Terms of Use
(Effective November 5, 2012)
1. BINDING EFFECT. This is a binding agreement. By using the Internet site located at www.scottokamotolaw.com (the “Site”) or any services provided in connection with the Site (the “Service”), you agree to abide by these Terms of Use, as they may be amended by the Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto (the “Law Office”) from time to time in its sole discretion made effective upon posting to the site. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use periodically, and if at any time you find these Terms of Use unacceptable, you must immediately leave the Site and cease all use of the Service and the Site. YOU AGREE THAT BY USING THE SERVICE YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
2. PRIVACY POLICY. The Law Office respects your privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. A complete statement of the Law Office’s current privacy policy can be found by clicking here. The Law Office’s privacy policy is expressly incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
2.1. USE OF INFORMATION. The Law Office reserves the right, and you authorize us, to use and assign all information regarding site uses by you and all information provided by you in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
3. INTENDED AUDIENCE. This website is intended for adults only. This website is not intended for any children under the age of 13.
4. SITE USE. Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to use this site solely for your own personal use and not for republication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparation of derivative works, commercial, or other use. You agree not to copy materials on the site, reverse engineer or break into the site, or use materials, products or services in violation of any law. The use of this website is at the discretion of Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto and the Law Office may terminate your use of this website at any time.
4.1. LINKING TO THE SITE. You may link to the Site only if you do not obscure notices on the Site, engage in illegal or pornographic activities, and discontinue any such links upon our request.
5. NO LEGAL ADVICE OR ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. Use of the Site does not create an attorney-client relationship. The content on the site is general information. Seek the advice of competent legal counsel licensed in the appropriate jurisdiction for your matter. We only practice law in jurisdiction in which we are legally authorized to do so. We do not seek to represent anyone in any jurisdiction in which we are not legally authorized.
5.1. COMMUNICATIONS FROM YOU. Any communication from you, for example, an email or a contact-form submission, does not create an attorney-client relationship. A formal, written engagement into by you and the Law Office is necessary to create such a relationship. Similarly, any information from you may not be treated as confidential by the Law Office unless and until a formal, written engagement agreement has been entered into by you and the Law Office. Unless and until a formal, written engagement agreement has been entered into by you and the Law Office, Law Office may choose to represent a party with interests adverse to you.
5.2. RESULTS DISCLAIMER. No specific results are guaranteed, and prior results are not a guarantee a similar outcome.
6. OWNERSHIP. All content included on this site is and shall continue to be the property of the Law Office and/or its content suppliers and is protected under applicable copyright, patent, trademark, and other proprietary rights. Any copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such content or any part of the Site is prohibited, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement. Under no circumstances will you acquire any ownership rights or other interest in any content by or through your use of this site.
6.1. COPYRIGHT. All contents of Site or Service are: Copyright © 2012 Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan St., No. 202, San Francisco, CA 94115. All rights reserved.
6.2. NO LICENSE. Nothing contained on the Site should be understood as granting you a license to use any of the trademarks, service marks, or logos owned by the Law Office or by any third party.
7. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding your use of the website. You further agreed that information provided by you is truthful and accurate to the best of your knowledge.
7.1. COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS. When accessing the Site or using the Service, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Service and the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third party rights caused by any Content you provide or transmit. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or third party rights rests solely with you.
8. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. The Law Office has in place certain legally mandated procedures regarding allegations of copyright infringement occurring on the Site or with the Service. The Law Office’s policy is to investigate any allegations of copyright infringement brought to its attention. If you have evidence, know, or have a good faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third party have been violated and you want the Law Office to delete, edit, or disable the material in question, you must provide the Law Office with all of the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringed or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Law Office to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit the Law Office to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. For this notification to be effective, you must provide it to the Law Office’s designated agent at:
Scott T. Okamoto, Owner, Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan Street, No. 202, San Francisco, California, 415.766.5871 (phone), 415.931.2216 (fax), [email protected].
9. ALLEGED VIOLATIONS. The Law Office reserves the right to terminate your use of the Service and/or the Site. To ensure that the Law Office provides a high-quality experience for you and for other users of the Site and the Service, you agree that the Law Office or its representatives may access your records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or allegations of abuse, infringement of third party rights, or other unauthorized uses of the Site or the Service. The Law Office does not intend to disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law, but the Law Office reserves the right to terminate your access to the Site immediately, with or without notice to you, and without liability to you, if the Law Office believes that you have violated any of the Terms of Use, furnished the Law Office with false or misleading information, or interfered with use of the Site or the Service by others.
10. NO WARRANTIES. THE LAW OFFICE HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES. THE LAW OFFICE IS MAKING THE SITE AVAILABLE “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGE OR LOSS FROM USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE SERVICE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE LAW OFFICE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. THE LAW OFFICE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
11. LIMITED LIABILITY. THE LAW OFFICE’S LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LAW OFFICE BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA, REGARDLESS OF THE FORESEEABILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY THE LAW OFFICE. This limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action. YOUR SOLE AND REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE AND/OR CONTENT IS TO CEASE ALL OF YOUR SITE USE.
