LegalTerms of Use

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

This platform is operated by ILCI B.V., trading as the International Law Compliance Institute (internationallawcomplianceinstitute.org), a Dutch private limited company (besloten vennootschap) represented by Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos, with its registered office at Saenredamstraat 81, 2021 ZP Haarlem, the Netherlands. Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number 96043172, VAT number NL867445658B01. In these Terms, “ILCI”, “we” and “us” mean ILCI B.V.

These Terms of Use apply whenever you create an account, accept a team invitation, purchase or use a subscription, or read a report on the ILCI platform. For how we handle personal data, see our Privacy Policy.

2. Research & informational use only, not legal advice

AI search transparency (EU AI Act Art. 50): The AI search feature on /cases generates answers automatically from ILCI's case database and published reports. Although every answer links to cited cases or report sections, automated outputs can be incomplete or inaccurate. Always verify any point against the underlying award, decision, or report before relying on it in legal proceedings, advice, or publications.

3. Accounts, seats, and team access

• One named person per seat: Each account is personal to one named individual. An Individual subscription covers one person (1 seat). A Team subscription covers up to the number of seats paid for by your organisation, assigned by email invitation from your account page. Sharing a single login or password among multiple people is not permitted.
• One organisation per account: An account can belong to or own one organisation subscription at a time.
• Account security: You are responsible for keeping your password and single-use sign-in links confidential and for notifying us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.

4. Intellectual property, permitted use, and watermarking

All compliance reports, executive summaries, compliance classifications, and database compilations are protected by copyright and database rights held by ILCI and Prof. Dr. Nikos Lavranos.

What you may do: While your subscription or report licence is active, you may search the database, read licensed reports in the online reader, print personal reference copies of licensed reports through the platform's print button, and cite findings or brief quotations in legal submissions, client memoranda, or academic work with clear attribution to ILCI.

Watermarking: Every page in the online reader and every printed PDF copy is stamped with the licensed reader's email address, organisation name, and date (Licensed to <email> · <organisation>).

What you may not do:

• Forward, upload, resell, or distribute report PDFs or full-text copies to anyone who does not hold an active seat on your subscription.
• Remove, crop, obscure, or alter any licence watermark or copyright notice.
• Use bots, scrapers, crawlers, spiders, scripts, browser automation, AI agents, or any other automated means to access, copy, download, index, or monitor any part of the platform, including the case database, report text, and AI answers, whether in bulk or page by page.
• Systematically copy, extract, or re-use substantial parts of the database or reports, by any means, including by hand, through repeated searches, or by collecting AI answers, in order to rebuild, mirror, or replace them.
• Use ILCI reports, case records, or AI answers to train, fine-tune, evaluate, ground, or populate any machine-learning or AI model or system, or any competing commercial database.
• Upload, paste, or otherwise feed report text, case records, or AI answers into third-party AI tools, chatbots, or translation or summarisation services, except for short quotations permitted above.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with any technical protection on the platform, including copy restrictions in the reader, licence watermarks, rate limits, daily question allowances, access controls, or seat limits.
• Share your sign-in details or let anyone else, person or program, use your account.

Reservation of text and data mining rights: ILCI expressly reserves all rights to the platform and its contents against text and data mining, within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and Article 15o of the Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet). No text and data mining, including for the development or training of AI models, is permitted without ILCI's prior written consent. This reservation applies regardless of whether it is also expressed in machine-readable form.

Breach: If you breach this section, ILCI may suspend or end access for you and, where the breach is attributable to the organisation, for every seat on the subscription, immediately and without refund. ILCI reserves all other rights and remedies, including the right to claim damages.

5. Subscriptions, billing, seat changes, and cancellation

• Prices & payment: Prices are stated in euros (EUR) on the Pricing page and settled securely through Mollie B.V. Applicable VAT is applied as shown at checkout and on your payment receipt/invoice.
• Automatic renewal: Monthly and yearly subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless the organisation owner cancels before the renewal date.
• Adding or removing seats (Team plan): The organisation owner can add extra seats (up to the plan maximum) from /account. Adding seats charges a prorated amount for the remainder of the current billing period and updates the recurring amount from the next renewal. Removing seats takes effect at the next renewal, with no refund for the current paid period.
• Cancel any time: The organisation owner can cancel the subscription at any time on /account. Nothing further is charged, and everyone in the organisation keeps access until the end of the current paid period.
• Failed renewals: If a recurring payment fails, a 7-day grace period applies while payment settles. If payment is not completed within those 7 days, subscription access ends.
• Immediate digital access: The platform is designed for professional, academic, and institutional users. Where mandatory EU consumer withdrawal law applies, by subscribing and accessing the digital database and reports immediately upon payment confirmation, you consent to immediate performance of the digital service.

6. Fair use, AI quotas, and suspension

To keep AI search fast and predictable for every subscriber, each seat has a daily allowance of answered questions, set by ILCI and reset at midnight UTC, subject to an organisation-wide ceiling. ILCI may adjust fair-use limits or temporarily suspend an account if we detect credential sharing, automated scraping, or unauthorised redistribution of watermarked reports.

7. Limitation of liability

The platform and its contents are provided for professional research on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. While ILCI takes great care in compiling arbitration cases and compliance reports, we do not warrant that the database or AI search will be error-free or uninterrupted.

To the maximum extent permitted by Dutch law, ILCI is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for decisions taken in reliance on the database, reports, or AI answers. ILCI's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to a subscription or report is limited to the total fees paid by your organisation to ILCI in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, except where liability cannot be limited by law (such as intent or conscious recklessness: opzet of bewuste roekeloosheid).

8. Governing law and contact

These Terms of Use and any subscription or licence entered into on the platform are governed by the laws of the Netherlands (Nederlands recht). Any dispute shall be submitted to the competent court in the Netherlands, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection rules where applicable.

Questions about these Terms or your subscription? Contact us via the ILCI Contact page or at contact@internationallawcomplianceinstitute.org.