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Authorized User Terms of Use

Cedent AI, Inc. · Version 1.0 · Effective September 1, 2026

These are yours to accept personally. Your firm’s administrator cannot accept them on your behalf. Capitalized terms have the meaning given in the Terms of Service.

Why You Are Being Asked

Your firm has signed an agreement with us. That agreement binds the firm as an entity — and most of it is about the firm.

Two things about using Cedent are not the firm’s to agree to for you. The first is that Cedent reads the mailbox and the calendar you connect, including messages and events that turn out to be personal. The second is that the duty to check what Cedent drafts lands on the person who clicks the button — you — not on an entity.

That is what this document covers. It is short because it only covers those things.

1. Who These Terms Cover

You are an Authorized User: an individual your firm has assigned a seat — an attorney, paralegal, legal assistant, or other employee or contractor of the firm.

These terms are between you and Cedent AI, Inc. They sit alongside your firm’s agreement; they do not replace it, and they do not give you rights over the firm’s account or its data. Where they and your firm’s agreement address the same subject, your firm’s agreement governs the firm and these terms govern you.

2. Your Seat Is Yours

Your seat is assigned to you as an individual.

  • Do not share your login or let anyone else work under it — not a colleague, not an assistant, not someone covering for you while you are out. Seats may be reassigned when someone leaves; they may not be shared or used by two people at once (Terms §2, Acceptable Use Policy §3.6).
  • Tell your firm’s administrator promptly if you believe someone else has used your account, or if a device you signed in on is lost or stolen. Tell us at security@cedent.ai as well if you would rather.
  • Everything done under your seat is recorded as done by you — the emails sent, the forms filled, the drafts approved. That record is what your firm and, if it ever matters, a court will read.

3. Everything Cedent Produces Is a Draft

Cedent drafts emails, summarizes matters, extracts facts, builds timelines, calculates deadlines, fills court forms, and proposes time entries. All of it is a draft.

You must independently check any Output against its source before you send it, file it, serve it, record it, bill it, or rely on it.

Checking means comparing the Output to the underlying source — the operative document, the current rule, the actual statement — not re-reading the draft and finding it plausible. Reading an AI draft carefully is not verification. Comparing it to the source is.

This duty is yours personally. No setting, confidence score, citation link, or approval workflow discharges it, and neither does the fact that Cedent produced the Output. The AI and Professional Responsibility Addendum sets this out in full, including the specific ways AI output fails, and §§4–5 of that document cover deadlines and court forms, which are the two places an unchecked Output does the most damage.

Cedent is not a law firm, does not practise law, and does not supervise your judgment. Nothing it produces is legal advice, and using it creates no attorney-client relationship with us.

4. Actions Cedent Takes in Your Name

With your authorization, Cedent can act outside itself: sending or replying to email from the account you connected, creating or changing calendar events, and writing files to connected storage.

Those actions go out in your name, from your account. Every one of them is yours and is sent on your professional responsibility, exactly as if you had done it by hand — including the recipients, the timing, and any privileged material that reaches someone it should not have (Terms §9.5, §10.6).

Configure automation to match the supervision you actually intend to give. Turning something on does not move the responsibility for its output.

5. The Mailbox You Connect

When you connect a mailbox, Cedent ingests the messages and attachments in it, reads and OCRs them, and organizes them into matter workspaces — extracting facts, building chronologies, identifying deadlines, and drafting correspondence.

Two things follow that are easy to miss:

  • Some of what is ingested will be personal. Cedent cannot know in advance which messages are matter-related, so it processes them and classifies them afterwards. A message classified as unrelated to a matter is still ingested.
  • A firm mailbox holds other people’s confidences — other clients, opposing counsel, co-counsel, experts, and third parties who never agreed to anything. Connect a mailbox only if you are authorized to disclose its contents to a vendor (Terms §10.2). If you are not sure, ask before you connect.

You can mark a sender’s address, or a whole domain, as non-case in Settings so Cedent stops filing that correspondence to matters. That is a filing rule, not an exclusion rule: the message is still ingested. If a mailbox holds material you cannot disclose to us, do not connect that mailbox.

