Access to this website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with the terms, conditions, notices and disclaimers contained in this document (known as “Terms of Use”). Your use of, and/or access to, this website constitutes your agreement to these Terms of Use.

The MyAppeal.ie website reserves the right to amend the Terms of Use at any time. Since you are bound by these Terms of Use you should periodically refer to them in this document and elsewhere on the site.

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Legal Advice

MyAppeal.ie DOES NOT provide any legal advice on Social Welfare payments, Social Welfare legislation, Social Welfare Appeals, entitlement to Social Welfare payments or issues related, either directly or indirectly, on this website.

Where specific legal advice is necessary, or required, users of this website should consult with their own solicitor for legal advice where necessary. No liability whatsoever is accepted by MyAppeal.ie for any action taken in reliance on the information on this site.

MyAppeal.ie and this website (the “Site”) is a general service that provides Social Welfare Appeals Supports services and related information. We are not a law firm and our employees are not acting as your solicitor or legal representative even where a contract of service, agreed by both parties, is in force. The information provided by MyAppeal.ie and information contained in the Site is general information and should not be construed as legal advice to be applied to any specific factual situation.

If you are unsure whether your particular situation requires specific legal advice you should consult with a solicitor or the office of the Department of Social Protection or the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

Any use of the Site DOES NOT create or constitute a solicitor-client relationship between MyAppeal.ie or any employee of or other person associated with MyAppeal.ie and a user of the Site. The information or use of documents on the Site is not a substitute for the advice of a solicitor, or where appropriate the office of the Department of Social Protection or the Social Welfare Appeals Office.

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Conduct

Visitors, viewers, users, subscribers, members, affiliates, or customers, are collectively referred to herein as “Visitors,” and are parties to this agreement by virtue of use of this website. The website and its owners and/or operators are parties to this agreement, herein referred to as “Website”.

By viewing the contents of this website you agree to these terms. Where the website links to third party content or websites the user must abide by the terms, terms and legal requirements of said third party content or website.

You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any content on MyAppeal.ie, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database.

Where this website has used or reproduced content from another publication or website you may copy or use such if you adhere to the copyright notice of that publication or website.

However, you may download content from MyAppeal.ie for your own personal, non-commercial use but only if you make only one machine readable copy and/or one print copy. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content.

By viewing the contents of this website you agree to these conditions of viewing and you acknowledge that any unauthorized use is unlawful and may subject you to civil or criminal penalties. Again, the Visitor has no rights whatsoever to use the content of, or portions thereof, including its databases, invisible pages, linked pages, underlying code, or other intellectual property the site may contain, for any reason for any use whatsoever.

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Copyright & Trade Marks

Intellectual property and restrictions on use of Content on the Site

All information, text, material, graphics and advertisements on MyAppeal.ie are Copyright of this website, its suppliers and/or licensors unless expressly indicated otherwise on the Site.

You must not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, frame, upload to a third party, post, transmit or distribute this Content in any way except as expressly provided for on the Site or expressly authorised in writing by MyAppeal.ie. Strictly on the condition that you keep all Content intact and in the same form as presented on the Site (including without limitation all copyright, trade mark and other proprietary notices and all advertisements), you may:

a. using an industry-standard Web browser, download and view the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, or

b. if you are an Internet service and/or access provider, supply the Content to your subscriber.

You may copy, reproduce, republish and otherwise use the logo and content of this website within the framework of accepted ‘fair use’ of copyright material as generally accepted and provided for, wherein such does not infringe on the copyright of others.

You must not use the Site in any manner or for any purpose which is unlawful or in any manner which violates any right of the MyAppeal.ie website or which is prohibited by the Terms of Use.

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Trade Marks

All trade marks displayed on the Site are trademarks of their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting any license or right of use of any trademark displayed on the Site without the express written permission of the MyAppeal.ie website or third party owner.

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Links

The Site contains hyperlinks and other pointers to Internet websites operated by third parties. These linked websites are not under the control of the MyAppeal.ie website, and MyAppeal.ie is not responsible for the contents of any linked website or any hyperlink contained in a linked website. This website provides these hyperlinks to you as a convenience only, and the inclusion of any link does not imply any endorsement of the linked website by MyAppeal.ie.

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Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances (including but not limited to any act or omission on the part of the MyAppeal.ie) will MyAppeal.ie be liable for any indirect, incidental, special and/or consequential damages or loss of profits whatsoever which result from any use or access of, or any inability to use or access, the Site or any Content. Visitors release and hold harmless MyAppeal.ie, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with any content on the MyAppeal.ie website. You expressly acknowledge and agree that the release and hold harmless MyAppeal.ie, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with MyAppeal.ie website does not exert control over users of the Site (including individuals referred to on the Site as guests, experts or reviewers) and is not liable either for their opinions or their behaviour including any information and/or advice and any defamatory statements or offensive conduct.

The MyAppeal.ie website is not and shall not be held responsible for any incorrect and/or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users and/or by any of the equipment and/or programming associated with and/or used in MyAppeal.ie or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of information or content on MyAppeal.ie or otherwise.

MyAppeal.ie is not and shall not be held responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft and/or destruction and/or unauthorised access to, and/or alteration of, content. The MyAppeal.ie website is not and shall not be held responsible for any problems and/or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail and/or participants on account of technical problems and/or traffic congestion on the Internet and/or at any website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to any user/visitor or to any other person’s computer related to and/or resulting from visiting or accessing MyAppeal.ie website.

If, for any reason, the MyAppeal.ie website is not capable of being operated as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, and/or any other causes beyond the control of MyAppeal.ie which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity and/or proper conduct of the ‘MyAppeal.ie’ website, the management of MyAppeal.ie reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify and/or suspend the ‘MyAppeal.ie’ website or any elements that make-up the MyAppeal.ie website.

In using this website you accept these limitations on liability without reservation.

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Website Availability

We will make all reasonable effort to ensure that the MyAppeal.ie website is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, electronic services are subject to interruption or breakdown. Therefore, access to our website is offered on an “as is” and “as available” basis only.

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Other

This agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland. If any provision of this agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of law, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of the agreement, which will continue in full force and effect. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

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Acceptance of Terms of Use

Your use of this website indicates your agreement to be bound by the Terms of Use.

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Revisions to these Terms of Use

These Terms of Use may change and be updated when required by law or at any time we deem necessary. We will post a notification of any alternations to these Terms of Use on the Website, but we encourage you to periodically refer to these Terms of Use to remain up to date.

You may not assume that these Terms of Use remain the same and you agree to check our Terms of Use when using the MyAppeal.ie website. Your continued use of this site always evidences your acceptance our Terms of Use and any modifications.

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