12. AFFILIATED SITES. The Law Office has no control over, and no liability for any third-party websites or materials. The Law Office works with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because neither the Law Office nor the Site has control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, the Law Office makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and the Law Office assumes no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the Site, you may have access to content items (including, but not limited to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that the Law Office makes no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Use shall govern your use of any and all third party content.
13. PROHIBITED USES. The Law Office imposes certain restrictions on your permissible use of the Site and the Service. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Site or Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, the Site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site or Service, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing;” (d) using the Site or Service to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by the Law Office in providing the Site or Service. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
14. INDEMNITY. You agree to indemnify the Law Office for certain of your acts and omissions. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Law Office, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the Site, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. The Law Office will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide you with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.
15. GOVERNING LAW. These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in San Francisco, California, USA in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Service.
16. SEVERABILITY; WAIVER. If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in these Terms of Use to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
17. CALIFORNIA USE ONLY. The Site is controlled and operated by the Law Office from its offices in the State of California. The Law Office makes no representation that any of the materials or the services to which you have been given access are available or appropriate for use in other locations. Your use of or access to the Site should not be construed as the Law Office’s purposefully availing itself of the benefits or privilege of doing business in any state or jurisdiction other than California.
18. MODIFICATIONS. The Law Office may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, (a) revise these Terms of Use; (b) modify the Site and/or the Service; and (c) discontinue the Site and/or Service at any time. The Law Office shall post any revision to these Terms of Use to the Site, and the revision shall be effective immediately on such posting. You agree to review these Terms of Use and other online policies posted on the Site periodically to be aware of any revisions. You agree that, by continuing to use or access the Site following notice of any revision, you shall abide by any such revision.
19. HOW TO CONTACT US: Scott T. Okamoto, Esq, Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan Street, No. 202, San Francisco, California, 415.766.5871 (phone), 415.931.2216 (fax), [email protected].
20. FILTERING. To the extent necessary, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230(d), you are hereby notified that parental-control protections are commercially available to limit access to material harmful to minors. Such products can be found at http://www.getnetwise.org/ and http://www.onguardonline.gov/. No endorsement or warranty is made as to those products or services.
21. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. BY USING THE SERVICE OR ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM.
1. BINDING EFFECT. This is a binding agreement. By using the Internet site located at www.scottokamotolaw.com (the “Site”) or any services provided in connection with the Site (the “Service”), you agree to abide by these Terms of Use, as they may be amended by the Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto (the “Law Office”) from time to time in its sole discretion made effective upon posting to the site. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use periodically, and if at any time you find these Terms of Use unacceptable, you must immediately leave the Site and cease all use of the Service and the Site. YOU AGREE THAT BY USING THE SERVICE YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
2. PRIVACY POLICY. The Law Office respects your privacy and permits you to control the treatment of your personal information. A complete statement of the Law Office’s current privacy policy can be found by clicking here. The Law Office’s privacy policy is expressly incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
2.1. USE OF INFORMATION. The Law Office reserves the right, and you authorize us, to use and assign all information regarding site uses by you and all information provided by you in any manner consistent with our Privacy Policy.
3. INTENDED AUDIENCE. This website is intended for adults only. This website is not intended for any children under the age of 13.
4. SITE USE. Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to use this site solely for your own personal use and not for republication, distribution, assignment, sublicense, sale, preparation of derivative works, commercial, or other use. You agree not to copy materials on the site, reverse engineer or break into the site, or use materials, products or services in violation of any law. The use of this website is at the discretion of Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto and the Law Office may terminate your use of this website at any time.
4.1. LINKING TO THE SITE. You may link to the Site only if you do not obscure notices on the Site, engage in illegal or pornographic activities, and discontinue any such links upon our request.
5. NO LEGAL ADVICE OR ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. Use of the Site does not create an attorney-client relationship. The content on the site is general information. Seek the advice of competent legal counsel licensed in the appropriate jurisdiction for your matter. We only practice law in jurisdiction in which we are legally authorized to do so. We do not seek to represent anyone in any jurisdiction in which we are not legally authorized.
5.1. COMMUNICATIONS FROM YOU. Any communication from you, for example, an email or a contact-form submission, does not create an attorney-client relationship. A formal, written engagement into by you and the Law Office is necessary to create such a relationship. Similarly, any information from you may not be treated as confidential by the Law Office unless and until a formal, written engagement agreement has been entered into by you and the Law Office. Unless and until a formal, written engagement agreement has been entered into by you and the Law Office, Law Office may choose to represent a party with interests adverse to you.
5.2. RESULTS DISCLAIMER. No specific results are guaranteed, and prior results are not a guarantee a similar outcome.
6. OWNERSHIP. All content included on this site is and shall continue to be the property of the Law Office and/or its content suppliers and is protected under applicable copyright, patent, trademark, and other proprietary rights. Any copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such content or any part of the Site is prohibited, except as expressly permitted in this Agreement. Under no circumstances will you acquire any ownership rights or other interest in any content by or through your use of this site.
