Introduction

Welcome to Lexircle. We are happy to serve you on our Website (as defined below).  

These terms and conditions (“Terms”) apply to your use of the Website and other elements of Lexircle (as defined below). Please do not use our service if you do not agree to be bound by these Terms.  Please note that these Terms govern our relationship between us, Clients (as defined below) and Legal Consultants (as defined below) respectively.  By using the Website or any other element of our Lexircle, submitting or providing Quotes (as defined below) or otherwise using our service your consent to be bound by these Terms and agree to obey them.

About Us

Our website at https://lexircle.com (“Website”) is operated by Trustle Technologies Pte. Ltd., a private limited company incorporated and registered in Singapore under registration number 201910479 with registered office at 1 North Bridge Rd, #08-08 High Street Centre, Singapore 179094.  When in these Terms we refer to “we” or “us”, we mean this company. 

You can contact us through our chatbot on the Website or at contact@lexircle.com

The platform that we use to deliver our service (“Lexircle”) comprises our Website and any applications, widgets, templates or pages on any third party websites that we use, the services and the content that we make available (through our Website, email or otherwise) and the payment services and accounts that we use.

Lexircle is designed and used to enable the clients to submit information on the legal matters they need advice on (“Requests for Proposal”). We receive responses from the legal professionals in our network (“Legal Consultants”) with an indication of the fees chargeable for their services (“Fees”) and the applicable conditions (“Quotes”).  

Lexircle facilitates communication between Legal Consultants and potential users of legal services (“Clients”) and provides a venue for Legal Consultants and potential Clients to exchange information with the goal to create a professional relationship.

We are not a law firm do not provide, resell or manage any legal services or legal advice and the Clients’ and Legal Consultant’s use of Lexircle does not create an attorney-client relationship between the Clients and us. Therefore, any information you provide to us is not legally privileged. Legal professional privilege may be formed between the clients and Legal Consultants as a result of their engagement through Lexircle, but we are not party to it.

Legal Consultants

We suggest one or more Legal Consultants based on Requests from Proposal submitted by Clients. However, we do not provide any kind of guarantee as to the legal ability, competence, or quality of the Legal Consultants who may be engaged through our Lexircle or any work performed by them for Clients.  We make Lexircle available to the Clients to enable them to identify and determine the suitability of Legal Consultants. We do not warrant the accuracy, quality or completeness of any information or assistance obtained from Legal Consultants. We do not endorse Legal Consultants in any way and not have any control over, or make any assurance or representation about any of them.

Clients engage Legal Consultants by signing direct contracts with them (“Engagement Terms”) if they accept their Quotes.

Clients hereby consent to the Legal Consultants’ sharing on an ongoing basis of the Engagement Terms (in full, including any appendixes or attached documents) regarding the projects sourced through Lexircle and the scope of work. We are not and will not be a party to any Engagement Terms and shall not be liable for any loss or damage that results from any dealings between Clients and any Legal Consultant. It is the Client’s responsibility to select a suitable Legal Consultant and to negotiate the terms of any work to be done by such Legal Consultant pursuant to the Engagement Terms.

Clients in all cases should make their own inquiries as to the suitability of a Legal Consultant for their particular work. They should not engage any Legal Consultant or make any payment to them without having conducted such checks to their full satisfaction. Clients should not engage any Legal Consultant if they have any doubts or concerns about them.

Any information on Lexircle is not legal advice and is for general reference only. Clients should take all due care in relying on such information.

If a Client has a dispute with a Legal Consultant, such dispute must be directly addressed to the Legal Consultant concerned. We cannot and will not be involved in any of the Clients’ dealings with Legal Consultants. By using Lexircle you (the Client) release us from any and all claims, demands and damages of every kind arising out of or in any way connected with any disputes with the Legal Consultants.

If you are a Legal Consultant, you agree that our relationship with you is limited to acting as an independent contractor, and not a partner, agent or any other joint venture with us, and you act exclusively on your own behalf and for your own benefit. We do not exercise any control over your performance of services under the Engagement Terms or otherwise. You acknowledge and agree that you have complete discretion as to how and whether to provide services to the Clients (including any employment or business activities). You (the Legal Consultant) alone are responsible for identifying and obtaining any required permits, licenses, certificates to practice (or similar), registrations or insurance for any services they offer, including through Lexircle.

