1. What Legalize is

Legalize is a technical infrastructure provider. We operate automated pipelines that fetch, transform, and serve legislative texts from official government sources. We do not author, edit, review, or curate the content of any law. The texts are machine-processed reproductions of official publications.

The underlying data (laws, reforms, metadata) is published as open-source repositories on GitHub and is free to download, copy, and redistribute. The Legalize API and website are a convenience layer on top of this open data. Paid tiers provide infrastructure features (webhooks, search, higher throughput), not exclusive access to the data itself.

2. Acceptable use

You may use Legalize to build any lawful product or service. There are no restrictions on what you can build with the data. We ask only that you:

• Do not misrepresent the source. Do not present Legalize data as coming from an official government body, gazette, or parliament. You may say "data sourced from Legalize" or "data from official gazettes via Legalize".
• Do not attack the infrastructure. Do not attempt to disrupt, overload, or degrade the API or website through denial-of-service attacks, automated scraping beyond your rate limit, or exploitation of security vulnerabilities. If you find a vulnerability, please report it to enrique@legalize.dev.
• Do not resell API access. Do not purchase an API key and redistribute it or proxy it to third parties as a competing API service. Building a product that uses the API for your end users is perfectly fine.

3. No legal advice

Legalize is a technical infrastructure provider, not a law firm or legal publisher. The texts served through the API and website are automated reproductions of official government publications. They are provided for informational purposes only and may contain errors, omissions, or be out of date due to the automated nature of the processing pipeline.

The only authoritative source for any law is the official gazette or parliamentary record of the corresponding jurisdiction. Always verify against the official source or consult a qualified legal professional before relying on any text.

4. No warranty

The data, API, and website are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.

Legalize does not guarantee that the texts reproduced correspond exactly to the official versions. The service is an automated infrastructure that processes and serves public data — it does not independently verify the content of any legislative text. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Legalize shall not be liable for any damages arising from the use of or reliance on data obtained through the service.

5. API rate limits and quotas

Each API tier has a monthly request limit. Usage beyond the limit (plus a 10% grace buffer) results in a 429 response until the next billing period. Abuse of the rate limit system (creating multiple free accounts to circumvent limits, for example) may result in account suspension.

6. Account termination

We may suspend or terminate API access if you violate these terms. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you before doing so, except in cases of active abuse or security threats. If your account is terminated, you retain full access to the open-source data on GitHub.

7. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via the email address associated with your API account. Continued use of the API after changes constitutes acceptance.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Reach out at enrique@legalize.dev or open an issue on GitHub.