Website Terms of Use

MERCURAE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

Last revised: 13 July 2026

Please read these terms of use carefully before using this website, mercurae.com (the “Site”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, do not access or use the Site.

What is in these terms?

These terms set out the rules for using the Site and your rights and obligations when you access or use it. We recommend that you keep a copy for your records. The current version of these terms is available at any time from the foot of each page of the Site.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

MERCURAE.COM is a website operated by Mercurae Limited (“Mercurae”, “we”, “us” or “our”). We are a private limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 12780967 and our registered office is at 2nd Floor, 10 Rathbone Place, London W1T 1HP.

Mercurae provides the Site as an informational tool, primarily for the benefit of Mercurae's clients, referrers and potential clients. The Site and our services are directed at businesses and other organisations; nothing on the Site is directed at consumers.

Mercurae is a business-only law firm. Solicitors working with Mercurae are individually authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Mercurae Limited is not itself a body authorised or regulated by the SRA or by any other legal services regulator, and it does not carry on any reserved legal activities within the meaning of the Legal Services Act 2007.

Nothing on the Site constitutes, or is to be relied upon as, legal, financial or investment advice, and no solicitor-client or other professional relationship is created by your access to or use of the Site.

To contact us, please email enquiry@mercurae.com.

2. How we may use your personal information

Please read our Privacy Policy, available at www.mercurae.com/privacy-policy, which forms part of these terms. Our Privacy Policy includes a description of how we use cookies on the Site. We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

3. We may make changes to these terms

We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Site, please check these terms to ensure that you understand the terms that apply at that time. We will update the “Last revised” date at the top of these terms when changes are made, and changes take effect when posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site will constitute your acceptance of the amended terms.

4. We may make changes to our Site

We may update and change our Site from time to time, at our discretion and without notice.

5. Limits on permission to access or use the Site

The Site is operated from England and is directed at users in the United Kingdom. We do not represent or warrant that the Site or its content is appropriate, available or lawful in any other location. If you choose to access the Site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent that they apply.

The Site is intended for use only by persons who are at least 18 years old.

You must not access or use the Site if: (a) we have previously suspended or removed you from the Site; (b) you are a person designated under United Kingdom financial sanctions, or you are located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of, a country or territory that is subject to comprehensive UK sanctions; or (c) your access to or use of the Site would breach any law that applies to you.

If you breach these terms, we may suspend, restrict or terminate your access to all or any part of the Site, with or without notice, in addition to our other rights and remedies. We may also refuse to provide you with any future access to the Site or to any other product or service that we provide, and we may take any technical or legal action that we consider necessary or appropriate to prevent breaches of, and to enforce, these terms.

6. How you may use material on our Site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page from our Site for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Site.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials that you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials that you have made.

7. Do not rely on information on this Site

The content on our Site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our Site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Site is accurate, complete or up to date.

8. Intellectual property complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content on the Site infringes copyright or any other intellectual property right which you own or are authorised to enforce, please contact us at enquiry@mercurae.com, setting out:

(a) your name and contact details;

(b) the right you rely on and, where it is registered, its registration details;

(d) a brief explanation of why you consider the material infringes that right.

We will consider any complaint promptly and take such action as we consider appropriate, which may include removing or amending the material while we look into the matter. The removal or amendment of any material is not an admission of infringement or of any liability, and we may ask you for further information before taking any action.

9. We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our Site contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, those links are provided for your information only. External links are selected when the relevant page is published, but we are not responsible for the content of external websites, because we do not produce, maintain or update them, we cannot change them, and they can be changed without our knowledge or agreement.

Some external links may be to websites which offer commercial services, such as online purchases, or financial services or products, which may be subject to additional regulation or which may not lawfully be promoted or available to you in your jurisdiction. Your access to and use of any external website is entirely at your own risk.

The inclusion of a link to an external website on the Site is not an approval, endorsement or guarantee of that website, of any information that you may obtain from it, or of its owners or their products or services, nor any confirmation that it is suitable or lawful for you to view or use that website in your location under applicable laws.

10. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically disruptive or harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site by any form of denial-of-service attack (distributed or otherwise) or anything equivalent or similar in effect. By breaching this provision, you may commit a criminal offence, including under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities, including by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

11. Rules about linking to our Site

You may link to our home page, provided that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our Site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our Site must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our Site other than as set out above, please contact enquiry@mercurae.com.

12. Indemnity from you to Mercurae

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Mercurae from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) which arise out of, or are in any way connected with, your access to or use of the Site, your breach or alleged breach of these terms, or any of your acts or omissions in connection with the Site.

13. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability to you to the extent that it would be unlawful for us to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors, and liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. This paragraph (the “Overriding Term”) takes precedence over any other provision of these terms with which it conflicts; any exclusion or limitation in these terms that directly conflicts with applicable law will not apply to you to that limited extent, but will otherwise remain in full force and effect.

Subject only to the Overriding Term:

(a) the Site and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, and your use of the Site is at your sole risk;

(b) we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations and other terms that may apply to our Site or any content on it, including any implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement;

(c) we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable or notified to us in advance as being likely, arising under or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, our Site, or your use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Site;

(d) in particular, we will not be liable for: loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; loss of or damage to data; business interruption; loss of anticipated savings; loss of opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage; and

(e) your sole and exclusive remedy in relation to your use of the Site is to discontinue using the Site.

14. We may suspend or withdraw our Site

Our Site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our Site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Site for business or operational reasons. We will try to give reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal by placing a notice on the Site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these terms and any other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

15. We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer does not affect your rights under these terms.

16. General terms

Waiver: if we fail to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms, that will not operate as a waiver of that right or provision. Any waiver by us must be in writing and signed by an authorised representative of Mercurae.

Severability: if any provision of these terms is found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision will be deemed severable from these terms and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

Third party rights: a person who is not a party to these terms has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these terms.

Survival: clauses 6 (How you may use material on our Site), 7 (Do not rely on information on this Site), 10 (We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them), 12 (Indemnity from you to Mercurae), 13 (Disclaimer and limitation of liability), 16 (General terms) and 17 (Governing law and jurisdiction) will survive any termination or expiry of these terms.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, their subject matter and their formation, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the law of England and Wales.

If a dispute arises between you and us in connection with these terms or the Site, you agree first to contact us at enquiry@mercurae.com and to make a good faith effort to resolve the dispute before commencing any formal proceedings.

Subject to that, you and we each agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with these terms or the Site.

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