Terms of Service

Please read these terms carefully before using our Platform and Services

Introduction

Welcome to Jude, an artificial intelligence (AI) driven multi-purpose workspace platform for legal professionals (Platform).

Jude is owned and operated by Jude Platform Limited. In these Terms, “Jude”, “we”, “our” or “us” refers to Jude Platform Limited. “You” or “your” refers to the Law Firm that a User represents.

We are delighted to have you here but before you start using the Platform, we need you to read and accept these Terms.

These Terms form a legal contract between you and us, so please read everything. If you don’t agree to these Terms, you can’t use our Services.

We have tried not to use too much jargon, so it’s clear what we expect from you and what you can expect from us.

If you still have questions or comments after you have read these Terms, please get in touch. We appreciate your feedback and would be delighted to assist.

Definitions

Some words in these Terms have specific meanings. These words are set out in clause 15.1.

These Terms were last updated on 8th August 2026

1. Registration

1.1 Law Firms

These Terms are entered into between you (i.e. the Law Firm) and us.

To use our Services, a User must register and accept these Terms on behalf of the Law Firm. By registering on behalf of the Law Firm, the User warrants that they have authority to agree to these Terms on behalf of the Law Firm, to give instructions and provide information on behalf of the Law Firm, and to bind the Law Firm to the performance of all obligations of the Law Firm under these Terms.

By providing us with Personal Information for the registration, including a User’s name, position and contact details, you acknowledge that we will use this information to contact you and for billing purposes, and store this information for our records.

Once registered, we will provide you with the right to access and utilise the Services, and to share your registration with people that are employed or engaged by your Law Firm.

1.2 Users

You can invite Users to access the Services using the Law Firm’s registration. Users must:

  • be at least 18 years old;
  • own or work for the relevant Law Firm;
  • comply with the Law Firm’s obligations under these Terms.

Each User is bound by these Terms by virtue of accessing or using the Platform under the Law Firm’s registration, whether or not that User separately accepts these Terms. The Law Firm (including, where applicable, through its authorised administrator) is responsible for ensuring that each User agrees to comply with the Law Firm’s obligations under these Terms before granting them access, and remains responsible for each User’s compliance in accordance with clause 4.7.

2. Term

These Terms become effective on the Commencement Date and will continue in force until terminated.

3. Our Service

3.1 We provide a platform for Lawyers

We provide our Services via an online Platform called Jude. Jude is a multi-purpose workspace platform designed for legal professionals. The Platform provides tools and functionality to streamline legal workflows and enhance productivity, including:

  • Document review and summarisation: review legal documents and generate summaries to extract key points.
  • Integrated web research: perform targeted web searches to locate and reference relevant information.
  • Document editing: edit Word documents directly within the Platform and not in a separate application.
  • AI-assisted drafting: leverage AI capabilities to draft documents, including utilising uploaded precedents, emails and prior matters to inform and guide drafting.

In providing the Services, we do not give legal or other advice. The Platform is designed as a tool to assist with your workflow. We rely on you to review any documents, information or advice generated by the Platform, and to satisfy yourself that the advice you give to your clients in reliance on our Services is accurate.

3.2 We can change our Services

We are constantly changing and improving our Platform and Services. We may add or remove features or functions at any time, and we may suspend or stop providing a Service altogether.

We will notify you of any significant changes to our Platform, Services or Terms by posting them on the Platform or by emailing you.

3.3 Global use subject to Regional Terms

You may access and use the Platform from any location globally, provided that your use complies with these Terms and all Applicable Laws.

If you are a Law Firm domiciled in a country specified in the Schedule, the regional terms set out in the relevant part of the Schedule (Regional Terms) apply to your use of the Platform. In the event of any inconsistency between the main body of these Terms and the Regional Terms, the Regional Terms prevail. For the purposes of this clause 3.3, domiciled refers to the country in which your registered office is located (or, if you have no registered office, your principal place of business).

Regardless of where you access the Platform from, you are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Platform complies with any and all Applicable Laws.

3.4 Use limits

We may put reasonable limits on your use of the Services including limiting monthly transaction volumes, data storage, and the allowable number of calls (requests) against the Platform.

4. Your General Commitments

4.1 Providing accurate information

We rely on you to provide us accurate, complete and current information, including Law Firm registration and User information, and any other information to enable us to provide the Services. You must update this information as required. We may contact you to verify any details.

4.2 Maintaining your account

You have an important part to play in maintaining the security of the Platform, including by keeping login details secure, not letting anyone else use them (other than a User in accordance with these Terms), and implementing appropriate operational and technical security measures on your own systems.

