Terms and Conditions

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Last Updated: August 12, 2026

By downloading, installing, or using the ADL application ("App"), you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the App. These Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and Elie Abou Zeidan ("we," "us," or "our").

1 About ADL

ADL (عدل), meaning "Justice" in Arabic, is a legal information application intended for Lebanese law students, lawyers, and legal professionals. The App includes the following features:

Features are added, changed, and occasionally retired as the App develops; the App itself, at the moment you use it, is the accurate description of what each plan includes.

The App is available in Arabic and English, with light and dark themes.

2 Important Disclaimer — Not Legal Advice

The ADL App does not provide legal advice. The content available through this App — including laws, jurisprudence, ruling documents, legal templates, contract features, map information, and responses generated by the AI Agent — is provided for educational and reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice specific to your legal situation, consult a qualified, licensed attorney in Lebanon or the relevant jurisdiction.

3 Eligibility

The App is intended for users who are 18 years of age or older. By using the App, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old. If you are under 18, you are not permitted to use the App.

4 User Accounts

4.1 Registration

To access the App's features, you must create an account by providing your first name, last name, email address, phone number, country code, password, and user type (Student, Lawyer, or Other). Your email address must be verified before your account becomes active — either with a one-time code sent to you by email, or by using Sign in with Google or Sign in with Apple, which proves the address to us in the same way.

Signing in with Google or Apple does not replace your ADL password. Because your notes, folders, files, and contracts are end-to-end encrypted with a key derived from that password (Section 7.2), you set one regardless of how you sign in, and Section 4.3 applies to you in full.

4.2 Account Security and Devices

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials. Your account is personal to you and may not be shared with, sold to, or transferred to any other person. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to your account at contact@adlapp.org.

An ADL account may be signed in on one device at a time. Signing in on a new device automatically ends the session on the previous one. This is a security measure and a condition of use, not a fault.

4.3 Your Password and Recovery Code

Your notes, folders, files, saved references, and contracts are end-to-end encrypted (Section 7.2). The key that unlocks them is derived from your password and is held only by you — we do not have it and cannot reconstruct it. When you register, the App issues you a one-time recovery code, which is the only way to regain access to that content if you forget your password.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding your password and your recovery code and for keeping the recovery code somewhere you can retrieve it. If you lose both, your synchronized content — including every file stored in your folders — cannot be decrypted by us or by anyone else and is permanently lost. We cannot reset, bypass, or recover it, and we accept no liability for content that becomes inaccessible for this reason. We recommend keeping your own copy of any document you cannot afford to lose.

4.4 Accurate Information

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information at registration and to keep it up to date.

5 Plans, AI Credits, and Payments

5.1 Plans

The App offers a Free plan and three paid subscription plans — Essential, Pro, and Elite. Each grants access to a defined set of features and a monthly allowance of AI credits, both described in the App at the time of purchase. We may adjust the features and limits of each plan as the App evolves; a material reduction to a paid plan applies from your next renewal period, never mid-period.

5.2 Free Trial

New accounts may receive a one-time free trial of the Elite plan's features (currently 7 days), starting when the account's email address is verified. The trial carries the Free plan's AI credit allowance, not Elite's — it unlocks what Elite can do, not the volume of AI usage a paid Elite plan includes. It requires no payment details and does not convert automatically into a paid subscription: when it ends, your account simply returns to the Free plan. Content you created during the trial remains yours.

5.3 AI Credits

AI features consume credits. Each plan includes a monthly allowance that refreshes on your plan's monthly cycle; unused monthly credits do not carry over and have no cash value.

A request does not always cost the same. How many credits a request uses depends on how much work it takes to answer: a straightforward question costs less than one that requires deeper analysis or produces a long document, and a request the App can satisfy without calling an AI model at all — a repeated or deterministic result — may cost nothing. Credits are deducted as each request completes, and your remaining balance is shown in the App. We may change how much a given type of request costs as the underlying technology changes; the balance shown in the App is always the authoritative one. When your available credits are exhausted, AI features pause until your allowance refreshes or you purchase more.

5.4 Extra Credit Packs (One-Time Purchases)

You may buy one-time packs of extra AI credits through the Apple App Store or Google Play. These are consumable purchases, and the following applies:

5.5 File Storage

Uploading files to a folder is a paid-plan feature. It is available on the Essential, Pro, and Elite plans, and during the free trial. On the Free plan you can create folders, take notes in them, and save references to laws, rulings, and AI conversations — you simply cannot add files to them.

ADL accepts PDF, Word (.docx), JPEG, PNG and WebP files. Images have their embedded metadata — including any location recorded by the camera — removed on your device before they are encrypted and uploaded, and an image that cannot be cleaned is refused rather than stored. Accepted formats may change as the App develops.

