Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Last updated on August 3, 2023
By accessing, viewing, subscribing to and/or using the descrybe.ai service, summaries or this website (collectively, descrybe.ai), you agree that you understand and intend these Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (Terms) to be the legal equivalent of a signed, written contract and equally binding, and that you agree to such Terms. Descrybe.ai reserves the right to change these Terms, descrybe.ai and the summaries at any time and that your use of descrybe.ai constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, such changes.
1. What does descrybe.ai do?
Descrybe.ai uses the OpenAI engine to summarize certain legal cases from courts of law in the United States and allows users to search and review those summaries and review the underlying cases. Additional information about descrybe.ai can be found in the About, FAQ, Help, Pricing, and Get Started pages.
2. Descrybe.ai does not provide legal advice
The legal case summaries and other information on descrybe.ai (collectively, summaries) are for general information purposes only. Neither the summaries nor any other information on descrybe.ai constitutes legal advice or is intended to constitute legal advice. Descrybe.ai is not a law firm or lawyer and does not provide any legal advice or service whatsoever. The information on descrybe.ai is not privileged and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
3. Descrybe.ai case summaries and other information may be inaccurate or erroneous
Descrybe.ai uses a third party service, the OpenAI engine, to summarize certain legal cases from courts of law in the United States. Descrybe.ai does not review or validate the summaries or other information on descrybe.ai to confirm it is accurate, truthful, relevant, reliable, and not misleading or erroneous. The summaries and other information on descrybe.ai may be inaccurate, untruthful, irrelevant, unreliable, misleading, or erroneous, and descrybe.ai is not responsible for any inaccuracy, irrelevance, error, unreliability, interruption of, or other problem or defect in the summaries or other information on descrybe.ai. You acknowledge and agree that your use of any summaries or other information on descrybe.ai is entirely at your own risk. Descrybe.ai has relied on your agreement to these Terms, and would not have made descrybe.ai or the summaries available to you without your agreement to these Terms.
4. License to use descrybe.ai
Descrybe.ai grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use descrybe.ai conditioned on your continued compliance with these Terms and payment of any applicable fees. You may print and download materials and information on descrybe.ai solely for personal use, provided that all hard copies contain all copyright and other applicable notices contained in such materials and information. Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, you may not modify, make a derivative work, copy, distribute, broadcast, transmit, reproduce, publish, mirror, frame, license, transfer, sell, or otherwise use any information, summaries, or material obtained from or through descrybe.ai. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may not share any summaries, passwords, logins, or other information on descrybe.ai with any other person or entity. As a further condition of use of descrybe.ai, you warrant that you will not use descrybe.ai for any purpose that is unlawful or otherwise prohibited by these Terms. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. You may not use descrybe.ai if you are under the age of 13.
5. Links to other websites
Descrybe.ai may provide links to other sites on the Internet for the convenience of its users in locating related information and services. These sites have not necessarily been reviewed by descrybe.ai and are maintained by third parties over which descrybe.ai exercises no control. Accordingly, descrybe.ai expressly disclaims any responsibility for the privacy policies, information collection practices, content, accuracy of the information, and/or quality of products or services provided by or advertised on these third-party websites. Moreover, these links do not imply an endorsement with respect to any third party or any website or the products or services provided by any third party.
6. Third party products and services
Descrybe.ai may use third party products or services to process payments, create summaries, host its website, etc. These third party products and services are for the convenience of descrybe.ai users and are maintained by third parties over which descrybe.ai exercises no control. Accordingly, descrybe.ai expressly disclaims any responsibility for such third party products or services, their privacy policies, information collection practices, the content, and the accuracy and quality of their products and services.
7. Disclaimer of Warranty
You agree that your use of descrybe.ai and the summaries is entirely at your own risk. Descrybe.ai and the summaries are provided "as is," without warranty of any kind whatsoever, either express or implied, to you or any other person. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, descrybe.ai disclaims to the maximum extent permitted by law any and all: (a) warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, (b) warranties against infringement of any third party intellectual property or proprietary rights, (c) warranties relating to delays, interruptions, errors or omissions, (d) warranties relating to the transmission or delivery of the descrybe.ai or the summaries, and (e) warranties otherwise related to performance, nonperformance, or other acts or omissions by descrybe.ai or any third party.
8. Limitations of Liability
This limitation of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action. This limitation applies to the content of any and all summaries and all other information on descrybe.ai. You specifically acknowledge and agree that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you. Neither descrybe.ai nor any of its partners, agents, executives, directors, employees or affiliates shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages whatsoever arising out of use of descrybe.ai or the summaries or any inability to again access to or use descrybe.ai or out of any breach of these Terms, applicable law or any warranty. Descrybe.ai has relied on your agreement to these Terms, including this limitation of liability, and would not have made descrybe.ai or the summaries available to you without your agreement thereto. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold descrybe.com harmless from any liability, loss, claim and expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, related to your violation or alleged violation of these Terms or use of the descrybe.ai or the summaries.
9. Termination
Descrybe.ai may terminate your access to descrybe.ai at any time. Upon termination, you have no right to access or use descrybe.ai, including the website or the summaries. Upon termination, you must destroy all summaries and other information obtained from the descrybe.ai and all copies thereof. Sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11 of the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy shall survive termination of these Terms. All sales and purchases of descrybe.ai are final and non-refundable.
10. Copyrights; Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Descrybe.ai follows the notice and takedown procedures in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content on descrybe.ai violates your copyright, please immediately notify us by sending a message with the information described below through our contact page. Please use the subject "DMCA Copyright Notice" in your message. Under the DMCA, you may be held liable for damages based on material misrepresentations in your infringement notice. You must also make a good-faith evaluation of whether the use of your content is a fair use, because fair uses are not infringing. If you are not sure if the content you want to report infringes your copyright, you should first contact a lawyer.
The DMCA requires that all infringement notices must include all of the following:
- A signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
- An identification of the copyright claimed to have been infringed.
- A description of the nature and location of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to allow descrybe.ai to find and positively identify that material.
- Your name, address, telephone number, and email address
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner's agent.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that all of the information contained in your infringement notice is accurate.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Any action arising out of or relating to these terms shall be filed only in state courts located in Boston, Massachusetts, and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such action.
Privacy Policy
1. Descrybe.ai does not collect personal information about your visits to descrybe.ai or usage of descrybe.ai unless you register an account. We collect the following information about you if you register an account: email address and password. We will store such account information unless you ask us to delete your account. Descrybe.ai does not sell such account information. Descrybe.ai uses account information to facilitate and assist your use of descrybe.ai.
2. Additionally, descrybe.ai uses the following third party products and services which may collect your personal or other information:
- We use DigitalOcean's services to store and process data.
- For the purpose of processing payment transactions, we use Stripe.
- For website analysis, we use Google Analytics.
- For authentication and end user management, we use Auth0.
3. Third parties other than those described above may also collect personal or other information about you or your use of descrybe.ai. Descrybe.ai has no control over such third parties or their collection or use of your personal or other information.
4. Descrybe.ai does not knowingly solicit or collect personal or other information from children under the age of 13. You may not use descrybe.ai if you are under the age of 13.
5. Descrybe.ai may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, including as required to keep current with rules and regulations, new technologies, and security standards. Your use of descrybe.ai constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, such changes.