Terms of service

These terms form the agreement between MLJ, SASU, a French simplified joint stock company registered under SIREN 934 769 837, and the law practice or individual attorney that subscribes to ConflictCheck. Read them before you subscribe. If you are evaluating the product on behalf of a firm, you confirm that you have authority to accept them for that firm.

1. Acceptance

You accept these terms by creating an account, by using the service, or by paying a subscription invoice. If you do not accept them, do not use ConflictCheck. Where a signed order form or written agreement exists between us and your practice, that document controls to the extent it conflicts with this page.

2. What the service is

ConflictCheck is a hosted web application for conflict of interest screening. It provides a structured client intake form, an automatic search of the names entered against the party and matter records held in your own account, an affiliate and alias matching layer, a ledger for prospective client consultations, drafting help for waiver and consent letters, and a dated screening record that captures the search terms, the results returned and the initials of the person who signed it. Availability of individual features depends on your tier as described in the pricing section of the home page.

ConflictCheck is a records and search tool. It is not a law firm, it does not practice law, and it does not give legal or ethical advice. It does not determine whether a conflict exists, whether a conflict is waivable, or whether a matter may be accepted. Those determinations rest with the licensed attorney of record under the rules of professional conduct of each applicable jurisdiction, and nothing in the product or on this website changes that.

3. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least eighteen years old and be acting for a law practice or a legal department to open an account. You are responsible for the accuracy of the account information you give us, for keeping credentials confidential, and for everything done under your account. Seats are personal to the individual using them and may not be shared. Tell us promptly if you believe an account has been accessed without authorization, and we will help you close the exposure.

4. Acceptable use

Use ConflictCheck for screening in your own practice. Do not use it to build a shared conflicts index across unrelated firms, to run searches on behalf of a party who is not your client or prospective client, to test or probe the security of the platform without written permission, to reverse engineer the matching logic, to resell access, or to upload material that you have no right to hold. We may suspend an account that is being used in a way that threatens the service or other subscribers, and we will tell you why in writing when we do.

5. Subscription and billing

Subscriptions are sold monthly in United States dollars at the published rates: Solo Practice at $49 per month, Small Firm at $119 per month and Firm Plus at $249 per month. Prices are per practice and not per matter, and screening volume is unlimited on every tier. The first payment is taken when the account is activated, then on the same day of each following month. Sales tax is added where a state requires it. If a payment fails we will retry it and write to you; an account unpaid after fourteen days is suspended, and the data remains recoverable for thirty days after that.

Changing tier takes effect immediately, with the difference prorated on the next invoice. If we change published prices, existing subscribers keep the current rate for at least sixty days after we notify them by email, and may cancel before the new rate applies.

6. Cancellation

You may cancel at any time from the billing screen. The subscription then stops at the end of the month already paid for, and no exit fee applies. We do not refund part months, because there is no annual commitment to escape from in the first place. Before the account closes you can export every screening record as dated PDF files and the party index as a CSV file. The account is held in a read only state for thirty days after cancellation, then deleted. We may terminate an account for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, with written notice and a reasonable chance to fix the problem where the breach can be fixed.

7. Your data

Client names, matter records, screening records and everything else you enter or import remain the property of your practice. We hold them as your service provider, process them only to operate the service, and never use them to train models, to build a shared index, or for any purpose of our own. Aggregate statistics we publish are counts of activity, never client identifying data. You can export your data at any time, and deletion requests are honored within thirty days of the request.

8. Availability

We target 99.9 percent monthly availability, measured excluding scheduled maintenance announced at least forty eight hours in advance. Maintenance is scheduled outside United States business hours whenever possible. We publish incident notices and post mortems for any outage longer than fifteen minutes. If availability in a calendar month falls below the target, write to us and we will credit the affected month.

9. Warranties and disclaimers

We provide the service with reasonable skill and care and we keep it materially as described here. Beyond that, the service is provided as it stands. We do not warrant that a search will surface a conflict that is absent from the data in your account, that imported records are complete, or that use of ConflictCheck satisfies any particular rule of professional conduct in your jurisdiction. Screening quality depends on the records you put in, and keeping those records complete is your responsibility.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profits, lost clients, disqualification costs, reputational harm or the cost of defending a grievance. Our total liability arising from this agreement in any twelve month period is limited to the subscription fees you paid us during that period. Nothing here excludes liability for fraud, for willful misconduct, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

11. Indemnity

You will indemnify MLJ, SASU against third party claims arising from your use of the service in breach of these terms, from data you upload that you had no right to hold, or from a professional decision you took in a matter. We will indemnify you against a third party claim that the service as supplied infringes an intellectual property right, provided you tell us promptly and let us handle the defense.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service develops. Material changes are sent by email to the account owner at least thirty days before they take effect, and the date at the top of this page is updated. Continuing to use ConflictCheck after that date means you accept the revised terms. If you do not, cancel before they take effect and the old terms govern until your paid period ends.

13. Governing law and contact

This agreement is governed by French law. Any dispute that cannot be settled amicably falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Paris, France, without prejudice to any mandatory protection available to a consumer in their country of residence. Questions about these terms go to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com, and the publisher details are set out in the legal notice. Personal data handling is described in the privacy policy.