Each plan includes a storage allowance, and there is a maximum size for any single file. Both are shown in the App, which is always the authoritative statement of the current figures. The allowance is measured against the encrypted size of what you have stored, and Settings includes a storage screen where you can see your usage and remove files to free space. When your allowance is full, new uploads are declined until you free space or move to a plan with a larger one.

We may adjust storage allowances and the per-file limit as the App develops. A reduction that would affect a paid plan applies from your next renewal period, never mid-period, and we will not delete files you have already stored in order to bring you under a reduced allowance.

If you downgrade or your plan lapses, the files you have already stored are not deleted. You keep full access to read, download, export, and delete them; what you lose is the ability to add new ones until you are on a plan that permits it. We will never hold your documents hostage to a subscription.

You are responsible for the files you upload: for having the right to store and to transmit them, for their lawfulness, and for the confidentiality obligations attaching to any client material you place in them. Because your files are end-to-end encrypted, we cannot review, moderate, scan, or restore them, and we cannot verify what any file contains. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. Files are deleted with your account (Section 14), and deleting a folder deletes the files stored inside it.

5.6 Billing and Renewal

Paid subscriptions and credit packs are purchased through, and billed by, the Apple App Store or Google Play, under your agreement with the relevant store. Prices are displayed in the App before you confirm a purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled through your store account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Payment is charged to your store account on confirmation of purchase and on each renewal. We never see or store your payment card details.

5.7 Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel a subscription at any time through your Apple App Store or Google Play account settings; you keep access to paid features until the end of the current billing period. Upgrades take effect immediately; a downgrade takes effect at the next renewal, as the stores require. Refunds for every purchase — subscriptions and credit packs alike — are handled solely by Apple or Google under their own policies, and we can neither grant nor refuse them. Cancelling or downgrading does not delete your account, the content you created, or the files you have stored (Section 5.5).

6 Acceptable Use

You agree to use the App only for lawful purposes. You agree not to:

We may suspend access to AI features, or to the App, where we reasonably believe this section is being breached.

7 User-Generated Content

7.1 Ownership

The App allows you to create and store notes, folders, files, saved references, contracts, and reminders ("User Content"). You retain full ownership of your User Content, including the files you upload and documents you export from the App. By storing User Content in the App, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive license solely to store and synchronize your content — in encrypted form — for the purpose of providing the service to you. That license extends no further: we do not acquire any right to read, use, analyze, publish, or exploit your User Content, and we are technically unable to do so in any event. In particular, we do not use your User Content — and specifically not your files — to train, evaluate, or improve any artificial-intelligence model, our own or anyone else's. You are solely responsible for the accuracy and legality of your User Content and of any document you upload, export, or use outside the App.

7.2 End-to-End Encryption

Your notes, folders, saved references, contracts, and the files you upload are end-to-end encrypted. They are encrypted on your device, using a key held only by you, before being transmitted to our servers, and are decrypted only on your own devices. We store unreadable ciphertext and cannot read, search, disclose, or restore your content. This applies without exception, including to support requests and to demands from third parties, for whom we can produce nothing beyond the ciphertext we hold.

This is a technical guarantee rather than a promise of good behaviour, and it cuts both ways: it means we cannot moderate, verify, recover, or repair your content, and that responsibility for what you store and for keeping your own copies rests with you.

Because we do not hold your key, content recovery is impossible on our side. Section 4.3 sets out your responsibility for your password and recovery code and the consequences of losing them. AI Agent conversations are not end-to-end encrypted — see Section 8.

Content you yourself choose to export, share, or send outside the App — including documents you export as Word files, files you share from a folder through your device's share sheet, and any document you deliberately submit to the AI Agent — leaves the protection of this encryption at the moment you do so. Once a copy is in another app, on another device, or with another person, it is outside our control and outside these protections.

8 AI Agent Disclaimer

The App includes an AI Agent that answers legal questions with references to Lebanese laws and rulings and, on eligible plans, assists with drafting, reviewing, and customizing contracts and templates. The AI Agent:

Reporting an answer. If the AI Agent produces an answer you find offensive, inaccurate, or harmful, please report it using the Report option shown with the answer. Reports go to us for review and help us correct the Agent; what a report contains is described in the Privacy Policy. Reporting an answer does not refund the credits that answer used.

References and citations produced by the AI Agent are provided so you can verify its answers against the underlying laws and rulings — always do so, and always verify AI-generated content with qualified legal counsel before relying on it. You are solely responsible for any use you make of AI-generated content, including any contract or document drafted or reviewed with its assistance.

