Terms of Service

Effective date: September 2, 2026

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. SECTION 16 CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND A CLASS-ACTION WAIVER. UNLESS YOU OPT OUT AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 16.9, THEY REQUIRE YOU TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH US THROUGH INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION RATHER THAN IN COURT OR THROUGH CLASS PROCEEDINGS, AND THEY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS.

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legally binding agreement between you (“you”) and Jake Team LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“Jake Team,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of lexregister.com and lexcircuit.com, their subdomains, RSS and other feeds, email newsletters, social media accounts, application programming interfaces, and any other content, feature or service we provide in connection with them (together, the “Sites”).

By accessing or using the Sites, subscribing to a newsletter, submitting information to us, or otherwise indicating acceptance, you agree to these Terms and to our Disclaimer, which is incorporated by reference. Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle personal information and our AI & Editorial Standards page describes our editorial process; both are provided for your information and are not contractual terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Sites. If you use the Sites on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes it.

2. Eligibility

The Sites are intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if higher, to use the Sites, subscribe to a newsletter or make a Submission. By doing any of those things you represent that you meet this requirement. The Sites are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

3. Changes to the Terms and the Sites

We may modify these Terms at any time by posting a revised version with a new effective date. Material changes will be indicated by the effective date at the top of this page and a notice on the Sites and, where we hold your email address for a newsletter, may also be announced by email. Your continued use of the Sites after a revised version is posted constitutes acceptance of it. If you do not agree to a revision, stop using the Sites.

We may change, suspend, restrict or discontinue any part of the Sites, including any feed, newsletter, API or feature, at any time without notice or liability.

4. Nature of the content; no legal advice

The Sites publish news reporting. Content on the Sites is provided for general informational purposes only, is not legal, financial, investment or other professional advice, and does not create an attorney-client or other professional relationship. Stories are drafted with the assistance of artificial-intelligence systems and reviewed by a human editor before publication, as described on our AI & Editorial Standards page. The Disclaimer applies to all content and is part of these Terms.

5. Intellectual property

5.1 Our content

The Sites and all content on them, including text, summaries, key points, source compilations, story clusters, data, metadata, taxonomy, entity registries, page layouts, graphics, logos, marks, software, code, feeds and the selection, coordination and arrangement of all of the foregoing (the “Content”), are owned by Jake Team or its licensors and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, database, trade-secret and other intellectual-property laws. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved.

5.2 Trademarks

LexRegister, LexCircuit, the scales-in-seal device, the section-sign-in-seal device, and any related names, logos, slogans and designs are trademarks or trade dress of Jake Team LLC (the “Marks”), whether or not registered. You may not use the Marks without our prior written permission, except to link to the Sites or to refer to them accurately in plain text. Third-party names and marks that appear on the Sites belong to their respective owners and are used for identification only.

5.3 Limited license to you

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and view the Sites and Content for your personal informational use or the internal informational use of your organization, and to subscribe to our public RSS feeds and newsletters through a standard reader or email client. You may quote brief excerpts of Content, with attribution and a link to the source page, for the purposes of commentary, criticism or news reporting to the extent permitted by applicable law.

5.4 Restrictions

Except as expressly permitted in Section 5.3 or by applicable law that cannot be waived, you may not, and may not permit or assist anyone else to:

1. copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, display, transmit, sell, license, rent, frame, mirror or otherwise exploit the Content or any substantial part of it;
2. scrape, crawl, harvest, spider, extract or download the Content or any data from the Sites by automated means, including through bots, scripts, headless browsers or data-extraction tools, other than (a) search-engine indexing that respects our robots.txt, (b) consumption of our public RSS feeds at reasonable intervals, and (c) retrieval of individual pages by an AI assistant or agent acting in real time on behalf of a human user, in compliance with our robots.txt and any bot-management signals we publish;
3. use the Content, or any data derived from it, to train, fine-tune, pre-train, evaluate or otherwise develop any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model or dataset, or to build or populate any competing news, summarization, alerting or research product, without a written license from us (real-time retrieval under clause 2(c) is not training);
4. remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark, source attribution, correction notice, retraction notice or other proprietary or provenance notice;
5. modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works of the Content;
6. access the Sites in a manner that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, that circumvents any rate limit, cache, access control, robots directive or security measure, or that interferes with any other user’s access;
7. probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Sites or any related system, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure;
8. use the Sites for any unlawful purpose, to infringe any right of any person, or to send unsolicited communications; or
9. misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or impersonate Jake Team, its contributors or any other person.

We reserve the right, without notice, to block any user, IP range, user agent or network that we believe violates this Section, and to pursue all available legal remedies.

5.5 Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback about the Sites, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them for any purpose without compensation or attribution.

6. Submissions: tips, corrections, contact and other content you send us

6.1 What counts as a Submission

“Submission” means anything you send to us or through the Sites, including news tips, documents, corrections requests, contact-form messages, advertising inquiries, comments, story proposals and any material submitted through any API we provide.

6.2 Your license to us

You retain any ownership you have in a Submission. By making a Submission you grant Jake Team a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, edit, summarize, translate, publish, distribute, display and create derivative works from the Submission, in whole or in part, in any media now known or later developed, for the purposes of investigating, reporting, publishing, operating and promoting the Sites, and to exercise all of the foregoing rights in connection with any story or Content. This license survives termination of these Terms. You waive, to the extent permitted by law, any moral rights in a Submission.

6.3 Your representations

For each Submission, you represent and warrant that: (a) you have all rights necessary to make it and to grant the license in Section 6.2; (b) it does not infringe or misappropriate any copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, publicity or other right of any person; (c) it does not contain information that you are legally, contractually or ethically obligated to keep confidential, including information protected by attorney-client privilege, work-product protection, a protective order, a sealing order, a non-disclosure agreement, or a professional duty of confidentiality, unless you are lawfully entitled to disclose it; (d) it is not defamatory, unlawful, or submitted for an improper purpose; and (e) it is, to the best of your knowledge, accurate.

6.4 No obligation; no confidentiality; no relationship

We are under no obligation to review, publish, act on, respond to, credit, return or retain any Submission, and we may edit, decline or remove it at any time. Submissions are not confidential and are not sent through a privileged channel; do not send us anything you would be harmed by having disclosed. Making a Submission does not create any attorney-client, source-protection, employment, partnership, joint-venture, agency or other relationship. We are a news publisher; we will exercise editorial judgment about the protection of sources, but we make no guarantee of anonymity, and we may be compelled by law to disclose a Submission or information about its sender.

6.5 Automated submissions and the agent API

If we make an API or other automated submission channel available, its use is governed by these Terms and by any additional API terms, credentials or rate limits we issue. Every automated submission is treated as a draft that no one may publish without human review by Jake Team. You are responsible for all activity conducted with credentials issued to you and must keep them secure. We may revoke credentials at any time.

7. Newsletters and communications

By subscribing to a newsletter you consent to receive the newsletter and related service messages at the email address you provide. Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link. We may also send you transactional messages about your subscription or about these Terms. Newsletter Content is subject to Section 5. Our handling of your email address is described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Advertising and sponsored content

The Sites may carry advertising and sponsored content, which will be labeled. Advertisers and sponsors do not influence editorial content. We do not endorse any advertiser, sponsor, or product, and any transaction between you and an advertiser is solely between you and that advertiser. Advertising placements are governed by separate written agreements between Jake Team and the advertiser.

9. Third-party links and services

The Sites link to third-party websites, documents and services, including source articles, court dockets, regulators and vendors, and may rely on third-party infrastructure, analytics and advertising services. We do not control those third parties and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, security or privacy practices. A link is not an endorsement. Your use of any third-party site or service is at your own risk and subject to that third party’s terms.

10. Corrections, retractions and removal

Our corrections process is described in the Disclaimer and on the Corrections page. We reserve sole editorial discretion over whether to correct, retract, update or remove any Content, subject to applicable law. Nothing in these Terms obliges us to remove accurate reporting on matters of public concern.

