Terms of Service

Effective Date: February 21, 2026 · Last Revised: August 6, 2026 · Version: 1.2

These Terms apply to all of the following, together called the “Service”:

1. The website located at docketpdf.net and every page, subdomain, and file served from it (the “Site”);
2. Member accounts, the “My PDFs” area, and every hosting, storage, and sharing feature offered through the Site (the “Hosted Features”);
3. The Docket PDF application for Android, in every distribution form (the “Android Program”);
4. The Docket PDF application for Linux, in every distribution form (the “Linux Program”); and
5. Any documentation, help material, template, sample form, or support communication provided in connection with the above.

The Android Program and the Linux Program are together called the “Programs.”

Provider: DocketPDF™ (“Docket PDF,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

Contact for legal notices: support@docketpdf.net

1. Acceptance, eligibility, and capacity

1.1 Agreement. By visiting the Site, creating an account, uploading a file, sharing a file, downloading a Program, installing a Program, running a Program, or otherwise using any part of the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service, and delete any copy of the Programs in your possession.

1.2 Binding contract. These Terms form a binding contract between you and Docket PDF. They apply whether you use the Service personally, on behalf of a household member, on behalf of an employer, or on behalf of any other person or organization.

1.3 Authority. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” includes that organization.

1.4 Age for the Site and the Programs. You must be at least 18 years old, or at least 13 years old with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who accepts these Terms on your behalf.

1.5 Age for accounts, uploads, and sharing. The Hosted Features are limited to persons 18 years of age or older. No person younger than 18 may create an account, upload a file, or share a file. We delete accounts we believe belong to a person younger than 18.

1.6 Capacity. You represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into a contract and that you are not barred from receiving software pursuant to the laws of any jurisdiction that applies to you.

1.7 Scope of consent. Acceptance of these Terms also constitutes acceptance by any person or entity that accesses the Service through your account, device, network, or credentials, and by any person or entity that inspects, tests, crawls, evaluates, or analyzes the Service for any purpose, including competitive, investigative, or pre-litigation purposes. See Section 21.11.

2. Definitions

“Account” means a registered member profile on the Site.

“Applicable Law” means the statutes, regulations, and rules of decision that govern a given matter, as determined pursuant to Section 29.

“Content” means text, images, files, documents, exhibits, metadata, and any other material.

“Document” means any file you open, import, create, assemble, or export with the Programs or with the Hosted Features.

“Filing” means any Content submitted to a court, agency, tribunal, arbitrator, clerk, or opposing party.

“Member” means a person holding an Account.

“Shared Item” means any Uploaded File that you make accessible to any other person, whether by direct share, by group share, by link, or by any other means.

“Storage Provider” means any third party that hosts, stores, caches, transmits, backs up, or delivers Uploaded Files or other data for the Service.

“Third-Party Mark” means any trademark, service mark, trade name, domain name, or other source identifier owned by any person or entity other than Docket PDF.

“Uploaded File” means any Content you transmit to the Service for hosting, storage, or sharing, including everything in your “My PDFs” area.

3. Not legal advice; no attorney–client relationship

This is the most important section of this document. Read all of it.

3.1 We are not a law firm. Docket PDF is a software project and a public-information project. It is not a law firm, not a licensed legal service provider, not a legal document preparer service, not a registered agent, not a process server, and not a clerk of any court.

3.2 No legal advice. Nothing on the Site, in the Programs, in any template, in any sample document, in any help text, in any tooltip, in any email, in any Shared Item, and in any support message is legal advice, tax advice, financial advice, medical advice, or professional advice of any kind. All material we publish is general information about publicly available procedures and file formats.

3.3 No attorney–client relationship. Your use of the Service does not create an attorney–client relationship, a fiduciary relationship, an agency relationship, or a relationship of trust and confidence with Docket PDF, its directors, officers, volunteers, contributors, or contractors.

3.4 No privilege and no confidentiality. Communications with us are not protected by attorney–client privilege, work-product doctrine, or any other evidentiary privilege. Neither are Uploaded Files. Do not send us, and do not upload, privileged material, sealed material, or material subject to a protective order. See Section 12.4.

3.5 No representation. We do not represent you, do not appear for you, do not sign anything for you, and do not accept service on your behalf.

3.6 You are the author. Every Document you assemble is your Document. You are its author, its proofreader, its certifier, and its filer. You alone are responsible for its accuracy, its completeness, its truthfulness, its timeliness, and its compliance with every rule that governs it.

3.7 Get a lawyer where you can. Legal outcomes are consequential and often permanent. Where your matter involves liberty, custody of a child, immigration status, housing, a substantial sum, or a deadline you cannot afford to miss, seek a licensed attorney, a legal aid organization, a law school clinic, a court self-help center, or a bar association referral service.

3.8 Jurisdiction varies. Procedure differs between countries, states, districts, counties, individual courthouses, and individual judges. Material that is accurate in one forum can be wrong in the next. Nothing in the Service is customized to your forum, your case, or your facts.

3.9 No practice of law. Docket PDF does not select forms for you, does not advise which cause of action to plead, does not advise on the merits, does not fill in substantive content on your behalf, and does not exercise legal judgment for you. The Programs and the Hosted Features perform mechanical file operations at your direction only.

3.10 Member-to-member material is not our advice. Anything you receive from another Member comes from that Member, not from us. See Section 13.

4. Description of the service

4.1 What the Programs do. The Programs perform document-handling functions, which may include: combining multiple files into a single PDF; splitting a PDF; reordering, rotating, and deleting pages; applying exhibit labels and page numbering; generating tables of contents and bookmarks; adding headers and footers; compressing files to satisfy size limits; and exporting a finished PDF.

4.2 What the Hosted Features do. For Members who choose to register, the Site offers an area called “My PDFs” that allows a Member to upload files, organize and manage those uploads, retrieve them from another device, and share them with other Members. Use of the Hosted Features is entirely optional. Every function of the Programs remains available without an Account.

4.3 What the Service does not do. The Service does not file anything with any court. It does not transmit anything to any court’s electronic filing system. It does not verify that your Document satisfies any rule. It does not calculate deadlines. It does not check citations. It does not confirm that a redaction has removed the material beneath it. It does not authenticate any document, certify any copy, maintain a chain of custody, or serve as a system of record. It does not guarantee that a court will accept any resulting file.

4.4 Changes. We may add, alter, restrict, or retire any feature of the Service at any time, with or without notice, and we may discontinue the Service entirely.

4.5 Plans. The Service is offered on four plans: one free plan and three paid plans. What each plan includes — export and recognition allowances, the number of seats, program license keys, and which features are unlocked — is described on the Site, and the description on the Site controls.

4.6 Prices and allowances change. Prices, allowances, features, and the composition of the plans may change at any time, without notice to you. The price that applies is the price published on the Site. Watching for a change is your responsibility, and continuing to use a plan after a change takes effect is acceptance of that change. Nothing in these Terms obliges us to notify you of a price, allowance, or feature change, and no representation about a price made anywhere other than the Site is binding.

4.7 Trials and the free plan. Where a trial is offered, its length and its limits are as stated on the Site and may change. The free plan carries its own limits, and those limits may change on the same terms as a price.

5. Accounts

5.1 Registration. Creating an Account requires accurate registration information. You agree to keep that information current.

