Terms and conditions of use

Your use of the Bird & Bird alumni portal (this "website") shall be subject to these terms and conditions. We reserve the right to vary or alter these terms and conditions from time to time. Any such change shall take effect upon posting to this website.

1. Your use

By accessing this website, you agree:

• that you will access its contents solely for your own private use or for the purposes of the legitimate business of your employer, but in either case for the factual material in the website content concerning the firm or generally and not for reliance on any points of law;
• not to copy, amend, reproduce or distribute the content, or disclose the content to third parties, other than in compliance with paragraph 5 below.
• to comply with all applicable laws and regulatory requirements relating to your use of this website;
• to comply with all reasonable instructions we give you relating to this website;
• not to use this website to distribute any information or data in contravention of any regulation or legislation (including, but not limited to, regulation or legislation governing financial services, money laundering or anti-terrorism);
• not to advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this website (save that you may use the jobs marketplace in accordance with paragraph 6 below); and
• not to benefit commercially from website content (save that you may use the jobs marketplace in accordance with paragraph 6 below).

If you fail to comply with any provision of these terms and conditions, we may at our sole discretion, and without prejudice to our other rights and remedies at law or otherwise, elect to:

• issue a warning to you;
• temporarily or permanently remove any material uploaded by you to this website;
• temporarily or permanently block your account and/or your ability to access this website;
• issue legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs resulting from the breach (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs);
• take further legal action against you; and/or
• disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary to do so.

You are responsible for all telecommunications charges relating to your use of this website.

2. Your account and password

You will need to register an account with us on this website in order to access certain of the functions available through this website (an "account"). If you register an account, you will be asked to provide your email address and create a password as part of our security procedures. You must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any accounts and/or passwords, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms and conditions.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your account login details, you must immediately notify us at Alumni@twobirds.com.

You are responsible for any unauthorised use of your account login details.

3. Material provided by you

You agree to ensure that all material you send or upload to this website (including, but not limited to, e-mails, text, graphic files, still or moving images, or responses to any questionnaire available through this website) ("your material"):

• is not obscene, abusive, offensive or racist and does not promote or propose hatred or physical harm against anyone;
• does not harass or bully another person;
• is true and honest so far as you know;
• is not defamatory of anyone, unreliable or misleading or otherwise objectionable;
• does not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of Bird & Bird or any third party;
• does not contain someone else's personal details or confidential information relating to other people;
• does not promote or condone terrorism, violence or illegal behaviour; and
• is free of bugs, worms or viruses.

You are solely responsible for your material. If we consider that any part of your material exposes us to the risk of a claim or complaint by a third party, we may block access to all or part of this website and remove all or part of your material. You must provide all reasonable assistance in this respect.

You agree not to use this website to advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this website (save that you may use the jobs marketplace in accordance with paragraph 6 below). You agree not to publish any information or personal data relating to a third party in your material.

4. Material provided by third parties

This website may contain links to other websites and to website content on such other websites. These links are provided for convenience only, and do not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Bird & Bird. We do not monitor or maintain these linked websites. Bird & Bird is not responsible for the operation of, or for website content on, any such other website, or for the operation of, or for website content on, any site through which you may have gained access to this website. Please read all copyright and legal notices on each linked website before downloading or printing items to ensure that you are permitted to do so under the third party site's copyright notices, legal notices or terms of use.

Therefore Bird & Bird assumes no responsibility for any loss or damages in respect of this website or any such other website and so disclaims all liability accordingly.

5. Intellectual property rights

As between you and us, we (or our suppliers or third parties who have granted us permission to reproduce their material on this website) own all Intellectual Property Rights in the website content. Nothing in these terms and conditions gives you any right, title or interest in the website content or this website and you do not acquire any such right, title or interest through your use of this website. If you need third party software to use this website, you agree to obtain a licence of that software at your own expense or that of your employer.

Bird & Bird LLP or some other Bird & Bird entity is, unless otherwise stated, the owner of copyright and database right in this website and its contents. No part of this website may be published, distributed, extracted, re-utilised, or reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication), except in accordance with the permissions set out below or as agreed in writing by Bird & Bird or as permitted by the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997, as applicable.

IMPORTANT: The following permissions DO NOT APPLY to content supplied by third parties. For permitted use of third party content apply to the relevant content owner. Bird & Bird LLP reserves the right at any time at its discretion to withdraw or modify the licences set out below.

Licence for personal use

You may view this site electronically.

You may, only for your personal use or for the purposes of the legitimate business of yours or of your employer, but in any case for the factual material in the website content concerning the firm or generally and not for reliance on any points of law, print or save to your individual or your employer's PC, tablet or storage medium extracts from this site for such use ("extracted material").

