The Rules of Engagement for the Juriska Platform.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern access to and use of the Juriska website, applications, platform, software, tools, products and related services (collectively, the "Platform" or "Services").

The Platform is operated by Juriska Limited ("Juriska", "we", "us" or "our"), a Nigerian LegalTech company.

By creating an account, clicking an acceptance button, purchasing or subscribing to a Service, engaging a professional through the Platform, or otherwise using Juriska, you agree to these Terms and to policies expressly incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.

Juriska provides technology-enabled infrastructure intended to improve how individuals, businesses, lawyers and law firms access, manage and deliver legal services.

Depending on availability, Services may include lawyer discovery and professional profiles; verification and credibility features; communication and engagement tools; contract and legal-document automation; legal information and research tools; AI-assisted functionality; legal practice-management tools; business legal-support and Virtual Legal Department solutions; subscriptions; professional communities and programmes; payment facilitation; collaboration, education and professional-development tools; and other LegalTech products introduced from time to time.

Unless expressly stated for a specific engagement, Juriska is not a law firm and does not itself provide legal representation.

Independent lawyers and law firms accessible through Juriska are not employees, partners or agents of Juriska merely because they use the Platform.

Juriska provides technology, access, coordination and related infrastructure. Where a specific Juriska service is delivered through retained or contracted legal professionals, the applicable service description or engagement documentation will identify the nature and scope of that arrangement.

Accessing Juriska, viewing a lawyer's profile, sending a message, submitting a request, receiving a suggested lawyer, making a preliminary enquiry or initiating payment does not by itself create a lawyer-client relationship.

A professional engagement arises only when the relevant lawyer or law firm accepts the matter in accordance with applicable law and professional rules.

Users should avoid sending highly confidential information before confirming that the lawyer can consider or accept the engagement and has completed appropriate conflict checks.

Users must have legal capacity to enter a binding agreement.

A person using Juriska for a company, partnership, law firm, institution or other organisation represents that he or she has authority to act for that entity.

Services restricted to legal practitioners may require proof of qualification, enrolment or other professional eligibility.

Juriska may request information reasonably necessary to establish identity, authority or eligibility.

Users must provide accurate, current and complete registration information and keep it updated.

Users are responsible for safeguarding passwords, authentication credentials and devices used to access Juriska, and for activity carried out through their accounts except to the extent caused by Juriska's own breach or unlawful conduct.

Suspected unauthorised access should be reported promptly.

Juriska may introduce multi-factor authentication and other reasonable security controls.

Lawyers may be required to provide professional identity, enrolment information, year of call, qualifications, firm affiliation, practice areas, experience and other verification information.

Juriska may verify specified information through documents, authorised databases, professional records, regulatory sources or lawful third-party providers.

A verification badge confirms only that specified checks were completed; it is not a guarantee of competence, integrity, availability, professional performance or outcome.

Lawyers remain responsible for maintaining their right to practise and for ensuring profile claims are accurate, current and consistent with applicable professional rules.

Independent lawyers remain solely responsible for professional judgment, client acceptance, conflicts checks, confidentiality, competence, legal strategy, court obligations, professional ethics and compliance with the Legal Practitioners Act, the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners 2023, applicable remuneration rules and other binding professional requirements.

Nothing on Juriska authorises conduct prohibited by professional regulation.

Juriska may restrict Platform access where credible evidence indicates serious professional misconduct, fraud, false credentials or misuse of the Platform.

Juriska may display or suggest lawyers using practice area, location, experience, verification status, availability, profile completeness, platform activity, client feedback, professional development or other relevant factors.

It may also display badges, certifications, endorsements, credibility indicators or scores.

These tools provide information and do not constitute a guarantee, warranty or promise of suitability or outcome.

Users remain responsible for selecting a lawyer.

Manipulating reviews, endorsements, rankings, badges or verification systems is prohibited.

Reviews must be based on genuine experiences and must not be fraudulent, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory or deliberately misleading.

Juriska may moderate, restrict or remove content that violates these Terms, applicable law or Platform integrity.

Publication of a review does not mean Juriska endorses the opinion expressed.

Articles, guides, videos, templates, newsletters, research resources and other general information made available through Juriska are ordinarily for informational or educational purposes.

They are not automatically legal advice for a user's particular facts.

Laws, regulations and judicial interpretations change and may apply differently depending on circumstances.

Users should obtain appropriately qualified legal advice where a matter requires professional judgment.

Juriska may offer tools for preparing contracts, letters, policies, notices, resolutions and other legal or business documents.

Outputs depend on the information and selections supplied by users.

Users are responsible for providing accurate information, selecting the appropriate document, reviewing the final output, confirming that it reflects the intended transaction and obtaining professional review where necessary.