The Law Firm agrees to be responsible for all acts or omissions undertaken in its registration, whether authorised or not, until you either end your registration or notify us that your registration has been compromised.

You must, at your own cost, maintain any equipment and connections necessary for you to access or use the Platform.

4.3 You can only use the Platform for legitimate purposes

You may only use our Platform for the purpose of assisting you in managing and completing legal work, in compliance with these Terms.

You agree that you will not use the Platform for the purpose of acquiring competitive or Confidential Information about Jude.

We may monitor your use of the Platform for the purposes of maintaining the security, integrity, availability and performance of the Platform, preventing misuse and compiling usage and diagnostic data. This monitoring is limited to automated telemetry, security and abuse-prevention processes and does not include human review of your Content, Inputs or Outputs, except where you request and approve our access for support purposes or where we are compelled to access your Content by law in accordance with these Terms.

4.4 You are responsible for all Content

You are solely responsible for all Content provided to the Platform, and represent and warrant that you have, and will maintain, all rights, licenses, consents and permissions required to provide such Content to the Platform and to enable its use in connection with the Services.

4.5 You still need to carefully check the Outputs

We use AI, including generative AI, to enhance and deliver some of our Services and generate Outputs, including document review and summarising, and legal drafting.

You will appreciate that generative AI and computer programs are not always accurate and can get things wrong. The current generation of AI tools can “hallucinate”. This means that on occasion they can present inaccurate information relating to legislation, case law or other information as fact.

We do not make any warranties or representations about the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the Outputs.

The Platform is intended to support, not replace, professional judgement. You acknowledge and agree that you remain solely responsible for all use of the Outputs, including:

  • verifying the accuracy, completeness and reliability of the Outputs; and
  • ensuring the Outputs are appropriate and fit for their intended purpose.

You must ensure that the Outputs are not the only source used and relied on for any work product. By way of example, you (and each User) will:

  • cross-check any assertion of law or fact produced by the Platform to ensure it is accurate;
  • compare any documents generated by the Platform with other sources, including for example firm precedents, online databases or other authoritative material (as relevant); and
  • keep a record of these cross-checks.

4.6 You will use the Platform responsibly

Specifically, you will be responsible for implementing meaningful human oversight of Outputs and complying with the usage restrictions and content requirements detailed in these Terms.

You agree that you will not:

  • attempt to compromise the security or integrity of the Platform;
  • attempt to access the online web server hosting the Platform;
  • transmit, or input into the Platform any Content that:
    • could harm other people’s computing devices or software;
    • might be deemed offensive;
    • is in violation of any Applicable Laws; or
    • is protected by Intellectual Property rights that you do not have the right to use;
  • attempt to alter, duplicate, adjust, reproduce, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer any computer programs employed for delivering or operating the Platform;
  • use a robot, spider, scraper or other unauthorised automated means to access the Platform or information featured on it for any purpose; or
  • manually scrape, harvest or otherwise extract data from our Platform without our express permission.

4.7 You are responsible for Users’ compliance

You are responsible for ensuring that each User complies with these Terms and for monitoring their compliance. You are liable to us for any non-compliance with these Terms or misuse of the Platform by any User.

4.8 Notify us when something goes wrong

You agree to immediately inform us of any unauthorised use of your Platform passwords or any other security breach. This includes a security breach of the Platform by a User. Where a breach has occurred, you agree to take all actions we advise to uphold or improve the security of the Platform and your access to the Services.

5. Payment Terms

5.1 Our fees

Our current fees are explained on our Website. By using our Services, you agree to pay our fees on time and to comply with any other requirements set out on our Website.

We may change our fees from time to time.

5.2 Our fees exclude Applicable Taxes

All of our fees are exclusive of any goods and services tax, value-added tax, sales tax or similar tax (Applicable Taxes). If any Applicable Tax applies to the supply of the Platform or the Services, you agree to pay us the amount of that Applicable Tax at the same time as you pay our fees.

6. Intellectual Property and Confidential Information

6.1 We own the Intellectual Property to the Platform and Services

You agree that, as between you and us, all Intellectual Property relating to the Platform and Services (including all associated software and source code), and all enhancements, alterations and modifications to this Intellectual Property, are owned solely by (and will continue to be owned by) us. You recognise our exclusive right to grant rights to use such Intellectual Property and control the use of it.

6.2 We also own any improvements that you suggest to the Intellectual Property

If we make improvements or introduce new features or services based on requests or suggestions from you, you acknowledge that these improvements and additions and the Intellectual Property in them belong exclusively to us, and you will not receive compensation.