11. Copyright complaints

We respect intellectual-property rights. Most Content on the Sites is written by Jake Team and summarizes third-party reporting with attribution and links; where we publish material provided by others, we respond to notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. If you believe Content on the Sites infringes a copyright you own or control, send a written notice to our copyright agent at info@jaketeam.com (subject line “Copyright Notice”), or by post to the address in Section 19, that includes: (1) a physical or electronic signature of the owner or a person authorized to act for the owner; (2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (3) identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to locate it (the story URL); (4) your name, address, telephone number and email address; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing may expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). If we remove user-provided material in response to a notice, the person who provided it may submit a counter-notice meeting the requirements of § 512(g)(3), and we may restore the material as that section provides. We may terminate the access or credentials of anyone we determine to be a repeat infringer. Please identify the specific text, image or file you believe is infringing rather than the story as a whole; a summary of a news event with attribution is not a copy of the source article.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SITES AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. JAKE TEAM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT ANY CONTENT IS ACCURATE OR CURRENT, OR THAT THE SITES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED FROM US OR THROUGH THE SITES CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF, OR RELIANCE ON, THE SITES AND ANY CONTENT.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

13.1 Exclusion of damages

IN NO EVENT WILL JAKE TEAM LLC OR ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, CONTRIBUTORS, EDITORS, AGENTS, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS (THE “JAKE TEAM PARTIES”) BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, CLIENTS, GOODWILL, DATA OR OPPORTUNITY, OR FOR ANY COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY, MALPRACTICE CLAIM, SANCTION, DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING, FILING DEFECT, MISSED DEADLINE, ADVERSE RULING OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL OR BUSINESS CONSEQUENCE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SITES OR ANY CONTENT, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE OR OTHERWISE), EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

13.2 Cap

THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE JAKE TEAM PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SITES OR ANY CONTENT WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID TO JAKE TEAM FOR ACCESS TO THE SITES IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

13.3 Basis of the bargain

THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION ARE A FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND JAKE TEAM, AND THE SITES WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED WITHOUT THEM. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN THAT CASE THE LIABILITY OF THE JAKE TEAM PARTIES IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Jake Team Parties from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Sites or any Content in breach of these Terms; (b) any Submission; (c) your breach of these Terms or of any representation or warranty in them; or (d) your violation of any law or of any right of a third party, including any intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality or professional-conduct obligation. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with our defense. You may not settle any such matter without our prior written consent.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Sites, and delete any subscription or credential, at any time, with or without cause or notice, without liability. Sections 5, 6.2 through 6.5, 11 through 19 and any other provision that by its nature should survive will survive termination.

16. Dispute resolution: binding arbitration and class-action waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

16.1 Informal resolution first

Before starting arbitration or any other proceeding, you agree to try to resolve any dispute informally by sending a written notice of dispute to info@jaketeam.com (subject line “Notice of Dispute”) that describes the dispute, the relief sought and your contact information. We will do the same by emailing you at any address you have given us. The parties will negotiate in good faith for sixty (60) days from receipt of the notice before either may start a formal proceeding. Any statute of limitations is tolled during that period.

16.2 Agreement to arbitrate

Except as provided in Sections 16.7 and 16.8, you and Jake Team agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating in any way to these Terms, the Sites, any Content or Submission, or the relationship between us, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory, and whether arising before or after the effective date of these Terms (each a “Dispute”), will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., and evidences a transaction involving interstate commerce.

16.3 Arbitration rules and procedure

The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, or, if you are using the Sites on behalf of a business, its Commercial Arbitration Rules, in each case as in effect when the arbitration is filed (the “Rules”), except as modified by this Section. The Rules are available at www.adr.org. The arbitration will be conducted by a single neutral arbitrator. The seat of arbitration is Collin County, Texas, except that if you are a consumer the Rules governing the locale of the hearing will control; hearings, if any, may be conducted by video conference, and where you are a consumer you may elect to appear by telephone or video or to have the matter decided on written submissions. The arbitrator may award any relief that a court of competent jurisdiction could award to an individual party, and must follow these Terms as a court would. The arbitrator’s award will be in writing, will state the essential findings and conclusions on which it is based, and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

16.4 Fees

Payment of filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be governed by the Rules. If you are a consumer and the Rules require us to pay more than your share, we will. Each party bears its own attorneys’ fees and costs unless the arbitrator finds a claim or defense was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose, in which case the arbitrator may award fees to the prevailing party as permitted by law.

