Law Firm Website Terms

About these terms

In these terms, “Apiece Inc”, “we” and “us” mean Apiece Inc. “You” means the lawyer or law firm buying the website, named as the account owner in your site admin. “Visitors” are the people who use your website, and “prospective clients” are the visitors who send you a request through it. You accept these terms by ticking the box before you pay. We save the version you accepted and the date with your account. These terms are their own agreement and do not change any other agreement you have with Apiece Inc.

1. What you get

• Your firm’s website, made from the design you pick, with your practice areas, fees, lawyers, guides, photos, words, logo and colors. Any of our law firm designs works for any practice, and you can switch to another at any time; your content comes with you.
• Request forms on your site for consultations and the other requests your design offers, with each request delivered to your site admin.
• Your site admin, where you and the people you invite run everything: requests, conflict checks, your team, your content, your required lines and your design.

It does not include:

• Legal advice of any kind, or the writing or review of your legal statements (section 5).
• New photography, written articles or practice descriptions, or anything a design does not have. A design made just for you is a custom project with its own quote and contract.
• A way to take fees or retainers from your clients (section 8).
• E-mail addresses or a domain name. You keep your domain in your own name (section 4).

2. Plans and prices

The solo lawyer plan is for one lawyer’s own practice. The law firm plan is for a firm with several lawyers, offices or practice areas.

Prices are in US dollars. You pay by card on Stripe’s secure page; Apiece Inc never sees your card number. Paying for a year at a time costs ten months’ worth (two months free). The one-time or setup price is paid before your site admin opens; the first month (or year) is paid with it.

3. Monthly and yearly plans

• Your plan renews by itself each month (or year) on the same day, until you cancel. We e-mail a receipt each time.
• You can cancel at any time in your site admin. Your plan then runs to the end of the month (or year) you already paid for, and does not renew.
• If a payment does not go through, we e-mail you and try again over the next days. Your site keeps running while we try.
• We give you at least 30 days’ notice by e-mail before a monthly or yearly price changes. The new price starts at your next renewal after that notice; you can cancel before it does.

If your plan ends (you cancel, or payments stop):

• The request forms on your site stop taking requests and show your phone number instead, so no one is left wondering. Start your plan again at any time and everything comes back as you left it.
• Hosted by Apiece Inc: your site goes offline. Download a copy from your site admin while your plan is active if you want to keep one.
• Your site admin, your content and your requests are kept for 90 days after your plan ends, in case you come back, and then deleted, together with the names kept for conflict checks.

4. Your domain and your hosting

• Hosted by Apiece Inc: we keep your site online at your own domain, with the secure padlock (HTTPS), backups and updates. Your domain stays registered in your own name, in your own account; you point it to us with the settings your site admin shows you. We take care to keep your site running and fix problems on our side quickly; we cannot promise it is never unavailable.
• Your own hosting: you download your finished site from your site admin and put it on hosting you choose, in your own account. You pay any hosting or domain costs directly to those companies. Requests from your site still go to your site admin through Apiece Inc’s secure form service while your plan is active.
• You sign in to your accounts yourself; Apiece Inc never asks for your passwords.

5. Apiece Inc is not a law firm

Apiece Inc makes websites. It is not a law firm, does not practice law and gives no legal advice to you or to your visitors. The sample words in our designs are only examples of the kind of thing a firm might say. They are not legal advice, and they are not checked against the rules that apply to you. Nothing Apiece Inc says or builds tells you what those rules require.

6. Your part as the firm

• Everything your site says is your firm’s statement. You write, review and approve every legal statement on it before you publish, and your site admin records the date you last confirmed that review.
• You are responsible for following the lawyer advertising and professional conduct rules that apply to you, in every place where your lawyers are admitted, including any filing or review those rules ask for.
• You write and approve your own required lines: your advertising notice, your disclaimers, where your lawyers are admitted, and any notice about past results, testimonials, images or referrals. Where your site uses Spanish or another language, you approve those lines in that language too.
• Show a case result or a client review only with that client’s consent. Your site admin shows a result or review only once you record the consent and its date. Keep any figures accurate and with the context your rules ask for.
• Show only real people and real facts about your firm, and use only photos, logos and words you have the right to use. If you keep a design’s sample photo of a person, your site must make clear the person is not one of your lawyers or clients where your rules ask for that.
• Keep your practice areas, fees, offices and contact details accurate on your site.

