Proprietary Rights Restrictions

All material on the Richards Partners website (the "Site") including without limitation all informational text, photographs, graphics, audio, video, messages, files, documents, images or other materials (collectively, the "Materials"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, as well as all derivative works, is owned by Richards Partners, LLP ("We" or "Us") or other parties that have licensed their material to Richards Partners and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Richards Partners disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks, service marks, logos, slogans, domain names and trade names other than its own. Trademarks, logos, images and service marks displayed on the Site are the property of either Richards Partners or other third parties. You agree not to display or use such marks without Richards Partners’s prior written permission.

The Materials on the Site may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or distributed in any way, including by email or other electronic means. Any modification of the Materials, use of the Materials on any website or networked computer environment or use of the Materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is a violation of the copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights in the Materials and is expressly prohibited. Additionally, the use of any device, software or routine that interferes or attempts to interfere with the proper working of the Site is expressly prohibited.

Links to Other Websites

If any link is offered connecting you to a third-party website, it is as an accommodation to the respective third-party site owner and without charge. Websites linked to and from this Site are not necessarily under the control of Richards Partners and Richards Partners shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. Richards Partners does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which the Site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this Site, you do so entirely at your own risk.

Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SITE, AND THE CONTENTS THEREIN, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE DISCLAIMED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE OR LOSS CAUSED BY ERRORS OF THE SITE, CONTENT ON THE SITE OR THE INTERNET. ADDITIONALLY, THE SITE MAY BE UNAVAILABLE UNEXPECTEDLY AS A RESULT OF ERRORS OR CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL.

Further Questions

If you have any questions or comments about our Legal Notice, you can contact us at 214-891-5700.

Privacy Policy

Richards Partners, LLP ("We" or "Us") is committed to respecting the privacy rights of visitors of the Richards Partners website (the "Site"). While visiting the Site, We may ask You ("You" or "Your") to provide information that personally identifies You ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with the Site.

We will take measures to ensure that the Personal Information You submit to Us remains private, and is used only for the purposes as set forth herein. To further the protection of Your Personal Information, Richards Partners has adopted a set of information management guidelines (outlined below) to describe the Personal Information We collect about You, why We collect it, how We use it and when We share it with third parties.

This Privacy Policy has been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, this Privacy Policy is subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page. Please see the Effective Date stated at the conclusion of this Policy.

What kind of information does Richards Partners collect from visitors?

We only collect Personal Information that You submit to Us, including but not limited to personal data (e.g., Your name, mailing address and email address), for example, when You request further information. Additionally, We may also collect aggregate information regarding users of the Site.

What are Cookies?

There is a technology called "cookies" that can be used to provide You with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to Your browser, which may then be stored on Your computer system. This element of data is a piece of text, not a program. The Site can only access the information from a cookie sent by the Site. We cannot access other cookies sent by other websites or the information contained therein. Additionally, We cannot learn Your email address or any other information about You through the use of a cookie. The only way We would learn such information is if You specifically submit that information to Us.

Use of Personal Information [Subject to the internal policy of Richards Partners]

Occasionally, We may make our mailing list available to independent companies that offer products and services that We think may be of interest to You. Additionally, We may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with our business partners and other affiliated third parties (e.g., the number of users who have visited the Site on a specific day, etc.). Richards Partners may also match aggregated user information with third-party data and disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to potential advertisers, partners and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

It should be noted, however, that this Privacy Policy only addresses the use and dissemination of information that We collect from You. To the extent that You disclose any information to other parties, through other websites on the Internet linked to the Site, different policies may apply. Since Richards Partners does not control the privacy policies of third parties, You are subject to the privacy customs and policies, if any, of that third party, and Richards Partners shall not be responsible for the use or dissemination of Your Personal Information by that third party. Therefore, We encourage You to ask questions before You disclose Your Personal Information to others.

Children’s Privacy

Richards Partners does not specifically collect information about children, but is concerned about the safety of children and their use of the Internet. Therefore, in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, We will never knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. In the event that We receive actual knowledge that We have collected such personal information without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, We will delete that information from our database as quickly as is practical.

Third-Party Hosting

Richards Partners contracts with one or more third parties to maintain and host the Site. Therefore, any information You submit, including Personal Information, shall be placed and stored on a computer server maintained by this third party. Your use of the Site and any provision of Personal Information You submit to the Site constitutes Your acknowledgement that such information or content could pass through and may be stored in servers outside the control of Richards Partners. You agree that Richards Partners has no liability or responsibility for any such pass-through or storage of same.

Opting Out

When Richards Partners first collects information about You, We will offer You the opportunity to "opt out" of having Your Personal Information shared with parties outside of Richards Partners, unless otherwise required by law, court order, or other government or law enforcement authority. Should You not want Richards Partners to send You email or postal mail about our products and services, You also can opt out at the time of registration or information collection. If, at a later date, You choose to have Your name removed from our database, You can do so by sending an email to Richards Partners at the following address: anya_mailandt@richards.com.

Effective Date and Changes

This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 2001. Richards Partners reserves the right to modify the terms of this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice to this page. Your continued use of the Site following our posting of a change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.