1. About these terms
Zalari Law Reports (“the service”) is operated by Zalari(“we”, “us”). By creating an account or buying access you agree to these terms, to our Privacy policy and to our Refund policy.
2. The service
The service is an archive of judgments from the Zimbabwe Law Reports, the South African Law Reports and the Zimbabwe Labour Court. Anyone can search the archive and read the preview of a judgment. Full judgments, and Zalari AI, are part of full access.
3. Your account
- You need an account, with an email address you have verified, to buy full access.
- An account is for one person. Do not share your sign-in details.
- We limit how many devices can be signed in to one account at the same time.
- You are responsible for what is done through your account, so keep your password to yourself.
4. Full access and payment
Full access is sold for a fixed period. The options are:
- Day Research Pass: $4 for 24 hours.
- Research Pass: $7 for 7 days.
- Professional: $15 for 3 weeks.
- Professional Quarterly: $45 for 3 months.
- Prices are in United States dollars.
- Your access starts when your payment is confirmed and ends when the period you paid for ends.
- You pay by EcoCash or by card through our payment provider. Card details are entered on the payment provider’s own page and never reach us.
- A payment made by EcoCash or by card through Pesepay is a single payment. Nothing renews by itself; you pay again only if you choose to.
- Some earlier card subscriptions do renew automatically. If yours does, your account shows the next billing date and lets you cancel; access then continues to the end of the period already paid for.
- If we change a price, the new price applies to purchases made after the change.
- Refunds are covered by our Refund policy.
5. Acceptable use
Full access is for your own legal research. You may read, cite and quote from judgments in your work in the ordinary way. You may not:
- let anyone else use your account;
- copy the archive, or substantial parts of it, by automated means or by hand;
- republish, resell or redistribute judgments as a collection or a competing service;
- get round the paywall, the reading limits or the limits on requests;
- remove or alter anything that identifies where a copy came from.
Full judgments are delivered with an identifier linked to the account that opened them. We limit how quickly pages can be requested, and an account that shows unusual access patterns may be suspended for a period.
6. Zalari AI
- Zalari AI is a research aid. It is not legal advice and it does not replace reading the judgment.
- Its answers are generated by artificial intelligence and can be incomplete or wrong. Check every answer against the judgments it cites before you rely on it.
- When it reports that no later case cites a judgment, that means none was found in the reports it searches, not that the judgment is still good law.
- Fair-use limits apply: up to 20 questions an hour and 80 a day.
- Your conversations are kept so that you can return to them. You can delete any of them from the assistant.
7. Accuracy of the reports
The judgments have been digitised from published reports and court records. We work to keep them accurate, but a digitised text can contain errors. Before you rely on a passage in court or in advice, check it against the printed report or the court’s own record.
8. Ownership
The service, its software and the way the archive is arranged and presented belong to Zalari or to those who license material to us. Buying access gives you a personal right, which you cannot transfer, to use the service for research while your access lasts. It does not transfer ownership of any content to you.
9. Availability
We aim to keep the service available at all times, but we cannot promise that it will never be interrupted. We may change or withdraw features, and we may carry out maintenance that makes the service briefly unavailable.
10. Suspension and closing an account
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. You can ask us to close your account at any time by writing to info@deep-counsel.org.
11. Our liability
The service is a research tool. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss that results from relying on it without checking the source, or for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that the law does not allow to be limited.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Zimbabwe, and the courts of Zimbabwe have jurisdiction over any dispute.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The date at the top of the page shows when the current version took effect, and using the service after that date means you accept it.
Contact
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