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Legawyl helps you write your own Last Will and Testament by answering questions in your browser. It is software, not a lawyer.

Three things matter more than anything else in this document, so they are said here, at the top, before you agree to anything:

• We are not a law firm and we are not your lawyer. Nothing Legawyl shows you, generates for you, or says to you is legal advice.
• A will only works if it is signed correctly. The document Legawyl produces is not valid until you sign it in the way your state’s law requires. That part is yours to do.
• We do not check your will. No person reviews what you write. If your answers are incomplete, mistaken, or unsuited to your circumstances, the will we generate will faithfully reproduce that.

If you are not comfortable with those three things, please use a licensed attorney instead. That is a perfectly good decision, and we would rather you make it now than discover the problem later, when it can no longer be fixed.

1. Who we are, and who you are

Legawyl (the “Service”) is an independent, non-commercial software project operated from Poland, in the European Union (“Legawyl”, “we”, “us”). You can reach us at any time at support@legawyl.com.

“You” means the person using the Service. By creating an account, or by using the will questionnaire without an account, you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service.

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding agreement. The Service is not offered to, and must not be used by, anyone under 18.

2. What Legawyl is, and what it is not

2.1 Legawyl is not a law firm

Legawyl is a self-help software tool. We are not a law firm, we are not attorneys, and we do not practise law. Using the Service does not make us your lawyer and does not create an attorney-client relationship, a fiduciary relationship, or any other professional relationship between you and us or anyone associated with us.

2.2 Nothing we provide is legal advice

Everything in the Service (the questions, the explanatory text, the guides, the defaults, and the document itself) is general information applied mechanically to the answers you type in. It is not advice about your situation, and it is not a recommendation that you take any particular course of action. We do not know your circumstances, and the software does not evaluate them.

2.3 Your communications with us are not privileged

This one is easy to get wrong, and the consequences are serious. When you tell a lawyer something, the law protects it. When you tell us something, it does not. Information you enter into Legawyl, and anything you send to our support address, is not protected by attorney-client privilege and is not attorney work-product. We protect it as described in our Privacy Policy, with encryption, with access controls, and by never selling it. But that is a security and privacy protection, not a legal one. It could, in principle, be compelled by a court.

2.4 We do not review your will

No human being at Legawyl reads, checks, corrects, or approves your will. We do not verify that names are spelled correctly, that the people you have named exist, that your percentages add up to something sensible, that your executor is willing, that your assets are described accurately, or that the document as a whole reflects what you actually want. Any automated checks the Service performs are limited, mechanical, and offered on a best-effort basis; they are not a review.

You must read the finished document before you sign it. You are solely responsible for its contents.

2.5 We do not answer legal questions

We are glad to help with the software: a button that does not work, an account you cannot access, a page that will not load. We cannot and will not tell you who should inherit your estate, whether you need a trust, how to reduce tax, whether your marriage or divorce changes things, whether a particular person can be a witness in your situation, or whether a will is the right instrument for you at all. If we decline to answer a question, that is not unhelpfulness. It is the line between software support and practising law without a licence, and we intend to stay on the right side of it.

2.6 You are representing yourself

When you make a will with Legawyl, you are acting for yourself, in your own legal matter, without a lawyer. The responsibility for the result is yours.

2.7 When you should use a lawyer instead

Please consult a licensed attorney in your state if any of the following is true. This list is illustrative, not exhaustive:

• your estate is large, or large enough that estate or inheritance tax is a real question;
• you have a blended family, a former spouse, or children from more than one relationship;
• you want to disinherit a spouse or a child, or you expect anyone to contest your will;
• you own a business, farm, or professional practice;
• you own property outside the United States;
• you need a trust, or you have been told you might;
• you have a beneficiary with a disability, or one who receives means-tested benefits;
• someone involved may lack mental capacity, or may be under pressure from another person;
• anything about your situation feels complicated to you.

The last one is not a joke. If it feels complicated, it probably is.

3. Eligibility and your account

You may use the will questionnaire without an account. If you do, your answers are stored only in your own browser and never reach our servers, which also means we cannot recover them if you clear your browser data. See the Privacy Policy.

If you create an account:

• give us accurate information, and keep it accurate;
• keep your password to yourself, and use a strong one;
• you are responsible for what happens under your account;
• tell us promptly at support@legawyl.com if you think someone else has access to it.

You may sign in with Google. If you do, your use of Google’s service is governed by Google’s own terms and privacy policy, not ours. We receive only your email address and name.

Sessions. A sign-in lasts up to 24 hours. Signing out affects only the device you sign out on. Changing or resetting your password ends your sessions on every device immediately, and account settings has a “Sign out everywhere” control that does the same. If you believe your account is compromised, reset your password: that alone evicts anyone using your session.

4. The will you create

4.1 It is a document, not an outcome

Legawyl assembles a Last Will and Testament from your answers using standard clauses. We do not warrant that the document will be valid, enforceable, complete, correct, or suitable for you. Whether it works depends on your state’s law, on the accuracy of your answers, and above all on whether you execute it properly.

