Beta Terms of Use

1. Agreement and operator

By creating or using an account, accepting an invitation or order form that incorporates these Terms, or otherwise using the Service after being shown these Terms, you agree to them. If you use Luthor for a firm or other organisation, you represent that you can bind that organisation; "you" then includes both you and that organisation.

The legal person contracting with you must be identified in your invitation, pilot agreement, order form, or invoice. If no operator is identified, these Terms are not a complete production contract: do not submit real client or matter material and contact support@luthor.in.

If you do not agree, do not access the Service. The Privacy Policy explains processing of personal data and is incorporated where applicable. A signed pilot agreement, data-processing addendum, or order form may add terms. If there is a conflict, the signed document controls for its subject, followed by these Terms and then incorporated policies.

2. The Service

Luthor is decision-support software for Indian legal professionals. It can organise and read matter files, extract information, research public and licensed sources, draft and compare work product, surface possible deadlines, and propose changes to a matter plan. Features vary by deployment and may be marked beta, preview, or experimental.

Luthor is not a law firm or advocate, does not represent any party, does not form an advocate-client relationship, and does not provide legal advice to litigants. It does not autonomously file in court, contact a client or opponent, or make a final professional decision. Any external write or communication feature remains subject to available approval controls.

3. Eligibility and authority

You must be at least 18, have legal capacity to contract, and be an advocate or a person directly authorised and supervised by an advocate to work on the relevant matters. You must use the Service for professional work, not as a consumer seeking personal legal advice.

You represent that you have all rights, permissions, professional authority, notices, consents, and other lawful grounds needed to upload, connect, instruct, and process your content, including client papers and third-party personal data. You must not use Luthor to bypass a court restriction, confidentiality undertaking, data-localisation rule, information barrier, or client instruction.

4. Accounts and authorised users

Account information must be accurate and kept current. Accounts are personal unless an organisation feature expressly permits shared administration. Do not share passwords, sessions, API credentials, or connected-service tokens. You are responsible for actions taken through your account until you notify us of suspected compromise.

An organisation is responsible for inviting, supervising, and removing its users and for configuring matter access appropriately. An administrator may be able to manage access and settings for an organisation account, but no administrator receives access to matter content unless the Service and the organisation's permissions expressly allow it. Notify support@luthor.in promptly of unauthorised access.

5. Professional responsibility

You remain solely responsible for legal advice, professional judgment, conflicts, privilege, confidentiality, strategy, factual investigation, limitation and other deadlines, client communication, signatures, service, filing, and compliance with the Advocates Act, Bar Council rules, court rules and directions, your retainer, and other applicable obligations.

You must independently review before relying on, sharing, signing, or filing:

• every factual statement against the record;
• every quotation, citation, authority, statutory provision, and statement of current law;
• every date, calculation, limitation period, procedural requirement, and court form;
• every translation, extracted passage, and description of an attachment; and
• every recipient, attachment, permission, and final text of an external communication.

Verification badges, confidence labels, proof records, source links, and deterministic calculations are review aids, not certifications. Do not state that work was independently verified by counsel unless a qualified person actually performed and recorded that review.

6. AI limitations

AI systems can produce plausible but false, incomplete, biased, inconsistent, or outdated material. They can misunderstand scanned documents, names, dates, handwriting, translations, procedural posture, or which side an authority supports. A cited source may not support the proposition attributed to it, and an authority may have been amended, distinguished, stayed, or overruled.

Luthor may decline or narrow a request, ask for clarification, abstain where evidence is missing, or limit a tool to protect confidentiality and safety. These controls reduce risk but do not make outputs error-free. You may use outputs only as material for professional review and remain the author and decision-maker for work issued in your name.

