Terms of Use
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern access to and use of the Justice Ready website, web-based application, and related services (collectively, the "Service").
By accessing the website, creating an account, or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
1. Nature of the Service
Justice Ready provides software tools that assist users in preparing legal documents based solely on information entered by users.
The Service is a document automation platform designed to help users create, organize, and format legal documents.
The Service may include explanatory text, examples, or workflow guidance intended to assist users in operating the software and understanding document preparation processes. Such materials are general in nature, are not tailored to any individual legal situation, and do not constitute legal advice.
Justice Ready does not provide legal advice, legal representation, or legal services.
2. No Legal Advice
Nothing provided through the Service constitutes legal advice or a recommendation regarding legal strategy, claims, defences, procedural decisions, or legal rights.
Documents generated through the Service are created automatically based on user input and are not reviewed by a lawyer.
The Service is not a substitute for advice from a licensed lawyer or paralegal.
Users are encouraged to obtain independent legal advice where appropriate.
3. No Lawyer-Client Relationship
Use of the Service does not create a solicitor-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, or professional advisory relationship between you and Justice Ready Inc.
Communications with Justice Ready are not protected by solicitor-client privilege.
4. Law Society of Ontario Access to Innovation Disclosures
Justice Ready Inc. is a participant in the Law Society of Ontario's Access to Innovation program.
Justice Ready provides technology-based document preparation tools through the Justice Ready platform. The Law Society of Ontario is monitoring Justice Ready's services as part of the Access to Innovation program.
Justice Ready does not provide legal advice, legal representation, or legal services.
Justice Ready is not a law firm.
Justice Ready's services are not provided by a lawyer or paralegal licensed by the Law Society of Ontario.
The Law Society of Ontario has not certified or endorsed the effectiveness of Justice Ready's services.
The Law Society of Ontario is not responsible or liable for any issue arising from Justice Ready's advertising, services, software, documents, suitability, quality, performance, or use.
Use of Justice Ready does not create a lawyer-client relationship, solicitor-client relationship, fiduciary relationship, or professional advisory relationship between you and Justice Ready.
Communications with Justice Ready and information provided to Justice Ready may not be protected by solicitor-client privilege.
Justice Ready may be required by law to disclose information provided to it, including to courts, regulators, authorities, or third parties.
Another party involved in your legal matter may also use Justice Ready's platform independently through their own account. Justice Ready does not give other users access to your account, documents, uploaded files, or personal information because they are involved in the same legal matter.
Some protections that apply to legal services provided by lawyers and paralegals licensed by the Law Society of Ontario may be different or may not be available for services received from Justice Ready.
Justice Ready may be required to provide information to the Law Society of Ontario for monitoring purposes. Information will ordinarily be provided on a de-identified or aggregated basis. Justice Ready will not provide identifiable personal information to the Law Society of Ontario for monitoring purposes without your express consent, unless required by law.
The Law Society of Ontario may require Justice Ready to contact you to request consent to share identifiable information for monitoring purposes. You authorize Justice Ready to contact you for that purpose.
To make a complaint about your experience with Justice Ready, please contact Justice Ready at support@justiceready.ca.
5. User Responsibility
Justice Ready is designed to help users prepare, organize, and format legal documents based on the information they enter into the Service. The Service is intended to support document preparation, but it does not replace the user's responsibility to review documents and make decisions about their legal matter.
You are responsible for:
- determining whether any document is appropriate for your circumstances;
- reviewing all documents before use or filing;
- ensuring the information you enter is accurate and complete;
- ensuring compliance with applicable laws, court rules, practice directions, and filing requirements;
- decisions regarding whether and how to proceed with any legal matter.
Justice Ready does not independently verify the accuracy, completeness, or legal adequacy of user-provided information.
You are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for securing access to your account, including by using strong passwords and enabling available security features such as multi-factor authentication where appropriate.
6. No Guarantee of Court Acceptance or Outcomes
Justice Ready is designed to assist users in preparing documents based on commonly used formats and procedural requirements under the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure, the Ontario Rules of the Small Claims Court, and related court practices.
However, court rules, forms, and filing requirements may change, and courts or registries may apply procedural requirements differently.