6.1. COPYRIGHT. All contents of Site or Service are: Copyright © 2012 Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan St., No. 202, San Francisco, CA 94115. All rights reserved.
6.2. NO LICENSE. Nothing contained on the Site should be understood as granting you a license to use any of the trademarks, service marks, or logos owned by the Law Office or by any third party.
7. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding your use of the website. You further agreed that information provided by you is truthful and accurate to the best of your knowledge.
7.1. COMPLIANCE WITH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS. When accessing the Site or using the Service, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Service and the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third party rights caused by any Content you provide or transmit. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or third party rights rests solely with you.
8. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. The Law Office has in place certain legally mandated procedures regarding allegations of copyright infringement occurring on the Site or with the Service. The Law Office’s policy is to investigate any allegations of copyright infringement brought to its attention. If you have evidence, know, or have a good faith belief that your rights or the rights of a third party have been violated and you want the Law Office to delete, edit, or disable the material in question, you must provide the Law Office with all of the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringed or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the Law Office to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit the Law Office to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. For this notification to be effective, you must provide it to the Law Office’s designated agent at:
Scott T. Okamoto, Owner, Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan Street, No. 202, San Francisco, California, 415.766.5871 (phone), 415.931.2216 (fax), [email protected].
9. ALLEGED VIOLATIONS. The Law Office reserves the right to terminate your use of the Service and/or the Site. To ensure that the Law Office provides a high-quality experience for you and for other users of the Site and the Service, you agree that the Law Office or its representatives may access your records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or allegations of abuse, infringement of third party rights, or other unauthorized uses of the Site or the Service. The Law Office does not intend to disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law, but the Law Office reserves the right to terminate your access to the Site immediately, with or without notice to you, and without liability to you, if the Law Office believes that you have violated any of the Terms of Use, furnished the Law Office with false or misleading information, or interfered with use of the Site or the Service by others.
10. NO WARRANTIES. THE LAW OFFICE HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES. THE LAW OFFICE IS MAKING THE SITE AVAILABLE “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGE OR LOSS FROM USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR THE SERVICE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE LAW OFFICE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT. THE LAW OFFICE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.
11. LIMITED LIABILITY. THE LAW OFFICE’S LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LAW OFFICE BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA, REGARDLESS OF THE FORESEEABILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS OR SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY THE LAW OFFICE. This limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action. YOUR SOLE AND REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE AND/OR CONTENT IS TO CEASE ALL OF YOUR SITE USE.
12. AFFILIATED SITES. The Law Office has no control over, and no liability for any third-party websites or materials. The Law Office works with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because neither the Law Office nor the Site has control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, the Law Office makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and the Law Office assumes no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the Site, you may have access to content items (including, but not limited to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that the Law Office makes no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Use shall govern your use of any and all third party content.
13. PROHIBITED USES. The Law Office imposes certain restrictions on your permissible use of the Site and the Service. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Site or Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, the Site, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site or Service, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing;” (d) using the Site or Service to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by the Law Office in providing the Site or Service. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
14. INDEMNITY. You agree to indemnify the Law Office for certain of your acts and omissions. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Law Office, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the Site, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. The Law Office will notify you promptly of any such claim, loss, liability, or demand, and will provide you with reasonable assistance, at your expense, in defending any such claim, loss, liability, damage, or cost.
15. GOVERNING LAW. These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in San Francisco, California, USA in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Service.
16. SEVERABILITY; WAIVER. If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in these Terms of Use to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.
17. CALIFORNIA USE ONLY. The Site is controlled and operated by the Law Office from its offices in the State of California. The Law Office makes no representation that any of the materials or the services to which you have been given access are available or appropriate for use in other locations. Your use of or access to the Site should not be construed as the Law Office’s purposefully availing itself of the benefits or privilege of doing business in any state or jurisdiction other than California.
18. MODIFICATIONS. The Law Office may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, (a) revise these Terms of Use; (b) modify the Site and/or the Service; and (c) discontinue the Site and/or Service at any time. The Law Office shall post any revision to these Terms of Use to the Site, and the revision shall be effective immediately on such posting. You agree to review these Terms of Use and other online policies posted on the Site periodically to be aware of any revisions. You agree that, by continuing to use or access the Site following notice of any revision, you shall abide by any such revision.
19. HOW TO CONTACT US: Scott T. Okamoto, Esq, Law Office of Scott T. Okamoto, 1832 Buchanan Street, No. 202, San Francisco, California, 415.766.5871 (phone), 415.931.2216 (fax), [email protected].
20. FILTERING. To the extent necessary, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230(d), you are hereby notified that parental-control protections are commercially available to limit access to material harmful to minors. Such products can be found at http://www.getnetwise.org/ and http://www.onguardonline.gov/. No endorsement or warranty is made as to those products or services.
21. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. BY USING THE SERVICE OR ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM.