Terms of Service

1. Introduction

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of Vaquill AI: the US primary law data API, the MCP server, Law Change Alerts, the open dataset, the website and console, and the Vaquill legal-AI application for US-licensed lawyers and legal teams (together, the “Service”), provided by Aralsura Solutions LLP, an India-registered limited liability partnership that operates Vaquill AI (“Aralsura,” “Vaquill AI,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. UPL & Legal-Advice Disclaimer

Vaquill AI is a data and software provider. Vaquill AI is NOT a law firm and does NOT provide legal advice. The Service returns legal information, such as statute text, citations and search results. It does not substitute for the judgment of a qualified lawyer. How we handle what you send us is described in our Privacy Policy.

You are solely responsible for verifying Output before using it in any legal matter or court filing. Data can be incomplete, delayed or wrong at its source, and AI-generated output may contain inaccurate or fabricated citations (“hallucinations”). Check every output against the official source, and where it will be relied upon or filed, have a licensed lawyer review it. Using the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Vaquill AI.

3. Eligibility

To create an account and use any part of the Service, you must:

• Be at least 18 years old;
• Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract, and the authority to bind your organization if you sign up for one; and
• Not be barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or your jurisdiction.

The API, the MCP server, Law Change Alerts and the open dataset have no professional requirement. You do not need to be a lawyer, work at a law firm, or be in the United States. See Section 21 (API Accounts).

The Vaquill application only is also limited to a US-licensed lawyer in good standing, or an employee or agent of a law firm or legal team that has authorized your access and whose lawyers are US-licensed.

4. Accounts

4.1 Registration

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep it updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately at contact@vaquill.ai of any unauthorized access or security incident.

4.2 One User Per Seat (Vaquill Application)

Each paid seat is for use by a single named user. You may not share credentials, share a seat between multiple lawyers, or allow a third party to use the Service on your behalf.

4.3 Firm Administrators (Vaquill Application)

A firm may designate one or more administrators with authority to manage seats, view firm-level usage, export matter data, and deactivate users. Administrators act on behalf of the firm and bind the firm to these Terms with respect to the firm’s account.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to permit anyone else to:

• Use the Service for the unauthorized practice of law by any non-lawyer;
• Use the Service in any manner prohibited by the rules of professional conduct of any bar to which you are admitted;
• Re-identify or attempt to re-identify any de-identified or anonymized data;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or training data of the Service or any underlying model;
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated tools to access the Service other than through our documented APIs;
• Infringe third-party intellectual property, publicity, or privacy rights;
• Upload content containing malware, or transmit content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or obscene;
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service, its infrastructure, or other customers’ use;
• Use the Service to build a competing product or to benchmark it without our prior written consent (for API accounts, this restriction is replaced by the one in Section 21.3).

6. Subscription, Billing & Refunds

6.1 Plans and Fees

The Service is offered on monthly or annual subscriptions, as pay-as-you-go credits (Section 21.5), or under an order form. Fees are described at checkout, in the console, or in the order form. All fees are in US dollars and exclusive of applicable taxes, which you are responsible for paying.

6.2 Free Trial

We may offer a 7-day free trial of the Vaquill application. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, your subscription will automatically begin and you will be charged the applicable subscription fee. API accounts may receive free welcome credits instead of a trial. They expire, have no cash value, and never convert to a paid plan on their own (Section 21.10).

6.3 Auto-Renewal

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle at the then-current rate until you cancel. You authorize us (through our PCI-DSS-compliant payment processor for US-dollar billing) to charge your payment method on each renewal.

6.4 Cancellation

You may cancel at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing cycle. You will continue to have access through that date.

6.5 Refunds

Fees are non-refundable except as required by applicable law, as stated in our Refund & Cancellation Policy, or as expressly stated in a written order form. The Refund Policy forms part of these Terms. If we materially reduce the functionality of a feature you paid for, we will offer a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of your current billing cycle.

6.6 Price Changes

We may change subscription prices with at least 30 days’ notice. Price changes take effect at the start of your next billing cycle.