7. Your content

As between you and Luthor, you retain ownership of files, prompts, instructions, and other material you provide ("Your Content"). You grant the operator and its subprocessors a non-exclusive, worldwide, limited licence to host, copy, transform, transmit, display, and otherwise process Your Content only to provide, secure, maintain, support, and lawfully operate the Service for you. This licence ends when the content is deleted, subject to backups, legal holds, and records lawfully retained under the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for the legality, integrity, and accuracy of Your Content and for preserving originals and authoritative copies outside Luthor. Do not use Luthor as the sole repository for an original instrument, court order, evidence, or file that a law, court, client, or professional duty requires you to preserve.

8. Outputs

Subject to applicable law and third-party rights, Luthor assigns to you any rights the operator may have in an output generated specifically from Your Content for you. Because AI can generate similar material for different users, outputs may not be unique and this assignment does not give you rights in another user's content, third-party material, public law, or the Service itself.

You are responsible for deciding whether and how to use an output, for editing it, and for any disclosure of AI assistance required by a court, tribunal, client, professional rule, contract, or policy. Luthor does not warrant that an output is copyrightable, non-infringing, privileged, admissible, or suitable for a particular filing.

9. Confidentiality and privilege

The operator will treat non-public matter material as your confidential information and use it only to provide, secure, support, and comply with law in relation to the Service. Personnel access is limited as described in the Privacy Policy. These obligations do not apply to information that the operator can demonstrate was lawfully public without breach, already known without a duty, independently developed without the information, or lawfully received without a duty.

You remain responsible for deciding whether using any cloud, AI, research, or connected service is consistent with privilege, confidentiality, client consent, court restrictions, and your professional duties. Luthor's confidentiality measures support but do not create or guarantee legal privilege. If disclosure is legally compelled, the operator will, where lawful and practicable, give notice and limit disclosure to what is required.

10. Google Workspace and connected services

Google sign-in is separate from the optional Google Workspace connection. Connecting Workspace grants the scopes shown during OAuth. Gmail and Drive tools become available only as described in the product and Privacy Policy. You must inspect and approve the exact content or change before any available write, and sending email requires a separate approval.

You authorise Luthor to act on the connected account only for the action you request and approve. You are responsible for recipients, permissions, sharing consequences, provider charges, and compliance with the connected service's terms. Disconnecting removes Luthor's local connection and attempts token revocation; it does not delete original Gmail messages, Drive files, provider-side drafts, or copies already imported into a matter.

11. Public and third-party sources

Research results, court records, web pages, judgments, statutes, and other third-party material remain subject to their source's availability, accuracy, licence, attribution, rate limits, and terms. Luthor does not control those sources and may remove, substitute, or disable a provider. A link or retrieval result is not an endorsement or a guarantee that the source is authentic, complete, current, or legally citable.

Do not send confidential facts or party identifiers in a public-web query. You must verify public-record information against the official record before acting. Automated court monitoring, where enabled, is supplemental and does not replace checking the court file, cause list, order, registry communication, or applicable rules.

12. Acceptable use

You must not use or help another person use Luthor to:

• violate law, professional rules, a court order, sanctions, export controls, privacy, privilege, confidentiality, or intellectual-property rights;
• provide legal services while unauthorised, impersonate a lawyer or another person, fabricate evidence, mislead a court, or conceal required AI disclosure;
• upload malware, unlawful surveillance material, or content you are not authorised to process;
• send spam, harassment, deceptive communications, or an external message without the required review and authority;
• probe, scan, disrupt, overload, bypass, or defeat access, matter, approval, rate, confidentiality, or safety controls;
• access another user's account or matter, scrape the Service, or extract models, prompts, source code, or datasets except as expressly permitted by law;
• use outputs to train a competing model or resell access to the Service without written permission; or
• make a high-impact decision about a person without lawful authority, appropriate human review, and an independent evidentiary basis.

Good-faith security research must follow the published Security process and must not access, retain, or disclose another person's data.

13. Service ownership and licence

The operator and its licensors own Luthor, including its software, design, documentation, prompts, workflows, models or model access, evaluation systems, and branding, excluding Your Content and third-party material. During the agreement, you receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service internally for your authorised professional work. No other right is granted by implication.

