THE DEAL, PLAINLY

What MyRightz is, and what it is not

MyRightz publishes legal information. It explains what a state's written law says, in plain language, with the statute, case or court rule cited beside every statement so you can check it against the source yourself.

It is not legal advice. It does not tell anybody what to do, and it is not written with your situation in mind, because it has never seen your situation. Using this site does not make anyone here your lawyer and does not create an attorney client relationship. Nothing you send us is a privileged or confidential communication.

The law changes, courts in different places read the same words differently, and a fact you think is unimportant can change the answer completely. For anything that matters, a licensed attorney in your state who knows your facts is the only person who can advise you.

Who you are dealing with

MyRightz is run by a private citizen, to help other citizens learn their rights and the law without being confused or intimidated by it. Where these terms say "we" or "us", they mean MyRightz. When you buy a plan or a case, MyRightz is the seller you are paying.

The charge on your card statement reads MYRIGHTZ. The payment itself is taken by Stripe, which holds the card; MyRightz never sees or keeps the card number.

Who can use it

Reading the guide is open to anyone, and no account is needed for any of it.

Buying a plan requires that you be at least eighteen and able to enter a contract where you live. If you are paying by card, it has to be one you are authorized to use.

Accounts

An account is an email address and nothing more. Keep access to that address, because it is how you sign in and how a receipt reaches you.

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us if you think somebody else has got into it.

You can turn on two step sign in from your account page, so a sign in also needs the code from an authenticator app on your phone. If you lose the phone, write to us from the contact page; we turn it off for the account only after confirming the request comes from its email address.

You can download everything your account holds, and delete the account with everything in it, from your account page, without asking anybody. Deleting cancels Pro first, so nothing more is charged, closes any open case, and cannot be undone. It does not refund a charge by itself; a refund under these terms is asked for with Request a refund on the account page, or a message on the contact page.

We can suspend or close an account being used to break these terms, and we will say why.

Plans, billing and renewal

The written guide is free, with no account and no time limit. A Pro plan, or a case bought for one situation, adds the paid tools: a page for the case where its charges, dates, people and notes are kept together, its papers and photos kept privately with your account, papers read by the reader, a case helper that knows the case when you ask a question, one folder of the case to download or send, email reminders before a date, an email when a law behind your saved pages or kept answers changes, and questions in the answer tool beyond what the free allowance gives. The answer tool and the reader are the parts of this site that cost money every time somebody uses them.

A free account can have one paper read, once, on the Read my paper page. It counts as one of that account's free questions, nothing about the paper or the reading is kept, and if the reader could not make out a paper in the file, it does not use the free reading. Free accounts under one email inbox share one free reading and one allowance of free questions, however the address was written: a plus tag added to it, or, at Gmail, dots moved around in it, makes the same inbox.

Pro is billed in advance, monthly or yearly as you choose when you buy it, and renews automatically on the same date each month or each year until it is cancelled. The price is shown on the plans page before you buy and on your receipt afterwards.

When the plans page offers Pro with free days, they are offered once per account, to an account that has never had a Pro subscription, and once per card. The free days are paid for with a card, which can be through Apple Pay or Google Pay. The card is entered at checkout and nothing is charged during the free days; the first charge is on the day they end, at the price shown when you started, and Pro then renews as above. Cancelling before the free days end means nothing is charged at all. If the card has already started free days on this or any other account, the free days end as soon as the subscription starts, and the first charge is taken then.

Open a Case is a single payment, not a subscription. A case is open for ninety days from the day it is paid for, carries forty questions in the answer tool, and comes with the case's page, room for its papers, the email reminders and law change emails while it is open. Reading a paper in a case uses one of its questions, or one of Pro's monthly questions for a case Pro opened, and a paper is read once: the reading is kept with it. It does not renew, and nothing more is charged for it. The questions asked in it stay on the case's page with their answers after it closes, where any of them can be removed. A reminder you set in it while it is open keeps going to its date after the case closes, unless the case was refunded; law change emails, and setting new reminders, stop when it closes.

A case can be shared. Its owner can let people into it by email: they see the case and can add to it, while renaming it, closing it, removing papers and who is on it stay with the owner. Every plan includes one member across the owner's cases. On Pro, each member past that one is $2.99 a month, or $35.88 a year on yearly Pro, added to the subscription when the invitation is sent and taken off when the person is removed, prorated as each change is made. Whoever you let in sees everything in the case, so let in only somebody you mean to.

Pro keeps up to three cases open at a time. A case Pro opens has no ninety day limit: it stays open while Pro is paid, held a few days past the end of each paid period so that a renewal never finds it closed, and it closes when Pro ends. If Pro is started again within thirty days, the cases that closed when it ended open again, up to three. A Pro case carries no questions of its own; reading a paper or asking in it uses one of Pro's monthly questions. After it closes, everything in it can still be read, downloaded and removed.

Payments are handled by Stripe, and the charge reads MYRIGHTZ on your card statement. We never see or store your card number. If we change the price of a plan you are already on, we will tell you by email before it takes effect, and you can cancel before it does.

Cancelling, and refunds

You can cancel at any time from your account page, in a few seconds, without emailing anybody. Cancelling stops the next charge, and your plan keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for.

If Pro is not what you expected, ask within fourteen days of a charge and we will refund it: the Request a refund button on your account page sends the request, or write to us. No reason needed.

A case is refunded in full the same way, within fourteen days of paying for it, as long as no question has been asked and no paper read in it yet. Each is a real cost, so once either has happened, the case is not refunded by default. A refunded case closes when the refund is made.

After fourteen days a partly used month or year is not refunded by default, because that access was provided. If something went wrong on our side, write anyway and we will sort it out.

The refund policy page, at /refunds, sets all of this out step by step: who you pay, who handles the card, how to cancel, and how to ask for a refund.

Papers and files you keep here

Files you add to a case are yours. You keep every right you had in them; we hold them only to keep them for you and show them back to you, and we read them only when you press Read this paper on one, which sends that one file to the reader.

Add only files you have the right to keep and share, and nothing unlawful. Files are checked when they arrive, and a file that is not what its name says, or a PDF with something built into it that runs or opens other things, is refused. We can remove a file that breaks these terms, and we will say which one and why.

This is a place to keep a case together, not a backup. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. A file stays until you remove it or the account is deleted, including after a case closes, when it can still be opened and downloaded but nothing new can be added.

A case folder is put together on your own device, and MyRightz sends it to nobody. Where it goes after that is up to you.

What you may and may not do here

Read it, quote it, print it, and send it to somebody who needs it. The guide exists to be used, and pointing people at a page is the point of having one.

Do not scrape the site wholesale, resell access to it, or drive the answer tool from a script. The limits on that tool are not a formality: every question is a real cost, and a plan is priced for a person asking questions rather than a program asking thousands.

Do not use the site to break the law, and do not present anything from it as though a lawyer wrote it for somebody's situation.

The answer tool, specifically

Answers are assembled by a machine from the statute text and guide sections retrieved for that question, and from nothing else. It has no general knowledge of the law to fall back on, so a question the corpus does not reach comes back unanswered rather than filled in.

The sources are listed separately from the answer, always, so you can read the law rather than our summary of it. That separation is also a term of the case law API this site uses: their data must not be presented as though they produced or endorsed a generated analysis of it.

Machine written text can be wrong, and a citation under a sentence is not a promise that the sentence is right. Check anything you intend to rely on against the source we name.

Email reminders and law change emails

A reminder is a convenience, not a safeguard. It is arithmetic from a date you typed and a period the guide states, and the email prints every reason that date may be wrong beside it: public holidays, court closures, the rules on service, and anything that pauses or moves a period are not applied. The dates on your own papers, and what a court or agency tells you, are what count.

Email can arrive late, land in a spam folder, or not arrive at all, and a day the site is down is a day a reminder is not sent. We do not promise that any reminder or law change email will reach you, and we are not responsible for a deadline missed because one did not. Keep your own record of any date that matters.

A law change email says that the publisher's text of a section behind your pages changed. It does not say what the change does, and not receiving one does not mean nothing changed.

Reminders are sent to your account's email address, and to one more address if you add one on your account page. That person gets a copy of each reminder email, which says who added them, and can stop the copies themselves; add only somebody who wants them. A reminder set during Pro stops when Pro ends. A reminder set during a case keeps going to its date after the case closes, unless the case was refunded. You can remove any reminder from your account page at any time.

Whose words these are

Statutes, court rules and judicial opinions are public records and nobody owns them, including us. Quote them freely from the primary sources we link to.

The writing on this site is ours: how a section is explained, what was left out, the walkthroughs, the glossary, and the way it is organized. Personal use and quoting with attribution are fine. Republishing it as your own, or as the basis of a competing guide, is not.

The MyRightz name and marks are ours as well.

Accuracy, and the limits of it

Every section is written against a primary source and cites it. Statute text is stored verbatim from the state's own publisher and checked on a schedule, and a section whose text has changed is flagged for review rather than quietly rewritten.

None of that makes it perfect. Law changes between our check and your reading, extraction from a published page can go wrong, and a section can be right about the rule and silent about the exception that matters to you.

The site is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. We do not promise it is complete, current, accurate for your circumstances, or available without interruption.

What we are responsible for

To the fullest extent the law allows, MyRightz is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for anything you did or did not do because of something you read here.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred dollars.

Some places do not allow these limits, and where that is so they do not apply to you.

Changes to these terms

We can update these terms. The date at the top of this page says when they last changed.

If a change materially affects a plan you are paying for, we will email you before it takes effect. Continuing to use the site after a change means the updated terms apply.

Which law governs this

These terms are governed by the law of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and disputes about them are heard in the courts of Ohio.

That is about this agreement between you and us. It says nothing about which state's law governs whatever you came here to read about.

Reaching a person

The contact page takes a message, with or without an email address. Anything about billing, a refund, or something on the site that looks wrong goes there, and it is read.

A message about billing or a refund that leaves an email address gets a reply within two business days.