CiteMatch policy 2026-07-29-prelaunch
Terms of service
Effective July 29, 2026
This site and CiteMatch are operated and provided by Cited Authorities LLC. Cited Authorities LLC provides software, not legal services. No attorney-client relationship is created by any purchase or use of this site or CiteMatch.
1. Agreement and account
These terms govern your use of CiteMatch, a product of Cited Authorities LLC. You must provide accurate account information, keep your sign-in details secure, and be legally able to enter this agreement. You are responsible for use through your account.
2. License
While your trial or paid subscription is active, Cited Authorities LLC gives you a limited, personal, nonexclusive, nontransferable, revocable license to use CiteMatch for your own professional work on no more than two active Word computers. The software and local model package are licensed, not sold. Except where mandatory law permits, you may not share an account or credentials, evade device controls, extract or redistribute the model, remove ownership notices, resell the product, use it to train a competing model, or copy, modify, decompile, or reverse engineer it.
3. Acceptable use
Do not use CiteMatch to break the law, violate another person's rights, disrupt the service, bypass access controls, test the service without authorization, or send harmful code. Do not use the product in a way that overloads or abuses public source services.
4. Subscription, renewal, and cancellation
A card is required to start the 7-day trial. Unless you cancel before it ends, the plan you selected begins and renews automatically each month or year at the price shown at checkout, plus applicable taxes. For eligible purchases, Stripe provides Managed Payments and acts as merchant of record for checkout, payment, tax collection, disputes, refunds, and transaction support. Checkout may be presented through Link. Additional provider terms presented at checkout also apply to that transaction. You can manage or cancel through Account & billing or Link, as indicated at checkout. Cancellation stops the next renewal and access continues through the paid period. A completed full refund revokes access to that refunded term. Our refund policy explains when we refund a charge.
5. What CiteMatch does
CiteMatch is a checking tool, not a lawyer and not legal advice. It compares citation details and quoted text with source material it can retrieve. It does not guarantee that an authority is good law, complete, current, controlling, or suitable for your argument. Source coverage and availability have limits. You remain responsible for reviewing sources, exercising professional judgment, and every filing decision.
6. Ownership and feedback
You keep ownership of your documents. Cited Authorities LLC and its licensors own CiteMatch and its software, design, and documentation. If you send product feedback, you permit us to use it without payment or attribution, but you do not transfer ownership of materials or document content.
7. Service changes and termination
We may improve, change, suspend, or discontinue parts of CiteMatch. We may suspend or end access for a material violation of these terms, unlawful use, nonpayment, or a security risk. If we discontinue the paid service, we will provide reasonable notice and any refund required by law.
8. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CiteMatch is provided as available, without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, or uninterrupted and error-free operation. Some jurisdictions do not allow some warranty exclusions, so these exclusions may not fully apply to you.
9. Liability limit
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Cited Authorities LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or missed deadlines. Its total liability arising from CiteMatch will not exceed the greater of $100 or the amount you paid for CiteMatch in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. This limit does not apply where applicable law forbids it.
10. Governing law
Maryland law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute must be brought in a state or federal court with jurisdiction in Maryland, unless applicable law requires another forum.
11. Changes and contact
We may update these terms and will post the new effective date here. If a material change affects an active subscription, we will provide reasonable notice. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated terms.
These prelaunch terms require targeted outside-counsel review before public checkout.
Questions? team@citematch.app.