Terms of Service

Effective date: 13 August 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Naman Kedia, a sole proprietorship, with its registered office at A-20 Geetanjali Enclave, New Delhi 110017, India ("Geppetto Works", "we", "us", "our").

Please read section 5 (Accuracy and No Legal Advice), section 16 (Disclaimer of Warranties), section 17 (Limitation of Liability) and section 18 (Indemnification) carefully. They limit our obligations to you and allocate risk between us.

By accessing or using the Services you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

0. Structure of this agreement

These master Terms apply to every Service we offer. Some Services have Supplemental Terms covering risks specific to them. Supplemental Terms are part of these Terms, and by using the relevant Service you agree to them.

Also forming part of these Terms: the Acceptable Use Policy, the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, the Refund Policy, and — where we process personal data on your behalf — the Data Processing Agreement.

Where Supplemental Terms conflict with these master Terms, the Supplemental Terms prevail, but only for the Service they cover. Sections 16, 17 and 18 (warranties, liability and indemnity) apply to every Service and are not displaced by any Supplemental Terms unless those terms say so expressly.

1. Definitions

"Services" means the websites, applications, tools and application programming interfaces we make available, including the Citation Verifier, our website-monitoring product, and any public dashboard we operate, together with any successor or additional products we offer under these Terms.

"Citation Verifier" means the tool that extracts case citations from text or documents you provide and checks them against public case-law sources.

"User Content" means any text, document, file, data or other material you submit to, upload to, or generate through the Services, including any document you upload for checking.

"Output" means any result, report, verdict, indication or other material the Services return to you, including citation verdicts and their stated reasons.

"Account" means a registered account for a paid or account-based Service.

"You" means the person or entity using the Services. Where you use the Services in the course of a business, profession or practice, "you" includes that business, profession or practice.

2. Eligibility and authority

2.1 You must be at least 18 years old to use the Services. The Services are not directed at, and may not be used by, children.

2.2 You must not use the Services if we have previously suspended or terminated your access.

2.3 If you use the Services on behalf of a firm, company, partnership or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation to these Terms, and "you" refers to both you and that organisation.

2.4 You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services complies with every law, regulation, professional rule, court rule and duty of confidentiality that applies to you. We do not advise on and are not responsible for your compliance with any professional or ethical obligation.

3. What the Services are

3.1 The Citation Verifier extracts case citations from text or documents you provide and checks each against public case-law sources. For each citation it returns one of four verdicts, with its reasoning and, where available, a link to the public record:

• CONFIRMED — a case was found at that citation in a source we cover, and the details we could compare matched.
• NOT FOUND — we could not locate a case at that citation in a source we cover.
• AMBIGUOUS — a case was found, but a detail we compared did not match.
• UNSUPPORTED — the citation is outside the jurisdictions, reporters or sources we cover.

3.2 We may change, add to, or remove jurisdictions, sources, verdicts, features and functionality at any time.

4. What the Services are NOT

This section defines the boundaries of what we provide. It is not a formality.

4.1 The Services are not legal advice. Nothing the Services produce is legal advice, a legal opinion, or a substitute for the judgement of a qualified lawyer. We are not a law firm, we do not practise law in any jurisdiction, and no lawyer-client relationship is created between you and us by your use of the Services.

4.2 The Services do not certify anything. No Output means a document is correct, complete, accurate, compliant, safe to file, safe to serve, or fit for any purpose. We issue no certification, approval, verification, guarantee or clearance of any kind, whatever wording may appear in any Output.

4.3 The Services do not conduct legal research and do not recommend authority. The Services do not suggest cases, do not tell you whether any case supports any proposition, and do not evaluate the merits, relevance, precedential weight, or current standing of any authority. In particular, the Services do not tell you whether a case has been overruled, reversed, distinguished, appealed, superseded, or is otherwise no longer good law.

4.4 A NOT FOUND verdict is not a finding that a citation is false, fabricated, invented or wrong. It means only that we did not locate a matching case in the sources we searched at the time we searched them. There are many innocent reasons for this, including gaps in source coverage, unpublished or unreported decisions, sealed matters, formatting variations, typographical errors, indexing delays, and jurisdictions we do not cover. You must not treat any Output as evidence of fabrication or misconduct by any person.

