Terms and Conditions

Welcome to SMAL Legal (www.smallegal.com.au). We hope you enjoy the information provided and we hope we can work with you soon.

This Site is owned and operated by Frances Abigail Acance (ABN 71477315475) trading as SMAL Legal. These website terms, together with our privacy policy apply to all site visitors, subscribers, social media followers, clients and customers. By accessing this website, you agree to the terms and conditions along with our privacy policy.  

Consent to Site Terms of Use

By accessing this Site, our social media channels, appointment application, blogs, webinars, free consultations and any other material provided on this Site, you are taken to accepting our terms. By using the Site, you warrant that you are over 18 years of age, have read and accepted these terms and will comply with these terms.

Information on this Site is General Only and does not Constitute Legal Advice.

Some of the content we provide on this Site may reference legal matters, case law and legislation. All content provided (including, but not limited to) on this Site, social media posts, webinars and blogs is general and does not constitute legal advice, nor does it give rise to a lawyer-client relationship. 

You agree that any information or feedback that you provide by using this Site or using a free consultation is not protected by lawyer-client confidentiality or privilege.  

Free Online Consultation

We provide a free consultation to assess your legal needs and to determine whether we can help. You may book one free consultation of 15-30 minutes. Attempts to book multiple, consecutive meetings will be cancelled. 

The mode of the meeting can be telephone call, google videoconferencing, Microsoft Teams or Zoom as chosen by you. 

The online consultation will assess legal needs only. No legal advice will be provided during the online consultation and the online consultation will not give rise to a lawyer-client relationship.

Lawyer-Client Relationship

A lawyer-client relationship will only commence after we have completed a conflict check, and you sign an engagement letter, accepting the scope and business terms of the engagement. The lawyer-client relationship will only

Copyright

You agree that we own the copyright to all documents, website, website content and social media posts. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive personal and non-commercial licence to use the contents. Any other use is prohibited unless permitted by law or by consent through emailing hello@smallegal.com.au

You agree that you will not reproduce, exploit or use any part of the Site or the Contents for the purpose of re-selling or for any products or services similar to the Site or its contents.

Third Party Websites

We provide links to third party websites including but not limited to: social media (Instagram, Facebook), Squarespace and the Calendly booking application. Unless we expressly tell you otherwise, we do not in any way, endorse, control or approve of and nor are we responsible for the content on those websites. Any use of these website is at your own risk and you must direct any concerns about their products and services to the relevant third parties.  

Warranties and Guarantees

We do not represent, warrant or guarantee that our Site will always be available and free from disruption, or that the Site will be free from virus or other technological errors.

We do not warrant that our content is accurate, complete and current.

If you see any issues within the website, please email hello@smallegal.com.au 

Privacy

By accepting our terms, you also accept our privacy policy. Our full privacy policy can be found here

Liabilities

To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any loss or damage arising from, without limitation, any direct, indirect and/or present or future loss, loss of use of the website, loss of data, loss caused by a virus, loss of income or profits, loss or damage to property, third party claims or any other losses connected with your use of our Site, your ability to access our Site or the contents of our Site.

Severability

If any of the terms are found to be contrary to the law, then the clause will be changed or removed to ensure compliance. The remaining provisions of these terms will remain in full force.

Updates

We reserve the right to update these terms and conditions from time to time. These changes will be effective on the date the change is made. By visiting this Site, you agree to the changes. You agree to review these changes from time to time.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions is governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia

You and SMAL Legal

  • you’ and ‘your’ mean the visitors to the Site

  • ‘we’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ mean SMAL Legal ABN 71477315475

  • ‘Site’ means www.smallegal.com.au