6.7 Invoiced Accounts and Late Payment

Where we invoice you under an order form rather than charging a card, the invoice date starts a thirty (30) day clock. Pay in US dollars, in full, and without setting anything off against it. An invoice you have not disputed in good faith carries a finance charge once it passes that date: one and a half percent (1.5%) of the unpaid balance for each month it stays unpaid, reduced to whatever ceiling your law sets if that ceiling is lower. A quantity or term you committed to in an order form is yours for that term and cannot be cut back mid-term. If an undisputed invoice sits fifteen (15) days past due and written notice has not moved it, we may suspend under Section 13.

6.8 Taxes and Withholding

Fees are exclusive of sales, use, VAT, GST, and similar transaction taxes, which you are responsible for paying, other than taxes on our net income. If law requires you to withhold tax from a payment to us, you will increase the payment so that we receive the full amount stated in the order form, and you will give us reasonable evidence of the withholding on request.

7. AI-Generated Output Disclaimer

Output from the application, and any answer an AI model builds on top of our data, may contain errors, omissions, or fabricated citations. Output from the API is retrieved from the corpus we hold and is subject to the limits in Section 25. Output is not legal advice, is not a substitute for independent professional judgment, and where it will be relied upon in a legal matter it must be checked against the official source and reviewed by a licensed lawyer. If you are a lawyer, you acknowledge your ongoing professional obligations, including:

• ABA Formal Opinion 512 (July 2024) on the ethical use of generative AI by lawyers;
• ABA Model Rule 1.1 and comments 8 on technological competence;
• ABA Model Rule 1.6 on the duty of confidentiality;
• ABA Model Rule 5.3 on responsibilities regarding non-lawyer assistance, which extends to AI tools;
• Parallel rules adopted by your state bar and any applicable court orders or standing orders regarding AI-assisted filings.

You are solely responsible for verifying every citation, quotation, factual assertion, and legal conclusion before incorporating an output into a client matter, pleading, brief, or other work product.

8. Customer Data & Intellectual Property

8.1 Your Content

As between you and Vaquill AI, you retain all right, title, and interest (including intellectual property rights) in the documents, prompts, matter data, and other content you upload or submit to the Service (“Customer Data”) and in outputs generated for you (“Outputs”). Vaquill AI does not claim ownership of Customer Data or Outputs.

8.2 License to Operate the Service

You grant Vaquill AI a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display Customer Data and Outputs solely as necessary to provide, secure, and support the Service for you. This license terminates when you delete the relevant Customer Data or when your account is closed, subject to the retention periods in our Privacy Policy.

8.3 Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, models, user interface, documentation, and trademarks, is owned by Vaquill AI or its licensors and is protected by US and international intellectual property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted in these Terms, no rights are granted to you.

9. No Training on Your Content

Vaquill AI will not use Customer Data or Outputs to train, fine-tune, or improve Vaquill AI’s AI models or the base models of our third-party LLM providers. Our LLM sub-processors operate under zero-data-retention agreements, meaning they do not persist prompts or outputs beyond the time required to return a response. For the API, the text of your queries and request bodies is not written to a database or log; what is kept is limited to what the Privacy Policy lists. See that policy for details.

10. Warranties & Disclaimers

The Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE,” without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade, except to the extent such disclaimers are not permitted by law.

Without limiting the foregoing, Vaquill AI does not warrant that Outputs will be accurate, complete, current, reliable, or suitable for any particular matter. AI outputs are probabilistic and may contain errors or fabricated citations. You assume all risk associated with your use of Outputs.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

EACH PARTY’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO VAQUILL FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100).

The limitations in this Section apply to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitations on liability, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

12. Indemnification

By you. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Vaquill AI and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claim arising out of or relating to (a) your Customer Data, (b) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or (c) your violation of any third-party right.

By Vaquill AI. Vaquill AI will defend, indemnify, and hold you harmless from and against any third-party claim alleging that the Service, when used in accordance with these Terms, infringes a US patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret. Vaquill AI’s obligations do not apply to claims arising from Customer Data, Outputs you modify or use outside the Service, or your combination of the Service with any product or service not provided by Vaquill AI.

