Terms of Use

Effective August 13, 2026 (previous version: August 11, 2026) · between you and Fulks, Inc. ("Fulks," "we," "us"), publisher of CaseDesk. By installing or using CaseDesk, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

1. What CaseDesk is — and is not

CaseDesk is desktop practice-management software for licensed legal professionals. Fulks, Inc. is not a law firm, provides no legal services or legal advice, and using CaseDesk creates no attorney-client relationship. You — the licensed professional — retain sole responsibility for every deadline, filing, document, and decision in your practice.

2. Who may use CaseDesk

CaseDesk is intended for licensed attorneys and the staff working under their supervision. By using it, you represent that you are such a person, that you are at least 18 years old, and that you will use CaseDesk only for lawful, professional purposes.

3. Beta license and time-limited builds

During the beta, we grant you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use CaseDesk for your practice. No license key or account with us is required.

Beta builds are time-limited. Each build carries an expiration: after its free period (currently 90 days from first run; durations may vary by build) it enters a read-only mode (you can still open your matters and export your data, but not make changes), and after a further grace period (currently 14 days) it stops opening until you install a newer build. Because your data is stored locally in an encrypted database, expiration never deletes or corrupts it — but once a build's grace period ends, CaseDesk will not open until you install a newer build, and we do not guarantee that a newer build will always be available. We recommend exporting or backing up your data before a build's read-only date. We may change, suspend, or discontinue the beta and are under no obligation to continue it or release further builds, with one exception we commit to: if we discontinue CaseDesk altogether, we will publish a final build with the beta expiry removed, so you can keep opening and exporting your matters. Nothing about any of this changes your ownership of the data already on your machine.

We may introduce paid subscription plans and set, and from time to time change, their pricing. Active paid subscribers get at least 30 days' notice before a price change takes effect on their account, and no increase applies before their next renewal. If you subscribe during a period we have advertised as carrying founder pricing, you keep that rate for as long as your subscription stays continuously active. If a paid subscription lapses or is cancelled, your licence reverts to read-only: you can keep opening and exporting existing matters, but not create or edit new data, until you resubscribe. We will not lock you out of, or delete, data already on your machine solely because a subscription lapsed.

Our intellectual property. CaseDesk — including all software, source code, design, user interface, the CaseDesk name and logo, and documentation — is and remains the property of Fulks, Inc. and its licensors. Except for the limited license granted above, these Terms give you no right, title, or interest in our intellectual property.

4. Deadlines, references, and calculations — verify before relying

CaseDesk's deadline rules and legal references are researched against official sources, but rules change, local rules vary, and calculations are aids to professional judgment — not a substitute for it. Entries that reflect best-practice conventions rather than pinned authority are labeled as estimates. You must independently verify any deadline, citation, or figure against official sources before relying on it. We are not responsible for missed deadlines or reliance on any computed date, reference, or estimate.

5. AI features — your keys, your review

AI features run on credentials you supply (or a local model you run) and are governed by your agreement with that provider. AI output can be wrong, incomplete, or fabricated. You must review all AI-assisted output before any professional use. Nothing is filed, sent, or served by AI without your action.

6. Third-party services

Integrations (email, payments, accounting, messaging, storage, court data) operate under your own accounts and those providers' terms. We are not a party to those relationships and are not responsible for those services.

7. Your data, backups, and your control

Your data is yours and lives in an encrypted database on your machine. If you enable the optional Cloud Sync described in Section 19, an encrypted copy we cannot read also exists on our infrastructure, under that section’s terms. That control comes with responsibility: you are responsible for your own backups and the security of your device. CaseDesk includes backup and encryption tooling; whether and how you use it is up to you.

8. Your professional responsibility

CaseDesk is a tool, not a compliance guarantee. You remain solely responsible for your professional, ethical, and bar obligations, including calendaring and deadlines, trust-accounting and IOLTA compliance, conflicts of interest, client confidentiality, and the competent use of technology. You are responsible for determining whether CaseDesk is appropriate for a given matter and for supervising any staff who use it.

9. Feedback

If you send us feedback, bug reports, or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use them to improve CaseDesk, with no obligation to you and no expectation of confidentiality in the ideas themselves. You never need to send us your case data to give feedback. Please do not include client-identifying, privileged, or confidential information in feedback or support requests — use synthetic or redacted examples to reproduce an issue; any such information you do share will be used only to address your request.

10. Acceptable use

Don't use CaseDesk to break the law, infringe others' rights, or attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the software except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by applicable law. You also represent that you are not located in, and will not use or export CaseDesk in violation of, any U.S. embargo or export-control law, and that you are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list.

