Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the LobbyGov legislative tracking service operated by LobbyGov, Inc. (“LobbyGov,” “we” or “us”), including the LobbyGov.com web site and any affiliated sites or applications on which these Terms are posted (collectively, the “Service”). By creating an account, subscribing, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Your use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

1. Eligibility

The Service is offered to individuals aged 18 or older. By using the Service you represent that you are at least 18 years old and, where you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, that you are authorized to bind that organization to these Terms. In that case “you” refers to both you and that organization.

2. Accounts and Users

Access to the Service requires an account. The person who registers an account is its primary user and is responsible for it, including any charges it incurs. Depending on your plan, you may be able to invite additional users to your account and grant them differing levels of access. You are responsible for the activity of every user on your account.

You agree to provide accurate registration information and to keep it current, to keep your credentials confidential, and to notify us promptly at support@lobbygov.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your authorization. We offer two-factor authentication and recommend enabling it. We are not liable for losses arising from your failure to keep your credentials secure.

3. Free Trial

New accounts begin with a free trial of 14 days. No payment method is required to start a trial and you will not be charged during it. At the end of the trial, continued access to the Service requires an active paid subscription. We may change the length of, or discontinue, trials for future accounts at any time; doing so will not shorten a trial already underway.

4. Subscriptions, Fees and Renewal

Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis, depending on the plan you select, at the rates shown at the time you subscribe. Unless you cancel, subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate for your plan. Fees are stated in U.S. dollars and are exclusive of any applicable taxes, which you are responsible for.

Payments are processed by our payment provider. We do not store complete payment card numbers on our own systems. You authorize us and our payment provider to charge your selected payment method for all fees as they become due.

You may cancel at any time from your account's billing settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for, and you retain access until then. Except where required by law, fees already paid are not refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods or for periods in which you did not use the Service.

We may change our prices. If we change the price of a plan you are subscribed to, we will give you notice before the change takes effect on your account, and the new price will apply from your next renewal. If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend access to the Service until the balance is settled.

5. Legislative Information

The Service compiles bills, votes, hearings, committee activity, legislator records, statutes and related legislative information from public sources, including state legislative bodies and third-party data providers. We work to keep this information timely and accurate, but we do not originate it and cannot guarantee that it is complete, accurate or current. Legislative sources publish on their own schedules, correct their own records, and sometimes make errors.

The Service is an information tool, not legal advice. Nothing in the Service is legal, lobbying-compliance, financial or professional advice, and using it does not create any professional relationship between you and LobbyGov. Where accuracy matters, verify against the official record before acting. You are solely responsible for any decision you make on the basis of information in the Service, including any filing, disclosure or compliance obligation you may have.

Any analysis, summary, categorization or other automatically generated content in the Service is provided for convenience only and may contain errors or omissions.

6. Your Content

The Service lets you create content such as tracking lists, notes, positions, priorities, custom fields, reports and analyses (“Your Content”). As between you and LobbyGov, Your Content belongs to you. You grant us a non-exclusive licence to host, store, reproduce, process and display Your Content solely to operate and improve the Service and to provide it to the users on your account.

You are responsible for Your Content and represent that you have the rights necessary to submit it. We may remove content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or applicable law. We may generate and use aggregated, de-identified data derived from use of the Service, provided it does not identify you or your organization.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• share your account credentials, or allow the Service to be used by anyone other than the users authorized on your account;
• resell, redistribute, sublicense or otherwise make the Service or its data available to third parties, except as your plan expressly permits;
• scrape, crawl, bulk-download or use automated means to extract data from the Service, or attempt to circumvent any rate limit or access control;
• reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source code of the Service;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to it or to any other account;
• upload malicious code, or use the Service to send unsolicited messages; or
• use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including lobbying disclosure and campaign finance laws.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, and the compilation and organization of the information it contains, is owned by LobbyGov and protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms and to payment of the applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Service for your internal business purposes for the duration of your subscription. Underlying public records are not owned by us and remain in the public domain to the extent provided by law. No rights are granted other than those expressly set out here.

9. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on and may link to services operated by others, including data providers, payment processing, email delivery and hosting. Their availability and their handling of information are outside our control, and their own terms may apply to your use of them.

10. Availability and Support

We aim to keep the Service available continuously, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. The Service may be unavailable during maintenance or because of events beyond our control, and we may modify or discontinue features. Support is available at support@lobbygov.com.

11. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel your subscription at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if your account has an unpaid balance, or if we are required to do so by law. Where practical we will give you notice and an opportunity to correct the problem first.

After termination we may retain Your Content for a limited period so that you can recover it, after which it may be deleted. Some information may persist in backups or where we are required to retain it, as described in our Privacy Policy. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

Except as expressly stated in these Terms and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service and all information in it are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, LobbyGov will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to the Service, whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities, so some of the above may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless LobbyGov and its officers, directors, employees and agents from any claim, demand, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of your use of the Service, Your Content, or your breach of these Terms or of applicable law.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of this page, and where the changes are material we will give you notice through the Service or by email before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you may cancel your subscription.

16. Governing Law

These Terms and your use of the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The state and federal courts located in King County, Washington will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these Terms, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If any provision of these Terms is held unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is severable and the remaining provisions remain in effect.

17. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order or plan terms you agree to, are the entire agreement between you and LobbyGov regarding the Service, and supersede any prior agreement on that subject. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

18. Contacting LobbyGov

If you have any questions about these Terms, you may contact us:

LobbyGov, Inc.
PO Box 9122
Seattle, WA 98109-0122
206-905-7800
Email: support@lobbygov.com