Terms of use

Vakilat is legal research software. It searches judgments of the Supreme Court of India and shows the paragraphs its answers rely on, with each cited statement checked against the judgment we hold.

• Vakilat is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Using it does not create a lawyer-client relationship with us.
• Vakilat does not represent you, appear for you or file anything on your behalf.
• Answers can be incomplete or wrong. Coverage is limited to the judgments and years the service states, and the law may have changed since.
• A qualified professional must review any output before it is relied on for advice, a filing or any decision. You remain responsible for your work.

You must be at least 18 and able to enter a contract. Anyone with a confirmed email address may create an account. Do not present an output to anyone as advice from Vakilat.

Keep your sign-in secure; you are responsible for what happens under your account. A practice workspace is controlled by its owners, who decide who may join and what members may see. Each workspace's data is kept in its own separate store.

Upload or enter material only if you have the right to, including any client consent your professional duties require. You keep all rights in it. You allow us to process it only to provide the service to you and your workspace. We do not use your material or your questions to train AI models, and we do not sell them.

If someone brings a claim against us because of material you uploaded or entered without the right to, or because you used Vakilat in breach of these terms, you will cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, to the extent the law allows.

You may use the answers, citation reports and other output Vakilat gives you in your own work, including in filings and in advice to your clients. Judgments of the Supreme Court are public. The Vakilat software, its design and our own compilations remain ours, and these terms let you use them only through the service.

Vakilat uses AI models from the providers named in the privacy notice. Where a court, tribunal or rule requires you to disclose the use of AI, that disclosure is your responsibility. The citation report shown with each answer lists the authorities it relied on and the result of each check, to help you make it.

You may connect Vakilat's research tools to an AI assistant you use, such as ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot. The assistant is its provider's service, used under your own account and its terms; we are not responsible for it or for what it writes. Vakilat's tools return judgments, paragraphs, citation checks and code tables from what we hold, and the assistant writes its own answer from them, which may differ from what the tools returned. The citation report comes only with answers in the Vakilat app. Check every authority against its Vakilat or official link before relying on it; the professional review these terms require applies to everything the assistant writes.

Your plan sets how many tool calls each person may make in a day, counted until midnight India time, and how many in a minute. The acceptable-use rules apply to every use through an assistant, and you may not use an assistant or any automation to copy Vakilat's content in bulk or to get around these limits. We may change or withdraw the tools or their limits, as “Availability and changes” describes.

Do not use Vakilat to break the law, infringe anyone's rights, reach another workspace's data, probe or overload the service or this website, copy its content in bulk, or resell it. Vakilat is for legal research, and questions outside it may be refused.

The Free plan includes searching and reading judgments and a one-time trial of five research runs. Paid plans are billed monthly in advance per seat, at the price on the pricing page plus 18% GST, through Razorpay, and renew automatically each month until you cancel. Unused research runs do not carry over. You can cancel at any time and receive a refund for the unused research runs of that month, as the cancellation and refund policy sets out. If a renewal fails, paid features continue for up to 72 hours while payment is retried. After that you can still sign in and read your work.

We may change a price, or what a plan includes, with at least 30 days' notice by email or in the app. The change applies from your first renewal after that notice, and you can cancel before then and receive a refund under the refund policy. If your workspace was among our first 100 workspaces to start a paid plan, its price does not change for 12 months from its first payment.

We aim to keep Vakilat available but do not promise it will be uninterrupted, and we may change its features. We will tell you about a material change to these terms by email or in the app before it applies. If you do not accept it, you can cancel and receive a refund under the refund policy.

You can stop using Vakilat at any time. To have your account or workspace deleted, write to privacy@vakilat.io. We delete live copies within 30 days unless the law or a legal hold requires us to keep them, as the privacy notice explains. We may suspend an account that breaches these terms, with notice where the law requires it.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss caused by relying on an output without the professional review these terms require. Our total liability to you for all claims about Vakilat is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the three months before the event that gave rise to the claim. Nothing in these terms limits a liability that Indian law does not allow to be limited.

Nothing on this website is legal advice. The examples on it show how Vakilat works and are not answers to your questions.

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Ahmedabad, Gujarat have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute about them. This does not take away any right you have as a consumer to bring a complaint before a consumer commission where you live or work. Write to hello@vakilat.io with questions; the contact page lists every address.

Write to the Grievance Officer, NESTCLIP PRIVATE LIMITED, at privacy@vakilat.io. We acknowledge every complaint within 48 hours and resolve it within one month.

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent; we may transfer ours to a company that takes over Vakilat, and we will tell you if we do. These terms, with the privacy notice, pricing page and refund policy they refer to, are the whole agreement between you and us about Vakilat.