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Acceptable Use Policy

Terms, policies and contact details for your use of Vivat Lex Web.

Business details

Trader, controller and contact

Trader and course provider: Stanislav Lynnyk, a sole trader trading as Vivat Lex.

Data controller: Stanislav Lynnyk, a sole trader trading as Vivat Lex.

Geographic business and address for service: 32/1 Tudsbery Avenue, Edinburgh, EH16 4GX, United Kingdom

Business telephone: +447442194285

Email for this document: sqe1practice@gmail.com

The SQE and SOLICITORS QUALIFYING EXAMINATION trade marks belong to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. References to SQE identify the assessment for which Vivat Lex provides independent preparation materials. Vivat Lex is not affiliated with, approved, endorsed or accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Purpose and scope

This policy explains permitted and prohibited use of an individual Vivat Lex Web account and its study materials supplied by Stanislav Lynnyk, a sole trader trading as Vivat Lex. It forms part of the Vivat Lex Web Terms.

It does not apply to the separate Vivat Lex iOS or Android products. Web, iOS and Android accounts, purchases, entitlements, progress and refunds do not transfer or synchronise.

The policy protects the personal account licence, service availability, security, intellectual property, other customers and legitimate operational interests. It is interpreted proportionately and subject to all rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Guiding safeguards

The following safeguards control interpretation and enforcement:

Intensive personal revision is not misuse.
Use from more than one legitimate personal device is not misuse by itself.
A changing or shared IP address, VPN, travel or new device is not conclusive evidence.
Legitimate assistive technology is permitted.
Account compromise must be considered before deliberate sharing is alleged.
No permanent termination may be based solely on an automated flag.
The least restrictive effective response should ordinarily be used.
Cancellation, refund and statutory-remedy questions are assessed separately from alleged misconduct.

Definitions

Account: The individual Vivat Lex Web identity and entitlement linked to an accepted web order.
Content: Questions, answer options, explanations, notes, diagrams, media, transcripts, tables, databases, downloadable material, interface content and other material supplied through Vivat Lex Web.
Automated means: Bots, crawlers, scrapers, scripts, macros, headless browsers, robotic-process automation, traffic replay and software that sends or repeats requests without ordinary individual interaction. Ordinary browser functions, password managers, security software and accessibility tools are not prohibited merely because they automate a function.
Security measure: An objectively justified and proportionate control for authentication, entitlement, expiry, stability or protection of accounts, content or infrastructure. A label alone does not make a control necessary or fair.

Permitted personal study use

During a valid entitlement, you may use the Account and Content for your own private SQE1 preparation, including:

Reading, viewing and navigating the Content.
Answering and repeating practice questions.
Reviewing explanations and your own results.
Revisiting material as reasonably needed for personal study.
Making your own revision notes in your own words.
Using search, display and study functions supplied by the service.
Printing or downloading material where an express function permits it.
Supplying a limited extract reasonably necessary for a support request, complaint, appeal or legal claim.
Using ordinary device, browser, network-security and password-management functions.
Exercising a statutory exception or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

An apparently permitted act must not be used systematically to copy, reconstruct or redistribute the course or question bank.

Accessibility tools and assistance

You may use legitimate assistive technology for your own study, including screen readers, magnification, keyboard or switch controls, speech input/output, colour or contrast tools, browser accessibility functions, reading assistance and translation assistance.

A tool is not prohibited merely because it reads, transforms or temporarily processes Content as reasonably necessary to provide access. If an external tool uploads or retains Content, limit the material to what is necessary and consider its privacy and retention arrangements.

Where reasonably required because of disability or another accessibility need, another person may assist you to operate the service, provided that the study use remains yours and the assistant does not independently study, retain or redistribute the Content.

A request for a reasonable adjustment may be sent to sqe1practice@gmail.com. Failure to obtain advance permission does not automatically establish breach where the assistance was reasonably necessary and otherwise consistent with this policy.

Individual Account and security

The Account is licensed to one customer. You must not:

Share credentials, a sign-in link or authenticated session for another person’s independent use.
Operate the Account as a household, class, firm, employer, institution, tutoring or community account.
Sell, rent, lend, transfer, assign or sublicense the Account.
Advertise the Account for transfer.
Use another person’s Account.
Purchase access for resale.

Take reasonable steps to protect the Account, including securing the linked email or identity account, using uncompromised credentials and signing out of a shared device.

You are not automatically responsible for every act performed after unauthorised access. Vivat Lex considers whether the Account was compromised, whether reasonable security steps were taken and how promptly the issue was reported.

Never send Vivat Lex a password, one-time code, full card number, PIN, CVV/CVC, recovery code or authentication token.

