Mandatory Terms of Use & Legal Notices
Please read these Mandatory Terms of Use (“Terms”) carefully before using this website. Costello Ginex and Wideikis, PC ("CGW") provides this website and all information contained herein (“Website”) subject to your compliance with these Terms. These Terms govern the relationship between CGW and you, the visitor to this Website with respect to your use of this website. Your use of this Website binds you to these Terms contained herein, and usage of this website will assume your consent to and agreement to these Terms. If you disagree with these terms you must not use or visit this Website.
License to Use Website
CGW grants you a limited, non-assignable, non-exclusive license to access the Website subject to and in accordance with these Terms. Any violation of these Terms is grounds for immediate termination of this limited license and may result in legal action by CGW.
Notice/Disclaimer Regarding Legal Advice
CGW makes the information and materials on this Website available for general informational purposes only. These materials which include but are not limited to: news articles, recent firm developments, representative matters, metrics and data, descriptions of services, attorney biographies, or any other information contained herein are not intended to constitute and do not constitute legal advice or any solicitation for the formation of an attorney-client relationship.
Notice/Disclaimer Regarding Services Offered
CGW does not guarantee and makes no warranty, promise, or agreement that any depicted or described service is actually offered or comports with its description on the Website. CGW reserves the right to cease offering any such services at any time regardless of any information, metrics, or descriptions existing on this Website. Past representative matters are also not a guarantee of future results. Actual results in any particular matter or service will vary depending on the circumstances of that matter and CGW makes no promises or assertions that any metrics or information contained on this Website will be representative of future results.
Availability of Service
While CGW makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the Website is available at all times, CGW does not guarantee, represent or warrant that access to the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free, and CGW does not guarantee that users will have the ability to access any or all of the Website features at any given time.
Links to Third Party Sites
This Website may contain links to other sites unaffiliated with CGW (“Third Party Websites”). These links are solely provided as a reference for the convenience of visitors to the website, and these sites are not under control of CGW in any way. CGW does not necessarily endorse, sanction, or verify the accuracy of of the information contained within these Third Party Websites. CGW also does not guarantee any availability of service for these Third Party Websites and bears no responsibility for any action associated with any Third Party Website.
Intellectual Property
CGW claims a copyright in all proprietary and copyrightable text, graphics and computer code on this Site, the overall design of this Site, the CGW logo, and the selection, arrangement and presentation of all materials on this Site, including information in the public domain. You agree not to copy, reproduce, republish, transmit, modify, or distribute any of the materials contained on the Site, except for your personal, noncommercial use, absent the written approval of CGW.
Rules of Conduct
When using this Website you will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. As a condition of using this site you, the Visitor agree that you comply with all of these Terms and Rules of Conduct, including that you will not:
Use this Website for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
Use this Website to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, or otherwise violate any legal right of others;
Impersonate any person or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity in connection with any information contained within this Website;
Express or imply that CGW endorses any statement you make based upon any information contained in this Website;
Attempt to interfere or disrupt the operations website in any way;
Using this Website to distribute or transmit any virus, worm, spyware, malware, or any other computer code, file, or program that can be potentially harmful, invasive, or intended to hijack or monitor any hardware, software, or other equipment;
Remove any copyright, trademark, or proprietary rights notice from the Website or materials originating from this Website,
Create or add to any existing database by downloading and storing any information, metrics or data contained in this Website,
Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, "scrape," "data mine," or in any way gather Website content or reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site without our express prior written consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, CGW grants the operators of public online search engines limited permission to use search retrieval applications to reproduce materials from the Site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of such materials solely in connection with each operator’s public online search service. CGW reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific instances;
Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise change any aspect of this Website;
Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to this Website without CGW’s written permission.
Limitation of Liability / Subject to Revision
The information on this Website, including these Terms, are subject to change at any time and for any reason without notice. We recommend periodically reviewing the Terms of Use set forth on this page. Your use of this Website is at your own risk. The materials presented on this Website may not reflect the most current legal developments, verdicts or settlements. In no event shall CGW or its partners, employees, affiliates or contributors to this Website, be liable for any loss or injury, or any damages, whether direct, special, indirect, punitive, incidental, exemplary, consequential, or otherwise, whether based on breach of contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, resulting from your access or use of this site. You hereby waive any and all such claims against CGW, its partners, employees, affiliates and contributors. You agree that the limitations set forth above are fundamental elements of this agreement, and that the Website and its materials would not be provided to you absent such limitations. Some state statutes may restrict this limitation of liability.
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy can be found here.
Representative Matters
The representative matters and other firm experience referred to on this Website may date from periods before any particular individual lawyer joined CGW, may contain work performed by alumni lawyers not currently employed by CGW, may not contain complete entity names, or contain general or colloquial rather than precise references to events or entities. Representative matters or other experiences included on this Site do not imply current or former client status.
Photos and Images
Photographs and images on this Website may contain alumni former attorneys and may contain stock photos not specifically associated with CGW.
Governing Law and Forum
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. By using this Site you agree that the State or Federal courts in Chicago, Illinois, United States, shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue to hear any dispute arising out the content or use of this Site, and agree not to bring any action or proceeding in any other venue.
