Vinny Terms of Use

Last updated: January 21, 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Vinny professional artificial intelligence (“AI”) assistant platform (“Vinny”), including the web interface, APIs, related websites, documentation, and subscription services (collectively, the “Service”). The Service is owned and operated by Vinny AI, LLC, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Vinny AI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you are using the Service on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” and “your” refer to that entity.

THESE TERMS CONSTITUTE A BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND US. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THROUGH ALL SECTIONS OF THESE TERMS. YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE IS SUBJECT TO THESE TERMS AND ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE IF YOU VIOLATE THESE TERMS.

MANDATORY ARBITRATION NOTICE AND CLASS ACTION AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER. These Terms contain a mandatory (binding) arbitration provision and class action and jury trial waiver clauses. Except for certain types of disputes described in the arbitration section below or where prohibited by applicable law, you agree that disputes between you and us regarding your use of the Service will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration and you waive your right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration. For more details, see Section 13 below.

1. Overview of the Service

1.1 About Vinny

Vinny is an AI-powered legal chat assistant designed to help legal and business professionals with information, analysis, drafting assistance, and workflows related to business law and operations. Vinny does not act as your attorney, does not provide legal services, and does not practice law.

1.2 No Attorney-Client Relationship; No Legal Advice

(a) Your use of the Service does not create an attorney-client relationship or any other fiduciary relationship between you (or your organization) and Vinny or us.

(b) The Service provides general informational content and drafting assistance and is not tailored to your specific facts, jurisdiction, or matter, unless expressly stated otherwise.

(c) The Service and any Outputs (as defined in Section 5 below) are not legal advice, are not a legal opinion, and are not a recommendation about what you should do in a particular legal situation.

(d) You are solely responsible for:

• Assessing the applicability of any Output to your situation;
• Confirming accuracy, completeness, and legal sufficiency;
• Obtaining advice from qualified legal counsel before relying on or acting upon any Output; and
• Ensuring that your use of the Service complies with all laws, regulations, and professional rules applicable to you.

1.3 No Practice of Law; Regulatory Status

(a) The Service is not registered with or regulated by any bar association or regulatory body as a legal services provider.

(b) You acknowledge and agree that:

• The Service does not provide legal representation or advocacy;
• The Service does not appear in court, draft or sign pleadings, or communicate with opposing parties or regulators on your behalf; and
• The Service is not engaged in the practice of law as defined under any jurisdiction's laws or professional conduct rules.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

2.1 Eligibility

If you access or use the Service, you agree that:

• Your use of the Service is subject to and governed by these Terms;
• You are at least 18 years of age;
• You will use the Service solely as intended in the normal course of business;
• You will always act in accordance with the law and custom, and in good faith;
• These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and us that will be enforceable against you;
• You have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract; and
• You are not barred from using the Service under applicable law.

2.2 Account Registration

To access certain features (including subscriptions), you must create an account and provide accurate and complete information. You agree to:

• Keep your account information current, correct, and complete;
• Maintain the security of your login credentials; and
• Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use or security breach.

You acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to the Service using your username, password, or other security information. We have the right to disable any username, password, or other identifier at any time in our sole discretion for any reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms.

2.3 Use on Behalf of an Organization

If you create an account or use the Service on behalf of an organization:

• You represent that you are authorized to bind that organization;
• Your organization is responsible for all activity under its accounts; and
• References to “you” include both you individually and your organization.

3. Subscriptions, Fees, and Payment

3.1 Subscription Plans

Access to certain features may require a paid subscription (“Subscription”). The details of each Subscription (e.g., price, term, usage limits, support levels) are described at the point of purchase or in an applicable order form.

3.2 Billing and Payment

(a) You authorize us (or our payment processor) to charge all applicable fees using your selected payment method on the billing schedule specified in your Subscription.

(b) You agree to maintain valid payment information and to pay all amounts when due.

(c) Fees are generally non-refundable, except as required by law or expressly stated in these Terms.

3.3 Renewals and Cancellations

(a) Subscriptions will automatically renew for successive periods equal to the initial term unless you cancel before the end of the then-current term.

(b) You may cancel through your account settings or by following the cancellation instructions provided. Cancellation will take effect at the end of the current billing period.

(c) Upon cancellation, you will retain access to the Service through the end of your paid term; no refunds are provided for partial periods unless required by applicable law.

