Thank you for visiting our website (the “Website”). It is important to read the following terms and conditions (collectively, “Terms”). If you continue to browse and use our website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the Terms, which together with our Privacy Policy govern Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP’s relationship with you in relation to this Website. These Terms constitute a legal, binding agreement between you and Parker Poe. There may be additional or different terms and conditions stated elsewhere on the Website that apply to your access and use of the Website. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Website.
The term “Parker Poe” or “Firm” or “us” or “we” refers to Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, the owner of the Website whose registered office is 620 South Tryon Street, Suite 800, Charlotte, NC 28202. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our Website.
The use of this Website is subject to the following Terms:
No Legal Services or Attorney-Client Relationship. Our Website is not intended to be a source of legal advice, and no information on the Website (including any general information about legal matters) should be considered or relied upon as legal advice on any specific matter. You should never act upon general information on legal matters without seeking legal counsel regarding your particular situation.
Changes to These Terms. The content of the Website is for your general information and use only. Parker Poe may modify these Terms at any time. Those modified Terms will become effective immediately after Parker Poe posts them on the Website. You agree to review these Terms posted on the Website each time you access or use the Website so that you are aware of any modifications made to these Terms. If you do not agree to the modified Terms, you are not authorized to access or use the Website. Your failure to comply with these Terms as they may be modified from time to time will constitute a breach of contract and may violate Parker Poe’s copyright, trademark, and other proprietary and intellectual property rights.
Modification of the Website. Parker Poe reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website or any part of the Website from time to time, for any or no reason and without notice. You agree that Parker Poe will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Website. Parker Poe may change the information and materials on the Website from time to time at its discretion.
Privacy. To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you provide on the Website is correct, current, and complete.
Parker Poe is sensitive to privacy issues with respect to the use of personal information that visitors to the Website provide. All information we collect on the Website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.
Transmission of Information and Other Materials Via the Website. Parker Poe welcomes your comments and suggestions about the Website and Parker Poe’s services, but does not wish for you to send any confidential or proprietary ideas, suggestions, materials, or other information relating to developing, designing, redesigning, modifying, providing, or marketing any of its services or any new services. You agree that any information, ideas, suggestions, or materials that you or individuals acting on your behalf send to Parker Poe via the Website, including feedback, data, questions, comments, or service ideas, know-how, or suggestions (collectively, “Information”), will not be considered confidential or proprietary, even if the Information is labeled “Confidential” or “Proprietary.” Further, Parker Poe will own all Information you submit to it via the Website, and by submitting the Information to Parker Poe, you irrevocably assign to Parker Poe all rights, title, and interest in and to that Information. Parker Poe will be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute Information to others without limitation or liability. Parker Poe may use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques in the Information for any purpose whatsoever, including developing and marketing services that incorporate or otherwise embody Information, without providing any notice, compensation, or attribution to you.
About Children. The Website is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13 without the prior consent and ongoing supervision of a parent or guardian. By using the Website, you represent and warrant to Parker Poe that you meet the foregoing age requirement. Parker Poe will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information via the Website from visitors under the age of 13 and will take prompt steps to delete any such personally identifiable information if notified that any has been inadvertently collected.
Intellectual Property. Parker Poe owns the Website and owns or has the right to use all of the content on the Website, including all text, images, appearance, graphics, photographs, video clips, audio clips, designs, icons, wallpaper, characters, artwork, sounds, information, software, data, and other materials, and all HTML design, layouts, configurations, CGI, and other code and scripts in any format used to implement the Website (the “Content”), all of which are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. Absent Parker Poe’s express written permission as to particular Content on the Website, you may use the Content only for personal, noncommercial, informational purposes, and you may, subject to any stated restrictions or limitations, print a single copy of a limited amount of Content solely for these purposes subject to the conditions set forth below. Except as expressly authorized by these Terms, you may not distribute, publish, download, transmit, modify, or create derivative works from, or in any way exploit, any of the Content, in whole or in part, without Parker Poe’s prior written consent, provided that (a) your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials, (b) you may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes, and (c) if we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications. Framing pages or parts of pages on the Website and deep linking to pages in the Website are prohibited.
The Parker Poe logos and name are registered trademarks of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP. Parker Poe or its affiliates own or license all trademarks, service marks, and trade names on the Website unless stated otherwise on the Website. You may not use the Parker Poe logos, designs or service marks under any circumstances without our prior written authorization. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use or refer to Parker Poe or its logos, designs or service marks to identify products or services that are not ours or in a manner that implies inaccurately that we sponsor or endorse or are otherwise connected with your activities, products or services; nor may you use our name as hidden or embedded text in webpages in an effort to cause a search of our marks or name to result in a hit on a page not maintained by Parker Poe.
Parker Poe claims a copyright in its works presented at this Website. Parker Poe authorizes you to view, download and print Parker Poe documents on this Website only under the following conditions:
- The documents may be used solely for personal, non-commercial and informational purposes
- The documents may not be reproduced, copied, or redistributed
- The documents may not be modified
- The following copyright notice must appear in each document: ©2022 Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP. All rights reserved.
To request permission to reproduce, copy or redistribute any portions of this Website for commercial use, please send an email using our Contact Us page.
Except as expressly provided above, Parker Poe is not granting you a license under any copyright, trademark, service mark, patent, or other intellectual property or proprietary right in any Content, and nothing in these Terms will be interpreted as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, trademark, copyright, or other proprietary, intellectual, or other right of Parker Poe or any third party. You obtain no rights in the products, equipment, processes, or technology described on this Website by accessing or using the Website. Parker Poe and any third-party owners retain all of those rights.