16.5 Coordinated filings

If twenty-five (25) or more similar demands for arbitration are filed against Jake Team by the same or coordinated counsel or are otherwise coordinated, they will be treated as coordinated filings. The AAA will administer them in staged batches of no more than fifty (50) demands each, with a single arbitrator per batch and a single set of filing and administrative fees per batch, and the parties will cooperate in good faith to select bellwether cases and to mediate after the first batch is decided. Any statute of limitations is tolled from the filing of the first demand until each demand in a later batch is heard. If this subsection is found unenforceable as to a demand, that demand will be arbitrated individually under the Rules.

16.6 Delegation

The arbitrator, and not any court, has exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, scope or formation of this Section 16, including any claim that all or any part of it is void or voidable, except that a court will decide any dispute about the enforceability of the class-action waiver in Section 16.10.

16.7 Exceptions: small claims and injunctive relief for IP

Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Either party may seek temporary, preliminary or permanent injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of its intellectual-property rights, its rights under Section 5.4, or the security of its systems, without first engaging in the informal process in Section 16.1 or in arbitration.

16.8 Court proceedings if arbitration does not apply

If for any reason a Dispute proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, it will be brought exclusively in the state courts located in Collin County, Texas, or the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, and you and Jake Team consent to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

16.9 Your right to opt out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by sending an email to info@jaketeam.com with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” within thirty (30) days after the later of (a) the effective date of these Terms and (b) the date you first access the Sites or first accept these Terms. The email must include your name, the email address you use with the Sites (if any), and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms. If you opt out, Section 16.8 governs.

16.10 Class-action and representative-action waiver

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND JAKE TEAM AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request (and only that claim or request) will be severed and litigated in court under Section 16.8, and the remainder will be arbitrated.

16.11 Jury-trial waiver

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND JAKE TEAM EACH KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY in any proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Sites.

16.12 Time limit on claims

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Sites must be filed within two (2) years after it accrues, or it is permanently barred.

16.13 Changes to this Section

If we change this Section 16 after the date you first accepted these Terms, you may reject the change by emailing us within thirty (30) days after the change takes effect; if you do, the version of Section 16 you most recently accepted will continue to apply to any Dispute between us.

17. Governing law

These Terms, and any Dispute, are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and applicable federal law of the United States, without regard to any conflict-of-laws principle that would result in the application of the law of another jurisdiction, and without regard to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 16.

18. Miscellaneous

18.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Disclaimer and any API terms we issue, are the entire agreement between you and Jake Team concerning the Sites and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings.

18.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force, except as provided in Section 16.10.

18.3 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by us.

18.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent, and any attempt to do so is void. We may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets.

18.5 Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, labor disputes, internet or hosting failures, denial-of-service attacks, government action, or failures of third-party services.

18.6 Electronic communications and notices

You consent to receive communications from us electronically, and agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that communications be in writing. Notices to you may be posted on the Sites or sent to any email address you have given us. Notices to us must be sent to info@jaketeam.com unless a different address is specified for a particular kind of notice.

18.7 No third-party beneficiaries

Except for the Jake Team Parties, who may enforce Sections 12 through 14, there are no third-party beneficiaries of these Terms.

18.8 Relationship

Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, fiduciary or attorney-client relationship between you and Jake Team.

18.9 Export and sanctions

You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, any country subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

18.10 Interpretation

Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation.” No rule of construction against the drafter applies.

18.11 California residents

Under California Civil Code § 1789.3, California users are entitled to the following notice: the Sites are provided by Jake Team LLC, [POSTAL ADDRESS], telephone [TELEPHONE], email info@jaketeam.com. The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.

19. Contact

Jake Team LLC
Attn: Legal
[POSTAL ADDRESS]
[TELEPHONE]
Website: https://jaketeam.com
Email: info@jaketeam.com