5.2 One person, one Account. An Account is personal to you. Do not share credentials, do not sell or transfer an Account, and do not permit another person to use your Account.

5.3 Security. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for every activity occurring through your Account. Use a strong, distinct password, and enable any additional authentication feature we offer. Notify us immediately at support@docketpdf.net if you suspect improper access.

5.4 Our rights. We may refuse registration, reclaim a username, require reverification, limit storage or sharing, suspend an Account, or terminate an Account, at our discretion, with or without notice, including where we believe an Account is being used in violation of these Terms.

5.5 Identity is not verified. We do not verify the identity, credentials, licensure, motives, or truthfulness of any Member. Treat every Member as a stranger.

5.6 Inactivity. We may delete an Account, and all files in it, after 12 months without a login. We will attempt to send advance notice to the email address on file, and that attempt is our only obligation.

5.7 Deletion by you. You may delete your Account at any time through the Site or by writing to support@docketpdf.net. Deletion is governed by Section 12.7.

6. License grant for the programs

6.1 Grant. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Docket PDF grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to install and run the Android Program and the Linux Program on devices that you own or control, for your own purposes and for the purposes of members of your household or organization.

6.2 No sale. The Programs are licensed, not sold. Docket PDF and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Programs, including all intellectual property rights, except for rights expressly granted in these Terms or granted separately pursuant to an open source license described in Section 8.

6.3 Copies. You may make a reasonable number of copies for backup and for installation on your own devices, provided that all proprietary notices remain intact.

6.4 No implied license. No license, right, or interest in any Docket PDF mark, name, logo, patent, or trade dress is granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

7. License restrictions

Except to the extent that Applicable Law expressly forbids the following restrictions, and except as expressly permitted by an open source license that governs a specific component pursuant to Section 8, you agree that you will not:

(a) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the Programs;

(b) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Programs, or attempt to derive source code from them;

(c) remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice, license notice, attribution, watermark, or credit;

(d) rebrand, white-label, or repackage the Programs and present them as your own product or as the product of any third party;

(e) use the Service to build a competing product by copying protected expression, or use it for benchmarking that you publish without also publishing the methodology and version tested;

(f) introduce malware, ransomware, spyware, cryptominers, or any harmful code into any distribution of the Programs or into any Uploaded File;

(g) interfere with, circumvent, or disable any security feature, integrity check, signature verification, storage quota, rate limit, or access control;

(h) scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download the Site or any Shared Item in a manner that burdens our infrastructure or that assembles a collection of Member content;

(i) access the Service by automated means for the purpose of assembling a dataset for machine learning training without our prior written permission;

(j) use the Service in any manner that violates Applicable Law, infringes any third party’s rights, or facilitates fraud; or

(k) permit any other person to do any of the above.

8. Open source and third-party components

8.1 Components. The Service incorporates third-party libraries and components that are licensed separately. A current list of those components, with license text and attributions, is available at docketpdf.net/licenses and within the Program.

8.2 Precedence. Where a component is distributed pursuant to an open source license, the terms of that license govern your use of that component. Where any provision of these Terms conflicts with the terms of such a license as applied to that component, the open source license controls for that component only, and the remainder of these Terms continues to apply to the balance of the Service.

8.3 Copyleft. Where a component is licensed pursuant to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Mozilla Public License, or a comparable reciprocal license, you receive every right that such a license grants you, including any right to obtain corresponding source code. Directions for obtaining that source code appear at docketpdf.net/source.

8.4 No warranty for components. We provide third-party components on the same “as is” basis described in Section 24, and we make no representation about the accuracy or completeness of any third-party license list, except that we will correct errors promptly on notice.

8.5 PDF standard. Portable Document Format is an open standard published as ISO 32000. Our support for that standard is our own implementation, or an implementation drawn from the components listed pursuant to Section 8.1. See Section 21.4.

9. Distribution channels and platform-specific terms

9.1 Official sources. The only official sources for the Programs are the download pages at docketpdf.net/download, the app store listings we operate directly, and the package repositories we identify at docketpdf.net/download. We publish cryptographic checksums and signatures where practical, and we recommend that you verify them.

9.2 Mirrors, forks, and repackaged builds. Copies of the Programs obtained from any other location — including third-party mirrors, community package repositories that we do not operate, aggregator sites, and forks — are not controlled by us, may be modified, may be out of date, and may contain code we did not write. We disclaim all responsibility for those copies. Where a third-party maintainer packages the Programs for a distribution, that maintainer, not Docket PDF, is responsible for that package.

9.3 Android and app store terms. Where you obtain the Android Program through an app store or app marketplace:

(a) the license in Section 6 is granted subject to that marketplace’s terms, and the marketplace’s terms also apply to your acquisition of the Program;

(b) the marketplace operator is not a party to these Terms, has no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for the Program, and is not responsible for addressing any claim you have about the Program;

(c) the marketplace operator and its affiliates are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you;

(d) as between us and the marketplace operator, we are solely responsible for the Program, for any product warranty that Applicable Law does not permit us to disclaim, and for handling any claim that the Program infringes a third party’s intellectual property rights; and

(e) you represent that you are not located in a country or on a list described in Section 32.

9.4 Apple-specific acknowledgment. Where a version of the Program is ever distributed through Apple’s App Store, the acknowledgments in Section 9.3 apply to Apple Inc., and any maintenance and support obligation is ours alone, with Apple having no such obligation whatsoever.

9.5 Linux distribution. The Linux Program may be distributed as source, as a compiled archive, or in packaged formats. Your distribution’s own package manager, sandboxing model, and security policies govern installation on your system. System requirements, dependency versions, and file system permissions are your responsibility.

9.6 Device responsibility. You are responsible for your device, your operating system, your storage, your backups, your antivirus posture, and any carrier or data charge you incur.

10. Updates, versions, and end of support

10.1 Updates. We may release updates, patches, and new versions. Some updates install automatically through an app store or package manager pursuant to your device settings. Updates may add, alter, or remove features.

10.2 Old versions. We do not warrant that any prior version will continue to function or will remain compatible with the Hosted Features, and we may cease supporting any version, operating system release, or hardware class at any time. Continued use of a version that we no longer support is at your sole risk.

10.3 Removal. You may remove the Programs from your device at any time. Removal ends the license in Section 6 but does not affect Sections that survive pursuant to Section 36.7.

11. Your documents and your content

11.1 You own your Content. You retain all right, title, and interest in your Documents, your Uploaded Files, and your Content. We claim no ownership interest of any kind.

11.2 Limited processing permission on your device. To the extent that any permission is technically necessary for the Programs to operate on files you select, you grant the Programs a limited, revocable permission to read, process, transform, and write those files at your direction and on your device. This permission exists only for the duration of the operation you initiate.

11.3 Your warranties about Content. You represent that you have the right to use, process, upload, share, and file every Document you handle through the Service, and that doing so does not violate a copyright, a protective order, a sealing order, a confidentiality agreement, a privacy law, or the rights of any other person.

11.4 Sensitive material is your responsibility. Court records frequently contain personal identifiers, financial account data, medical information, information about children, and information about victims. Rules governing redaction of that material differ by forum and are strict. The Service does not detect sensitive material and does not verify that a redaction is effective. A visual black box placed over text may leave the text extractable in the file. Verify every redaction independently before you upload, share, serve, or file anything.

