1. OVERVIEW

1. All Users (“you”) must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy when using Litigation Ready (“the Service”).

2 ACCEPTABLE USE OF THE SERVICE

2.1 Users

1. You must not create accounts for use by third parties, that is, people who are not partners or employees of or contractors to the Firm. A barrister is not considered to be a contractor to the Firm.
2. You must not share your account for the Service with others. You are the only person entitled to use your account.
3. You must not use the Service if barred by law from using the Service.

2.2 User Accounts

1. When your account is created, you must:
   
   1. provide accurate, current and complete information for the indicated mandatory fields (including a valid work email address); and
   2. maintain and update your information to keep it accurate, current and complete; and
   3. not provide any inaccurate, false or incomplete information to us.
2. You must maintain the confidentiality of your username and password for the Service.
3. You must not under any circumstances share your password for the Service with any other person.

2.3 Use of the Service

1. You must use the Service in a responsible and reasonable manner.
2. You must not use the Service in a way that is against the law or that harms us or our partners, affiliates, customers or suppliers.
3. Without limiting the foregoing, you must not:
   
   1. Attempt to gain access to, alter or disrupt any account, software, hardware (including, without limitation, the Service) or network relating to the Service without authorization;
   2. Use the Service to document, reproduce, share or store pornographic or adult material;
   3. Use the Service to document, reproduce, share or store defamatory material, other than for the purpose of litigation or the provision of legal advice;
   4. Use the Service to document, reproduce, share or store illegal material, other than for the purpose of a litigation or the provision of legal advice;
   5. Use automatic scripts or programs (including web crawlers) to access or attempt to gain access to the Service;
   6. Attempt to access the Service other than through our designated website or as otherwise permitted by us;
   7. Conduct penetration testing or other security testing of the Service;
   8. Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, logo or other proprietary notice or label appearing on or in the Service;
   9. Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or trade secrets of the Service except as, and then only to the extent, expressly permitted by applicable Law;
   10. Create any derivative works or adaptations of the Service;
   11. Rent, lease, lend-for-profit or provide commercial hosting of the Service, or otherwise provide or make available the Service to any other person for their use;
   12. Resell the Service to any person;
   13. Create a white label system using the Service;
   14. Frame any website provided via the Service; or
   15. Use the Service in any manner that we reasonably determine to be inappropriate or excessive.

2.4 Purpose of the Service

1. The Service is for briefing barristers and sharing matters with relevant people involved in the matter, such as experts, witnesses, the client, the court and the other parties.
2. The Service is not a document storage system, document archive system or discovery/disclosure system and must not be used for such purposes.

2.5 Finalised Matters

1. When a matter has been finalised or otherwise ends, or when your Firm no longer is involved in the matter, you must promptly delete the matter from the Service.

2.6 Size of Matters and Documents

1. You may not use the service for unreasonably large matters or to share unreasonably large document.
2. An unreasonably large matter is a matter with more than 20,000 documents or with a storage size of more than 1 GB.
3. An unreasonably large document is a document with a size (when stored on the Service) of more than 200 MB.
4. If you need to have larger matters or documents, please let us know and we can increase these limits by agreement.

3. ACCEPTABLE USE OF AI FEATURES OF THE SERVICE

3.1 AI features of the Services

1. The Service includes AI features (“AI Features”). This Section 3 sets out acceptable use of the AI Features.
2. While the Subscription permits use of the Software without fixed usage caps, you must ensure that you use of the AI Features is reasonable, proportionate, and consistent with the intended purpose of the Service.

3.2 Fair Use of AI Features

1. You must not use, or permit any user to use, the AI Features in a manner that:
   
   1. is excessive, abnormal, or materially exceeds typical usage patterns for similarly situated users;
   2. results in disproportionate consumption of processing capacity, API calls, tokens, or other AI-related resources;
   3. is primarily intended to benchmark, stress-test, train other models, or substitute for standalone AI services; or
   4. causes us to incur materially increased third-party AI service costs that are not reasonably contemplated by your subscription or agreement with us.
2. If we reasonably determine that your use of the AI Features does not comply with the above, we may, on reasonable notice:
   
   1. require you to modify your use;
   2. temporarily limit or throttle your access to the AI Features;
   3. offer an alternative pricing arrangement or usage-based plan; or
   4. suspend your access to the affected AI Features until the issue is resolved.

4. GENERAL

1. We will act reasonably and in good faith in exercising our rights under this Policy.