Aparti
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a contract between you and Full Cycle Tech Corp ("Aparti", "we", "us" or "our"). They govern your use of the Aparti Support Calculator at aparticalculator.com, its reports, documents and related services (together, the "Service").
Please read them carefully. By creating an account, signing in, buying a subscription or a per-case product, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
If you use the Service for a law firm, company, court or other organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these Terms for it, and "you" includes that organization.
1.1 Calculation software. The Service is software that estimates California guideline child support and spousal support, the related federal and California taxes, support arrears and interest, and the division of community property, from information you supply. It can read figures from documents you upload, compare two calculations, and prepare reports and draft documents.
1.2 Estimates. Every figure the Service produces is an estimate based on the information you provide and the assumptions you choose. A court decides the amount of support in every case.
1.3 Certification. We have applied to the Judicial Council of California for certification under Family Code section 3830 and rule 5.275 of the California Rules of Court. Until the Service is certified, its figures are not the figures of a certified calculator. Where a court or a local child support agency requires a calculator certified by the Judicial Council, you are responsible for using one. When you upload or enter a result produced by another calculator, that result belongs to that calculator, and the Service shows it as entered or read.
1.4 Not legal, tax or financial advice. Aparti is not a law firm, an accounting firm or a financial adviser. Using the Service does not create an attorney-client or any other professional relationship with us. Nothing the Service shows, prints or drafts is legal, tax or financial advice. If you need advice about a specific situation, consult a licensed professional.
1.5 Use through an AI assistant. You may connect the Service to an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, with your own account. Through an assistant, the Service provides its figures and notes, which the assistant is asked to pass on unchanged. Everything else the assistant says, writes or computes is the assistant's own, made by its maker under that maker's terms, and is not the Service's output; we are not responsible for it. The record of a calculation is the Aparti report printed at aparticalculator.com. What you type into the assistant, and what the Service returns into it, are held by the assistant's maker under its terms, not ours.
2.1 Professional judgment. If you are a lawyer, paralegal, accountant, mediator or other professional, you remain solely responsible for your work product, your advice and every filing you make, including checking each figure against its source and deciding whether a figure is appropriate for your matter.
2.2 Accuracy of what you enter. The Service works only with what you give it. You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the information you enter or upload.
2.3 Figures read from documents. Documents are read by automated systems, including third-party artificial intelligence services described in our Privacy Policy, and can be misread. The Service asks you to confirm what it read. You are responsible for checking every read figure before relying on it.
2.4 Client information and consent. You are responsible for having any authority, consent or notice your professional rules or the law require before you enter or upload information about a client or another person, including before a document is read by an artificial intelligence service, or before you enter information about a client into an AI assistant you connect to the Service. You can always type figures in by hand instead of uploading a document.
2.5 Charges passed to clients. If you bill a client for a purchase made through the Service, you are responsible for doing so in line with your engagement agreement and your professional rules.
3.1 Signing in. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address, or with an access code we give you. You must give us a true email address you control and keep access to it secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.
3.2 Signing up. You may create an account and buy a subscription or a per-case product without a review or approval by us. We may still suspend or end access as described in section 12.
3.3 Seats. A subscription includes a number of seats. Each seat is for one named person at the subscribing organization and may not be shared, pooled or transferred, except that the subscription's owner may replace a seat holder who leaves. A seat has one active session at a time: a new sign-in to the seat ends the session signed in before it. This does not apply to signing in with an access code.
3.4 Access codes. An access code given to a court, a reviewer or a person is personal to the people it was given for. Do not share it.
3.5 Courts. California courts may use the Service at no charge, including any license required by rule 5.275(b)(8) of the California Rules of Court for one additional copy a court may make available to the public.
After your first sign-in you may use a limited demo. The demo shows what was read from your own documents and whether our calculation differs, within daily limits shown in the Service. It does not include figures computed by us, reports or exports. We may change or end the demo at any time.
5.1 Plans. Subscriptions are sold by the year, for a set number of seats. The plans, their seats and their prices are shown in the Service and on the checkout page before you pay. For more seats than our largest plan offers, contact us.
5.2 Payment. Payment is taken in advance by card through our payment processor, Stripe. You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge the card you provide for the subscription price and any applicable taxes when you subscribe, when a free trial ends, and at each renewal.
5.3 AUTOMATIC RENEWAL. YOUR SUBSCRIPTION RENEWS AUTOMATICALLY EVERY YEAR, AND YOUR CARD IS CHARGED THE ANNUAL PRICE OF YOUR PLAN AT EACH RENEWAL, UNTIL YOU CANCEL. Before you subscribe, we show you the plan, its price, that it renews every year, and how to cancel, and we ask for your consent. After you subscribe, we send you a confirmation that includes these terms and how to cancel.
5.4 How to cancel. You can cancel online at any time, without contacting us, with "Cancel the plan" on the Account page, or from "Manage billing" on that page. You may also cancel by emailing [email protected] from the email address on the account. If you cancel during a free trial, nothing is charged, and your access ends on the date the trial would have ended. After the trial, or if you paid at once, cancellation stops the next renewal; your access continues until the end of the year you have paid for.
5.5 Founding price. A subscription bought before the Service is certified by the Judicial Council renews at the price you first paid until certification and for one year after it. After that, renewals are at the then-current price for your plan.
5.6 Price changes. If the price of your plan will change at your next renewal, we will email you at least 30 days before the renewal, with the new price and how to cancel. If you do not cancel before the renewal, the new price applies from that renewal.
5.7 Renewal reminders. We send a reminder by email before each annual renewal.
5.8 Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will retry it. If it cannot be collected, the subscription ends and your seats return to the free demo.
5.9 Money-back guarantee. Within 30 days of the first payment for your first subscription, you may have that subscription refunded in full with "Refund and end the plan" on the Account page, or by emailing [email protected] from the email address on the account. The refund returns what you paid for the subscription, ends the subscription at once, and ends your access at once. It is available once per account and once per card. It does not cover per-case purchases, which are not refunded (section 6.5). Apart from this guarantee and except where the law requires otherwise, payments are not refundable, and we do not refund part of a year.
5.10 Taxes. Prices do not include taxes. You are responsible for any sales, use or similar taxes that apply to your purchase, other than taxes on our income.
5.11 Free trial. A new subscription may start with a free trial of 7 days. A card is required to start the trial. Before you start it, we show you the date your card will be charged and the amount, on our page and on Stripe's payment page. Unless you cancel before that date, your card is charged the annual price of your plan on that date, and the subscription then renews every year as described in section 5.3 until you cancel. One trial is available per card and per email address, and none after a paid subscription. A prepaid card cannot start a trial. If a trial cannot start, nothing is charged, and you may use another card or subscribe without a trial. You may also skip the trial and pay at once.
6.1 What they are. Where the Service offers it, you may buy a product for one matter: the two-way bonus table, at $1,000 per matter. It is sold separately from every subscription, and no subscription includes it. What it includes and its price are shown before you pay.
6.2 One matter, for its life. A per-case purchase covers one matter, identified by the matter number you give it, for the life of that matter. Revisions of the same matter are not charged again. A different family, case or proceeding is a different matter, even under the same number. A matter number must not contain a client's name or other personal information.
6.3 No credits. A per-case purchase is not credited toward a subscription or any other purchase.
6.4 No early access. Per-case products are no longer offered without a separate purchase as early access. For a matter of yours, they are bought as described in this section. The Service's tutorial may show a per-case product on its own invented sample case.
6.5 Refunds. Once a per-case product has been unlocked, it is not refundable, except where the law requires otherwise or the product could not be produced because of a fault in the Service.
7.1 Your content. "Your content" means the information you enter, the documents you upload and the reports and documents you generate from them. As between you and us, you own your content.
7.2 Our use of your content. You give us permission to process your content only as needed to provide the Service to you: to calculate, read documents, answer your questions, generate reports and documents, and keep the Service secure. We do not sell your content. Our Privacy Policy describes what we collect, what we keep and who processes it.
7.3 What we do not keep. We do not keep a database of your cases. Case figures stay in your browser session, in case files you save to your own device and, if you use an AI assistant, in its chat. Documents you upload are sent to our calculation server and to the service that reads them, and are not kept by us after reading, except that a document a client sends you through a document request is held sealed, so that we cannot open it, until a case file you save holds it, for at most 7 days. Through an AI assistant, we compute from what the assistant sends and keep none of it.
7.4 Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without restriction or payment to you.
You agree not to:
The Service, including its software, calculation method, text, report formats, designs and trademarks, belongs to us and our licensors. While your subscription or purchase is active and you comply with these Terms, we give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own matters or your organization's matters. Reports and documents you generate from your own content are yours to use, file and share for those matters.
The Service relies on third parties, including Stripe for payments, Clerk for sign-in codes, and the artificial intelligence and hosting providers named in our Privacy Policy. An AI assistant you connect to the Service, and its maker, are your own choice and are not part of the Service. Their services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. Links to other websites are for convenience only.
11.1 The Service changes over time. We may add, change, limit or remove features, or move a feature from a plan to a separate purchase, at any time. If you do not want to continue after a change, you may cancel as described in section 5.4; cancelling stops the next renewal, and no refund is due because of the change.
11.2 We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will tell you by email or in the Service before it takes effect. For a subscription, a material change applies from your next renewal, unless you agree earlier or the law requires it sooner. If you do not agree to a change, you may cancel before it applies to you.
12.1 By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and cancel a subscription as described in section 5.4.
12.2 By us. We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these Terms, do not pay, use the Service in a way that creates a legal or security risk, or if we are required to by law. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. If we end a paid subscription for a reason other than your breach, we will refund the unused part of the year.
12.3 What survives. Sections 7.4 and 8 to 17, and any payment obligations already due, survive the end of these Terms.
EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT A FIGURE WILL MATCH WHAT A COURT ORDERS, OR THAT A DOCUMENT WILL BE READ CORRECTLY.
14.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, NEITHER WE NOR OUR SUPPLIERS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE.
14.2 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
14.3 These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited under the law, including for fraud, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct.
If you use the Service in your professional practice or for an organization, you will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims, and the resulting losses and reasonable costs, arising from your filings, your advice or work product, your content, or your breach of these Terms, except to the extent a claim arises from our own breach of these Terms.
16.1 These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
16.2 Before starting a formal proceeding, the party with a dispute will send the other a written description of it, and both will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. Our address for this notice is [email protected].
16.3 Any dispute that is not resolved informally will be decided exclusively by the state or federal courts located in California, and each party consents to their jurisdiction. Either party may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court.
17.1 Entire agreement. These Terms, our Privacy Policy and anything shown to you at checkout are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. A separate signed agreement between your organization and us controls where it conflicts with these Terms.
17.2 Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may transfer them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of all or part of our business.
17.3 Events beyond control. Neither party is responsible for a delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, other than a failure to pay.
17.4 Severability and waiver. If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced as far as the law allows and the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver.
17.5 Notices. We may send you notices by email to the address on your account or in the Service. You may send notices to us at [email protected].
17.6 California consumers. Under California Civil Code section 1789.3, California users are entitled to the following notice: the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.
Questions about these Terms: [email protected].