DOBRMAN TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Modified: 2026-04-17
IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A CLIENT OF DOBRMAN, PLEASE DO NOT SEND US ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LEGAL MATTER.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW AND REGULATION, ALL UNSOLICITED EMAILS, DATA, CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER INFORMATION SENT TO DOBRMAN OR ITS LAWYERS OR STAFF WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED CONFIDENTIAL, MAY BE DISCLOSED TO OTHERS, MAY NOT RECEIVE A RESPONSE, AND DO NOT CREATE A LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.
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INTRODUCTION
Thank you (“you”, “your”, “USER”) for viewing our Terms of Service (“Agreement”).
Julian Dobre Professional Corporation (“we”, “us”, “our”, “DOBRMAN”) is a law firm from Alberta, Canada that provides legal services, content, and information to our users and clients, including the website found at www.dobrman.ca (the “Platform”).
Through access or use of the Platform you agree to be bound by this Agreement, which constitutes a legal contract entered between DOBRMAN and USER.
If you are accessing or using the Platform on behalf of a company or organization, you represent that you have authority to act on behalf of that entity and provide consent and acceptance for that entity.
The following terms and conditions, together with any documents and/or additional terms that are expressly incorporated by reference, govern your right to access and use the Platform. If this Agreement or any terms of this Agreement are unacceptable to you, you must cease using the Platform immediately.
This Terms of Service provides only some of the terms and conditions applicable to your use of our Platform. This Terms of Service interacts with, and USER additionally agrees to and provides express consent to, our Privacy Policy, and Retainer Agreement Please review those documents together with this Agreement.
MODIFICATIONS TO OUR AGREEMENTS AND PLATFORM
DOBRMAN reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to revise and update this Agreement, our Privacy Policy, our Retainer Agreement, and our products and services, and any aspect of the same from time to time. All such modifications are effective immediately and apply to all access to and use of the Platform and our products and services after the date of modification. You agree to periodically review this Agreement to be aware of any such modifications and your continued use shall denote your acceptance. The Platform may be changed, withdrawn, or terminated at any time in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, all or any part of the Platform is restricted to USER or unavailable at any time or for any period.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
By accessing or using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you are the legal age of majority under applicable law to form a binding contract with DOBRMAN and meet all the eligibility requirements for use of the Platform. Anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited from accessing or using the Platform without being accompanied and monitored by an adult who has full responsibility for ensuring compliance with this Agreement. If you do not meet all these requirements, you must not access or use the Platform.
GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
The owner of the Platform is based in Alberta, Canada. We provide the Platform for use only by persons located in permitted areas of Canada. The Platform is not intended for use in any jurisdiction where its use is not permitted, including for use in Quebec, Europe, United States, or United Kingdom. Such users must leave the Platform immediately. If you access the Platform from outside the permitted jurisdictions, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws of your jurisdiction.
SAFE USE OF THE PLATFORM
USER is responsible for obtaining their own access to the Platform through proper registration on the Platform. USER is required to ensure that all persons who access the Platform through USER’S account are aware of and comply with this Agreement. Any username, password, or any other piece of information chosen by you, or provided to you as part of our security procedures, must be treated as strictly confidential.
You are prohibited from attempting to circumvent or violate the security of the Platform or otherwise using or accessing the Platform for any unauthorized purposes, including, without limitation: using the Platform for any illegal, fraudulent, or unauthorized purposes; accessing or using content, data, functionality, or intellectual property that is not intended for you; breaching the security, authentication, or protection measures of the Platform; restricting, disrupting, or disabling service to users, hosts, servers, or networks; disrupting network services or otherwise disrupting our ability to monitor the Platform; using any robot, spider, crawler, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Platform, including scraping, monitoring, copying, or downloading any part of the Platform or its contents; introducing any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material, code, or files that are malicious or harmful to the Platform; attacking the Platform via a denial-of-service attack, flooding, mailbombing, crashing, or other such harmful actions; or otherwise attempting to interfere with the proper working of the Platform.
TERM & TERMINATION
The term of this Agreement begins on the date USER first accessed or used the Platform and will continue in effect until terminated in accordance with this Agreement (the “Term”).
DOBRMAN may terminate this Agreement immediately in compliance with this Agreement and our Privacy Policy. Subject to ongoing obligations as described herein, USER may terminate this Agreement by forever ceasing use of DOBRMAN’s Platform, Intellectual Property, products, and services.
Prior to termination, USER shall immediately pay all fees for transactions entered into by USER outstanding at the time of termination, as applicable, including all legal fees owed to DOBRMAN by USER. Upon termination, USER shall immediately discontinue use of our Platform, Intellectual Property, products, and services. Should you return, you agree to be bound by the most recent terms and conditions at the time of your return. Any part or portion of this Agreement pertaining to authorized or unauthorized use, disputes, intellectual property, representations, warranties, license terms, privacy, indemnification, limitation on liability, notices, releases, term, termination, or general terms, or as otherwise necessary to comply with or enforce this Agreement, shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
You understand and agree that all intellectual property belonging to DOBRMAN, including as contained in all of our products and services, and including the Platform and its entire contents, features, and functionality, and including all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, works, files, content, logos, text, images, video, audio, audiovisual, broadcast, design, presentation, layout, selection, arrangement, data, or any related derivatives or spinoffs (collectively “Intellectual Property”), are the sole property of DOBRMAN, its licensors, or other providers of such material; and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by DOBRMAN.
