Fact Pattern

Terms of Service

Last updated: 16 June 2023

When we say “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us” in this document, we are referring to Fact Pattern, LLC.

When we say “Services”, we mean our websites, including factpattern.io, ci.factpattern.io, and any product created and maintained by Fact Pattern, LLC.

When we say “You” or “your”, we are referring to the people or organizations that own an account with one or more of our Services.

We may update these Terms of Service (“Terms”) in the future. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will refresh the date at the top of this page and take any other appropriate steps to notify account holders.

When you use our Services, now or in the future, you are agreeing to the latest Terms. There may be times where we do not exercise or enforce a right or provision of the Terms; however, that does not mean we are waiving that right or provision. These Terms do contain a limitation of our liability.

If you violate any of the Terms, we may terminate your account.

Account Terms

  1. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. The Company cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
  2. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.
  3. You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.

Cancellation & Termination

  1. We have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of our Services for any reason at any time. Suspension means you and any other users on your account will not be able to access the account or any content in the account. Termination will furthermore result in the deletion of your account or your access to your account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all content in your account. We also reserve the right to refuse the use of the Services to anyone for any reason at any time.
  2. Verbal, physical, written or other abuse (including threats of abuse or retribution) directed towards a Company employee or officer will result in immediate account termination.

Modifications to the Service & Prices

  1. We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any part of our Services with or without notice.
  2. Sometimes we may change the pricing structure for our products. We may also choose to change the prices for existing customers. If we do so, we will give at least 30 days notice and will notify you via the email address on record. We may also post a notice about changes on our websites or the affected Services themselves.

Uptime & Usage

  1. Your use of the Services is at your sole risk. We provide these Services on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not offer service-level agreements for our Services, but we do take uptime of our Services seriously.
  2. We reserve the right to temporarily disable your account if your usage significantly exceeds the average usage of other customers of the Services. Of course, we’ll reach out to you before taking any action except in rare cases where the level of use may negatively impact the performance of the Service for other customers.
  3. You should not rely on our Services as the exclusive source for your legal research. Nothing in our Services constitutes legal advice, and information provided via our Services is not a substitute for independent legal advice based on a thorough review and analysis of the facts of each individual case and independent research based on statutory and regulatory authorities, case law, policy guidance, and, for procedural issues, federal government websites.

Copyright & Content Ownership

  1. The Company or its licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, including all intellectual property rights therein, and you obtain no ownership rights in the Services as a result of your use. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or visual design elements without express written permission from the Company. You must request permission to use the Company’s logos or any Service logos for promotional purposes. Please email us requests to use logos. We reserve the right to rescind any permissions if you violate these Terms.
  2. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission of the Company.

Features & Bugs

We design our Services with care, based on our own experience and the experiences of customers who share their time and feedback. However, there is no such thing as a service that meets everyone’s needs. We make no guarantees that our Services will meet your specific requirements or expectations.

We test all of our features extensively before shipping them. As with any software, our Services inevitably have some bugs. We track the bugs reported to us and work through priority ones, especially any related to security or privacy. Not all reported bugs will get fixed, and we don’t guarantee completely error-free Services.

Liability

We mention liability throughout these Terms but to put it all in one section—

You expressly understand and agree that the Company shall not be liable, in law or in equity, to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, lost profits, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use the Services; (ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the Services; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on the service; (v) or any other matter relating to these Terms or the Services, whether as a breach of contract, tort (including negligence whether active or passive), or any other theory of liability.

In other words: choosing to use our Services means you are making a bet on us. If the bet does not work out, that’s on you, not on us. We do our best to be as safe a bet as possible through careful management of the business, investments in security, infrastructure, and talent, and, in general, giving a damn. If you choose to use our Services, thank you for betting on us.

If you have a question about any of these Terms, please contact us.