Terms & Conditions

The Services are intended for users who are 18 years of age or older. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 and that your use of the Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

The Company is based in the United States and the Services are directed to users in the United States. We make no representation that the Services or their content are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you access the Services from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.

We may modify these Terms at any time in our sole discretion. Changes take effect when the revised Terms are posted, or on such later date as we specify or as applicable law requires. The “Last Updated” date above indicates when these Terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Services after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. We encourage you to review these Terms periodically.

Content on the Services is produced with the substantial assistance of artificial intelligence and automated systems. Articles are generated by automated tools from source material and published under the Company's editorial configuration, which may include automated quality, duplication and formatting checks, and which may include human editorial review before or after publication.

You acknowledge and agree that:

• Automated systems can and do produce errors, including factual inaccuracies, outdated statements, mischaracterizations, and content that reads as authoritative but is incorrect.
• Bylines that identify a publication or its staff (for example, “Brooklyn Baron News Staff”) denote institutional authorship and do not represent that any specific individual wrote, reviewed, or verified a given article.
• Dates, figures, quotations, names, and other specifics appearing in automatically generated content may be inaccurate notwithstanding our efforts.
• Content is provided for general informational purposes and is not a substitute for primary sources, official announcements, or professional judgment.

If you identify an error, we want to correct it. See Section 11.

Nothing on the Services constitutes legal, financial, medical, tax, examination-preparation, admissions, or other professional advice, and no attorney-client, fiduciary, or other professional relationship is created by your use of the Services or by any communication with us.

This applies with particular force to content concerning bar examinations, law school admissions, legal education, licensure requirements, deadlines, eligibility, court decisions, government programs, public safety, and health. Requirements and deadlines change, vary by jurisdiction, and are frequently misreported. Always verify against the official source — the relevant bar admission authority, court, agency, school, or licensed professional — before relying on anything you read here or taking any action.

You are solely responsible for any decision you make or action you take based on the Services.

As between you and the Company, the Company owns all right, title and interest in and to the Services and all content made available through them (“Content”), including articles, text, headlines, images, graphics, logos, page design, selection, arrangement, look and feel, software, and all associated copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and other intellectual property rights, except for third-party material identified as such. Content is protected by United States and foreign intellectual property laws.

Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership interest to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and view the Content for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may share individual article links, and you may make incidental personal-use copies, provided you do not remove or obscure any attribution, copyright or trademark notices.

Except as expressly permitted above or by applicable law, you may not, and may not permit any third party to:

1. reproduce, republish, redistribute, broadcast, sell, license, or otherwise commercially exploit any Content;
2. frame, mirror, or present any Content so as to obscure its source, or create derivative works from any Content;
3. access, collect, scrape, index, harvest, text-mine or data-mine any Content by any automated means — including any robot, spider, crawler, script, agent, tool, service, or manual process designed to circumvent this restriction;
4. use any Content to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, ground, retrieve-augment or otherwise improve any machine learning model, large language model, generative artificial intelligence system, or dataset intended for any of those purposes, whether or not for commercial benefit;
5. circumvent, disable or interfere with any security, access-control, rate-limiting or usage-restriction feature of the Services;
6. use the Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage or impair them, or interfere with any other party's use; or
7. remove, alter or conceal any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice.

For the avoidance of doubt, the scope of your permitted use is defined solely by these Terms. It is neither expanded nor limited by our use, non-use, or configuration of any exclusion protocol, including robots.txt files, metadata tags, or similar signals, and the absence of a technical restriction is not permission.

Requests for permission to republish, syndicate, or license Content may be sent to the address in Section 19.

If you subscribe to a newsletter or submit your email address to us, you consent to receive periodic email from us at that address. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link, and you may withdraw consent at any time by using it or by contacting us. We may continue to send you non-marketing messages relating to a request you have made.

You represent that any email address you submit is your own or that you are authorized to submit it. Submitting another person's address without authorization is prohibited.

You agree not to use the Services to: violate any law or regulation; infringe or misappropriate any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other rights; transmit any material that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, or that promotes violence or discrimination; impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation; transmit any virus, malware or other harmful code; attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Services or any related system; harvest or collect information about other users; or engage in any activity that interferes with the proper operation of the Services.

We may investigate and take any action we deem appropriate in response to suspected violations, including removing content, restricting access, and referring matters to law enforcement.

The Services contain links to third-party websites and display advertising. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party sites, content, products, services, or privacy practices, and a link or advertisement does not constitute an endorsement.

Advertising appearing on the Services may include attorney advertising. Any transaction or communication between you and an advertiser is solely between you and that advertiser. We are not a party to it and are not responsible for it. Prior results described in any advertisement do not guarantee a similar outcome. Reading an advertisement does not create an attorney-client relationship with any advertiser.

Your use of any third-party site is governed by that site's own terms and privacy policy.