The indemnified party will (i) promptly notify the indemnifying party of the claim, (ii) give the indemnifying party sole control of defense and settlement (so long as no admission of liability is made without the indemnified party’s consent), and (iii) provide reasonable cooperation at the indemnifying party’s expense.

13. Suspension & Termination

Either party may terminate these Terms for any reason on notice to the other. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if your continued use poses a risk to other customers or the Service.

Suspension. We may suspend your access, in whole or in part, on notice where that is practicable and without notice where it is not, if (a) an undisputed invoice is overdue as described in Section 6.7; (b) your use exceeds or circumvents the rate limits or credit allowance of your plan; (c) your use presents a security risk to the Service, to us, or to another customer; (d) we reasonably suspect fraud, credential sharing, or unlawful use; (e) suspension is required to comply with law or a binding order; or (f) emergency maintenance requires it. We will lift a suspension once its cause is resolved. A suspension does not extend your billing period or entitle you to a refund, unless we suspended you in error.

Termination following a source or provider change. We may terminate, or modify the affected part of the Service, on thirty (30) days’ notice if our right to make a corpus, data source, or third-party component available to you changes or ends (see Section 25). Where that happens mid-term, we will refund the unused prepaid fees attributable to the affected part of the Service.

On termination, (a) your right to use the Service ends, (b) you may export Customer Data for up to 30 days, and (c) Sections 2, 6 (for fees accrued before termination), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28 and 30 survive.

14. Governing Law & Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Subject to Section 15 (Arbitration), the exclusive venue for any dispute not subject to arbitration is the state or federal courts located in Wilmington, Delaware, and each party consents to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

15. Mandatory Arbitration & Class-Action Waiver

Please read this Section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

Except for claims for injunctive relief related to intellectual property, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (a “Dispute”) will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Arbitration will be conducted in English in Wilmington, Delaware, or remotely by agreement. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. You and Vaquill AI each agree to bring Disputes only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending a written notice to contact@vaquill.ai with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Your notice must include your name, the email on your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

16. DMCA Notice & Takedown

Vaquill AI complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content made available through the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes the six elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

• A physical or electronic signature of the owner or authorized agent;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and its location on the Service;
• Your contact information (address, telephone, email);
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Designated agent: contact@vaquill.ai. If you believe content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice to the same address containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3). We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

17. Export Controls & Sanctions

The Service is subject to US export-control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). You represent that you are not located in, and will not access the Service from, a country embargoed by the US government, and that you are not listed on any US government list of restricted or denied persons. You will not export, re-export, or transfer the Service in violation of US law. Each party will comply with applicable export-control, economic-sanctions, and anti-boycott laws in its use and provision of the Service.

18. Feedback

If you provide suggestions, feedback, or ideas about the Service, you grant Vaquill AI a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them for any purpose, without compensation or attribution. Feedback is provided on an as-is basis.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes, we will notify you by email or through an in-product notice at least 30 days before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and cancel your subscription.

20. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any order form, are the entire agreement between you and Vaquill AI regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements. Where a signed order form or written agreement between you and Aralsura Solutions LLP conflicts with these Terms, that document controls to the extent of the conflict. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Notices to Vaquill AI must be sent to contact@vaquill.ai.

Relationship of the parties. We are each running our own business. These Terms make you a customer and us a supplier, and nothing more: no partnership, no joint venture, no franchise, and neither of us gets to speak or sign for the other.

Paperwork you send us does not change this contract. Procurement systems attach terms of their own. Purchase orders, vendor portals, supplier-onboarding forms and the click-throughs around them carry no weight here, and our accepting, signing into, or invoicing against one of them is not agreement to what it says. The only way to change these Terms is language in an order form signed by someone authorized at Aralsura Solutions LLP.

Who can enforce this. Only you and Vaquill AI. Nobody downstream of you, your end users included, acquires a right to sue on these Terms.