6.3 Licence to use our Platform

To enable you to use and enjoy our Services, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use our Platform in accordance with these Terms for the duration of your registration and for as long as you continue to comply with these Terms.

6.4 Restrictions on use of Intellectual Property

You agree not to, without our prior written consent:

  • represent yourself as the owner of or having any interest in the Intellectual Property relating to the Platform or Services;
  • copy, store, reproduce, republish, display, distribute, translate, disassemble, decompile, modify, alter, adapt, amend or reverse engineer the Platform or Services (including the associated Intellectual Property, software and source code), or create derivative works from any part of the Platform or Services;
  • except for the purpose of completing transactions for and providing advice to your clients, commercialise, copy or sell any information obtained from any part of the Platform or Services.

6.5 Protection of our Intellectual Property

You agree to, at our cost, do all other acts and things that may be reasonably required by us to ensure the protection of our Intellectual Property, including defending our Intellectual Property (such as providing any evidence required by us for use in the preparation or conduct of any proceedings) relating to the unauthorised use or infringement of our Intellectual Property.

6.6 You will notify us about any infringement

You will immediately notify us if you become aware of any infringement of our Intellectual Property in any manner.

6.7 Keeping information confidential

While using our Services, you may share Confidential Information about you and/or your clients with us, and you may become aware of Confidential Information about us. The recipient of the Confidential Information (Recipient) agrees to:

  • take all reasonable steps to keep the other Party’s Confidential Information secure;
  • not disclose any Confidential Information of the other Party to any person without the prior written consent of the other Party, except as provided for in these Terms or to enable us to provide the Services; and
  • not make use of the Confidential Information for any purpose other than to perform its obligations under these Terms.

The Parties may only disclose each other’s Confidential Information if required by law, and then only to the extent necessary. Unless prevented by law, the Recipient will notify the other Party of any such proposed disclosure. Such notice shall, where circumstances permit, be given sufficiently in advance to give the other Party the opportunity to apply for an order limiting or preventing such disclosure.

7. Privacy

7.1 Privacy Policy and compliance with Applicable Data Privacy Laws

We take our privacy obligations seriously. Our Privacy Policy applies to the collection, storage use and disclosure of your and your clients’ Personal Information.

We will each comply with our respective obligations under all Applicable Data Privacy Laws in relation to any Personal Information provided or processed in connection with the use of the Platform by you or your Users.

7.2 DPA

Where we consider Applicable Data Privacy Laws require it, you will enter into a written data processing addendum to these Terms (DPA) with us which sets out our respective roles and obligations in relation to Personal Information. To the extent of any inconsistency between these Terms and any DPA between us, the DPA shall prevail.

7.3 Indirect collection of Personal Information

If Information Privacy Principle 3A of New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 (IPP3A) applies to your use of the Platform, before inputting your clients’ or other third party’s Personal Information on the Platform or otherwise sharing that Personal Information with us, you agree to (and will maintain records in respect of):

  • informing those clients and/or third parties about our Privacy Policy by referring them to our Website; or
  • otherwise notifying those clients and/or third parties about the matters set out in IPP3A(1) (IPP3A Matters) in relation to our indirect collection of their Personal Information, including our name and address (or equivalent, such as email or Website).

7.4 Updates to Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time as set out in that document. If you do not agree to the updated Privacy Policy, you must immediately stop using our Platform and Services and notify us. Your continued use of the Platform after any changes to our Privacy Policy indicates your consent to the updated Privacy Policy.

If we notify you about key changes to our Privacy Policy and IPP3A applies to your use of the Platform, you agree to notify your clients of those changes to the extent they are relevant to the IPP3A Matters.

8. Your Content

8.1 You give us a right to use your Content

You confirm that you either own or have permission to use and share all Content that you upload to the Platform, including your clients’ permission to share their Personal Information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

8.2 We do not own your Content

As between the Parties, you retain all right, title and interest in and to your Content and Outputs. We acquire no rights in your Content or Outputs, other than the rights you grant to us in clause 8.3.

8.3 You give us a licence to use your Content

You give us a licence to use your Content to provide our Services to you for the duration of these Terms. This licence includes the right to use, store, reproduce, modify, distribute, create derivative works, and process the Content as necessary to deliver the Services to you, provided that we maintain the confidentiality and security of any Confidential Information in accordance with these Terms.

For the avoidance of doubt, the licence granted by you in this clause 8.3 expressly prohibits our use of the Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate or otherwise improve any foundational or other AI model. This restriction is intended to support the maintenance of any LPP that may attach to such Content.

This licence terminates when you stop using our Services or ask us to delete Content from your account, except to the extent we are required to retain Content to comply with legal obligations.

