Terms of Use

1. About this Website and about us

The Website is a presentation website of:

together referred to as Zunic Law, we, us, or our.

Zunic Law Firm Novi Sad and Zunic Law Firm Belgrade are not branches, representative offices, or similar forms of joint organization. They function completely independently, in accordance with the regulations of the Republic of Serbia. Neither law firm is liable for the acts or omissions of the other.

Attorneys at law who are not registered with either law firm are independent service providers cooperating with one of the law firms. We are not liable for services provided by such independent service providers.

The terms "partner" and "managing partner" refer to members of one of the law firms, or to consultants and independent attorneys at law with equivalent professional qualifications or professional status in Serbia. The use of any other job title does not imply an employment relationship or a similar relationship with either law firm.

Nothing on our Website is created with the aim of soliciting clients or advertising services, and nothing on it should be construed as such. We welcome queries and may, at our discretion and upon email request, supply a list of clients and projects we have been involved in.

2. Acceptance of this Agreement

These Terms of Use, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute an Agreement that applies to you.

By accessing or using the Website, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into this Agreement, and you agree to be legally bound by it.

If you find anything in this text that you do not agree with, please stop using the Website.

3. Amendments

We may update these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes enter into force upon being published on our Website. The date at the top of this document shows when it was last updated.

You are advised to review these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy periodically, since the current version published on our Website is the version that binds you. Your continued access to or use of our Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

4. Definitions

In these Terms of Use and in our Privacy Policy, the following terms have the meanings set out below.

5. No legal advice and no attorney-client relationship

All information on the Website is provided free of charge and for general information purposes only.

No information on the Website constitutes legal advice or any other professional advice, and it must not be relied upon as such. Although the information on our Website is supplied in good faith and with efforts to ensure accuracy, we do not guarantee its accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Laws and regulations change, and information published on the Website may become out of date. We are under no obligation to update the Website. For advice on a specific matter, please seek guidance from a qualified legal professional.

6. Unsolicited communications and confidentiality

Please do not send us confidential or privileged information through the Website, by email, or through any other channel, before we have confirmed in writing that we act for you.

Information you send to us before a written engagement is in place:

We process any personal data contained in such communications in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

7. Permitted and prohibited use of the Website

You may access and use the Website for your own lawful and informational purposes, in accordance with this Agreement.

You must not:

• use the Website in any way that breaches applicable law or regulation, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose;
• copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, licence, or otherwise make available any part of the Website or the Content, except as expressly permitted by clause 9;
• use the Website or the Content to build a competing product or service, or a commercial database;
• use any automated means, including robots, spiders, scrapers, crawlers, or autonomous software agents, to access, monitor, copy, or extract any part of the Website, except for search engine indexing carried out in accordance with our robots.txt file;
• circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with any technical measure we use to restrict access to or use of the Website;
• introduce any virus, malware, or other harmful code, or otherwise attempt to interfere with the security, integrity, or availability of the Website;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, to the server on which the Website is stored, or to any server, computer, or database connected to the Website;
• misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or impersonate any member of Zunic Law; or
• submit through the newsletter form, the booking feature, or any other Website function any content that is unlawful, defamatory, offensive, or that infringes the rights of a third party.

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to the Website at any time if we reasonably believe that you have breached this clause.

8. Text and data mining, and artificial intelligence training

This constitutes an express reservation of rights within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market, and under any equivalent provision of applicable law. Any such use requires our prior written consent.

This reservation applies in addition to, and does not limit, the restrictions set out in clause 7.

For the avoidance of doubt, this reservation does not restrict the retrieval of the Website for the sole purpose of presenting search or answer results that attribute the Content to Zunic Law and link to the source page on our Website.

9. Intellectual property rights

Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all Content on our Website, including but not limited to blogs and news posts, is protected by the intellectual property rights of the attorneys at law and other associates of one of the law firms.

The mark "ZUNICLAW" (graphic) is protected as a trademark with the Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia under no. Z 2020/0597 as of 19 January 2021, with the following holders of the right:

• Vitomir Zunic;
• Tijana Zunic Maric;
• Nemanja Zunic.

Any unauthorized use of the Content, or of any part of it, as well as of the Trademark or our business name, without our permission is an infringement of our intellectual property rights. We will take all available legal remedies to protect our intellectual property rights immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorized use.

Copying or downloading the Content, in part or in whole, is permitted only with our prior written consent, except that:

We reserve all intellectual property rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.

10. Using our name, Trademark, and logo

The use of our business name, Trademark, and logo is not permitted, except in accordance with the law and this Agreement.

11. Links to Third-Party Sites

Certain parts of our Website may contain links to Third-Party Sites. Each of those sites may have its own terms of use and its own privacy policy, which may differ significantly from ours. We have no control over such sites and carry no responsibility for their availability, their content, or the terms of use and privacy policy that apply to their visitors and users.