Juriska does not warrant that an automated document is appropriate for every transaction, industry or jurisdiction.

Juriska may use artificial intelligence, machine learning or other automated systems for research, drafting, summarisation, document analysis, information retrieval, contract review, workflow assistance and similar functions.

Automated output can contain errors, omissions, incomplete reasoning or outdated information and should not be treated as a substitute for professional judgment.

Lawyers remain responsible for work delivered to their clients.

Juriska may impose feature-specific safeguards or disclosures and may modify AI functionality as technology, regulation and professional standards evolve.

Practice-management features may support matters, clients, documents, tasks, appointments, billing, communications and workflows.

Lawyers and law firms remain responsible for professional record-keeping, confidentiality and internal controls.

Juriska may also provide businesses with Virtual Legal Department or managed legal-support services.

The scope, service levels, exclusions, fees and responsible professionals for those services will be defined in the applicable plan, proposal, engagement letter or service-specific terms.

Work outside the agreed scope may attract additional fees.

Juriska may offer free, subscription, transaction-based, usage-based or separately quoted Services.

Applicable prices, billing periods and material charges should be disclosed before purchase.

Recurring subscriptions may renew automatically where the user has agreed to recurring billing.

Users may cancel through available cancellation channels; cancellation generally stops future renewal but does not automatically create a right to a refund for a billing period already commenced.

Juriska may change prices prospectively, subject to applicable law and reasonable notice where required.

Payments may be processed through independent payment providers and may be subject to their terms.

Where independent lawyers provide legal services, their professional fees and engagement terms remain subject to applicable professional and remuneration requirements.

Juriska may charge disclosed technology, subscription, facilitation or transaction fees.

Payment facilitation does not, by itself, make Juriska the provider of the underlying legal service.

Users are responsible for applicable taxes and statutory charges except where Juriska is legally required to collect or remit them.

Refunds are governed by the applicable service terms and Juriska's Refund and Cancellation Policy, subject always to mandatory consumer rights.

Clients must provide accurate information, act lawfully, meet agreed payment obligations, communicate honestly and avoid abusive or fraudulent use.

Lawyers must not misrepresent qualifications, improperly solicit clients, breach confidentiality, facilitate unlawful conduct, circumvent professional obligations or use Juriska in a manner inconsistent with professional ethics.

Each user is responsible for the legality of the content, instructions and information he or she supplies.

Juriska recognises that legal matters may involve sensitive information and will handle personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.

Communications with Juriska itself are not automatically protected by legal professional privilege merely because Juriska is a LegalTech company.

Whether privilege attaches to a communication with a lawyer depends on applicable law and the circumstances of the professional relationship.

Lawyers remain responsible for their independent confidentiality obligations.

Personal data will be processed in accordance with Juriska's Privacy Policy, the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, applicable directives and guidance of the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, and other applicable requirements.

Processing may be necessary to create and secure accounts, verify users, provide Services, facilitate transactions, communicate with users, prevent fraud, improve the Platform and comply with legal obligations.

Where applicable, users have statutory data-subject rights.

Juriska may use processors and service providers subject to appropriate contractual and security arrangements and will address cross-border transfers in its Privacy Policy.

Juriska and its licensors retain rights in the Platform, software, databases, interfaces, designs, trademarks, logos, written content, algorithms, workflows, automation systems and other proprietary materials.

Except as permitted by law or written licence, users may not reproduce, reverse engineer, scrape, commercially exploit or create unauthorised derivative works from Juriska intellectual property.

Users retain ownership of lawful content and documents they upload, while granting Juriska the limited rights reasonably necessary to host, process, transmit, display and otherwise handle such content to provide and secure the Services.

Users warrant that they have the right to provide content they upload.

Users must not use Juriska to violate law; commit or facilitate fraud; impersonate others; upload malicious code; compromise Platform security; gain unauthorised access; harvest personal data; scrape or systematically extract Platform data without permission; manipulate rankings or verification; infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights; publish unlawful or defamatory material; harass users; misuse confidential information; circumvent lawful fees; or use automated access methods contrary to published Platform rules.

Juriska may send operational messages such as security alerts, account notices, transaction confirmations and service updates.

Marketing communications will be managed in accordance with applicable consent and direct-marketing rules.

Juriska may integrate payment processors, cloud providers, identity or professional verification services, communications tools, analytics, AI providers and other third-party services.

Those services may have separate terms and privacy notices.

Juriska is not responsible for an independent third party's failure where the failure is beyond Juriska's reasonable control.

Juriska aims to provide reliable Services but does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability.

Maintenance, upgrades, security measures, infrastructure failures, third-party outages, government action or events beyond reasonable control may affect availability.

