Terms of Service
These Terms explain the rules for using Layman's Terms, including the website, web app, and browser extension.
Last updated: May 19, 20261. Acceptance of these Terms
By using Layman's Terms, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
2. What Layman's Terms does
Layman's Terms uses AI to summarize legal documents, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies, subscription agreements, and similar documents in plain English.
3. Not legal advice
Layman's Terms is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. The summaries, risk scores, red flags, and recommendations are for informational purposes only. You should consult a qualified attorney for legal advice about your specific situation.
4. AI limitations
AI-generated summaries may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or may miss important details. You are responsible for reviewing the original document before signing, agreeing, subscribing, or making decisions.
5. User responsibilities
You agree not to:
- Use Layman's Terms for unlawful purposes.
- Submit content you do not have the right to process.
- Upload sensitive information unless you accept the risk.
- Attempt to reverse engineer, abuse, overload, or attack the service.
- Use the service to violate another person's privacy or rights.
6. Accounts and subscriptions
Layman's Terms may offer free and paid plans. Paid features, limits, pricing, billing terms, and cancellation rules may vary and will be shown during checkout or inside the product.
7. Free and paid features
Free users may receive access to basic scans or limited summaries. Paid users may receive deeper analysis, expanded summaries, additional risk explanations, saved history, document uploads, or other advanced features as they become available.
8. Refunds
Refund rules may depend on the payment platform used. Unless otherwise required by law, subscription payments may be non-refundable once a billing period begins.
9. Intellectual property
Layman's Terms, including its branding, design, interface, and original product features, belongs to Layman's Terms or its owner. You may not copy, resell, or misuse the product.
10. Submitted content
You retain rights to the text you submit. By submitting text, you give Layman's Terms permission to process it only as needed to provide, secure, and improve the service.
11. Third-party services
Layman's Terms may rely on third-party services for hosting, AI processing, analytics, payments, and other operations. Those services may have their own terms and privacy policies.
12. No warranties
Layman's Terms is provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not guarantee that the service will be error-free, uninterrupted, fully accurate, or suitable for every legal situation.
13. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent allowed by law, Layman's Terms will not be liable for damages resulting from your use of, or reliance on, AI summaries, risk scores, red flags, or other product outputs.
14. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the product evolves. If we make major changes, we will update the date above and may provide additional notice.
15. Contact
For questions about these Terms, contact:
support@laymansterms.app