Terms and conditions (www.cacs-jvb.be)

1. These Terms and Conditions apply to all the services provided by Rulkin and Partners via the website www.cacs-jvb.be (and related websites). By requesting these services, the Client is supposed to understand and to accept without reservation these Terms and Conditions, to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions of the Client.
    
2. Subject to having received payment of the amount invoiced, Rulkin and Partners sends (i) to the social insurance fund indicated by the Client, (ii) to the FPS Finance and (iii) to the FPS Social Security a lawyer’s registered mail in order to interrupt the period of limitation which can affect the right to reimbursement, in case of favorable legal developments, of the annual company contribution paid by the Client. Rulkin and Partners retains the proof of posting and may e-mail to the client one or more information notice(s), with action proposal(s). Unless otherwise agreed, the service proposed on the website www.cacs-jvb.be does not include any other service.
    
3. Rulkin and Partners SPRL is a civil company, under article 46 of the Companies Code, whose purpose is the activity of lawyers under the name “Rulkin and Partners”.
    
4. Lawyers are subject to professional secrecy. All mails, advices, acts of procedure, etc. are transmitted by Rulkin and Partners to the Client under the condition that the Client keeps the same confidential, except in case of prior express agreement in writing by Rulkin and Partners.
    
5. The liability of the lawyer is covered by an insurance subscribed by the Ordre des Barreaux Francophone et Germanophone de Belgique (Avocats.be) for a sum of 1,250,000 EUR per claim, all damages included. The contractual or extra-contractual liability of Rulkin and Partners, as well as all of lawyers, contractors and employees working in the law firm or for its account, for all material or immaterial damages (including moral damage, loss of customers, production, time, data, business opportunities…) caused to the Client is expressly limited to the amount of insurance coverage and made subject to the intervention of the insurance. If, for any reason, no compensation is paid by the insurance, the liability of Rulkin and Partners, its partners, lawyers, associates, trainees and employees is limited to 50 times the amount of fees paid by the Client for the services provided by Rulkin and Partners. In any case, the right to an indemnity will expire 12 months after the event from which the damage directly or indirectly emerged and for which Rulkin and Partners is liable. The Client guarantees Rulkin and Partners and its lawyers or the ones working in its account, against all claims by third parties that would be initiated because of the delivery by Rulkin and Partners of is service in account of the Client, except in case of breach or event of default by Rulkin and Partners.
    
6. Third parties instructed by Rulkin and Partners shall be appointed with due care and, if possible, with the Client’s consent.
    
7. The services are delivered exclusively for the benefit of the Client. Third parties shall not take any right from the content of the work.
    
8. The Client accepts that Rulkin and Partners communicates with him as well as his advisors by e-mail (including for confidential information). The e-mails of Rulkin and Partners are mainly sent from the address legal apps rulkin be. The Client understands that communications by e-mail are not absolutely secured or foolproof. Rulkin and Partners uses a software filtering incoming e-mails in order to reduce potential risk of viruses into its system. As there is a risk that legitimate correspondence is filtered out, the Client should not assume that every e-mail will automatically be received. Hence,  the Client should always follow-up important communications by phone, fax or other means in order to ensure that Rulkin and Partners duly received the message. Rulkin and Partners accepts no liability for failure of its software to function properly or any other technical event beyond its reasonable control.
    
9. All invoices of Rulkin and Partners are payable on the due date stipulated on the invoice or, failing what, upon receipt of the invoice, in cash at the office of Rulkin and Partners or on the indicated bank account. The law of August 2nd, 2002, concerning the fight against the payment delay in commercial transactions is applicable. Payment and exchange costs are to be borne the Client. Any dispute regarding the invoice shall be addressed to Rulkin and Partners, by registered mail, within 30 days of the invoice. Failing what the invoice is deemed to be irrevocably accepted.
    
10. The legal relationship between Rulkin and Partners and the Client is subject to Belgian law. Any dispute arising between Rulkin and Partners and the Client shall be first submitted to the Bâtonnier of the Ordre français des avocats du Barreau de Bruxelles. In case no solution can be found with the Bâtonnier, courts and tribunals of Brussels, in French, have exclusive jurisdiction.