Counterparts and electronic signature. An order form may be signed in counterparts, and scanned, electronic, or click-accepted signatures have the same effect as originals.

21. API Accounts

This Section governs accounts that access Vaquill AI solely through our application programming interface (the “API”), rather than the Vaquill application. For API accounts, this Section controls over any conflicting provision elsewhere in these Terms.

21.1 Eligibility (non-lawyers permitted)

API accounts are open to businesses and individuals, including companies that are not law firms and users who are not lawyers. The lawyer and law-firm requirements in Section 3 do not apply to API accounts. You represent that you are authorized to enter these Terms on behalf of your organization.

21.2 License

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to call the API and use its responses (“Output”), including within products, tools, and content you provide to your own clients, subject to these Terms and your plan’s limits.

21.3 Permitted and restricted uses

Using the Output to ground, draft, or enrich content and tools for your clients is permitted. You may store Output in a database or index within your own systems, including persistently, where that store exists to power your own end-user product.

Except as expressly permitted in a separate written agreement signed by Aralsura Solutions LLP, you will not:

• systematically extract, bulk-download, scrape, crawl, or otherwise accumulate the corpus, whether through the API or by iterating its endpoints, for any purpose other than powering your own end-user product;
• resell, sublicense, or redistribute the underlying legal data or our compilation as a standalone dataset, database, feed, or API to third parties;
• offer the API, or any service substantially derived from it, to third parties under your own or a third party’s brand;
• use the API or its Output to build, train, or improve a product that competes with the Vaquill AI legal-research, statute-retrieval, or legal-data API services;
• reverse engineer the API, or attempt to derive its source code, models, or training data; or
• exceed or circumvent the rate limits or credit allowance of your plan, including by distributing access across multiple accounts.

For API accounts, this Section replaces the restriction in Section 5 on building a competing product.

21.4 Not legal advice; verification

The API returns legal information, not legal advice, and may be inaccurate or incomplete. You are responsible for independently verifying Output against official sources before it is relied upon, published, or used in any legal matter. Section 2 and Section 7 apply to API Output.

21.5 Fees, credits, and rate limits

API access is provided on the paid plan you select, on credits you buy as you go, or on a free, trial, or non-commercial allowance we grant at our discretion, which we may modify or withdraw at any time. Each plan includes a credit allowance and a rate limit, described at signup, in the console, or in an order form. Plan fees are billed in advance and, like credit purchases, are non-refundable except as required by law or as stated in the Refund & Cancellation Policy. You may upgrade at any time. Our commitment in Section 9 not to train on your content applies to your API queries and Output.

Usage is metered in credits at the per-endpoint prices published in the documentation and returned by the pricing endpoint. We may change prices on the notice in Section 6.6. Credits expire as described in Section 21.10, and you are responsible for credits spent with your keys, whether by you, your software, or an AI agent acting for you.

21.6 US law data, caching, and the open dataset

The statutory, regulatory, and constitutional text returned by the API is US primary law and is in the public domain under the government edicts doctrine (Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). We claim no ownership of that text, and nothing in these Terms restricts your use of the public-domain text itself. What is licensed to you, and what Section 21.3 protects, is our structured compilation: the schema, citations, hierarchy, cross-references, metadata, and the assembled corpus.

You may cache and store API responses within your own applications and internal systems, and you may redistribute the public-domain text. You may not, per Section 21.3, resell our bulk structured dataset as a standalone data product, or use the API to build a competing legal-data API or database.

Separately from the paid API, we publish “Open US Law” as a free, downloadable dataset. The public-domain text carries no restriction; from snapshot v2026.09 our compilation of it is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0), earlier snapshots were released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), and the ingestion scrapers are Apache-2.0. Commercial use of the compilation requires a separate licence from us. The open dataset is governed by those licenses. The hosted API and MCP server are the paid, rate-limited service governed by these Terms. If you rely on the compilation via the open dataset, attribute it as “Open US Law by Vaquill AI, CC BY-NC 4.0.”