You confirm that you have the right to grant this licence to us.

8.4 Third party applications and your Content

We use third party applications and providers to provide the Services (Service Providers). A list of our current Service Providers is set out in our Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree that we permit our Service Providers to access your Content as necessary to provide services to us, and to provide, maintain and improve our Platform and Services.

We will:

  • engage Service Providers under written terms that impose data protection obligations substantially equivalent to those set out in any DPA between us (where a DPA applies) or otherwise appropriate to the nature of the services provided;
  • subject to the disclaimers and limitations in clause 12, remain responsible for the acts and omissions of our Service Providers in performing services in connection with the Platform;
  • give you reasonable prior notice of any new Service Provider that will process your Content, and give you a reasonable opportunity to object on reasonable grounds;
  • only permit Service Providers to process Content for the purpose of performing services for us in connection with the Platform, and not for any other purpose (including for any Service Provider’s own commercial purposes or the training, fine-tuning, evaluation or improvement of any foundational or other AI model);
  • where technically feasible for the class of Service Provider concerned (in particular, for foundational AI model providers), engage Service Providers on terms that provide for zero retention of Content beyond the period necessary to perform the immediate services requested; and
  • maintain a current list of our Service Providers on our Website, and provide you with information about the data handling arrangements of our Service Providers on reasonable request.

Further information about how our Service Providers access and use Personal Information is set out in our Privacy Policy.

You may input Content that is subject to LPP (Privileged Content). We acknowledge that all Content is Confidential Information for the purposes of clause 6 (Intellectual Property and Confidential Information), regardless of whether it is expressly marked or identified as such, and we will handle your Content, and require our Service Providers to handle your Content, accordingly.

Our arrangements set out in clauses 8.3 and 8.4 are designed to support the maintenance of any LPP attaching to Privileged Content. Nothing in these Terms, however, is intended to require or authorise you to disclose Privileged Content to us in circumstances that would result in the waiver of any LPP attaching to it, and you remain responsible for exercising your professional judgment about the Content you input to the Platform and for making any client notifications and obtaining any consents required in connection with your use of the Platform.

9. Security and Access

9.1 We work to ensure our Platform is safe and trustworthy

We realise you will only use Jude if you trust the Platform and Services and are confident it is secure, and we appreciate that you will be anxious to ensure that your clients’ Personal Information is suitably protected by appropriate security standards.

Security of information is very important to our business. We are undergoing ISO 27001 certification. We take all reasonable precautions to protect your data from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, disclosure or modification by investing in technical, physical and administrative safeguards. This includes ensuring the security of our premises, storing information in access-controlled systems, and providing Privacy Act training to our staff.

Our Service Providers and their sub-processors are required to impose security measures to protect your data.

9.2 Data hosting across multiple geographies

Your data, including Content and Personal Information, may be hosted, processed, and stored by us and our Service Providers across multiple geographic locations. This multi-geography approach is designed to enhance service reliability, performance, and redundancy. The specific locations where data is hosted may change from time to time as we optimise our infrastructure. Information about our current Service Providers and their locations is set out in our Privacy Policy.

While we’ve taken steps to help protect your data, no method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security by us or our Service Providers. We will notify you if we have reason to believe that someone has accessed (or may be able to access) your account without authorisation. We may also restrict access to certain parts of our Services until you confirm the access in question was by an authorised User.

We also rely on you to keep your login details secure, not allow anyone else to use them, and to implement appropriate operational and technical measures on your own systems that may interact with our Platform or Services.

We may introduce security features to make your account more secure, such as multi-factor authentication, and require you to adopt these features. Where we make the use of security features optional, you’re responsible (meaning we’re not liable) for any consequences of not using those features. We strongly encourage you to use all optional security features.

Where Applicable Data Privacy Laws impose restrictions on the transfer of Personal Information to particular jurisdictions, we will implement an appropriate transfer mechanism (which may include standard contractual clauses, an international data transfer agreement, reliance on an applicable adequacy decision or data bridge or an equivalent safeguard) in respect of the transfer, and will set out the applicable mechanism in any DPA between us.

9.3 We will try to avoid data loss

We follow best practice policies and procedures to prevent data loss, by incorporating a regular system data backup regime.

However, we give no assurance that data loss will not occur. We are not liable for any loss of your data, irrespective of the cause. To the extent that we are, notwithstanding the previous sentence, held liable for such loss under Applicable Laws, our liability shall be limited to loss caused by our failure to exercise reasonable care and in any event capped in accordance with clause 12 (Disclaimers and Liability).