11.5 Metadata. PDF files can carry hidden metadata, including author names, revision history, device information, geolocation, and remnants of edited content. You are responsible for inspecting and removing metadata before uploading, sharing, or filing a Document.

11.6 Feedback. If you send us suggestions, bug reports, or feature ideas, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use them without restriction, attribution, or compensation. Do not send us anything you consider confidential.

12. Uploads and hosted storage ("My PDFs")

12.1 Optional feature. Uploading is a choice you make. Nothing compels you to upload a Document to use Docket PDF. If a file matters and its confidentiality matters, keep it on your own device.

12.2 License you grant to us. By uploading a file, you grant Docket PDF a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, copy, cache, back up, transmit, display to you, transcode, compress, generate previews and thumbnails of, and deliver that file, and to make it accessible to the persons you designate pursuant to Section 13. This license exists for one purpose only: operating the Service at your direction. It grants us no right to publish your file, to sell it, to license it to any other party for that party’s own purposes, to train a model on it, or to use it in marketing. This license ends when you delete the file, subject to Section 12.7 and to copies retained by recipients pursuant to Section 13.3.

12.3 Sublicense to Storage Providers. The sublicense right in Section 12.2 extends to Storage Providers, hosting providers, content delivery networks, and security vendors, in each case solely to the extent necessary for them to perform the storage and delivery functions described in Section 14.

12.4 Uploading may destroy legal protections. Read this twice.

(a) Handing a document to an outside company can waive attorney–client privilege or work-product protection. Whether a particular disclosure causes a waiver is a question of law that depends on your jurisdiction and your circumstances. We cannot answer that question for you, and we do not accept the risk of it.

(b) Uploading material covered by a sealing order, a protective order, a confidentiality agreement, a nondisclosure agreement, a statutory confidentiality rule, or a court’s privacy rule may violate that order, agreement, or rule, and may expose you to sanctions.

(c) Do not upload sealed records, grand jury material, juvenile records, records of a matter closed to the public, or anything a court has ordered you to protect.

(d) Uploaded Files may become discoverable, may be sought by subpoena, and may be produced pursuant to Section 12.11.

12.5 Limits. We may impose and change limits on file size, file type, total storage, number of files, number of shares, upload frequency, and bandwidth, at any time. We may reject, compress, convert, or delete files that exceed a limit or that our systems cannot process.

12.6 File integrity. Storage, transfer, conversion, compression, and migration may alter metadata, timestamps, embedded fonts, form fields, layers, attachments, and digital signatures, and may break a digital signature or a certification. Never treat a copy retrieved from the Service as a certified, authenticated, or bit-for-bit identical copy of anything. Obtain certified copies from the issuing court or agency.

12.7 Deletion and retention. When you delete a file or an Account, we will remove the file from active systems within a commercially reasonable period. Residual copies may persist in encrypted backups, caches, content delivery networks, and logs for a limited retention cycle, generally 30–90 days, and may persist longer where a legal hold, a preservation demand, an investigation, or a Storage Provider’s own retention cycle requires it. Deletion is not instantaneous, is not always reversible, and cannot reach copies held by recipients.

12.8 This is not a backup service. The Hosted Features are a convenience, not a backup system, not an archive, not a records-retention system, not a document management system, not evidence custody, and not a chain-of-custody system. You must maintain your own independent copy of every file that matters to you. We may lose, corrupt, truncate, or delete a file, and Section 25 governs the consequences.

12.9 Export. You may download your files at any time while your Account is active. We aim to provide a bulk export feature, but we do not guarantee that any export feature will be available at any particular moment, and we recommend that you download important files as you go.

12.10 Our access. We do not review Uploaded Files as a matter of routine, and we have no obligation to do so. We may access, review, scan, or remove a file where we reasonably believe it is necessary to operate or secure the Service, to run automated safety or malware scanning, to respond to a report or complaint, to enforce these Terms, or to comply with Applicable Law.

12.11 Legal process. We may preserve and disclose Uploaded Files and Account information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other lawful demand, and where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of any person. We will attempt to notify you where permitted by law and where we hold current contact information, and that attempt is our only obligation.

12.12 Mandatory reporting. Where Applicable Law obligates us to report certain material, including material depicting the sexual exploitation of a child, we will report it to the appropriate authority and preserve the associated data as required, without notice to you.

13. Sharing with other members

13.1 How sharing works. A Member may make an Uploaded File accessible to one or more other Members, or, where we offer the feature, to any person holding a share link. Sharing is entirely at your election.

13.2 Sharing is disclosure. Treat every share as permanent publication to the recipient. By sharing a file you accept that the recipient may view it, download it, print it, copy it, screenshot it, store it, alter it, forward it, publish it, and file it, whether or not you permit those actions.

13.3 Revocation is limited. Ending a share stops future access through the Service. It does not retrieve, delete, or disable any copy a recipient already obtained, and it does not reach copies stored on a recipient’s device, in a recipient’s email, or in any other location. We have no ability to recall a file that has left the Service, and we assume no obligation to try.

13.4 Share links. Where we offer link-based sharing, any person holding the link may access the file. Links may be forwarded, posted publicly, logged by intermediaries, captured in browser history, and indexed. Use link sharing only for material you would accept becoming public.

13.5 Your representations when sharing. By sharing a file you represent that: you own it or hold the rights necessary to share it; sharing violates no court order, agreement, statute, or third party’s rights; every person identified in the file has any consent that Applicable Law requires; and you have applied every redaction that Applicable Law requires.

13.6 Material you receive. Anything you receive from another Member is that Member’s material.

(a) We do not verify its authenticity, accuracy, currency, origin, or completeness, and we do not verify who sent it.

(b) It may be altered, forged, out of date, wrong for your forum, subject to a court order, or malicious. Scan every received file before opening it.

(c) Never file a document you received from another Member without independently verifying it. A document that looks like a court form may be an old version, a form from another state, or a fabrication.

(d) You use received material at your sole risk.

13.7 Members are not your lawyers. A Member who sends you a document, a template, or a suggestion is not your attorney, owes you no professional duty, carries no malpractice insurance, and may be committing the practice of law without a license. Nothing exchanged between Members is privileged. Docket PDF is not a party to, and assumes no responsibility for, any arrangement between Members.

13.8 No obligation between us and recipients. We are not a courier, an escrow, a custodian, or a certifying authority for any Shared Item. We do not guarantee delivery, availability, retention, or notice of any share.

13.9 Reporting and blocking. You may report a Member or a Shared Item pursuant to Appendix C, and, where we offer the feature, block a Member. We may act on a report or decline to act, at our discretion.

13.10 Our control over sharing. We may limit, throttle, suspend, disable, or remove any sharing feature, any share, or any Shared Item at any time, with or without notice, and with or without cause.

14. Third-party storage providers

14.1 Files are stored by outside companies. Uploaded Files are not held on hardware we own. They are stored, transmitted, cached, and delivered by one or more Storage Providers — commercial hosting, cloud storage, content delivery, backup, and security vendors — selected by us.

14.2 Providers may change at any moment, without notice to you. We may add, replace, migrate, consolidate, or terminate any Storage Provider at any time, at our sole discretion, without advance notice to you and without your consent, including for reasons of cost, capacity, reliability, security, contract expiration, or provider failure. You accept that the identity, corporate ownership, and physical location of the company holding your files may change at any time, that we may not announce the change, and that we may not be able to announce it in advance. This provision applies to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law; where mandatory law grants you a right to notice of a change in processors or sub-processors, we will provide the notice that law requires and no more.

