Confidentiality
Any email and attachment sent from the firm are intended for the named addressee only, and may contain information which is confidential and/or privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Unless you are the named or intended addressee (or authorised to receive for such addressee) you may not disclose, distribute, copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. Otherwise please notify the sender immediately; then delete the message and any attachment from your system and destroy any copies.

Viruses etc.
It is your responsibility to protect your system from viruses and other harmful codes or devices. While we make efforts to keep our network and emails free from viruses and other harmful codes or devices, we accept no responsibility for any damage that may be caused by computer virus etc. which might be transferred by way of email or any attachment and, as a result, your systems should be infected by a virus introduced by an email sent from us.

Delivery
We cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or timely delivery of email as it is transmitted over a public network. If you suspect that the message from us may have been intercepted or amended by a third party, please contact the sender.

Incoming emails are subject to screening for spam, viruses and other undesirable content and attachments. This may result in communications from our clients failing to reach the intended recipient. If you are intending to send us material which may be susceptible to interception, you should separately alert the person to whom you are sending it by phone, fax or post.

Monitoring
All messages sent to, and from, the firm may be monitored or accessed to ensure compliance with internal policies and to protect our business.

All communications between you and us by post, courier, fax, email or telephone may at our discretion be intercepted by someone in the firm not otherwise involved in the matter for quality control, technical or compliance purposes.

Security
Whilst we take care as to the security of the internet and our system, we do not ordinarily use encryption or passwords and as the internet is not secure we make no representations.

Non-business email
We are not liable for any views or opinions expressed by the sender of an e-mail who is a partner of, consultant to or employee of ours where this is a non-business email, in which case the sender alone is responsible.

Service of process
The firm does not accept service by email of court proceedings, other proceedings or formal notices of any kind on behalf of clients without specific prior written agreement.

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