Where we enable access to data from another service provider through a link, we carry no responsibility for that information.

Placing links to Third-Party Sites on our Website does not in any way imply that we recommend or approve the services or products offered through those sites.

12. Website features

12.1 Materials

The Materials are published for general information purposes only and are subject to clause 5. They reflect the position at the time of publication and may not reflect subsequent changes in law or practice.

12.2 Newsletter

Anyone who uses our Website has the option to subscribe to our newsletter in order to be informed about the latest legal news, blogs, Website features, and other important news related to the Website.

You can subscribe by entering and sending your email address, and optionally your first and last name and your organization name, and by consenting to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. You are added to our mailing list only after you have given your explicit consent.

You can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions in the footer of each newsletter email. In that case, your personal data is deleted as described in our Privacy Policy. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

12.3 Consultation bookings

The booking feature on our Website allows you to request a consultation with Zunic Law. Submitting a booking request does not guarantee the availability of a specific attorney and does not establish an attorney-client relationship prior to a formal written engagement. Every prospective engagement is subject to our conflict of interest check.

Clause 6 applies to any information you provide when booking a consultation.

We are not liable for any damage arising from missed, rescheduled, or cancelled consultations, including any loss of time, business opportunities, or potential legal rights. These Terms of Use do not govern any legal consultation or future collaboration that may result from a booking made through the Website.

13. Personal data and cookies

We process personal data collected through the Website as described in our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Policy and forms part of this Agreement. The Privacy Policy identifies the controllers of your personal data, the purposes and legal bases of processing, the recipients of the data, the retention periods, and the rights available to you.

14. Availability and variations of the Website

We reserve the right to update our Website from time to time. We may change the Content, or discontinue or withdraw any part of our Website. As a consequence, there may be times when our Website is unavailable.

We do not guarantee that the Website, or any Content on it, will be available uninterrupted or free from errors.

15. Events beyond our control

We have no liability to you for any breach of these Terms of Use caused by any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control, including failures of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnection problems, unauthorized access, theft, operator error, severe weather, earthquakes, natural disasters, strikes, labour disputes, war, terrorist activity, riots, epidemics, and acts of public authorities.

16. Limitation of liability

The information on our Website is provided free of charge and for information purposes only. The Website and the Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties and representations, whether express or implied, including as to accuracy, timeliness, completeness, non-infringement, and fitness for a particular purpose.

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits our liability for:

Subject to the paragraph above, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising under or in connection with the use of, or the inability to use, our Website, the Content, or any information, material, or opinion held on or accessed through our Website, including:

• any loss or damage not caused by a breach on our part;
• business losses, loss of profit, loss of data, or loss in production;
• loss of a commercial or business opportunity, saving, or discount;
• indirect, consequential, or special losses or damage, including any loss or damage that was foreseeable when these Terms of Use were formed; and
• any loss or damage caused to your computer programs, platform, or data arising in connection with your use of our Website.

This limitation of liability applies to all information on the Website, including the Materials, the newsletter, and the consultation booking feature.

If you are a consumer, this clause does not affect your mandatory statutory rights.

17. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against any loss, damage, cost, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, that we incur as a result of your breach of clause 7 or clause 8, or of your infringement of our intellectual property rights.

18. Professional regulation and complaints

The attorneys at law of Zunic Law are subject to the Law on Advocacy of the Republic of Serbia, to the Statute and the Code of Professional Ethics of Attorneys at Law, and to the supervision of the Bar Association of Vojvodina in respect of the law firm in Novi Sad, and of the Belgrade Bar Association in respect of the law firm in Belgrade.

If you have a complaint about the Website, please contact us using the details in clause 25. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond within a reasonable period.

19. Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, or, if that is not possible, it shall be deemed deleted. The invalidity of such a provision does not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which remain in full force and effect.

20. No waiver

Our failure or delay in exercising any right or remedy under this Agreement does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy, and does not prevent us from exercising it later.

21. Assignment

We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under this Agreement to a successor or an affiliated entity. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under this Agreement without our prior written consent.

22. Language

These Terms of Use are published in Serbian and in English. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the Serbian version prevails.

23. Governing law and dispute resolution

This Agreement, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter, is governed by the law of the Republic of Serbia, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

Any dispute arising out of this Agreement shall be settled by the competent court in Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia.

If you are a consumer habitually resident in a jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer protection law grants you a different forum, the paragraph above does not deprive you of the protection of those mandatory provisions, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of your place of residence.

24. Entire agreement

This Agreement, as amended from time to time, constitutes the entire agreement between you and us relating to its subject matter, and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between you and us with respect to that subject matter.