Fees and Payment

We normally charge Legal Consultants 15% (plus applicable VAT) of their fees in respect of any project sourced through the by providing an accepted Quote through Lexircle and for any subsequent work completed by the Legal Consultant for the Client and any person or entity directly connected with the Client (“Lexircle Fee”). If the Client agrees to pay a retainer fee to the Legal Consultant, such Legal Consultant shall pay 15% to us as a part of the Lexircle Fee immediately upon receipt of such retainer fee.

Any Lexircle Fee (with applicable taxes) will be included in, and displayed to Legal Consultants and Clients as part of the total amount of the Quote provided in respect of the particular Request for Proposal.

The Clients and the Legal Consultants understand and agree that we will pay the Legal Consultant that carried out the work for the Client the amount of the Fee less the Lexircle Fee. The Clients consent to the Legal Consultants sharing details of the Fees with us on an ongoing basis.

We reserve the right to change the Lexircle Fee at any time and will provide users with adequate notice of any such changes before they become effective. Such amended amount of the Lexircle Fee will only apply to the Quotes provided after the change.

Confidentiality 

We will treat all information the Clients provide to us and about matters dealt with by us (other than information which is in the public domain) as confidential. We will not disclose any confidential information to any third party, except with their written consent or if necessary or customary in the normal performance of our services (e.g. passing it to other professionals and consultants assisting us or you with your matter, unless you ask us not to) or if required or permitted by law or any regulatory authority to which we are subject.

Unless the Clients instruct us otherwise in writing, we are entitled to state in promotional material that we have sourced Legal Consultants for them generally or on a particular matter or matters as long as we do not otherwise break our duty of confidentiality to them by doing so.

The Clients and the Legal Consultants agree to treat all information we give them (other than information which is in the public domain) as confidential and not to disclose that confidential information to any other person, unless we have given our written consent or as required or permitted by law or any regulatory authority to which they are subject.

Nothing in this clause shall prevent or restrict us from (i) obtaining from the Legal Consultants and using for the purposes of these Terms details of the Fees and the Clients hereby consent to the Legal Consultant sharing details of the Fees with us and reproducing the Request for Proposal to Legal Consultants in order to provide the service.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge that all present and future copyright and other intellectual property rights used or subsisting in connection with Lexircle or any part of it (the “Intellectual Property“), including but not limited to any content provided by, or submitted to Lexircle (subject to our confidentiality undertakings pursuant to the Terms) is retained by us and nothing in the Terms shall be taken to transfer any of the Intellectual Property to you.

Limitation of Liability

If you are dissatisfied with us or the conditions set for by these Terms, your only remedy under the Terms shall be to discontinue your use of Lexircle. Without limiting the generality of the statement above, we shall have no liability for any failure or delay resulting from any matter related to the services or other actions relating to your use of Lexircle.

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it may be unlawful to do so.

We shall not be liable in contract, tort, negligence, statutory duty, misrepresentation, or otherwise for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with the Terms.

Except as expressly set out in the Terms, all conditions, warranties and obligations which may be implied or incorporated into the Terms by statute, common law, or otherwise and any liabilities arising from them are expressly excluded to the extent permitted by law.

We shall not be liable for any economic loss, loss of business, loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption and loss of business information  (even where we have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage).

In the event that any limitation or exclusion of liability in the Terms is not enforceable, we shall not be liable to you for more than SGD100 in aggregate in respect of matters arising out of any individual Request for Proposal.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Lexircle Rights

We may amend the Terms from time to time and will publish such alterations on the Website. If you do not agree to the changes made to Terms then you have the right to stop using Lexircle and should do so immediately. Your continued use of Lexircle after the date the changes have been posted will constitute acceptance of the amended Terms.

We reserve the right to terminate the provision to you of Lexircle at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

General

These Terms and all disputes from these Terms are governed by Singapore law and the parties hereto submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Singapore courts. If any part of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms will continue in full force and effect

You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights under the Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or sub-contract all or any of our rights at any time without consent.

The Terms constitute the entire agreement as to your use of and our provision of Lexircle.