10. User Support

10.1 User guide

If you have a problem, the answer might be in the Frequently Asked Questions section of our Website, or in our user guide or knowledge base. If you’ve tried those places and still need help, you can contact our support team.

10.2 We will support you, but you have to support us

We will provide User support if:

  • you are up to date with payment of our fees;
  • you have a current registration;
  • your support request is not addressed in the user guide or knowledge base on the Platform;
  • the nature of the support request is minor and can be addressed without a substantial investment of time or expense; and
  • the support request does not relate to external applications, including the computers or networks you are using to access the Services.

10.3 We may suggest a different type of support

If we think your support request does not meet the criteria for limited support as set out above, we may suggest a different way to address it, such as providing additional training or a more comprehensive support agreement better suited to your requirements.

10.4 How to contact us for support

You may contact the support team by emailing support@jude.law.

11. Dispute Resolution

11.1 Issues with us or our Services

Any disputes between the Parties will be discussed in the spirit of goodwill.

If an issue or dispute arises, Parties must endeavour to attempt to resolve the matter informally within 20 Business Days of the dispute arising.

If the dispute remains unresolved after that time, then either Party may refer the dispute to mediation to take place in Auckland, New Zealand (or such other place as agreed by the Parties in writing).

If the Parties fail to agree on a mediator within 5 Business Days after the submission to mediation, one will be appointed by the President for the time being of Mediation Protocol of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand Inc (AMINZ) (or his or her nominee). In the event of any submission to mediation:

  • the mediator will determine the procedure and timetable for the mediation; and
  • the Parties will share equally the cost of the mediation.

All discussions in negotiations and mediation will be confidential and without prejudice.

Neither Party may issue legal proceedings (other than for urgent interlocutory or equitable relief) relating to a dispute, unless that Party has complied with the dispute resolution process above, and the dispute has not been resolved within 20 Business Days of the appointment of the mediator (or another period agreed in writing by the Parties).

11.2 We have broad rights and remedies if our Terms are breached

Without limiting any other rights and remedies available to us, if you or a User breaches our Terms or misuses our Platform and/or Services we may limit your activities on the Platform, issue a warning to you, suspend or terminate your registration with immediate effect, refuse to provide our Services to you, or take any other action we consider appropriate.

If we do not immediately take action on a breach of these Terms, that doesn’t mean we are giving up any rights to do so and we can take action later.

12. Disclaimers and Liability

12.1 Disclaimers

We work hard to ensure the security and performance of our Services, but we do not guarantee that our Services will be 100% secure, uninterrupted, free of viruses or other harmful code, error-free, or that all errors will be corrected.

Our Services and Platform may not always be available. Our Services may be unavailable from time to time due to:

  • regular system maintenance (we will schedule this to occur outside normal business hours (NZ time) wherever feasible);
  • downtime to resolve specific critical software issues; and
  • any downtime resulting from circumstances beyond our control or the control of our Service Providers.

Our Services, including the Platform, are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms to the contrary, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Laws, we disclaim all representations, warranties or guarantees of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied guarantees of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We are not liable for any representations made by our Service Providers that we rely on.

You acknowledge that your use of the Platform and Services is at your own risk, and that you have made, and will continue to make, your own assessment of the suitability, adequacy, compatibility and appropriateness of the Platform, Services and Outputs.

You agree that the Platform and Services are provided for the purpose of your business, and that to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Laws, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, sections 9, 12A and 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 and any other applicable consumer laws do not apply.

Any information or advice we give you in relation to or during your use of our Services is also subject to these disclaimers and we do not give any warranties or representations that are not expressly given in these Terms.

12.2 Our liability is limited

To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Laws:

  • We exclude all liability in respect of any loss of data, use, profits, revenue, business, anticipated savings and/or goodwill, or any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages incurred by you, a User or any third party, whether in contract or tort (including for negligence), restitution, equity, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising from your or any Users’ access to, or use of, the Platform and/or Services.
  • We are not liable for any claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses you or a third party incur that are outside of our reasonable control, including as a result of or arising from any unauthorised access, deletion, modification or disclosure of your Content by unauthorised actors or a Force Majeure Event.
  • Our total aggregate liability in all circumstances is limited to the sum of NZ$50,000 or (if greater) the value of fees paid or payable by you in the 12 month period immediately preceding the event giving rise to such liability.
  • Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability of a Party which cannot be excluded or limited under Applicable Laws, including (as applicable) liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for breach of terms implied by statute that cannot lawfully be excluded.

