These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Athar, an AI-assisted legal research platform for Arabic and Middle East law spanning jurisdictions across the Arab world (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.
01Acceptance of terms
By accessing or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Service.
02Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract to use the Service. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.
You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep it up to date. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account.
03Nature of the Service — not legal advice
Athar is a research and drafting tool. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney–client relationship. Outputs are generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence and may contain errors or omissions.
You are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, and exercising independent professional judgment over any output before relying on or acting upon it. Athar grounds its answers in retrieved sources and surfaces citations for verification, but you must confirm that cited authorities are accurate, current, and applicable to your matter.
04Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law or regulation.
- Attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, or extract the underlying models, corpus, or source code, except as permitted by law.
- Upload content you do not have the right to use, or that infringes the rights of others.
- Interfere with, disrupt, or place an unreasonable load on the Service or its infrastructure.
- Use the Service to generate content that is misleading, defamatory, or that misrepresents AI-generated output as independently verified legal advice.
05Your content
You retain ownership of the documents, prompts, and other materials you submit to the Service (“Your Content”). You grant us a limited license to process Your Content solely to provide and improve the Service, subject to our Privacy Policy.
You are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights and permissions to submit Your Content for processing.
06Intellectual property
The Service, including its software, design, and the organization of its legal corpus, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any right to our trademarks or branding.
07Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that outputs will be accurate, complete, or current.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss arising from your reliance on the Service or its output.
08Suspension and termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time if you breach these Terms or if we reasonably believe your use poses a risk to the Service or other users. You may stop using the Service at any time.
09Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
10Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the entity operating the Service is established, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of that jurisdiction.
Questions about this document? Contact us at [email protected].