Licence to recopy for limited purposes

You may recopy extracted material to individual third parties for their personal use only, but only if:

• you do so on an occasional basis and free of charge;
• any copyright notices remain intact on all printed and electronic copies or, if not present on the original, you acknowledge the Bird & Bird website as the source of the material;
• you inform the third party that these conditions apply to him or her; and
• the extracted material remains in complete and unmodified form.

This licence to recopy does not permit incorporation of the material or any part of it in any other work or publication, whether in hard copy or electronic or any other form. In particular (but without limitation), no part of this website may be distributed or recopied for any commercial purpose or for a fee.

Links to this website

We only permit electronic links which must fairly indicate Bird & Bird or Alumni & Bird & Bird as the destination of the link to pages of this website and from which these terms and conditions can be accessed. You may not provide an electronic link to any other page of this website or to any other documents hosted on this website without our written consent. Any link to material or information on this website must be neither misleading nor deceptive. Otherwise, you may not link to this website, nor frame it, without the express written permission of the firm. We reserve the right to request that you remove an electronic link to this site, or to materials or information on this website, at any time and you agree to remove such a link immediately. '

Trade marks

"Bird & Bird" and "twobirds" are registered trade marks.

6. Jobs marketplace

This website features a jobs marketplace whereby users may advertise and apply for jobs.

Responding to job advertisements

If you wish to respond to any classified advertisements placed on this website by a user please ensure that you reply to the user directly. Responses or e-mails sent to Bird & Bird will not be forwarded to the user.

You agree that you bear all responsibility in relation to any response that you may make to a job advertisement. This shall include full liability for any actions, claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, charges or expenses suffered or incurred arising, directly or indirectly, from your response to, or other steps taken regarding, any job advertisement.

Advertising roles on this website

You may only post your material to advertise a job on behalf of a hirer if you are authorised by the hirer to do so. If you post your material to advertise a job on this website, you must ensure that all your material complies with all laws, regulations and policies (including internal policies) applicable to the advertising and recruitment in the organisation and jurisdiction where the employment is on offer.

Any advertisement for a role on this website must include the following information:

• the name (including full legal name), address and contact details of the hirer;
• the nature of the hirer's business;
• the date on which the hirer requires the successful candidate to commence work and whether the role is permanent or fixed-term (in which case the duration of the contract must also be provided);
• details of the position that the hirer seeks to fill, including a description of the duties involved, the location of the role and the hours of work. If there are any risks to health or safety known to the hirer in carrying out the role, you should state what these are and what steps the hirer has taken to prevent or control such risks;
• the experience, training and qualifications and any authorisation that the hirer considers are necessary, or which are required by law, or by any professional body, for an applicant to possess; and
• any expenses concerning the application and selection payable by or to the applicant.

You agree that it is your responsibility to verify the identity of anyone who applies for a role via this website.

We are providing a facility for you to advertise roles, and have no knowledge of who applies for roles or an active role in the application process. Therefore by advertising a role on this website you agree that you do not require us to provide you with copies of applicants' qualifications or authorisations, or references (other than as you may reasonably request after you have made a candidate employed by us an offer of employment).

You agree that we do not act as an employment agency by allowing you to advertise roles on this website, that we have no responsibility for the application of anyone who applies for a role advertised on this website, that it is your sole responsibility to determine that an applicant via this website is suitable for the role and that you have no redress against us as a result of an application made by anyone for a role advertised on this website. We are not responsible for your actions or actions of the hirer during the subsequent recruitment process.

Applying for roles on this website

If you wish to respond to any advertisement for employment please ensure you reply to the organisation as detailed in the advertisement. Responses or e-mails sent to Bird & Bird other than for positions within Bird & Bird will not be forwarded to the organisation advertising the employment.

By applying for a role advertised on this website you confirm that:

• you have applied for the role yourself, and no one else has prepared your application for you or applied on your behalf;
• you have the experience, training and qualifications and any authorisation that the hirer has stipulated as necessary in the advertisement for the role, or that is required by law or by any professional body, to work in the position that the hirer seeks to fill; and
• you are willing to work in the position that the hirer seeks to fill.

You agree that we do not act as an employment agency by enabling you to apply for roles advertised on this website, that we have no responsibility whatsoever in relation to any application you make via this website, that you are responsible for deciding whether a role advertised on this website is suitable for you and that you have no redress against us as a result of an application made by you for a role advertised on this website.

Disclaimer

Please see paragraph 8 below for details as to Bird & Bird's liability in relation to the jobs marketplace (and otherwise).

7. No guarantee or warranties

We cannot guarantee that this website will operate in accordance with your expectations or will be error free. We may update this website time to time and we reserve the right to modify, restrict access to or close this website at any time.