12.3 You indemnify us in the event you cause us loss

You agree to indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, employees and agents) (each an Indemnified Party) harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable legal costs, arising out of or related to:

  • your use or misuse of the Platform and/or Services;
  • your breach of these Terms;
  • any Content you submit to the Platform, including any claim by a third party that the Content infringes the rights of that third party;
  • any failure to obtain consent for the use of your client’s Personal Information; and/or
  • any advice and/or other services that you provide using the Platform and/or Services.

The indemnity in this clause 12.3 does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our gross negligence, fraud or wilful misconduct.

This indemnity extends to any act or omission of a User.

13. Termination

13.1 You can ask us to end your registration

You can ask us to end the Law Firm’s registration at any time, for any reason, by giving us at least 30 Business Days’ notice in writing.

You agree to pay all fees due for the Services provided to the Law Firm and its Users up until the date the Law Firm’s registration is terminated, and Users cease using the Services.

13.2 We can suspend or end your registration

We may, in our sole discretion and at any time, cease to provide our Platform or Services altogether.

We may terminate your registration for convenience by giving you not less than 30 Business Days’ prior written notice. If we terminate your registration for convenience under this clause, we will refund to you any prepaid fees for Services not delivered as at the date of termination, pro-rated to the date of termination.

We may also, at any time, suspend or limit your access to the Platform if we reasonably consider that:

  • you are in material breach of these Terms;
  • your continued use of the Platform poses a security or integrity risk to the Platform or to other users;
  • we are required to do so by Applicable Laws or a regulator; or
  • continued provision of the Services to you would put us in breach of our obligations to a Service Provider.

We will lift any such suspension or limit as soon as reasonably practicable after the ground for suspension has been remedied or ceased to apply.

If we have restricted or prohibited your access to the Services, we will endeavour to tell you why (but are not obliged to). You agree not to bypass these controls by, for example, creating a new login.

13.3 Termination of registration terminates these Terms

Subject to clause 13.4, the removal or termination of your registration will terminate these Terms.

13.4 We can remove your Content

We will remove all copies of your Content from the Platform on your request.

13.5 Effect of termination

Despite any other term of these Terms, clauses 6 (Intellectual Property and Confidential Information), 7 (Privacy), 8 (Your Content), 11 (Dispute Resolution), 12 (Disclaimers and Liability) and 14.2 (Governing Law), and any other clauses which by their nature are intended to survive termination, survive the termination of your registration and these Terms.

If you visit our Platform or access our Services after termination, all provisions of these Terms will continue to apply.

The termination of these Terms (however caused) shall not affect any accrued rights or liabilities of either Party.

14. General

14.1 Notices

Any notice to be given under these Terms must be in writing which includes notification by email.

If we need to contact you, we will use the last email address you gave us or, failing that, any other reasonable method.

14.2 Governing Law

Subject to any applicable Regional Terms pursuant to clause 3.3 and to any variation agreed under clause 15.3 (Individual variations), these Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, and the Parties agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the New Zealand Courts.

14.3 Entire Agreement

These Terms contain the entire agreement between the Parties concerning the subject matter of this agreement and supersedes all prior communications between the Parties.

Each Party acknowledges that, except as expressly stated in these Terms, that Party has not relied on any representation, warranty or undertaking of any kind made by or on behalf of the other Party in relation to the subject matter of these Terms.

14.4 Relationship of the Parties

Nothing contained in these Terms creates a partnership, agency relationship or joint venture of any kind between the Parties, or between us and your clients. We are not a party, agent or advisor in relation to any transactions you assist your clients with or advice you provide to your clients.

14.5 Non-assignment

You must not assign, sub-licence or otherwise deal in any way with any of your rights under these Terms without our prior written consent.

14.6 Severability

If it turns out that any part of these Terms is not enforceable, then that part will be removed or edited as little as possible to make it enforceable, and the rest of the Terms will continue to apply.

14.7 Third party rights

Except as expressly provided in these Terms, no provision of these Terms is enforceable by any person who is not a party to the contract formed by these Terms. Without limiting the preceding sentence, the Parties do not intend that any provision of these Terms be enforceable under New Zealand’s Contracts and Commercial Law Act 2017 or applicable legislation referred to in the Regional Terms. The Indemnified Parties referred to in clause 12.3 are third party beneficiaries of that clause only and no consent from any Indemnified Party is required to vary or rescind these Terms.

15. Our Terms

15.1 How to read our Terms

Headings are provided only to make these Terms easier to read and understand.

We have provided some examples in these Terms to help explain what we mean. Where we have provided examples, or where we say ‘includes’ or ‘including’, the examples given may not be all possible examples.