You acknowledge that any use of the Platform or Intellectual Property not expressly permitted by this Agreement is a breach of this Agreement and may infringe or violate intellectual property or other laws, or the rights of DOBRMAN or another third party.
You agree that you have no right, title, or interest in or to the Platform or to any materials or content on the Platform or any of our Intellectual Property other than such materials belonging to you that you submitted to or published on the Platform as a User Submission (as defined below).
You shall not engage in any unauthorized activities, including to copy, modify, download, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, rent, lease, lend, sell, license, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, reverse engineer, disassemble, circumvent, decompile, decode, adapt, remove proprietary notices from, file registrations for, or otherwise make available the Platform or our Intellectual Property, in whole or in part, or the intellectual property belonging to any third party, without such third-party’s express permission.
USER SUBMISSIONS
As a condition of your access to and use of the Platform you agree that you may use the Platform limited only to lawful and authorized purposes and in strict compliance with this Agreement, and in strict compliance with our Privacy Policy and Retainer Agreement, as applicable to your relationship with DOBRMAN.
Subject to legal and professional obligations, by submitting or providing any submission, information, data, or materials to DOBRMAN or the Platform, or by interacting with any interactive function of the Platform, including any form, mail list, drop box, upload field, registration, review, direct message, connection request, store, checkout, link, download, or other similar functions (collectively “Interactive Functions”), you provide express agreement and consent to all actions we take with respect to such submissions, information, data, and materials, in accordance with this Agreement, our Retainer Agreement, and our Privacy Policy.
You represent and warrant that you have all required rights, consents, and authorizations to submit and publish all submissions, information, data, and materials to the Platform, including through the use of any Interactive Function of the Platform (each submission or publication being a “User Submission”).
You represent and warrant that all information provided to DOBRMAN or the Platform is accurate, complete, and up to date.
You represent and warrant that you shall not impersonate or attempt to impersonate any other person or entity or submit or publish a User Submission that is false, fraudulent, illegal, or infringing on ours’ or a third party’s rights, such determination to be made in our sole discretion.
USER SUBMISSION: GRANT OF LICENSE
By submitting any User Submission you grant DOBRMAN a perpetual, world-wide, royalty free, irrevocable right and license to use any such User Submission in order to deliver and improve our Platform, products, and services to and for our users and customers, for internal and archival purposes, for portfolio usage, and for organic usage on our Platform, social media, and marketing channels, including USER’S trademarks, image, voice, and likeness, and otherwise for the purposes detailed in our Privacy Policy.
By submitting any User Submission to DOBRMAN or the Platform you grant DOBRMAN a perpetual, world-wide, royalty free, irrevocable right and license to use any User Submission for training artificial intelligence and disclosing such User Submission to third-party artificial intelligence tools such as Gemini and Claude, for the purposes of enhancing and improving our products and services.
PLATFORM MONITORING & ENFORCEMENT
DOBRMAN has the right and option to terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Platform for any violation of this Agreement.
NO RELIANCE
The information, contents, works, and materials on the Platform are provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended to amount to legal, business, or other advice on which you should rely.
USER acknowledges the Platform may contain information, content, works, and materials generated by artificial intelligence tools that may contain mistakes or hallucinations and that DOBRMAN does not guarantee the accuracy, truthfulness, reliability, or availability of such information, content, works and materials on the Platform.
RIGHT TO SUB-CONTRACT THE SERVICES
DOBRMAN retains the right and USER acknowledges that DOBRMAN may sub-contract any of the services listed on this Platform to third-party service providers, including paralegals, registry agents, lawyers, law firms, patent agents, and trademark agents. USER acknowledges that the inclusion of any particular service on this website does not mean that DOBRMAN shall be the party to deliver such services and that some or all of the services described on this Platform may be delivered by such third parties.
NON-DISPARAGEMENT
During the Term of this Agreement and for a period of two (2) years thereafter, USER shall not make or publish any public statements, distributions, transmissions, posts, or pages that DOBRMAN, in its reasonable discretion, would find disparaging or that would reasonably tend to bring DOBRMAN, its products, brands, services, or clients into disrepute.
PRICES
Unless stated otherwise at the time of order checkout, any prices listed on the Platform are in Canadian dollars. All prices are exclusive of sales tax or other applicable taxes unless shown otherwise at the time of order checkout.
Any prices listed on the Platform for a particular product or service offered by DOBRMAN (the “Listed Price”) may change from time to time. By purchasing products or services at the Listed Price, as displayed to USER at the time of order checkout, or by otherwise entering into a transaction on the Platform, you agree to the Listed Price ‘as is’ at the time of entering into the transaction and agree that the Listed Price is acceptable consideration for the products or services being offered at the time of the transaction.
DOBRMAN reserves the right to change its pricing at its sole option and discretion, at any time, and any frequency.