21.7 White-label and reseller access

White-label and reseller access is available only under a separate written agreement signed by Aralsura Solutions LLP. Under such an agreement: every request must be served live by the Vaquill AI API and metered to your account, and you may not serve white-labeled traffic from a cached, extracted, or locally stored copy of the corpus; you remain responsible for your end users’ compliance with these Terms; you will not represent that you compiled, maintain, or own the underlying corpus; and the verification notice in Section 21.4 must be passed through to your end users.

21.8 Effect of termination on stored data

What you may keep depends on how you obtained the data, not on when you stop paying.

Data retrieved through the API. Responses you retrieved and cached in the ordinary course of using the API during a paid term are yours to keep after termination or expiry. You do not have to delete them, and you may continue to display them to your customers. This includes the compilation elements those responses carry, meaning the citations, hierarchy, cross-references and metadata, because cached answers are not usable without them.

Bulk data delivered under a separate agreement. Where we deliver the corpus in bulk rather than call by call, the corpus itself is the deliverable, and permanent retention would let a single period buy it outright. On termination or expiry of a bulk arrangement you will within thirty (30) days delete stored copies of our compilation, meaning the schema, citations, hierarchy, cross-references, metadata and assembled corpus, except for anything you had independently retrieved through the API, the public-domain text itself, anything obtained separately under the Open US Law licenses, and Output already embedded in work product delivered to your clients before termination.

Retention is not a license to redistribute. Section 21.3 continues to apply to anything you keep: you may not resell our compilation as a standalone data product, nor use it to build a competing legal-data API or database. The public-domain text carries no such restriction and never did.

21.9 Attribution

Unless your plan waives it, you will display the credit “Legal data by Vaquill AI”, linked to vaquill.ai, in any product, tool, page or interface of yours where Output is shown to your own end users. One credit per such product is enough: it belongs somewhere a user can reasonably find it, such as a footer, an about page, a data-sources page, or the screen where the legal content appears. It does not have to accompany each individual response. We provide the exact snippet, including a link tagged to your account, in the developer console.

The credit is not required for internal or back-office use where Output is not displayed to anyone outside your organization, for evaluation or testing, or for Output embedded in individual work product you deliver to a client, such as a memo, contract or filing.

The Vaquill AI API Business plan waives this Section, as does any separate written agreement that says so: on those plans you may ship our data under your own brand with no credit. Nothing in this Section grants you any right in our name or marks beyond displaying the credit itself, and nothing in it lets you state or imply that we endorse you or your product.

We may ask where the credit is displayed, and you will tell us. That is the extent of it: this Section gives us no audit right, no inspection right, and no right to access your systems. Access to the API does not depend on the credit, and we will not suspend, throttle or degrade a paid account over one. If a credit is missing we will tell you and give you thirty (30) days to display it; if it is still missing after that, our remedy is to decline to renew your plan at the end of its then-current term.

For accounts that existed on August 30, 2026, this Section takes effect on September 1, 2026.

21.10 Credits and expiry

One credit is worth one US cent. Credits come in three kinds, and each is treated differently:

• Purchased credits (pay-as-you-go top-ups) expire twelve (12) months after purchase.
• Plan credits, the allowance included in a subscription, are forfeited at the end of the billing period they were granted for and do not roll over. On annual plans the allowance is released month by month.
• Welcome and promotional credits expire ninety (90) days after they are granted and have no cash value.

Calls spend promotional credits first, then plan credits, then purchased credits. Credits are a prepaid right to use the API. They are not money, a deposit, or stored value, they cannot be transferred or redeemed for cash, and they end when your account is closed for cause. Where a call fails on our side, or returns nothing on an endpoint that is documented as not charging for an empty result, the credits are returned to your balance automatically. If we discontinue the API or a plan, Section 13 and the Refund Policy apply to the unused balance. Your balance by source, with the next expiry, is available from the free credit-balance endpoint.

21.11 API keys and account security

Keys are secrets. Keep them out of client-side code, public repositories, and anything a third party can read. You are responsible for all use of your keys until you revoke them, and for the credits that use spends. Tell us at once if a key is exposed, and revoke it in the console. We may revoke or suspend a key we reasonably believe is exposed or being abused (Section 13). The number of active keys depends on your plan. A key is not a licence to share your account: do not give one key to multiple unrelated organizations, and do not spread one workload across accounts to escape a limit.

