Last updated: September 10, 2008
Welcome to eLexPersona.com web site, a legal services provider legally established in the Dominican Republic.
Herein, you will find the Terms of Use governing the use of informative contents and services that compose the web site, accessible to Users and Visitors through the domain name www.elexpersona.com (hereinafter the "Site"). By using this Site, you declare full and unconditional acceptance of the Terms of Use in effect at the time of access. Carefully read these Terms of Use (hereinafter "Terms"), if you disagree with the content of these terms, you have the option to abandon the Site.
eLexPersona.com may revise these Terms at any time by updating this binding document, reason why we recommend you often visit this page every time you enter the Site in order to review the Terms. The designations "User" and "Visitor" will be used to refer to all physical and juridical persons who for any reason enter the Site.
This Site does not provide legal advice or legal consultation in any direct way; the information and services provided should not be used in a manner contrary to this statement.
1. Access and use of the Site
Access and use of the Site does not require prior registration or subscription. Nevertheless, the use of certain informative contents available as well as hiring a service will require the Users’ subscription or registration.
Users agree to use the Site in accordance to Dominican Law and these Terms of Use, morality, decency and the norms generally accepted by public order. Users shall refrain from using the Site for any illicit or illegal purpose, contrary to the provisions of the Terms of Use, the rights and interests of third parties, or in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, impair the Site or prevent Users from making normal use of the same.
The informative content and services offered at eLexPersona.com shall not substitute legal advice or consultation provided by an attorney in the exercise of his profession. We do not guarantee the accuracy of the informative contained within the Site, their completeness or adequacy.
Any interactions made within the Site may constitute a client- firm relationship in the event that users choose to hire any of the services offered in eLexPersona.com, nevertheless, that relationship may not classified as a type of client- attorney relationship under any circumstance.
2. Using informative content and services available on the Site
eLexPersona.com offers legal services from and within the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Any User, regardless of where he/she resides or where they are geographically located, must assume all content and services are served entirely from and within Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, just as would occur if he/ she travelled to the Dominican Republic to personally hire a service.
Users should make sure to read all documents before submitting these to eLexPersona.com or signing the same in the event that the documents might require any changes. The revision for completion, accuracy, consistency and spelling, conducted by eLexPersona.com is limited and fallible, existing there a possibility of grammatical mistakes regarding the information provided by the Users and consistency in names, addresses or other personal data and/ or geographic locations.
3. User Behavior
Some contents and all services hired in eLexPersona.com are available only to those Users who have registered and who have received a username and password. When registering in the Site, every User must declare they are 18 years old or older.
Users shall not use a password, e-mail address or any information from another User without prior written consent of the owner. Users are responsible for maintaining their account information confidential and accept to assume full responsibility for all activities that are carried out using their account, including the selection and use of all contents and services offered and hired in the Site. When a User is registered in our subscribers’ data base he/ she is accepting the personal information entered is true, accurate, current and complete. Users can only use the services offered at eLexPersona.com for personal purpose complying with these Terms of Use.
For certain services offered, it is required that the owner of the account will be the only person allowed to hire the service as the Applicant; this norm has an exclusionary nature and is indispensable to provide the service. The services that have this requirement will provide disclaimers on the description page where the User will be notified of the condition. We encourage Users to be attentive to these statements.
eLexPersona.com reserves the right to provide a service or not and to close accounts of registered users, including but not limited to implementing such measure when any registered User violates the Terms of Use.
Users and visitors are prohibited to violate or make an attempt to violate the security of the Site, including but not limited to:
• Illegal access, allowing illicit access to third parties into the system to data which is not intended for that user, and access into a server or account without authorization
• Affect, or try to assess the vulnerability of a system or network, breaching the norms of security or identification without the proper authorization
• Try to prevent access to the Site or services to Users, hosts or networks by, including, without limitation, sending a virus to the site, through saturation, "flooding", "spamming" mail bombing or blockage of the system ( "crashing ")
• Send unrequested emails, including promotions and/ or advertising of products or services.
Violations of the system’s security, the network or the laws governing the matter could compromise your civil and criminal responsibility. eLexPersona.com will investigate cases where such violations might have occurred and will cooperate with the competent authority to prosecute Users involved in such violations. Users and/ or Visitors who intentionally or unintentionally infringe any of the foregoing obligations will be liable for all damages caused.
4. Copyright
All distinctive signs such as: text, graphics, logos, button icons and images are owned by eLexPersona.com, or its suppliers and are protected by the copyright laws of the Dominican Republic. You agree to comply with all copyright laws and other restrictions contained in this Site and won’t make any modifications of said contents.
