Terms of use

These terms are between you and AI-LAW PTY LTD, ACN 698 421 608, ABN 23 698 421 608, an Australian proprietary company registered in Western Australia. AI-Law is a trading name of that company.

They govern your use of the website at ailaw.im and any correspondence you have with the company at [email protected]. Using the site means you accept them. If you do not accept them, the remedy available to you is to stop using the site, which costs you nothing because nothing here is behind a login.

They also set out, in advance, the basis on which retrieval software would be supplied if it is ever published. Those clauses are marked as prospective. They do not create an entitlement to anything today.

This is the clause that most terms of use leave out, so it goes near the front.

AI-LAW PTY LTD does not currently supply any product or service to anybody. There is no software to download, no hosted service, no account, no subscription, no licence, no trial, no application programming interface and no support offering. The company has no customers and has issued no invoices. It holds no client money and operates no trust account.

Nothing on this website is an offer capable of acceptance, and nothing on it should be read as a representation that a product exists, works, or will exist by any particular date. Where the site describes intended behaviour, it says that it is intended, and a statement of intention is not a promise of performance.

This clause is the most important one on the page, and it is not boilerplate.

1. Nothing on this website is legal advice. Not the descriptions of what the software would do, not this document, not the privacy policy, and not any reply you receive from the published address.
2. AI-LAW PTY LTD is not an incorporated legal practice. It holds no Australian practising certificate, it has no principal who is an Australian legal practitioner, and it does not engage in legal practice within the meaning of the Legal Profession Uniform Law as applied in Western Australia by the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2022 (WA).
3. No lawyer and client relationship is created by reading this site, by writing to the company or by receiving a reply. No duty of care of the kind a solicitor owes a client arises, because the company is not a solicitor.
4. The software, if published, will not give advice, draft documents or predict outcomes. It is intended to retrieve passages from documents that the user already holds, and to attribute each passage to its source. Output is a reference to an existing document. It is not an opinion about what that document means or what should be done about it.
5. It is not a substitute for a lawyer. If you need to know what a contract means, or what to do about one, engage an Australian legal practitioner.

Section 11 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law prohibits a person from representing or advertising an entitlement to engage in legal practice that they do not have. This clause exists so that no reader of this site can be left in any doubt about where the company stands, and so that the company cannot later be heard to say it was ambiguous.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy, guarantee, warranty or other term implied or imposed by law which cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified.

In particular, the Australian Consumer Law, Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), gives consumers guarantees that cannot be contracted out of. Where those guarantees apply, they apply regardless of anything written here, and where any provision of these terms is inconsistent with them, the guarantees prevail and that provision is read down or severed to the extent of the inconsistency.

The statutory wording for goods and services, which cannot be excluded, is that our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with a service you are entitled to cancel your service contract with us and to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If the failure does not amount to a major failure you are entitled to have the problem rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel the contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion of the contract.

As things stand no service is supplied, so no such contract exists. The clause is here because it will be needed if that changes, and because a supplier that omits it while promising a product is telling you something about itself.

You may read this website, print it, quote it with attribution, and link to it from anywhere without asking.

You may not do the following.

• Represent that you are connected with, endorsed by or acting for AI-LAW PTY LTD when you are not.
• Present material from this site in a way that changes its meaning, in particular by quoting a description of intended behaviour as though it described a product in operation.
• Attempt to interfere with the site or the infrastructure serving it, including by denial of service, or by attempting to gain access to anything not published.
• Use automated means to place a load on the site that a reasonable person would consider disproportionate.

The site is provided as it is. It is a set of static files and it will occasionally be unavailable, because everything occasionally is. We give no undertaking about availability and none is implied.

Security researchers are welcome. If you find something, write to [email protected] with Security in the subject line. A good faith report will not be treated as a breach of these terms and we will not threaten anyone who makes one.

This clause is prospective. It describes the basis on which retrieval software would be supplied if the company publishes any, and it creates no entitlement now.

• Supply would be under a separate written agreement with an identified practice. These terms of use would not themselves license any software.
• The customer's documents remain the customer's. Supplying documents for indexing would grant no ownership, no licence to use them for our own purposes, and no right to train any model on them.
• The customer is responsible for its own obligations. A law practice remains responsible for confidentiality, privilege, conflicts, its professional conduct rules and its own privacy obligations. Nothing we supply changes that and nothing we say should be relied on as advice about it.
• Output must be checked. Any agreement would require the customer to verify a retrieved passage against the source document before relying on it, because that is the only way a retrieval tool can responsibly be used in this profession.
• Accuracy is not warranted beyond what the law requires. Retrieval can miss a passage or rank an irrelevant one first. Beyond the consumer guarantees that cannot be excluded, no warranty of completeness is given, and a tool that claimed one would be lying.
• Deletion on termination. Any agreement would provide for destruction of the customer's data on termination, within a stated period, confirmed in writing.

The text, layout, stylesheet, code and design of this website are owned by AI-LAW PTY LTD or used with permission. The typefaces are licensed from their respective foundries under open font licences and are not ours.

The name AI-Law and the mark used in the header are used by the company as a trading name. No trade mark registration is claimed on this site and none should be inferred from the use of a name. If the company registers a mark, this clause will say so and give the number.

You may quote from this site for the purposes of comment, criticism, review, reporting or study, which is what the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) permit in any event. Reproducing a page wholesale as though it were your own is a different matter and is not permitted.

Personal information is handled in accordance with the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms and is written to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

Two points worth repeating in the contract rather than only in the policy. We do not use anything you send us to train any model. We do not sell personal information, and we do not disclose it for anyone else's marketing.

Please do not send client documents to the published address. Material of that kind is destroyed under Australian Privacy Principle 4, as described in the privacy policy.

This clause operates subject to the consumer guarantees clause above, which prevails over it in every case of inconsistency.

To the extent permitted by law, AI-LAW PTY LTD is not liable for loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, this website, or from reliance on anything published on it. That includes indirect and consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, and loss or corruption of data.

Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our liability is limited, at our option, to resupplying the relevant service or paying the cost of having it resupplied. Since no service is supplied at present, the practical effect of that sentence today is nil, which is an accurate description of the position rather than a drafting flourish.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for a deliberate breach, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

These terms are governed by the laws of Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia. You and the company submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Western Australia and of the courts competent to hear appeals from them.

Before commencing a proceeding, write to [email protected] setting out what the dispute is about and what you want. We will respond within 10 business days. Most disagreements are a misunderstanding of what a page says, and reading the message is cheaper for both sides than filing anything.

If a dispute concerns the handling of personal information, the privacy policy sets out the complaint route and the escalation to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001, telephone 1300 363 992, oaic.gov.au. That route is free, does not require a lawyer and does not require our agreement.

Changes

We may amend these terms. The version in force is the one published on this page, with its effective date in the header. A material change will be flagged at the top of this page for at least 30 days before it takes effect. Changes are not applied retrospectively.

Severance

If a provision is unenforceable, it is read down to the extent necessary or, if that is not possible, severed. The rest continues in force.

No waiver

A failure or delay in exercising a right is not a waiver of it, and a single or partial exercise does not prevent any further exercise.

Entire agreement

These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement about your use of this website, and they replace anything said or written beforehand about it.

Assignment

You may not assign your rights under these terms. The company may assign its rights on a sale or reorganisation of the business, and where personal information is affected the privacy policy governs what happens to it.

Not legal advice