Center for Legal Perspectives and Best Practices

Terms of Use

Introduction

Welcome to the Center for Legal Perspectives and Best Practices (CLPBP) website. By accessing or using our site, you agree to be governed by and comply with these Terms of Use. These terms govern your relationship with CLPBP. They establish acceptable use of the CLPBP site and resources, as well as your rights and duties as a user of those resources. Please carefully familiarize yourself with these Terms of Use before using our site. If you do not accept any portion of these Terms of Use, please do not access or use our site or service.

Overview of the CLPBP Website

The CLPBP website, at https://clpbp.net/, is a source of legal educational resources, news, and information. The site focuses on the delivery of high-value data to legal professionals, students, educational institutions, and lay persons. Services include access to educational resources via articles, updates, guides, case law, and article directories. All content is assembled and vetted by experienced lawyers and legal professors to ensure its usefulness, accuracy, and applicability.

Agreement and Acceptance of Terms

By using, visiting or otherwise accessing the CLPBP website or any of the pages that constitute this site, you signify your consent to all these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. These terms and conditions apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use our site. This site and all its pages are subject to change at any time by CLPBP. Your continued use following any changes is your acceptance of such changes. You are fully responsible for reviewing these terms for any change.

User Eligibility and Responsibilities

In order to use the CLPBP website, users must be 18 years of age or older, or have legal parental or guardian consent. You agree to use this website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms. By participating, you agree to continue to maintain the confidentiality of your account (if any), that your right to participate and/or to use the website does not violate the rights of others, and that your participation and use of the website are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Intellectual Property Rights

All pages within the CLPBP website (including, but not limited to, articles, guides, news items, graphics, logos, text on all sub-pages, and the organization of any of the foregoing) are the property of CLPBP, or its other content licensors. The website and the materials contained within are subject to United States and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights. You may only display and use the content for your personal, non-commercial use. The reproduction, modification, distribution or republication of the materials contained within without CLPBP’s express written consent is prohibited. Requests for such permission should be directed to [email protected].

Permitted Uses and Prohibitions

You may access, view and download materials from the CLPBP website for your own personal, educational, non-commercial use, but only if you keep all copyright and other notices contained in such materials intact. The following uses are prohibited, among others:

  • Republishing or redistributing website content (including through the use of a bot) without CLPBP’s authorization
  • Commercial exploitation, including any advertising without authorization
  • Impersonating any person or entity, or misrepresenting your affiliation with any person or entity
  • Obtaining unauthorized access to CLPBP’s or any third party’s systems, networks, data, or information
  • Disrupting, hacking, spamming, or otherwise interfering with any portion of the website, or attempting to do the same

You should not post or transmit onto or from this website any material:

User Submissions and Community Websites

CLPBP may contain features that allow users to post content, such as comments, messages, forum postings or other submissions to the website (“User Contributions”). By providing any User Contributions, you grant CLPBP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, edit, modify, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and otherwise exploit such User Contributions in any form, media or technology known or hereafter developed, and to assign or sublicense the foregoing rights, in any manner now known or hereafter devised. You represent and warrant that any User Contributions you submit do not violate the rights of any third party and that such User Contributions are not unlawful, abusive or otherwise objectionable. CLPBP reserves the right (but does not have the obligation) to monitor and/or review user-generated content and to refuse to open certain content to other users. CLPBP reserves the right to remove or modify the content generated by said users at its discretion.

Third Party Content and Links

The CLPBP website may contain links to other third-party websites and/or information, materials, products or services owned or operated by third parties that are not under the control of CLPBP. The links are provided only as a convenience. When you access any such third-party sites or provide any information to a third party, you do so at your own risk. CLPBP makes no representation, endorsement or warranty and assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any content contained in such websites or websites linked to such websites. We encourage you to consult the terms and conditions of any third party website that you visit.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The CLPBP Site and all Services offered by CLPBP are available on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent possible, CLPBP disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness and non-infringement. Although we make every effort to ensure that our resources are accurate and timely, CLPBP can take no responsibility for the website’s error-free operation or security from viruses or other damaging features.

Limitation of Liability

At the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CLPBP and its directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents and contributors are not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the website or any content therein, even if CLPBP has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Your sole and exclusive remedy for dissatisfaction with the website or any materials is to stop using the website.

Indemnification

You hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless CLPBP, along with its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, affiliates, and/or their subsidiaries, from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, or expenses (which include reasonable attorneys’ fees) that arise from or are in any manner related to your use of the website, your breach or alleged breach of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights belonging to another individual.

