Terms of Use

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Lawfully Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 656 083 340) trading as Lawlux (Lawlux) is an Australian law firm that owns and operates this website.

Please read and understand these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use set out how you can use both this website (including all information, articles, text, design, layout, video, source code, information architecture, APIs, graphics, onboarding processes, Lixo AI, and content information provided by Lixo AI) and all information distributed by Lawlux on other platforms (including via social media, search and email) (Digital Services).

If you have any questions on these Terms of Use, we want to hear from you – please email [email protected].

About Lawlux

Lawlux is an incorporated legal practice registered with the Victorian Legal Services Board (registration number E0027451).

Lawlux holds an approved professional indemnity insurance policy with the Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee.

Lawlux is also a participant in the Law Institute of Victoria’s professional standards scheme.  That scheme limits civil liability while ensuring high standards and ongoing improvement.

Consent

When you access or use the Digital Services, you are deemed to agree to these Terms of Use as they apply from time to time.

If you do not, you must immediately cease access and use of the Digital Services.

Lawlux may change these Terms of Use at its discretion without notice.

Legal advice

The Digital Services include general information intended to assist Australian businesses.

Information displayed in or provided by the Digital Services (Content) is of a general nature, is not comprehensive, does not constitute legal advice and must not be relied on as legal advice.

Although Lawlux attempts to ensure that Content is accurate, it does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or appropriateness of Content.  Lawlux is not required to update or correct any Content.

Solicitor-client relationship

Your access or use of the Digital Services does not create a solicitor-client relationship between Lawlux and either you or a third party.  You should seek legal or other professional advice before using or relying on any Content.

A solicitor-client relationship will only arise if an engagement agreement is agreed by Lawlux and another party.  The scope of the solicitor-client relationship is then set out in the engagement agreement’s terms.

Your obligations

When you access or use the Digital Services, you will not, or attempt to:

1. copy or reproduce any Content,
2. use the Digital Services for any purpose other than personal or non-commercial purposes,
3. reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Digital Services,
4. access or use the Digital Services for the purpose of building a similar or competitive product, or incorporating the Digital Services in your or a third party’s products or services,
5. unless requested by Lawlux, upload another person’s personal information;
6. damage or potentially damage the reputation of Lawlux or its directors, shareholders, employees, contractors or related bodies corporate,
7. impact the security, stability or operation of the Digital Services, or
8. upload or embed viruses, or any inappropriate, illegal or malicious content.

These Terms of Use are not limited or amended by any other Content.

About Lixo AI

Lixo AI is an Australian first.  We believe it will redefine legal practice and help provide useful legal information to Australian companies.

Lixo AI provides Content and, using a mix of underlying technologies, performs the following three key tasks:

1. Legal product workflow:  Lixo AI obtains all information required to prepare legal work using complex legal product workflows within IBM’s watsonx™ artificial intelligence and data platform.
2. Search:  Lixo AI obtains publicly available information from Australian Government databases, including the Australian Business Register, to assist with client onboarding and conflict checking purposes, and
3. Large language model:  Lixo AI provides general legal information in response to questions using an Lawlux’s own in-house developed large language model.

Lixo AI – legal product workflow terms of use

When accessing or using Lixo AI’s legal product workflows, you agree to the following terms of use:

1. You consent to Lawlux storing and using your answers for the purposes in our Privacy Policy, including to deliver legal services and information.
2. Your answers will be accurate and complete.
3. You will inform Lawlux immediately in writing if you provided any inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information in an answer.

Lixo AI – large language model terms of use

Background

Lawlux’s engineering team developed Lixo AI’s large language model to answer legal question after extensive testing found that current frontier large language models provided inaccurate and misleading legal information.

To balance accuracy and performance, Lixo AI’s large language model blends billions of data parameters with curated Australian legal information.  At this stage, it’s only trained on certain aspects of Australian employment law.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning is complex and evolving rapidly.  Lawlux’s priorities include accuracy, safety and relevance, but your access and use of Lixo AI’s large language model carries inherent risks.

Terms

To use Lixo AI’s large language model, you ask it a question (Prompt) and the large language model provides general legal information in response (Output).

All Prompts and Outputs are only accessible by Lawlux and are stored securely on Australian servers.  Specifically, Lawlux does not permit any other person or entity to use information that you provide in a Prompt to train other large language models.