21.12 MCP server and AI agents

The Vaquill MCP server lets AI clients and agents call the API as you, with an API key or by signing in through OAuth. Everything an agent does through your credentials is your use for the purposes of these Terms, including the credits it spends and anything it does with Output. The AI client, its model provider, and any other tools you connect are third-party components under Section 25.4: their terms and data handling are theirs, not ours, and we do not control how a model reads, summarizes, or acts on what we return. Section 21.4 applies, so an answer a model gives you about the law is not verified law until it is checked against the official source.

21.13 Law Change Alerts

Law Change Alerts notify you when a watched source we track changes. Delivery is by email, or by webhook on the plans that include it, and your plan limits the number of watches. A notification reports changes our refresh has observed in the source we hold. It is not a complete legislative history, not legal advice, and not a guarantee that you will be told of every change the law makes or by the time it takes effect. Delivery depends on your endpoint and on networks we do not run, and we do not promise any delivery time. Verify each webhook with its signature, keep the signing secret private, and make sure the destination is yours to receive at. You are responsible for any use you make of the notification.

22. Publicity and Customer Identification

22.1 Your name and logo in our advertising

If you hold a paid subscription, you grant Vaquill AI a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use your organization’s name and logo to identify you as a Vaquill AI customer. It reaches our website, our sales and marketing material, our advertising, our own social and email channels, event and conference material, and investor and partner decks. We use the name and the mark as you publish them, without recoloring, redrawing or restyling, and we follow any brand guidelines you send us.

The same license applies if we give you the API at no charge. We grant free personal-use API access to individual lawyers, to law firms, to legal aid and access-to-justice organizations, and to others who ask us for it, on the discretionary basis described in Section 21.5. Where we do, you grant the license in this Section on the same terms as a paid subscriber, and you may refuse it or withdraw it the same way, under Sections 22.2 and 22.4, without losing the access.

22.2 We do not ask first, and you can say no in writing at any time

We do not email you for permission before the first use and we do not wait on a reply. The license in Section 22.1 is live from the day it attaches, and it is what permits the use.

If you would rather we did not, tell us in writing. One line of email to contact@vaquill.ai is enough, it needs no reason, and it costs you nothing: not your pricing, not your plan, not your free access, not anything else in these Terms. You can send it before we have used anything or long after, including after something is already published. Section 22.4 is the mechanism and the removal timetable, and Section 22.5 ends the license when your subscription or your free grant does.

22.3 What this does not cover

This license does not permit us to state or imply that you endorse or recommend Vaquill AI, to attribute any quotation, testimonial, case study, review, or performance claim to you or to anyone at your organization, to describe how you use the Service, or to name you in a press release. Each of those needs your separate prior written consent, which you may withhold for any reason. We will not identify accounts that are on a trial or evaluation allowance, and we will not name an individual person, as opposed to an organization, without that person’s separate written permission.

22.4 Withdrawing permission

You may withdraw this permission whenever you want, before we have used anything or long after, by emailing contact@vaquill.ai with the subject line “Publicity Opt-Out.” You do not need to give a reason. We will remove your name and logo from our website within ten (10) business days and from other materials at the next reasonable opportunity. Opting out will not affect your subscription, your pricing, a free grant under Section 22.1, or any other provision of these Terms.

22.5 Ownership and expiry

You keep all right, title, and interest in your name, logo, and trademarks, and nothing in this Section transfers any ownership or goodwill to us. This license ends automatically when your paid subscription ends, or when a free grant under Section 22.1 ends, and we will remove your name and logo from our website within thirty (30) days of that date. If the individual who accepted these Terms was not authorized to grant this license on your organization’s behalf, write to us at the address above and we will treat it as a withdrawal under Section 22.4.