Some words used in these Terms have specific meanings. We have set these out below:

  • Applicable Data Privacy Laws means all Applicable Laws relating to the protection or privacy of Personal Information, including as applicable New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 and/or any laws referred to in the Regional Terms.
  • Applicable Laws means the governing laws of these Terms (including any and all applicable statutes, regulations, codes or professional obligations in the relevant jurisdiction) as determined in accordance with clause 14.2.
  • Applicable Taxes has the meaning given to it in clause 5.2.
  • Business Day means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a public holiday in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Commencement Date means the date your Law Firm registration to the Platform is created.
  • Confidential Information means any information of commercial value and/or that is commercially sensitive, in whatever form or medium, which has been kept confidential by the Party from whom the information originates, and which has not come into the public domain in breach of any obligation of confidence. This includes information relating to our Platform and Services (including the associated software and source code), our third party applications, your systems or any constituent parts, commercial or technical know-how, information relating to business operations, strategies, marketing, financial affairs, pricing, customers and any other information which, by its nature, is reasonably expected to be confidential.
  • Content means all content (including all data, Inputs, documents, prompts or other information) submitted or otherwise provided to the Platform by you, a User or other personnel with your express or implied authority.
  • domiciled has the meaning given to it at clause 3.3.
  • DPA has the meaning given to it in clause 7.2.
  • Force Majeure Event means any event beyond our reasonable control and which prevents us from performing, or delays the performance of any of our obligations under these Terms, and includes (without limitation):
    • forces of nature, any act of God, fire, storm or explosion; any strike, lockout or industrial action;
    • any war, civil commotion or insurrection;
    • any action or inaction by any branch of government or government agency; and
    • any telecommunication, internet or data centre outage caused by a third party.
  • Inputs means all inputs, prompts, documents, and any other data submitted or uploaded to the Platform.
  • Intellectual Property means any and all patents, copyrights, design rights, trade marks, service marks, trade secrets, know-how, database rights and other rights in the nature of intellectual property rights (whether registered or not), and all applications for the same which may now, or in the future, subsist anywhere in the world, including the right to sue for and recover damages for past infringements.
  • IPP3A has the meaning given to it at clause 7.3.
  • Law Firm means any sole practitioner, legal partnership, incorporated law firm, in-house legal team, barrister sole or barrister’s chambers registered to use the Platform and Services.
  • LPP means legal professional privilege, legal advice privilege, litigation privilege or equivalent professional secrecy or without-prejudice obligations under Applicable Laws.
  • Outputs means the content, materials and outputs generated by the Platform.
  • Parties means the parties to these Terms, being Jude Platform Limited and the Law Firm.
  • Personal Information means information about your clients that you input to the Platform when using the Platform (including as part of your prompts).
  • Platform means the Jude Software Platform located at or accessible from the Website, or any other Platform managed by us.
  • Privacy Act means the Privacy Act 2020, including as updated and amended from time to time.
  • Privacy Policy means our privacy policy accessible on our Platform and Website, as updated and amended from time to time.
  • Regional Terms has the meaning given to it at clause 3.3.
  • Services means the services available via the Platform, and any ancillary services we provide in connection with the Platform.
  • Service Provider has the meaning given to it in clause 8.4.
  • Terms means these Terms of Service, and include all updates or changes to these Terms, and all policies and documentation issued under these Terms and posted on our Platform and Website.
  • User means a person authorised by a Law Firm to register under the Law Firm’s registration on the Platform, or to access the Platform using the Law Firm’s registration.
  • we, us, our and Jude are a reference to Jude Platform Limited and any of our successors and assigns.
  • Website means www.jude.law, or any website that replaces this domain name.
  • you and your are a reference to a Law Firm.

15.2 We can change our Terms

The Services will adapt and improve through User feedback and as we think of clever and new things to do. We may need to update these Terms accordingly. We will do this by uploading new Terms to the Platform. We may also issue new policies or documentation about the use of our Services, which will form part of these Terms.

Updated Terms will apply from the date they are uploaded to the Platform and/or Website, unless a different date is given to you, provided that we will:

  • give you at least 30 days’ prior notice of any material change to these Terms (a Material Change), whether by email to your registered email address, by prominent notice on the Website, or by other reasonable means; and
  • not be required to give notice of changes that we reasonably consider to be immaterial (which may include, for example only, corrections of typographical errors or reflection of changes in our organisational details), which we may make with effect from the date they are uploaded to the Platform.

If you do not agree to a Material Change, you may terminate these Terms without further liability by giving us written notice at any time before the change takes effect, and we will refund to you any prepaid fees for Services not delivered as at the date of termination, pro-rated to the date of termination. If you continue to use the Platform after a Material Change takes effect, you are deemed to have accepted it.

We encourage you to check our Platform from time to time for the latest Terms.

15.3 Individual variations

Except as provided in clause 15.2, these Terms may be varied in respect of your use of the Platform only by a written agreement (which may take any form, including an order form or side letter) signed by both Parties.

For the purposes of the preceding paragraph:

  • an electronic signature (including via DocuSign or an equivalent e-signature platform) satisfies the signature requirement; and
  • an exchange of unsigned emails does not constitute a variation, even if the correspondence purports to agree specific terms.

Schedule – Regional Terms

This Schedule sets out additional and overriding Regional Terms that apply to Law Firms domiciled in the jurisdictions specified in the relevant Part below. The application, priority and interpretation of this Schedule are as set out in Part A and in clause 3.3 of the main body of these Terms.

Part A – Interpretation

  1. Application: This Schedule forms part of these Terms and applies as provided in clause 3.3. Terms defined in the main body of these Terms have the same meaning when used in this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires.
  2. References: In this Schedule, references to a Part or paragraph are references to a Part or paragraph of this Schedule, and references to a clause are references to a clause of the main body of these Terms.

Part B – United Kingdom

  1. Application: This Part B applies to Law Firms domiciled in the United Kingdom.

  2. Interpretation: In this Part B:

    Business Day means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a public holiday in either Auckland, New Zealand or London, England and in these Terms “business hours” means 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in London, England;

    DPA 2018 means the Data Protection Act 2018; and

    UK GDPR has the meaning given in section 3(10) of the Data Protection Act 2018 (supplemented by section 205(4) of that Act).

  3. Governing law and jurisdiction: Notwithstanding clause 14.2, these Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales and the Parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

  4. Dispute resolution: Clause 11.1 shall be amended as follows:

    • Any mediation shall take place in London, England (or such other place as agreed by the Parties in writing).
    • If the Parties fail to agree on a mediator within 5 Business Days after the submission to mediation, one will be appointed by the President for the time being of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) (or their nominee).

  5. Data protection: For the purposes of the Terms (including clause 7):

    • “Applicable Data Privacy Laws” include, without limitation, the UK GDPR and the DPA 2018;
    • “Personal Information” includes “personal data” (as defined in the UK GDPR);
    • In respect of any Content that constitutes Personal Information, you are the “controller” and we are a “processor” (as those terms are defined in the UK GDPR); and
    • Any DPA entered into between the Parties under clause 7.2 in respect of Personal Information subject to the UK GDPR will contain terms sufficient to satisfy the requirements of Article 28 of the UK GDPR.

  6. Data hosting and international transfers: In respect of your use of the Platform:

    • Content that constitutes Personal Information under the UK GDPR will be hosted at rest by us in Dublin, Ireland;
    • we may permit Service Providers to process such Personal Information outside the United Kingdom to the extent necessary to provide the Services and we will implement an appropriate transfer mechanism for each such transfer in accordance with the UK GDPR (including, as applicable, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses or reliance on an adequacy decision or data bridge);
    • the specific transfer mechanisms applicable to your use of the Platform will be set out in any DPA entered into between the parties under clause 7.2; and
    • if you are domiciled in the United Kingdom or the European Union, we will not change the geographic region in which your Content is hosted at rest without your prior written consent. We will give you at least 30 days’ written notice before moving your Content to a different geographic region for hosting or processing, provided that in an emergency (for example, a security incident or a legal requirement) we will give you as much notice as we reasonably can instead. If you do not respond within that notice period, we will treat that as your consent to the move. If however you object within that period, we will try to find an alternative that resolves your concern. If we cannot do that within a further 14 days, we may proceed with the change anyway, but you can then end the affected Services without penalty, as long as you give us notice within 30 Business Days of us telling you we are proceeding.

  7. Business use: You confirm that your use of the Platform is exclusively for purposes related to your trade, business, craft or profession. Without limiting clause 12.1:

    • you acknowledge that you are not a “consumer” for the purposes of the Consumer Rights Act 2015; and
    • to the maximum extent permitted by law, no consumer protection legislation of the United Kingdom applies to these Terms.

  8. Statutory implied terms: Subject to clause 12.1 (which preserves liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded), and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Parties exclude from these Terms all terms, conditions, warranties and guarantees implied by statute or common law, including any implied by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 or the Sale of Goods Act 1979.

  9. Regulatory obligations: Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any regulatory obligation to which you are subject under the Legal Services Act 2007 or any other applicable regulatory framework of the United Kingdom (including, without limitation, the SRA Standards and Regulations and the Bar Standards Board Handbook), and you remain responsible for ensuring that your use of the Platform complies with those obligations.

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