Start Anew / Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: August 12, 2024

The Start Anew Project is a program that offers survivors of human trafficking accepted into the program ("Program Participants") with expungement relief for human trafficking-related charges or convictions, financial education and literacy programs, resume and interviewing workshops, and professional workwear (the "Program"). The Program is not directed to nor available for residents of a country other than the United States of America.

This website and other associated digital platforms (e.g., mobile applications) used for this Program are operated by Jones Day (collectively, the "Site") and governed by these terms and conditions (the "Terms"). References to "Start Anew," including "we," "us," and "our" in these Terms, are to Jones Day. For more information about Jones Day, visit www.jonesday.com.

By using the Site, registering to attend, or attending one of our one-day Program clinics, you accept and agree to these Terms. When you accept these Terms electronically (e.g., on the Site), you consent to signing these Terms in electronic form, that your electronic acceptance constitutes your true and valid signature, and that these electronic Terms and your electronic signature will have the same legal force and effect as handwritten documents and signatures. Do not access or use the Site or register or attend a Program clinic if you do not accept these Terms.

General Information

The Site is directed only to Program Participants and their legal guardians. You must be 18 years of age or older (or, if you are under 18 years of age, you must have obtained parental or guardian consent) to access or use the Site or to register to attend a Program clinic. You must be 18 years of age or older at the time of the Program clinic to be accepted as a Program Participant.

These Terms apply to any and all access or use of any and all content or materials ("Program Materials") available on the Site. These Terms supplement our Disclaimers, Privacy Policy, and other disclosures and notices located on our website at www.jonesday.com, and all such disclosures and notices apply to your use of the Site except as noted in these Terms.

We reserve the right to revise these Terms or the Program Materials in any way. Revisions to these Terms will take immediate effect upon publication. Continued use of the Site or participation in the Program clinic(s) following communication to you of any such updates will constitute your acceptance to such updated terms.

You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any other third parties for the termination, suspension, or revision to the Site or Program Materials.

Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, the Site, Program Materials, and educational information shared with you during your Program clinic visit (including orally, in written or electronic form, or in any other way) prior to being accepted as a Program Participant are provided in good faith on an "as is" basis for general information purposes only and do not constitute legal or other professional advice (nor are they a substitute for such). The Program Materials available on the Site and through Program clinic(s) are believed to be current as of the date of the preparation, but information can rapidly become out of date. If you rely on any information available on the Site or through the clinic(s), you must do so wholly at your own risk and based on your own assessment of the information. Do not take any actions based on information found on the Site or made available to you at the clinic(s) until you are accepted into the Program.

Jones Day makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, comprehensiveness, or accuracy of the information, services, and other content contained on the Site or made available to you at the clinic(s). We may, from time to time, change or add content and other information to the Program Materials without notice. We cannot guarantee that the Site, content of the Site, or the information provided to you at the clinic(s) will always be current, correct, or accurate, or free of error, defect, or viruses.

Jones Day will not be liable to you or anyone else in the event of inaccuracies or errors in the Program Materials, or if that information is not up to date, or for any viruses on this or any linked Site. In addition, Jones Day is not liable to you or anyone else for any interference with or damage to your computer systems that may occur in connection with use of or connecting to the Site or linked websites, or for any data lost or any equipment or software replaced by you as a result of your using the Site. You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from the Site is free of viruses or any other malicious code that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems.

Furthermore, to the fullest extent permitted by law, Jones Day shall not be directly or indirectly liable in contract, tort, equity, or otherwise for any damage whatsoever in connection with this Site or any linked website, or any use of Program Materials provided on the Site or at the clinic(s), including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damage, and any damage sounding in loss of profits, interest, data, business revenue, anticipated savings, business, or goodwill.

All representations, warranties (including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose), and guarantees are excluded to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law.

This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any specific warnings and disclaimers elsewhere on the Site applicable to the use of the Site and participation in the clinic(s).

You agree that your registration on the Site or attendance at any Program clinic(s) does not create an attorney–client relationship between Jones Day and you in the absence of a formal engagement agreement for legal services between you and Jones Day. To the extent you are not otherwise a Jones Day client (in which case the terms of our relationship are reflected in appropriate engagement letters with you), you understand that Jones Day may currently be representing one or more clients adverse to you and, further, that Jones Day remains free to represent clients adverse to you in the future, in each case without notice to or consent by you.

Participation in a Program Clinic(s)

You must be registered with the Program on the Site if you wish to participate in a clinic(s). In the unlikely eventuality that any of our clinic(s) have to be cancelled or postponed for any reason, you agree that we cannot be held responsible for any costs incurred by you as an attendee or in anticipation of being an attendee at the clinic. Further, the nature, substance, extent, timing, and location of any programming is subject to change without notice in Jones Day's sole discretion. Your use of this Site, registration, or attendance at our clinic(s) does not create or convey any rights to you regarding the nature or existence of future programming, content, or clinic(s), nor does Jones Day undertake any obligation or commitment with respect to the anticipated or potential future programming, content, or clinic(s).

We do not accept responsibility and expressly reject and exclude liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for all of the following:

Any loss or damage to any personal property whether left unattended or not during your participation in a clinic(s); or
Death or any personal injury suffered by you at Start Anew clinic(s).

Privacy

Any personal information or data you submit to us in connection with your use of the Site or registration to Start Anew clinic(s) will be processed for the purposes of determining if Jones Day will provide you legal assistance under the Program. For information on how we collect, use, and share your information provided to us on the Site and during your participation in a clinic(s), please review our Privacy Policy. The practices described in our Privacy Policy apply to the Program except those practices related to marketing and advertising.

If you have any questions concerning the information-handling practices related to the Program, you can contact us at startanew@jonesday.com. If you would like to exercise any of your legal rights provided under applicable privacy law, you can contact us at:

By email: privacy@jonesday.com; or
Toll Free: +1-888-404-1150.

Intellectual Property

All rights in the Site and Program Materials, and all rights in the information made available to you at the Program clinic(s), including copyright, design rights, patents, inventions, know-how, database rights, trademarks, source codes, and any other intellectual property rights in any of the foregoing, are reserved to Jones Day and/or their content and technology providers. All such rights are reserved by Jones Day and/or its content and technology providers.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Jones Day, along with our partners, employees, and agents or other related persons, from and against any claims, actions, or demands (including the cost of defending or settling any action, claim, or demand, which may include without limitation reasonable legal and other professional fees), alleging or resulting or arising from: (i) your use of the Site and any Program Materials in any way; (ii) failure by you or by any person using your credentials to access the Site (whether or not you have authorized that person to do so) to comply with these Terms; or (iii) any bodily injury or property damage caused by you at our clinic(s). We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding.

Termination

Jones Day reserves the right to terminate your registration or right to attend our clinic(s), with or without notice, for any reason and at any time.

Enforcement

If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction:

The validity, legality, and enforceability under the law of that jurisdiction of any other provision; and
The validity, legality, and enforceability under the law of any other jurisdiction of that or any other provision

shall not be affected or impaired in any way thereby.

These Terms and any dispute, controversy, proceedings, or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Ohio law (without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions), and the courts of New York shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes between us relating to these Terms.