TLR Legal Retrieval Service Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) apply to the TLR legal retrieval service (tlr.dr-legal.com.tw, the “Service”), including its MCP endpoint and REST API, provided by Dr.Legal (法律偵探, dr-legal.com.tw). By connecting to and using the Service through Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or any other AI tool or program, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. These Terms apply together with the Service’s Privacy Notice.

1. Nature of the Service

The Service is retrieval-only: based on your query, it searches publicly available Taiwanese legal materials and returns structured information, original text and verifiable citation links for the matching documents. The Service itself does not call or run any generative AI model and does not produce conclusions or advice. Any answer, summary or analysis is generated by the AI tool you use, independently of the Service.

2. No legal advice, no engagement

Content provided by the Service is for information and research purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice, legal services or any professional advice, and your use of the Service does not create any engagement, consulting or reliance relationship with Dr.Legal or its developer. For matters affecting your legal rights, consult a qualified, licensed lawyer. Do not act, or refrain from acting, solely on the output of the Service or of any AI tool.

3. Data scope, sources and accuracy

All materials searched by the Service come from public sources. They currently include:

• Court decisions of all levels published by the Judicial Yuan of Taiwan.
• Articles of central statutes and regulations, including their amendment history.
• Constitutional Court judgments and Interpretations of the Justices of the Constitutional Court.
• Administrative rules, interpretive provisions and discretionary standards issued by government agencies.
• Unfair labor practice decisions of the Ministry of Labor (clearly labelled as decisions, not court judgments).

We work to ensure that results correspond to documents that actually exist and carry traceable citations, but we do not guarantee that the data is current, complete or free of errors. A decision may have lost effect through appeal, retrial or reversal; a statute may have been amended or repealed; an administrative rule may no longer apply.

In particular, AI tools may misquote, misstate or fabricate (“hallucinate”) when citing or paraphrasing retrieved results. The Service only supplies the original content and accepts no responsibility for how an AI tool interprets, cites or presents it. Before relying on any citation, verify the case number, article number, cause of action and text yourself.

4. Acceptable use

When using the Service, you agree that you will not:

• send automated requests in a volume that exceeds reasonable use or affects the stability of the Service;
• circumvent, interfere with or damage the Service’s security mechanisms, rate limits, quotas or access controls;
• use the Service for any unlawful purpose, to infringe the rights of others, or contrary to public order or morals;
• impersonate others, forge identity, or attempt unauthorized access to backend systems or non-public data;
• without our written permission, bulk-extract the Service or the results obtained through it, reproduce them into your own database or index, or provide them to third parties as a service (for example resale, sub-licensing, offering an API, or including them in a search index used by third parties). Connecting the Service to AI tools and programs for your own use, or for internal use within your organization, is permitted.

We reserve the right to restrict, suspend or terminate your access to the Service, without prior notice, if you breach these Terms or where necessary to protect the Service and other users.

5. Access methods, credentials and quotas

Since 30 October 2026 every data query requires a credential. The Service offers two ways of access:

• OAuth connection (Dr.Legal account sign-in): when platforms such as Claude and ChatGPT, or your own program, connect via OAuth, you sign in to a Dr.Legal website account (Google or email; registration is free). The authorization is tied to your account and is used to identify the user, measure usage and make contact. Active use does not require signing in again; after 30 days of inactivity you sign in once more. Requests made under the account are treated as the account holder’s own.
• Named API keys: for organisations, companies, server schedulers and other situations where a browser sign-in is not possible; request one by email at [email protected]. The holder must keep the key secure and must not lend, publish or share it; all requests made with the key are treated as the holder’s own. Notify us immediately if a key is compromised. We may revoke a key at any time.

Requests without a credential receive an error (HTTP 401) with instructions and are not processed. Endpoints that involve no data query, such as the health check and connection metadata, remain public.

We may apply rate limits and daily quotas to any access method (for example a daily cap on statute and administrative-ruling lookups) and may adjust them according to operational needs without notice. Requests that exceed a quota receive an error response instead of being processed.

6. Availability

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or permanently available, and we may add, change, suspend or discontinue all or part of it at any time. The Service’s software is published as source-available under the Elastic License 2.0; the software license governs the software, while these Terms govern use of the Service itself.

7. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dr.Legal and its developer shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising from your use of or inability to use the Service, or from reliance on the Service or on the output of any AI tool. The Service comes without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

8. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time and will update the “Last updated” date on this page. Continued use of the Service after a revision constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

9. Governing law and language

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Unless mandatory law provides otherwise, the parties agree that the Taiwan Taipei District Court shall be the court of first instance for any dispute arising from the Service. The Chinese version of these Terms is authoritative; this English version is provided for convenience only, and the Chinese version prevails in case of any discrepancy.