In addition to the other obligations in these Terms of Use, when accessing or using Lixo AI’s large language model, you agree to the following terms of use:

1. Your access and use of Lixo AI’s large language model and all Output:
   1. is on a testing, non-commercial basis for research purposes only, and
   2. does not create a solicitor-client relationship between Lawlux and either you or a third party (such as a company).  A solicitor-client relationship will only arise if an engagement agreement is agreed by Lawlux and another party.  The scope of the solicitor-client relationship is then set out in the terms of that engagement agreement.
2. Output may be biased, inaccurate, incomplete, offensive or not unique.
3. You should seek legal or other professional advice before using or relying on any Output.  Output is not equivalent to advice from a human lawyer or other human professional.
4. You will independently evaluate each Output for accuracy, completness and appropriateness.
5. You will not use Lixo AI for any illicit, unlawful, prohibited or illegal purpose (including to breach these Terms of Use), or to harm or damage a third party or Lawlux (including by affecting their reputation or goodwill or by infringing their moral rights, intellectual property rights or copyright).
6. Despite the ‘IP & copyright’ clause in these Terms of Use, you own and are solely responsible for all of your Prompts, and Lawlux assigns you all intellectual property right and copyright in all corresponding Output.  You are solely responsible for ensuring your compliance with intellectual property laws, and Lawlux does not warrant that an Output does not infringe the intellectual property rights or copyright of a third party.  You grant Lawlux a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive right to process, store and use each Prompt and all information within it to provide all Outputs and improve the Lixo AI large language model.
7. Unless specifically requested by Lixo AI’s large language model , you will not provide Lixo AI’s large language model with:
   1. corporate information (including a company’s confidential information, name, ABN, ACN, address or other identifying information),
   2. personal information (information, or an opinion, that could identify an individual, such as an individual’s name, signature, address, phone number, date of birth or employment records), and by extension
   3. sensitive information (information or an opinion about an individual’s health, genetics, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual preferences or practices, or criminal record).
8. If you provide Lixo AI’s large language model with personal information, you request Lawlux (including any necessary third parties) to process that information in order to provide Outputs.
9. You will not use Lixo AI to circumvent its intended features, functionality or limitations.

IP & copyright

Lawlux either owns or licenses all rights, title and interest (including copyright, patents, inventions, source code, trade marks, design rights, and other intellectual property rights) in the Digital Services.

Your access or use of the Digital Services does not grant you any copyright, designs, trademarks or other intellectual property or material rights related to the Digital Services.

Without Lawlux’s prior written consent, you will not:

1. display, publish, copy, amend, adapt, make derivative works of, commercialise or distribute to third parties any Content, or
2. use Lawlux’s registered trade marks. Lawlux has registered Lawlux, Lixo and Lawlux’s logo as Australian trade marks.

No liability

Lawlux makes no warranties, guarantees or representations in connection with the reliability, availability, completeness, currency, legality, suitability, accuracy or security of the Digital Services.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lawlux is not, and its directors, shareholders, employees, contractors and related bodies corporate are not, liable to you or any third party for direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other loss or damage in connection with the Digital Services (including any Content, loss of data, website link, outage, defect, removal of access or the transmission of any malicious content, virus or corrupted information).

You access and use the Digital Services at your own risk.

If any law implies a condition or warranty into these Terms of Use that cannot be excluded at law, Lawlux’s liability for any breach of that implied condition or warranty will be limited to resupply of (or payment to resupply) the applicable service.

Security

Lawlux’s bank account details have not changed.

If you receive a communication that alleges a change to Lawlux’s bank account details, please immediately call your Lawlux lawyer.

All emails from Lawlux use the @lawlux.com.au domain.

If you receive an email that purported to be from Lawlux but does not use the @lawlux.com.au domain, please:

1. treat the email as fraudulent, and
2. immediately send a screenshot of the email to [email protected] or call your Lawlux lawyer.

Lawlux may restrict access to all or part of the Digital Services on an individual, group, entity, or geographical basis.

Links

Lawlux does not make any representation about the accuracy of, or accept any liability for, the contents of third party websites referenced or linked on the Digital Services.

You may only link to this website if Lawlux provides prior written consent.

Indemnity

You will indemnify, hold harmless and keep indemnified on an ongoing basis Lawlux and its directors, shareholders, employees, contractors and related bodies corporate from and against any loss, liability, costs and reasonable legal fees suffered or incurred by them from any claim, action, proceeding or action against them (or threatened against them) where the loss or liability arose or was in connection with Lawlux complying with these Terms of use, or you breaching of these Terms of Use.

Feedback

Your feedback is important.  If you provide feedback to Lawlux, and unless you request otherwise, Lawlux may use that feedback on its Digital Services for marketing purposes.

Unsolicited communications

The email addresses and contact numbers listed on the Digital Services are for the purpose of contacting Lawlux and its employees in relation to Lawlux’s business and the provision of legal work.

Lawlux and its employees do not consent to receiving unsolicited communications.

Privacy policy

These Terms of Use include Lawlux’s Privacy Policy as amended from time to time and your consent to it.

Lawlux will use only collect, store, use and disclose personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

Jurisdiction

The Digital Services and your use of them is governed by the laws in force in Victoria, Australia.

In the event of a dispute in connection with the Digital Services, Victorian courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

If you access the Digital Services from outside Australia you remain responsible for complying with your local laws.

Updated 20 November 2024