If you provide product feedback, you grant the operator a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it without identifying you or using matter content. Mark any submission that contains confidential matter information; product-feedback channels should not be used for client papers.

14. Fees, taxes, and pilots

Beta access may be free, paid, usage-limited, or provided under a pilot. Any fees, included usage, billing period, taxes, renewal, cancellation, and refund terms must be stated in an order form or pilot agreement before charges begin. Unless that document says otherwise, there is no automatic paid renewal and beta access creates no entitlement to a future free or discounted plan.

15. Beta changes and availability

During early access, features, models, limits, providers, interfaces, and supported matter types may change. The Service may be unavailable, delayed, or lose work in progress. Unless a signed agreement says otherwise, there is no service-level commitment, guaranteed uptime, support response time, or promise that a particular court, source, integration, or feature will remain available.

We will not materially reduce confidentiality protections for existing stored matter data merely by labelling the Service beta. Planned or described future controls are not part of the Service until expressly shown as active.

16. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion. The operator may limit, suspend, or terminate access where reasonably necessary for a material breach, security or confidentiality risk, non-payment, legal requirement, provider restriction, misuse, or closure of the beta. Where the risk is not urgent, the operator will ordinarily give notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure.

Before planned closure, you should export material you need using available features. Termination does not require Luthor to preserve Your Content beyond the Privacy Policy or a signed agreement. Sections that by their nature should survive—including ownership, confidentiality, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, disputes, and general terms—survive.

17. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service, outputs, and third-party sources are provided "as is" and "as available". The operator disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, availability, and that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. No oral or written information creates a warranty not stated in a signed agreement.

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, remedy, or responsibility that applicable law does not permit the parties to exclude. The Service is not a substitute for professional review, authoritative sources, a docketing system, a court registry, or secure retention of original records.

18. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, opportunity, or data, arising from the Service—even if advised that such loss was possible.

Except for excluded claims below, the operator's total aggregate liability arising out of the Service will not exceed the fees paid or payable for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or ₹10,000 if no fee was paid. The cap applies across all theories and claims, not per incident.

The exclusions and cap do not apply to fraud or wilful misconduct, and do not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, breach of confidentiality or data-protection obligations to the extent a limitation is prohibited, your payment obligations, your infringement or misuse of another person's rights, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

19. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify the operator and its personnel against a third-party claim, loss, or reasonable cost arising from Your Content, an external communication you approve, your unlawful or professionally unauthorised use, or your material breach of sections 3, 5, 7, 10, or 12. This obligation does not apply to the extent the claim was caused by the operator's breach, negligence, or wilful misconduct. The operator must promptly notify you, allow reasonable control of the defence, and cooperate; you may not settle by admitting fault or imposing a non-monetary obligation on an indemnified party without consent.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law rules and subject to mandatory law. Before filing a non-urgent contractual claim, each party will give written notice and allow 30 days for good-faith resolution. This does not prevent a party from seeking urgent interim relief, reporting to a regulator, or using a remedy that cannot lawfully be restricted.

The operator's registered office and the chosen courts or arbitration seat must be stated in your signed pilot agreement or order form. Until they are stated, jurisdiction lies only with courts competent under applicable law; these Terms do not invent a venue.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms for changes to the Service, providers, risk, or law. We will post the revised text with a new date and provide reasonable advance notice of a material change where practicable. A material change will apply prospectively. If you do not agree, stop using the Service before it takes effect. Changes to a signed agreement require the method specified in that agreement.

22. General terms

Neither party waives a right by delaying its exercise. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder survives. You may not assign these Terms without consent; the operator may assign them with the Service or as part of a reorganisation, subject to applicable privacy duties. Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, but this does not excuse payment or reasonable security and continuity measures.

These Terms and incorporated signed documents are the entire agreement about the Service and replace prior statements on that subject. Headings aid reading only. "Including" means including without limitation. Notices may be sent to the account email and to support@luthor.in; legal notices to the operator should also use any address identified in the signed agreement.