Devices and sessions

No numerical personal-device limit applies. A second or additional legitimate personal device is not a breach by itself.

Protected course materials may be used in exactly one active learning session at a time. If the course is already open in another browser, this browser shows a conflict notice and a retry control; you can continue here after logging out of the other browser or after the earlier learning session expires. This rule does not by itself treat legitimate multi-device, shared-network, travel or accessibility use as misuse.

Copying, extraction and redistribution

Except where expressly permitted or legally non-excludable, you must not:

Reproduce a substantial part of the Content.
Copy smaller parts systematically so as to reconstruct a substantial collection.
Make serial screenshots, photographs, recordings or transcripts.
Capture questions, answer choices or explanations in bulk.
Use an unprovided method to download, export or save Content.
Place Content in a shared drive, document, database or workspace.
Distribute Content through a website, forum, social network, messaging or file-sharing service.
Provide Content to another person for their study.
Use Content to tutor, train or test another person.
Sell, license, rent or commercially exploit Content.
Create a competing or substitute course or question bank derived from Content.
Remove a rights notice or watermark that is lawfully and transparently used.
Help another person do any of those things.

A limited capture reasonably required to document a fault, accessibility problem, complaint, appeal or claim is permitted if it is kept secure, not publicly distributed and deleted when no longer needed, subject to lawful evidence preservation.

Automated access, scraping and bulk extraction

You must not use automated means to:

Scrape, crawl, index, map or harvest Content.
Collect questions, answers, explanations, metadata or page structures in bulk.
Generate abusive volumes of requests or sessions.
Automate completion, answer submission, test generation or extraction.
Discover or access non-public interfaces.
Replay, duplicate or forge service requests.
Evade rate, concurrency or entitlement controls.
Reconstruct a material part of the Content or database.

The same purpose must not be achieved by systematic manual extraction.

This section does not prohibit ordinary personal browsing, accessibility technology, a password manager, device security, an expressly authorised activity or a legally protected exception.

No numerical ‘normal use’ threshold is adopted. Any rate limit must be based on tested capacity and distinguish intensive genuine study from automation or harmful load.

Artificial intelligence and model-training extraction

Unless expressly authorised or protected by a non-excludable legal right, you must not provide Vivat Lex Content to an external AI or machine-learning system to:

Train, pre-train, fine-tune, adapt or distil a model.
Create a training, evaluation or benchmarking dataset.
Test whether a model can reproduce Vivat Lex materials.
Create embeddings, a vector database or retrieval-augmented system.
Build a substitute search, tutoring or question-answering service.
Generate a derivative question bank, mock assessment or explanation collection.
Improve another education product.
Permit a provider to retain Content for its own model improvement.

You may use independently written notes and your own questions about general legal concepts, provided that you do not reproduce or reconstruct protected Vivat Lex Content.

This policy does not contract out of a copyright, database, quotation, research, criticism, review or other statutory exception that the law makes non-excludable. Conditions such as lawful access, fair dealing, non-commercial purpose, acknowledgement and proportionality still apply.

Circumvention and unauthorised access

You must not:

Bypass authentication, payment, entitlement, access-duration or expiry controls.
Use another person’s credentials or session.
Access material outside your entitlement.
Exploit caching, local-time changes, request modification or similar methods to continue access after expiry.
Evade a verified country or sanctions restriction.
Evade a proportionate rate or security control by changing accounts, devices, networks or identifiers.
Access answers or Content not made available by the ordinary service flow.
Interfere with a technical protection measure.
Reverse engineer protected components except where the law expressly permits and does not allow exclusion.
Probe or test non-public systems without prior written authorisation.
Conceal or falsify information to evade a legitimate investigation.

Using a VPN for ordinary privacy or security is not prohibited. Using it with false residence or billing information to evade a verified restriction is prohibited.

This policy does not create a security-research safe harbour or bug-bounty programme.

Malicious activity and abusive load

You must not introduce malware, phish for credentials, take over accounts, brute-force authentication, enumerate accounts, steal or replay sessions, exploit vulnerabilities, obtain or alter data without authority, inject malicious code or instructions, cause denial of service, interfere with another customer, commit fraud or access administration or infrastructure not intended for you.

Ordinary intensive study and a high number of genuine study interactions are not abusive load without further reliable evidence.

Communications and reports

Where Vivat Lex provides a support, complaint, feedback, appeal or security-reporting channel, you must not submit unlawful, infringing, malicious, fraudulent, threatening, discriminatory or targeted abusive material, spam or another person’s personal information without authority.

A genuine complaint, refund request, chargeback, criticism, report of an error, assertion of consumer rights or robust lawful disagreement is not misuse merely because it is inconvenient or critical.

