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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
What's in these Terms?
These Terms tell you the rules for using our website alumni.reedsmith.com (our Alumni Network website).
Click on the links below to go straight to more information on each area –
1............ Who we are and how to contact us.
2............ By using our Alumni Network website, you accept these Terms.
3............ About our Alumni Network website.
4............ There are other terms that apply to your use of our Alumni Network website
5............ We may make changes to these Terms.
6............ We may make changes to our Alumni Network website.
7............ We may suspend or withdraw our Alumni Network website.
8............ We may transfer this agreement to someone else.
9............ You must keep your account details safe.
10.......... Compliance with laws.
11.......... How you may use material on our Alumni Network website.
12.......... No text or data mining, or web scraping..
13.......... Rules about linking to our Alumni Network website.
14.......... Uploading content to our Alumni Network website.
15.......... User-generated content is not approved by us.
16.......... Do not rely on information on this Alumni Network website.
17.......... We are not responsible for websites we link to.
18.......... Discounts we link you to from our Alumni Network website.
19.......... Jobs posted on our Alumni Network website.
20.......... We are not responsible for viruses.
21.......... You must not introduce viruses.
23.......... OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU.
24.......... Your responsibility for loss or damage suffered by us.
25.......... How we may use your personal information.
26.......... Which country's laws apply to any disputes?.
27.......... Limitations period for actions.
28.......... Who is Reed Smith?.
1 Who we are and how to contact us
alumni.reedsmith.com is a website for the alumni, current personnel of Reed Smith, recruiters and "Friends of the Firm" who are individuals that are not current employees or Reed Smith alumni but who have been provided access to the site by us. Reed Smith is referred to as 'we', 'us', and 'our', in these Terms of Service ('Terms'). The site is operated by us and provided by Aluminati Network Group Limited (the 'Alumni Network website'). See below for details of our various legal entities.
We are a regulated law firm and for more details about us see WHO IS REED SMITH?.
To contact us, please email the Alumni team.
2 By using our Alumni Network website, you accept these Terms
By using our Alumni Network website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and you agree to comply with them. No agency, partnership, joint venture, employment or franchise relationship is created or intended by these Terms.
3 About our Alumni Network website
Our Alumni Network website provides a way for you to stay connected with Reed Smith alumni and current Reed Smith personnel. You must be a Reed Smith alumni or current Reed Smith personnel to participate in our Alumni Network and Friends of the Firm and recruiters have limited use of our Alumni Network website.
4 There are other terms that apply to your use of our Alumni Network website
These Terms refer to and include the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Alumni Network website -
- Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data.
- Our Acceptable Use Policy which are the rules that apply to your interactions on the Alumni Network website.
We do not collect cookies, but our Alumni Network website is provided by Aluminati who only collect essential cookies. See their cookie policy.
All of these apply to your use.
5 We may make changes to these Terms
We amend these Terms and the other terms that apply to you [Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy] from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Alumni Network website, please check these Terms to ensure you understand what applies to your use of our Alumni Network website at that time. Changes will be effective from the date they are posted on our Alumni Network website and your continued use of our Alumni Network website will mean you accept them.
6 We may make changes to our Alumni Network website
We may update and change our Alumni Network website from time to time without notice as we grow our network of alumni and firm personnel.
7 We may suspend or withdraw our Alumni Network website
Our Alumni Network website is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our Alumni Network website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Alumni Network website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
8 We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to any organization taking over all or part of the business of Reed Smith LLP. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the Terms.
9 You must keep your account details safe
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly email us.
Your account is personal to you and it must not be transferred to anyone else.
10 Compliance with laws
You must comply with all applicable laws and must keep in mind that access to our Alumni Network website by some people in some countries may not be legal.
11 How you may use material on our Alumni Network website
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Alumni Network website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Alumni Network website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to content posted on our Alumni Network website.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Alumni Network website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is your own user-generated content).
You must not display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit, transfer or transmit for any commercial purposes, any portion of our Alumni Network website, use of the Alumni Network website, or access to our Alumni Network website.
If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our Alumni Network website in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Alumni Network website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made (except that you are permitted to print off a copy of these Terms).
12 No text or data mining, or web scraping
You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorize or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Alumni Network website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Alumni Network website for any purpose, including the development, training, fine-tuning or validation of AI systems or models. This includes using (or permitting, authorizing or attempting the use of) -
- Any 'robot', 'bot', 'spider', 'scraper' or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of our Alumni Network website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
- Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information or develop, train, fine-tune or validate AI systems or models which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of all laws governing copyright in all relevant jurisdictions.
This clause will not apply insofar as (but only to the extent that) we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws which are applicable to us.
13 Rules about linking to our Alumni Network website
You may not link to our home page or establish any links in any way as to suggest any form of association with it. This applies to your own website or any website not owned by you.
14 Uploading content to our Alumni Network website
We do not permit you or other Alumni Network website users to share content apart from using a chat function. You must use this Chat function in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy.
We have the right to remove content from any chat function used on our Alumni Network website if, in our opinion, it does not comply with the acceptable use standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy. You can report any messages to the website administrators by email or using the report function directly within Chat. The administrators will determine what action should be taken. You can also hide messages should you choose too. You cannot delete a chat message, received or sent, only a discussion or reply (which use is limited on the site).
