The provided Terms of Service govern your utilization of the NexLaw Services, except in cases where your usage is governed by specific terms of service established between you and NexLaw.
NEXLAW INC. (referred to as “NexLaw,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a provider of legal technology services. This document outlines the Terms of Service (“Terms”) that govern your usage of NexLaw’s services, including artificial intelligence technologies (“AI Services”), websites, applications, add-ons, plug-ins, components, functionality, programs, and any other services specified in any mutually executed order form (collectively known as the “NexLaw Services” or “Services”).
The “Subscription Agreement” encompasses these Terms, the pricing plans and any order form(s) for the NexLaw Services executed by NexLaw and the individual or entity accessing the services (“you” or “User”). These Terms also incorporate the NexLaw Privacy Policy and any other pertinent documents explicitly referring to these Terms.
By clicking “I Accept,” “Agree and Subscribe,” or any similar acceptance button, taking any action to indicate acceptance, or utilizing any of the NexLaw Services, whether with or without registration, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms as a binding contract between you and NexLaw Inc. This electronic acceptance has the same legal force and effect as a handwritten signature and creates a legally enforceable contractual agreement. In the case that you agree to these Terms on behalf of a company or another legal entity, you certify that you possess the authority to act as an authorized representative of that entity. If you lack the necessary legal authority or do not agree with these Terms, please refrain from accepting, accessing, or using the Services in any way.
Please read the terms carefully to ensure that you understand each provision. This agreement contains a mandatory arbitration agreement, with only specified exceptions or unless you opt out pursuant to the provided instructions, the exclusive use of final and binding arbitration on an individual basis only to resolve disputes, rather than jury trials or class, collective, private attorney general, or representative actions or proceedings.
1. Services, Restrictions and Customer Obligations
(a) License Grant Subject to your adherence to these Terms, NexLaw provides you and your Authorized Users with a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to use and access the Services. This usage should be in accordance with the provided documentation and all relevant local, state, national, and international laws, rules, and regulations. The Services are intended solely for your internal business purposes.
To utilize the NexLaw Services, you must be a licensed attorney in good standing with a bar association in a jurisdiction where you intend to practice law and be at least 18 years of age.
(b) Restrictions Except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by law, you agree not to do, and not to assist, permit or enable any third party to do, any of the following:
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disassemble, reverse engineer, decode or decompile any part of the Services;
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Employ any robot, spider, scraper, data mining tool, data gathering or extraction tool, or any other automated method to access, collect, copy, or record the Services;
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Reproduce, rent, lease, sell, loan, transfer, assign, sublicense, resell, distribute, modify, alter, or create derivative works of any part of the Services or any of our Intellectual Property;
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Utilize the Services in any way that adversely affects (i) the stability of our servers, (ii) the operation or performance of the Services or any User’s use of the Services, or (iii) the behavior of other applications using the Services;
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Utilize the Services in a manner or for any purpose that (i) violates or encourages the violation of any applicable law, regulation, legal requirement, contractual obligation, or right of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or rights of personality, (ii) involves fraudulent, false, deceptive, or defamatory activities, (iii) promotes hatred, violence, or harm against any individual or group, or (iv) may be considered harmful or objectionable (solely at our discretion) to us, our providers, our suppliers, our users, or any other third party;
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Utilize or showcase the Services in competition with us, develop competing products or services, conduct benchmarking or competitive analysis of the Services, or engage in any activities that may be detrimental or disadvantageous to us;
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Make any attempts to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security of, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Services;
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transmit viruses, worms or other software agents through the Services;
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Engage in impersonation of another person or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, attempt to conceal or hide your identity, or utilize the Services for any invasive or fraudulent purposes;
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Share passwords or authentication credentials for the Services or engage in any actions to circumvent the measures we implement to prevent or restrict access to the Services or enforce limitations on their use; or
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Refer to us or the Services in a way that could reasonably imply an endorsement, relationship, affiliation, or sponsorship between you (or a third party) and us, without obtaining our prior express written consent.
2. Registration
To access and utilize the NexLaw Services, you must create an account by completing a registration form and selecting a user ID and password. During the registration process, you agree to:
(a) Provide authentic, accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about yourself as required by the NexLaw Service’s registration form (referred to as “Registration Data”).