14.3 Location and cross-border transfer. Your files may be stored and processed in the United States and in any other country in which a Storage Provider operates, including countries whose data protection laws differ from those of your own country. By uploading, you consent to that storage, processing, and transfer, and to any later migration between countries, subject to any safeguard that mandatory law requires.

14.4 We do not control providers. Each Storage Provider operates pursuant to its own terms, security architecture, personnel practices, subcontracting arrangements, retention cycles, and incident response procedures. We select providers that represent that they employ industry-standard security measures, and we make no warranty on any provider’s behalf. We are not responsible for any act, omission, outage, defect, breach, insolvency, seizure, acquisition, policy change, or termination of service by any Storage Provider.

14.5 Encryption. We aim to employ encryption in transit and, where a provider offers it, encryption at rest. We do not offer end-to-end encryption, and we do not represent that your files are cryptographically inaccessible to us or to a Storage Provider. A person with sufficient access to the storage layer may be technically capable of reading your files. Treat every Uploaded File accordingly.

14.6 Consequences of provider events. A provider outage, migration, or failure may make files temporarily inaccessible, may alter metadata and timestamps, may delay deletion, and may cause permanent loss. Section 25 caps our responsibility for every such event. Keep your own copies.

14.7 Disclosure of current providers. Where we choose to publish a list of current Storage Providers at docketpdf.net/subprocessors, that publication is a courtesy. It is not a commitment to keep the list current, to maintain any listed provider, or to announce a change, except where mandatory law requires otherwise.

14.8 No direct relationship. No Storage Provider is a party to these Terms, and no Storage Provider owes you any duty pursuant to these Terms. Storage Providers are intended beneficiaries of Sections 24, 25, 26, and 28 to the extent those Sections limit liability arising from storage of your files.

15. Content standards for uploaded and shared material

You will not upload, store, or share any material that:

(a) depicts, promotes, or facilitates the sexual exploitation or abuse of a child, in any form. This prohibition is absolute, admits no artistic, journalistic, or evidentiary exception on this Service, and results in immediate termination and mandatory reporting;

(b) constitutes an intimate image of a person shared without that person’s consent;

(c) is sealed, is subject to a protective order or sealing order, or is otherwise closed to public disclosure by any court, statute, or agreement;

(d) contains another person’s government identification number, financial account credentials, medical records, or comparable sensitive data, where you lack a lawful basis to hold and share it;

(e) compiles or publishes another person’s private information for the purpose of harassment, intimidation, or exposure;

(f) is a forged or falsified court document, seal, stamp, signature, certification, docket entry, order, or judgment, or is altered evidence;

(g) infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, right of publicity, or right of privacy;

(h) contains malware, exploit code, or any component designed to damage or gain improper access to a system;

(i) was obtained through a data breach, theft, improper access to a system, or violation of a court’s access rules;

(j) constitutes a threat of violence, incitement, or targeted harassment of any person, including a judge, a clerk, a juror, a witness, an opposing party, or a Member; or

(k) violates any Applicable Law.

We may report material described in this Section to law enforcement or to the appropriate authority, and we may preserve associated data for that purpose.

16. Moderation, removal, and repeat infringers

16.1 No duty to monitor. We have no obligation to screen, review, monitor, or moderate Uploaded Files or Shared Items, and we do not represent that we do so. Any voluntary review we perform creates no duty to perform it again, to perform it consistently, or to perform it at all.

16.2 Removal. We may remove, restrict, disable, quarantine, or refuse any file, share, or Account at any time, with or without notice, with or without cause, and with no liability to you. Grounds may include a report, an automated signal, a legal demand, a Storage Provider requirement, or our own judgment.

16.3 Not the publisher. Docket PDF provides an interactive computer service. Material uploaded or shared by a Member is that Member’s material, not ours, and we are not the publisher or speaker of it. We assert every protection available to a provider of an interactive computer service, including 47 U.S.C. § 230, and every comparable protection available in any other jurisdiction.

16.4 Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the Accounts of Members who repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights or who repeatedly violate Section 15.

16.5 Reporting. Any person may report material pursuant to Appendix C. Copyright complaints follow Section 22.

16.6 Appeals. Where we remove material or suspend an Account, you may write to support@docketpdf.net. We will consider a timely appeal in good faith. Our decision is final.

17. Privacy, local processing, and hosted data

17.1 Two different modes. Docket PDF operates in two distinct modes, and the difference matters:

(a) The Programs process files on your device. Ordinary operation of the Android Program and the Linux Program does not transmit your Documents to us or to any Storage Provider.

(b) The Hosted Features do the opposite. A file you upload leaves your device and is transmitted to, and stored by, third parties as described in Section 14.

17.2 Privacy Policy. Our collection and handling of data is described in the Privacy Policy at docketpdf.net/privacy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where the Privacy Policy conflicts with these Terms on a privacy matter, the Privacy Policy controls.

17.3 No sale of data. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

17.4 No training on your files. We do not use your Uploaded Files to train machine learning models, and we do not permit a Storage Provider to do so.

17.5 Diagnostics. Where the Service offers crash reporting or usage statistics, that feature is off by default or is presented with a clear choice, and it never transmits the contents of your Documents.

17.6 Your rights. Where Applicable Law grants you rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, or objection, exercise them by writing to support@docketpdf.net.

17.7 Security reality. No system is perfectly secure. We employ reasonable measures, and we make no guarantee against improper access, interception, insider misconduct, provider breach, device compromise, or data loss. Keep your own backups.

18. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not use the Service to:

(a) create, alter, or assemble any document with intent to deceive a court, an agency, an arbitrator, an opposing party, a Member, or any other person;

(b) forge or simulate a signature, a notary seal, a court seal, a file stamp, a certification, a bar number, a docket entry, a case caption, or the letterhead of any court, agency, or law firm;

(c) alter an official record, a certified copy, a transcript, an exhibit, or evidence, in a manner intended to misrepresent its content or origin;

(d) prepare vexatious, harassing, or knowingly frivolous filings;

(e) harass, stalk, threaten, defame, or endanger any person, including through the compilation or sharing of another person’s records;

(f) violate a protective order, a sealing order, a gag order, or a confidentiality obligation;

(g) practice law without a license, hold yourself out as counsel, or solicit Members for legal services you are not licensed to provide;

(h) solicit, advertise, spam, or recruit Members for any commercial purpose;

(i) infringe any intellectual property right or any right of privacy or publicity;

(j) distribute malware or engage in phishing; or

(k) violate any Applicable Law.

We may suspend or terminate access for any violation, and we may report conduct that appears criminal to appropriate authorities.

19. Filing responsibilities you accept

You acknowledge and accept sole responsibility for all of the following, and you agree that Docket PDF bears no responsibility for any of them:

(a) identifying and satisfying every deadline, including statutes of limitation, response deadlines, appeal windows, and service deadlines;

(b) identifying and satisfying every formatting rule, including page limits, word limits, margins, font requirements, line spacing, caption format, exhibit labeling conventions, pagination, and bookmarking requirements;

(c) satisfying file size limits, page count limits, and file naming conventions of any electronic filing system;

(d) satisfying redaction and privacy rules before filing, uploading, or sharing;

(e) paying filing fees or properly applying for a fee waiver;

(f) effecting service of process and proving it;

(g) verifying that a filing was received, accepted, docketed, and entered;

(h) retaining independent copies of every Document you file, upload, or share; and

(i) confirming the current version of every rule, since rules change and any general material we publish may be out of date.

