Terms of service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are an agreement between you and the company that operates Gage Law, as identified in your order form or account agreement ("we", "us"), governing your use of Gage Law at law.gagegreengroup.com and its related applications and services (the "Service"). If you use the Service on behalf of a firm or other organization, you accept these Terms for that organization and confirm you have authority to bind it; "you" then includes the organization.

By creating an account, starting a membership, or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

2. No legal advice

Gage Law is software for legal research, drafting and case management. We are not a law firm, do not practise law, and do not provide legal advice. Using the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship with us.

You are responsible for your matters and for everything you file, send or rely on. Review every output, including citations, deadlines and calculations, against the governing law and the record before you use it. Where you need advice on your situation, consult a lawyer licensed in the relevant jurisdiction.

3. Accounts

You must give accurate registration information, keep it current, and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at law@gagegreengroup.com if you believe your account has been used without authorization.

A membership that includes seats may be used only by the named people it covers. Seats may not be shared.

4. Licence

Subject to these Terms and payment of the applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service during your membership for your own legal work and, for a firm, the work of its clients.

You may not: resell, sublicense or provide the Service to third parties as a service; copy, scrape or bulk-download the Service's corpus, indexes or other content; reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows it despite this restriction; use the Service to build a competing product; circumvent usage limits, access controls or security measures; or use the Service in violation of law or of any court's rules.

5. Your content

You keep all rights in the documents, evidence, notes and other material you upload or create with the Service ("Your Content"), including the drafts the Service produces for you. You grant us only the rights needed to host, process and display Your Content to provide the Service to you.

We do not sell Your Content or use it for advertising. Questions that belong to one of your matters are answered on our own servers; other questions may be answered by the model providers named in our Privacy Policy. How we handle personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

You confirm you have the right to upload Your Content, and you are responsible for protecting privileged and confidential material in accordance with your own professional obligations.

6. Our property

The Service, its software, methods, corpus compilations, indexes, citation graphs, publications and trademarks, including GAGE and GAGE LAW, belong to us or our licensors. Except for the licence in these Terms, no rights are granted to you. Public court opinions, statutes and rules remain in the public domain; our selection, arrangement and annotation of them does not.

If you send us feedback, we may use it without obligation to you.

7. Fees and billing

Memberships are billed in advance, monthly or yearly, at the prices shown on the pricing page when you subscribe. Payments are processed by Authorize.net; we do not store your full card details.

A membership renews automatically for the same period unless you cancel before the renewal date. You may cancel at any time by writing to law@gagegreengroup.com; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period already paid for, and you keep access until then.

Fees are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise or we agree in writing. We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice; a change takes effect at your next renewal. Fees exclude taxes, which you pay where they apply.

8. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these Terms, fail to pay, or use the Service in a way that risks harm to the Service, other users or third parties. Where practical we will give notice and a chance to cure first.

On termination your licence ends. For 30 days afterwards you may export Your Content; after that we may delete it, except where the law requires us to keep it.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service or its output will be accurate, complete, current or uninterrupted, or that any filing prepared with it will be accepted by a court.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data, even if advised of the possibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service is limited to the fees you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

11. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims arising from Your Content, your filings or other use of the Service's output, or your breach of these Terms, and pay the resulting losses and reasonable costs, including attorney fees.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state named in your order form or account agreement, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in that state, and each party consents to their jurisdiction.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version here with its date and, for a material change, notify account holders by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms; if you do not, you may cancel before that date.

14. General

These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and any order form or written agreement signed by both parties, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service; a signed agreement prevails over these Terms where they conflict. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or a successor to our business. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: law@gagegreengroup.com.