Terms & Conditions for the use of this website

This website is operated under license by Louwrens Koen Attorneys=, and the use thereof governs the following Terms and Conditions to which you consent if you make use of our website:

Pre-Condition to Use:

Do not use this website unless:

  • You have read these terms and conditions; and
  • You accept that these terms and conditions will govern your right to use and access our website, including all the information, documents and links contained thereon.

DO NOTE: If you choose to use this website and subsequently access information or download documents from it, your actions will serve as confirmation of acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions contained hereunder.

Amendment of Terms:

Louwrens Koen Attorneys reserves the right to change these terms and conditions of use at any time, and those changes shall take effect in respect of all subsequent services by you of the relevant website. You should therefore check these terms and conditions every time before you use this website.

Only if you accept these terms and conditions may you proceed to access and use this website.

Copyright and Restriction of Use:

You are only permitted as a current or potential client of Louwrens Koen Attorneys to use the information obtained or downloaded from this website to conclude your application, case or contract (as the case might be). You are not permitted to reproduce the information, documents, or materials on this website for any commercial purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to the promotion of your own business or that of any third party. In particular, you are not permitted to republish, upload, transmit electronically or otherwise distribute any of the information or documents that you download from this website.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys expressly reserves all copyright in this website including, but not limited to the articles, information, documents, adverts, pictures and photos on this website. You are advised to send any further enquiries to koen@louwrenskoen.co.za.

Trademarks and Restriction of Use:

You are not permitted to use any trademarks, trade names, designs, graphics or adverts that appear on this website. Louwrens Koen Attorneys reserves the right to take action against you if you breach any of its trademarks, copyright or adverts (re-branded or not).

Exclusion of Competitors:

If you are in the business of providing any information, documentation or services to people regarding debt solutions or Insolvency Law, or if you are advising people or are in any way involved with the drafting of court applications, whether it be free of charge or not, then you are deemed to be a competitor of Dionne Lamprecht Inc. Louwrens Koen Attorneys expressly excludes and does not permit you to use or access its website, to download any information, documents or data of any kind from its website or obtain any such information, documents or data of any kind, though a third party.

If you breach this term, then Louwrens Koen Attorneys will hold you fully responsible for any loss that it might sustain and further holds you accountable for all profits you might make from such unpermitted and improper use.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys reserves the right to exclude and not permit any person from using this website or any of the information, documents and other data contained on it.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys is a legal practice:

Whilst the documents and information are prepared by experienced legal practitioners or experts in their respective fields, this website of Louwrens Koen Attorneys usually only express a general opinion on a given topic, to which expression there may be certain exceptions. This website is intended to provide you with helpful information, documentation, links and subsequent legal opinions and advice. In contrast, services will only be provided by the staff of Louwrens Koen Attorneys.

Consult a Legal Practitioner:

If you are unsure as to any of the terms or any of the information or how it applies to your specific circumstances, then you should consult with a legal practitioner. Both the information and documents we provide must necessarily be of a general nature and may not cover every situation that may arise. You should therefore use a legal practitioner for any specific problem that you might have or if you are unsure or do not understand any of the information or documents on the website.

Limitation On Louwrens Koen Attorneys liability:

It is an essential pre-condition to you using this website that you agree and accepts that Louwrens Koen Attorneys is not legally responsible for any loss or damage you may suffer related to your use of this website, whether from any errors or possible omissions in our documents or information or from any other use of this website. In short, your use of this site is and will be at your own risk.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys liability for any breach of a term of this agreement, or any loss or damage which may arise as a result from the use of this website, regardless of fault, is limited to:-

(i) the supplying to you of the services again; or
(ii) the payment of the costs of having the services supplied to you again.

Links To Other Websites:

Louwrens Koen Attorneys has provided on this website links to other websites and information on those websites for your convenience and this website may also contain information provided by third parties. This does not necessarily imply any sponsorship, endorsement, approval or arrangement of any kind between Louwrens Koen Attorneys and the owners of those websites. Louwrens Koen Attorneys takes no responsibility for any of the content found on the linked websites and accepts no responsibility whatsoever for information or advice provided to you directly by third parties.

Express Disclaimers:

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Louwrens Koen Attorneys absolutely disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. Louwrens Koen Attorneys gives no warranty that the information and/or documents contained on this website will be free of errors, or that defects will be corrected, or that this website or its server is free of viruses or any other harmful components.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the result of the use of any information, document or link in its website or as to their correctness, suitability, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. It is your sole and exclusive responsibility to bear any entire costs of servicing, repairs, or correction.

Your Privacy:

Louwrens Koen Attorneys respects the privacy and confidentiality of the information provided by you, and we do not knowingly collect any information regarding children, apart from what is required by our Family Law Department. You may change your details at any time by sending an email to koen@louwrenskoen.co.za. Louwrens Koen Attorneys protect its client's data with secure servers that encrypt all client information to ensure all the client data Louwrens Koen Attorneys collects is secured against unauthorised use or access. We do not store or list any Credit Card information on our servers.

Please proceed to review our PRIVACY POLICY in conjunction with our POPI Manual and PAIA Manual for more information...

Third Parties Can Not Use Your Information:

Louwrens Koen Attorneys does not sell or deal in personal client or client information. We may, however, use the information that you provide to improve this website, our services and service delivery or use your data in a general sense without any reference to your name to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and to assist it in meeting its clients' needs generally.

Louwrens Koen Attorneys May Disclose:

Louwrens Koen Attorneys may disclose information in good faith and where Louwrens Koen Attorneys is required to do so:-

(i) by law or by any court;
(ii) to enforce the terms of any of our client / customer agreements;
(iii) to protect the rights, property or safety of Dionne Lamprecht Inc, its clients or third parties; or
(iv) to banks or financial institutions with the purpose of preventing fraud and as proof of any transaction.

Jurisdiction:

This agreement and this website are subject to the laws of South Africa. If there is a dispute between you and Louwrens Koen Attorneys that results in litigation, then by use of this website, you submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

Whole Agreement:

These terms and conditions represent the whole agreement between you and Louwrens Koen Attorneys concerning your use and access to this website and your use and access to the documents and information on it. No other term implied or not is to be included in this agreement and are hereby expressly excluded, except those implied by any statute which can not be explicitly excluded.

Conflicting Conditions:

Where there is a conflict between Louwrens Koen Attorneys standard Terms and Conditions and written terms and conditions given by the author to a third party with consent to utilise his articles published on this site, the author's terms and conditions will apply in and for that specific instance only.