Terms of Use

The short version

sudo legal is a compliance scanner. We check your website against EU regulations and tell you what needs fixing. We are not a law firm. We do not replace lawyers. If you treat our output as legal advice, that is between you and your risk tolerance.

1. What this service does

sudo legal ("we", "us", "the service") scans websites for compliance issues against EU regulations including GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Consumer Rights Directive, AI Act, and others. We crawl your pages, analyze the content with AI, and generate a report with findings and suggested fixes.

We do our best to be accurate. AI, however, is not infallible. Neither are humans, but at least we are cheaper.

2. Your account

You need an account to use the service. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure. If someone uses your account to scan a competitor's website 47 times, that is on you.

You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher. If your jurisdiction has no age of majority, we have bigger concerns than these terms.

3. Acceptable use

You agree to use the service only for lawful purposes. Specifically, you will not:

• Scan websites you do not own or have authorization to scan
• Use the service to harass, threaten, or annoy website operators with unsolicited compliance reports
• Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise extract our scanning logic
• Overwhelm our servers with automated requests (we have rate limits, and feelings)
• Use the service for anything illegal, even if it is technically impressive

4. Intellectual property

The service, its design, code, and scanning methodology belong to us. Your scan results belong to you. The legal texts we reference belong to the European Union, and they were not going to charge you for those anyway.

The AI-generated corrections and suggestions we provide are yours to use. Copy them, paste them, take credit for them at the board meeting. We do not mind.

5. Not legal advice

This is the part our lawyers insisted on, so here it is in plain English: sudo legal is a software tool, not a law firm. Our AI is not an attorney. It holds no law license, owes no duty of loyalty, and nothing in this service creates an attorney-client relationship. Our reports are informational. They do not constitute legal advice or guarantee compliance with any regulation.

The AI-generated analysis, corrections, and suggestions provided by the service are produced by automated systems. They may contain errors, miss nuances, or fail to account for your specific legal context. They are a starting point, not a finish line.

If a regulator comes knocking, do not wave our report at them and say "but the robot said it was fine." Consult a qualified legal professional. Ideally one who has read the GDPR, which is a lower bar than you would think.

6. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, sudo legal and its team shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from your use of the service.

Translation: if our scan misses something and you get fined, we are sorry, but the liability stops at the amount you paid us for the service. Which, during the free tier, is zero. Math checks out.

7. Availability

We aim for the service to be available 24/7. We do not guarantee it. Servers fail, dependencies break, and sometimes the intern deploys on Friday. We will do our best to keep downtime to a minimum and communicate any planned maintenance.

8. Termination

You can delete your account at any time. We can suspend or terminate your access if you violate these terms. If we terminate the service entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and let you export your data. We are not monsters.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via email or an in-app notice. Continued use after changes means you accept them, which is the same consent mechanism most cookie banners use, and yes, we see the irony.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Belgium. Any disputes shall be submitted to the courts of Brussels. We chose Brussels because that is where the regulators are, and we like to keep things convenient.

Questions?

If you have any questions about these terms, reach out to legal@sudolegal.com. Yes, a compliance company has a legal email address. We practice what we preach.