Terms and conditions

1. Description of the activity

Lexalert informs companies, governments, academic institutions, interest groups,... ("information seekers") who register on its database via www.lexalert.net ("website") about the new regulations relevant to their industry.

Lexalert offers lawyers, lobbyists and other business advisors ("information providers") the opportunity to get themselves known by sending an information note about new legislation to information seekers by e-mail, publishing it on its website and providing online seminars ("webinars").

2. Scope

These terms and conditions are accepted by the information seeker or provider upon the registration on the website. Except for any explicit agreement to the contrary, the purchase terms or any other conditions of the information seeker or provider do not apply.

Lexalert may differ from those terms and conditions by communication special conditions to the information provider while concluding the agreement.

The most recent version of the general conditions are to be found on the website and can be obtained by e-mail on simple request.

Amendments to the terms and conditions come into force within 30 days after its publication on the website and / or its communication to the information seeker or provider. If the information seeker or provider does not agree with the amendments, he shall deregister from the database via the website on his own initiative.

3. Liability

The information provider bears the full responsibility for the information which he has communicated in his name through the website, e-mail, a webinar or any other information channel of lexalert.

Although the information and data which lexalert communicates in its own name, was compiled with the greatest care, lexalert cannot guarantee its accuracy, completeness or suitability for any use.

Therefore lexalert cannot be held liable for any incorrect information communicated via the website, e-mail, webinar or any other information channel, or for damage of any kind stemming from the direct or indirect use of this information.

Lexalert is not held to inform the information seekers in an exhaustive manner on all the new regulations. Lexalert may decide unilaterally and at all times to stop providing this information.

The information seeker or provider can under no circumstances claim any financial compensation on the account of lexalert. Lexalert is not responsible towards either information seekers or third parties for any direct, indirect, incidental damages, loss of profits or for any other damage caused by the information disseminated by the information provider by the intervention of lexalert as well as the information disseminated by lexalert in its own name.

4. Privacy

The personal information that the information seeker or provider submit via the website, email, webinar or any other communication channel can be stored in databases held by lexalert. The information seeker or provider agree that this information will be used in order to provide services as defined in Article 1.

The personal information is processed in accordance with the Belgian law of 8th of December 1992 on the protection of privacy in the context of the processing of personal data.

The following website of the Belgian government provides additional information about the law of 8th of December 1992: http://www.privacy.fgov.be/.

The information seeker or provider assumes responsibility for the accuracy of personal data provided. He also assumes responsibility for all costs resulting from incorrect information.

The information seeker or provider has the right to access his personal information and to correct it upon sending a written, dated and signed request to the attention of the owner of the databases, i.e. lexalert. The responsible for the processing of the personal data is Dries Verhaeghe, Rue du canon 2/1, B-1000 Brussels.

The personal information may be used by lexalert or its information providers. Lexalert shall not distribute or transmit information to third parties without prior notice to the information seekers and providers.

The personal information may be disclosed if required by law, a court order, if it is necessary to protect and defend the rights or property of lexalert and to protect the safety of individuals in imperative circumstances.

5. Billing

The services to information seekers are in principle free of charge unless specified otherwise.

The services to information providers are provided against payment under the special conditions specified by lexalert while concluding the contract.

Invoices for information seekers and providers are payable 30 days after the end of the month of invoicing. Disputes must be expressed to lexalert within 8 days after the invoice and must be sent by registered mail. In case of non-payment, incomplete or late payment, an intrest on late payments of 12% of the invoice amount is due as of right and without prior notice. Under those circumstances, as of right and without prior notice, a penalty clause of 15% of the invoice amount, with a minimum of € 250, is payable as well.

Should the information provider wish to verify the login files of the website, with respect to the invoicing, a third party shall be appointed as auditor, on the proposal of the information providor and subject to the approval of lexalert. The third party shall execute a confidentiality agreement presented to him by lexalert. Any and all costs for this verification (eg. honorary payments and expenses for the auditor, lexalert, web hosting company,…) will be at the expense of the information provider.

6. Intellectual property

The information provider warrants that he has full copyright of the delivered literary, photographic, graphic, audiovisual and radiophonic works. For these works and any part of these works the information provider grants lexalert on a non-exclusive basis the right to publish, reproduce (graphically, mechanically,…), multiply, announce publicly, perform, execute, exhibit, use, broadcast, synchronise,… irrespective of the used support (graphic, sound, internet,…) and irrespective of the used technique (air, cable, satellite, internet, simulcasting, webcasting, (non) interactive online,…).

These rights are granted worldwide and for a period of three years. This period starts as from the first public communication about the work by lexalert and is tacitly extended. Should the information provider wish to end the transfer of the rights mentioned in this article, he shall inform lexalert about this in writing and at the latest three months before the end of the three-year period.

7. Miscellaneous

If any of the terms or provisions of the terms and conditions were regarded as unenforceable or in conflict with any imperative legal provision, that would not affect the enforceability and validity of the remaining provisions.

The Belgian law applies and the district courts and courts of Brussels’ district are competent. Electronic communication between parties has the legal effect of written evidence.