If you believe Content on the Services infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our designated agent containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it;
4. your contact information, including address, telephone number and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Designated Agent: Blackacre LLC
Attn: Copyright Agent
151 Calle De San Francisco, San Juan, PR 00901
Email: legal@newstrix.app

Please send only DMCA notices to the designated agent; all other correspondence should use the contact details in Section 19. We may terminate access for repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Notices that misrepresent infringement may expose the sender to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

We correct errors. If you believe an article contains a factual inaccuracy, misidentifies you, or should be updated or removed, contact us at legal@newstrix.app with the article URL and a description of the issue. We review such requests and, where we determine correction or removal is warranted, will act within a reasonable time. We may append a correction notice to a corrected article. Submitting a request does not obligate us to reach any particular outcome.

THE SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT OR RELIABLE, THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SERVICES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES AND THE CONTENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, ADVERTISERS OR SERVICE PROVIDERS (THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICES OR THE CONTENT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE RELEASED PARTIES' TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, AND (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

These limitations apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of these limitations may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your use of the Services, (b) your breach of these Terms, (c) your violation of any law or of any third party's rights, or (d) any content or information you submit to us. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with us.

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES YOU TO ARBITRATE DISPUTES WITH US INDIVIDUALLY AND LIMITS THE WAYS YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM US.

15.1 Scope

This Section applies to any dispute, claim or controversy between you and the Company arising out of or relating in any way to the Services, the Content, these Terms, or your relationship with us, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory, and whether arising before or after your acceptance of these Terms (each, a “Dispute”).

15.2 Exceptions

This Section does not apply to: (a) an action by either party seeking injunctive or other equitable relief to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of intellectual property rights; (b) any individual claim properly brought in a small claims court with jurisdiction, so long as it remains an individual claim in that court; and (c) any claim in which the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000, which may be brought in court as provided in Section 16.

15.3 Informal Resolution First

Before starting an arbitration or any other proceeding, the party raising a Dispute must first send the other a written, individualized notice describing the Dispute and the relief sought. Notice to us goes to Blackacre LLC, Attn: Legal, 151 Calle De San Francisco, San Juan, PR 00901, and to legal@newstrix.app. Notice to you goes to the contact information we have for you. The parties will then confer in good faith — by telephone or videoconference, with the individual party personally participating — for 60 days to try to resolve the Dispute. Any applicable limitations period and filing deadline is tolled during this process. Completion of this process is a precondition to commencing arbitration, and a court or arbitrator may enjoin a proceeding filed without it.

15.4 Agreement to Arbitrate

If the Dispute is not resolved within 60 days, it will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration, except as provided in Section 15.2. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section.

Arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures then in effect, or by another established administrator the parties agree on in writing. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator, in the English language, by videoconference, telephone, or on the written submissions, unless the arbitrator determines an in-person hearing is necessary, in which case it will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve all issues of arbitrability except that a court has exclusive authority to decide the enforceability and scope of Section 15.5.

15.5 Class Action and Jury Trial Waiver

YOU AND THE COMPANY EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, MASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Each party may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of representative proceeding.

If this Section 15.5 is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will be severed and brought in court under Section 16, and the remainder of this Section 15 will continue to apply to all other claims.

15.6 Coordinated Filings

If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed by or with the assistance of the same or coordinated counsel, the parties will cooperate with the administrator to group the demands into staged batches of no more than 50, to be resolved sequentially, with limitations periods tolled for demands awaiting their batch.

15.7 Your Right to Opt Out

You may opt out of this Section 15 by sending written notice within 30 days of the date you first accept these Terms to legal@newstrix.app, or to Blackacre LLC, Attn: Legal, 151 Calle De San Francisco, San Juan, PR 00901. Your notice must state your name, the site you use, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms, and will not affect your use of the Services in any way.

15.8 Costs and Survival

Arbitration filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be allocated under the administrator's rules, except that if the arbitrator finds those fees would be prohibitive for you compared with the cost of litigation, we will pay as much of them as the arbitrator determines is necessary to prevent the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive, regardless of outcome, unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous or brought in bad faith. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys' fees except as an applicable statute or the arbitrator's award provides. This Section survives termination of these Terms and of your relationship with us.

These Terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 15. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and the Company consent to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, San Juan Part, and waive any objection to those forums, including any objection based on inconvenient forum.

Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. Its federal courts apply United States federal law, and the Federal Arbitration Act governs the arbitration agreement in Section 15 in Puerto Rico as it does in any state.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice and without liability. Sections 5, 6, and 12 through 19 survive any termination.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any Additional Terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Services and supersede all prior understandings. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them without restriction. Headings are for convenience only. No agency, partnership, joint venture or employment relationship is created by these Terms.

Blackacre LLC
151 Calle De San Francisco, San Juan, PR 00901
Email: legal@newstrix.app