23. Confidentiality

23.1 What is confidential

Two things make something “Confidential Information” here: one of us hands it to the other in connection with the Service, and it is not public. A label saying so settles it. So does the obvious, where the subject matter or the setting would tell any sensible person to keep it in. Ours includes non-public pricing and order forms, security documentation, benchmark and evaluation results, unreleased features, and the non-public parts of the API and its design. Yours includes Customer Data.

23.2 Obligations

Each party will use the other’s Confidential Information only to perform under these Terms, will protect it with at least reasonable care, and will disclose it only to employees, contractors, and advisers who need it and are bound by obligations at least as protective as these. Each party remains responsible for the acts and omissions of the people it discloses to.

23.3 Exclusions

Four things fall outside this Section. Information that reached the public without either of us putting it there. Information the receiver already held, free of any duty to keep it quiet. Information a third party was entitled to hand over and handed over without strings. And information the receiver worked out on its own, without reaching for what the other party disclosed.

23.4 Compelled disclosure

A law, a regulation, or an order from a court or regulator can force a disclosure, and this Section does not ask anyone to defy one. Three conditions attach. Warn the other party first, unless warning them is itself prohibited. Hand over what is demanded and not a line more. And if they want to fight for a protective order or a sealing, help them do it, on their budget.

23.5 Duration

These obligations run for as long as you use the Service and for three (3) years after that, except that Customer Data and anything that qualifies as a trade secret stay protected for as long as they qualify. Nothing in this Section narrows our commitments in Section 9 or in our Privacy Policy.

24. Your Applications and End Users

This Section applies where you deliver the Service or its Output onward, for example through an application, integration, agent, or tool you build on the API.

24.1 Your product is yours

You are solely responsible for developing, operating, securing, and maintaining any application, workflow, agent, or tool you build on the Service, and for everything it does, including how it presents, filters, summarizes, or acts on Output.

24.2 Support

You provide first-line support to your own end users. We support you, not them, and we have no direct relationship with your end users unless we agree one in writing.

24.3 Your terms with your users

You will enter your own terms with your end users. Those terms are between you and them; we are not a party to them and take on no obligation under them. Your terms must be at least as protective of us as these Terms, must not purport to grant any right in the Service or in our compilation beyond what Section 21 grants you, and must pass through the verification notice in Section 21.4.

24.4 Privacy

You are responsible for complying with the privacy and data-protection laws that apply to your end users, for obtaining any consent and giving any notice those laws require, and for publishing an accessible privacy notice that accurately describes how data moves through your product, including processing by providers such as us.

24.5 Your users’ conduct

Use of the Service through your product counts as your use for the purposes of these Terms, and the indemnity in Section 12 covers third-party claims arising from it.

25. Third-Party Sources and Providers

25.1 Where the law comes from

The primary law we make available is compiled from official government publications and other upstream sources. We do not control those sources, their publication schedules, their formats, or their availability, and we do not warrant that a source is complete, current, or free of error at its origin. Where a source is delayed, withdrawn, or restructured, the corresponding part of our corpus may be delayed, incomplete, or removed.

25.2 Currency

We publish coverage and currency information for each corpus and update it as the corpora change. It describes what we hold and how current it was when published. It is not a warranty that any provision is current at the moment you read it. Section 21.4 applies: verify Output against the official source before relying on it.

25.3 Changes in our rights to a source

If the terms on which we obtain, index, or redistribute a source change, or if a source is withdrawn, we may modify, restrict, or discontinue the affected corpus, with the notice and refund described in Section 13. This Section does not affect public-domain text, which carries no such restriction, or anything you already retrieved through the API (Section 21.8).

25.4 Third-party components

The Service runs on third-party infrastructure, model, and processing providers, described in our Privacy Policy. We remain responsible to you for the Service as those providers deliver it under these Terms. Anything you connect to the Service yourself, including your own model provider, client library, or agent framework, is your responsibility and is not governed by these Terms.

26. Changes to the Service, API Versioning and Deprecation

26.1 We may change the Service

We change and improve the Service continuously and may add, modify, or remove features. We will not make a change that materially reduces the core functionality of a paid plan during its then-current term without either your agreement or the pro-rated refund described in Section 6.5.

