Terms of Service
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between Banah Enterprises, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company that operates the Veritas citation-verification platform (referred to as "Veritas," "we," "us," or "our"), and the individual or entity that accesses or uses the Veritas platform, websites, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account, clicking to accept, signing an order form or statement of work that references these Terms, or accessing or using the Service, you ("Customer," "you," or "your") agree to these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of a firm, agency, company, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.
Please read these Terms carefully. They include important provisions that limit our liability, disclaim certain warranties, describe how the Service may and may not be used, and explain that Veritas is a verification aid and is not a substitute for the independent professional judgment of a licensed attorney. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Service.
If a separately signed master agreement, order form, or government contract between you and Veritas conflicts with these Terms, that signed agreement controls to the extent of the conflict for the subject matter it covers.
1. The Service and what it is
Veritas is a citation-verification platform for legal filings. The Service reviews documents you submit, attempts to resolve cited authorities against available legal source data, evaluates whether quoted material and propositions appear to be supported by the cited authority, flags items that warrant attorney attention, and produces a hashed, time-stamped record of the review.
The Service is a tool that assists a licensed legal professional. It is not a law firm, it does not provide legal advice, and its use does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and Veritas. The Service does not practice law and is not a substitute for the independent professional judgment, review, and verification that a licensed attorney is required to exercise over any document the attorney signs or files. You remain solely responsible for the content of your filings and for compliance with all applicable rules of professional conduct, court rules, and law.
Veritas reports findings using measured, hedged language (for example, that an authority was "not located in reporter"). A finding that Veritas could not locate or confirm an item is a prompt for the attorney to investigate. It is not a legal determination, and the absence of an item from a data source is not, by itself, proof that the item is incorrect.
2. Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least eighteen years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. The Service is intended for use by legal professionals and the organizations that employ them.
You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials, and for all activity that occurs under your account or seats. You agree to notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. Seats are licensed to named users and may be reassigned within your organization as your staffing changes, but seats may not be shared by multiple individuals at the same time except as expressly permitted in an order form.
3. License grant
Subject to these Terms and your payment of applicable fees, Veritas grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service during your subscription term, solely for your internal business and professional purposes and in accordance with any usage limits described in your plan or order form.
Veritas reserves all rights not expressly granted. No rights are granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.
4. Acceptable use and restrictions
You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to:
- Copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Service or its underlying software, models, or content, except as expressly permitted.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, model weights, prompts, methods, or non-public structure of the Service, except to the limited extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Rent, lease, lend, sell, resell, sublicense, distribute, or otherwise make the Service available to any third party, or use the Service to operate a service bureau or provide verification services to non-licensed third parties, except as expressly permitted in an order form.
- Access or use the Service to build, train, or improve a competing product or service, or to benchmark against the Service for the purpose of building a competing product, or copy any feature, function, or interface of the Service.
- Use any robot, scraper, or other automated means to access the Service, or scrape, harvest, or extract data from the Service, other than through interfaces we provide for that purpose.
- Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any usage limit, access control, security measure, or input gate, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service without our prior written authorization.
- Upload or submit content that you do not have the right to submit, or that infringes the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third party.
- Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, or introduce any malware or harmful code.
- Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, court rule, rule of professional conduct, or these Terms.
5. Prohibited and sensitive data
The Service is designed to verify citations and propositions in documents that are, or are intended to become, part of the public record of a judicial proceeding. You agree not to submit, and you are solely responsible for not submitting, the following to the Service:
- Criminal justice information (CJI), criminal history record information (CHRI), data drawn from the FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Interstate Identification Index (III), or similar restricted criminal-justice systems.
- Sealed filings, in camera materials, juvenile records, grand jury materials, or other matter subject to a sealing or protective order, except where you are expressly authorized and have configured an environment approved for that purpose in a signed agreement.
- Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, government identification numbers, protected health information, or other sensitive personal identifiers, except where unavoidably contained in a public-record filing and permitted under a signed agreement.
