Your access to and use of all content on this website is provided subject to the following terms and conditions. We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time and your use of the website following any amendments will represent your agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions as amended. We therefore recommend that you regularly access our website you read these terms and conditions.

  1. We reserve the right to prevent you using this website at any time if you breach these terms and conditions.
  2. When you visit our website, we give you a limited licence to access and use our information for personal use in your capacity as director, officer, or employee of the company, in accordance with the terms of the service level agreement concluded with the company.
  3. You are permitted to download a copy of the information on this website to your computer for such personal use and only provided that you do not delete or change any copyright symbol, trade mark or other proprietary notice. Your use of our content may not in any other way infringe our intellectual property rights.
  4. Except as permitted under the applicable law, you are not permitted to copy, reproduce, republish, distribute or display any of the information on this website without our prior written permission.
  5. The licence to access and use the information on our website does not include the right to use any data mining robots or other extraction tools. The licence also does not permit you to metatag or mirror our website without our prior written permission. We reserve the right to serve you with notice if we become aware of your metatagging or mirroring of our website.
  6. We only capture data on the basis of the source list, as specified in the service level agreement. The source list includes hyperlinks, and you agree that only those hyperlinks are screened and that any document that is not published on these precise hyperlinks will not be captured (even if the document is mentioned on another hyperlink of the same source). The data capture is limited to “hard law” with a direct impact on our clients. Documents without immediate legal effect, such as opinions, advices or reports are not captured. Case law or doctrine are not captured.
  7. We undertake our best efforts to capture the relevant “hard law” documents. However, there may be cases where we may be unaware that a particular development is relevant.
  8. When using the website, it is important that you fully acknowledge that the information we provide on this website is of a general nature only. We are not providing professional advice and you should obtain professional or specialist advice that is appropriate to your circumstances and we give no warranty and accept no liability should you use the information without obtaining independent advice. We also give no warranty that the information is free from error or omission and you should use your own care and skill when accessing and using it.
  9. The impact assessment given by us is based on our own risk methodology and may not be identical to your methodology. Our assessment should be considered as tentative, made on a best effort basis, and in any event subject to your internal lawyers and compliance officers. The same is true for the other data that we provide you, such as the detailed summary or the key words.
  10. This website may from time to time contain hyperlinks to other websites. Such links are provided for convenience only and we take no responsibility for the content and maintenance of or privacy compliance by any linked website. Any hyperlink on our website to another website does not imply our endorsement, support, or sponsorship of the operator of that website nor of the information and/or products which they provide.
  11. It is also important to note that the summaries are drafted in a short timeframe (typically some hours after publication), and that they should only be regarded as a preliminary introduction to the document, which you can access via the hyperlink. The summaries may never be relied upon without having read and examined the underlying documents via the hyperlink.
  12. In these terms and conditions, “we” “us” and “our” refers to Tom Van Dyck, lawyer admitted to the Bar of Brussels, with respect to the website and the dashboard, and Liedekerke Wolters Waelbrouck Kirkpatrick CVBA (“Liedekerke”), with respect to the contents feeded into the dashboard, respectively.
  13. The contents of the website are delivered by Liedekerke and you agree that the contents are subject to the terms and conditions of Liedekerke. The terms and conditions of Liedekerke can be retrieved on www.liedekerke.com/general-conditions.html or are available upon first request. Without prejudice to any other clause of such terms and conditions, which shall all apply to the contents of the website, when using the website you specifically agree that the following clause applies to any contents made available on the website. Any and all liability of Liedekerke in respect of any work performed by or on behalf of Liedekerke or otherwise relating to an assignment given to Liedekerke is limited to the amount which is effectively covered in the particular case under the professional indemnity insurance programme taken out by Liedekerke. The limit of indemnity under this programme is currently EUR 150,000,000.00 per loss. For the US and Canada, and matters subject to the law of a state of the US or Canada, this limit of indemnity (i.e., EUR 150,000,000.00 per loss) also applies, but such coverage is capped at EUR 300,000,000.00 per year. If the liability is not covered for whatever reason by the insurance, Liedekerke covers its own liability, but this is limited to three times the amount of the fees Liedekerke billed to the client during the year preceding the realization of the loss, with an aggregate maximum liability of EUR 500,000.00. Upon written request, Liedekerke can take out supplementary insurance for the purpose of a particular file, and if it chooses to do so, any additional cost resulting from this will be charged to the client. Liedekerke’s liability, although limited, excludes any personal liability of its Partners, organs, associates, or employees.
  14. The copyright to all content on this website including applets, graphics, images, layouts and text belongs to us or we have a licence to use those materials.
  15. To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty which would otherwise be implied into these terms and conditions is excluded. We take all due care in ensuring that our website is free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse and/or malware, however we are not responsible for any damage to your computer system which arises in connection with your use of our website or any linked website.
  16. To the full extent permitted by law, our liability for breach of an implied warranty or condition will not be greater than the amount you paid to access our website. By accessing our website, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from all claims, actions, damages, costs and expenses including legal fees arising from or in connection with your use of our website.
  17. These terms and conditions are to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Belgium and any claim made by either party against the other which in any way arises out of these terms and conditions will be heard in the Courts or Tribunals of Brussels and you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of those Courts and Tribunals.
  18. If any provision in these terms and conditions is invalid under any law the provision will be limited, narrowed, construed or altered as necessary to render it valid but only to the extent necessary to achieve such validity. If necessary the invalid provision will be deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
  19. Our compliance with privacy legislation is set out in our separate Privacy Policy which may be accessed from our home page.