Attorney Internet Marketing and Advertising Privacy Policy

In Plain English:

Attorney Marketing & Advertising offer a blog and web site hosting services across multiple domain names which describe a select segment of the legal profession. If you’re the best in your field, we would love for you to begin blogging on of our blogs to demonstrate your expertise and flaunt your amazing credentials.

Our basic service starts for as little $50 per month, and is designed to give you as much control and ownership over what goes on your site as possible.

We encourage you to express yourself freely and responsibly.

Terms of Service:

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com web sites, blogs and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, this website which is owned and operated by Virtual Impax, LLC (“Virtual Impax”).

The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Virtual Impax’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Virtual Impax (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website.

By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Virtual Impax, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.

The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

1. Account Setup / Email on file

We will setup your account after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud.

It is your responsibility to provide us with a valid email address. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this purpose.

It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is current or up to date at all times. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. If you fail to meet these requirements, the order may be considered fraudulent in nature and be denied.

2. Backups

Your use of this service is at your sole risk. Our backup service is provided to you as a courtesy. AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com servers. Backups will not be provided for accounts that have been suspended or terminated for any reason unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Virtual Impax.

3. Cancellations and Refunds
AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or otherwise restrict access to the account at any time with or without notice.

Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result in the suspension or termination of your services.

Customers may cancel at any time via a cancellation form. AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com gives you an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee for any customer who paid the first invoice with a credit card or with Paypal.

The following methods of payments are non-refundable, and refunds will be posted as credit to the hosting account:

* Bank Wire Transfers
* Western Union Payments
* Checks
* Money orders

Refund requests for any blog after the initial 30 days will be refunded on a prorated basis of any unused time based on the list rate of $75 per month.

Only first-time accounts are eligible for a refund. For example, if you've had an account with us before, canceled and signed up again, you will not be eligible for a refund or if you have opened a second account with us.

Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.

4. Your AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com Account and Site.

If you create a blog on one of the Attorney Marketing Advertising blogs, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and blog, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the blog. You must not describe or assign keywords to your blog in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Virtual Impax may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Virtual Impax liability. You must immediately notify Virtual Impax of any unauthorized uses of your blog, your account or any other breaches of security. Virtual Impax will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

5. Responsibility of Contributors.

If you operate a blog, comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software.

By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
the Content is not pornographic, libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
your blog is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
your blog is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your blog’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Virtual Impax or otherwise.

By submitting Content to the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs for inclusion on your Website, you grant Virtual Impax a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Virtual Impax will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Virtual Impax has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Virtual Impax’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Virtual Impax’s reasonable opinion, violates any Virtual Impax policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Virtual Impax’s sole discretion. Virtual Impax will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

6. Fees and Payment.

By selecting to set up a blog, you agree to pay Virtual Impax the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service (the payment terms for VIP hosting are described below). Payments will be charged on the day you sign up for a premium service and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual period as indicated. Premium service fees are not refundable.

7. Blog Services.

Fees; Payment. By signing up for am Attorney Marketing Advertising blog, you agree to pay Virtual Impax the setup fees and monthly hosting fees.

Applicable fees will be invoiced starting from the day your blog is established and in advance of using such services. Virtual Impax reserves the right to change the payment terms and fees upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to you. Your blog can be canceled by you at anytime on 30 days written notice to Virtual Impax.
Support. Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs include access to priority email support. “Email support” means the ability to make requests for technical support assistance by email at any time (with reasonable efforts by Virtual Impax to respond within one business day) concerning the use of the blog services.. All blog services support will be provided in accordance with Virtual Impax standard blog services practices, procedures and policies.

8. Responsibility of Website Visitors.

Virtual Impax has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects.

By operating the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs, Virtual Impax does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Virtual Impax disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.

9. Content Posted on Other Websites.

We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs and webpages to which AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com and the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs links, and that link to the Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs. Virtual Impax does not have any control over those non- Attorney Marketing & Advertising websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non- Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs, websites or webpage, Virtual Impax does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Virtual Impax disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non- Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs, websites and webpages.

10. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy.

As Virtual Impax asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Virtual Impax.

Virtual Impax will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Virtual Impax or others, Virtual Impax may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Website. In the case of such termination, Virtual Impax will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Virtual Impax.

11. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Virtual Impax to you any Virtual Impax or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Virtual Impax. Virtual Impax, Attorney Marketing & Advertising blogs, Attorney Marketing Advertising, the AttorneyMarketingAdvertising.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Attorneymarketingadvertising.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Virtual Impax or Virtual Impax’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Virtual Impax or third-party trademarks.

12. Changes. Virtual Impax reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Virtual Impax may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

13. Termination. Virtual Impax may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you have a Attorney Marketing & Advertising blog account, such account can only be terminated by Virtual Impax if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Virtual Impax’s notice to you thereof; provided that, Virtual Impax can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

14. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Virtual Impax and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Virtual Impax nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.

15. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Virtual Impax, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Virtual Impax under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Virtual Impax shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

16. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Virtual Impax Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

17. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Virtual Impax, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

18. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Virtual Impax and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Virtual Impax, or by the posting by Virtual Impax of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Virtual Impax may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

We created this TOS agreement from the one used at WordPress.com WordPress rocks. We use their MU blogging software to power the Attorney Marketing Advertising blogs.