4.5 A CONFIRMED verdict is not a finding that a citation is correctly used. It means only that a case was located at that citation and that the specific details we could compare appeared to match. It says nothing about whether the case says what your document claims it says, whether it is being cited accurately, or whether it supports your argument.

4.6 The Services do not check quotations, pinpoint citations, page numbers, parentheticals, propositions, or the substance of any authority.

4.7 The Services are not a document storage, backup, archiving or records-management service. You must retain your own copies of everything you submit. We are not a system of record and we do not undertake to preserve anything for you.

5. Accuracy, coverage, and your non-delegable duty to verify

5.1 You remain fully and solely responsible for checking every citation in every document you produce. Your professional duty to verify your own authorities is yours alone. It cannot be delegated to us, and using the Services does not reduce, satisfy, share or transfer it in any way.

5.2 The Services are a supplementary aid. They are intended to be used in addition to, and never instead of, your own verification.

5.3 We do not warrant that Output is accurate, complete, current, or free from error. The Services may produce false results in both directions: they may fail to find a case that exists, and they may match a citation to a case that is not the case you intended.

5.4 The Services depend on public case-law sources operated by third parties. Those sources have incomplete coverage, contain errors, change without notice, and may be unavailable. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability or completeness. Coverage varies substantially by jurisdiction and by court, and there is no jurisdiction in which coverage is complete.

5.5 Output reflects only what the relevant source contained at the moment we queried it. Results are not monitored, refreshed, or updated afterwards.

5.6 The Services may fail to detect citations in your document, including where a document is a scanned image, contains no machine-readable text, uses unusual formatting, or uses citation formats we do not recognise. A citation we did not detect is not reported to you, and its absence from the Output does not mean it is absent from your document.

5.7 We may impose limits on document size, page count, citation count and request frequency, and may change them at any time. Where a limit is reached, Output may cover only part of your document.

5.8 You must independently verify every Output against the official record before relying on it for any purpose.

6. Your responsibilities

6.1 You are responsible for all User Content you submit and for all activity under your Account.

6.2 You represent and warrant that you have all rights, consents, permissions and lawful bases necessary to submit each item of User Content to us and to permit the processing described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.

6.3 You are responsible for deciding what to upload. You should not submit material whose disclosure to a service provider would be unlawful, would breach a duty you owe to another person, would waive a privilege or protection, or is prohibited by a court order, protective order, confidentiality undertaking, or professional rule applicable to you. You are in a better position than we are to judge this, and we do not judge it for you.

6.4 You must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

6.5 You are responsible for the security of your credentials and must notify us promptly of any unauthorised use of your Account.

7. User Content: your ownership, and the limited rights you give us

7.1 You retain all right, title and interest in your User Content. We claim no ownership of it.

7.2 You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display and process your User Content solely to the extent necessary to:

(a) provide the Services to you and return Output to you; (b) store your uploaded documents for the retention period stated in the Privacy Policy; (c) maintain, secure and operate the Services, including backup, disaster recovery, and preventing abuse or attack; (d) investigate and fix a fault that you report to us, or that we detect affecting your use; (e) comply with law, or respond to a valid and binding legal order.

7.3 This licence is limited to those purposes and terminates when we delete the relevant User Content. It is not sublicensable except to the sub-processors listed in our Sub-processor list, and only for the purposes above.

7.4 We do not read, review, browse or analyse the contents of your documents for product development, feature testing, marketing, or any other purpose outside section 7.2. Where we need to investigate a fault, we access the minimum necessary to do so.

7.5 We do not use your User Content to train machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models.

7.6 You may delete an uploaded document at any time using the deletion function in the Services. Deletion is subject to the operational limits described in the Privacy Policy, including that copies may persist briefly in backups.

8. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports or other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it without restriction or obligation to you. This section applies to feedback only, and never to the contents of your documents.

9. Fees, billing and taxes

9.1 Paid Services are billed at the prices and intervals shown at the point of purchase. Free Services may be offered, changed, limited or withdrawn at any time.

9.2 Payments may be processed by a third-party payment provider acting as merchant of record. That provider's own terms govern the payment transaction, and it may be the seller of record for tax purposes.