If you are a copyright owner and believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with notice containing the following information: (i) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed; (iii) identification of the material that you claim is infringing and a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Any notification by a copyright owner or a person authorized to act on its behalf that fails to comply with these requirements will not be considered sufficient notice and will not be deemed to confer on Parker Poe actual knowledge of facts or circumstances from which infringing material or acts are evident. You must send the written notice to:
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Attn: General Counsel
620 South Tryon Street, Suite 800
Charlotte, NC 28202
If you wish to make any use of Content other than as authorized in this section, please contact us at the above address or by using our Contact Us page.
No Advertisement or Solicitation. Although a law firm website such as ours may be deemed by some authorities in some jurisdictions to be an advertisement for legal services, our Website is not to be considered as a solicitation for legal services on any particular matter or as an invitation to establish an attorney-client relationship as to any particular matter. An attorney-client relationship with the Firm and its lawyers is established only after a specific engagement has been expressly agreed to between a partner in the Firm and a client through direct, person-to-person communication. Prospective clients should not provide any confidential information to us, whether through email or otherwise, before an attorney-client relationship is established. The duties of confidentiality and the attorney-client do not arise until we have expressly undertaken a particular client engagement.
The Firm’s legal services are offered only in accordance with applicable law and regulations and rules of professional conduct governing our practice, and nothing in this Website should be construed as engaging, or offering to engage, in any activities in any jurisdiction where such activities would constitute the unauthorized practice of law or would otherwise be unlawful or improper.
Prohibited Actions. You may use the Website only for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use the Website: (a) in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries); (b) for the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise; (c) to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material which does not comply with the section of these Terms titled “Intellectual Property”; (d) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail,” “chain letter,” “spam,” or any other similar solicitation; (e) to impersonate or attempt to impersonate Parker Poe, a Parker Poe employee, another user, or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses associated with any of the foregoing); (f) to engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm Parker Poe or users of the Website or expose them to liability; or (g) to interfere with the proper working of the Website. You also agree not to use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.
References to Other Companies/Links to Other Websites. References on the Website to names, marks, products, or services of third parties or hypertext links to third-party websites do not constitute or imply Parker Poe’s endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of the third parties or their products, services, or websites. Parker Poe does not monitor or control the content of any website linked to or from the Website, and Parker Poe is not responsible for the content of those other websites or the terms of use or privacy practices of those sites.
Linking to the Website and Social Media Features. You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part.
The Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to (a) link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on the Website; (b) send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on the Website; or (c) cause limited portions of content on the Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites. You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to cease. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice, and may disable any links at any time without notice in our discretion.
Disclaimers of Warranties. Parker Poe disclaims all responsibility and liability for the timeliness, sequence, quality, accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, operability, and availability of information and material contained on the Website. The Website may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Parker Poe disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to store, failure to update, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of any information or material on the Website. Parker Poe does not warrant or guarantee that the Website will be error-free or virus-free or that access to the Website will be uninterrupted. Parker Poe and its content providers cannot and do not warrant or guarantee against errors, omissions, delays, interruptions, or losses, including loss of data.
THE SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER. PARKER POE DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY AND OTHER WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AS WELL AS ANY WARRANTY OF QUALITY, FUNCTIONALITY, ACCURACY, CURRENCY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, OPERABILITY, USE, PERFORMANCE, OR ABSENCE OF VIRUSES. THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
IF YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN ANY MATERIAL FROM THE SITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CLAIMS, INCLUDING ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTING SYSTEM OR ANY LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM DOWNLOADING OR OTHERWISE OBTAINING THAT MATERIAL. YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE.
Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL PARKER POE, ITS AFFILIATES, ITS DATA PROVIDERS, OR ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, DELIVERING, OR MANAGING THE CONTENT (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SITE PROVIDERS”), BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY CLAIMS WHATSOEVER, IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST REVENUES, LOST PROFITS, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, AND LOSS OF PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH (A) YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE, (B) ANY COMMUNICATIONS SENT TO YOU VIA THE SITE OR OTHERWISE FROM PARKER POE, OR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF OMISSIONS OR INACCURACIES IN SUCH INFORMATION, (C) THE TRANSMISSION OF CONFIDENTIAL OR SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO OR FROM THE SITE PROVIDERS, OR (D) INCONVENIENCE, DELAY, OR LOSS OF USE OF THE SITE OR ANY SERVICE, EVEN IF SOME OR ALL OF THE SITE PROVIDERS ARE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE SITE PROVIDERS ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGE OR INJURY TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY ARISING FROM ANY ACCESS OR USE OF ANY INFORMATION, IDEA, OR INSTRUCTION IN THE CONTENT.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Parker Poe, its affiliates, licensors and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Website, (b) user content you submit, post to, or transmit through the Website, (c) your violation of any rights of any other company or person in connection with this Website, or (d) your violation of these Terms.
Electronic Communications. When you visit the Website, send emails to Parker Poe, or subscribe to our communications, you are communicating with Parker Poe electronically. You consent to receive communications from Parker Poe electronically. Parker Poe may communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Website. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Parker Poe provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
Conflict Resolution. These Terms (including the Privacy Policy) will be governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, excluding its conflicts of law provisions. All actions and proceedings relating to the Website or the Content will be commenced and heard exclusively in North Carolina state courts in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina or the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Parker Poe and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.
Severability and Waiver. The invalidity of any term, condition, or provision of these Terms will not affect the enforceability of the remaining portions of these Terms. Parker Poe’s failure to enforce any right or provision in these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
Updated July 27, 2022