Acceptable Use Policy

What you may & may not do.

Version 1.0.0 · Effective 2026-05-04 · Last updated 2026-05-07

Permitted uses

You may use ADS to:

• Conduct legal-research questions for matters in which you are personally involved or are advising on within your professional licensure.
• Draft documents for filing in courts where you are admitted to practice or proceeding pro-se.
• Obtain practical guidance on procedural and entity-formation matters.
• Use Risk Management sessions (Ask the Founder, Get Grilled, Document Risk Score) in good faith — they are not legal advice and create no attorney-client relationship.
• Upload your own court documents to the chat for the four counsellors to read and respond to (paid feature; V1.9.0+).

Prohibited uses — material breach grounds for immediate termination

Content

• Generate content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, fraudulent, or that violates anyone's privacy or intellectual-property rights.
• Generate content related to the sexual exploitation of minors. Zero tolerance.
• Submit content that violates third-party privilege or confidentiality (including sealed records, or attorney-client communications of unrelated parties).

Sensitive data — do not upload

Professional conduct — you are not authorized to operate ADS as a legal-services product

• No UPL-as-a-service. You may not use ADS as the back-end for a service that gives legal advice to other people, where you are not personally and individually licensed in their jurisdiction. ADS is a tool for you, the user, to research your own matter or matters within your professional licensure — not a service you may resell, white-label, or wrap into a "do-it-for-them" legal product.
• No unauthorized practice of law. Do not use ADS output to advise other persons on legal matters in jurisdictions where you are not admitted to practice. Pro-se litigants are advising only themselves.
• No representation of others without admission. Do not represent yourself as another person's attorney, agent, or authorized representative when using ADS, unless you are properly admitted/licensed in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Do not misrepresent ADS output as your own original work product when delivering legal services for compensation, without independent verification and without the disclosures required by your bar.
• Verify every citation before filing in court. Sanctions for filing AI-generated briefs with hallucinated citations have already been imposed in multiple jurisdictions.

Security, automation & abuse

• No automation, scraping, or scripted access against the user-facing platform without prior written permission. Practitioner-tier API keys are the only sanctioned automated access path. The platform is for human interactive use; automated dial-loops, browser automation, headless scrapers, and crawlers (including AI agents acting on your behalf without disclosure) are prohibited unless authorized.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or load-test the platform without prior written permission.
• Bypass authentication, rate limits, or usage metering — including by creating multiple accounts to evade free-tier limits.
• Inject malicious code, attempt prompt-injection attacks, or attempt to extract training data, system prompts, or other users' data.
• Use the platform to facilitate spam, phishing, malware distribution, or any denial-of-service activity.
• Use the platform to develop, train, fine-tune, or evaluate competing AI models or to scrape model outputs for downstream training datasets.

Commercial use

• Resell, white-label, or rebrand ADS output without express written permission. (Practitioner plan API access ≠ a license to resell.)
• Train competing AI products using ADS output.

Court-filing safety

Enforcement

Violations may result in: warning, content removal, account suspension, account termination, refund forfeiture, and referral to law enforcement or your state bar where appropriate.

Reporting violations

abuse@adslaw.ai