(b) Ensure the Registration Data remains true, accurate, current, and complete by promptly updating it as needed.
If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if there are reasonable grounds to suspect such inaccuracies, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and deny all present or future access to the NexLaw Services (or any part thereof).
You are solely responsible for your NexLaw account’s security and confidentiality. Do not share your login details with third parties. If you suspect unauthorized access or any security breach, notify NexLaw immediately. We will send required notices to your provided email address electronically. NexLaw is not liable for any losses due to unauthorized account use.
By providing your Registration Data, which may include your email address, address, mobile telephone number, and/or telephone number, or by creating an account, you give your electronic consent to receive marketing or advertising messages, including email or mobile push notices, from NexLaw and third parties. These messages may include information about changes to Services features and special offers. If you prefer not to receive such messages, you can opt out or modify your preferences by contacting the NexLaw Services support team at info@nexlaw.ai.
3. Terms and Termination
These Terms will begin when you first use our Services and will remain in effect until either party terminates them in accordance with the provisions stated here.
A. User Termination You may terminate these Terms and your subscription at any time by managing your subscription through your NexLaw account platform. No written notice to NexLaw is required for user-initiated termination. However, the effective date of termination will depend on your subscription type:
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Monthly Subscription: Termination effective at the end of the current monthly billing period
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Annual Subscription (Paid Monthly or Prepaid): Termination effective at the end of the annual contract term, subject to early cancellation fees as outlined in Section 7
B. NexLaw Termination NexLaw may notify the User of termination through email, using the contact information provided in the Registration Data. If, in NexLaw’s sole judgment, you fail to comply with any provision of these Terms or if NexLaw suspects that you have failed to do so, NexLaw reserves the right to terminate these Terms at any time without prior notice. Such termination will also result in the termination of all your existing Subscription Agreements.
C. Survival of Terms The provisions that follow will continue to be in effect even after the termination of these Terms: Section 3 (“Term and Termination”), Section 4 (“Intellectual Property Rights”) (except as expressly provided therein), Section 5 (“Confidentiality”), Section 6 (“Fees and Billing”), Section 7 (“Cancellation and Refunds”), Section 8 (“Privacy and Security”), Section 9 (“Representations & Warranties”), Section 11 (“Limitation of Liability”), and Section 13 (“General Provisions”).
4. Intellectual Property Rights
A. User Data and Content These Terms do not confer any rights, implicit or otherwise, to the other party’s content or intellectual property, unless explicitly stated otherwise in these Terms. As per the agreement between the parties, the User retains ownership of all intellectual property rights in their User Content (defined below), while NexLaw possesses all intellectual property rights in and to the Services, which includes software, products, support, documentation, aggregated and statistical information, and related works, including any modifications and derivative works of the aforementioned.
“User Content” refers to all information, content, and data that a User submits to, uploads to, or utilizes with the Services. NexLaw does not assert ownership over your User Content. You are solely responsible for your User Content, and you assume all associated risks. By submitting User Content, you declare and guarantee that it adheres to the User obligations outlined in Section 1(b) or elsewhere in these Terms and does not violate any laws or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including but not limited to intellectual property and privacy rights. We do not bear any responsibility or liability for your User Content.
B. License to NexLaw You grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to NexLaw an irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), fully paid, royalty-free, and worldwide right and license to use, copy, store, modify, distribute and display your User Content: (a) to maintain and provide the Services; (b) to improve our products and services and to create aggregated and de-identified information; and (c) to perform such other actions as described in our Privacy Policy or as authorized by you in connection with your use of the Services.
C. Feedback If you, as the User, provide NexLaw with any suggestions, ideas, improvements, or other feedback regarding any aspect of the Services (referred to as “Feedback”), NexLaw will own that Feedback without any compensation to you, without the need for attribution, and without any other obligation to you.
5. Confidentiality
The parties acknowledge and agree that each party (the “Receiving Party”) may have access to certain confidential information (“Confidential Information”) of the other party (the “Disclosing Party”). “Confidential Information” means all information provided by the Disclosing Party to the Receiving Party hereunder that is (i) proprietary and/or non-public information related to the business activities of the Disclosing Party, its subsidiaries, and its affiliates, including any business plans, strategy, pricing, or financial information; (ii) the terms of any Subscription Agreement; and/or (iii) any other information that is designated as confidential by the Disclosing Party. Confidential Information of NexLaw shall also include the Services, and Confidential Information of User shall also include the Drafts and Reports.
