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 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 are 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 authorised 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.

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 raises the usage limits on the answer tool, which is the one part of this site that costs money every time somebody uses it.

A plan is billed monthly in advance and renews automatically on the same date each month until it is cancelled. The price is shown on the plans page before you buy and on your receipt afterwards.

Payments are handled by Stripe. 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 a plan is not what you expected, write to us within fourteen days of a charge and we will refund it. No form and no reason needed.

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

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.

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 organised. 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.