Conversation history. Unlike your notes, folders, files, and contracts, AI Agent conversations are not end-to-end encrypted — the Agent must be able to read your question on our servers in order to answer it. Your conversation history is stored so that you can revisit past conversations across your devices, and is used solely to operate and enhance the AI Agent for you: maintaining the context of your conversation and improving the quality and accuracy of the answers you receive. It is not used for advertising, profiling, or marketing, is never sold or shared for anyone else's purposes, and is deleted when your account is deleted. See the Privacy Policy for full details.

9 Legal Content and Ruling Documents

The laws, codes, and court rulings available in the App are reproduced from public sources for reference purposes. While we work to keep this content accurate and current, laws are amended and new rulings are issued over time, and we do not warrant that the content reflects the most recent state of Lebanese law. Always confirm against official publications before acting.

The App may make official ruling documents (PDFs) available for download to accounts that are entitled to them; availability of that feature varies and may change. Any document you download is stored on your device for your personal and professional reference. Such documents remain public court records; we make no ownership claim over them, and you may not redistribute them as a dataset or product of your own.

10 Legal Locations Map

The legal locations map is an informational directory of courts, ministries, and other legal and public offices in Lebanon, including addresses and contact details. This information may change without notice; verify opening hours and contact details before relying on them. We are not affiliated with the institutions listed, and inclusion on the map does not imply any endorsement.

On iPhone and iPad the map can also show your own position, if you allow your device to share it. That is its only use: your location is read on your device to draw the map and is never transmitted to us, stored, or used for anything else (see the Privacy Policy). The map is not a navigation service and must not be relied on for routing or emergencies.

The map is provided using Google Maps, and your use of it is also subject to Google's own terms and privacy policy. We are not responsible for the mapping imagery or data Google supplies.

11 Intellectual Property

11.1 App Content

The App and its original content, features, and functionality — including its design, legal templates, and software, but excluding User Content and publicly available Lebanese legal texts — are owned by Elie Abou Zeidan and protected under applicable law. Templates are provided for your use within the App; documents you complete and export based on them are yours to use.

11.2 Legal Texts

Lebanese laws and judicial decisions reproduced in the App are public domain materials issued by Lebanese governmental authorities. We make no ownership claim over these materials.

12 Disclaimer of Warranties

The App is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by Lebanese law, we disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that its legal content is complete or current.

13 Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Lebanese law, Elie Abou Zeidan shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the App — including reliance on its legal content, AI-generated responses, templates, or map information — even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

14 Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms or engage in conduct we reasonably determine to be harmful to the App, to us, or to other users. Where circumstances allow, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right.

You may delete your account at any time from within the App, by contacting us at contact@adlapp.org, or by following the steps at adlapp.org/delete-account.

What happens to your content. Deletion is permanent: your account and everything attached to it — including your encrypted notes, folders, saved references and contracts, every file stored in your folders, your AI conversations, and any unused AI credits — are removed and cannot be restored by us, not least because we cannot decrypt your content in the first place. Export or download anything you want to keep before you delete your account. Cancelling or downgrading a plan does not delete your content or your stored files, and you keep access to read and download them (Section 5.5) — but it may remove access to the features needed to open, edit, or export certain of it.

15 App Updates and Availability

We may update, change, or discontinue features of the App at any time. Some updates are required: to keep the service secure and consistent, the App may set a minimum supported version and ask you to update before continuing. If you do not, the App may stop working until you do.

We aim to keep the App available but do not guarantee uninterrupted service. It depends on third parties — the app stores, our hosting and storage providers, and the AI provider — and may be interrupted by maintenance, an outage at any of them, or events beyond our control. Access also requires an internet connection for the features that are not offline.

16 App Stores — Apple and Google

You obtain the App through the Apple App Store or Google Play, and your use is also subject to that store's own terms. The following applies to the extent the App was obtained from the Apple App Store:

Where the App was obtained from Google Play, your use is likewise subject to the Google Play Terms of Service, and Google is not a party to these Terms.

17 Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Changes take effect upon posting to adlapp.org/terms-and-conditions with an updated "Last Updated" date. Continued use of the App constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18 Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Lebanon. Any disputes arising under these Terms are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Lebanon. Nothing in these Terms removes any right you have under the mandatory consumer-protection law of your own country of residence, where that law applies to you regardless of this clause.

19 Severability and Entire Agreement

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, it is to be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions stay in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement between you and us regarding the App and supersede any earlier understanding on the subject.

20 Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms:

Elie Abou Zeidan

Email: contact@adlapp.org

Website: adlapp.org

Terms: adlapp.org/terms-and-conditions