Terms of Use

1. Information about us

This site is operated by Owens Mediation & Expatriate Services ("we", "us", "our"), registered in Qatar under commercial registration number 241439. Our office is located at Signature Msheireb, 2nd Floor, Building 4, Zone #3 Street 983, P.O. Box 39137, Doha, Qatar.

2. Reliance on information posted, and disclaimer

The materials contained on our site are provided for general information purposes only. They do not claim to be, and do not constitute, legal or other professional advice, and must not be relied upon as such. Mediation is not legal representation: nothing on this site creates a mediator-and-client relationship, and you should take independent legal advice on your own position. We do not accept responsibility for any loss which may arise from accessing, or relying on, the information on this site, and to the fullest extent permitted by law we exclude all liability for loss or damage, direct or indirect, arising from use of this site.

3. Accessing our site

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

4. Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world, and all such rights are reserved. You may:

• print off one copy, and download extracts, of any page from our site for your personal reference
• draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status as the author of material on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

5. Our site changes regularly

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

6. Our liability

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we and third parties connected to us expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute or by law, together with any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site, or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it. This includes, without limitation, any liability for:

• loss of income or revenue
• loss of business
• loss of profits or contracts
• loss of anticipated savings
• loss of data
• loss of goodwill
• wasted management or office time
• any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable

This exclusion does not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property, or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by the categories above. Nor does it affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

7. Information about you and your visits to our site

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

8. Viruses, hacking and other offences

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to it. You must not attack our site by means of a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching this provision you may commit a criminal offence under Law No. 14 of 2014 on Combating Cybercrimes. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with those authorities, including by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. 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 as a result of your use of our site, or of your downloading of any material posted on it or on any website linked to it.

9. Links from our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, those links are provided for your information only. 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. When you access a site via ours, we advise you to check its terms of use and privacy policy, to ensure compliance and to determine how it may use your information.

10. Jurisdiction and applicable law

These terms of use, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Qatar. The courts of the State of Qatar will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.

11. Variations

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

12. Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact us at yomi@omes.qa, or through our Contact Us page. Thank you for visiting our site.