No Legal Advice

All information and materials contained herein are made available by the CLPBP for general informational and educational purposes only. Nothing provided therein is intended to be, is, or should be construed as legal advice, nor does your receipt of this information constitute any such attorney-client relationship between you and the CLPBP or its contributors. For advice regarding your particular situation, please consult a qualified attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.

Privacy and Data Protection

CLPBP respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. CLPBP’s collection, use and disclosure of personal information are described in our Privacy Policy. By using this website, you understand and consent to the collection and use of information by CLPBP in accordance with our Privacy Policy. CLPBP uses reasonable precautions to protect information from loss, theft, misuse, alteration and destruction; however, no methods of transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as fully secure.

Account Registration and Security

Certain elements of the CLPBP website may require an account in order to access. You hereby agree to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the registration form; and (ii) maintain and promptly update the information provided during registration so that it remains true, accurate, current and complete. You will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account information, and you will be fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account. CLPBP has the right, but not the obligation, to suspend or terminate accounts associated with violations of these Terms of Use or accounts suspected of being engaged in suspicious or unlawful activity.

Termination of Access

CLPBP may, at its sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to the website, any user account, or any part of the services at any time and for any reason, including but not limited to, if it believes that you have violated these Terms of Use or applicable law. Upon termination, your right to use the website and the resources will immediately cease. Provisions of these Terms of Use that by their nature should survive termination shall remain in effect.

Website and Service Modifications

CLPBP may at any time, with or without notice, change, suspend or discontinue the website or any aspect of it (including features and availability of features), and we will not be liable to you or any third party should we exercise such right.

Paid Premium Content and Future Paid Services

Although the core services of CLPBP are currently provided at no cost, there is a possibility that we may introduce premium content, a webinar series, or bundled services for a fee in the future. This initiative aims to enhance the effectiveness of our learning platform and ensure its sustainability. Access to or participation in these additional services may require subscription or other fees, which will be governed by separate terms, conditions, and pricing that will be clearly communicated to you at that time. Your continued use of the website and its services following such changes will constitute your acceptance of any new terms or pricing.

DMCA Notice and Copyright Infringement

CLPBP respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks users of its services to do the same. If you believe that content available to you in the CLPBP is infringing your copyright, you may notify CLPBP as the service provider by sending a detailed notice to [email protected]. (Infringement notices also can be sent pursuant to the DMCA to CLPBP Corporation, 1936 NE 179th St, N. Miami Beach, FL 33162.) In your notice, you must detail your contact information, describe the copyrighted work that you believe has been infringed upon, identify the specific material you are objecting to that is available for you through the Service and state that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner. CLPBP will acknowledge proper notices and take other appropriate action concerning any valid notices in accordance with the DMCA.

Governance and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use and any dispute arising out of or related to your use of the CLPBP website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law principles. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Fresno County, California for the resolution of any legal matter arising from or related to these Terms or your use of the Website.

Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term or condition shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.

Entire Agreement

These Terms Of Use, including our current Privacy Policy and any other corporate policies or terms published on the website, represent the whole and complete agreement between you and CLPBP with respect to use of the website. These Terms of Use take the place of all previous understandings between you and CLPBP concerning their subject matter. In the case of any ambiguity with respect to the interpretation of these Terms of Use, the ambiguity shall not be construed against CLPBP.

Changes to Terms of Use

CLPBP may change these Terms of Use at any time in its discretion. All such changes shall be effective immediately when posted on the website. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use regularly. If you continue your use of the website after we post changes to these Terms of Use, it will mean that you accept the changes.

Notices and Communication Tools

All notices, questions or communications regarding these Terms of Use or operation of the CLPBP site should be sent to us via email at [email protected], by telephone at (559) 612-3216, or by postal mail at: 7770 N Palm Ave Ste 30, Fresno CA 93711. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond to you in a timely and professional manner.

Feedback

We invite your suggestions, comments and ideas on CLPBP website features and resources. By submitting feedback to CLPBP, you grant us the right to use, copy and incorporate your submission into CLPBP without payment or attribution.

Contact

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Acknowledgement

By accessing the CLPBP Website (as defined above), you certify that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these CLPBP Terms of Use. Thank you for your participation and support of the community serving legal educators, law firms, and other legal professionals, and thank you for your efforts to advance legal education and the spread of legal best practices.