4.2 Signing and witnessing is your responsibility

A will that is not executed correctly is usually worth nothing. In nearly every state this means signing the document yourself, in the physical presence of the required number of adult witnesses who are not beneficiaries, with those witnesses signing in turn. In some states a notary is also required. The exact requirements are set by your state, not by us.

The Service and the generated document give you general information about your state’s requirements. That information is a starting point, not a legal opinion. It has not been verified by an attorney licensed in your state, and it may be incomplete or out of date. Confirm the current requirements for your state before you sign. If you get this wrong, the will fails, and it fails at the worst possible moment: after your death, when you are no longer able to fix it.

4.3 Geographic scope

The Service is designed for wills disposing of property located in the United States, made by people who live in a US state. It is not designed for, and should not be used for, property located in any other country (including in the European Union), and it is not a substitute for a will valid where that property sits. If you hold property abroad, you will generally need a separate will prepared under the law of that place, and you should take local advice.

4.4 What Legawyl does not produce

Legawyl produces a Last Will and Testament and nothing else. It does not produce a living will, an advance healthcare directive, a healthcare proxy, a power of attorney, a trust, or any tax filing. A “living will” is a different document with a confusingly similar name: it concerns medical decisions while you are alive, and Legawyl does not offer one.

4.5 Keeping it safe

Once signed, the paper document is the will. Store the signed original somewhere safe, and make sure your executor knows where it is. Legawyl does not store your signed original and cannot produce it for a probate court. If you make a new will, follow its instructions for revoking the old one, and destroy the superseded copies.

5. Your content and your rights in it

Everything you enter is yours: your answers, your wishes, your personal message, and the will generated from them. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us only the narrow permission we need to run the Service for you: to store, encrypt, process, transmit and display your content back to you, and to generate your document from it. That permission exists solely to provide the Service to you, ends when you delete the content or your account, and extends to no one else. We do not use your content for advertising. We do not sell it. We do not and will not use your content to train machine-learning models.

You may of course copy, print, store and distribute your own will however you like. Give it to your executor, your family, your attorney, your bank. Nothing in these Terms restricts what you do with your own document.

6. Information about other people

To make a will you must give us information about other people: your spouse, your children, your beneficiaries, your executors, your guardians. Some of them are minors. None of them are our users, and none of them have agreed to anything.

You confirm that you are entitled to give us their information, and you are responsible for the accuracy of what you provide about them. We will use it only to build your will, as described in the Privacy Policy. We will not contact these people, market to them, or disclose their details to anyone.

7. Our intellectual property

The Service, which includes the software, the questionnaire, the clause library, the document templates, the guides, the design, and the name Legawyl and its logo, belongs to us and is protected by copyright and other laws. These Terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for your own estate planning, and nothing more.

You may not:

• copy, adapt, or redistribute the Service, its templates, or its clause library, other than as part of your own completed will (which, per section 5, is yours);
• use the Service, or the documents it generates, to build or operate a competing product, or to provide services to third parties;
• reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• scrape or bulk-extract content from the Service, or use automated tools against it;
• remove or obscure any notice, mark, or disclaimer we place on the Service or on a generated document.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely, with no obligation to you. (We would like the feedback, so please do send it.)

8. Acceptable use

Use Legawyl lawfully, honestly, and for its purpose. Do not:

• use it to commit fraud, or to disguise, coerce, or falsify anyone’s testamentary intentions;
• impersonate anyone, or make a will purporting to be someone else’s;
• attempt to access another user’s data, or any part of our systems you are not entitled to;
• probe, scan, attack, overload, or interfere with the Service or the infrastructure it runs on (responsible security research is welcome: see section 11);
• upload malicious code, or anything unlawful.

We may suspend or terminate access for a breach of this section.

9. A free service, and what happens if that changes

Legawyl is currently free. There is no charge, no subscription, no trial that converts into one, and we collect no payment details.

If we ever introduce paid features, then before you are charged anything: we will tell you clearly what costs what; we will obtain your specific agreement to the price and the billing terms; and we will not begin charging you for something you already have for free without giving you fair notice and a genuine choice to decline. Any paid feature will be governed by additional payment terms presented to you at the time, covering pricing, taxes, the payment processor, renewal (including a plain-language statement of any automatic renewal, advance reminders, and how to cancel), refunds, and your statutory right of withdrawal as a consumer. Nothing in this section commits us to launching a paid product, and nothing in it obliges you to buy one.

10. Automated features and any future use of AI

Legawyl does not currently use artificial intelligence or machine-learning models to generate, suggest, or evaluate the content of your will. Your document is assembled from a fixed clause library by deterministic code.

If we ever add an AI-assisted feature, it will be governed by these principles, which we state now so that you can hold us to them:

• We will label it. You will always know when you are reading machine-generated text.
• It will explain, never advise. Any such feature will be limited to explaining what terms mean and what options exist. It will not recommend what you should do. That would be legal advice, and section 2 would cease to be true.
• It will not review your will for legal sufficiency, and its output must not be relied on as if it had.
• Machine-generated text can be wrong. You remain responsible for reading and verifying everything in your document before you sign it.
• We will not train models on your will. Not ours, not anyone else’s.

