Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and 13538087 Canada Inc., operating as Maple Juris (“we”, “us”). By creating an account or using maplejuris.com or the Maple Juris API (together, the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

Maple Juris provides citation verification and related data services over Canadian legal sources through a web interface, REST API, and MCP server. We may modify, add, or discontinue features, and will make reasonable efforts to notify you of material changes that affect paid plans.

You are responsible for your account credentials and for all activity under your API keys. Keep keys confidential; do not share them outside your organization. If you believe a key may have been exposed, revoke it and create a replacement. Revoking the affected key is the step that ends the risk - issuing another one alongside it leaves the exposed key working. You can do this yourself at any time, for any key on your account. We may also suspend or revoke a key ourselves where we believe it has been compromised or is being used abusively, and we will tell you when we do so that a replacement can be issued. You must provide accurate account information and be at least the age of majority in your jurisdiction.

On a commercial plan, the account may be held by an organization (the “Customer”). An Authorized User is an individual the Customer permits to use the Service under that account - an employee or a contractor. There is no limit on how many Authorized Users a Customer may have. Free and Research plans are licensed to one individual and have no Authorized Users; adding colleagues to your work requires a commercial plan.

The Customer is responsible for its Authorized Users’ acts and omissions as if they were its own, for ensuring each of them complies with these Terms, and for all fees and all usage under the account. Each Authorized User must accept these Terms before using the Service. Anyone purchasing on behalf of an organization represents that they have authority to bind it.

All usage by Authorized Users draws on the Customer’s single monthly credit allowance. A key created under an organization belongs to that organizationand draws on that shared allowance rather than on any individual’s. Each key records the Authorized User who created it, so usage can be attributed to a person. Keys must be kept confidential and must not be shared outside the organization. When the Customer removes an Authorized User, that person’s access ends and the keys they created are revoked; a key that an application depends on should therefore be created by the Owner, so that removing an individual does not interrupt it.

We may suspend an individual Authorized User’s access - rather than the whole account - where their use breaches these Terms or puts the Service at risk. Confidentiality obligations apply to Authorized Users as they do to the Customer. Nothing in this section increases any limit on our liability set out below.

This section is an interim summary while the full terms are being prepared with our counsel; the final wording will replace it here. Where this summary and a signed agreement differ, the signed agreement applies.

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance: it resets at the start of each billing period, unused credits do not carry forward, and requests are rejected once it is exhausted. Non-commercial plans may be used only for personal, academic, or research purposes - any use in or for a commercial product or service requires a commercial plan. Fees are billed in advance (monthly or annually, per your plan) through our payment processor and are non-refundable except as required by law. Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period - monthly or annually, matching the plan you chose - and continue to renew until you cancel. We may change prices with at least 30 days’ notice, effective on your next billing cycle.

You can cancel a paid plan at any time. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not end the period you have already paid for. Your plan, its credit allowance and its commercial licence all continue until that period ends. Fees already paid are not refunded, except as required by law.

At the end of that period the account moves to the Free plan rather than closing. Your account, your API keys and your usage history are unchanged, and your allowance becomes 1,000 credits a month. When you cancel you are shown the date your paid period ends and the plan you will move to.

Changing plan mid-period. An upgrade takes effect immediately: the larger allowance is available at once and you are charged the difference for the remainder of the period. A downgrade takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for, so you keep the allowance and licence you paid for until then. In neither case is a refund given for unused days or credits.

Failed payments. Payments are processed by Stripe. If a payment fails, API and MCP access is paused until a payment succeeds. Your plan, keys and usage history are kept while access is paused, and access resumes as soon as the payment goes through.

The commercial licence ends with the paid plan. Free is licensed for personal, academic and evaluation use only, so continuing to use the Service in or for a commercial product or service after the downgrade is not permitted, even though your keys still work. Deleting your account is a separate choice and is permanent: it cancels any subscription immediately, with no refund, deletes the account, its keys and your data, and cannot be undone. Invoices are kept by Stripe as tax records.

No plan available to buy on this site permits it. Free, Research, Commercial and Enterprise plans may use results to answer queries and, on a commercial plan, to operate a commercial product - but not as training data, and not as a dataset to build, sell, or redistribute. Using results to train, fine-tune or otherwise improve a machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, or to build a dataset from them, requires a Custom plan and a signed agreement setting out what is permitted. This section is an interim summary while the full terms are being prepared with our counsel; the final wording will replace it here. Where this summary and a signed agreement differ, the signed agreement applies.

• No attempts to circumvent quotas, metering, authentication, or rate limits.
• No resale or redistribution of the Service or bulk data extracted from it without a written agreement with us.
• No use that violates applicable law or infringes the rights of others.
• No probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of the Service without our prior written consent.

Maple Juris is a citation-verification tool, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Output from the Service is provided for informational purposes and must be independently verified by a qualified legal professional before being relied upon. Use of the Service does not create a solicitor-client relationship.

We retain all rights in the Service, including its software, databases, and trademarks. Underlying legislation and case law remain subject to the terms of their public sources. You retain rights to the queries you submit; you grant us a limited licence to process them to operate the Service.

Visible attribution to Maple Juris is required wherever results reach anyone outside your own organization. That includes a product or service delivered by anyone other than you, such as through an intermediary, distributor or reseller; results shown or explained in marketing material or a demonstration; and results named in a contract or other written agreement with your own client. Use that stays inside your organization needs no attribution.

The required wording and its placement are specified in the API documentation. Attribution must not state or imply that we provide legal advice, that we have reviewed any matter, or that we endorse your product.

The right to use the Service without visible attribution is available by negotiation and only where an order form or signed agreement expressly permits it.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Legal sources change; we do not warrant that results are current, complete, or error-free.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for loss of profits, data, or goodwill.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms, non-payment, or risk to the Service, with notice where practicable. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitation of liability) survive.

The Service is not offered in Québec and is not available to customers resident or established there. The reason is coverage rather than law: Québec legislation is not held in our corpus, so the Service cannot answer a question about it. We may begin offering the Service in Québec in future, at which point these Terms and the sign-up process will be made available in French.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, and the courts located in Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from them.

We may update these Terms from time to time; the date above reflects the latest revision, and continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected].