Goliath-Shield

Goliath-Shield — Terms & Conditions

Version 2026-11-11-v2. Effective November 11, 2026.

These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of the Goliath‑Shield software application and its professional edition ("Prophecy") (together, the "Software"), provided by PHD International LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, doing business as Goliath-Shield ("we," "us," "our"). By installing, activating a license for, or using the Software, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Software.

1. What the Software is — and is not

The Software is legal self-help and education software: an optional informational and organizational tool that helps you understand and organize your case materials, identify legal issues, locate authorities, and prepare your own draft work product. It is not essential legal services and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.

WE ARE NOT A LAW FIRM AND WE ARE NOT YOUR LAWYER. THE SOFTWARE DOES NOT PRACTICE LAW AND DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE OR LEGAL REPRESENTATION. USING THE SOFTWARE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY‑CLIENT RELATIONSHIP.

The Software does not exercise legal judgment for you. Every output it produces is a suggestion or hypothesis for you to evaluate independently — the Software suggests; you decide. Nothing the Software generates becomes a legal position, filing, or claim unless and until you review it, verify it, and choose to adopt it as your own. You — and, where applicable, your attorney — make every legal decision and exercise all professional judgment.

  • Pro Se editions (Prescription, Prescription+): these are self-help tools for people representing themselves. They organize your information and surface legal options; they do not select your strategy for you or represent you. You remain responsible for your own case.
  • Prophecy (Professional edition): intended for use by licensed attorneys, who exercise independent professional judgment over all output. The Software is a tool used under the attorney's supervision; it does not replace the attorney's judgment or duties to clients.

2. Your responsibility to verify; acknowledgment and assumption of risk

You are solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, and validating all output before relying on it or submitting anything to any court, party, or tribunal. This includes verifying every legal citation, authority, quotation, deadline, and factual statement against primary sources. Automated and AI‑assisted output can contain errors, omissions, fabricated citations, or content that does not reflect current law. You must confirm accuracy and applicability to your jurisdiction and your matter, and you should consult a licensed attorney for advice about your specific situation.

By using the Software, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) the Software's output may be inaccurate or incomplete; (b) the duty to verify output before any use or filing is yours, not ours; (c) you will not rely on any output without independent verification; and (d) you assume the risk of your own legal decisions and filings. You enter into these Terms knowingly and voluntarily, having had the opportunity to read them in full.

3. No warranty of accuracy or outcome

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON‑INFRINGEMENT.

The Software's output is information and suggestions — not a product, and not a professional service. We do not warrant that any output is accurate, complete, current, or suitable for any particular matter, and we have no duty to verify or guarantee the accuracy of any legal information the Software surfaces. We do not guarantee any legal result or outcome. The Software is an optional informational tool that you are free to use or not; it does not serve an essential or public function.

4. Privacy and your data

The Software is designed to run locally on your device, and we never receive, collect, or store your case information — your case files, documents, and work product stay on your own device and storage, under your control.

Some features make network connections, and you should understand them: - License validation (always): the Software sends your license key, with basic activation/instance metadata, to our payment/licensing provider to activate and periodically re‑validate your license. No case content is included. - Third‑party AI providers (only if you enable them): if you configure an AI provider in Settings using your own account/key (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or similar), the Software sends prompts and relevant document excerpts or images to that provider so it can generate output. That content goes directly to the provider you chose, under your own account — we do not receive it, and your use of that provider is governed by its own terms and privacy policy. You can instead run a local model to keep this on your machine, or disable AI features entirely (with reduced functionality). - Legal‑authority lookups (only if used): features that verify or fetch legal authorities may send search queries to legal data sources. These carry your query, not your case files. - Optional voice / text‑to‑speech (only if enabled): if you turn on voice features using a configured key, the relevant text is sent to that service. - Optional translation (only if you enable online translation): translation runs on your device by default. If you turn on online translation, the text being translated — which may include case content — may be sent to the translation service you've configured (for example, LibreTranslate or DeepL). It goes to that service, not to us; we do not receive it.

In short: we never receive your case data; any transmission to a third party happens only through services you choose to enable, directly between you and that provider.

5. License grant and scope

Subject to these Terms and payment of the applicable fee, we grant you a limited, non‑exclusive, non‑transferable license to use the Software according to the edition you purchased: - Prescription — single‑matter access for one case (one‑time purchase, perpetual). - Prescription+ — 12‑month access (Pro Se edition); one‑time purchase that does not auto‑renew. - Prophecy — the Professional edition; subscription access billed monthly or annually, renewing until cancelled (see §6).

Your license key may be activated on a limited number of devices (the activation limit shown at purchase). The license is personal to you (or, for the Prophecy edition, to your firm/seat) and may not be shared, sublicensed, resold, or transferred. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or circumvent the Software's licensing.

6. Payments, billing, refunds, and automatic renewal

Payments are processed by our Merchant of Record, Lemon Squeezy, who handles billing, taxes, and receipts. One‑time purchases (Prescription, Prescription+) are charged once and do not renew.

Automatic renewal (Prophecy only). The Prophecy subscription automatically renews at the end of each billing period — monthly or annually, at the price shown at purchase — and continues until you cancel. This recurring charge, its amount, and its frequency are disclosed to you at checkout, and your purchase is your affirmative consent to it. You may cancel at any time, effective at the end of the current period, through your account or by contacting us; cancellation stops future charges. We will give reasonable advance notice of any price change, and any renewal notice required by your jurisdiction.

Refunds. You may request a full refund within 7 days of your purchase (or, for the Prophecy subscription, within 7 days of the most recent charge).

7. Third‑party and licensed legal content

The Software does not redistribute commercially licensed legal content. Where a source requires a paid license or subscription, the Software points you to it; obtaining and paying for that access is your responsibility. Public‑domain and freely available authorities may be retrieved for you. Any content you supply remains yours and stays local to your device; we do not redistribute it, including in exports.

8. Portability — you are never locked in

Because your data lives on your own device, you are never locked in. You may export your materials and hand your matter to a licensed attorney at any time; the Software imposes no fee or barrier on doing so.

9. Acceptable use

You agree to use the Software lawfully and only for legitimate legal matters. You will not use it to harass, defraud, or violate any court rule, law, or the rights of others. You are responsible for your own conduct in any proceeding.

10. Termination

This license terminates automatically if you breach these Terms. For the Prophecy subscription, access continues through the end of the period for which you have paid and then ends on cancellation or non‑payment; one‑time editions (Prescription perpetual; Prescription+ for its 12‑month term) are unaffected by subscription rules. On termination, you must stop using the Software; your locally stored data remains yours and on your device, and you may still export it and take it to an attorney.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR IT IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LITIGATION OUTCOME, LOST OR DISMISSED MATTER, MISSED DEADLINE, OR SANCTION.

This is a limitation (cap) on damages, not a release of all liability. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for fraud, for willful and wanton conduct, or for any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law. You and we agree this limitation is a fair allocation of risk that you accepted knowingly when you agreed to these Terms, in exchange for the price of the Software, and that the Software is an optional informational tool you were free to decline.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses, or expenses arising out of your use of the Software, your filings or legal positions, your reliance on output you did not independently verify, or your breach of these Terms.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be reflected in a new version, and continued use after an update constitutes acceptance. The version you accepted at activation is recorded with your license.

14. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Software will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Colorado, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected].