Terms of Service

Brillius Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (BrilliusLaw)Version: 1.0Effective date:

BrilliusLaw is a legal technology platform operated by Brillius Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a company incorporated in India (“BrilliusLaw”). BrilliusLaw provides tools for case and matter management, hearings and tasks, document management, legal research, AI-assisted drafting and analysis, and related communications, through its websites, web and mobile applications, and BrilliusLaw Campus (together, the “Services”).

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between BrilliusLaw and each person or entity that accesses or uses the Services. They are an electronic record under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and do not require a physical or digital signature.

By creating an account, accepting these Terms, or using the Services, a person agrees to these Terms and confirms that they have read the BrilliusLaw Privacy Policy. Anyone who does not agree must not use the Services.

These Terms apply to:

  • Users: individuals who create an account and use the Services, such as advocates, members of law firms, legal professionals and law students; and
  • Customers: the law firm, advocate or organisation that holds a BrilliusLaw workspace and gives users access to it.

An organisation means any entity, other than a law firm or an individual advocate, that holds a BrilliusLaw workspace. Examples include a company’s in-house legal department, a chamber of advocates practising together, a legal aid body or non-governmental organisation, and a college or university that gives its students access to BrilliusLaw Campus.

An independent advocate with an individual workspace is both a user and a customer.

A person who accepts these Terms on behalf of a customer confirms that they have the authority to bind that customer. In that case, the customer is bound by these Terms, and is responsible for the acts and omissions of its users.

To use the Services, a user must:

  • be at least 18 years of age;
  • be legally able to enter into a binding contract under Indian law;
  • not be barred from using the Services under any applicable law; and
  • where the user registers as an advocate, be enrolled with a State Bar Council, or otherwise be entitled to practise law in India.

BrilliusLaw Campus is intended for law students who are at least 18 years of age. BrilliusLaw may ask a user to verify their eligibility, and may refuse or close any account that does not meet these requirements.

  • Each user must provide accurate, current and complete information when creating an account, and keep it up to date.
  • An account is personal to the user who created it. Users must not share their login details or allow anyone else to use their account.
  • Users are responsible for keeping their login details confidential, and for all activity carried out through their account.
  • Users must inform BrilliusLaw promptly of any actual or suspected unauthorised access to their account.
  • BrilliusLaw is not responsible for any loss caused by a user’s failure to keep their login details secure.
  • Each customer controls its own workspace. The customer, through its appointed administrators, decides which users may join the workspace, what roles and permissions they have, and which information they can access.
  • Administrators may add, approve, suspend or remove users, change their roles, and view the workspace’s activity records.
  • The customer is responsible for configuring roles and permissions appropriately, including restricting access to sensitive matters.
  • If a user leaves a customer’s workspace, or their access is removed, the information they created in that workspace remains with the customer.
  • BrilliusLaw grants each user a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right to access and use the Services during the term of their account, for their own legal, professional or academic work, subject to these Terms.
  • BrilliusLaw may add, change or remove features from time to time. Where a change materially reduces the core functionality a customer has paid for, BrilliusLaw will give reasonable prior notice.
  • Some features may be offered as beta, preview or trial features. These are provided for evaluation, may change or be withdrawn at any time, and may not be as reliable as other features.
  • BrilliusLaw aims to keep the Services available at all times, but does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The Services may be unavailable during maintenance, upgrades or events outside BrilliusLaw’s reasonable control. Any specific service levels apply only if agreed in writing with a customer.

Ownership. All information that a customer and its users upload to, create in or retrieve through the Services, including client records, case details, documents, evidence, notes, drafts, invoices, and AI prompts and outputs (“Matter Data”), belongs to the customer. BrilliusLaw does not claim ownership of any Matter Data.

Permission to process. The customer grants BrilliusLaw a limited, non-exclusive right to host, store, copy, process, transmit and display Matter Data only as needed to provide, secure and support the Services, and as described in the Privacy Policy. BrilliusLaw will not use Matter Data for any other purpose, including advertising or training AI models.

Customer responsibilities. The customer is responsible for:

  • having the legal right, authority and any necessary consents to upload and process Matter Data, including information about its clients, opposing parties, witnesses and other individuals;
  • giving any notices that those individuals require under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and other applicable law;
  • complying with its professional obligations of confidentiality, including those under the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules;
  • complying with any law or court order that restricts the disclosure of a person’s identity, such as in matters involving children or victims of sexual offences; and
  • keeping its own copies of important documents, where required by law or good practice.