Juriska may add, modify, suspend or discontinue features for security, legal compliance, product development or commercial reasons, subject to applicable contractual and consumer-protection obligations.

Juriska does not guarantee litigation success, settlements, debt recovery, regulatory approvals, transaction completion, favourable judgments, negotiations, commercial results or any other legal outcome.

A lawyer's presence, verification, ranking or review on Juriska is not a guarantee of future performance.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to waive or restrict rights that cannot lawfully be waived under the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018 or other applicable consumer-protection law.

Material information, pricing and service conditions should be presented in clear and understandable language.

Where a mandatory consumer right conflicts with these Terms, the mandatory legal protection prevails.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Juriska will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential loss arising from use of the Platform.

Juriska is not ordinarily responsible for the independent professional negligence or misconduct of lawyers or law firms merely because they are accessible through the Platform.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability arising from Juriska's own fraud, wilful misconduct or other non-excludable responsibility.

Any monetary cap on Juriska's aggregate contractual liability should be inserted only after final Nigerian counsel review and should remain subject to mandatory consumer law.

To the extent permitted by law, a user will indemnify Juriska against third-party claims, losses and reasonable costs resulting from the user's unlawful use of the Platform, material breach of these Terms, infringement of third-party rights, fraudulent information or unlawful User Content.

This does not require a user to indemnify Juriska for loss caused solely by Juriska's own unlawful conduct.

Juriska may restrict, suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary because of material breach, fraud, security risk, false credentials, professional misconduct, abuse, unlawful activity, non-payment or regulatory requirements.

Where appropriate and lawful, Juriska may provide notice or an opportunity to remedy.

Users may close their accounts subject to outstanding contractual, payment, legal, regulatory and professional obligations.

Information may be retained after closure where required for law, dispute management, fraud prevention, security or legitimate record-keeping.

Juriska may provide mechanisms for reporting concerns about lawyers, clients or Platform activity.

Juriska may investigate Platform-related complaints and take action concerning access, but does not replace courts, law-enforcement bodies or professional disciplinary authorities.

Disputes between independent users remain primarily between those users.

Complaints concerning Juriska should first be submitted through Juriska's designated support or complaints channel for good-faith resolution.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Parties should first attempt in good faith to resolve a dispute through negotiation.

Juriska may adopt a staged dispute-resolution process involving negotiation and mediation and, where appropriate and validly agreed, arbitration under Nigerian law.

The final website version should specify the seat, rules, number of arbitrators and appointing mechanism only after counsel confirms that the clause is appropriate for Juriska's consumer and business user categories.

Nothing prevents a party from seeking urgent interim relief from a court of competent jurisdiction where legally available.

Access from another country does not mean every Service is legally available there.

Juriska may restrict features geographically or introduce jurisdiction-specific terms.

Users seeking advice concerning another jurisdiction are responsible for ensuring that the relevant professional is appropriately qualified.

Cross-border data processing will be addressed in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.

Participation in the Juriska Partners Programme or another Juriska professional programme may be governed by separate programme terms or agreements.

Use of the word "Partner" as a programme or brand designation does not by itself create a legal partnership, employment, agency, joint venture or fiduciary relationship with Juriska.

Programme-specific obligations prevail where expressly stated.

Juriska may offer beta, pilot, early-access or experimental features.

Such features may be incomplete, changed or discontinued and may contain errors.

Additional conditions may apply.

Users should not rely on experimental functionality for critical legal decisions without appropriate independent review.

Except where expressly agreed in writing, these Terms do not create an employment, agency, partnership, joint venture or fiduciary relationship between Juriska and an independent lawyer, law firm, client or other user.

Juriska may update these Terms to reflect changes in law, regulation, technology, security, products or operations.

Material changes will be communicated where required.

The revised Terms will state their effective date.

Continued use after a validly notified change constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law.

If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent permitted by law.

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.

Users may not transfer their rights or obligations except as permitted by law or with required consent.

Juriska may assign these Terms in connection with a lawful restructuring, investment, merger, acquisition or transfer of business, subject to applicable law.

Provisions concerning intellectual property, confidentiality, accrued payments, liability, dispute resolution and other provisions intended by their nature to survive will survive termination.

These Terms, together with incorporated policies and applicable service-specific terms, constitute the agreement governing the relevant use of Juriska; specific service terms prevail for that Service to the extent of a direct conflict.

Questions, complaints and legal notices relating to these Terms may be sent to: Juriska Limited, Nigeria.

Website: www.juriska.com.

Email: info@juriska.com.

Juriska should insert its registered office address, CAC registration number and any designated privacy/data-protection contact before publication.

By clicking "I Agree", registering, subscribing, purchasing a Service or continuing to use Juriska after these Terms are presented in a legally effective manner, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms.