Terms of Use

Your access to and use of this Site and all content (“Site Content”) are subject to these Terms of Use, and all applicable laws and regulations (including all export and import laws, regulations, and restrictions), all of which are subject to change at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting on this Site, unless otherwise stated. Your continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. We reserve the right to terminate access to this Site for any reason or to take other actions we believe necessary in our sole discretion to comply with applicable laws and regulations and/or to protect our rights, affiliates, or clients. Any access or attempt to access or use this Site for any unauthorized or illegal purpose is strictly prohibited.

We make no guarantee as to, and assume no responsibility for, the correctness, sufficiency, or completeness of any Site Content or recommendations on this Site. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any Site Content or information contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded, or accessed from this Site, nor the quality of any Site Content displayed or obtained by you as a result of your use of this Site or any Site Content. Your access or use of the Site is your acknowledgement that any reliance upon this Site, any Site Content or any third party content shall be at your sole risk. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without any obligation, to correct any error or omissions in any portion of this Site or any Site Content at any time, with or without notice to you.

You may not: (a) sell, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, display, disseminate, or otherwise publicly distribute any Site Content, or any part or parts thereof or information contained therein, or any access thereto without our prior written consent; (b) use your access to this Site or any Site Content to export or re-export data in violation of U.S. export control laws and regulations; (c) use this Site or any Site Content which you access in violation of, or post any information to any of our owned or licensed database which violates, any federal or state law, including data privacy laws, communication regulations, and tariffs, or which infringes the intellectual property rights or misuses proprietary information of a third party or is made in furtherance of an illegal or fraudulent scheme or activity; (d) copy or transfer any Site Content; or (e) modify, adapt, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, or convert any portion of this Site or Site Content, or the selection, coordination, or arrangement of the Site Content.

Certain portions of the Site, including portals through which we provide our professional services, are operated by third-party technology vendors on our behalf. When you access these portions of the Site, you acknowledge that: (a) we remain responsible for the services provided to you and act as the data controller for any personal data collected through the Site; (b) Any third-party vendors that operate the platform infrastructure, or a part thereof, do so under our direction and in accordance with our instructions; (c) any data collected through the Site, including web analytics data and personal data necessary to provide our services, will be collected, stored, processed, and used in compliance with our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference; (d) you consent to the collection and processing of your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy; and (e) the third-party vendor’s own terms of service or privacy policies do not supersede or modify these Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy with respect to our services.

We may from time to time offer areas in the Site where you and other users can share suggestions, ideas, or other information or materials (collectively, “Submissions”). You are the owner of and are responsible for your Submissions. By submitting a Submission, you represent and warrant that: (a) Your Submission is true and accurate; (b) You own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission, including copyrights and trademarks, necessary to meet your obligations to us under this Terms of Use; Your Submission is not defamatory, libelous, hateful, violent, obscene, pornographic, unlawful, or otherwise offensive, or unlawful; and (c) Your Submission does not violate the privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other rights of any other person or entity.

You acknowledge and agree that we have the right (but not the obligation) to monitor Submissions and to alter, remove, or refuse to post or to allow posting of any Submission. WE TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR ANY SUBMISSION, INCLUDING LOSS OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON INFORMATION OR OTHER CONTENT IN SUBMISSIONS.

By sharing your Submissions, you grant us and our designees a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferrable, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise use your Submission in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including on third-party sites and services) to provide, expand, or promote the Site and our services without further notice to or consent from you. Under no circumstances are you entitled to payment for your Submissions. All Submissions are deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. We encourage you not to disclose any personal information in your Submissions because other people may see and use the personal information in your Submissions.

Except as otherwise identified, the trademarks, logos, trade names, logos, slogans, and service marks appearing on this Site, and copyrights, including artwork, photographs, names, and other elements, whether registered or unregistered, are our property. All other logos and trademarks are the property of the respective trademark owners. Such trademarks and copyrights are not to be copied, reproduced, published, or in any way used without written permission. No part of this Site may be published, stored, or transmitted in any form or means without our express written permission. You may download Site Content displayed on this Site for non-commercial, personal use only and must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the Site Content. Any use of the Site Content or any trademarks or copyrighted materials other than for private, non-commercial viewing purposes is strictly prohibited.

You may not establish hyperlinks either to this Site or away from this Site without our prior written consent, which consent may be given or withheld in our sole discretion. In our sole discretion, we reserve the right to remove a Hyperlink to this Site or away from this Site at any time and for any reason. Contact us to request this consent. All hyperlinks approved shall be to the home page of this Site. Framing at this Site is expressly prohibited.

We advise you to exercise discretion while browsing this Site and the Internet. In addition, hyperlinks on this Site may direct you to sites containing information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. Such linked Sites may not be under our control, and we do not make any representations or warranties concerning any such Sites which you may access via a Hyperlink from this Site, and accordingly we are not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, legitimacy or decency of material contained in Sites which may be accessible via a Hyperlink to or from this Site or for the Hyperlink itself. We provide these hyperlinks to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any Hyperlink on this Site is not and should not imply any endorsement by us of such linked Sites.