We give no express or implied representation or warranty (whether statutory or otherwise) in respect of this website or the website content (including, without limitation, as to their condition, satisfactory quality, performance, fitness for purpose or that it is up to date) and all such representations and warranties are excluded, except to the extent that their exclusion is prohibited by law – see paragraph 8 below.

8. Liability

If you have a specific legal question you should address it to one of our lawyers. This website is for information purposes and is not an advertisement. Nothing on this website constitutes a binding offer to give any legal advice or perform any other service in any jurisdiction. Nor does any person accessing, or acting on, our website content of itself imply any duty of care being assumed in any jurisdiction on the part of Bird & Bird toward such person, or any other duty of the kind owed by a law firm to its clients. Bird & Bird disclaims all liability accordingly.

The website content on this website gives general information only as at its stated date or, if none, the date of first publication as, for example, the law may have changed in the meantime. Furthermore, it is not intended to give a comprehensive analysis on any subject. Such website content should not be used as a substitute for legal or other professional advice, which should be obtained in specific circumstances. No warranty or representation is given that such website content is free from inaccuracies or omissions, or that it is up to date.

Bird & Bird assumes no responsibility for any loss or damages that may be caused to any equipment or software owing to any viruses, defects or malfunctions in connection with accessing or using this website, your material or the website content.

Additionally, Bird & Bird has an interest in limiting the personal liability of Bird & Bird individuals. Users of this website shall not be entitled to make any claim personally against any Bird & Bird individual in respect of relevant loss or damage and, on behalf of such Bird & Bird individuals, all such liability is disclaimed accordingly.

Our liability to you in connection with this website (whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or otherwise) is only to take such actions as are reasonably required (in our sole discretion) in order to remove or delete data entered in error, or remove or delete data that is the subject of dispute, or correct data entered in error.

Any disclaimers or limitations of liability on this website shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by law in any jurisdiction in respect of relevant loss or damage in respect of this website, but nothing in these terms and conditions excludes or limits our liability for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations or for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or that of a partner, associate, consultant or employee of Bird & Bird or that of our agents or subcontractors or for any other matter in respect of which liability cannot be excluded or restricted by applicable laws or regulations.

In respect of the jobs marketplace, and without prejudice to the other provisions of this paragraph 8, any job advertisement found on this website is not, unless the advertised job is for a role at Bird & Bird, the responsibility of Bird & Bird. We will not, unless the advertised job is for a role at Bird & Bird, have any involvement in the recruitment process for these jobs and will not undertake any investigation into the jobs that are placed by users of this website. We do not, unless the advertised job is for a role at Bird & Bird, endorse or otherwise recommend any job advertised on the jobs marketplace. We will not be liable for any actions, claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, charges or expenses suffered or incurred arising, directly or indirectly, from reliance or use of any of the information provided in paragraph 6.

Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to exclude or restrict liability based on fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations or any other liability that cannot be excluded or restricted by applicable laws or regulations.

9. Requesting client services

If you are interested in asking us to advise you, please email Alumni@twobirds.com.

10. Exercise of rights

Our rights under these terms and conditions:

• may be exercised as often as necessary;
• are cumulative and not exclusive of rights or remedies provided by law; and
• may be waived only in writing and specifically.

Delay in the exercise or non-exercise of any such right is not a waiver of that right.

A failure by you or us to enforce a provision of these terms and conditions or a breach of a provision by the other or default by the other in performing a provision does not constitute a waiver and does not prevent you or us from subsequently enforcing that provision or from acting on such breach or a subsequent breach of the provision by the other party or default by the other party in performing that provision.

11. Invalidity

If a provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that does not affect:

• the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other provision of these terms and conditions; or
• the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or any other provision of these terms and conditions.

12. No partnership or agency

Nothing in these terms and conditions is to be taken to constitute a partnership between you and us, nor constitute either of you or us the agent of the other for any purpose.

13. Third party rights

The rights and protections afforded to Bird & Bird under these terms and conditions shall be deemed to be afforded to, and enforceable also by, each Bird & Bird entity and each Bird & Bird individual. Otherwise, a person who is not a user of this website and so a party to these terms and conditions may not enforce any of these terms and conditions under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

14. Regulatory and interpretation

In these terms and conditions: (i) "Bird & Bird", the "firm", "we" or "our" mean Bird & Bird LLP and its affiliated and associated businesses and entities or one or more of Bird & Bird LLP and those affiliated or associated businesses or entities as the context requires; and (ii) "you" or "your" mean a user of this website. Unless terms are defined within these terms and conditions, or where the context otherwise requires, the definitions (and rules of interpretation) on the 'Legal Notices' page of www.twobirds.com (available here) shall apply to these terms and conditions and this website.

Bird & Bird is an international legal practice comprising Bird & Bird LLP and its affiliated and associated businesses. For information on our offices, our members and partners, regulatory information, privacy, complaints procedure and the use of e-mail see www.twobirds.com/LN.

