Terms of Service
Last updated: July 4, 2026
The Record is not a law firm and not a lawyer.
The Record is a software tool that helps you organize and understand your own documents. It does not provide legal advice, legal opinions, predictions about your case, or representation, and it is not a substitute for an attorney. Using The Record does not create an attorney-client relationship, and nothing you enter is protected by attorney-client privilege. For advice about your specific situation, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.
Your words are your own. Everything you write, file, or submit — in court or anywhere else — is your own expression, your own decision, and your own responsibility. The Record never authors your filings and never decides anything for you; it helps you organize and understand your own record so that your words remain yours. AI-generated analysis can contain errors — verify everything against your own documents before relying on it.
1. The handshake
These terms are the deal between you and us — Inside The Room, the people who run The Record. Creating an account means you’ve read them and you agree. If something here doesn’t sit right with you, don’t sign up — or write to us first and ask. We’d rather answer a hard question than have a member who didn’t understand the deal.
2. What The Record is — and isn’t
The Record is a place to put your documents and finally see what they say. You upload your papers to a private vault; when you ask, the software reads them and lays out the people, the dates, the issues, and the places where the record disagrees with itself — every finding pointing back to the page it came from. That’s the whole job. It shows you your own record. It will never tell you what to file, predict how a judge will rule, or make a decision for you. Those calls belong to you — and, if you have one, to your lawyer.
3. Your account
You have to be 18 and legally able to make this agreement. Your account is yours: what happens under your login is your responsibility, so use a real password and tell us right away if you think someone else got in.
4. Your documents stay yours
Everything you upload belongs to you. Full stop. You give us just enough permission to do the job you’re asking for — store your files, process them, show them back to you, and pass a document to our AI provider when you ask for an analysis (the Privacy Policy spells out how that works). One thing on you: only upload what you have the right to upload.
5. House rules
Simple ones. Don’t use The Record to break the law or to hurt anyone. Don’t upload malware, don’t try to get into other members’ vaults, and don’t attack or overload the service. And don’t copy the product: no scraping, no harvesting our content or other members’ data, no reverse-engineering, and no using the service to build a competing one. The Record’s software, design, names, and content are ours and protected by copyright and trademark law — your documents are yours, the machine is ours. If someone breaks these rules, we close the door on that account.
6. The honesty rule — read this like it’s carved in stone
This is a school, and it teaches within limits and bounds. We teach on YOUR real case — real documents, real dockets, real dates. That only works if you are honest. So here is the covenant, stated once and enforced always: your case must be real, your documents must be genuine, and what you tell us must be true. One proven dishonesty — a fabricated document, an invented case, a doctored record — and your student abilities are denied. Not suspended. Denied. We built this place for people the system failed; someone gaming it steals from every honest student behind them. And so this rule has teeth: you agree that when we have a specific, articulable reason to believe it’s being broken, we may review the content in question to check — with cause, logged, and limited to what the concern requires (see the Privacy Policy for the full list of when we may access content). We don’t browse; we investigate.
7. Emergencies — we are not the right door
If you are in danger, call emergency services. If you are facing an imminent deadline, a criminal charge, an arrest, a removal, or any situation where hours matter — go directly to a licensed attorney, legal aid, or the court itself. The school teaches; it cannot rescue. When your situation needs a licensed professional NOW, that referral IS our advice, and it’s the only one we’ll ever give.
8. About the AI — read this one twice
The AI is a reader, and a genuinely useful one — but it can miss things and it can get things wrong. Treat everything it produces as a starting point, never as a fact you can lean on without checking. The pages you uploaded are the truth; the AI’s summary is a map of them, and maps have errors. Before you rely on anything it surfaced — before you put it in writing anywhere — open your own document and confirm it. How you use what you find is your call and your responsibility.
9. What we can’t promise
We work hard to keep The Record accurate, fast, and available — and we can’t guarantee any of it. The service comes “as is” and “as available,” with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy of AI output or fitness for your particular purpose, to the fullest extent the law allows. That’s not us dodging; that’s us being honest about what software is.
10. The limit of what we owe each other
If something goes wrong, here’s the ceiling, stated plainly: to the fullest extent the law allows, we’re not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for decisions you made based on the service — because those decisions were always yours to make. For any claim, the most we owe you is what you paid us in the twelve months before it. We’re a small company building a tool we believe in; this ceiling is what makes it possible to offer it at all.
11. If we ever disagree — the path, in order
First: talk to us. Before bringing any claim, you agree to email us (section 15) describing the problem and give us thirty days to make it right — most problems die right there, which is how we prefer it. Second: if thirty days pass and it isn’t resolved, any dispute between us is settled by binding individual arbitration (administered under consumer arbitration rules in Massachusetts, or by video), not by a lawsuit in court, and you and we both waive any right to a jury trial and to bring or join a class action — every claim stands on its own, one to one. Third: any claim must be brought within one year of when it arose, or it’s waived. One carve-out to keep this fair: either of us may use small claims court for a claim that fits there. Two more pieces of fairness: the one-year clock pauses during the thirty-day talk-first window, so trying to work it out never costs you your rights; and if you don’t want arbitration at all, you may opt out within thirty days of creating your account by emailing us (section 15) with the subject “Arbitration opt-out” — the rest of these terms still apply. That’s the whole path — a conversation, then a referee, never a circus.
12. Leaving
You can walk away whenever you want — stop using it, delete your account, done. We can end access too, but only for breaking these terms, and your documents remain yours either way.
13. When these terms change
Products grow, and terms grow with them. When something material changes, we’ll post it here with a new date — and for real changes, we’ll ask you to agree again rather than pretend a quiet edit counts. Using the service after a posted change means you accept it.
14. Whose law applies
This agreement lives under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where we’re based, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
15. Talk to us
A question, a worry, something in here that reads wrong — write us: insidetheroom.tv@gmail.com. A human reads it.