7. Prospective clients’ requests

• Every request form on your site tells the visitor that sending it does not create a lawyer-client relationship, and asks them not to send confidential or sensitive information. Please keep that notice in place.
• A request holds only what the form asks for: a name, a way to reply, the kind of matter, the names of other people involved (for your conflict check), a short note about what they need, and a time and language if they choose. The forms do not take files, identity, card or bank numbers.
• Apiece Inc keeps requests for you, encrypted, in their own database. Only the people on your account read them, in your site admin. We never put a request’s details in an e-mail: you get a notice that a new request arrived, and you sign in to read it. Apiece Inc never reads requests, uses them for anything else, sells or shares them, and our own screens show only counts and dates.
• A request that does not become a client is deleted after your firm’s retention period: 180 days unless you set a different period in your site admin. Only the names given for conflict checks and the date are kept after that, so you can check for conflicts in the future. A visitor can also delete the request they just sent.
• Each firm site carries its own privacy notice for visitors, which explains this, and the Law Firm Website Privacy Notice explains how Apiece Inc handles your account, your site and its requests. Please follow it too: give each person on your account only the access their job needs, and keep any copies you make safe. Your duties to prospective clients under your own rules remain yours.
• Your site sets no cookies for tracking and loads no advertising trackers or outside scripts.

8. Fees from your clients

Your clients pay you, never Apiece Inc. Your site does not take fees or retainers. If you take payments online, link to your own payment service, chosen by you to meet the rules that apply to client funds and trust accounts. Your fees, engagement letters, refunds and disputes with clients are between you and your clients.

9. People on your account

You can invite lawyers and staff and choose their role. A lawyer sees the requests given to them and works on their own profile and the firm’s content; staff see requests to arrange consultations; only the owner changes the design, photos, required lines, people, hosting and plan. You are responsible for the people you invite and for what is done in your site admin with their sign-ins. Everyone signs in with a password and a code sent to them by e-mail, and can reset a forgotten password by e-mail. Tell us at once if you think someone has used your account without permission.

10. Refunds

Your site admin opens as soon as you pay, so the one-time and setup prices are not refundable in most cases, and monthly or yearly payments are not refunded for time already started. If something serious makes your site unusable on our side, or a hardship affects your practice, please reach out to us at apieceincofficial@gmail.com. We’ll look at your situation with care and work with you on it. If a full refund is made, your plan ends and your site admin closes, and we keep everything for 90 days in case you come back; after that it is deleted.

11. Your site and our designs

Your words, photos, logo and details stay yours. You allow Apiece Inc to use them only to build, show and keep your site, run your site admin and deliver your requests. We always ask you first before we show your site in our own work samples. The designs, with their layouts, drawings and code, stay Apiece Inc’s. While your plan is active, you may use your design for your own firm.

12. What we do not build or keep running

Apiece Inc does not build, or keep running, a site that breaks the law, misleads the public, threatens or harasses anyone, shares someone else’s private information without their permission, or uses someone else’s work without permission. If a site turns out to be one of these, we may close its site admin and, on the hosted plan, take the site offline.

13. Our responsibility to you

We make our designs, site admin and hosting with care, and we fix anything on our side that does not work as it should. Apiece Inc’s total responsibility to you for anything to do with your law firm website is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the problem. Apiece Inc is not responsible for indirect losses, such as lost clients or fees. We are also not responsible for what your site says, for your compliance with the rules that apply to you, for your legal work, or for anything between you and your clients or prospective clients.

14. Venue for any dispute: Tampa, FL

If something troubles you, please tell us first at apieceincofficial@gmail.com. Most things are settled by talking, and we will work with you to make it right. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida. If a dispute about them cannot be settled by talking, it will be decided in the state or federal courts for Hillsborough County, Florida, in Tampa, and you and Apiece Inc both agree to those courts.

15. Which version applies

Each version has a version name and a date. The version you accepted applies to your plan. If we update these terms, we tell you by e-mail at least 30 days before the new version applies to your plan, at your next renewal after that; you can cancel before it does. We keep every version; your site admin shows the one you accepted, or write to us for a copy.

16. Questions and notices

Questions about these terms: write to apieceincofficial@gmail.com. We send notices to the e-mail address the account owner signs in with. Apiece Inc, Tampa, FL 33647.