To the extent permitted by law, we may monitor electronic communications for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and internal policies. We may also collect email traffic headers for analysing patterns of network traffic and managing client relationships. For further information see Privacy .

Bird & Bird LLP, a limited liability partnership, registered in England and Wales with registered number OC340318, with its registered office and principal place of business at 12 New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1JP, is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, whose professional rules and code may be found at www.sra.org.uk/handbook/.

A list of members of Bird & Bird LLP and of any non-members who are designated as partners, being lawyers or other professionals with equivalent standing or qualifications, and of their respective professional qualifications, is open to inspection at its registered office.

15. Law and jurisdiction

Any dispute or claim between you and Bird & Bird arising out of or in connection with this website or its subject matter (whether allegedly contractual or non-contractual disputes and claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Users of this website do so on the basis that they thereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts for the purpose of any such dispute or claim.

Privacy statement

At Bird & Bird we use information we collect from the users of our Alumni website (the "Alumni website" or the "website", interchangeably), accessible via Alumni & Bird & Bird, as set forth in this Privacy statement, where we also describe its users' data protection rights, including a right to object to some of the processing which Bird & Bird carries out. More information about your rights, and how to exercise them, is set out below.

If you have any questions about this statement or your personal information, please contact us by using Alumni@twobirds.com.

If we change or modify our Privacy statement we shall post these changes on this page.

Unless terms are defined within this Privacy statement, or where the context otherwise requires, the definitions (and rules of interpretation) in the Terms and Conditions) shall apply to this Privacy statement.

1. Data controller

The controller of your personal data, as user of the Alumni website, is Bird & Bird LLP, with its registered office and principal place of business at 12 New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1JP, United Kingdom.

2. Origin of the information

Generally we will receive your personal data from you; however, if you register on the Alumni website by means of your identification with your LinkedIn account, these details will still be eligible for processing according to this Privacy statement.

3. Use of your data and legal bases

Your personal data shall be processed:

• As required by Bird & Bird to conduct its business and pursue its legitimate interests in improving the Alumni website and the services provided therein, in particular:
  • to track your use of the Alumni website, analyse trends, administer the website, gather broad demographic information and use such information to personalise and improve the Alumni website and/or, where you have provided consent, the marketing communications that we send you;
  • to investigate any complaints received from you or from others, about the website or the services therein; and
  • to address the requests you may send us by using our contact form and/or any other way of contact published herein or within the Alumni website
• Where you give us your consent:
  • to create your user profile within the website and provide you with all the services that the Alumni website entails (e.g. searching members of the Alumni website, participating in forums, [complete], etc.);
  • to send you our newsletters; and
  • to send you direct marketing in relation to activities, services and job opportunities, etc.

Where any of the above processing activities relies on consent, you will be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your data for other purposes. You can do this by contacting us using our Alumni@twobirds.com or via the details set out below.

You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing at any time. You can do this by using the links included in emails sent to you; by updating your notification settings while logged into the website by using our Alumni@twobirds.com or by writing to us using the details set out below.

To unsubscribe from newsletters, please either update your details via the notification page on the website or email us at Alumni@twobirds.com.

4. Disclosures of your personal data

Your personal data shall be shared with trusted third parties including analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and also if we are under a duty to disclose your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or for the purposes of crime prevention and fraud protection.

Please note that other users of the Alumni website may access or process your personal data if you enable it, as well as any other information shared throughout the website; e.g. by means of forums and/or chats.

5. Your rights

You have the right to ask us for a copy of your personal data; to correct, delete or restrict (stop any active) processing of your personal data; and to obtain the personal data you provide to us for a contract or with your consent in a structured, machine readable format, and to ask us to share (port) this data with another controller.

In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don't have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement, or where we are using the data for direct marketing).

These rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. You may exercise these rights by using by sending a written request to Alumni@twobirds.com or to the physical address set out above. If you believe that your data protection rights may have been breached, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

6. How long we keep your personal data

We will retain your personal data, whether or not your account is active, for as long as we believe it necessary or desirable to fulfil our business purposes or to comply with applicable law, audit requirements, regulatory requests or orders from competent courts.

7. Security

We take all appropriate steps to protect your information both online and offline. If you would like information on our security procedures please contact us using our Alumni@twobirds.com.

8. Effect of Privacy statement

This statement does not form a contract between the user and Bird & Bird. The statement may also be subject to change. Whenever you need to refer to this statement you should contact us for the most up to date version.

9. Changes to our Privacy statement

Any changes made to our statement in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our statement.

10. Contact details

If you would like to contact us then we ask that you do so using our Alumni@twobirds.com and we will take reasonable steps to resolve those concerns as soon as possible. You may also write to us at the address set out above.

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