Unless it is permitted by the rightful owner of all publications, you recognize that by downloading material that is protected by copyright you do not acquire any ownership rights over it. Unless it is explicitly permitted by copyright laws, you may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale or create derivative works of the Sites or its publications, or in any other way commercially exploit or facilitate to any third party the content of the Site or publications without permission expressly written by eLexPersona.com and the copyright owner. You will not copy or adapt the HTML code created by eLexPersona.com to generate the web pages that compose the Site. This code is also protected by intellectual property rights.
5. Third party content
Some of the web pages that compose the site and some of the content available, contains links to other websites and informative content on the Internet. These links are provided to help you identify and locate this information on the Internet that may be of interest to you. Under any circumstance, this does not mean that eLexPersona.com is sponsor, is affiliated or associated with these web sites or content routed through these links, nor that eLexPersona.com is legally authorized to use trade names, registered trademark, logos, labels, symbols or industrial patent which may be reflected in the websites to which these links are routed. You are solely responsible for understanding any terms and conditions that may apply during your visit on a third party’s website.
6. Modifications in the “Site”
eLexPersona.com reserves the right to modify or discontinue occasionally, temporarily or permanently, information and services offered on the Site without notice. You agree that eLexPersona.com shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of information and services offered.
7. Exclusion of responsibility and guarantees
The information and services offered by eLexPersona.com through the site as well as the contents within the Site are provided in terms of “as they are” and “in the available manner". eLexPersona.com expressly excludes warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, nor gives any assurance that the information and services provided will satisfy the needs of users, nor that the information provided will be uninterrupted, timely and will be free of errors, nor the results that may be obtained from the use of the information and services provided will be accurate, reliable and the quality of any content will satisfy the User and Visitor’s expectations.
8. Limit of responsability
In no case shall eLexPersona.com, in conformity with any legal ground, be liable for any indirect, emerging, punitive or consequential harm or damage. eLexPersona.com is not responsible for damages of any kind that could result from the lack of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, as well as errors or omissions in the informative content, services offered on this Site or other content that can be accessed through eLexPersona.com. eLexPersona.com will not assume any obligation or commitment to verify and monitor these contents.
In addition, eLexPersona.com does not guarantee the availability, continuity, or the infallibility of the operation of the site, and thus excludes, to the maximum extent permitted by the current law, any liability for damages of any kind that could be generated to the lack of availability or continuity of the operation of the Site and services enabled in the same, as well as errors in access to the various web pages or those where services are rendered.
9. Exoneration of responsibility
You agree to defend, exonerate and release eLexPersona.com, its employees and any third party content or service provider from any liability as well as their respective advisors, directors, officers, employees and agents, against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from the use of information and the services offered by eLexPersona.com on the Site and resulting from the violation of these Terms or any activity related to your account (including negligent or wrongful conduct) on your part or the part of any user who accesses our Site through your account.
10. Control
eLexPersona.com has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the services provided to determine compliance with these Terms and any other norms, regulations or legal requests. Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have the right to remove any content, services or information that, at our discretion, we believe violates the provisions of our Terms of Use.
11. Resolution
eLexPersona.com may, at its discretion and without any liability, deactivate your password or eliminate your account, preventing the use of information and services offered by any reason, including but not limited to, if eLexPersona.com understands that you have violated or have acted contrary to the norms included in these Terms. Suspension of access to information on the Site and services offered, in accordance with the provisions in these Terms, can be done without prior notification. eLexPersona.com can disable or remove your account and all related information and prohibit any further access to the information and services in the future.
12. Notification of changes
In the future, eLexPersona.com may modify these Terms to keep them up to date in relation to the information and services offered on the Site. We recommend you visit this page regularly to find out about any changes. The ‘Last Updated’ at the top of the page is used to notify about recent changes. Once the Terms have been updated every User and Visitor will be held accountable for the content within this document.
13. Contact information
Any notification or other communication to be made in relation to these Terms of Use should be made in writing. If you have any questions or concerns about our Terms of Use, or if you want to exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation or opposition, contact us.
14. Jurisdiction
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Dominican Republic. Any claim arising out of these Terms shall be subject only to the jurisdiction of the court in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The use of the services provided by eLexPersona.com is expressly prohibited in any jurisdiction where the conditions set out in these Terms cannot be applied.
Users who accessed the site accept they have read, understood and agreed to the norms above. If they disagree with them, they have the option to abandon the Site.