MAILING LIST ACCEPTANCE & CASL COMPLIANCE
User agrees that by entering into this Agreement, and/or making any positive action to denote your consent to this Agreement, including by checking any checkbox next to a form or interactive function on this website, or entering, submitting, or executing any form or interactive function on this website, you acknowledge and agree that you provide us express consent to send you any Commercial Electronic Message (CEM) or other communication, for commercial and other promotional purposes; and you agree to be added to our mail list until and when you provide us written notice that you wish to unsubscribe; and you agree that you otherwise provide us implied consent by virtue of the relationship between you and us and/or your posting or making available your information online unaccompanied by a statement that you do not wish to receive CEMs.
LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW AND REGULATION, THE PLATFORM, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS FOUND OR ATTAINED THROUGH THE PLATFORM, ARE PROVIDED ON AN ‘AS IS’ AND ‘AS AVAILABLE’ BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, ASSURANCES, OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND OTHER THAN AS FOUND HEREIN.
NEITHER DOBRMAN NOR ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, LICENSEES, SUPPLIERS, OR SUCCESSORS (THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) MAKE ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR ENDORSEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, SUITABILITY, ACCURACY, CURRENCY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE PLATFORM OR ITS CONTENTS OR OUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.
USER UNDERSTANDS THAT USE OF DOBRMAN’S PLATFORM, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES IS AT USER’S OWN RISK AND DOBRMAN PROVIDES NO GUARANTEES, WARRANTIES, RESULTS, OR OUTCOMES. USER UNDERSTANDS THAT DOBRMAN AND THE RELEASED PARTIES SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO USER REGARDING THE USE OF OUR PLATFORM AND USER RELEASES AND HOLDS HARMLESS DOBRMAN REGARDING ANY DAMAGE OR NEGATIVE OUTCOME USER SUSTAINS OR INCURS AS A RESULT OF USING OUR PLATFORM.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL DOBRMAN NOR THE RELEASED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT, BREACH OF CONTRACT, BREACH OF PRIVACY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE PARTY WAS ALLEGEDLY ADVISED OR HAD REASON TO KNOW, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, OR RELIANCE ON, THE PLATFORM, OR ITS CONTENTS.
INDEMNIFICATION
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DOBRMAN and the RELEASED PARTIES from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees arising out of or relating to your breach of this Agreement, your use of or access to the Platform and its contents, your unauthorized use of a third party’s property, or your infringement or breach of a third party’s rights or a third party agreement.
GENERAL
In this Agreement, USER and DOBRMAN shall be known together as the “Parties” and individually as a “Party”. The word “including” in this Agreement means ‘including without limitation’. The sections and headers in this Agreement are for context only. If any legal proceeding is brought by either Party hereto to enforce or interpret this Agreement, both Parties will be deemed to have jointly drafted this Agreement and neither side will enjoy the benefit of any evidentiary presumptions. This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Alberta and Canada. Any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Platform and under this Agreement will be instituted in those courts, as applicable, and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any such action or proceeding. Unless mutually agreed by the Parties in writing, no failure to exercise, or delay in exercising, any right, remedy, power, or privilege arising from this Agreement operates, or may be construed, as a waiver thereof. If any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Agreement or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction. This Agreement, our Privacy Policy, and our Retainer Agreement, as applicable to your relationship with DOBRMAN, constitutes the entire Agreement between you and DOBRMAN and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written, oral, or inferred from conduct, regarding such subject matter. Nothing herein, expressed, or implied, will constitute or contemplate a partnership, joint venture, employment, or other agency relationship between the Parties. The Parties agree that only DOBRMAN may assign or transfer this Agreement and its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a third party, at its option and discretion. Each Party acknowledges to the other they had the opportunity to obtain independent legal advice or have freely chosen not to obtain such advice.
CONTACT, COMPLAINTS & NOTICES
All notices and communications to DOBRMAN shall be delivered in writing via email or registered mail to:
Julian Dobre Professional Corporation
Attention: Privacy Officer
3254 20 st SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2T 6T6
All notices and communications to USER shall be delivered to USER in writing via email to the email address DOBRMAN has on file for USER.
If submitting a notice, complaint, or request to withdraw consent or remove your account, content, data, or information from the Platform, please particularize and substantiate all information and evidence DOBRMAN reasonably needs to comply with such notice, complaint, or request, including to comply with all relevant rules, regulations, and our Privacy Policy, within thirty (30) days of the circumstances of such notice, complaint, or request being made known to USER.
If you believe that someone is, through the use of our Platform, unlawfully infringing the intellectual property or other rights belonging to you or someone else, and you wish to have the allegedly infringing material removed, send the following information to us at the email above: identification of the copyrighted work(s) or trademark(s) that you claim to have been infringed, including hyperlinks, screenshots, and timestamps; identification of the material on our services that you claim is infringing and that you request us to remove, including hyperlinks, screenshots, and timestamps; a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the objectionable material is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or under the law; a statement that the information is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are either the owner of the intellectual property that has allegedly been infringed or that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner; your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; and your physical or electronic signature.