These Terms are the agreement between you and Habeas Pty Ltd ABN 13 685 656 848 for your use of Habeas. The summary below covers the points most individual subscribers ask about. It does not replace the full Terms.
1.1 These Terms of Service (Terms) apply to your use of the Habeas platform, website, apps and related services (the Service), provided by Habeas Pty Ltd ABN 13 685 656 848 (Habeas, we, us).
1.2 They apply to everyone who uses the Service. Most of these Terms are written for individual subscribers, such as barristers, solicitors and sole practitioners. If you use Habeas through an organisation, section 11 also applies and you will be supplied with a separate contract and billing structure.
1.3 You accept these Terms by creating an account, starting a free trial or using the Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1.4 Our Privacy Policyexplains how we handle personal information and forms part of these Terms.
1.5 You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a binding contract to use the Service.
2.1 Habeas is an AI-powered legal research, analysis and drafting platform built for Australian legal practitioners. Features include legal search with cited sources, AI assistants, document upload and analysis, drafting tools, a precedent library and integrations with services such as Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint.
2.2 Features vary by plan and level of access.
2.3 We continually improve the Service. We may add, change or remove features. If we remove a feature that is a material part of your paid plan, we will give you reasonable notice, and you may cancel and receive a pro rata refund for any prepaid period you have not used.
2.4 We aim to keep the Service available at all times, but it may occasionally be unavailable for maintenance, updates or reasons outside our control.
3.1 You must give accurate details when you create an account and keep them up to date.
3.2 Your account is for you alone. You must not share your login with anyone else, including colleagues. Each person who uses Habeas needs their own account.
3.3 You are responsible for keeping your login secure and for activity under your account. We recommend a strong, unique password and, where available, multi-factor authentication or single sign-on.
3.4 Tell us promptly at [support@habeas.ai] if you believe your account has been accessed without permission. We may suspend access to protect your account while we investigate.
3.5 We protect the Service with technical and organisational security measures, including encryption of data in transit and at rest, access controls and monitoring. A summary of our security practices is available on request.
4.1 New individual accounts may be offered one free trial, currently 14 days. We may limit trials to one per person, practice or payment card.
4.2 You need a valid payment card to start a trial. Nothing is charged during the trial.
4.3 Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your trial automatically converts to a paid subscription on the plan you selected. Your first payment is taken on the conversion date. That date and the price are shown to you at checkout before you start the trial.
4.4 We will email you at least [3] days before your trial converts, reminding you of the conversion date, the price and how to cancel.
4.5 You can cancel during the trial in Settings at any time. If you do, you will not be charged and your access ends when the trial period ends.
4.6 Subscriptions are billed in advance for each billing period (monthly or annually, as you choose). Each period starts on the anniversary of your conversion or sign-up date.
4.7 Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, and we charge your payment method for the next period, until you cancel.
4.8 Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST unless stated otherwise. We issue a tax invoice for each payment, available in Settings.
4.9 We may change our prices. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before a price change applies to you. It takes effect from your next billing period after the notice period. If you do not agree, you can cancel before it applies.
4.10 Payments are processed by our payment provider, Stripe. We do not store your full card details.
4.11 You authorise us to charge your nominated payment method for all fees when due.
4.12 If a payment fails, we will automatically retry it over the following [3] weeks and let you know by email. A retry is an attempt to collect the payment for the billing period already invoiced. It is not a new or additional charge. If you cancel while a payment is outstanding, the outstanding amount for the current period remains payable.
4.13 If we cannot collect a payment after retrying, we may suspend your access until it is paid, or end your subscription.
5.1 You can cancel your subscription at any time in Settings, with no need to contact us. You will receive an email confirming the cancellation and the date your access ends.
5.2 Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You keep full access until then, and you will not be charged again.
5.3 Cancelling does not cancel an invoice already issued for the current billing period. If a payment for that period is outstanding when you cancel, it remains payable and may be collected by an automatic retry under clause 4.12.
5.4 Except as set out in clause 5.5, fees already charged are not refundable, including for change of mind, unused time, partial billing periods or forgetting to cancel.
5.5 Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law. If the Service has a major failure, you may be entitled to cancel and receive a refund for the unused portion of your subscription. We will also refund any amount charged in error.
5.6 We may, at our discretion, offer a goodwill refund or credit in a particular case. Doing so does not oblige us to do so in any other case.
5.7 After your access ends, you can no longer use the Service. Section 6 explains what happens to your content.
6.1 Your Content means anything you put into the Service, such as prompts, questions, documents, files synced from integrations, matter information and notes, and the outputs generated for you.
6.2 You own Your Content. You give us a limited licence to host, process and transmit it only as needed to provide, secure and support the Service for you.
6.3 We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and we do not sell it or share it with third parties except as set out in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
6.4 We treat Your Content as confidential. Access by our personnel is restricted, logged and limited to what is needed to provide support, maintain security or comply with the law.
6.5 By default, Your Content is stored and processed in Australia. Where you or your organisation choose to enable an optional AI model hosted outside Australia, Your Content is sent to that provider only to generate a response, under terms that prohibit it from retaining or training on it. You can turn these models off.
6.6 We use trusted service providers (such as hosting and payment providers) to run the Service. They act on our instructions and are bound by confidentiality and security obligations.
6.7 The Service is designed for use with client and matter materials. You are responsible for ensuring you are entitled to upload Your Content, and that doing so is consistent with your duties of confidentiality, legal professional privilege and any client instructions or court orders.
6.8 We may collect usage information about how the Service is used (for example, which features are used and how often) to operate, secure and improve it. Where we use it to improve the Service, we use it in aggregated or de-identified form, and it does not include the substance of Your Content.
6.9 You can delete Your Content in the Service at any time. When your account closes, we delete Your Content within [90] days, except where we must keep it by law or it remains in routine backups until they expire. You can export Your Content before your access ends.
6.10 If we become aware of a data breach affecting Your Content, we will notify you without undue delay and as required by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
7.1 You must not use the Service to:
7.2 We may apply fair-use limits to protect the Service for all users. Where a plan has usage limits, they are described on our pricing page.
8.1 Habeas uses artificial intelligence to generate answers, summaries and drafts (Output). Habeas is a tool to support your work. It does not provide legal advice and is not a substitute for your professional judgment.
8.2 AI Output can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, even when it cites sources. Habeas shows the sources it relied on so you can check them. You must review and verify Output, including every authority and citation, before relying on it, filing it or sending it to anyone.
8.3 You are solely responsible for how you use Output and for complying with your professional and ethical obligations. These include the conduct rules that apply to you, any practice notes or court rules on the use of generative AI, and your duties to the court and your clients.
8.4 Output is generated for your request and may be similar to Output generated for others. We do not claim ownership of Output generated for you.
9.1 We and our licensors own the Service, including its software, design, databases, precedents, guides and other materials we provide (excluding Your Content). These Terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for your own professional work while your account is active.
9.2 Some materials in the Service, such as legislation, judgments and secondary sources, are owned by third parties and are made available under licence. Your use of them is subject to any terms that apply to them.
9.3 You may use precedents and templates from the Service in your own legal work, but you must not redistribute them as a collection or make them available outside your practice.
9.4 If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.
10.1 You can connect the Service to third-party services, such as Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint. Nothing syncs unless you choose the files or folders to connect, and you can disconnect at any time.
10.2 When you connect a third-party service, you authorise us to access the data you select, only to provide the features you use. Your use of that service remains subject to its own terms, and we are not responsible for it.
11.1 If your access is provided by an organisation, such as a law firm, chambers or company, these Terms apply to your use alongside any separate agreement between Habeas and that organisation. If they conflict, the organisation's agreement prevails.
11.2 Your organisation controls its workspace. It may manage your account, settings and access, and may be able to access content created in its workspace. Billing, cancellation and refunds for organisation accounts are governed by the organisation's agreement, not sections 4 and 5.
11.3 If you accept these Terms on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.
12.1 Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have under that law or any other law that cannot be excluded.
12.2 Subject to clause 12.1, the Service is provided as described in these Terms, and we do not give any other warranty, including that Output will be accurate, complete or suitable for a particular purpose.
12.3 Where the law allows us to limit our liability for failing to comply with a consumer guarantee, our liability is limited, at our option, to supplying the Service again or paying the cost of having it supplied again. This includes under section 64A of the Australian Consumer Law, because the Service is not of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use.
12.4 To the extent permitted by law:
12.5 You agree to indemnify us against loss we suffer from a third-party claim, to the extent the claim is caused by your breach of section 7, or by Your Content infringing someone's rights. Your liability under this clause is reduced to the extent we contributed to the loss.
13.1 You can close your account at any time by cancelling under section 5.
13.2 We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these Terms, if payment cannot be collected under clause 4.13, or if we reasonably need to protect the Service, other users or third parties. Where practical, we will tell you first and give you a reasonable opportunity to fix the problem.
13.3 We may stop offering the Service by giving you at least 30 days' notice. If we do, we will refund any prepaid fees for the period after the Service ends.
13.4 If we end your access because of your serious breach, you are not entitled to a refund, except as required by law.
13.5 Clauses that by their nature should continue after these Terms end, including sections 6, 9 and 12, continue to apply.
14.1 We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the Service or the law.
14.2 We will notify you by email or in the Service at least 30 days before a change that materially affects you takes effect, unless the change is required sooner by law or is needed to address a security risk.
14.3 If you do not agree to a change, you can cancel before it takes effect. If the change materially disadvantages you, you can cancel and receive a pro rata refund for any prepaid period you have not used. If you keep using the Service after the change takes effect, the updated Terms apply.
14.4 The date these Terms were last updated appears at the top of this page.
15.1 Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.
15.2 Disputes. If you have a complaint, please contact us first at [support@habeas.ai]. We will acknowledge it within [2] business days and aim to resolve it within [14] days. This does not limit your right to contact a consumer protection agency or take other action.
15.3 Notices. We may send notices to the email address on your account. You can send notices to us at the contact details below.
15.4 Assignment. You may not transfer your account or these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a sale or restructure of our business, provided your rights under these Terms are not reduced.
15.5 Entire agreement. These Terms, our Privacy Policy and any order or plan details you accept form the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
15.6 Contact. Habeas Pty Ltd ABN 13 685 656 848, Sydney NSW. Email [support@habeas.ai].