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These Legal Statements, as amended by us from time to time (please check our website for changes), set out the basis for your use of this website, and provide important information about the way in which we deliver our services, including details of our policy in relation to complaints.
Nothing on this website or in the documents available through it, is intended to provide legal or other professional advice. You should not rely on any information contained on this website or in the documents available through it as if it were such advice.
If you require advice on a specific issue, please send an e-mail to:
london [at] newbalkanslawoffice [dot] com.
Legal advice provided by our lawyers may relate to investments. We are not authorised by any another financial regulatory authority for the purposes of investment business or advice.
Instead, our services will be provided on the following basis:
References on this website and in the Legal Statements to:
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Legal Statements mean the legal notices pages of this website setting out the terms on which you may use this website, including the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and General sections.
we or us or our mean New Balkans Law Office
and you or your mean a user of this website.
In the Legal Statements, the heading used for each paragraph does not affect its interpretation. Except as otherwise provided in the Legal Statements, any reference to an enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended, extended, applied or re-enacted from time to time and includes references to any subordinate legislation made under that enactment.
Enactment includes any legislation in any jurisdiction. References to persons include an individual, a body corporate and an unincorporated association of persons.
This website is provided by New Balkans Law Office. New Balkans Law Office is a trading name of New Balkans Limited, a private limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number 0433158 and registered office at 27D Redcliffe Gardens, London SW10 9BH, United Kingdom.
By accessing this website, you agree: that you will access its contents solely for your own private use; to comply with all applicable laws and regulatory requirements relating to your use of this website; to comply with all reasonable instructions we give you relating to this website; not to use this website to distribute any information or data in contravention of any regulation or legislation (including, but not limited to, regulation or legislation governing financial services, money laundering or anti-terrorism). You are responsible for all telecommunications charges relating to your use of this website.
We (or our suppliers or third parties who have granted us permission to reproduce their material on this website) own all Intellectual Property Rights in the Content and this website. Nothing in the Legal Notices gives you any right, title or interest in the Content or this website and you do not acquire any such right, title or interest through your use of the website. If you need third party software to use this website, you agree to obtain a licence of that software at your own expense. Please also read the Copyright notices which apply to the Content and this website.
Material Provided by You: You agree to ensure that all material you send or upload to this website (including, but not limited to, e-mails, text, graphic files, still or moving images, or responses to any questionnaire available through this website) (Your Material) is legal, decent and truthful, complies with all laws and regulations, does not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of us or any third party, is not defamatory, unreliable or misleading or otherwise objectionable and is free of bugs, worms or viruses. You are solely responsible for Your Material. If we consider that any part of Your Material exposes us to the risk of a claim or complaint by a third party, we may block access to all or part of this website and remove all or part of Your Material. You must provide all reasonable assistance in this respect. You agree not to use this website to advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this website. You agree not to publish any information or personal data relating to a third party.
Regulation of New Balkans Law Office Offices: Each New Balkans Law Office office home page complies with the regulation and supervision of legal services for the jurisdiction in which the office is located. You should be aware that in using the links available on this website you may be navigated to a new office location that may be subject to different rules, regulations and/or supervisory standards. Information about the regulation and supervision of certain New Balkans Law Office offices is provided in the Country Specific Information sections of the Legal Notices.
No Warranties: We give no express or implied representation or warranty (whether statutory or otherwise) in respect of this website or the Content (including, without limitation, as to their condition, satisfactory quality, performance or fitness for purpose) and all such representations and warranties are excluded except to the extent that their exclusion is prohibited by law.
We cannot guarantee that this website will operate in accordance with your expectations or will be error-free. We are not obliged to update this website but we may do so from time to time and we reserve the right to modify, restrict access to or close this website at any time. From this website you may be able to access websites operated by others. We do not endorse those other websites nor do we accept responsibility for their content or for damage or loss you may suffer arising out of accessing those websites, including, but not limited to, damage or loss arising from your use of documents or other information found on those websites. We do not monitor or maintain these links. Please read all copyright and legal notices on each site before downloading or printing items to ensure that you are permitted to do so under the third party site's copyright notices, legal notices or terms of use.
