Terms and conditions at Zoppi & Co

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site.

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What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website gaffneyzoppi.com and further information on its contents, such as the offers (our site).

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Who we are and how to contact us

gaffneyzoppi.com is a site operated by GZ Legal Ltd ("We"). We are registered in Scotland under company number SC658895 and have our registered office at 272 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JR. We are a digital company and therefore operate remotely.  

We are a limited company with the vision of giving everyone access to justice. We do this by providing affordable legal services that are bespoke to your needs.

To contact us, please email info@gaffneyzoppi.com or telephone our customer service line on 0330 133 3815.

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By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

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There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Policy and, combined, Cookie Policy (https://www.gaffneyzoppi.com/privacy-policy).  
• Our Acceptable Use Policy (please see below), which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
• Our Terms & Conditions of Service (https://www.gaffneyzoppi.com/terms-conditions)  which sets out the Terms & Conditions on which we offer our services to you.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.

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We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs and our business priorities.

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We may suspend or withdraw our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

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We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

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Our site is only for users in the UK

Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.

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How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

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No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our site or any services provided via, or in relation to, our site. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated devices, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the site or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

This clause shall not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.

This site, its content and any services provided in relation to the same are only targeted to and intended for use by, individuals and businesses located in the United Kingdom (each, a Permitted Territory). By continuing to access, view or make use of this site and any related content and services, you hereby warrant and represent to us that you are located in a Permitted Territory. If you are not located in a Permitted Territory, you must immediately discontinue use of this Website and any related content and services.

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Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

Additionally, many of our pages will only apply to either the English jurisdiction or the Scottish jurisdiction. This is because England and Scotland often have different laws. For this, please seek legal advice before you rely on any of the content. Furthermore, the content on our website cannot be tailored to your individual circumstances. There are innumerable factors which affect the kind of advice we would provide you with. For this, please contact us before relying on any of our content.

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We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

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User-generated content is not approved by us

This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

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How to complain about content uploaded by other users

If you wish to complain about content uploaded by other users, please contact us on info@gaffneyzoppi.com.

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Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

• We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.  
• Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms and Conditions of Service.

If you are a business user:

• We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
• We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
• use of, or inability to use, our site; or
• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
• In particular, we will not be liable for:
• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

• Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
• If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by not taking into account the risks that we made you aware of, or by you failing to have in place the minimum system requirements.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our privacy policy.

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Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of our site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the Rights you are giving us to use material you upload.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

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Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service forever;

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We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

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Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site on any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy below.

If you wish to link to or make any use of the content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@gaffneyzoppi.com to gain written consent, at Zoppi & Co’s full discretion.

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Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

In the event of a dispute arising out of or relating to these temrs, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, the parties shall first seek settlement of that dispute by mediation in accordance with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) Mediation Rules, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause.

If the dispute is not settled by mediation within thirty (30) days of the commencement of the mediation, or such further period as the parties shall agree in writing, the dispute shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the LCIA Rules, which Rules are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause.

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The language to be used in the mediation and in the arbitration shall be English.

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The governing law of the contract shall be the substantive law of England.  

The LCIA shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute arising out of this contract or the services provided by Zoppi & Co.  

In any arbitration commenced pursuant to this clause,

• the number of arbitrators shall be one; and

• the seat, or legal place, of arbitration shall be London.  

The parties agree that each party shall bear its own costs and expenses, including all legal costs, arising from the dispute.  

The party who initiated the commencement of the dispute by bringing legal action (commencing party) shall bear all the costs and fees of the arbitration and any other costs that the LCIA requires the parties to pay. The commencing party hereby fully indemnifies the other party of any and all such costs, expenses or fees. The commencing party is the claimant of the dispute. The commencing party shall be liable for its own legal fees, despite the outcome of the dispute.  

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Our trade marks are registered

Zoppi & Co and the Zoppi & Co logo are UK registered trade marks of GZ Legal Ltd. You are not permitted to use them without our express written approval signed in a contract and witnessed.