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• This website may match you to a lawyer in Oregon but it does not provide legal advice.
• This website is not intended for use by those outside of Oregon.
• The information and documents on this website have no warranty. We provide the information “as-is.” By using the site, you agree not to hold Oregon State Bar or the information providers on this site liable.
• We do our best to keep the site working! To do that, we allow you to submit feedback so we can track problems on the site. But we cannot guarantee individual technical support.

• You need to be over 13 to use this site.
• This site is for anyone 13 and over. For example: you can be the person who needs the help, a lawyer, or a social worker.
• You may not sell the information or the contents of this site.
• Please keep your use fair. Do not use this site in a way that is illegal or that makes it harder for other people to use.
• If you do use the site in a way that violates these Terms and Policies, you agree to defend us, and potentially pay for any losses we incur, or damages or costs that we may have to pay. This may include the cost to hire a lawyer to defend us from any lawsuits based on your use of the site.

• We collect the information that you type to help you complete your forms. We delete all information 180 days after you last update it. You can also delete information immediately by asking us in writing.
• We log information including IP addresses and web browsers from all visitors. We use this information to keep our site secure. We keep logs for up to 180 days.
• We use cookies for security and to help improve our website.
• We use email and text message delivery services that may keep their own records of any messages you send. If you choose to log in with your phone number, this may include a record of the times you log in to the site.
• We use LLM providers including OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, and Suffolk Law School’s SPOT legal issue spotter to help classify the information in your request and to match you to a lawyer. We use the enterprise privacy policy of each of these providers which does not permit them to use your information for training or to resell it. In general, personally identifiable information is never processed by a third-party LLM.
• We use third-party LLM auditing tools such as LangFuse and Microsoft Azure to monitor the ongoing accuracy and safety of the systems that we build. Information processed by these tools is used strictly for ongoing monitoring and safety evaluation and it is routinely deleted when it is no longer necessary.

We use the same technology that banks and online stores use to keep your information safe.

• 256 bit encryption
• Continual monitoring
• Limited access controls
• Regular security updates
• Software firewalls

• We never sell your information.
• We share anonymous information with a small number of nonprofits and researchers. We use the information to improve our site and to improve legal help in Oregon.
• You get to decide if you want to share your personal information with a lawyer you are matched with.

We use a lot of content, pictures, features, and functions on this site. The content, pictures, features, and functions on this site are the property of the Oregon State Bar, or of one of our other providers. Several laws, including copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws protect the use of the content, pictures, features and functions of the site. We do not allow for its use, either directly, in a copied form, or indirectly, through a changed form, without written permission.

• We may change these Terms of Use at any time with no notice. Please review the terms on a regular basis to see any changes.
• If you use the site after we make changes, you accept our changed Terms of Use.
• If you have a dispute with the site, you agree to use the court in Washington County, Oregon to file any lawsuit against the site or the Oregon State Bar.

The laws of Oregon always apply to these Terms of Use or in any dispute brought related to these terms of use.

If a judge decides that one of the terms in this Terms of Use is unenforceable, it will not change the terms that remain.

If you would like to access, correct, amend, or delete any personal information we have about you or have any other questions, contact us at:

Oregon State Bar
P.O. Box 231935 Tigard, OR 97281
info@osbar.org