Terms of use

1. Accepting these Terms

These Terms of Use apply when you access or use Righto.

By creating an account, accessing Righto or using its features, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use Righto.

2. Righto’s purpose

Righto is an independent educational resource that provides general information about Victorian laws, police powers, individual rights and related legal and procedural topics in plain English.

Righto is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Information provided through Righto is general in nature and is not tailored to your individual circumstances.

Using Righto does not create a lawyer-client relationship or any other professional advisory relationship.

Where appropriate, you should obtain advice from a qualified Australian legal practitioner or appropriate legal assistance service.

Righto is not an emergency service. If you or another person is in immediate danger, call Triple Zero (000).

3. Police interactions and lawful obligations

Righto provides information intended to help users better understand their rights and obligations when dealing with police and other legal situations.

Nothing in Righto should be interpreted as encouraging you to refuse a lawful direction, obstruct police, interfere with an investigation, evade lawful obligations or otherwise act contrary to Australian law.

You remain responsible for your own conduct and for complying with lawful obligations that apply to your circumstances.

Righto cannot guarantee that using or relying upon information contained in the application will produce any particular legal, policing, court or other outcome.

4. Accounts

Normal use of Righto requires an account.

You must provide a valid email address that you are authorised to access and must take reasonable steps to protect access to your email account and Righto account.

Righto uses email-based authentication, including one-time codes. You must not knowingly provide an authentication code or account access to another person where doing so could compromise your account.

You must not use or attempt to use another person’s Righto account without permission.

If you believe your account or email access has been compromised, you should take reasonable steps to secure your email account and contact Righto where appropriate.

5. Purchase and app stores

Righto may be distributed through an app store or other authorised distribution platform.

Where access to Righto requires payment, the applicable store or platform may process the transaction and its payment, billing and refund terms may also apply.

Unless expressly offered otherwise, purchasing access to Righto does not create an automatically renewing subscription.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy that cannot legally be excluded, restricted or modified, including applicable rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

6. Content limitations

Laws, regulations, policies, court decisions, procedures and policing practices can change. Righto aims to provide useful and current information but does not guarantee that every item of content is complete, current, error-free or suitable for every circumstance.

Righto may not immediately reflect legislative amendments, new court decisions, policy changes or changes in operational policing practices.

Where official sources are provided, you should consider those sources and independently verify information where appropriate.

You should obtain professional legal advice where the consequences of acting, or not acting, may be significant.

7. Acceptable use

You must not:

• use Righto for an unlawful purpose;
• interfere with or attempt to interfere with Righto’s security, availability or operation;
• attempt to bypass authentication, access controls or other security measures;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to another account, the Administrator area, databases, systems or restricted functionality;
• impersonate another person or misuse another person’s account;
• introduce malicious code or intentionally interfere with Righto or its infrastructure;
• use automated activity, scraping or excessive requests in a way that harms, disrupts or unreasonably burdens the service; or
• use Righto to facilitate conduct that is unlawful.

8. Intellectual property

Righto’s branding, design, software, structure and original content are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

You may use Righto and its content for ordinary personal, non-commercial purposes.

Unless permitted by law or expressly authorised by Righto, you must not reproduce, republish, commercially exploit, systematically extract, scrape, repackage or create a competing database or service from Righto’s original content.

Legislation, government publications, court materials and other third-party materials referenced by Righto remain subject to the rights, licences and terms that apply to those materials.

9. External links and sources

Righto may provide links or references to legislation, government publications, legal resources or other third-party websites.

These links and references may be provided for convenience, further information or verification.

Righto does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for their availability, accuracy, security, content or privacy practices.

A link or reference does not necessarily mean Righto endorses the third party or all information available through that service.

10. Availability and changes to Righto

Righto’s content, features and functionality may be corrected, updated, changed, withdrawn or temporarily unavailable.

Internet access may be required for some or all functionality.

Righto does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access to the application and does not guarantee that all content or functionality will be available offline.

Righto may add, remove or modify features where reasonably necessary to maintain, improve, secure or develop the service.

11. Account restriction and deletion

Righto may restrict, suspend or terminate access to an account where reasonably necessary to:

• respond to serious or repeated misuse;
• protect Righto, its users or its infrastructure;
• respond to security threats or unauthorised access;
• enforce these Terms; or
• comply with applicable legal obligations.

Consumer users can permanently delete their Righto account through Account settings.

Account deletion is irreversible once completed and is subject to the information presented during the deletion process and Righto’s Privacy Policy.

12. Disclaimer

Your use of Righto is also subject to Righto’s Disclaimer.

The Disclaimer explains important limitations concerning legal information, accuracy, currency, jurisdiction, police interactions, emergencies and reliance on information contained within Righto.

13. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Righto and its owners, contributors and affiliates exclude liability for loss, damage, cost or consequence arising directly or indirectly from the use of, inability to use, or reliance upon information or functionality provided through Righto.

This includes loss arising from treating general information as though it were legal advice tailored to your circumstances or from third-party websites, services or information outside Righto’s reasonable control.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, statutory right, remedy or liability that cannot legally be excluded, restricted or modified, including applicable rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

14. Privacy

Righto’s Privacy Policy explains how Righto handles personal information, account data, Saved articles, Recently Viewed history, feedback, usage analytics and related service information.

15. Changes to these Terms

Righto may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to the application, applicable law, features, service providers or Righto’s practices.

Where appropriate, material changes will be reflected by updating the date displayed on this page.

Your continued use of Righto after updated Terms take effect means the updated Terms apply to your use from that time.

16. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be interpreted or limited to the extent necessary where permitted by law.

The remaining provisions will continue to apply.

17. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, subject to any applicable rights or laws that cannot legally be excluded.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

support.rightoapp@gmail.com