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Terms of Use

Last Updated: May 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Philippine Supreme Court Law Search Engine platform, database, and associated services (the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, you ("User" or "Subscriber") agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Description of Service

The Service provides an aggregated, searchable digital database of Philippine jurisprudence (Supreme Court decisions), Republic Acts, Batas Pambansa, Presidential Decrees, and Executive Orders. The Service utilizes proprietary algorithms, Full-Text Search (FTS5) capabilities, and machine-readable data scraped from public sources.

2. User Accounts and Subscriptions

Eligibility: Users are strictly presumed to be members of the Philippine Bar, law students, legal researchers, or persons using the platform for lawful research.
Account Security: You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials. Sharing accounts across multiple unauthorized users is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination without refund.
Subscription Terms: Access to premium archives (e.g., cases prior to the current year) requires an active Monthly or Lifetime subscription. Subscriptions are billed in advance. All payments are final and non-refundable, except as required by law.

3. Acceptable Use and Restrictions

You agree to use the Service strictly for personal, educational, or professional legal research. You shall not:

Scrape, crawl, or use automated bots to bulk-download the database.
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the search engine.
Resell, sublicense, or commercially distribute the database or search results as a standalone product.
Use the platform to train Large Language Models (LLMs) or Artificial Intelligence without explicit written permission.

4. Intellectual Property

While the raw text of judicial decisions and statutes are public domain documents (Sec. 9, Republic Act No. 8293), the proprietary arrangement, search algorithms, user interface, compilation, and specific digital formatting of the Service are the exclusive intellectual property of the platform. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access the Service.

5. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any breach of these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately.

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 2026

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it in compliance with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173).

1. Information We Collect

Personal Data: When you register, we collect your name, email address, and professional affiliation (e.g., law firm name, Roll of Attorneys number if provided).
Usage Data: We log search queries, accessed cases, and IP addresses to optimize our search algorithms and prevent unauthorized account sharing.
Financial Data: Payments are processed securely via third-party gateways (e.g., PayMongo, GCash). We do not store your credit card numbers or financial credentials on our servers.

2. How We Use Your Data

Your data is strictly used to:

Provide, maintain, and personalize the Service (e.g., White-Label PDF exports).
Process subscriptions and issue electronic receipts.
Monitor and enforce compliance with our Terms of Use regarding account sharing.
Respond to customer support inquiries.

3. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We may share data only with trusted service providers (e.g., cloud hosting via Cloudflare/Render, payment processors) strictly necessary for operating the platform. These providers are bound by strict confidentiality obligations.

4. User Rights under the DPA of 2012

You have the right to be informed, to object, to access, to rectify, to erase or block, and to secure data portability of your personal data. To exercise these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

5. Data Security

We implement robust encryption (HTTPS/TLS) and secure database architectures to protect your information. However, no method of electronic storage or transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

Legal Disclaimer

Last Updated: May 2026

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS PLATFORM DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE. THE DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES OF ACCURACY OR TIMELINESS.

1. Not Legal Advice

The materials and jurisprudence available on this platform are for informational and research purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Use of and access to this database do not create an attorney-client relationship.

2. Accuracy and Completeness of Database

We make no warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, or completeness of any information on the site.

OCR and Parsing Errors: The database may contain typographical errors, OCR artifacts, or formatting inconsistencies resulting from the automated scraping of legacy documents.
Omissions: We do not guarantee that the database contains every single promulgated decision or enacted statute. Users are strictly advised to cross-reference citations with the official Supreme Court Reports Annotated (SCRA) or the Official Gazette.
Status of Laws: The platform does not explicitly track amendments, repeals, or overturns. A case or statute appearing in the database may no longer be good law. It is the sole responsibility of the legal practitioner to verify the current applicability of any cited jurisprudence or statute.

3. Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances shall the platform, its developers, affiliates, or licensors be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service. We bear no liability for cases lost, legal opinions rejected, or damages incurred due to reliance on the text provided in this database.

Legal Policies

Terms of Use

1. Description of Service

2. User Accounts and Subscriptions

3. Acceptable Use and Restrictions

4. Intellectual Property

5. Termination

Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

2. How We Use Your Data

3. Data Sharing and Third Parties

4. User Rights under the DPA of 2012

5. Data Security

Legal Disclaimer

1. Not Legal Advice

2. Accuracy and Completeness of Database

3. Limitation of Liability