9.3 You are responsible for all applicable taxes, other than taxes on our income.

9.4 Fees are exclusive of taxes unless stated otherwise. Except as set out in the Refund Policy or as required by law, fees are non-refundable and payments are final.

9.5 We may change prices. For subscriptions, changes take effect at the start of your next billing period, and we will give reasonable advance notice.

9.6 If payment fails or is overdue we may suspend or terminate access to paid Services.

10. Free and evaluation Services

Where a Service is provided free of charge or as a trial, beta, preview or evaluation, it is provided as-is and without any commitment whatsoever, may be changed or withdrawn at any time without notice, may be less reliable than a generally available Service, and our total liability in respect of it is limited as set out in section 17.

11. Availability, changes and discontinuation

11.1 We do not commit to any level of availability, uptime, response time, or support. The Services may be unavailable, interrupted or degraded at any time, with or without notice, including for maintenance, upgrades, failures, third-party outages, or reasons outside our control.

11.2 We may modify, suspend, limit or discontinue any Service, feature or jurisdiction at any time.

11.3 Where we discontinue a paid Service entirely, we will give reasonable notice and, where you have prepaid for a period you can no longer use, refund the unused portion. That is your sole remedy for discontinuation.

12. Suspension and termination

12.1 You may stop using the Services at any time, and may cancel a paid subscription as described in the Refund Policy.

12.2 We may suspend or terminate your access immediately, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if your use threatens the security, integrity, availability or lawful operation of the Services or any third party, if required by law, or if you fail to pay.

12.3 On termination, your right to use the Services ends immediately. Sections 4, 5, 7.1, 8, 9.3, 9.4, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 23 survive.

12.4 Following termination we will delete your User Content in accordance with the Privacy Policy. Export anything you need before terminating.

13. Confidentiality

13.1 We will treat the contents of your uploaded documents as confidential and will not disclose them to any third party except: to the sub-processors listed in our Sub-processor list, for the purposes in section 7.2; where you direct us to; or where required by law or a valid and binding legal order.

13.2 Where we are compelled by law to disclose your User Content, we will, to the extent we are legally permitted to do so, give you notice so that you may seek a protective order or other relief. We are not obliged to challenge any order on your behalf, and nothing in this section requires us to breach a legal obligation.

13.3 This section does not apply to information that is or becomes public through no act of ours, that we already lawfully held, or that we lawfully obtain from another source.

14. Intellectual property

14.1 The Services, including all software, interfaces, designs, text, documentation and other materials we provide (but excluding User Content), are owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. Except for the limited right to use the Services under these Terms, no rights are granted to you.

14.2 You may use Output for your own internal and professional purposes. You may not resell, redistribute or make the Services available as a competing service.

14.3 You must not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, or create derivative works of the Services, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law.

14.4 Case law, court records and other public materials linked or referenced by the Services are the property of their respective sources and remain subject to their own terms.

15. Third-party services and links

The Services rely on and link to third-party sources and providers. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, terms, or practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that third party's terms.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

16.1 THE SERVICES AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY.

16.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

16.3 WITHOUT LIMITING THE ABOVE, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT: THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; ANY OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT OR RELIABLE; DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THE SERVICES WILL DETECT EVERY CITATION IN A DOCUMENT; ANY SOURCE WILL BE AVAILABLE OR COMPLETE; OR THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR ACHIEVE ANY RESULT.

16.4 WE DESCRIBE OUR SECURITY MEASURES IN OUR SECURITY DOCUMENT AND PRIVACY POLICY. THOSE ARE FACTUAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MEASURES WE TAKE. THEY ARE NOT A WARRANTY, GUARANTEE OR REPRESENTATION THAT THE SERVICES, ANY DATA, OR ANY USER CONTENT WILL BE FREE FROM UNAUTHORISED ACCESS, LOSS, ALTERATION OR DISCLOSURE. NO SYSTEM IS SECURE.

16.5 No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the Services creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

16.6 Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is so, the exclusions above apply to the maximum extent permitted, and nothing in these Terms affects rights you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded.