26.2 Additive and breaking API changes

Additive changes, meaning new endpoints, new optional parameters, and new fields in a response, may ship at any time, so your client must tolerate fields it does not recognize. A breaking change, meaning removing or renaming an endpoint, field, or value, changing a type, or making an optional parameter required, ships only in a new API version or on at least ninety (90) days’ notice to the email on your account, whichever gives you more time. Security fixes and changes required by law may take effect sooner, and we will tell you when they do.

26.3 Deprecation

When we deprecate an API version or an endpoint, we will mark it in the documentation and keep it working for at least one hundred and eighty (180) days from the deprecation notice, unless a source change under Section 25.3, a security issue, or a legal requirement makes that impossible.

26.4 Beta and preview features

Anything we label beta, preview, alpha, experimental, or early access is optional, may change or disappear without notice, is excluded from every commitment in this Section, is provided without warranty or support, and may carry separate usage limits. Do not use a beta feature where its failure would matter.

26.5 Availability and support

Our availability target, how we measure it, and our support response targets are published on our Service Levels page, with live status at status.vaquill.ai. Those are targets, not guarantees: we do not commit to an uptime service level, service credits, or a support response time unless a signed order form says otherwise. We announce scheduled maintenance on the status page at least 48 hours in advance.

27. Force Majeure

Some failures are nobody’s fault. If something neither of us can steer stops a party from performing, that party is not in breach for the time it lasts. Earthquakes, fires and floods qualify. So do epidemics, war, terrorism and civil unrest, strikes and other labor action, an order or restriction imposed by a government, the loss of a power grid or a telecommunications network, and an outage at or an attack on infrastructure the party does not run. Paying money you already owe is the exception: that obligation survives any of it. Whoever is affected tells the other promptly and works to get back to normal. Past thirty (30) consecutive days, either of us can end the affected subscription on notice and we refund what you prepaid and did not use.

28. US Government End Users

Federal procurement sorts what it buys into categories, and the Service lands in the commercial one. Read against the definitions at 48 C.F.R. § 2.101, the Service is a commercial product; the software in it is commercial computer software; what we publish about that software is its commercial documentation. The category settles the rights question. Civilian agencies take it under 48 C.F.R. § 12.212 and defense agencies under the 48 C.F.R. § 227.7202 series, and either way the agency, or a contractor buying for one, holds the Service on these Terms and gets no license wider than them. Where a line in these Terms cannot stand against federal procurement law, that line simply does not reach the US Government, and the rest continues to apply. None of this touches the public-domain text described in Section 21.6, which was never ours to license in the first place.

29. Contact

• Legal notices: contact@vaquill.ai
• Support: contact@vaquill.ai
• Privacy: contact@vaquill.ai
• DMCA: contact@vaquill.ai
• Mailing address: see the Contact page.

30. Referral Program

If we accept you into the referral program, you may earn a commission on API spend by accounts that sign up through your link, at the rate and for the period stated on our referral program page when they sign up. The following rules are part of these Terms.

• Commission is earned on money we actually receive for the API from a referred account. Spend funded by free or promotional credits earns nothing.
• Commission is held until the refund and chargeback window for the underlying payment has closed, then paid. We reverse commission on a payment that is refunded or disputed.
• We may need a tax form (a W-9, or a W-8BEN outside the US) before the first payout, and we may withhold tax where law requires.
• Every link must be disclosed as one you earn a commission on, and must be marked as sponsored. Say only what is true about the Service, and do not claim that it gives legal advice, guarantees accuracy, or covers law it does not.
• You may not refer yourself or an organization you control, bid on our brand terms in paid search, or use coupon, deal or cashback sites to promote your link. Lawyers must follow the advertising and conflict-of-interest rules of their bar.
• An account counts as yours only if it did not already exist when the link was used.

We may change or end the program, or remove a participant who breaks these rules, on notice. Commission already earned and not reversed stays payable. A participant is an independent contractor, not our agent, and may not speak for us or sign anything for us.