Do not wait for a deadline to rely on software, and never rely on a hosted copy as your only copy. Build in time for failure.

20. Our intellectual property

20.1 Ownership. Except for Member Content and for third-party components described in Section 8, all material comprising the Service — including source code, object code, interface design, layout, graphics, icons, text, documentation, and the selection and arrangement of the foregoing — is owned by Docket PDF or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trade dress, and other laws.

20.2 Site content license. You may view, download, and print reasonable portions of the Site for personal, educational, or noncommercial informational use, provided that you retain all notices and do not present the material as your own. Any other reproduction or distribution requires our prior written permission, except where fair use or an equivalent doctrine applies.

20.3 Our marks. Subject entirely to Section 21, the specific logo, wordmark styling, icon set, and trade dress of the Docket PDF project are ours. You may refer to us by name to identify us accurately. You may not use our styling, our logo, or our name in a manner that suggests sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement.

21. Name, descriptive use, third-party marks, and non-affiliation

This Section states the factual and legal basis on which the name “Docket PDF” is used, and it governs any dispute about that name. It is a term of this Agreement and also a public statement of position.

21.1 The name is descriptive. The name “Docket PDF” consists of two ordinary words that describe the software’s function.

“Docket” is a common, generic, and descriptive term in the vocabulary of courts. It denotes the register of proceedings and entries a court maintains in a case. The word appears in statutes, rules of procedure, court orders, clerk instructions, and everyday courthouse speech throughout the English-speaking world. It is a word about a public institution, not a word invented by any private party.

“PDF” is the universal generic abbreviation for Portable Document Format, an open file format published as an international standard, ISO 32000. It names a file type, in the same way that “MP3,” “CSV,” and “ZIP” name file types.

Together, the two words describe precisely what the software does: it produces PDF documents for use in court dockets. The name was chosen for that descriptive reason, and for no other reason. Docket PDF adopted the name in good faith, without knowledge of and without intent to trade on the goodwill of any other party, and without intent to suggest any affiliation with any other party.

21.2 We claim no exclusive rights in the component words. Docket PDF does not claim, and will not assert, exclusive rights in the word “docket” standing alone, in the letters “PDF” standing alone, or in any descriptive phrase combining them. We do not object to any other party’s descriptive use of either word. Any rights we possess are limited to the specific composite presentation, logo, and trade dress of this project, as used for this project’s specific goods and services.

21.3 Reservation of defenses. Docket PDF expressly preserves, and does not waive, every available defense to any claim concerning its name, including without limitation: descriptive fair use, including the statutory defense codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1115(b)(4); nominative fair use; genericness; absence of likelihood of confusion; absence of use in commerce in the sense required by the asserting party’s registration; difference in goods, services, channels of trade, price, and purchasers; expressive and noncommercial use protected by the First Amendment; laches; acquiescence; estoppel; abandonment; and lack of standing. Nothing in this Agreement, in any correspondence, and in any accommodation we may voluntarily offer constitutes an admission of any element of any claim.

21.4 Format and standard notices. PDF is an open standard published as ISO 32000. Adobe, Acrobat, and the Adobe logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Inc. Docket PDF is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, certified by, or licensed by Adobe Inc. References to Adobe products, where they appear, are references made solely to identify those products accurately, which is the only practical way to describe file compatibility.

21.5 Comprehensive non-affiliation statement. Docket PDF is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, approved by, authorized by, licensed by, certified by, connected to, or in any way associated with:

(a) any court, clerk of court, judicial council, judicial conference, administrative office of the courts, tribunal, arbitral body, or judge;

(b) any government agency, department, ministry, or public authority of any nation, state, province, county, or municipality;

(c) any bar association, licensing authority, or legal aid organization;

(d) any electronic filing service provider, court records vendor, docketing platform, case management provider, or legal research company;

(e) Adobe Inc. or any other developer of document software;

(f) any cloud storage, hosting, or file-sharing company, including any Storage Provider, whose relationship with us is that of a vendor only; or

(g) any business, product, service, publication, domain name, or organization whose name, mark, or branding contains the word “Docket,” the letters “PDF,” or both, or any variant, translation, or formatting of either.

No reference on the Site or in the Programs to any such entity, and no descriptive use of the words “docket” or “PDF,” should be read to suggest otherwise.

21.6 Third-Party Marks belong to their owners. All Third-Party Marks that appear anywhere in the Service are the property of their respective owners. They are used, where used at all, solely for accurate identification, comparison, compatibility description, commentary, criticism, education, or news reporting. Such use is nominative and is limited to what is reasonably necessary to identify the referenced product or entity. We do not use any Third-Party Mark’s logo, stylization, color scheme, or trade dress, and we do nothing to suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the mark’s owner.

21.7 Distinct field of use. Docket PDF operates in a field defined as follows, and represents that this description is accurate as of the Effective Date:

(a) Price: four plans, one free and three paid, at prices published on the Site and subject to change without notice.

(b) Purchasers: individual members of the public and small firms, subscribing on the Site. There is no procurement cycle, no sales staff, no reseller channel, and no enterprise contract.

(c) Audience: members of the general public who are dealing with courts without a lawyer, together with the organizations that assist them.

(d) Goods and services: document assembly software, together with a personal storage and member-to-member sharing area for a person’s own case documents.

(e) What we do not provide: access to court records, docket monitoring, docket alerts, case law, electronic filing transmission, legal research, practice management, billing, e-discovery, or any subscription information service.

(f) Channels: our own website and public application repositories.

(g) Purpose: public education and access to justice.

Any party asserting a likelihood of confusion is on notice of these facts and of the position that these facts negate confusion as to source, sponsorship, or affiliation.

21.8 Your obligations regarding names and marks. You agree that you will not: (a) use the Docket PDF name, logo, or trade dress in a manner suggesting sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement that does not exist; (b) register or use any domain name, social media handle, app listing, or business name that is confusingly similar to Docket PDF’s; (c) file any trademark application for a mark incorporating our composite presentation; (d) co-brand, bundle, or resell the Service with your own branding; or (e) make any representation about our affiliations to any third party.

21.9 Notice-and-response procedure for rights claims. Any person or entity asserting that the Service infringes a trademark, service mark, trade name, or other source identifier agrees, as a condition of using or accessing the Service in any form and to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, to submit a written notice satisfying Appendix A to support@docketpdf.net before initiating any proceeding, sending any takedown demand to a platform, registrar, host, Storage Provider, or app store, or making any public accusation. We commit to acknowledge a conforming notice within ten (10) business days and to provide a substantive response within thirty (30) days. We further commit to engage in good faith, to consider reasonable clarifying disclaimers, and to evaluate any specific, non-speculative evidence of actual confusion presented to us.

21.10 Abusive assertions. A demand letter is not a judgment, a registration is not proof of validity as to goods and services outside its scope, and an assertion made without a reasonable basis in fact and law may itself give rise to liability, including pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1120, applicable rules requiring reasonable inquiry before filing, and applicable statutes addressing bad-faith intellectual property assertions. Docket PDF reserves the right to seek declaratory relief, fees, and costs, and to publish correspondence to the extent permitted by Applicable Law.