Justice Ready does not guarantee that any document generated using the Service will be accepted by any court, tribunal, registry, or governmental authority.
Users are responsible for reviewing all documents before use or filing and for ensuring compliance with applicable court rules, practice directions, and filing requirements.
7. Educational Information Only
Any explanations, examples, templates, or guidance provided through the Service are general informational materials and are not tailored to any individual legal situation.
8. Accuracy of User Inputs and Content
Documents generated by the Service depend entirely on information entered by users.
You are responsible for ensuring you have the legal authority to upload or input personal information relating to other individuals.
9. Permitted Use
You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with applicable laws.
You may not use the Service to impersonate another person, submit false information, or engage in unlawful activity.
10. Intellectual Property
All software, design, text, branding, and functionality of the Service are the property of Justice Ready Inc. and are protected by intellectual property laws.
Users retain ownership of documents and content they create or upload.
11. Privacy
Use of the Service is subject to the Justice Ready Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
12. Permitted Use and Protection of the Service
Justice Ready provides access to the Service for lawful document preparation, document organization, and related account use.
Justice Ready does not permit use of the Service for unlawful, abusive, fraudulent, harmful, or unauthorized purposes.
You may not:
- impersonate another person;
- submit information that you know is false or misleading;
- access or attempt to access another user's account, documents, files, or information;
- interfere with, disrupt, overload, damage, disable, or impair the Service or any related system;
- upload, transmit, or introduce viruses, malware, harmful code, or other disruptive materials;
- use bots, scrapers, crawlers, data-mining tools, automated scripts, or similar methods to access, copy, monitor, extract, or collect information from the Service, except where expressly authorized by Justice Ready;
- copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, or create derivative works based on the Service, except as expressly permitted by these Terms;
- decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, structure, workflow logic, document automation logic, templates, prompts, or non-public functionality of the Service, except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
- access or use the Service to build, train, benchmark, evaluate, or improve a competing product or service;
- misrepresent the Service, generated documents, or Justice Ready's role in preparing documents; or
- share your account credentials or permit unauthorized access to your account.
Justice Ready may limit, suspend, or terminate access to the Service where Justice Ready reasonably believes that an account has been used in violation of these Terms, presents a security risk, or may cause harm to the Service, other users, Justice Ready, or third parties.
13. Service Availability and Cessation of Operations
Justice Ready is intended to provide users with access to their account, documents, and uploaded files while the Service is operating and the user's account remains active and in good standing.
In the event that Justice Ready ceases operation of the Service, Justice Ready will make reasonable efforts to provide users with at least 60 days' advance notice and an opportunity to download or export their documents and uploaded files before access to the Service ends.
Users are responsible for downloading and keeping copies of any documents or records they wish to retain outside the Service.
Justice Ready may temporarily limit or suspend access where reasonably necessary to perform technical updates, maintenance, or security work, or where Justice Ready reasonably believes an account has been misused, compromised, or used in violation of these Terms.
The Service is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis.
14. Payment Processing
Justice Ready may charge fees for access to certain paid features, documents, or services. Fees and applicable taxes will be disclosed at the point of purchase.
Justice Ready uses Stripe or another payment processor identified at checkout to process payments.
Justice Ready does not store full payment card information on its own systems.
By purchasing paid access to the Service, you agree to provide accurate and complete payment information. You authorize Justice Ready and its payment processor to process payment information and transaction information for the purpose of completing the transaction.
Payment processing services provided by Stripe may be subject to Stripe's applicable terms and privacy practices, as updated by Stripe from time to time.
15. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Justice Ready disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability.
16. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by Ontario law, Justice Ready Inc. will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from or relating to use of the Service, including reliance on generated documents, court rejection of documents, procedural issues, or legal outcomes.
For users in Ontario, Justice Ready Inc.'s total aggregate liability arising from or relating to the Service will not exceed $2,500.
Nothing in these Terms limits any rights that cannot be limited under applicable consumer protection law.
17. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.
18. Changes to These Terms
Justice Ready may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
19. Contact Information
Justice Ready Inc.
Ontario, Canada
privacy@justiceready.ca