Terms of Service

MassCourts+ provides search access to public Massachusetts court records. You may use it for lawful purposes only. You may not attempt to disrupt or overload it, circumvent access limits or quotas, use automated means to extract data in bulk, or access it through anything other than the interfaces we provide. Bulk access to court data is available on licensed terms — ask us rather than scraping.

Searching does not require an account. If you create one, you are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity that occurs under it. Do not share an account; where multiple people need access, use team seats.

An organisation administrator can invite people to seats their organisation pays for, and can remove them. An invited member's use of the service is governed by these terms in the same way as any other user, and an administrator may see that member's membership and status within the organisation.

Paid plans are billed in advance on the interval selected at checkout, and renew automatically until cancelled. Details of each tier are described on the subscribe page. Cancellation stops future charges and takes effect at the end of the period already paid for; it does not retroactively refund that period. Prices may change on renewal, with notice before the change takes effect.

Court records are public, but they may be delayed, incomplete, inconsistent between courts, or wrong at the source. We reproduce what the courts publish; we do not correct it, and we cannot vouch for it.

Results are a research aid. They are not an official court record, not a certified copy, and not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney–client relationship. Verify anything consequential directly with the court that issued it before relying on it.

Some names are withheld or reduced in this service, and that is a legal requirement rather than a display preference. Criminal defendants' names are not searchable and are not shown. Housing Court party names are shown as initials where the court has marked them non-searchable. Case titles are redacted where they would otherwise spell out a name these rules protect.

You may not attempt to defeat, reverse, or work around these protections — by correlating masked results against other sources, by probing the service to infer a withheld name, or by any other means. Doing so is a material breach of these terms. How the data is sourced and what we do to it is described in Ethics & Data Provenance.

You may not use MassCourts+, or anything obtained from it, to make or inform decisions about employment, tenancy, housing, credit, insurance, or eligibility for any benefit or licence. This service is not a consumer reporting agency, the information in it is not a consumer report, and it has none of the accuracy, dispute, or adverse-action machinery that the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires of one. Massachusetts law separately restricts the use of criminal record information in hiring and tenancy.

If you need records for any of those purposes, obtain them through a provider that is set up to supply them lawfully. This is not one.

You may not use the service to:

• harass, intimidate, stalk, or threaten any person named in the records;
• re-identify, aggregate, or publish personal information about individuals in a way that the underlying records do not already make public;
• resell, redistribute, or sublicense the data outside a licence that permits it;
• train, fine-tune, or build a competing dataset or service from bulk extraction of these records;
• probe, scan, or test the security of the service, or attempt to access another user's account, history, or saved items;
• misrepresent results as an official or certified court record.

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that is being used to defeat the protections in section 5, or that puts the service or the records at risk. Where circumstances allow, we will say why. You may stop using the service and close your account at any time; sections 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10 survive termination.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that the records it returns are current or correct.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Civera LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from reliance on results obtained through the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim arose. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply to the maximum extent permitted.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the service is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Massachusetts, and you consent to that jurisdiction and venue.

We may revise these terms as the service evolves. Each revision carries a version, shown at the top of this page. When we make a material change, you will be asked to review and accept the new version the next time you sign in, and you can decline — declining signs you out rather than accepting on your behalf. Continued use after a non-material update constitutes acceptance of it.

Questions about these terms can be sent through our contact page.