- Any data whose submission to a third-party cloud or artificial intelligence service would violate a law, regulation, court order, or contractual or ethical obligation that applies to you.
The Service includes an input gate that screens submitted documents for certain sensitive markers and rejects documents that trip detection, without storing the rejected content. This gate is a safeguard and not a guarantee. Detection is not perfect, and you remain responsible for ensuring that you do not submit prohibited data. Veritas disclaims liability arising from your submission of prohibited or sensitive data in violation of these Terms.
6. Your professional responsibilities
You acknowledge and agree that you are independently responsible for reviewing, verifying, and approving every authority, quotation, and proposition in any document you file or rely on, regardless of any output of the Service. You will personally read and verify cited authority before signing or filing, consistent with your professional obligations.
The quality of the Service's output depends in part on the quality and completeness of the documents and inputs you provide and on the availability and accuracy of third-party legal source data. You are responsible for the inputs you submit and for exercising professional judgment over the outputs.
7. Fees, payment, and renewal
You agree to pay the fees stated in your plan or order form. Unless your order form states otherwise, subscriptions are billed in advance, fees are stated exclusive of taxes, and you are responsible for all applicable taxes other than taxes on Veritas's net income. Self-serve commercial plans are billed per seat to a payment card; enterprise and government plans are priced per attorney seat and billed by invoice as set out in the applicable order form. Where an annual plan is offered at a price lower than twelve times the monthly rate, that reduced price is consideration for your commitment to the full annual term, and is not a free or trial period.
Cancellation depends on your billing period. If you are on a monthly plan, you may cancel at any time; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current monthly billing period, you retain access until the end of that period, and fees already charged for the current or any prior period are not refunded or pro-rated. If you are on an annual or other prepaid term, you have committed to that full term: you may not cancel for convenience during the term, your access and billing continue through the end of the term, and cancelling operates to stop automatic renewal effective at the end of the term. Prepaid fees for an annual or multi-year term are not refundable except as expressly provided in the "Term, suspension, and termination" section below.
Except as expressly stated in these Terms or required by law, fees are non-refundable and payments are non-cancelable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial periods, unused seats, or unused capacity. If any fee is not paid when due, we may suspend access after notice and a reasonable cure period, and overdue amounts may accrue interest at the lower of one and one-half percent per month or the maximum rate permitted by law.
Unless your order form states otherwise, subscription terms renew automatically for successive periods equal to the prior term unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal at least thirty days before the end of the then-current term. Fees for a renewal term may change if we have given you notice of the change before the renewal.
8. Term, suspension, and termination
These Terms apply for as long as you use the Service or have an active subscription. Either party may terminate for the other party's material breach that remains uncured thirty days after written notice. We may suspend or limit access immediately if your use poses a security risk, may harm the Service or others, or violates the acceptable use or prohibited data sections, or if required by law.
If you terminate an annual or other prepaid subscription for our material breach that we have not cured within the thirty-day notice period, we will refund the portion of your prepaid fees that corresponds to the remainder of the terminated term, measured from the effective date of termination. This pro-rated refund is your sole monetary remedy for the breach. No refund is owed where termination results from your breach, where we suspend or terminate your access for a violation of these Terms, or where you cancel or elect not to renew for convenience. Termination for any reason does not relieve you of the obligation to pay fees accrued or payable before the effective date of termination.
On termination, your license ends and you must stop using the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions on fees accrued, intellectual property, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law. We will make your data available for export for a limited period after termination as described in our Privacy Policy, after which we may delete it in the ordinary course.
9. Intellectual property
As between the parties, Veritas owns and retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including all software, models, algorithms, methods, user interfaces, documentation, and all intellectual property rights in them, together with any improvements and derivatives. The Veritas name, logo, and brand are trademarks of Veritas, and these Terms do not grant you any right to use them except to identify the Service.
