Acceptable use policy

1. Purpose

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) governs your conduct while using the JURIST platform. It supplements our Terms of Use and defines what you may and may not do on the Platform. Violation may result in immediate suspension or permanent termination of your Account.

2. Permitted use

The Platform is provided for legitimate professional legal research purposes, including:

• Conducting legal research in connection with client matters, court proceedings, or professional development
• Generating AI-assisted research outputs for incorporation into professional work product — subject to independent verification
• Exploring legal precedents and comparative jurisprudence across supported Caribbean jurisdictions
• Exporting research outputs for personal professional use

3. Prohibited uses

Illegal activity

You must not use the Platform to assist in the furtherance of any illegal act, including money laundering, fraud, obstruction of justice, harassment, or any criminal offence.

Scraping and automated extraction

You must not engage in bulk automated extraction of queries or results, use bots, scripts, or crawlers to access the Platform, or systematically download or replicate the corpus.

Reverse engineering

You must not reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code, algorithms, corpus, vector embeddings, taxonomy, or metadata schema of the Platform.

Credential sharing

You must not share your Account credentials, access another Subscriber's account or data, or create multiple Accounts to circumvent subscription limits.

Competing use

You must not:

• Resell, redistribute, sublicense, or commercially exploit AI-Generated Content
• Use AI-Generated Content to train, fine-tune, or develop competing AI systems
• Use AI-Generated Content to populate third-party legal databases or research tools
• Use the Platform to develop a competing product or to benchmark against a competing product

System interference

You must not transmit harmful code, attempt to overload or disrupt Platform infrastructure, or bypass access controls or rate limits.

4. Intellectual property

You retain ownership of the queries you submit. Caribbean JURIST retains all rights in the Platform, its corpus organisation, taxonomy, metadata, and brand. AI-Generated Content is licensed to you on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis for professional practice use. The copyright status of AI-generated outputs remains legally unsettled.

5. Multi-seat use

If your subscription provides for multiple users, you are responsible for ensuring all authorised users comply with this AUP. Individual seat credentials must not be shared between users.

6. Consequences of violation

Caribbean JURIST may, at its sole discretion, take any of the following actions:

• Issue a written warning
• Temporarily suspend your Account pending investigation
• Permanently terminate your Account without refund
• Pursue civil liability for damages arising from the violation
• Refer the matter to the relevant professional regulatory body where the violation also constitutes professional misconduct
• Refer the matter to law enforcement where the violation constitutes a criminal offence

7. Reporting violations

If you become aware of any violation of this AUP, please report it to admin@juristpro.ai.

8. Changes

Material changes will be notified to active Subscribers at least thirty (30) days before taking effect. Your continued use of the Platform constitutes acceptance of the revised AUP.

9. Contact

For questions about this policy, contact us at admin@juristpro.ai.