Data protection roles. For Matter Data, the customer is the Data Fiduciary and BrilliusLaw acts as its Data Processor, as described in the Privacy Policy. Customers may enter into a separate data processing agreement with BrilliusLaw. If there is any conflict between that agreement and these Terms on the handling of Matter Data, the data processing agreement will prevail.

Export. A customer may export its Matter Data using the tools available in the Services, or by contacting BrilliusLaw.

  • The Services include AI features that assist with legal research, drafting, document analysis and summarisation. These features run only when a user chooses to use them.
  • AI outputs are generated automatically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date or unsuitable for a particular matter. They may include incorrect citations or statements of law.
  • AI outputs do not constitute legal advice, and are not a substitute for the professional judgment of a qualified advocate.
  • Users are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying and, where needed, correcting all AI outputs before relying on them, filing them in any court or tribunal, or sharing them with any client or third party.
  • As between BrilliusLaw and the customer, AI outputs generated from a customer’s Matter Data form part of that customer’s Matter Data. Similar outputs may be generated for other users who give similar inputs.
  • BrilliusLaw does not use Matter Data to train AI models, as described in the Privacy Policy.
  • The Services may retrieve and display information from court systems and other public or licensed legal sources, such as case status, hearing dates, cause lists, orders and judgments.
  • BrilliusLaw does not control these sources and is not affiliated with any court, tribunal or government authority. Information from these sources may be delayed, incomplete or incorrect, and may differ from the official record.
  • Users must verify all court information, including hearing dates and deadlines, against the official records of the relevant court before relying on it. BrilliusLaw is not responsible for any missed hearing, deadline or filing.
  • The BrilliusLaw legal library, including statutes and judgments, is provided for reference only. It may not reflect the latest amendments or decisions.
  • Where a customer connects a third-party legal database that it subscribes to, the customer’s use of that database remains governed by its agreement with that provider.

BrilliusLaw is a technology provider. It is not a law firm, does not practise law and does not provide legal advice. No advocate-client relationship is created between BrilliusLaw and any user, customer or other person through the Services.

Advocates and law firms using the Services remain solely responsible for the legal advice and services they provide to their clients, and for complying with their professional and ethical obligations.

The Services hold confidential legal information belonging to customers, their clients and other individuals. BrilliusLaw treats any misuse of the Services or of that information as a serious breach of these Terms.

Users and customers must not, and must not allow anyone else to:

  • use the Services for any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purpose;
  • upload any content they do not have the right to upload, or that infringes anyone’s intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
  • upload any virus, malware or other harmful code;
  • try to gain unauthorised access to the Services, another user’s account, or another customer’s workspace or data;
  • test, scan or probe the security of the Services, or bypass any security or access control, without BrilliusLaw’s prior written consent;
  • copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile or create derivative works from the Services, except as permitted by law;
  • scrape, crawl or extract data from the Services by automated means, other than through tools BrilliusLaw provides;
  • resell, sublicense or provide the Services to third parties, except as permitted under the customer’s plan;
  • share login details, or allow any person who is not an authorised user to access the Services;
  • place an unreasonable load on the Services, or interfere with their normal operation; or
  • use the Services to build or train a competing product.

Users and customers must not:

  • access, view, download or copy any Matter Data they are not authorised to access, including data belonging to another customer, or data in matters the customer has not given them access to;
  • share, disclose, publish, sell or transfer any Matter Data, client information or case file outside the purpose for which it was entered, or to any person not entitled to receive it;
  • use Matter Data, court information or legal library content to profile, track, harass, intimidate, blackmail or target any client, party, witness, advocate, judge or other individual;
  • disclose the identity of any victim, child or other person whose identity is protected by law or by a court order;
  • compile, mine or sell personal data from the Services, including data obtained from court records;
  • use information from the Services to solicit clients or advertise legal services in breach of the Bar Council of India Rules;
  • continue to access or use a customer’s Matter Data after leaving that customer, or after their access has been removed;
  • impersonate any advocate, court, tribunal, government authority or other person, or misrepresent their enrolment, qualifications or affiliation; or
  • use the Services, including AI features, to create, alter or submit any forged, fabricated or misleading document, order, judgment, citation or evidence.

If BrilliusLaw reasonably believes that a user or customer has breached this section, BrilliusLaw may, without prior notice and without liability:

  • immediately suspend or terminate the account or workspace concerned, and block further access;
  • remove or disable access to the content concerned;
  • preserve all relevant records, logs and data as evidence;
  • inform the affected customer, and any affected individual where appropriate;
  • report the matter to the police, CERT-In, the Data Protection Board of India, the relevant State Bar Council, the Bar Council of India, or any other competent authority;
  • initiate civil proceedings to claim damages, recover losses and legal costs, and seek an injunction; and
  • initiate or support criminal proceedings, including under Sections 43, 66, 66C, 66D and 72A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

The user or customer responsible will be liable for all losses, penalties, claims and costs, including legal fees, that BrilliusLaw or any other person suffers as a result of the misuse, as set out in Section 20. These remedies are in addition to any other rights BrilliusLaw has under these Terms or the law.

A customer that becomes aware of misuse by one of its users must remove that user’s access immediately and inform BrilliusLaw without delay.

  • By creating an account and accepting these Terms, a user agrees to receive the following communications from BrilliusLaw by email and in-app notification:
    • Service communications: OTPs and login codes, account verification, password resets, account and security alerts, hearing and task reminders, invoices, payment confirmations, renewal and payment reminders, and notices of changes to these Terms or the Privacy Policy.
    • Product communications: announcements of new features, product updates, tips for using the Services and newsletters about BrilliusLaw.
  • Service communications are necessary to provide the Services, and cannot be turned off while the account remains active.
  • A user can unsubscribe from product communications at any time, using the unsubscribe link included in every such email. Unsubscribing does not affect service communications.
  • Where a user opts in, BrilliusLaw may send these communications through messaging services such as WhatsApp. A user can turn messaging notifications off at any time in account settings.
  • Delivery of messages depends on third-party networks and platforms. BrilliusLaw does not guarantee that any message, including a reminder, will be delivered or delivered on time, and reminders do not replace a user’s own diary and court records.
  • Any charges from a user’s mobile or internet provider are the user’s responsibility.

At present, the Services are offered free of charge. If BrilliusLaw introduces paid plans in the future, it will notify users before any charges apply, and the following terms will apply to those plans:

  • The features, limits and fees of each plan will be shown in the Services or in the customer’s order.
  • Fees are payable in advance, in Indian Rupees, unless agreed otherwise. Fees are exclusive of GST and other applicable taxes, which the customer must pay.
  • Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. BrilliusLaw does not store full card or bank account details.
  • Unless cancelled before the renewal date, paid plans renew automatically for the same period at the then-current fees.
  • BrilliusLaw may change its fees by giving at least 30 days’ prior notice. The new fees apply from the next renewal.
  • Fees already paid are non-refundable, except where required by law or expressly stated in the customer’s plan.
  • If fees are not paid when due, BrilliusLaw may, after giving notice, suspend access to paid features until payment is received.
  • BrilliusLaw and its licensors own all rights in the Services, including the software, design, text, graphics, logos, trademarks and the organisation of the legal library. These Terms do not transfer any of those rights to users or customers.
  • Statutes and court judgments are public documents. Any headnotes, summaries, classifications or other material added by BrilliusLaw or its licensors remain their property.
  • Users must not remove or alter any copyright, trademark or other notice in the Services.
  • If a user or customer gives BrilliusLaw feedback or suggestions, BrilliusLaw may use them freely without any obligation, provided no Matter Data is disclosed.

The Services may link to, or allow users to connect, third-party services such as court systems, legal databases, sign-in providers, messaging platforms and payment providers. These services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. BrilliusLaw does not control them and is not responsible for their availability, content or actions.

  • BrilliusLaw will treat all Matter Data as confidential. It will use Matter Data only to provide the Services, and will disclose it only as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy, or where required by law.
  • BrilliusLaw will limit access to Matter Data to authorised personnel who need it to provide support the customer has requested, to maintain security, or to comply with law. These personnel are bound by confidentiality obligations.
  • Users and customers must keep confidential any non-public information about the Services that BrilliusLaw shares with them, such as pricing agreed in confidence or security information.