At all times the Receiving Party shall: (1) utilize the same standard of care to protect the Confidential Information as it employs to safeguard its own confidential information of a similar nature, but not less than a commercially reasonable level of care, (2) refrain from using the Disclosing Party’s Confidential Information for any purposes other than those permitted under this Agreement, and (3) not disclose, distribute, or disseminate the Confidential Information to any third party, except as allowed by this Agreement or to the extent required to comply with applicable law.
6. Fees and Billing
A. Free Trial Period NexLaw offers a 3-day free trial period (“Free Trial”) for new users to evaluate our Services. Your Free Trial begins immediately upon account registration and provides full access to the Services. At the end of your 3-day Free Trial period, your account will automatically upgrade to a paid subscription you slected during registration unless you cancel before the Free Trial expires.
B. Subscription Plans and Billing Options After your Free Trial expires (unless cancelled), you will be automatically enrolled in the subscription plan you selected during registration, with recurring fees known as “Subscription Fees.” NexLaw offers three distinct billing options for subscriptions:
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Monthly Subscription: Month-to-month billing with the ability to cancel at any time without early termination fees.
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Annual Subscription, Paid Monthly: If you subscribe to an Annual (Paid Monthly) Plan, you are obligated to fulfill the entire 12-month commitment period and may not terminate, cancel, or discontinue your subscription during this period for any reason, including but not limited to convenience, dissatisfaction, change in business needs, or any other circumstances. This commitment is binding for the full 12-month period regardless of usage.
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Annual Subscription, Prepaid: A 12-month commitment with full payment due upfront. Early cancellation will not result in any refund, and service will continue through the end of the contracted term.
C. Subscription Fees and Changes To get the latest information on our Subscription Fees, kindly refer to our Subscription Terms at https://www.nexlaw.ai/subscribe, which are incorporated by reference in this agreement. We hold the right to provide or withdraw any portion of the Services on a subscription basis at our sole discretion. Additionally, we may add or modify Subscription Fees at our discretion, provided that if we have offered a specific duration and Subscription Fees for your use of the Services, we commit to maintaining such Subscription Fees for the specified duration.
D. Automatic Renewal Your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of the term identified in your Subscription Agreement for subsequent terms of equal length to the initial term (the initial term and each renewal term referred to as a “Subscription Term”) unless and until you choose to cancel your Subscription, or it is suspended, discontinued, or terminated in accordance with these Terms.
E. Payment Authorization and Processing When you purchase a Subscription to the Services, you acknowledge and agree that we and/or our third-party payment processors are authorized to charge you for: (i) the Subscription Fees identified in the applicable Subscription Agreement; (ii) any applicable sales, use, value-added, withholding, or similar taxes or levies, whether domestic or foreign, with the exception of taxes based on NexLaw’s income; and (iii) any other charges that may arise in connection with your purchase and use of the Services.
You understand and accept that the amount billed may vary due to promotional offers, changes in Subscription Fees as per these Terms, and/or changes in applicable taxes. By using the Services, you authorize us to charge your payment method for any such modified amounts.
F. Payment Terms Except as stated in an applicable Subscription Agreement, all Subscription Fees are due and payable as follows:
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Monthly Subscriptions: Due in advance at the beginning of each monthly billing period
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Annual Paid Monthly: Due in advance at the beginning of each monthly billing period throughout the 12-month contract term
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Annual Prepaid: Due in full upon subscription commencement
You agree to make all payments for Subscription Fees using your credit card, debit card, or another accepted payment method. It is essential to provide us with a current, valid, and accepted payment method. By initiating a payment transaction, you authorize us to share your payment information with third parties to complete the transaction and charge your payment method in United States dollars.
G. Payment Method Failures If your primary payment method fails, you authorize us to charge any other payment method in your account. If you have not provided us with a backup payment method(s) and you fail to provide payment, or if all payment methods in your account fail, we may suspend your subscription. You can edit your payment information anytime through your NexLaw account.