11. Security

We describe our security measures in the Privacy Policy. In summary: your connection is encrypted, the contents of your will are encrypted at rest, passwords are hashed and never stored in readable form, and our backups are encrypted before they leave our server.

We hold no security certification and we do not claim one. We are a small operation, and we would rather tell you exactly what we do than imply an audit we have not had.

No system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that our security will never be defeated, and we do not warrant that it will not be.

Reporting a vulnerability. If you find a security flaw, please tell us at support@legawyl.com before telling anyone else. If you act in good faith, do not access or alter other people’s data, and give us a reasonable opportunity to fix the issue, we will not pursue any legal action against you for your research, and we will thank you properly.

12. The Service is provided “as is”

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, with all faults and without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. We specifically disclaim any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

Without limiting that, we do not warrant:

• that any document you create will be legally valid, enforceable, or accepted by any court;
• that any statement in the Service about the law of any state is accurate, complete, or current;
• that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, error-free, or free of harmful components;
• that any defect will be corrected.

13. Limitation of liability

Please read this section carefully; it limits what you can recover from us. To the fullest extent permitted by law:

• (a) We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profit, income, goodwill, opportunity, or data, however caused, even if we were told such loss was possible.
• (b) We are not liable for any loss arising from: a document that turns out to be invalid, unenforceable, incomplete or unsuitable; a will that is improperly executed, witnessed, or notarized; information in the Service about a state’s requirements that proves inaccurate or out of date; your reliance on the Service instead of on a licensed attorney; any decision you take, or fail to take, in reliance on the Service; or the acts of any executor, beneficiary, witness or other person.
• (c) Our total aggregate liability to you, for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, whatever the legal theory, will not exceed the greater of (i) the total amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim (which, while the Service is free, is zero), and (ii) EUR 100.

What this section does not do. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for intent or gross negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, you keep every right given to you by the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence, and nothing in these Terms takes those rights away. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, in which case those parts of this section do not apply to you and the rest continue to apply.

14. Indemnity

If you are not a consumer, for example if you use the Service in the course of a business, you agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss, liability, and reasonable legal cost arising out of your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms, your infringement of anyone’s rights, or any inaccurate or unlawful information you submit. This section does not apply to consumers.

15. Suspension, termination, and deletion

You may stop using Legawyl at any time. You can delete your account and everything in it from your account settings; the deletion is immediate and permanent, and we cannot undo it. Encrypted backups are purged on a rolling basis, and your data leaves them within 30 days.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, or where necessary to protect the Service, other users, or ourselves. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you first.

We will not delete your will because you have been away. Some services delete “inactive” accounts. We think that is indefensible for a document whose whole purpose is to sit untouched until it is needed, and we do not do it.

We may discontinue the Service. If we ever do, we will give reasonable advance notice and a way to export your documents, so that you are never left without the will you made.

16. Third-party services

We rely on a small number of providers, named individually in our Privacy Policy, to host the Service, send account emails, and, with your consent, measure product usage. The Service may also link to sites we do not control. We are not responsible for third-party services or their content, and a link is not an endorsement.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we do, we will change the “last updated” date and version above. If a change materially affects your rights, we will give you reasonable notice before it takes effect, either by email to your account address or by a prominent notice in the Service. Your continued use afterwards means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, you may delete your account.

18. Governing law and disputes

18.1 Governing law

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of the Service, are governed by the law of Poland, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the law of the country where you live. Where those rules give you more, they win.

18.2 Courts

Subject to section 18.3, the courts of Poland have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live, and we will bring any claim against you only there.

18.3 Arbitration for users in the United States

If you are resident in the United States and you are not an EU or EEA consumer, then, except as set out below, you and we agree that any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, and not in court, and that neither of us may bring a class action or any other representative proceeding.

• Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration, send a written description of the dispute and what you want to support@legawyl.com. We will try to resolve it with you for 60 days. Most problems end here.
• Small claims are carved out. Either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court instead.
• Injunctions are carved out. Either of us may ask a court for urgent relief to protect intellectual property.
• You may opt out. You may reject this section 18.3 entirely by emailing support@legawyl.com with the subject line “Arbitration opt-out” within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Opting out costs you nothing and changes nothing else in these Terms.
• If the class-action waiver is held unenforceable for a claim, that claim proceeds in court, and the rest of this section still applies.

This section does not apply to consumers resident in the EU or EEA, for whom a pre-dispute arbitration agreement would not be binding.

18.4 Time limit

To the extent permitted by law, and except where you are a consumer with a longer statutory period, any claim relating to the Service must be brought within one year of the events giving rise to it.

19. General

• Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions stay in full force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a right, we have not waived it.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may transfer ours, for example if the Service is reorganised into a company or acquired, provided your rights under these Terms and the Privacy Policy are not reduced.
• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service, and replace anything said before.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for a failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Survival. Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 19 survive termination.

Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation”.

20. Contact

Support, privacy and security all reach us at the same place: support@legawyl.com. See also our Privacy Policy.