Institutional Agreement • Terms of Service

Terms of Service

Effective Date: August 18, 2026 • Last Revised: August 2026

These Terms of Service govern access to and use of the Jurisor adversarial simulation engine by law firms, university law faculties, pupilage programmes, and legal practitioners.

1. Scope, Eligibility & Institutional Accounts

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement between Jurisor (Pty) Ltd(“Jurisor”, “we”, “us”) and the law firm, corporate legal department, university faculty, or legal practitioner (“Customer”, “you”) accessing our real-time simulation platform, APIs, and associated services.

Institutional accounts provisioned under an Academic License or Corporate Sandbox must be administered by an authorized representative (e.g., Dean, Practice Head, or IT Director). The Customer is responsible for all actions taken by authorized student advocates, candidate attorneys, and faculty members provisioned under its tenant account.

2. Intellectual Property & Customer Ownership

The Zero-Claim Sovereignty Principle:Jurisor claims zero intellectual property or proprietary interest in any customer-uploaded pleadings, briefs, strategy notes, transcripts, or judicial evaluations.

As between Customer and Jurisor, Customer retains 100% exclusive ownershipof all data, PDF pleadings, witness statements, confidential Strategy Notes, generated simulation transcripts, and audio recordings (“Customer Content”).

Jurisor retains all right, title, and interest in and to the platform, including the underlying real-time simulation engine, the South African High Court objection taxonomy, and all proprietary software interfaces.

3. Educational Simulation & Non-Legal Advice Disclaimer

Mandatory Legal Notice: Jurisor is an adversarial trial simulation and pedagogical training platform. Jurisor does not provide formal legal representation, attorney-client privileged counsel, or binding legal advice.

Simulated judicial rulings and 5-point vector assessment scores are generated solely for educational evaluation and skills benchmarking. They do not constitute formal judicial precedent, binding legal opinions, or bar admission guarantees.

4. Usage-Based Metering & Credit Consumption

Simulations are metered via Juri-Credits based on active simulation duration:

  • Usage-Based Accounting: Credits are deducted only for active simulation minutes engaged by the user.
  • Automatic Settlement: Upon trial conclusion or session disconnection, actual duration is reconciled and any unspent allocated capacity is returned to your balance.
  • Subscriptions & Allocations: Enterprise and academic tiers receive monthly recurring allocations as specified in the applicable Order Form.

5. Acceptable Use & System Integrity Policy

Customer agrees to use Jurisor strictly for lawful trial advocacy training, academic education, and professional skills development. Customer shall not:

  • Attempt to extract underlying system instructions, circumvent safety guardrails, or manipulate simulated persona constraints.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or systematically scrape the simulation platform or API endpoints.
  • Upload state secrets, unlawful material, or non-anonymized criminal dockets subject to active statutory sealing orders.

6. Data Sovereignty & Compliance Archiving

Jurisor operates under a strict Zero Model Training Policy. Customer Content is never used to train or fine-tune AI models. In accordance with South African POPIA Section 19 and international compliance standards:

  • All simulation records and audio streams are sealed with cryptographic integrity verification upon upload.
  • Enterprise tenants may configure immutable legal hold retention for up to 5 years to satisfy Law Society or accreditation compliance.
  • Upon account termination or verified Right-to-Erasure requests, customer data is permanently purged in accordance with our data retention schedule.

7. Limitation of Liability & Service Levels

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, neither party shall be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages. Jurisor's aggregate liability arising out of or related to these Terms shall not exceed the total fees paid by Customer in the twelve (12) months preceding the incident.

Jurisor maintains a target service availability SLA of 99.5% for enterprise environments, excluding scheduled maintenance windows.

8. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These Terms shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg), and the parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction thereof.