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Terms of Use

Version 9 · in effect from September 22, 2026

Terms of Use — Privilege Navigator

These terms are an agreement between you and CILC L.L.C., a New York limited liability company ("CILC", "we"). They govern your use of Privilege Navigator. You accept them by ticking the acknowledgement box presented when you create your account. That tick, the version you were shown, and the time are recorded. Merely visiting the site is not acceptance.

1. About CILC

CILC L.L.C. provides legal education tools and marketing tools for the attorneys affiliated with it. CILC provides the technology, systems and services those attorneys use. The practice of law is carried on by those attorneys, not by CILC. No CILC employee acts as your lawyer, and CILC does not provide legal services, legal representation or legal advice.

Legal services, if requested and accepted, are provided by the relevant participating attorney, who is independently responsible for them under that attorney's own engagement terms and professional obligations.

The questions and the explanatory text used by Privilege Navigator are reviewed and approved by a licensed attorney before publication. That review is of the general content, not of your situation, and the attorney who approves content does not thereby act for you.

2. What Privilege Navigator is

Privilege Navigator provides general information about the law of the covered jurisdictions and identifies questions for you to raise with your own counsel. It does not apply the law to your circumstances, does not tell you what to do, and does not create an attorney-client relationship with CILC or with any attorney who approved its content.

It asks structured, multiple-choice questions about a communication or situation. From your answers it selects general explanations of how legal systems commonly approach questions of that kind, together with questions you could put to your own counsel. Your answers select what you are shown; they are not weighed, scored or judged.

Everything it produces is a question worth examining. Nothing it produces is a conclusion, a finding, an opinion, a recommendation, or advice about your situation.

3. What it is not

Privilege Navigator provides general information and a preliminary issue-spotting exercise based on the answers provided. It does not create an attorney-client relationship with CILC or any participating attorney, constitute legal advice, determine whether a communication is privileged, or guarantee protection from disclosure or waiver. Legal services, if requested and accepted, are provided by the relevant participating attorney under separate applicable engagement terms. Do not submit confidential documents, communications, trade secrets, personal data, or other sensitive information unless the relevant participating attorney has confirmed the appropriate engagement and secure submission process.

In particular:

  • Using the service does not make you a client of CILC or of any attorney.
  • Nothing the service produces is legal advice, and you should not act or refrain from acting on it. It does not reach conclusions, and its output should not be treated as one.
  • The service does not decide whether anything is protected, and a short result does not indicate that a communication is protected. The service identifies factors from limited information and cannot assess what it was not asked.
  • Coverage differs by jurisdiction. Where a jurisdiction has content approved for it, you receive factors specific to that system; where it does not, you receive general factors only and the service says so. Approval of content for a jurisdiction means a licensed attorney has reviewed and approved that content. It does not mean that attorney is admitted in that jurisdiction, and for some jurisdictions they are not. It is not a representation about the accuracy or completeness of the content for any situation.

4. Eligibility and accounts

Privilege Navigator is offered to businesses and to individuals acting in a business capacity. You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a binding agreement. If you use the service on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to accept these terms for it.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at info@c-ilc.com if you believe your account has been compromised. One account is for one person; do not share credentials.

5. What you must not submit

The service is deliberately built without any free-text field, document upload, or field that can record a person's name. You must not attempt to circumvent these limits, and you must not use the service to transmit:

  • confidential or privileged documents or communications;
  • trade secrets or commercially sensitive material;
  • personal data about any other person;
  • credentials, API keys or security information; or
  • the factual details of any matter.

Discuss those with an attorney once an engagement and a secure channel are confirmed.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to: use the service unlawfully; attempt to gain unauthorized access to it or to another customer's data; probe, scan or test its security without our written permission; use automated means to extract its content or rule logic; reverse engineer it; resell or redistribute its output as your own product; or use it to provide legal advice to third parties.

7. Requesting legal review

You may ask, through the service, for legal review by a participating attorney. This is optional: you are free to take your result, and any question it raises, to any lawyer you choose. A request is an enquiry only.

  • Submitting a request does not create an attorney-client relationship and does not constitute engagement of any attorney.
  • No engagement exists unless and until the relevant attorney confirms it in writing, on that attorney's own terms.
  • The service is open to any business, including a party adverse to you, and CILC may route requests for legal review from more than one side of the same matter. CILC does not represent any customer. A referral implies no exclusivity and no duty of loyalty on CILC's part.
  • A conflicts check that identifies actual parties can only be performed by the attorney, because the service records no names. CILC sorts requests before routing them, using only the jurisdiction, the urgency and the side you indicated. That sorting is administrative: it is not a conflicts check, cannot identify a conflict between named parties, and is not a substitute for the attorney's own check. No engagement should be assumed until that attorney has completed it.
  • Where representation before a court requires a locally qualified lawyer, one will need to be engaged.
  • We do not guarantee that any attorney will accept a request, or the time in which a response will be given.

8. Your content and our content

You keep whatever rights you have in the answers you provide. You grant us a license to process them for one purpose only: to operate the service and produce your results. We do not use your answers to develop or improve the service, and we do not build datasets from them. Section 4 of the Privacy Notice states every purpose for which we process your data, and it is exhaustive.

The service, including its questions, its rule logic and its text, belongs to CILC or its licensors. The rule logic is not disclosed to customers. You may use your own results for your own business purposes, including sharing them with your own advisers and with any attorney you choose.

9. Availability and changes

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the service. We aim to give reasonable notice of significant changes but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. We may revise the questions, the rules and the text as the underlying law develops; results you have already received remain as they were when produced, and record the version that produced them.

If we materially change these terms, we will publish a new version and ask you to acknowledge it before you continue using the service.

10. Fees and how CILC is paid

Privilege Navigator is currently provided without charge. If we introduce fees we will say so clearly in advance, and they will not apply to you without your agreement.

CILC does not share revenue with participating attorneys, and receives no fee, commission or revenue share from any attorney in connection with a referral made through this service. CILC has no financial interest in whether you request legal review, or in which attorney accepts a request.

11. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time, and you may ask us to close your account and erase your data by writing to info@c-ilc.com. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the service. Sections 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, 13 and 14 survive termination.

12. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CILC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ITS OUTPUT IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR SUITABLE FOR ANY PARTICULAR SITUATION.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CILC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT CHARGE, AND CILC'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO IT IS NIL.

Express exceptions. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for:

  • gross negligence;
  • wilful misconduct;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • death or personal injury caused by negligence; or
  • any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Who this section protects. The disclaimers and limitations in this section apply equally, and on the same terms, to the attorneys who review and approve the content used by the service, to participating attorneys in respect of the service itself, and to CILC's officers, employees, contractors and suppliers. Each of them is an intended third-party beneficiary of this section and may rely on and enforce it directly. This does not affect an attorney's own responsibilities to a client under any engagement that attorney accepts, which are governed by that engagement and by the attorney's professional obligations, not by these terms.

13. Governing law and disputes

Governing law. These terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the service, are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.

Forum. The state and federal courts located in New York County have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute, and you and CILC each consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection to venue there.

These terms contain no arbitration clause. Disputes are resolved in the courts named above.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, mandatory protections available to you under your local law are not displaced by this section to the extent your local law does not permit that.

14. General

These terms, with the Privacy Notice, the pre-submission notice and the notice about result length, are the entire agreement between you and CILC about the service. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest continues in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a transfer of our business.

Questions about these terms: info@c-ilc.com.