THE FOLLOWING IS OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, WHICH OUTLINES THE RULES THAT GOVERN YOUR USE OF CRESTHALL'S CLIENT PORTAL. HERE GOES:

These Terms of Service (this “Agreement”) constitute a binding agreement between CrestHall Attorneys. (“CrestHall”) and you with respect to all information, data, graphics, content, software applications, and other products and services provided, facilitated or otherwise made accessible on the website located at www.cresthall.legal, via our telephone service, chat service, or email service and your use of and access to the Site and Services.

By signing up or accessing the CrestHall platform, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing the CrestHall platform.

1.0 SUBSCRIBING TO AND RENEWING RETAINER PLANS

1.1 To subscribe to any Retainer Plans, clients are required to pay for the particular plan it wishes to subscribe to, indicating the desired period;

1.2 You will be entitled to receive the Service only during the subscription period (“Subscription Period”) specified by your payment confirmation.

1.3 Legal services to you automatically ceases immediately a subscription has expired. Upon expiry, the client will no longer enjoy subscription-plan services;

1.4 To keep enjoying services, subscribers must renew their services either before subscription expires or as soon as subscription expires.

1.5 We will issue fresh invoice at least 7 days before subscription expires.

1.6 In the unlikely event that an ongoing task is not concluded before subscription expires, the subscriber would be required to resubscribe for any extra period that would be reasonably adequate for the task to be completed.

1.7 You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service use of the Service, or access to the Service.

1.8 You may not assign this Agreement or your rights and obligations hereunder, in whole or in part, to any third party and any attempt by you to do so in violation hereof will be void and ineffective.

2.0 CHARGES AND COSTS UNDER A RETAINER PLAN

2.1 When under our retainer plans, legal consultations do not typically attract extra legal fees.

2.2 When under our retainer plans, legal representations in business negotiations on behalf of client do not attract professional fees but we shall be entitled to recover costs incurred for such representations.

2.3 When under our retainer plans, legal advice does not typically attract extra legal fees If within the ordinary course of business, this will not attract extra fees. But if it is a special request not within the ordinary course of business, this may attract a fee after a review of the legal advice requested and the fee is determined on a case-by-case basis. “Ordinary course of business” means the usual day-to-day transactions and practices of the client’s business.

3.0 Legal Services, Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest and Uniform Standard

3.1 Most communications between solicitor and client are absolutely privileged and confidential. We cannot be compelled by the tax authorities, the police, the government, or the courts to divulge information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege except in very limited circumstances.

3.2 The solicitor-client privilege is your privilege, not ours, so only you can waive it. However, not all solicitor-client communications are privileged. Our rules of professional conduct define the limited circumstances in which we can be compelled to disclose confidential information. The privilege only arises when a client reveals information in confidence to obtain legal advice or services. Information you give us that is not privileged we treat as confidential. If you have any questions about privilege or confidentiality, please feel free to ask them.

3.3 If we believe that there is any real or potential conflict of interest regarding any matter we are handling or advising on, we will inform you, subject to confidentiality;

3.4 irrespective of your retainer plan you choose, we will exhibit a uniform level of professional responsibility, professional standards, and professional liability ensuring that we provide you with our best service.

4.0 Note however that the retainer does not include the following ancillary services:

4.1 The drafting of documents, especially instruments for which provisions are made in the Legal Practitioners’ (Remuneration for Legal Documentation and other Land Matters) Order 1991 for which remuneration will be as provided in the said order;

4.2 Procuring or facilitating the procurement of Government statutory and regulatory compliance and obtaining or renewing regulatory licenses and permits;

4.3 Litigation or contentious matters before a court of law, mediation, arbitration or other tribunal established by or under any law or by executive action whether or not such matters arise out of any of the matters covered by the subscription plan or specified above ;

4.4 Legal Due Diligence and matters outside the Firm’s Practice Areas.

4.5 Legal Process Audit

4.5 The drafting of documents relating to transactions exceeding Two Million five Hundred Thousand Naira in value for basic and pro plans and Four Million Naira for the Premium Plan

4.6 You are however entitled to discounts as long as you have an active retainer with us.

4.7 Kindly note that our fees are exclusive of VAT, currently charged at 7.5%, Government fees, charges, taxes and out of pocket expenses (transportation, inspection, telephone calls and other operational costs.) that may be incurred in the course of conducting this matter. Such expenses will be receipted and will be for your account.

5.0 Right to Use Our Name

5.1 As long as you have an active retainer plan with us, you are entitled to publicly list or mention our law firm as your legal attorneys. But you are not permitted to list us as your attorneys on any matter or document that we did not handle for you, whether during or after a retainership period.

5.2 During your retainership period with us or any time after your retainership with us, we are entitled to publicly list or mention your startup or business as one of our clients. By activating a retainership plan with us, you give us consent to do so without any further express consent in the future.

6.0 Withdrawal of Attorney:

6.1 You understands and expressly agrees that we may withdraw from representation at any time if you fails to honor the fee arrangement including, but not limited to, payment of fees and expenses on a timely basis; failure to cooperate in the handling of a matter; failure to make a full and complete disclosure of the facts and circumstances relating to any matter or case; or otherwise takes any action which impedes our ability to provide adequate and ethical representation.

7.0 Miscellaneous

7.1 If you subscribe to any of our services, you will have an account and a password. Access to password protected portions of this Site is available for only so long as you have paid all required fees. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to CrestHall material to anyone other than yourself. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password.

7.2 CrestHall and other Company graphics, logos, designs and trademarks may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of the owners of such marks.

7.3 The Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. CrestHall assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, communications.

7.4 The Service provided and the Site are available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the Service will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libellous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material.

7.5 In addition, you agree not to use the Site to:

7.5.1 harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications;

7.5.2 carry out any unlawful activity in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site;

7.5.3 upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

7.5.4 use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Site;

7.5.5 register for more than one User account, register for a User account on behalf of an individual other than yourself, or register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity;

7.5.6 impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity;

7.5.7 upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation;

7.5.10 upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

7.6 Limitation of Liability

In no event shall CrestHall, be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on this site, even if Cresthall or an authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage.

8.0 Electronic Communications

8.1 When you visit this Platforms and when you communicate with us electronically, for example by sending us an email or requesting our services online, you consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on this Platforms. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing

9.0 Privacy

9.1 CrestHall’s Privacy Policy forms part of this Agreement and is incorporated herein by reference.

9.2 With respect to all the Personal Information belonging to, and/or processed in connection with CrestHall Attorneys or this website, such Personal Information at all times are in compliance with all Data Protections regulations and in particular the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 and all applicable data protection regulation in force. CrestHall maintains a Privacy Policy which provides an overview of the Personal Information we collect about you or that you provide to us and how we store and use the information provided by you in line with applicable Data protection legislations. By using the Cresthalls’ Services, you consent to such processing and you commit to provide accurate information.