21.11 Claims by users bind to these Terms. Any person or entity that accesses, downloads, installs, registers for, tests, evaluates, crawls, screenshots, or otherwise uses any part of the Service — including for the purpose of investigating a potential claim, gathering evidence, conducting a trademark watch, or preparing litigation — does so as a user, accepts these Terms in full, and is bound by them, including the dispute resolution provisions in Section 28 and the venue provisions in Section 29, with respect to any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or its name. Investigative purpose does not exempt a user from these Terms.

21.12 No warranty regarding third-party rights. We make no representation to you about whether any third party claims rights in any word, name, or mark. Nothing in this Section gives you any right to use any Third-Party Mark.

21.13 Correction requests from any source. Anyone who believes any statement in this Section is inaccurate may write to support@docketpdf.net. We will correct demonstrated inaccuracies promptly. Prompt correction is a feature of good faith, not an admission of liability.

22. Copyright complaints

22.1 Notice. If you believe material on the Site, including material uploaded or shared by a Member, infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes: your signature (physical or electronic); identification of the work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and its location, with sufficient detail to permit us to locate it; your contact information; a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or law; and a statement, made subject to penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner.

22.2 Designated agent. Docket PDF, support@docketpdf.net.

22.3 Our response. On receipt of a conforming notice we will expeditiously remove or disable access to the identified material and will take reasonable action to notify the Member who posted it.

22.4 Counter-notice. If your material was removed in error or by misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice containing the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g), including your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address, or, for a Member outside the United States, the district in which we may be found.

22.5 Repeat infringers. We terminate access for repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, as described in Section 16.4.

22.6 Misrepresentation. A person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

23. Third-party links, services, and references

The Service may link to or reference third-party websites, court portals, legal aid providers, rules, forms, and applications. We do not control them, do not endorse them, do not verify them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security, or practices. Your dealings with any third party are solely between you and that party.

24. Disclaimer of warranties

24.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE, THE SITE, THE HOSTED FEATURES, THE PROGRAMS, ALL STORAGE AND SHARING FUNCTIONS, ALL DOCUMENTATION, ALL TEMPLATES, AND ALL RELATED MATERIAL ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

24.2 DOCKET PDF, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, CONTRIBUTORS, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND STORAGE PROVIDERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, DATA INTEGRITY, SECURITY, SYSTEM INTEGRATION, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

24.3 WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT: (a) THE SERVICE WILL OPERATE CONTINUOUSLY, SECURELY, OR FREE FROM ERROR OR INTERRUPTION; (b) ANY DEFECT WILL BE CORRECTED; (c) THE SERVICE IS FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (d) ANY UPLOADED FILE WILL BE PRESERVED, RETRIEVABLE, INTACT, ACCURATE, OR ACCESSIBLE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT; (e) ANY FILE WILL REMAIN PRIVATE OR PROTECTED FROM IMPROPER ACCESS, INTERCEPTION, OR DISCLOSURE; (f) ANY SHARE, SHARE LINK, OR REVOCATION OF A SHARE WILL FUNCTION AS INTENDED; (g) ANY STORAGE PROVIDER WILL REMAIN IN OPERATION, REMAIN SOLVENT, OR MAINTAIN ANY SECURITY POSTURE; (h) ANY DOCUMENT PRODUCED WILL SATISFY ANY COURT RULE, FILING SYSTEM REQUIREMENT, OR STATUTE; (i) ANY DOCUMENT WILL BE ACCEPTED, DOCKETED, OR CONSIDERED; (j) ANY REDACTION WILL BE EFFECTIVE; (k) ANY METADATA WILL BE REMOVED; (l) ANY INFORMATION PUBLISHED IS CURRENT, COMPLETE, OR APPLICABLE TO YOUR FORUM; (m) ANY MATERIAL RECEIVED FROM ANOTHER MEMBER IS AUTHENTIC, ACCURATE, OR SAFE; OR (n) USE OF THE SERVICE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR LEGAL RESULT.

24.4 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED FROM DOCKET PDF, FROM ANY MEMBER, OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

24.5 Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. Where that is the case, the exclusions above apply to the maximum extent permitted, and any warranty that cannot be excluded is limited in duration to thirty (30) days from your first use, to the extent permitted.

25. Limitation of liability

25.1 Exclusion of categories of damages. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL DOCKET PDF, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, CONTRIBUTORS, CONTRACTORS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING, WHETHER DIRECT OR OTHERWISE: LOSS, DELETION, CORRUPTION, ALTERATION, OR INACCESSIBILITY OF ANY UPLOADED FILE; DISCLOSURE, EXPOSURE, INTERCEPTION, OR IMPROPER ACCESS TO ANY UPLOADED FILE OR SHARED ITEM; ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY STORAGE PROVIDER, INCLUDING OUTAGE, BREACH, MIGRATION, INSOLVENCY, OR TERMINATION; ANY ACT OR OMISSION OF ANY OTHER MEMBER, INCLUDING REDISTRIBUTION OF A SHARED ITEM, MISUSE OF RECEIVED MATERIAL, OR TRANSMISSION OF FALSE OR HARMFUL MATERIAL; WAIVER OR LOSS OF ANY PRIVILEGE OR PROTECTION; VIOLATION OF ANY PROTECTIVE OR SEALING ORDER; LOSS OF A CLAIM, DEFENSE, OR CAUSE OF ACTION; DISMISSAL, DEFAULT, OR ADVERSE JUDGMENT; SANCTIONS, CONTEMPT FINDINGS, OR FEE AWARDS; A MISSED OR EXPIRED DEADLINE; A REJECTED, STRICKEN, OR LATE FILING; DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THROUGH A FAILED REDACTION OR RESIDUAL METADATA; LOSS OF LIBERTY, CUSTODY, HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, IMMIGRATION STATUS, OR BENEFITS; LOST PROFITS OR REVENUE; DEVICE DAMAGE; OR LOSS OF GOODWILL OR REPUTATION. THIS EXCLUSION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY, INCLUDING CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, AND STATUTE, AND APPLIES EVEN IF WE WERE ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

25.2 Cap. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF DOCKET PDF AND ALL PERSONS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 26.1, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (b) TWENTY-FIVE UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$25.00). The Service is provided at no charge; this cap reflects that reality and is a material basis of the bargain.

25.3 Basis of the bargain. You acknowledge that the Service is provided at the prices published on the Site, that we would not provide it absent these limitations, and that the allocation of risk in Sections 24, 25, 26, and 28 is a reasonable and essential term of this Agreement.

25.4 Jurisdictional limits. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations. Where that is the case, these provisions apply to the maximum extent permitted, and nothing in these Terms excludes liability for fraud, for willful misconduct, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

26. Indemnification

26.1 To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Docket PDF and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, contributors, contractors, and licensors from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, damage, loss, liability, judgment, settlement, fine, penalty, cost, and expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) any Document, Uploaded File, Shared Item, or Filing you create, upload, share, submit, serve, or publish; (c) any claim by a person identified, depicted, or described in material you uploaded or shared, including a claim of privacy violation, defamation, or breach of confidentiality; (d) any violation by you of a court order, protective order, or sealing order; (e) your breach of these Terms; (f) your violation of Applicable Law; (g) your infringement or misappropriation of any third party’s rights, including any Third-Party Mark; (h) any representation you make to a third party about Docket PDF, its affiliations, or its endorsements; (i) any dispute between you and another Member; and (j) your negligence or willful misconduct.

