Legal Notice - Website Terms of Use
Last Modified: September 1, 2025
Acceptance of the Terms of Use
These terms of use are entered into by and between you and MELCHIONNA PLLC (“Company,”,
“Firm” “we,
” or “us”). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly
incorporate by reference (collectively, “Terms of Use”), govern your access to and use of
www.melchionnlaw.com, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through
www.melchionnalaw.com (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by
clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you
accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use[ and our Privacy Policy, found at
www.melchionnalaw.com/privacy , incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to
these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
This Website is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older, and reside in the United
States or any of its territories or possessions, and reside outside of the United States. By using this
Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company
and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you
must not access or use the Website.
Changes to the Terms of Use
We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are
effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter.
However, any changes to the dispute resolution provisions set out in this Terms of Use will not apply to
any disputes for which the parties have actual notice on or before the date the change is posted on the
Website.
Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept
and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any
changes, as they are binding on you.
Accessing the Website and Account Security
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material we provide on the
Website, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the
Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict user access,
including registered user access, to some parts of the Website or the entire Website.
You are responsible for both:
• Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.
• Ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of
these Terms of Use and comply with them.
To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration
details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you
provide on the Website is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to
register with this Website or otherwise, including, but not limited to, through the use of any interactivefeatures on the Website, is governed by our Privacy Policywww.melchionnalaw.com/privacy , and you
consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.
If you choose, or are provided with, a username, password, or any other piece of information as part of
our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to
any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to
provide any other person with access to this Website or portions of it using your username, password, or
other security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of
your username or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from
your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account
from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other
personal information.
We have the right to disable any username, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or
provided by us, at any time [in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including] if, in our opinion, you
have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.
Intellectual Property Rights
The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all
information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement
thereof) are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by
United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property
or proprietary rights laws.
These Terms of Use permit you to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must
not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform,
republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Website, except as follows:
• Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your
accessing and viewing those materials.
• You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement
purposes.
• You may print [or download] one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Website for your
own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
• If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single
copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use,
provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.
• If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are
enabled by such features.
You must not:
• Modify copies of any materials from this site.
• Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the
accompanying text.
• Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of
materials from this site.
You must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the Website or any services or
materials available through the Website.
2If you wish to make any use of material on the Website other than that set out in this section, please
address your request to: info@melchionnalaw.com
If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part
of the Website in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Website will stop immediately and you
must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest
in or to the Website or any content on the Website is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly
granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms of
Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.
Trademarks
The Firm any name, the terms, the Firm logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names,
designs, and slogans are trademarks of the Firm or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks
without the prior written permission of the Firm. All other names, logos, product and service names,
designs, and slogans on this Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Prohibited Uses
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree
not to use the Website:
• In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation
(including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the
US or other countries).
• For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by
exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or
otherwise.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material that does not comply
with these Terms of Use.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any
"junk mail," "chain letter," "spam," or any other similar solicitation.
• To impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user, or
any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses [or screen
names] associated with any of the foregoing).
• To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of the
Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the Website, or
expose them to liability.
Additionally, you agree not to:
• Use the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or
interfere with any other party's use of the Website, including their ability to engage in real time
activities through the Website.
• Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Website for any
purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.
• Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Website, or for any other
purpose not expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, without our prior written consent.
• Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website.
3• Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or
technologically harmful.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the
Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer, or database
connected to the Website.
• Attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
• Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.
Changes to the Website
We may update the content on this Website from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete
or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under
no obligation to update such material.
Information About You and Your Visits to the Website
All information we collect on this Website is subject to our Privacy Policy
www.melchionnalaw.com/privacy. By using the Website, you consent to all actions taken by us with
respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.
Linking to the Website and Social Media Features
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage
our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any
form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.
This Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
• Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Website.
• Send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this
Website.
• Cause limited portions of content on this Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on
your own or certain third-party websites.
You may use these features solely as they are provided by us, and solely with respect to the content they
are displayed with, and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with
respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
• Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
• Cause the Website or portions of it to be displayed on, or appear to be displayed by, any other
site, for example, framing, deep linking, or in-line linking.
• Link to any part of the Website other than the homepage.
• Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this Website that is inconsistent with
any other provision of these Terms of Use.
The website from which you are linking, or on which you make certain content accessible, must comply
in all respects with these Terms of Use.
You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We
reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.
Links from the Website
4If the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are
provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner
advertisements and sponsored links. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and
accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you
decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk
and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.
Geographic Restrictions
The owner of the Website is based in the State of New York in the United States. We provide this
Website for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any
of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Website may not be
legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside the United States,
you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from
the internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for
implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus
protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any
reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT
BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE
ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY
INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER
PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR
ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL
POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED
THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY
SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS"
AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH
THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE
COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF
THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR
ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE
WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE
WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT
DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT
AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE
WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL
OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR
OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR
LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Limitation on Liability
5TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COLLECTIVE
LIABILITY OF THE COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND THEIR
LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS, TO
ANY PARTY (REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR
OTHERWISE) EXCEED $1.00.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, and service
providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors,
suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards,
losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your
violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, your User
Contributions, any use of the Website's content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized
in these Terms of Use, or your use of any information obtained from the Website.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All matters relating to the Website and these Terms of Use, and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or
related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any
choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction).
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Website shall
be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of New York,
in each case located in the City of New York and County of New York, although we retain the right to
bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of
residence or any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction
over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.
Arbitration
At Company's sole discretion, it may require you to submit any disputes arising from these Terms of Use
or use of the Website, including disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation,
invalidity, non-performance, or termination, to final and binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration
of the American Arbitration Association applying New York law.
Limitation on Time to File Claims
ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR
AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR
CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
Waiver and Severability
No waiver by the Company of any term or condition set out in these Terms of Use shall be deemed a
further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any
failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a
waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the
minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and
effect.
Entire Agreement
6The Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Attorney Advertising constitute the sole and entire
agreement between you and Melchionna PLLC regarding the Website and supersede all prior and
contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral,
regarding the Website.