By a user or customer. A user may close their account at any time through account settings or by contacting BrilliusLaw. A customer may end its plan at any time, and the plan will end at the close of the current billing period.

By BrilliusLaw. BrilliusLaw may suspend or terminate an account or workspace, with notice where reasonably possible, if:

  • the user or customer materially breaches these Terms and does not remedy the breach within a reasonable time after notice;
  • fees remain unpaid after notice;
  • BrilliusLaw reasonably believes that the account is being used unlawfully or poses a security risk to the Services or to other customers; or
  • BrilliusLaw is required to do so by law or by a competent authority.

Effect of termination. When a customer’s workspace is closed:

  • the customer’s right to use the Services ends;
  • the customer will have a reasonable period, as notified by BrilliusLaw, to export its Matter Data; and
  • after that period, BrilliusLaw will delete the Matter Data, as described in the Privacy Policy, unless the law requires it to be kept.

Sections of these Terms that by their nature should continue after termination, such as those on ownership, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law, will continue to apply.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services, including AI outputs, court information and legal library content, are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. BrilliusLaw does not give any warranty, express or implied, that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against all threats, or fit for a particular purpose, or that any information in the Services is accurate, complete or current.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any right that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

  • BrilliusLaw will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, clients, goodwill or data, arising out of or in connection with the Services or these Terms;
  • BrilliusLaw will not be liable for any loss arising from reliance on AI outputs or court information without independent verification, from a missed hearing or deadline, or from a user’s failure to keep their login details secure; and
  • BrilliusLaw’s total liability arising out of or in connection with the Services or these Terms will not exceed the fees paid by the customer to BrilliusLaw in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud.

The customer, and each user, will indemnify BrilliusLaw against any claims, losses, penalties and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from:

  • Matter Data that they uploaded without the necessary right, authority or consent;
  • any misuse of the Services or of data described in Section 11;
  • their breach of these Terms or of any applicable law; or
  • their breach of any professional or ethical obligation.

BrilliusLaw will promptly notify the customer or user of any such claim, and will reasonably cooperate in its defence.

BrilliusLaw may update these Terms to reflect changes in the Services, its practices or the law. Each version carries a version number and effective date. BrilliusLaw will notify users of material changes through the Services or by email at least 30 days before they take effect, unless a shorter period is required by law or for security reasons. Continued use of the Services after the effective date means acceptance of the updated Terms. Where required, BrilliusLaw will seek fresh acceptance.

  • These Terms are governed by the laws of India.
  • The parties will first try to resolve any dispute in good faith by negotiation, for at least 30 days after one party notifies the other of the dispute.
  • If the dispute is not resolved, it will be referred to arbitration by a sole arbitrator under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The seat and venue of arbitration will be Hyderabad, Telangana, and the proceedings will be in English.
  • Subject to the arbitration clause, the courts at Hyderabad, Telangana will have exclusive jurisdiction. Either party may seek urgent interim relief from a competent court.
  • Nothing in this section limits any right a user has under consumer protection law.

For any complaint about the Services, content on the Services, or these Terms, please contact the Grievance Officer:

Grievance Officer: CVSS Jyothsna Email: grievance@brilliuslaw.com Address: Brillius Technologies Pvt. Ltd., 4th Floor, P Elite, 1-62/99, Plot No. 99, Kavuri Hills Phase 2 Road, Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081

BrilliusLaw will acknowledge each complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days, in line with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, where they apply. Complaints about personal data are handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

  • Entire agreement: these Terms, the Privacy Policy, any order form and any data processing agreement together form the entire agreement between BrilliusLaw and each user or customer about the Services.
  • Order of precedence: if there is a conflict, a signed agreement with a customer prevails over these Terms, to the extent of the conflict.
  • Assignment: users and customers may not transfer their rights under these Terms without BrilliusLaw’s prior written consent. BrilliusLaw may transfer these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition or restructuring, with notice.
  • Force majeure: BrilliusLaw is not liable for any delay or failure caused by events outside its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, network or power failures, government action or cyberattacks.
  • Severability: if any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect.
  • No waiver: a failure or delay in enforcing any part of these Terms is not a waiver of it.
  • Relationship: nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship.
  • Notices: BrilliusLaw will send notices to the email address on the user’s account or through the Services. Notices to BrilliusLaw must be sent to the email address in Section 23.