26.2 Control of defense. We may assume exclusive control of the defense and settlement of any matter subject to indemnification, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate. You may not settle any matter in a manner that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.

27. Assumption of risk and release

27.1 Assumption of risk. You acknowledge that self-representation before a court carries significant risk, that transmitting case documents to an outside company carries additional risk, that sharing documents with strangers carries further risk still, that software cannot remove any of that risk, and that you assume all of it entirely and voluntarily.

27.2 Release. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, you release Docket PDF and the persons described in Section 26.1 from all claims, demands, damages, and causes of action of every kind, whether known or not known at this time, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service, your Documents, your Uploaded Files, your Shared Items, your Filings, the conduct of any other Member, and the conduct of any Storage Provider.

27.3 Disputes between Members. Disputes between Members are between those Members. We are not a party to them, will not mediate them, and are released from any claim arising out of them.

27.4 Waiver of statutory limits on releases. Where a statute in your jurisdiction provides that a general release does not extend to claims that the releasing party does not know of or suspect to exist at the time of the release, and that if known would have materially affected the settlement, you knowingly and expressly waive the benefit of that statute to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, including California Civil Code section 1542 and any comparable provision of any other jurisdiction.

28. Dispute resolution, arbitration, and class waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES BETWEEN US ARE RESOLVED, AND IT LIMITS THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU MAY OPT OUT WITHIN 30 DAYS.

28.1 Informal resolution first. Before initiating arbitration or any proceeding, the initiating party must send a written notice of dispute to the other party describing the claim, the facts supporting it, and the relief sought. Notice to us goes to support@docketpdf.net and to our mailing address. The parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute for sixty (60) days after that notice. This informal process is a condition precedent to any arbitration or proceeding, and the applicable limitations period is tolled during it.

28.2 Agreement to arbitrate. Except as stated in Sections 28.4 and 28.5, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service, these Terms, any Uploaded File, any Shared Item, any Storage Provider, the name “Docket PDF,” or the relationship between the parties, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, privacy, data breach, trademark, or any other theory, will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association pursuant to its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, as modified by these Terms.

28.3 Arbitration procedure. Arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator. The seat of arbitration is the county and state of Docket PDF’s principal place of business, though a consumer may elect a hearing in the county of their residence, by telephone, by videoconference, or on documents only. The arbitrator may award any relief available in a court of competent jurisdiction to the individual party seeking relief, but may not award relief to or against any person who is not a party. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section. The arbitrator, not any court, decides questions of arbitrability, except as stated in Section 28.6.

28.4 Small claims exception. Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court, provided the claim remains individual and remains in that court.

28.5 Injunctive relief exception. Either party may seek temporary or preliminary injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property, or to prevent imminent disclosure of protected material, pending resolution in arbitration.

28.6 Class action and representative action waiver. ARBITRATION AND ANY PROCEEDING WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. Neither party may bring or participate in a class action, collective action, consolidated action, private attorney general action, or other representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate the claims of more than one person. If a court determines that this waiver is not enforceable as to a particular claim or particular relief, then that claim or that relief, and only that claim or that relief, is severed from arbitration and may proceed in court pursuant to Section 29, while all remaining claims proceed in arbitration.

28.7 Jury trial waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, each party waives any right to a trial by jury for any claim not resolved in arbitration.

28.8 Coordinated filings. Where twenty-five (25) or more demands for arbitration presenting substantially common claims are filed by or with the assistance of the same counsel or coordinated entities, the parties agree that the administrator may batch the demands into groups of no more than fifty (50) for administrative and fee purposes, with a single arbitrator per batch, and that the limitations period is tolled for demands awaiting a batch.

28.9 Fees. Payment of filing, administration, and arbitrator fees is governed by the administrator’s rules. Where the administrator’s rules assign a consumer’s share to the consumer and that share exceeds the filing fee for a court action, we will pay the excess on request for any claim not determined to be frivolous.

28.10 30-day opt-out. You may reject this Section 28 by sending written notice within thirty (30) days of your first use of the Service to support@docketpdf.net with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out,” stating your name, your mailing address, and a clear statement that you decline to arbitrate. Opting out affects nothing else in these Terms and does not affect your access to the Service.

28.11 Time limit. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, any claim must be filed within one (1) year after it accrues, or it is permanently barred.

28.12 Survival. This Section survives termination of these Terms and the end of your use of the Service.

29. Governing law and venue

29.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the laws of the state of Docket PDF’s principal place of business, excluding its conflict of laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act and other federal law where applicable. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

29.2 Venue. For any matter not subject to arbitration, and for any action to enforce an arbitration award, the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in the county and state of Docket PDF’s principal place of business, and waive any objection based on personal jurisdiction, venue, or forum non conveniens.

29.3 Consumer protection. Nothing in this Section deprives a consumer of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of the consumer’s place of residence, where those protections apply notwithstanding this Section. See Section 34.

30. Term, suspension, and termination

30.1 Term. These Terms apply from your first use of the Service and continue for so long as you use it, and afterward as to any surviving provision.

30.2 Termination by you. You may terminate at any time by deleting your Account, ceasing use of the Site, and removing the Programs from your devices.

30.3 Termination by us. We may suspend or terminate your Account and your access, in whole or in part, at any time, with or without notice, including for breach of these Terms, for suspected illegal activity, for conduct that endangers other Members or our infrastructure, or where we retire the Service.

30.4 Effect on your files. On termination or suspension of an Account, access to Uploaded Files may end immediately, and those files may be deleted. Where circumstances permit, we will attempt to provide a reasonable export window, and that attempt is our only obligation. Where we terminate an Account for material described in Section 15, we may delete the files at once and preserve them for law enforcement as required.

30.5 Retirement of the Hosted Features. We may retire the Hosted Features entirely. Where we do so voluntarily, we will attempt to provide at least thirty (30) days’ notice through the Site and by email, so that Members may export their files. A Storage Provider failure, legal demand, or emergency may make advance notice impossible.

30.6 Effect on licenses. On termination, the license in Section 6 ends immediately.

30.7 Survival. Sections 3, 11, 12.4, 12.7, 12.11, 13.3, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 25 through 37 survive.

31. Changes to these terms

31.1 We may revise these Terms. We will post the revised version with a new “Last Revised” date, and, for material changes, we will provide reasonable advance notice through the Site or within the Programs.

31.2 Changes take effect on the date posted, or on a later stated effective date. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance.

31.3 Material changes to Section 28 do not apply retroactively to a dispute for which a notice of dispute was already sent, and you may reject a material change to Section 28 through the mechanism in Section 28.10 within thirty (30) days of the change.

31.4 A change of Storage Provider is not a change to these Terms and requires no notice, as described in Section 14.2.

32. Export control and sanctions

You represent that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, any country subject to a comprehensive embargo administered by the United States or any other applicable authority, and that you are not identified on any restricted-party list, including the Specially Designated Nationals list, the Denied Persons list, and the Entity List. You agree that you will not export, re-export, or transfer the Programs or any Uploaded File in violation of any export control law.

