LawBriefly Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement entered into between you (either as an individual learner or entity, "User" or "you") and LawBriefly("we," "our," or "us") concerning your access to and use of the LawBriefly Android mobile application and associated web interfaces.

By downloading, installing, accessing, or using LawBriefly, you signify that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all of these Terms, you must immediately discontinue use of the platform and uninstall the application.

• "App" or "Platform": The LawBriefly mobile application, backend APIs, and web services.
• "Bare Acts": Official legislative enactments passed by the Parliament of India or state legislatures, including the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, and Code of Civil Procedure.
• "User Content": Private study notes, section bookmarks, and exam response selections generated by a User on the Platform.
• "Data Principal": The individual to whom personal data relates, as defined under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

LawBriefly provides an offline-first statutory reading engine, categorized Bare Acts, legal updates, personal study note tools, and mock examinations designed to aid legal study and preparation for examinations such as the All India Bar Examination (AIBE), Judicial Services, and law school curricula.

You must be at least sixteen (16) years of age to access LawBriefly. If you are under eighteen (18) years of age, you represent that you have obtained consent from your parent or legal guardian to use the Platform, in accordance with applicable Indian laws including the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and the DPDP Act, 2023.

While basic statutory reading may be accessible offline, advanced features such as cross-device note synchronization, push notifications, and mock examinations require an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete registration information and keep such information updated.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials (password or Google sign-in access). You must immediately notify LawBriefly at support@lawbriefly.com upon discovering any unauthorized use or security compromise of your account.

You agree to use LawBriefly strictly for lawful, educational, research, and professional study purposes in compliance with all applicable Indian and local laws.

You agree not to:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the application binaries or proprietary parsing logic.
• Scrape, bulk export, or systematically harvest user notes, proprietary examination question sets, or platform data using automated bots or spiders.
• Circumvent, disable, or tamper with security-related features, rate limits, or account deletion authenticators.
• Inject malicious code, viruses, or harmful payloads into our servers or APIs.
• Impersonate any legal professional, judicial authority, government official, or entity.

You retain full ownership of all personal study notes and annotations you create on LawBriefly. By saving notes, you grant LawBriefly a limited, non-exclusive license solely to transmit, encrypt, and store such content for your personal cross-device synchronization. We do not publish, sell, or commercially broker your private notes.

The LawBriefly brand, logo, application user interface, structural database schemas, exam engine algorithms, and software code are the proprietary intellectual property of LawBriefly and its licensors, protected under the Copyright Act, 1957 and applicable intellectual property laws.

The text of Bare Acts, legislative enactments, regulations, and official notifications published within LawBriefly are official government texts. Under Section 52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act, 1957, the reproduction of any matter published in any Official Gazette or legislative act does not constitute an infringement of copyright. LawBriefly does not claim exclusive copyright ownership over the unannotated statutory text itself. (See our Copyright and Sources page).

The mock examination questions, syllabus guides, and study materials provided on LawBriefly are intended solely for academic practice and preparation. Participation in mock examinations does not guarantee admission to any bar council, selection in judicial examinations, or academic certification.

While we make reasonable efforts to maintain up-to-date legislative enactments and incorporate notified amendments, Indian statutory law evolves continuously. Users are strongly advised to verify crucial provisions against the official Gazette of India or authoritative Ministry publications before relying on them for litigation or formal filings.

LawBriefly utilizes third-party infrastructure (such as Supabase for database hosting, Google Firebase for push notifications, and NewsData.io for external legal news aggregation). Your use of features reliant on these services is subject to their respective terms and service conditions.

The free tier of LawBriefly displays banner advertisements provided by Google AdMob. We do not endorse the specific products or services advertised by third parties. You may manage your ad preferences via your Android device settings.

We reserve the right to temporarily suspend access to accounts that violate these Terms, engage in automated denial-of-service attempts, or compromise platform integrity, pending review.

You may terminate these Terms at any time by deleting your account via our in-app settings or our Account Deletion Page and uninstalling the application. We may terminate or discontinue services with reasonable notice, subject to applicable law.

To the maximum extent permitted under applicable Indian law (including the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Consumer Protection Act, 2019):

• LawBriefly is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis for educational reference.
• We shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from errors in legal research, reliance on unverified statutory text, or temporary service downtime.
• Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable mandatory Indian statute.

We may modify these Terms to accommodate new features, statutory amendments, or platform policies. When substantial changes occur, we will update the "Effective Date" and provide reasonable notice within the application.

These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Republic of India. In the event of any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

In accordance with Rule 3(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules, 2021, you may address any concerns or legal notices to our Grievance Officer: