Terms of Service

Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service apply to your access to and use of the American Law Partners website. By accessing or using this website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these Terms of Service and agree to use the website in accordance with them and with applicable law.

If you do not agree with these terms, you should discontinue use of the website. These terms concern use of the website and do not replace a separate engagement letter, professional services agreement, fee agreement, or other written agreement entered into between American Law Partners and a client.

Website Purpose

This website provides general information about American Law Partners, its attorneys, practice areas, office locations, publications, and legal services in Costa Rica. The website may also provide ways to contact the firm, request a consultation, or submit preliminary information about a potential legal matter.

Website content is intended for general informational purposes. Legal outcomes depend on the specific facts, documents, parties, timing, and law applicable to each matter.

Legal Information Is Not Individual Legal Advice

Articles, guides, FAQs, service descriptions, checklists, and other materials on this website are provided as general legal information and should not be treated as legal advice for a particular person, transaction, company, property, investment, immigration matter, or dispute.

Laws, regulations, administrative practices, filing requirements, government procedures, and interpretations may change. You should obtain advice based on the current law and the specific circumstances of your matter before making legal, financial, business, investment, property, or immigration decisions.

Consultations and Legal Services

Requests submitted through this website are subject to review. American Law Partners may need additional information before determining whether the firm can assist with a matter, including information necessary to evaluate scope, timing, jurisdiction, professional obligations, or potential conflicts.

The availability of a consultation does not guarantee that the firm will accept representation. When legal services are accepted, the scope of representation, professional fees, costs, responsibilities, and other material terms may be established in a separate written agreement.

Electronic Communications

The website may provide contact methods including forms, email, telephone, messaging services, and third-party scheduling tools. Electronic communications can involve security, delivery, filtering, or transmission risks and should not be assumed to be confidential merely because they are sent to the firm.

You are responsible for providing accurate contact information and for using reasonable care when deciding what information to transmit electronically.

Permitted Use of the Website

You may use this website for lawful informational and communication purposes. You may not use the website in a manner that interferes with its operation, compromises security, violates the rights of others, attempts unauthorized access, distributes malicious code, or uses automated systems in a manner that materially disrupts the website or its services.

You may not misrepresent your identity, submit knowingly false or unlawful information, impersonate another person, or use the website to facilitate fraud, abuse, harassment, or other unlawful activity.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise indicated, the website's original text, branding, graphics, design elements, page layouts, and other original materials are owned by or licensed to American Law Partners and may be protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

You may view and use website materials for personal, informational, and legitimate business-evaluation purposes. You may not reproduce, republish, sell, commercially distribute, or falsely present the firm's original content as your own without authorization, except where applicable law permits such use.

Third-Party Links and Services

This website may contain links, embedded content, maps, scheduling systems, messaging platforms, analytics tools, or other services operated by third parties. American Law Partners does not control every third-party website or service and is not responsible for their independent content, availability, security practices, or privacy practices.

Your use of a third-party service may be governed by that provider's own terms and policies.

Privacy and Personal Information

Information submitted through the website may be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable Costa Rican requirements concerning personal information. Costa Rica's data protection framework includes Law No. 8968, the Law on Protection of the Person regarding the Processing of Personal Data. Additional information about personal data protection in Costa Rica is available through the Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes (PRODHAB).

Please review our Privacy Policy for additional information regarding website data, communications, cookies, and personal information.

Disclaimer of Warranties

American Law Partners seeks to provide useful and accurate website information, but the website is provided for general informational purposes and may contain information that becomes incomplete, outdated, or inapplicable to a particular situation.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the website is provided without guarantees that it will always be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or suitable for a particular user's legal needs. Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or obligations that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, American Law Partners will not be responsible for losses arising solely from reliance on general website information instead of obtaining advice regarding the specific facts and circumstances of a legal matter.

This limitation is not intended to exclude or restrict liability, professional duties, consumer rights, or other obligations where such exclusion or restriction would be prohibited by applicable law.

Responsibility for Misuse

To the extent permitted by applicable law, users are responsible for consequences arising from their unlawful or unauthorized misuse of the website, including conduct that infringes third-party rights, compromises website security, or violates these Terms of Service.

Website Availability and Changes

American Law Partners may update, reorganize, suspend, remove, or modify website content or functionality when reasonably necessary. We do not guarantee that every page, feature, external integration, or resource will remain available at all times.

Changes to These Terms of Service

We may revise these Terms of Service to reflect changes in the website, our practices, applicable requirements, or the services described online. When changes are made, the updated version may be posted on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date.

Continued use of the website after an updated version is posted constitutes use of the website subject to the revised terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Governing Law

These Terms of Service and use of this website are intended to be interpreted in accordance with applicable laws of the Republic of Costa Rica, without limiting any mandatory rights or protections that may apply under other applicable law.

Nothing on this website should be interpreted as an agreement by American Law Partners to provide legal services in a jurisdiction where doing so would be inconsistent with applicable professional or regulatory requirements.

Severability and Entire Website Terms

If a provision of these Terms of Service is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions should continue to apply to the extent permitted by law. These website terms operate together with the Privacy Policy and any other notices expressly presented on the website.

A separate client engagement agreement, when applicable, governs the professional relationship and takes precedence regarding the specific legal services covered by that agreement.