33. Government end users

The Programs are “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” as those terms are used in FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202. Any use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display, or disclosure by or for the United States Government is governed solely by these Terms, and all other rights are reserved.

34. Consumers outside the United States

34.1 Mandatory rights preserved. If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or any other jurisdiction whose law grants consumers rights that a contract cannot waive, nothing in these Terms limits those rights. Where a provision of these Terms conflicts with such a mandatory right, that provision does not apply to you to the extent of the conflict, and the remainder continues in force.

34.2 Forum. Consumers in such jurisdictions may bring proceedings in the courts of their place of residence where mandatory law so provides, and Sections 28 and 29 apply only to the extent permitted by that law.

34.3 Data protection. Where data protection law grants you a right to information about processors, sub-processors, transfers, or changes to them, we will provide what that law requires, and Section 14.2 applies subject to that obligation.

34.4 Australian Consumer Law. For consumers in Australia, our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded pursuant to the Australian Consumer Law. Where permitted, our liability for a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee is limited to resupplying the service.

35. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including acts of nature, fire, flood, epidemic, war, civil disturbance, labor action, governmental action, court order, power failure, network failure, hosting or Storage Provider failure, app store removal, denial of service attack, and the failure of any third-party service on which we depend.

36. General provisions

36.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any license notices incorporated pursuant to Section 8, constitute the entire agreement between you and Docket PDF regarding the Service and supersede all prior communications, representations, and understandings on that subject.

36.2 Severability. If any provision is held invalid, illegal, or not enforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if modification is not possible, severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force. The class waiver in Section 28.6 is governed by the specific rule stated in that Section.

36.3 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of that provision or of any other provision. A waiver is effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative.

36.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, your Account, or any right granted by them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, reorganization, transfer of the project, or transfer of substantially all assets. These Terms bind and benefit permitted successors.

36.5 No third-party beneficiaries. Except for the persons identified in Sections 9.3, 9.4, 14.8, 25, 26, and 28, these Terms create no third-party beneficiary right.

36.6 Relationship. No partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship is created by these Terms, whether between you and us or between you and any other Member.

36.7 Survival. Any provision that by its nature should survive termination does survive, as listed in Section 30.7.

36.8 Notices. We may provide notice to you by posting on the Site, by in-program message, or by email to the address on your Account. Keeping that address current is your responsibility. You must provide notice to us in writing at support@docketpdf.net and, for formal legal notice, by mail to support@docketpdf.net.

36.9 Electronic communications. You consent to receive communications from us electronically and agree that electronic communications, agreements, and records satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.

36.10 Headings and interpretation. Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation.” These Terms will not be construed against the drafting party.

36.11 Language. These Terms are written in English. Any translation is provided for convenience, and the English version controls in the event of a discrepancy.

36.12 Accessibility. We aim to make the Service usable by people with disabilities. If you encounter a barrier, write to support@docketpdf.net and we will work to provide the information or function in an alternative format.

37. Contact

General: support@docketpdf.net

Legal notices, trademark notices, and arbitration opt-outs: support@docketpdf.net

Privacy and data rights: support@docketpdf.net

Security reports: support@docketpdf.net

Content reports and appeals: support@docketpdf.net

Copyright agent: Docket PDF, support@docketpdf.net

Appendix A — Required contents of a trademark or name-rights notice

Referenced by Section 21.9. A notice omitting any of the following is not a conforming notice, and our response clock does not begin.

1. The full legal name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number of the party asserting rights, and of any counsel.
2. The exact mark asserted, in the exact form asserted.
3. Each registration number and jurisdiction relied on, or, for a claim of common law rights, the date and geographic scope of first use in commerce, with supporting documentation.
4. The precise goods and services identified in each registration or claim, by class and by the language of the identification.
5. The exact location of the material claimed to infringe, identified by page URL, program version number, screen, or file name.
6. A specific explanation of the alleged likelihood of confusion, addressing each of the following: similarity of the marks in sight, sound, and meaning; relatedness of the goods and services; similarity of trade channels; price and purchaser sophistication, taking into account Docket PDF’s published prices and the persons who buy them; strength of the asserted mark, including any descriptive or generic character of the words “docket” and “PDF”; and any evidence of actual confusion.
7. Any evidence of actual confusion, identified with specificity, including the date, the person confused, and the circumstance. General assertions of possible confusion are not evidence.
8. A statement of the specific relief sought and any proposed accommodation short of a name change.
9. A statement that the party has reviewed Section 21 of these Terms, including the descriptive-use statement in Section 21.1 and the field-of-use statement in Section 21.7, and a specific response to each.
10. A statement, made in good faith, that the assertion is based on a reasonable inquiry into the facts and law and is not made for any improper purpose, including harassment, delay, or the suppression of protected commentary about the judicial system.
11. The signature of an authorized representative.

Send to support@docketpdf.net with the subject line “Trademark Notice — Docket PDF.”

Appendix B — Statement of good-faith descriptive adoption

This statement is published as a dated public record of the basis on which the name was adopted. Preserve every draft, search record, and dated screenshot supporting it.

1. Date of first public use of the name “Docket PDF”: February 21, 2026.
2. Reason for adoption: the software produces PDF files for use in court dockets. The name states the function in ordinary words. No other reason contributed to the choice.
3. Knowledge at adoption: the project did not adopt the name with knowledge of, reference to, or intent to evoke any other party’s mark, product, branding, color scheme, logo, or reputation. [Insert here a description of any clearance search performed, including date, database, and results.]
4. Goods and services: document-assembly software, plus a personal storage and member-to-member sharing area, for members of the public who lack legal representation and for small firms.
5. Price: four plans, one free and three paid, published on the Site and subject to change without notice. No advertising revenue, no sales staff, no reseller channel, and no enterprise contract exists.
6. What the project does not offer: court record access, docket monitoring, docket alerts, electronic filing transmission, case law, legal research, practice management, billing, and e-discovery.
7. Trade dress: the project uses its own logo, color palette, typography, and interface design, developed independently, and imitates no third party’s presentation.
8. Disclaimers: a non-affiliation statement appears in these Terms at Section 21.5, in the footer of every page of the Site, and on the “about” screen of each Program.
9. Actual confusion: as of the date of this statement, the project is aware of no instance of actual confusion. Any instance reported to us will be logged, investigated, and recorded here.
10. Commitment: the project will consider reasonable, specific measures to reduce genuine confusion, while reserving every defense described in Section 21.3.

Appendix C — Reporting improper content or conduct

Referenced by Sections 13.9 and 16.5. Send to support@docketpdf.net.

A report should include:

1. Your name and a contact email address.
2. The location of the material: the share link, the file name, the Account name of the Member who shared it, and the date you observed it.
3. The category of concern, drawn from Section 15.
4. A short description of why the material violates these Terms.
5. Any court order, case number, or documentation supporting the report, where the concern involves sealed or protected material.
6. A statement that the report is made in good faith and that its contents are accurate to the best of your knowledge.

Emergencies. If a person is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first. If material appears to depict the sexual exploitation of a child, report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and to law enforcement in addition to notifying us; we will report it as Applicable Law requires.

Copyright complaints follow the separate procedure in Section 22.

End of Terms of Service and Software License Agreement for Docket PDF.