As between the parties, you own and retain all right, title, and interest in the documents and data you submit ("Customer Content"). You grant Veritas a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, process, transmit, and display Customer Content solely to provide, secure, and support the Service, and as otherwise permitted by these Terms and the Privacy Policy.
If you provide suggestions, feedback, or ideas about the Service, you grant Veritas a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without restriction or obligation to you.
10. Confidentiality
Each party may receive confidential information of the other. Each party agrees to use the other's confidential information only to perform under these Terms, to protect it with at least reasonable care, and not to disclose it except to its personnel and advisors who need to know it and are bound by confidentiality obligations. These obligations do not apply to information that is or becomes public through no fault of the receiving party, was rightfully known without obligation, is independently developed, or is rightfully received from a third party. A party may disclose confidential information if required by law, provided it gives reasonable notice where legally permitted.
11. Data, privacy, and security
Our handling of personal information and Customer Content is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Customer Content, including encryption in transit and at rest and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we do not warrant that the Service or your data will be free from unauthorized access.
The Service is built on a public-record verification posture. It is designed to process citations and propositions from documents that are, or are intended to become, part of the public record. It is not, in its standard configuration, an environment approved for live criminal justice information or other restricted data, and you agree not to use it as one absent a signed agreement that expressly provides for it.
12. Third-party services and source data
The Service relies on third-party services and on legal source data obtained from public and third-party sources. Legal source data may be incomplete, delayed, or contain errors outside our control. We do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of third-party data, and your use of any third-party service is subject to that third party's terms.
13. Disclaimer of warranties
The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Veritas disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
Veritas does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that it will identify every error, omission, mis-citation, or unsupported proposition in a document, that every authority will be correctly resolved, or that the results will meet your requirements. The Service is a verification aid. It does not replace the independent review and verification that you are professionally obligated to perform. You assume full responsibility for your use of the Service and for any document you sign or file.
14. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Veritas's total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the amounts you paid to Veritas for the Service in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the liability.
In particular, and without limiting the foregoing, Veritas will not be liable for any sanction, fine, adverse ruling, malpractice claim, disciplinary action, loss of a matter, or other harm arising from a filing or document, including any authority, quotation, or proposition that the Service did not flag or resolved incorrectly. Responsibility for the content of filings rests with the signing attorney. These limitations form an essential basis of the bargain and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, and in those jurisdictions liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
15. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Veritas and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your Customer Content, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, your submission of prohibited or sensitive data, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
This section states the parties' obligations regarding third-party claims except to the extent modified by a separately signed agreement. Government customers' indemnification obligations apply only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
16. Government and public-sector customers
If you are a government or public-sector entity, certain provisions of these Terms may be limited or superseded by applicable law, and the parties may enter a separately signed agreement to address procurement, governing law, dispute resolution, indemnification, and compliance requirements specific to your jurisdiction. To the extent a provision of these Terms is unenforceable against you under applicable law, that provision applies only to the extent permitted, and the remainder of these Terms remains in effect. Any addendum required by your jurisdiction's criminal-justice or data-security authority, once signed by the parties, governs the subject matter it covers.
17. Changes to the Service and these Terms
We may modify the Service over time. We may also update these Terms. If we make a material change, we will provide notice, for example by posting the updated Terms with a new effective date or by notifying you through the Service or by email. Changes are effective when posted unless stated otherwise. Your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must stop using the Service.
18. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to any separately signed agreement and to the rights of government customers under applicable law, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Colorado for any dispute that is not subject to an alternative dispute resolution process agreed in writing. Each party waives any objection to that venue. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
19. General
These Terms, together with any order form, the Privacy Policy, and any separately signed agreement, are the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Service and supersede all prior understandings on that subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent, except to a successor in connection with a merger or sale of substantially all assets. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or successor. Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform due to causes beyond its reasonable control. Notices to Veritas may be sent to the contact below.
20. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to andrew@veritaslaw.app. Banah Enterprises, LLC is the entity responsible for the Service.