3.4 Changes to Fees

We may change Subscription fees or introduce new charges by providing advance notice. Fee changes will apply at the start of the next renewal term. Your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the new fees.

3.5 Taxes

Fees are exclusive of any applicable taxes (e.g., sales, use, VAT). You are responsible for all such taxes, excluding taxes based on our net income.

4. Acceptable Use and User Responsibilities

4.1 General Use Restrictions

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
• Use the Service in any way that would cause it to be treated as providing legal services where doing so would constitute the unauthorized practice of law;
• Misrepresent any Output as legal advice from a licensed attorney, a formal legal opinion, or as having been prepared or approved by a law firm or attorney when that is not the case;
• Use the Service to create, train, or improve competing AI or machine learning models;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, models, or underlying systems of the Service;
• Bypass, interfere with, or attempt to defeat any security, rate limiting, or access controls;
• Use automated means (e.g., bots, scrapers) to access the Service except as expressly permitted; or
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service.

4.2 Professional and Compliance Obligations

If you are a legal professional or other regulated professional:

• You remain responsible for complying with all applicable rules of professional conduct, confidentiality rules, client communication and supervision duties, and any other regulatory obligations;
• You must review and validate all Outputs before using them in any professional work product or advice; and
• You will not present Outputs to clients or third parties as a substitute for your own professional judgment unless you have independently reviewed, adapted, and taken responsibility for them.

4.3 Your User Content and Inputs

You may submit content, documents, text, prompts, or other materials to the Service (“User Content”). You are solely responsible for all User Content you submit, including its accuracy, quality, legality, and ensuring that you have all necessary rights and permissions to use it.

4.4 No Model Training on Your Data

(a) We do not use your User Content or Outputs to train or retrain the core large language models that power the Service, or any other general-purpose AI models.

(b) Your User Content may be temporarily processed and stored as needed to:

• Deliver the Service and generate Outputs;
• Maintain and secure the Service (including fraud and abuse monitoring, debugging, and incident response); and
• Provide customer support at your request.

(c) We may use de-identified and aggregated operational metrics (for example, usage counts, performance statistics, and error rates) to monitor and improve the Service, but those metrics do not include your identifiable User Content and are not used to train the underlying models.

5. Outputs and Intellectual Property

5.1 Service Outputs

The Service generates responses, drafts, summaries, and other materials based on your User Content and other inputs (“Outputs”). Outputs may include text that is similar to existing content in public or licensed data. The Service provides Outputs that are artificially generated and may contain inaccuracies.

5.2 Your Rights in Outputs

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of all applicable fees:

• As between you and us, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, you may use the Outputs for your internal business purposes, including in your work product, subject to these Terms.
• You acknowledge that Outputs are generated by an AI system that is not a lawyer and that all Outputs require your independent review and legal judgment before being used, shared, or relied upon.

IF YOU PLAN TO USE OUTPUTS FOR ANY REASON, IT IS YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO VERIFY ANY OUTPUT. OUTPUT MAY NOT BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR WITH CURRENT INFORMATION.

5.3 Our Rights in the Service

We and our licensors own all rights, title, and interest in and to the Service and its underlying software, models, algorithms, and infrastructure, all improvements, modifications, and derivative works thereof, and our trademarks, logos, and branding. Except for the limited rights of access and use expressly granted in these Terms, no license, rights, title, or interest in or to the Service are granted to you.

5.4 Feedback

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas to us (“Feedback”), you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, freely transferable, and freely sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, redistribute, and display that Feedback for any purpose, without any obligation or compensation to you.

6. Privacy and Data Use

Our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information in connection with the Service are described in our Privacy Policy. Although not part of these Terms, we encourage you to read it to better understand how you can update, manage, access, and delete your information.

7. Third-Party Services and Integrations

The Service may integrate with or rely on third-party services, platforms, or tools. Your use of third-party services is subject to the terms and privacy policies of those third parties, not these Terms. We do not control and are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or security of third-party services.

8. Disclaimers

8.1 No Legal Advice; Informational Use Only

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATIONAL AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT PURPOSES ONLY AND DO NOT CONSTITUTE LEGAL, TAX, OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. YOU SHOULD CONSULT QUALIFIED COUNSEL OR OTHER APPROPRIATE LICENSED PROFESSIONALS BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISIONS OR TAKING OR REFRAINING FROM ANY ACTION BASED ON THE SERVICE OR ANY OUTPUT.

