Terms of Service

These Terms govern your use of AsyncConfer (the "Service"), an asynchronous meet-and-confer workspace for litigators. The Service is provided by AsyncConfer LLC, a limited liability company based in San Francisco, California ("AsyncConfer," "we," or "us"). By creating an account, accepting an invitation to a workspace, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you are using the Service on behalf of a firm or organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind it.

1. AsyncConfer is not a law firm

AsyncConfer does not provide legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and AsyncConfer. The Service is drafting and coordination software. Templates, default captions, suggested section headings, compiled documents, and anything produced by the Service's AI features — including imported text, drafted section language, and suggested compromise language — are starting points, not legal work product, and they have not been reviewed for your matter, your jurisdiction, or your court's local rules. The Service's AI features are not asked to produce legal authority, and drafted language that introduces a citation you did not supply is discarded rather than returned to you; where a section turns on authority, supplying and verifying it remains yours.

AsyncConfer is not a mediator, arbitrator, or neutral, and nothing in the Service is a recommendation about what any party should agree to. Where the Service suggests compromise language for a section the parties disagree about, that suggestion is generated by a language model, is shown to every party at once, and carries no weight of any kind unless a party chooses to adopt it as their own position. It is not an assessment of either side's case, and no party is obliged to respond to it.

You are the lawyer. You remain solely responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of everything you file or serve, for meeting every deadline, for complying with applicable rules of civil procedure and professional conduct, and for confirming that a conferral conducted through the Service satisfies the obligation your court actually imposes. Some courts require a live conversation. Check before you rely on an asynchronous exchange. If you are not represented by counsel, that responsibility is yours, and the Service is not a substitute for a lawyer.

2. Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. You must give a real, working email address and verify it. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at stan@asyncconfer.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

3. Workspaces, hosts, and invited parties

The person who creates a workspace is its host. The host sets the caption, adds sections, and invites other parties by email. An invited party receives a private link, verifies their email address, agrees to the workspace stipulation, and can then submit proposals, counter-proposals, comments, and accept/reject decisions.

• Invite only people entitled to participate in the conferral. Do not invite a represented party directly when the rules of professional conduct require you to go through their counsel.
• The host can see and export everything in the workspace, and the audit log records who did what and when.
• A host may generate a read-only record link so a court or chambers can inspect the conferral record without an account. Anyone holding that link can view the workspace record. Hosts can rotate the link, which immediately invalidates the previous one.
• Invited parties are bound by these Terms for their use of the Service, even without a paid account.

4. Your content

You keep all rights to what you put into the Service — case captions, proposals, comments, and compiled documents ("Your Content"). You grant AsyncConfer only the limited license needed to operate the Service: to store, process, transmit, render, and back up Your Content so we can show it to the workspace's participants and generate exports for you. We do not sell Your Content, use it for advertising, or use it to train machine learning models.

You are responsible for having the right to submit Your Content, and for whatever privilege, confidentiality, or protective-order obligations attach to it. Consider whether material subject to a protective order belongs in a shared workspace before you put it there.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to:

• break the law, infringe someone's rights, or violate a court order;
• harass, threaten, or deceive another participant;
• upload malware, or probe, scan, or attempt to breach the Service or its infrastructure;
• access a workspace you were not invited to, including by guessing, sharing, or reusing invite or record links; or
• resell or white-label the Service without our written permission.

6. Fees

Paid features are identified as such in the application, and the price and what it covers are always shown to you before you pay. We do not state amounts here, because these Terms should not be the place you find out what something costs — the checkout screen is, and it is the amount that governs. Reading a workspace you have been invited to has never required payment.

• Payments are processed by Square. Your card details go directly to Square and are never stored on our servers.
• Any recurring plan renews until cancelled. You can cancel at any time; cancellation stops the next renewal and does not refund the current period.
• One-time fees are non-refundable once the thing you paid for has been used, since the value has been delivered at that point. If something goes wrong, email us — we would rather fix it than argue about it.
• Fees exclude taxes, which you are responsible for where applicable.
• We may change pricing prospectively. A change will not affect anything you have already paid for, and we will give notice before a recurring plan renews at a new price.

7. Availability

We work to keep the Service running, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features, and we may perform maintenance that makes the Service briefly unavailable. Do not treat the Service as your only copy of anything, and do not rely on it as your calendar of record for a filing deadline. Export and save your documents.

8. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, satisfy any particular court's conferral requirement, or produce a document suitable for filing without your review.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AsyncConfer will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, missed deadlines, sanctions, adverse rulings, or lost business opportunities, even if we have been advised of the possibility.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless AsyncConfer from claims, damages, and reasonable legal fees arising out of Your Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time by emailing stan@asyncconfer.com. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if your use threatens the security or integrity of the Service. Sections 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, and 12 survive termination. Export anything you need before you delete your account.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You and AsyncConfer agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and each party waives any objection to that venue.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give notice by email or in the app before it takes effect. The "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms go to stan@asyncconfer.com, and a person will answer.

AsyncConfer LLC
San Francisco, California, USA