ALL INFORMATION AND/OR SITE CONTENT ON OR OBTAINED THROUGH THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND YOU HEREBY WAIVE ALL OTHER WARRANTIES RELATING THERETO, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, CUSTOM, USAGE, OR WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE OR INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE,THAT ANY SITE CONTENT OR OTHER INFORMATION WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE OPERATION OF ANY SITE CONTENT, OTHER INFORMATION OR ANY THIRD PARTY SITE CONTENT USED WITH OR THROUGH OR PROVIDED BY US, OR ANY PART THEREOF, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN SUCH INFORMATION OR SITE CONTENT WILL BE OR CAN BE CORRECTED. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE, FOR ANY AND ALL LOSS OR CORRUPTION, OF DATA UPLOADED OR INPUTTED BY YOU THROUGH THE USE OF THIS SITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE SITE ARE OPERATED BY THIRD-PARTY VENDORS ON OUR BEHALF, AND THE DISCLAIMERS SET FORTH HEREIN APPLY TO ALL ASPECTS OF THE SITE, INCLUDING THOSE PORTIONS OPERATED BY THIRD PARTIES.

WE SHALL NOT IN ANY EVENT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL LOSSES, DAMAGES, OR EXPENSES INCLUDING FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THIS SITE OR SITE CONTENT, INCLUDING ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO PORTIONS OF THE SITE OPERATED BY THIRD-PARTY VENDORS ON OUR BEHALF, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED UPON BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF WARRANTY, NEGLIGENCE, GROSS NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY IN TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY OF RELIEF, OR WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE INFORMED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

You assume the responsibility to take adequate precautions against damage to your systems or operations which could be caused by defects or deficiencies in this Site or any Site Content. Certain portions of the Site are operated by third-party vendors on our behalf, and while we implement reasonable security measures and require our vendors to do the same, we cannot guarantee absolute security of any platform or system. You also acknowledge that electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins and that while we will implement reasonable security precautions to attempt to prevent such occurrences, we do not guarantee that such events will not take place. Your installation and input, as well as third party systems and procedures, may influence the output and errors in any order or electronic transmission or communication, and can result in substantial errors in output, including incorrect information, orders, and transactions. In addition, errors may be introduced into information or orders in the course of their transmission over electronic networks. You shall implement and take responsibility for appropriate review and confirmation procedures to verify and confirm orders or other transactions in which you participate using this Site or any Site Content.

You also are solely responsible for ensuring that any posting made by or for you to this Site does not contain any virus or other computer software code or routine designed to disable, erase, impair, or otherwise damage the Site or any software, hardware, information, data, system, or content of any other user of the Site or Site Content. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold us and our employees, agents, representatives, licensors, and suppliers harmless from any liability, claim, cost, or damage arising out of any claim or suit by any such user caused by such virus or code or subroutine.

BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH SAYS “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”

If the Site is at any time deemed an electronic commercial service (as defined under California Civil Code Section 1789.3), California residents are entitled to the following specific consumer rights information: The provider of the Site is: RHR International LLP, 233 South Wacker Drive, 95th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606. If the Site is deemed as electronic commercial service, you may file a complaint regarding the Site or to receive further information regarding use of the Site by sending a letter to the attention of “Legal Department” at the above address.

You agree to comply with all applicable export laws, regulations, and restrictions. Site Content we place on or make available through this Site may contain references or cross references to third party products, programs, and services that are not announced or available in your country. Such references do not imply that either we or such third party intends to announce or make available such products, programs, or services in your country. Consult us or the applicable third party for information regarding any such products, programs or services. This Site may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

If you are not a United States resident and you are accessing our Site from outside the United States, you agree to transfer certain information outside your home country to us and that you will follow all the laws that apply to you. Our servers and operations are located primarily in the United States and our policies and procedures are based primarily on United States law. By accessing and using the Site from any location, you acknowledge and agree that: (i) you consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information to and in the United States and/or other countries; (ii) if you are accessing the Site from a country embargoed by the United States, or are on the United States Treasury Department’s list of “Specially Designated Nationals,” you are not authorized to access or use the Site; and (iii) you agree to comply with all applicable local laws, rules, and regulations, including all laws, rules, and regulations in effect in the country in which you reside and the country from which you access the Site. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Site complies with all applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

If you are a copyright owner and you believe your work has been copied and used improperly on the Site, please contact our copyright compliance officer. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), to be effective, the notification to us must include the following information: (1) physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner; (2) description of the work you claim has been infringed and the description and location of the alleged infringement the Site; (3) your contact information including address, telephone number, and email address; (4) a written statement that you have a good faith belief the accused usage is infringing; and (5) a statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are duly authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Contact our copyright agent at: RHR International LLP, 233 South Wacker Drive, 95th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606, dataprotection@rhrinternational.com.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be subject to liability. If you are unsure whether material on the Site is infringing, we suggest that you contact an attorney prior to sending notice.

Use of this Site does not create a consulting relationship or obligation for either party. If any part or parts of these Terms of Use are held to be invalid, the remaining parts will continue to be valid and enforceable. Nothing in these Terms of Use affects any statutory rights of consumers that cannot be waived or limited by contract. The use by you of this Site, the Site Content, and any and all other matters related hereto, shall be governed by applicable United States federal law and the laws of the State of Illinois, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules. You hereby agree to waive any right to a jury trial in any suit arising out of or relating to this Site or any Site Content. Any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating hereto must be commenced within one year from the date the right, claim, demand, or cause of action being asserted first came into being. Venue for all disputes arising out of or relating to this Terms of Use shall be in the state and federal courts situated in Chicago, Illinois.

Communications made by e-mail or though this Site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal notice to us or any of our divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents or representatives regarding any existing or potential claim, or cause of action against us or any of our divisions, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, officers, employees, agents, or representatives, where notice is required by any federal, state or local laws, rules, or regulations.

If you have any questions regarding this Site, the Site Content, or these Terms of Use, contact us at dataprotection@rhrinternational.com.