Subject to the next paragraph (on liability for fraud or for death or personal injury arising from negligence): 1. Our liability to you in connection with this website (whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or otherwise) is only to take such actions as are reasonably required (in our sole discretion) in order to: 1. remove or delete data entered in error, or 2. remove or delete data that is the subject of dispute, or 3. correct data entered in error. 2. We are not liable to you for any loss of profits, business or data or for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary loss, liability or costs (whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or otherwise) regardless of whether it was foreseeable or not. 3. To avoid doubt, we are not liable for any damage or loss that may be caused to any equipment or software due to any viruses, defects or malfunctions in connection with accessing or using this website, Your Material or the Content. Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for fraud or for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or that of a partner, associate, consultant or employee of New Balkans Law Office or that of our agents or subcontractors or for any other matter in respect of which it would be unlawful or in breach of regulation (including, but not limited to, self-regulation) to limit or exclude liability.
Online Privacy: Our on-line Privacy Policy is available on this website and forms part of the terms on which you may use this website. You acknowledge that we may process the personal data you provide if you use this website. Our on-line Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we may use that data and you agree to its terms. You and (subject to the above paragraph) we will each comply with applicable data protection legislation in performing obligations under these Terms of Use and other sections of the Legal Notices.
Recruitment: If you apply for a position at New Balkans Law Office advertised in the Careers section of this website, your curriculum vitae or other information you provide to us will be used solely for considering your application and for recruitment purposes, as set out in the Privacy Policy. In acknowledging an application New Balkans Law Office is not verifying the content, accepting the application or making any offer of employment or engagement. New Balkans Law Office is not obliged to accept any applications. New Balkans Law Office is an equal opportunity employer (in accordance with applicable legislation) and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability or any other basis covered by local legislation. All employment related decisions are made entirely on merit.
General Provisions: We reserve the right to vary or amend the Legal Notices from time to time. We will notify you of any such amendment by posting the relevant amendment to this website. Any changes shall take effect upon posting to this website. Our rights under these Terms of Use and other sections of the Legal Notices: 1. may be exercised as often as necessary; 2. are cumulative and not exclusive of rights or remedies provided by law; and 3. may be waived only in writing and specifically. Delay in the exercise or non-exercise of any such right is not a waiver of that right. If a provision of these Terms of Use or of another section of the Legal Notices is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that does not affect: 1. the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other provision of these Terms of Use or of another section of the Legal Notices; or 2. the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other provision of these Terms of Use or of another section of the Legal Notices. Nothing in the Legal Notices is to be taken to constitute a partnership between you and us, nor constitute either of you or us the agent of the other for any purpose. A person who is not a party to the Legal Notices may not enforce any of the terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. A failure by you or us to enforce a provision of the Legal Notices or a breach of a provision by the other or default by the other in performing a provision does not constitute a waiver and does not prevent you or us from subsequently enforcing that provision or from acting on such breach or a subsequent breach of the provision by the other party or default by the other party in performing that provision.
Governing Law: The Legal Notices shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and we and you each submit irrevocably to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
Transfers and processing of User Data may be in locations outside the EEA. Any data sent or uploaded by you may be accessible in jurisdictions outside the User Jurisdiction (including outside the EEA). The level of data protection offered in such jurisdictions may be less than that offered within the User Jurisdiction or (as the case may be) within the EEA.
In some jurisdictions (including England and Wales) there are circumstances in which we will have the right to keep documents that belong to you even if you ask us to return or destroy them. In particular, this may occur if you have not paid all of our invoices.
As data processors, we are bound by the requirements of data protection legislation. We have also put in place a data protection policy in each of our offices. We will ensure that data we receive from clients or other individuals during the course of our providing legal services will be kept securely and processed solely for the purposes of the engagement.
For further information about how we process data we receive through users of this website, please see our Privacy Policy.
We do not sell or exploit User Data commercially through third parties. We will not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make User Data commercially available to any third party, except as described above, or except with your prior permission.
You are entitled to a copy of your User Data and to have them rectified or deleted as required by applicable data protection legislation.
For more information please send an email to: privacy [at] newbalkanslawoffice [dot] com.
This Privacy Policy and/or the other Legal Notices may be amended by us at any time. Please check this website periodically to inform yourself of any changes.
New Balkans Law Office' lawyers are qualified to practise in Bulgaria, England and Wales and the Land of Berlin, Germany. They are Bulgarian advokats or Bulgarian lawyers and are regulated by the Bulgarian Bar of their registration.
New Balkans Law Office is a member of the British Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce.
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