17. Limitation of liability

17.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL, REPUTATION, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, DATA, OR USE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

17.2 WITHOUT LIMITING SECTION 17.1, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM: RELIANCE ON ANY OUTPUT; ANY CITATION THE SERVICES FAILED TO DETECT, FAILED TO FIND, OR MATCHED INCORRECTLY; ANY SANCTION, COST ORDER, ADVERSE FINDING, PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINARY CONSEQUENCE, LOSS OF A CASE, OR REPUTATIONAL HARM; ANY ERROR, GAP, OR UNAVAILABILITY IN A THIRD-PARTY SOURCE; OR YOUR FAILURE TO VERIFY OUTPUT INDEPENDENTLY.

17.3 OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US$100).

17.4 FOR SERVICES PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US$100).

17.5 The limitations in this section apply to the fullest extent permitted by law, and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.

17.6 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Where you deal with us as a consumer, nothing in these Terms affects your mandatory statutory rights, and any term that would be unfair or unenforceable against you as a consumer does not apply to you to that extent.

17.7 The allocation of risk in sections 16 and 17 is a fundamental basis of the bargain between us, and is reflected in our pricing. We could not offer the Services on these terms without it.

18. Indemnification

18.1 You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Geppetto Works, its owner, personnel, contractors and suppliers from and against all claims, demands, proceedings, damages, losses, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:

(a) your use of the Services; (b) your User Content, including any claim that it infringes or misappropriates the rights of a third party, or that submitting it to us breached a duty, order or obligation binding on you; (c) your breach of these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; (d) your violation of any law, regulation, professional rule or third-party right; (e) your reliance on any Output; or (f) use of the Services through your Account or credentials by any person.

18.2 We will notify you of any claim under this section and may, at our option, assume its defence at your expense. You must not settle any claim in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.

18.3 This section does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own fraud or wilful misconduct, or where it would be unenforceable against you as a consumer.

19. Data protection

19.1 Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

19.2 Where we process personal data on your behalf as a processor, and you require a data processing agreement, our Data Processing Agreement applies and is available on request. Where you and we have signed a separate data processing agreement, it prevails over this section to the extent of any conflict.

20. Changes to these Terms

20.1 We may change these Terms at any time. The current version will always be published on our website with its effective date.

20.2 For material changes affecting paid Services, we will give reasonable advance notice by email or in the Services before the change takes effect.

20.3 Your continued use after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a change, you must stop using the Services and may cancel any paid subscription.

21. Governing law and jurisdiction

21.1 These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Services are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

21.2 The courts at New Delhi, India have exclusive jurisdiction, and you submit to their personal jurisdiction and waive any objection based on venue or forum non conveniens.

21.3 The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

21.4 If you use the Services as a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you a mandatory right to the protection of your local law or to bring proceedings in your local courts, nothing in this section deprives you of that right.

21.5 We may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property, confidential information, or the security of the Services.

22. General

22.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Supplemental Terms listed in section 0, the Acceptable Use Policy, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund Policy and any applicable Data Processing Agreement, are the entire agreement between us on this subject and supersede all prior discussions and understandings. No statement made on our public dashboard, in any published commentary, or by any artificial intelligence system operating our business forms part of this agreement or creates any obligation binding on us.

22.2 No reliance. You confirm that you have not relied on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty not expressly set out in these Terms. Nothing in this clause limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

22.3 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if it cannot be, severed. The remaining provisions, and in particular sections 16, 17 and 18, remain in full force. Where a limitation of liability is held unenforceable in part, it applies to the maximum extent permitted.

22.4 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

22.5 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets.

22.6 Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, war, terrorism, civil unrest, epidemic, labour dispute, government action, power or internet failure, third-party service failure, or cyberattack.

22.7 No third-party beneficiaries. Except as stated in section 18, these Terms create no rights for any third party.

22.8 Relationship. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship between us.

22.9 Notices. We may give notice by email to the address associated with your Account, or by posting in the Services. You may give notice to us at namankedia@geppetto.work.

22.10 Interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. "Including" means "including without limitation".

22.11 Language. These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience, and the English version prevails.

23. Contact

Naman Kedia A-20 Geetanjali Enclave, New Delhi 110017, India namankedia@geppetto.work