Terms & Conditions

Billy provides tools to track legislation, compare bill versions (including word-level redlines), generate AI-assisted change summaries with source citations, organize work in shared workspaces, and receive related notifications. Features may change, expand, or be discontinued as we improve the product. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, or that upstream legislative sources will be complete, timely, or accurate.

You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. You are responsible for the accuracy of information associated with your account and for keeping access to your email (and any linked Google account) secure. Notify us promptly of unauthorized use. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that present a security or abuse risk.

Workspaces may include multiple members. Workspace administrators control membership and certain settings. You retain ownership of content you submit (annotations, watches, corrections, and similar materials). You grant Billy a worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, process, transmit, and display that content solely to operate and improve the Service for you and your workspace.

You agree not to submit content that:

• You do not have the right to provide;
• Infringes intellectual property, privacy, or other rights;
• Is unlawful, harmful, or abusive;
• Attempts to probe, disrupt, or circumvent the Service or its security.

Billy is a research and productivity tool for legislative monitoring. Nothing in the Service constitutes legal advice, a legal opinion, or the practice of law. Redlines, summaries, matches, and alerts may omit material changes, misstate impact, or lag behind official sources. You are solely responsible for verifying outputs against primary sources and for any decisions, filings, client communications, or advice you make. If you need legal advice, consult a licensed attorney in the relevant jurisdiction.

Certain features use machine learning models operated by us or our providers. Outputs are probabilistic and may be wrong, incomplete, or outdated. Evidence citations are provided to help you check the source; they do not guarantee correctness. You may not rely on AI outputs as the sole basis for professional or legal conclusions.

Bill text and related materials generally originate from government and third-party legislative data sources. Those materials remain subject to any applicable public-domain status, copyright, or reuse terms of the source. Billy does not claim ownership of government legislative text. Availability and freshness depend on upstream sources and our ingestion schedule.

You will not:

• Scrape, bulk-download, or systematically extract the Service except through documented interfaces we expressly provide;
• Reverse engineer or attempt to access non-public systems, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by law;
• Interfere with other users or overload the Service;
• Use the Service to build a competing legislative-data product using our non-public data or derived indexes;
• Misrepresent the Service’s outputs as official government text or as attorney work product without appropriate human review.

The Service—including software, design, trademarks, documentation, and non-public indexes or derived data we create—is owned by Billy and its licensors. Except for the limited right to use the Service under these Terms, no rights are granted. Feedback you provide may be used by us without obligation to you.

The Service relies on third parties (for example authentication, hosting, email, and AI providers). Their terms and privacy practices apply to their processing. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT LEGISLATIVE DATA OR AI OUTPUTS WILL BE COMPLETE, CURRENT, OR ERROR-FREE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BILLY AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

You will defend and indemnify Billy and its affiliates against claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive (including ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and indemnity) will survive termination.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Indiana, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless mandatory local law provides otherwise. Courts located in Indiana will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in any jurisdiction.

We may modify these Terms by posting an updated version and revising the “Last updated” date. Material changes may also be noticed by email or in-product. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

Questions about these Terms: awhitaker@gmail.com.

Related: Privacy Policy.