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Terms of Service

1. What we provide

Gauss Legal makes software to help lawyers. You can use our software to be more efficient or to save time.

We don’t replace lawyers with our software. You can’t use our software instead of a lawyer and you can’t use our software as a basis for legal conclusions. Our software is smart but it is not licensed to practice law.

2. Acceptable Use

If you’re using our software, you need to be sure of two things:

  • That the data you’re accessing with our software is legal for you to access; and,
  • That the data you’re accessing with our software is legal for us to access.

These requirements are extremely important. They are so important that you agree that you will cover any expense we incur through your unacceptable use of the software. This includes intellectual property laws, sanctions, anything at all. You are responsible for making sure that your use of our software is legal BEFORE you use it.

Also, you agree that you won’t reverse engineer our software - you won’t bypass the security measures we’ve put in place, you won’t scrape our platform, and you won’t use our software to compete with us.

3. User-Controls and Administration

Our software allows you to gather, examine, and share data. When you use our software, you agree that you are responsible for appropriately gathering that data. You agree you are responsible for how you examine that data. Importantly, you are responsible for how you share that data.

When you use our software to share data, you agree that you represented that it was appropriate to share that data. We will rely on you when you tell our software to share data and therefore you need to be confident that you are sharing that data carefully and responsibly.

4. Gauss Legal’s Intellectual Property

We own our software and the way our software is presented to you. We don’t own any of the data that you gather, examine, or share with our software. However, you agree that we’re allowed to gather, examine, and share that data with you while you use our software.

We love feedback and you agree that if you give us feedback, we can use it.

5. Termination

If we determine that it is best to terminate our relationship, we will give you a week to download your data. After we tell you that you have seven days, we will delete your data from our systems. Before you give us any data, you agree that is reasonable and okay with you.

If you delete your data from our systems, it is gone. We can’t retrieve your deleted data for you.

If a court orders us to delete data, we will do so. Before you give us any data, you agree that it is reasonable and okay with you for us to follow court orders.

6. Limitation of Liability

The software we provide is used by many people for many different reasons in many different ways. We can’t imagine all the different ways people are going to use it. For that reason, we provide it to you “as is” and we don’t promise that it is suitable for your specific purpose.

We also use some generative AI in our software. If you read a few Terms of Use or Terms of Service agreements on other software, you’ll soon find that generative AI software is rarely, if ever, described as having a specific accuracy, completeness, or reliability. We don’t describe our software that way either. If you use our software, you agree that you are using generative AI at your own risk.

7. Privacy

We won’t access your data unless you tell us to do so. We have a privacy policy, which you can read here.

8. Contracts

Using our software requires a contract. We will honor the terms of that contract and we expect you to do so as well. That contract will cover terms like Payments, Representations and Warranties, and the Definitions. These Terms of Service are contemplated in your Contract and your Contract is contemplated by these Terms of Service. You need both to use our software.