Terms of Service

Acceptance

By accessing or using LawLinter, you agree to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

What LawLinter provides

LawLinter compiles, normalizes, indexes, links, and analyzes public legislative and government-source data. The service may include public search pages, bill and law pages, text navigation, voting history, affected-sector analysis, CBO cost estimate context, USAspending.gov award context, campaign-finance context, lobbying disclosure context, Federal Register regulatory context, account features, API access, exports, alerts, and administrative ingestion tools.

Public source data

Much of the content displayed by LawLinter originates from public source systems such as Congress.gov, the Congressional Budget Office, USAspending.gov, FEC/OpenFEC, LDA.gov, and FederalRegister.gov. LawLinter may transform that data into search documents, relationship graphs, statistics, summaries, reports, and API responses. LawLinter does not alter the official meaning of source records; it compiles and presents source-linked context for research. Official government sources remain the authoritative source for legal status, legislative text, votes, public laws, CBO publications, USAspending awards, campaign-finance filings, lobbying disclosure filings, Federal Register documents, and official records.

No professional advice

LawLinter is an information and research tool. It does not provide legal, financial, tax, investment, lobbying, compliance, political, election, or professional advice. You are responsible for verifying information with official sources or qualified professionals before relying on it.

Accounts and security

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and API keys.
• You must not share, resell, publish, or expose API keys unless the applicable plan or written permission allows it.
• You must promptly revoke compromised API keys and notify LawLinter of suspected unauthorized access.
• LawLinter may suspend or restrict accounts, keys, or access to protect the service, users, source systems, or legal obligations.

API, subscriptions, and paid services

Paid API or subscription features may be subject to plan limits, quotas, scopes, rate limits, usage logs, billing terms, and additional product-specific terms. Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, access may be changed, limited, suspended, or discontinued if a plan expires, payment fails, usage exceeds limits, or use threatens service reliability.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• break, bypass, probe, overload, scrape abusively, or interfere with LawLinter systems
• circumvent rate limits, authentication, authorization, subscriptions, or API quotas
• use the service to harass, threaten, mislead, defame, or target individuals unlawfully
• misrepresent LawLinter output as official government advice or an official government record
• remove source attribution, disclaimers, or usage notices from exported data where those notices are provided
• use the service in violation of law, source-system terms, or third-party rights

User content and feedback

If LawLinter later accepts saved searches, notes, comments, correction reports, or other user-submitted content, you are responsible for what you submit. You grant LawLinter permission to use submissions as needed to operate, improve, moderate, and support the service. Do not submit confidential, unlawful, or sensitive information that you do not want processed for those purposes.

Corrections and source attribution

LawLinter aims to preserve source provenance and link back to official records. If you find a local parsing, linking, display, or attribution error, you may report it through the contact method published on the site. Corrections to official government records may need to be directed to the official source.

Availability and changes

LawLinter may change, pause, remove, or discontinue features, pages, API endpoints, plans, pricing, quotas, source integrations, or data-processing jobs. The service may be unavailable during maintenance, source-system outages, rate limits, deployment, errors, or infrastructure issues.

Intellectual property

Larzilla LLC owns or licenses the LawLinter site design, software, database structure, original organization, analysis, reports, data compilation, and non-government content it creates. Public government-source records may be subject to their own public-domain, source-system, or attribution rules. You are responsible for complying with applicable source terms and laws when reusing data.

Third-party services and links

LawLinter may link to or use third-party services such as official government websites, hosting providers, payment processors, Google Analytics or other analytics services, advertising networks, email providers, or source APIs. LawLinter is not responsible for third-party content, policies, uptime, accuracy, or practices. Optional analytics and advertising services should be handled according to the Privacy Policy and cookie preferences where applicable.

Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” LawLinter does not guarantee that data is complete, current, uninterrupted, error-free, or suitable for a specific purpose. See the Disclaimer page for additional source-data, accuracy, and interpretation notices.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, LawLinter and its operator are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost data, business interruption, or decisions made based on the service. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some limitations may not apply.

Termination

LawLinter may suspend or terminate access if you violate these terms, create security risk, misuse the service, fail to pay for paid services, or create legal or operational risk. You may stop using the service at any time and revoke your own API keys where account tools are available.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated as LawLinter evolves. Material changes should be reflected on this page. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms, account access, API use, billing, or correction requests can be sent through the contact page.