You may disconnect at any time in Settings or from your Google or Microsoft account. Disconnecting stops future ingestion; it does not delete what was already ingested. To have that deleted, write to privacy@cedent.ai.

6. What Your Firm Can See

Your firm controls the matter data in its account, including what you contribute to it. Cedent is the firm’s processor, not yours.

That means an administrator can see the matters you work on, the drafts and time entries recorded against them, and — subject to the firm’s own access settings — the correspondence ingested into them. It also means the firm, not you, decides how long that data is kept, when it is exported, and when it is deleted.

Requests about matter data go to your firm, not to us. We cannot give you access to, correct, or delete matter data over the firm’s instructions, and we will not act on a request from an individual to alter an account that belongs to a firm.

The one deliberate exception is the scratchpad: scratchpad notes are stored in your browser on your device and are not stored by us unless you expressly save them to a matter. Your administrator cannot retrieve them, and neither can we (Terms §11). Because they can hold client confidences and they sit on your device, keeping that device secure — disk encryption, screen lock, secure disposal — is on you and your firm.

7. The Calendar You Connect

If you connect a calendar, Cedent ingests and stores every event on it — title, description, location, attendees, and timing — and runs an automated classifier over each one to decide whether it relates to a matter.

That includes your personal events. Medical appointments, family and childcare events, therapy, religious observances, social plans, and events other people invited you to. Cedent cannot know in advance which events are matter-related, so it processes all of them, and events classified as unrelated to a matter are still stored.

Please read that twice before you connect a calendar that is not purely a work calendar.

What you can do about it:

  • Do not connect a calendar. It is optional; the rest of the Service works without it.
  • Connect a dedicated work calendar rather than one holding your personal life.
  • Set exclusion rules in Settings — by calendar, by attendee or organizer domain, by the provider’s own private marking, or by events with no attendees. These are evaluated on event metadata, not event content, and an excluded event’s content is never stored, classified, or associated with a matter. The one exception is the keyword rule, which matches terms you type in yourself; leave it unset if you would rather no content matching happen at all.
  • Disconnect at any time, and ask us at privacy@cedent.ai to delete what was already ingested.

See Privacy Policy §6 for the same behavior described from the privacy side.

8. Using the Service Properly

The Acceptable Use Policy applies to you as it does to your firm. The parts most likely to concern you personally:

  • You must be a licensed U.S. attorney in good standing, or working under the supervision of one (AUP §2). Tell your firm if your licence lapses or is suspended.
  • Do not submit data you are not entitled to disclose to a vendor — material under a protective order, material from a matter you do not represent, a mailbox you are not authorized to administer (AUP §3.2).
  • Do not use Cedent to locate, track, harass, or intimidate anyone, including an opposing party or a person protected by a restraining order. This is family law, and a tool that organizes information about people can be turned against a vulnerable one (AUP §3.3).
  • Do not present an unverified Output as verified attorney work product, or suggest to a client or a court that Cedent has reviewed or approved it. We have not (AUP §3.7).

9. Your Own Personal Information

Your name, work email address, seat assignment, sign-in records, and usage telemetry are Account Data, and we are the controller of that. How we handle it — and the rights you have over it — are in the Privacy Policy, §4 and §13. Write to privacy@cedent.ai to exercise them.

That is separate from matter data, which belongs to your firm (§6 above). Personal messages and events that reach us through a mailbox or calendar you connect are held as matter data under the firm’s control, which is why §§5 and 7 above ask you to think about what you connect.

10. If You Leave the Firm

Your seat can be deprovisioned or reassigned by your firm at any time, and your access ends when it is. The matter data you contributed stays with the firm — it is the firm’s, and your client obligations do not travel with you.

Unsaved scratchpad notes are the exception: they are on your device, nobody can retrieve them for you, and they are gone.

11. Changes

We may update these terms. For a material change we will give thirty (30) days’ notice and ask you to accept the new version, because a consent recorded against one version is not evidence of consent to another. Non-material corrections take effect when published.

12. Contact

Questions about your firm’s account, its data, or its settings go to your firm’s administrator first.