribute it, put it on your own Web site, or use it for any commercial purpose without our prior written permission

Trademarks

We also own the names we use for our products and services on CLEadvantage.com, and these names are protected by trademark laws in the U.S. and internationally. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. If your activities are noncommercial, you may make use of our trademarks by linking to us or discussing us with others, as long as you make it clear that we are the owner of the trademark. Any other uses of our trademarks require our prior written approval.

You may not use CLEadvantage.com's trademarks in any of the following ways:

In a non- CLEadvantage.com product name or publication title.
Within or as part of your own trademarks.
To identify non- CLEadvantage.com products or services.
In a manner which will likely cause confusion.
In a manner that implies that CLEadvantage.com sponsors, endorses or is otherwise connected with your own activities, products, or services.
In a manner that disparages CLEadvantage.com.

Linking to Us

Usually, we do not mind if you have a simple link from your Web site to ours. However, you must first ask our permission if you intend to frame our site or incorporate pieces of it into a different site or product in a way that is not clear to our users. You are not allowed to link to us if you engage in illegal, obscene, or offensive content, or if the link in any way has a negative impact on our reputation

Information that You Put on Our Web Site

When you place materials or information on our web site that are available publicly, you give us an irrevocable, perpetual license to use that information. For example, we have the right to display a comment that you submit regarding one of our seminars or our services for as long as we want. We will consider requests to remove information that you make publicly available on our Web site on an individual basis (contact us at the email address we give at the end of this document).

For information and materials you place on our Web site that is not publicly available, please see our privacy policy for an explanation of how we use that information and your rights to change or delete it. We provide the link for our privacy policy later in this document.

Software or Other Products

We may make some software or accompanying documentation available for downloading from our Web site. These materials are the copyrighted work of CLEadvantage.com or companies that have licensed the software to us. We do not transfer any ownership rights in software documentation to you when you download it from our Web site; rather, you are allowed to use the software and documentation under the terms of a license agreement. You must read the license agreement that accompanies each product and indicate your agreement to those terms prior to downloading. You are not authorized to attempt to recreate or reverse engineer our software. In addition, some software available on our Web site is subject to United States export controls. By downloading or using such software, you are representing to us that your download of such software complies with these controls.

Passwords

CLEadvantage.com has several tools that allow you to record and store information. You are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized person shall have access to your passwords or accounts. It is your sole responsibility to (1) control the dissemination and use of activation codes and passwords; (2) authorize, monitor, and control access to and use of your account and password; (3) promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a password. You grant us and all other persons or entities involved in the operation of the Site the right to transmit, monitor, retrieve, store, and use your information in connection with the operation of the Site. CLEadvantage.com cannot and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any information you submit, or your or third parties' use or misuse of information transmitted or received using our tools and services.

U.S. Government End Users

If you are affiliated with the U.S. government, then you should know that the software and documentation available on our Web site are "commercial items," as that term is defined in 48 C.F.R. 2.101 (October 1995), consisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation," as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 (September 1995). Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 27.7202-4 (June 1995), all U.S. government end users acquire the software and documentation with only those rights set forth herein.

Laws that govern this agreement

CLE Advantage controls the CLEadvantage.com Web site from its offices within the state of California in the United States of America. The Web site can be accessed from any of the United States and from other countries worldwide. Since the laws of each State or country able to access the Web site may differ, by accessing the Web site both you and CLEadvantage.com agree that the statutes and laws of the state of California, without regard to choice of laws principles, will apply to all matters relating to use of our Web site.

CLEadvantage.com makes no representation that materials on this Web site is appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access these sites from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. CLEadvantage.com is intended for United States attorneys and legal professionals only.

Acceptance Procedure

By registering as a user or accessing any materials on our Web site as a visitor you agree with all the terms and conditions of this agreement.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change the terms and conditions of this Agreement from time to time, and your continuing use of our Web site constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to any changed terms and conditions. We will post any such changes in a timely manner, and draw your attention to any significant changes.

Consequences

If you do not comply with these terms, we have the right to suspend or eliminate your account, and remove any information you have placed on our site. We may also take any legal action we think is appropriate. If your violation of this agreement causes harm to others, you agree to hold CLEadvantage.com harmless against any liability for that harm. If there is any dispute between us concerning this agreement or your use of our Web site, we both agree to submit the dispute to non-binding mediation, followed by binding arbitration. Both the mediation and the arbitration will be governed under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, and the venue for the arbitration will be located in San Diego County, California.

Questions or Concerns About Our Terms of Use

For questions or concerns about these terms of use, please send an email to info@CLEadvantage.com.