7. Cancellation and Refunds
A. Free Trial Cancellation You may cancel your account at any time during the 3-day Free Trial period without being charged. If you cancel during the Free Trial:
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Your account will be terminated at the end of the Free Trial period
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You will not be charged for any subscription fees
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You will not be automatically enrolled in a paid plan subscription
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No early termination fees apply
To cancel during your Free Trial, you must cancel before the Free Trial expires using the methods described in Section 7(B) below.
B. Cancellation Methods You can cancel your subscription at any time by:
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Logging into your NexLaw account and going to the your Account at the top right, then clicking on “Subscription” and selecting “End Subscription”
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Contacting NexLaw Services support team at info@nexlaw.ai
C. Cancellation Terms by Billing Type
Monthly Subscription:
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You can cancel your subscription anytime without penalty
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If you cancel, your Services will end at the end of the current monthly billing period
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No refunds will be provided for the current month’s payment
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No early termination fees apply
Annual Subscription, Paid Monthly:
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You remain obligated for all scheduled payments through the 12-month term
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Service will continue through the end of the 12-month billing period
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No refunds will be provided for early cancellation
Annual Subscription, Prepaid:
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No refunds will be provided for early cancellation
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Service will continue through the end of your contracted 12-month term
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You may choose to not renew at the end of your term
D. General Refund Policy SUBSCRIPTION FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS SECTION OR AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT BE REFUNDED FOR ANY UNUSED TIME IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TERM OR ANY PRE-PAYMENTS MADE FOR SERVICES IN THE EVENT THAT: (I) YOU CANCEL OR TERMINATE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR (II) WE SUSPEND OR TERMINATE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR THIS AGREEMENT FOR YOUR BREACH OF THESE TERMS.
E. Service Continuation Upon cancellation, your access to the Services will continue until the end of your current billing period (for Monthly and Annual Paid Monthly subscriptions) or until the end of your contracted term (for Annual Prepaid subscriptions). After this period, you will lose access to the Services and any data stored within the Services.
8. Privacy and Security
A. Privacy User’s access to the Services is via the NexLaw website, which is owned and operated by NexLaw. As such, a User’s interaction with the Services and website, and any information that may be collected by the Services and website, is governed by the Privacy Policy which may be updated from time to time. Users may choose to opt out of data collection and cookies in accordance with the Privacy Policy. User agrees to receive announcements from NexLaw regarding the operation of the Services as well as marketing and other non-critical Service-related communications from time to time.
B. Security of User Content Without limiting the following, NexLaw shall maintain commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards for protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of User Content. NexLaw personnel will only access User Content subject to the confidentiality restrictions in Section 5 (“Confidentiality”) hereof, and with the consent of User or to the extent reasonably required to perform the Services, investigate system errors, comply with legal requirements, prevent security threats, or enforce these Terms.
9. Representations & Warranties
Each party affirms and guarantees that these Terms constitute a valid and binding obligation and can be enforced against it in accordance with the provisions stated in these Terms.
A. Disclaimer EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS WARRANTIES STATED IN THIS SECTION 9, NEXLAW DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER IMPLIED BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED OPERATION, AND ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARISING FROM A COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITH ALL DEFECTS.
B. AI Services Both you and your end users are accountable for all decisions made, advice given, actions taken, and any failures to take action based on your use of AI Services. AI Services rely on machine learning models that generate predictions based on patterns in data. The output generated by these machine learning models is probabilistic and should be assessed for accuracy, as deemed suitable for your specific use case.
10. Changes to Agreement
NexLaw has the right to modify these Terms periodically by posting the revised terms on NexLaw’s website and/or providing written notice of the amendments to the User (which may be sent via email to the contact provided in the Registration Data). The updated terms of this Agreement will become effective on the date of posting or notice to the User, unless otherwise specified in the posting or notice. Users are advised to check NexLaw’s website regularly for any such revisions. By continuing to use the Services, the User acknowledges its acceptance of any revised terms.
11. Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL NEXLAW BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF NEXLAW HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
12. Contact Information
If you have any comments or concerns regarding our Terms of Service, please contact us at:
- Email: info@nexlaw.ai
- Company: NexLaw Inc.
- Website: https://www.nexlaw.ai
These Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement between you and NexLaw regarding the use of the Services and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, regarding such subject matter