Terms & Conditions

Effective January 19, 2022

Welcome to alhamadlaw.com (the "Site"). This Site is operated by Al-Hamad Legal Group ("HLG"). Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. HLG reserves the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting modified Terms of Use, and your continued use of the Site thereafter will constitute agreement with such modifications.

Nature of Information and Materials

Although this Site may provide information concerning legal issues, such information is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for legal advice from qualified counsel. You agree that HLG is not engaged in rendering legal services or advice by providing the information and materials on this Site, and that your use of the Site does not create any attorney-client relationship between you and HLG. HLG assumes no responsibility for any consequence relating directly or indirectly to any action or inaction you take based on the information or material on this Site. While HLG takes reasonable measures to keep the information on this Site accurate, complete and up-to-date, HLG will not be responsible for any damage or loss related to the inaccuracy, incompleteness or lack of timeliness of the information.

The information on this Site is for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice. Articles and other publications on this Site are current as of their date of publication and do not necessarily reflect the present law or regulations. HLG accepts no responsibility for loss which may arise from accessing or reliance on information contained in this Site.

Restrictions on Use of Materials

All materials contained on this Site, and all intellectual property rights thereto, including copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress, are owned by HLG or its affiliates, or have been obtained with the prior written consent from the owners of the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress. Users are permitted to read the contents and make copies for their own personal use and non-commercial-use. They may also give copies (in paper or electronic form) of reasonable extracts on an occasional basis free of charge to colleagues and clients for their personal use, on terms that

• (i) HLG is acknowledged as the source,
• (ii) the text is not altered in any way and
• (iii) the attention of recipients is drawn to this Warning. All other use and copying of any of the contents of this Site is prohibited unless the prior written consent of HLG is obtained. HLG reserves the right at its absolute discretion to prohibit any link to materials or information on this Site. Where access to restricted parts of this Site is subject to more specific terms, those terms apply instead. Copying from websites of third parties is subject to any requirements applicable to those sites.

Links to Other Sites
This Site may include links to other Internet sites that are beyond the control of HLG. HLG is not responsible for the content of any such sites, makes no representations regarding any such sites, and does not necessarily endorse or approve of the information, material, products or services contained on or accessible through any such sites. You acknowledge and agree that your linking to other sites, your use of such sites, and your use of any information, material, products and services offered by such sites, are solely at your own risk.

Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS PROVIDED ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. HLG DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS CONTAINED ON THIS SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Limitation of Liability
In no event shall HLG, or its partners or affiliates, or contributors to this Site, be liable for any loss or injury, or any damages, whether direct, special, indirect, punitive, incidental, exemplary, consequential, or otherwise, whether based on breach of contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise, resulting from your access or use of this Site. You hereby waive any and all such claims against HLG, its partners, affiliates, and contributors. You agree that the limitations set forth above are fundamental elements of this agreement, and that the Site and its materials would not be provided to you absent such limitations. Some state statutes may restrict this limitation of liability.

Indemnification
You agree that you will not use this Site for any unlawful purpose, or for any purpose prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless HLG, its partners, affiliates and contributors from any liability, loss, claim and expense (including attorneys’ reasonable fees) related to (i) your violation of these Terms of Use, and/or (ii) your posting or use of materials on this Site.

Non-Waiver
HLG's failure to insist upon strict enforcement of any provision of this agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.

Website Privacy Policy

Our Commitment
Consistent with our professional responsibilities and applicable law, Al-Hamad Legal Group (“HLG”) is committed to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to its clients, potential clients, their affiliates and affiliated individuals, and to adhering to the policy set out below. Reference in this policy to "your personal data" means any information that identifies, or could reasonably be used to identify, you as one of the aforementioned persons.

Use of Your Personal Data
HLG collects and processes your personal data to facilitate the provision of our professional services, including client services, conflicts checking, billing and marketing. We may also process your personal data in order to comply with our legal obligations. Personal data includes contact details (e.g., name, work address, telephone number and email address), work history (e.g., work function, education, training and details of former employment), identification information (e.g., passport details, visa and immigration status, date and place of birth) and billing information (e.g., account numbers and tax information). We collect personal data through direct contact with our clients, potential clients, their affiliates and affiliated individuals and through information publicly available on websites or from subscription services.

During the course of our representation of you, we may transfer your personal data to other offices within the HLG network to facilitate and centralize the operation of client services, conflicts checking, billing, marketing and related professional services. You should be aware that when you provide information to any individual HLG lawyer, you are providing it to HLG as a whole, and your information may therefore be exported to, processed in and accessed from countries whose laws provide varied levels of protection, not always equivalent to that provided in your own country. Please be assured that HLG has adopted various procedural and technical safeguards, in accordance with Kuwaiti data protection laws, to protect your data within our network.

Access by Third Parties
Consistent with our professional and ethical obligations, HLG may allow others to access your information in order to process data on our behalf in connection with the conduct of our business or where disclosure of your information is in your interest or is otherwise permitted, required or authorized under applicable law. Prior to allowing any third party access to your information for the purpose of conducting our business, HLG will take all reasonable steps to ensure that such third party enjoys a sound business reputation and provides at least the same level of privacy protection that we offer to our clients.

How to Access Your Personal Data
If you have any questions about our use of your personal data (including categories of third parties to whom your personal data has been disclosed), or if you want to exercise your right to see a copy of, correct, erase or block the personal data we hold about you or to submit a written demand that HLG cease processing your personal data, please send us an e-mail. Data Integrity

Personal data is only collected and processed to the extent necessary for the purposes described above. HLG updates, corrects and erases personal data on a regular basis. HLG will store and process your data only for the term of your retention of HLG and for a period thereafter reasonably determined by business necessity and our professional obligations to you or as may be required by law. Security

HLG takes all commercially reasonably steps consistent with industry practice to protect your personal data by using established security standards and procedures. To prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction of your personal data, HLG network has established physical, electronic and managerial security procedures appropriate to the risks represented and the nature of the personal data to be protected. HLG personnel who depart from our Privacy Policy are subject to strict disciplinary measures, which may include termination of employment or association.

Personal Information
HLG provides this notice to explain its practices regarding collection and use of personal information through alhamadlaw.com (the “Site”). HLG may collect information from you relating to your application for employment at HLG. We will not disclose, sell, or rent any of your identifiable personal information to any third party, unless approved by you, or required by law. HLG may offer you access to certain information by e-mail, and may distribute your e-mail address and name to external service providers who would manage this process for us. These service providers have agreed not to sell or distribute your information to any other party. HLG may share non-personal, anonymous, summary or aggregate user data with certain affiliates and other third parties. Please note that, although HLG aims to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, the firm cannot guarantee that your personal information will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this policy.

Links to Other Sites
This Site may contain, from time to time, links to other sites. When you enter these other sites using links from the Site, you are entering a site for which HLG has no responsibility. HLG does not control these other sites and cannot guarantee their practices regarding data privacy and security. We recommend that you read the privacy policies of those sites, which may differ from the policy of this Site.

Questions/Comments
If you have any questions or comments about our privacy policy, please feel free to Contact Us.

Social Media

HLG reserves the right to remove commentary on its social media channels. We will remove posts that are outside the original intent of the conversation, as well as those that are offensive or illegal. In addition, posts that drive to individual’s websites or products with the intent of personal gain, or those that disclose confidential information, will be removed.