8.2 No Guarantee of Accuracy or Suitability

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. AI SYSTEMS CAN GENERATE INCORRECT, INCOMPLETE, OR OUTDATED INFORMATION AND MAY NOT REFLECT CURRENT LAWS, REGULATIONS, OR GUIDANCE. WE DO NOT WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE OR OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, TIMELY, RELIABLE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT ANY PARTICULAR RESULT OR OUTCOME WILL BE ACHIEVED; OR THAT THE SERVICE OR OUTPUTS ARE SUITABLE OR LEGALLY SUFFICIENT FOR YOUR SPECIFIC USE CASE, TRANSACTION, OR JURISDICTION.

8.3 Service Provided “AS IS”

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

9. Limitation of Liability

9.1 Exclusion of Certain Damages

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR AFFILIATES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS, OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; OR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR RELIANCE ON ANY OUTPUT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

9.2 Liability Cap

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO US FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE ONE (1) MONTH IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID ANY FEES, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICE.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless us and our subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their and our respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents, representatives, clients, contractors, and third-party service providers from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, losses, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your use or misuse of the Service or Outputs;
• Your User Content, including alleged infringement, misappropriation, or violation of any third-party rights;
• Your violation of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation;
• Your violation of any professional or regulatory obligations, including any presentation of Outputs as legal advice or as the work product of a licensed attorney without appropriate review and oversight.

11. Suspension and Termination

11.1 Suspension

We may temporarily suspend or limit your access to the Service for any reason, including if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or applicable law, your use poses a security risk, or we are required to do so by law or a governmental authority.

11.2 Termination by You

You may stop using the Service at any time. If you wish to terminate your Subscription, you must follow the cancellation process described in Section 3.3.

11.3 Termination by Us

We may terminate your account or access to the Service, in whole or in part, without notice for any reason, including if you materially breach these Terms or we discontinue the Service.

11.4 Effect of Termination

Upon termination:

• Your right to use the Service will immediately cease;
• We may, but are not obligated to, retain your User Content for a limited period consistent with our data retention practices and our Privacy Policy; and
• Any provisions that by their nature should survive (including Sections 1.2, 1.3, 3, 4.4, 5, 10, 13, 15) will survive termination.

12. Modifications to the Service and Terms

12.1 Changes to the Service

We may update, enhance, or modify the Service from time to time, including adding or removing features or functionality. Where changes materially reduce core functionality for paid users, we will use reasonable efforts to provide prior notice.

12.2 Changes to These Terms

We may change, update, add, or remove provisions of these Terms at any time. When we do, we will indicate the “Last updated” date at the top of these Terms. For material changes, we may provide additional notice (e.g., via email or in-product message). Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

13. Mandatory Arbitration and Class Action Waiver

Most concerns can be resolved quickly and to your satisfaction by contacting us as set forth in the “Contact Information” section below.

In the event that we are not able to resolve a dispute, and with the exception of the claims for injunctive relief by us as described above and to the extent allowed by law, you hereby agree that either you or we may require any dispute, claim, or cause of action (“Claim”) between you and us arising out of use of the Services to be arbitrated on an individual (non-class) basis.

THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY IN ARBITRATION, AND COURT REVIEW OF AN ARBITRATION AWARD IS VERY LIMITED. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AS A CLASS REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.

You and we agree that your use of the Services involves interstate commerce, and that this arbitration agreement shall be interpreted and enforced in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). If either you or we elect to arbitrate a Claim, the dispute shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered under the applicable rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”).

You may reject this arbitration provision within thirty (30) days of accepting the Terms by emailing us at contact@vinnypro.ai and including in the subject line “Rejection of Arbitration Provision.”

14. Governing Law; Dispute Resolution

14.1 Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without reference to its conflict of laws principles, and the United States of America.

14.2 Venue and Jurisdiction

Except as set forth in the agreement to arbitration, any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California; and you and we irrevocably submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

15. Miscellaneous

15.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with any applicable Orders, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements.

15.2 Assignment

You may not assign, delegate, or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

15.3 Force Majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, labor disputes, governmental actions, power or internet outages, or failures of third-party service providers.

15.4 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

15.5 Non-Waiver

A failure by us to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.

16. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms or the Service, please contact us at:

Vinny AI, LLC
4235 Redwood Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90066

Email: contact@vinnypro.ai