Code of Conduct

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Lexdot provides the legal industry professionals, service providers and prospects with an online meeting point for easy access to legal services. The Providers on Lexdot come from various jurisdictions regulated by diverse professional bodies and must conform to some ethical code. Therefore, this Code of conduct is written in addition to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy as a statement of certain fundamental principles, policies and procedures that govern the use of our platform by legal service professionals for delivery of services to clients online and offline. Nothing in this Code shall be interpreted to mean that Prospects or Clients should not be held accountable for misbehavior or inappropriate behavior on their part on the platform. Please read this code carefully before signing up as a provider. Thank you for being part of The Lexdot community.

A. LAWYER’S CONDUCT

I. Provide accurate, complete and timely personal information
Lawyers must complete their profile settings with accurate personal information. Lawyers must be actively barred and in good standing. Other professionals must indicate their area of competence and specialization. Additionally, you must provide an accurate description for firm-fixed-price offers and be able to carry out your service as listed. We reserve the right to delete your account if it’s incomplete or we cannot confirm that any information you made available on your profile is accurate, complete or current.

II. Perform professionally, competently and responsibly
It is your responsibility to carry appropriate professional liability insurance coverage and perform your service to an acceptable standard, and with a duty of care to clients. You must carry out your service with due regard to technical quality in a friendly and professional manner. Lawyers must provide regular progress updates to clients, and deliver work within the delivery times either defined in their firm-fixed-price offer or as agreed with a Prospect. Lawyers must also ensure that they comply with the tax legislation of there country of residency.

III. Provide accurate billing and account information
Lawyers must enter current, complete and accurate Paypal or other account information and to promptly update your account and other information, including your email address so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed. All transactions between the parties must be carried out on our website. We are not responsible for your failure to update your account information and any transaction carried outside our website is done at your own risk and discretion.

IV: Post accurate Content
Lawyers are fully responsible for your content and you represent that you have all the necessary rights to your Content and that you are not infringing on any third party’s rights by posting the Content. All Content posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Lexdot, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated.When posting an Offer, be as specific as you can be about the service you are offering and exactly what the prospective buyers will receive if they purchase your Offer so that there are no surprises. Under our sole discretion, we may refuse to list any or all of your service on our website and/or remove your listings if we consider your Content to be in violation of our Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to remove such listing without any further notice to you and we are under no obligation to provide a reason for the removal.

V. Protect clients confidentiality
Lawyers may learn confidential information about a prospect or client in carrying out their service on Lexdot. Confidential information includes all non-public information relating to the clients, or their business, including information provided by a third party, research and development ideas, or any information harmful to the business or its customers if disclosed. You must maintain the confidentiality of all information so entrusted to them, except when disclosure is authorized or legally mandated. Providers must safeguard confidential information by keeping it secure, limiting access to those who have a need to know in order to do their job, and avoiding discussion of confidential information in public areas. This prohibition includes but is not limited to, inquiries made by the press, analysts, investors or others. You shall not not use such information for personal gain. These confidentiality obligations continue even after the termination of the service relationship.

VI. Comply with all relevant laws, rules and regulations
Lawyers are obligated to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including rules of professional conduct in their jurisdiction. It is your personal responsibility as a lawyer to adhere to the standards and restrictions imposed by these laws, rules and regulations in the performance of your services to all clients, online and offline.

VII. Uphold fair dealing
Lawyers must endeavor to deal fairly with our users, prospects, other service providers, competitors and employees. You shall not take unfair advantage of anyone through manipulation, concealment, abuse of privileged information, misrepresentation of material facts, or any unfair dealing practice. Inappropriate use of users information, misusing information that was obtained without the owner’s consent, or inducing such disclosures is also prohibited.

VIII. Avoid prohibited uses
In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in our Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using Lexdot or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet; (h) to collect or track the personal information of others; (I) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the our website. We may terminate your account for violating any of the prohibited uses.

IX. Not abuse client comments and feedback

Client feedback is an integral part of Lexdot. We are under no obligation to maintain client comments in confidence or to respond to any comments. We also have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content, but we may remove any content that we determine, in our sole discretion, unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or our Privacy Policy. Users are solely responsible for any comments they make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by your clients or any user of the website, and your response to them.

B. INTERNATIONAL DELIVERIES AND TRADE LAWS

For international deliveries, we accept no liability whatsoever for any import and/or customs duties, levies, taxes or any other form of charge and/or levy of any nature whatsoever, which may be incurred as a result of your product service being delivered internationally. You agree that your use of our payments system will not involve any countries, entities, individuals, or items prohibited by sanctions, embargoes, regulations or orders administered by government agencies.

C. OPTIONAL TOOLS

Providers may use our Task Manager and/ or any other third-party tools over which we neither monitor nor have any control nor input to perform your service. We may also offer new services, resources and features through the website in the future. Please be aware that we provide access to such tools “as is” and “as available” without any warranties, representations or conditions of any kind and without any endorsement. We shall have no liability whatsoever arising from or relating to your use of optional third-party tools. Any use by you of any optional tools offered through Lexdot is entirely at your own risk and discretion. You must ensure that you are familiar with, and approve of the terms on which tools are provided.

D. INDEMNITY

Providers agree to indemnify and hold Lexdot, its agents and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you add to Lexdot, your use of the website, your violation of our Terms and Conditions of Use, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.

E. NO RIGHTS CREATED

Registering for a Lexdot Provider Account does not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment or franchisee relationship between you and Lexdot. This code is also not intended to and does not create any special rights in any Provider or any other person or entity.