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These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your use of Amicova, its website and its research application (together, the "Service"), provided by [Business name], [Business address] ("Amicova", "we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you use the Service for a law firm or other organisation, you confirm that you may accept these Terms for it. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Amicova is a legal research tool. It searches a library of New Zealand legal materials (such as Acts, secondary legislation and Bills, judgments of the courts, and publications of the Law Commission and Inland Revenue) and uses artificial intelligence ("AI") to draft research answers that cite and link to those materials.
Amicova does not give legal advice. It is not a law firm, it is not a lawyer, and using it does not create a lawyer-client relationship with us or with anyone else. Answers are research aids, not legal opinions, and are not a substitute for the judgment of a qualified lawyer.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract. The Service is meant for lawyers, law students, legal executives and other people doing legal research. You may not use it if we have suspended or closed your account before.
New accounts get a free trial of 14 days. No payment details are needed to start it. The trial is limited to one per person; creating extra accounts to get more trials is not allowed. When the trial ends, you need a paid subscription to keep asking questions. Your account and saved research are kept.
You can stop at any time by not renewing; your access then ends when your paid month ends. You can also delete your account at any time from the Account page. Because the free trial lets you evaluate the Service before paying, payments are not refundable, except where the law requires a refund (including under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, if it applies to you) or where we fail to provide the Service you paid for (for example, a long outage caused by us), in which case we will refund the unused part.
You agree not to:
You keep all rights in the questions you ask. You allow us to store and process them, and the answers produced for you, to provide the Service to you: to research and answer them, keep them in your history, and keep the Service secure. To produce answers, your questions are sent to our AI model provider, which processes them under its commercial terms. We do not sell your questions and do not use them to train AI models. Your saved research is not shown to other users; our owners and administrators can see it as described in the Privacy Policy. You can delete conversations, or your whole account, at any time. See the Privacy Policy for details.
There is no copyright in New Zealand Acts, regulations, Bills or the judgments of courts and tribunals (Copyright Act 1994, s 27). Legislation is taken from the Parliamentary Counsel Office's New Zealand Legislation data under its terms of use; Law Commission publications are used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and the Commission does not endorse the Service; Inland Revenue's tax technical publications are used under the same licence, and Inland Revenue does not endorse the Service. Other materials come from the sources credited and linked on each document and remain subject to their own terms. The Service's software, design, the way the library is compiled, organised and formatted, the answers' presentation and the Amicova name and logo belong to us or our licensors. Subject to these Terms, we give you a personal, non-transferable right to use the Service for your own research and work, including quoting answers and authorities in your own documents.
We work to keep the Service available and accurate, but it is provided "as is" and "as available". It may sometimes be interrupted for maintenance or by events outside our control. We may change, add or remove features and library contents. If we stop offering the Service altogether, we will give you reasonable notice and refund any unused part of a paid month.
We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if your use puts the Service or others at risk, or if the law requires it. Where reasonable, we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix the problem first. If we close your account without fault on your part, we will refund the unused part of a paid month.
If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, the Fair Trading Act 1986 or other law that cannot be excluded. If you use the Service for the purposes of a business (for example, for a law firm or your practice), you and we agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply, and that sections 9, 12A, 13 and 14(1) of the Fair Trading Act 1986 do not apply, and that it is fair and reasonable that the parties are bound by this clause.
To the extent the law allows, we do not promise that the Service or its answers will be accurate, complete, current, error-free or fit for a particular purpose, or that the library contains every relevant authority. You use the answers at your own risk and judgment, as described in sections 1 and 2.
To the extent the law allows: (a) we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, lost cases, lost clients, or lost data, arising from your use of the Service or its answers, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise; and (b) our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under New Zealand law, such as liability for fraud.
You agree to compensate us for claims, losses and reasonable costs (including legal costs) that arise from your breach of these Terms or your unlawful use of the Service, to the extent caused by you.
You agree that we may send you notices and records electronically, by email or in the Service, and that these Terms and other records may be formed and kept electronically, consistent with Part 4 of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017. Account emails (confirmations, password resets, trial and renewal reminders, receipts) are part of the Service.
We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will tell you by email or in the Service at least 30 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after that, the new Terms apply; if you do not agree, you may stop using the Service and delete your account.
These Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand. Before starting any proceeding, please contact us at [contact email] so we can try to resolve the matter in good faith within 30 days. The courts of New Zealand have exclusive jurisdiction, without limiting any right you have to take a claim to the Disputes Tribunal.
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If a part of these Terms is found invalid, the rest remains in effect. If we do not enforce a right, we do not waive it. You may not transfer your account or these Terms to someone else; we may transfer them as part of a reorganisation or sale of the business, with notice to you.
For questions, problems, privacy requests or complaints, use the Help page or email help@amicova.com. We reply within 5 business days and will tell you what we will do and by when. If you are not satisfied with how we handled a complaint, you may also contact the Commerce Commission about consumer matters, or the Privacy Commissioner about your personal information.
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