Terms of use
Welcome to the Prisma Legal website.
Your use of our website is governed by these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). By using the Prisma Legal website, any of its contents or liking or following any of our social media accounts or pages you acknowledge that you have read and understand these Terms and agree to be bound by them.
Informtion, not legal advice.
The information and content available through this website, including articles, insights, publications, downloads and social media content (Content), is provided for general information only.
While we aim to make our Content useful and relevant, it is not legal or other professional advice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice tailored to your circumstances.
Law changes. Circumstances matter. Before acting or relying on anything you read on this website, you should obtain advice appropriate to your particular circumstances.
No solicitor client relationship
Accessing this website, downloading or using Content, following or interacting with our social media accounts, or contacting us through an online form, email or other electronic means does not, of itself, create a solicitor-client relationship with Prisma Legal.
We only act for you once we have agreed to do so and the applicable engagement requirements have been satisfied.
Please do not send confidential or sensitive information to us unless and until we have confirmed that we are able to act for you. Information sent to us before that time may not be treated as information received within a solicitor-client relationship.
Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, Prisma Legal owns or is licensed to use all intellectual property rights in this website and its Content, including text, articles, publications, graphics, photographs, designs, branding, logos and other materials.
You may view, download or print Content for your own personal or internal business use, provided that you do not modify the Content or remove any copyright, trade mark or other proprietary notice.
Except as permitted by law or with our prior written consent, you must not reproduce, republish, distribute, communicate, modify, adapt, commercially exploit, systematically extract or otherwise use our Content, in whole or in substantial part.
Prisma Legal®, Prisma Axess®, Open Axess® and any other registered or unregistered trade marks, business names, branding or distinctive identifiers used on this website remain the property of Prisma Legal or their respective owners. Nothing on this website grants you any licence or right to use them without the relevant owner’s prior written consent.
Artificial Intelligence and automated use of Content
We support the responsible use of technology and artificial intelligence. However, making our Content publicly available does not grant permission for our intellectual property to be systematically extracted, appropriated or used to develop or operate artificial intelligence or other automated systems.
Unless we have given our prior written consent, you must not use, reproduce, scrape, crawl, extract, download, compile or otherwise access or process our Content, in whole or in substantial part, for the purpose of:
- training, developing, testing, validating, fine-tuning or improving any artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language model or other automated system or model;
- creating, populating or contributing to any dataset, corpus, knowledge base, vector database or other collection used to train, develop, support or operate an artificial intelligence or machine learning system;
- incorporating our Content into a retrieval-augmented generation system or other system that retrieves or uses our Content to generate responses, outputs or services for commercial purposes;
- generating, reproducing or developing content, products or services that substantially reproduce, imitate, derive from or commercially exploit our Content; or
- systematically extracting, analysing or processing our Content by automated means for commercial use.
For the avoidance of doubt, the fact that Content is publicly accessible through this website does not constitute consent to its use for artificial intelligence or machine learning training, model development, commercial data extraction or other uses restricted by this section.
Nothing in this section is intended to prohibit ordinary use of publicly available Content for personal or internal business purposes, including the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist with reading, analysing or summarising Content, provided that use does not involve systematic extraction, commercial exploitation or the development, training or operation of an artificial intelligence product, model or service using our Content.
Nothing in these Terms restricts any use of our Content that cannot lawfully be restricted under applicable law.
Acceptable Use
Please use our website responsibly. You must not use the website:
- for any unlawful, fraudulent or improper purpose;
- in a way that infringes another person’s rights;
- to introduce malicious code, viruses or other harmful technology;
- to interfere with, damage or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, its systems or related infrastructure;
- to scrape, harvest or systematically extract Content or data from the website without our prior written consent; or
- to post or transmit material that is unlawful, misleading, defamatory, threatening, abusive, discriminatory, obscene or otherwise infringes another person’s rights.
We may restrict access to the website or remove material where we reasonably consider it appropriate to do so.
Prohibited Uses
The Content is proprietary to Prisma Legal, unless we expressly state otherwise. We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in respect of this website. If you want to use it, please ask us first, otherwise you’ll be infringing on our copyright.
If you post any communication on our website or social media accounts, including but not limited to posting blogs or comments, you must ensure that it is not unlawful, misleading, fraudulent or is otherwise abusive, offensive, defamatory, threatening, obscene, invasive to any person’s privacy or rights or otherwise objectionable. Basically, be nice or we reserve our right to delete or edit your communications.
Third Party links and services
We may collect and handle personal information when you use our website or communicate with us.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect personal information and how you can contact us about privacy.
Our website may also use cookies, analytics and other technologies to understand website use, improve functionality and, where applicable, support communications or marketing. Further information about these technologies and the choices available to you should be set out in our Privacy Policy and any cookie or privacy notice displayed on the website.
Website availability and security
We take reasonable steps to maintain the security and availability of our website, but we cannot guarantee that it will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free or free from viruses or other harmful components.
You are responsible for taking appropriate precautions when accessing or downloading material from the internet.
We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the website at any time.
Accuracy and Currency
We take care in preparing our Content, but laws, regulations, practices and circumstances change.
To the extent permitted by law, we do not represent or warrant that all Content is complete, current, accurate or suitable for your particular purpose.
Publication dates should be considered when using articles, insights or other time-sensitive Content.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right, guarantee, remedy or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified, including under the Australian Consumer Law.
Subject to those rights, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Prisma Legal is not liable for loss or damage arising from or connected with:
- your use of, or inability to use, this website;
- reliance on Content made available through the website;
- third-party websites, content or services linked from the website; or
- viruses, malicious code or other interference affecting your device or systems in connection with your use of the website.
Where our liability cannot lawfully be excluded but may be limited, our liability will be limited to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Social Media
Our social media accounts are intended to provide information, insights and updates and to facilitate professional engagement.
Content published through those accounts is general information only and is subject to the same limitations regarding legal advice and solicitor-client relationships described in these Terms.
Comments or views posted by third parties do not necessarily reflect the views of Prisma Legal. We may moderate or remove comments or other material from accounts we control where we consider it appropriate
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to our website, practices or applicable requirements.
The current version will be published on this page together with the date it was last updated. Your continued use of the website after an update will be subject to the then-current Term.
Applicable Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia.
You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and courts entitled to hear appeals from them.
Contact us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at hello@prismalegal.com.au.