11. No warranty

CaseDesk is beta software provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any warranty of accuracy, reliability, or uninterrupted availability.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or professional or business losses, arising from your use of or inability to use CaseDesk. Our total aggregate liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for CaseDesk in the twelve months before the claim — which, during the free beta, is zero dollars. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, gross negligence, or willful misconduct.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Fulks, Inc. from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of CaseDesk in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or your infringement of a third party's rights.

14. Paid subscriptions

CaseDesk remains free during the beta. CaseDesk Pro is an optional paid subscription that removes the beta expiry; the following applies to it and to any other paid plan we offer. Prices, the billing period, and what a plan includes are the ones shown at the time you subscribe. Paid plans are sold per attorney: one subscription covers one named attorney's own use across their devices, and each additional attorney using CaseDesk needs their own subscription. Support staff working on that attorney's matters do not need a separate subscription.

Payment is taken by our payment processor, which handles your card details; we do not store them. Prices are exclusive of any sales, use, VAT, or similar taxes, which are added where we are required to collect them. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel, and the specific renewal terms — amount, period, and how to cancel — are disclosed to you, and separately agreed by you, at checkout. You can cancel online at any time at casedesk.law/manage — enter your email, open the link we send you, and cancel in one click, with no phone call and no email to us required. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for, and we do not pro-rate partial periods.

Refunds. If CaseDesk is not right for you, write to support@casedesk.law within 30 days of your first payment and we will refund it. A renewal payment is refundable within 7 days if you meant to cancel and did not. Outside those windows we generally do not refund periods already begun — a lapsed subscription leaves your data readable and exportable rather than locked (Section 3) — but if something goes genuinely wrong, write to us and we will deal with it fairly.

15. Termination

You may stop using CaseDesk at any time; your data remains on your machine. We may suspend or terminate this license for breach of these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 19) survive.

16. Dispute resolution; binding arbitration

Binding individual arbitration. Except for the carve-outs below, you and Fulks, Inc. agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to CaseDesk or these Terms will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, not in court. Arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules then in effect, before a single arbitrator applying California law. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Carve-outs. Either party may (a) bring a qualifying individual claim in small-claims court, and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information. The Governing Law and Venue section below governs any such court action.

Class-action waiver. You and Fulks, Inc. agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any class proceeding. If this waiver is held unenforceable as to a claim, that claim alone is severed and litigated in the courts named in the Governing Law and Venue section, and the rest of this arbitration agreement remains in effect.

Your 30-day right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing admin@casedesk.law with your name and a statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out affects no other part of these Terms; disputes then proceed in court under the Governing Law and Venue section.

Costs and location. Arbitration proceeds by video, telephone, or written submission unless the arbitrator orders an in-person hearing, which would be held in Riverside County, California, or another mutually agreed location. Filing and arbitrator fees are governed by the JAMS rules, and we will pay any arbitration filing and arbitrator fees we are invoiced within the deadlines JAMS sets; each party otherwise bears its own attorneys' fees unless a statute or the arbitrator's award provides otherwise.

17. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to the arbitration agreement above, venue for any dispute lies exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Riverside County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction.

18. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Fulks, Inc. regarding CaseDesk and supersede any prior understanding. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor to our business. We may update these Terms by posting a revised version on this page with a new effective date. When we make a material change, CaseDesk asks you to review and accept the updated Terms the next time you open it, and you can decline and stop using it; for non-material changes, continued use after the new effective date constitutes acceptance. We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

19. Cloud Sync

CaseDesk Pro includes optional Cloud Sync. If you enable it, CaseDesk encrypts your data on your device — with keys derived from a passphrase and recovery code that only you hold — and stores the resulting ciphertext on infrastructure we operate so that your other devices can retrieve it. We cannot read, recover, or reset it: if you lose your passphrase, your recovery code, and every connected device, the synced copy is permanently unrecoverable, and you agree we are not liable for that loss. Cloud Sync is provided without any uptime commitment; your local database remains the primary copy, and you remain responsible for backups. Document files are not transmitted; database records are. You may delete all synced data from within the app at any time; we may delete synced data associated with a subscription that has lapsed for more than ninety (90) days. Cloud Sync may not be used to store data unrelated to your use of CaseDesk. On termination of these Terms your right to use Cloud Sync ends, and any remaining server-side ciphertext will be deleted in the ordinary course.

20. Contact

Fulks, Inc. — admin@casedesk.law