# Acceptable Use Policy — Niyam

Last updated: June 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy sets out what you may and may not do when using Niyam. It applies alongside our Terms of Service. Violations may result in suspension or termination of your account.

## 1. Permitted uses

You may use Niyam for any lawful professional legal purpose, including but not limited to:

Researching Indian case law, statutes, constitutional provisions, and legal principles in connection with professional legal work.

Drafting, reviewing, and analysing contracts, pleadings, written submissions, opinions, legal memoranda, and other legal documents.

Supporting your professional practice as an advocate, solicitor, in-house counsel, law student, paralegal, or legal researcher.

Generating research outputs, summaries, and draft content that you review, verify, and take full professional responsibility for before use.

Preparing for court hearings, client meetings, negotiations, due diligence reviews, or regulatory submissions — as research and drafting support.

Educational use: studying Indian law, understanding legal concepts, and exploring how courts have interpreted statutes and constitutional provisions.

## 2. Prohibited uses

The following uses are prohibited and may result in immediate account suspension:

Generating or submitting fabricated legal authority — invented case citations, false statutory provisions, non-existent bench compositions, or misleading precedents — to any court, tribunal, regulatory body, or opposing counsel.

Using outputs without independent verification in circumstances where you know or suspect the output may be inaccurate, and where the error could harm your client, mislead a court, or violate your professional obligations.

Producing content designed to deceive a court, mislead opposing counsel, obstruct justice, or otherwise subvert the administration of justice in India.

Harassing, threatening, defaming, or seeking to harm any individual, group, or entity through content generated using the Service.

Generating content that violates applicable Indian law, including content that is obscene, seditious, communally inflammatory, or that infringes the intellectual property rights of any person.

Violating professional rules of conduct applicable to advocates, solicitors, chartered accountants, company secretaries, or other professionals using the Service.

Attempting to reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract the underlying models, system prompts, retrieval corpus, or proprietary data that power the Service.

Scraping, harvesting, or systematically extracting outputs from the Service at scale, whether manually or through automated scripts, bots, or API calls that circumvent normal usage patterns.

Circumventing rate limits, access controls, credit consumption limits, or other usage restrictions through any technical, mechanical, or other means.

Sharing your account credentials with others or allowing multiple individuals to use a single account. Each user must have their own account.

Using the Service in any manner that could damage, overburden, impair, or interfere with our infrastructure, servers, or the experience of other users.

Misrepresenting your identity or affiliation to gain access to the Service or to obtain credits you are not entitled to.

## 3. Professional responsibility

Niyam is a tool for legal professionals. You are responsible for independently verifying all outputs before relying on them in professional work. The duty of care to your client, the duty of candour to the court, and all other professional obligations you hold are yours alone. Using Niyam does not reduce or transfer any of those obligations.

Submitting AI-generated content to a court or tribunal without independent verification — and without disclosure where required by applicable court rules, bar council guidelines, or professional conduct obligations — is not a permitted use of this Service.

If applicable court rules or professional guidelines require disclosure that AI tools were used in preparing submissions, you are responsible for making that disclosure. We encourage transparency about AI assistance in legal work.

The Bar Council of India and other professional bodies may issue guidance on the use of AI in legal practice. You are responsible for staying informed of and complying with applicable guidance.

## 4. Reporting violations

If you become aware of a use of the Service that violates this policy — including by another user — please report it to hello@niyam.ai. Provide as much detail as you can about the nature of the violation.

We take reports of misuse seriously, particularly where the misuse could harm the administration of justice or vulnerable individuals.

## 5. Enforcement

We may suspend or terminate accounts that we determine, in our reasonable judgement, have violated this policy. For serious violations — particularly those involving fabrication of legal authority or obstruction of justice — we may act without prior notice.

For less severe violations, we will generally notify you and give you an opportunity to correct the behaviour before taking enforcement action.

We may also report conduct to relevant professional bodies, bar councils, or law enforcement where we are required or where the conduct is sufficiently serious to warrant it.

## 6. Governing law and jurisdiction

This Acceptable Use Policy is operated by NIYAM.AI APP PRIVATE LIMITED and is governed by the laws of India. Any dispute arising out of or relating to it is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts at Gurugram (Gurgaon), Haryana, India.

## 7. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

## 8. Contact

NIYAM.AI APP PRIVATE LIMITED

Registered office: 136, 1st Floor, Orchid Business Park, Sector-48, Narsinghpur, Gurgaon (Gurugram), Haryana, India 122004

Questions about this policy: hello@niyam.ai.

https://niyam.ai/legal/acceptable-use