If a communication channel must be restricted because of serious abuse, Vivat Lex should preserve a reasonable alternative route for contractual and statutory rights where practicable.

Evidence used to assess suspected misuse

Vivat Lex may rely only on information it actually and lawfully holds, for purposes disclosed in the Privacy Policy. This policy is not permission to introduce undisclosed tracking, fingerprinting, location monitoring, watermarking, process monitoring or behavioural profiling.

The following are not conclusive by themselves:

A new device.
Travel or country change.
A changing or shared IP address.
VPN use.
A household, university, workplace or public network.
Rapid revision.
Repeated review of Content.
Accessibility software.
An accidental concurrent session.
A replaced device.
An unsuccessful login.
An unverified third-party allegation.

The assessment considers evidence quality, customer explanation, compromise, accessibility, intent, scale, duration, harm, corrective action, previous warning and less restrictive alternatives.

Human review and proportionality

No permanent termination is based solely on an automated flag. An urgent temporary restriction may contain a credible immediate risk, but is referred for meaningful human review as soon as reasonably practicable.

The normal graduated responses are:

Level	Typical circumstance	Normal response
Security check	Unusual activity without reliable breach evidence	Clarify, secure or recover the Account; contain only the specific risk.
Warning or opportunity to correct	Minor, accidental or first remediable breach	Explain the rule and corrective action; allow reasonable compliance.
Narrow temporary restriction	Material or repeated conduct where full suspension is unnecessary	Restrict the affected function for a defined purpose and review point.
Urgent temporary suspension	Credible immediate compromise, extraction, malicious activity or fraud risk	Immediate containment followed by prompt human review.
Termination	Substantiated serious breach or repeated material breach after clear warning where lesser action is inadequate	Written reasons, a human decision and an appeal route.

Deliberate large-scale account resale, systematic course extraction, material redistribution, model-training or substitute-product extraction, malicious access, malware, phishing or destructive conduct may amount to serious grounds, subject to evidence and context.

An accidental screenshot, isolated misunderstanding, compromised Account or accessibility-related activity should not ordinarily lead directly to termination.

Notice and appeal

Except where immediate temporary action is reasonably necessary, a notice identifies:

The relevant policy section.
The conduct of concern.
A meaningful evidence summary.
Whether action is temporary or permanent.
Its start, scope and intended review or end point.
Corrective action available.
The appeal route.
How cancellation, refund and statutory issues will be assessed separately.

Limited technical detail may be withheld where disclosure would materially harm security, another person or a legal obligation, but enough information remains for a meaningful response.

An appeal may be sent to sqe1practice@gmail.com, preferably within 14 days after notice. That is an administrative preference, not a contractual bar to later review and not a limit on any statutory, chargeback, complaint or court period.

The appeal receives a genuine human reconsideration of evidence, compromise, accessibility, proportionality and factual error. In a sole-trader operation, the review is not described as independent unless it genuinely is.

Financial consequences and statutory rights

A warning, suspension or termination does not automatically decide whether money is refundable or another remedy applies.

There is no:

Automatic forfeiture of all money paid.
Automatic additional course fee.
Fixed charge for each alleged copy or recipient.
Penalty unrelated to actual lawful loss.
Conclusive determination of damages by Vivat Lex alone.

Any financial outcome considers what was supplied, the customer conduct, any Vivat Lex failure, cancellation rules, digital-content or service remedies and other mandatory law.

Rights concerning failed provisioning, duplicate or unauthorised payment, invalid immediate-supply consent, missing durable confirmation, defects, misdescription, reasonable care and skill, fraud and other non-excludable matters remain protected.

Wrongful restriction and fixed expiry

If a restriction was wrong, Vivat Lex should restore access while the fixed period remains open, correct material records and provide any further remedy required by law.

Ordinary access ends at midnight at the end of 28 February 2027 (UK time). Where restoration close to expiry is ineffective, the appropriate price reduction, refund or other remedy is assessed rather than silently extending or silently denying relief.

Changes to this policy

A change is versioned, dated and communicated fairly. It must not:

Operate retroactively.
Change the accepted price or create renewal.
Remove a statutory right.
Turn an unproved monitoring practice into a fact.
Introduce an undisclosed device cap.
Impose a disproportionate new sanction.
Be hidden from an existing customer likely to be materially affected.

The version used for an enforcement decision is identifiable and capable of being provided on a durable medium.

Version and effective date

Document version: 2026-09-12.5
Effective and last reviewed: 12 September 2026

The version accepted at checkout is recorded with the order and forms part of the customer's durable confirmation. A later publication does not retrospectively replace that accepted version or reduce any mandatory consumer right.

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