If you wish to contact us in relation to content you have uploaded to our Alumni Network website and that we have taken down, please email email us.
15 User-generated content is not approved by us
Where other Alumni use the Chat function on our Alumni Network website be aware that we do not verify or approve the content and the views expressed by other users on our Alumni Network website do not represent our views or values. We are not obliged to restrict or monitor Chat content in any way although we may remove or modify that Chat content at any time.
16 Do not rely on information on this Alumni Network website
The content on our Alumni Network website is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Alumni Network website.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Alumni Network website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Alumni Network website is accurate, complete or up to date.
17 We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our Alumni Network website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.
18 Discounts we link you to from our Alumni Network website
Please note that all services and promotions offered through the Discounts section of our Alumni Network website are supplied by external third-party suppliers and signing up for their services and acceptance of their services is done at your own risk. Reed Smith and the Reed Smith Alumni Relations team accepts no liability for any discounts offered by these third parties. Any questions, issues or concerns regarding the services and promotions should be raised directly with the third party supplying them and you engage with them at your own risk.
19 Jobs posted on our Alumni Network website
You may be allowed to submit non-Reed Smith job openings for posting on the Alumni Network website ("Job Post"). When you provide a Job Post you grant us a license to use it. Specifically, you grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, fully-paid, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple layers of sub-licensees) right and license to make, use, sell, sublicense, reformat, reproduce, distribute, perform, display, prepare derivative works from and otherwise exploit all Job Posts you post or submit, for the purpose of publishing material on the Alumni Network website and maintaining or improving the Alumni Network website. No compensation in any form shall be due or payable to you in connection with our exercise of our rights under the license granted under this Section.
By submitting a Job Post you agree that you are fully liable for it and that:
- the Job Post complies with applicable law,
- you have the necessary rights and permissions to submit the Job Post; and
- the Job Post complies with the Acceptable Use Policy.
We have the right to modify, refuse, and/or takedown any Job Post in our sole discretion. We are not obligated to review any Job Post prior to publishing it on the Alumni Network website. For clarity, we assume no responsibility, and disclaim all liability for the content, accuracy, completeness, legality, reliability, and availability of any Job Post.
20 We are not responsible for viruses
We do not guarantee that our Alumni Network website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our Alumni Network website. You should use your own virus protection software.
21 You must not introduce viruses
You must not misuse our Alumni Network website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or otherwise harmfully interacting with our Alumni Network website or any part of it. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Alumni Network website, the server on which our Alumni Network website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Alumni Network website or any other equipment or network connected with our Alumni Network website. You must not interfere with, damage or disrupt any software used in the provision of our Alumni Network website or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party on which this Alumni Network website relies in any way. You must not attack our Alumni Network website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Alumni Network website will cease immediately.
22 Our trademarks
None of our trademarks can be used by you without our permission.
23 OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU
WE DO NOT EXCLUDE OR LIMIT IN ANY WAY OUR LIABILITY TO YOU WHERE IT WOULD BE UNLAWFUL TO DO SO.
WE EXCLUDE ALL IMPLIED CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO OUR ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT ON IT.
REED SMITH AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY ABOUT THE ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT OR SERVICES ACCESSED ON OR THROUGH THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, AND PROVIDE THE ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE (INCLUDING ITS CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, REED SMITH AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS INDIRECT OR PUNITIVE AND WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH -
- USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, OUR ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE;
- USE OF OR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT DISPLAYED ON OUR ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE;
- USE BY YOU OF THE LINK TO THE SUPPLIERS OF THE BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO USERS IN CERTAIN REGIONS; OR
- USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE JOBS POSTED ONTO OUR ALUMNI NETWORK WEBSITE.
24 Your responsibility for loss or damage suffered by us
To the fullest extent permitted by the applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, agents, employees, suppliers, licensors and partners (individually and collectively, the "Reed Smith Parties") harmless from and against all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) ("Claim") arising out of or related to:
- your use of the Alumni Network website, including without limitation, Job Posts and any actions taken by a third party using your account; or,
- your violation of any provision of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy.
In the event of such a claim, suit, or action, we will attempt to provide notice of the Claim to the contact information we have for your account (provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not eliminate or reduce your indemnification obligations under these Terms). You agree to promptly notify Reed Smith Parties of any third-party Claims, cooperate with us in defending such Claims and pay all fees, costs and expenses associated with defending such Claims (including, but not limited to, attorneys' fees).
We reserve the right, at our own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will fully cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.
You agree that all rights and obligations of indemnification in this Section shall survive termination of your account, the Terms and/or your access to the Alumni Network website.
25 How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.
26 Which country's laws apply to any disputes?
These Terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed the laws of England and Wales. We both agree to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within England and Wales.
27 Limitations period for actions
You must commence any action concerning any dispute you may have with regard to this Alumni Network website within one year after the cause of the dispute.
28 Who is Reed Smith?
References to 'Reed Smith' in these Terms are to Reed Smith LLP of Delaware USA and all of its affiliates and related entities.