The terms, written to be read.

The most important term: this is not a medical device

Slicefield is a litigation review and collaboration platform. It opens the medical imaging in a case and shows it accurately. It is not intended for diagnosis, screening, monitoring, treatment, or any clinical decision, and it has not been cleared, approved or certified by any medical-device regulator. Diagnosis happened at the treating provider; the radiologist’s report and your retained expert’s reading are the evidence, and nothing here stands in for either. Do not use it to make decisions about anyone’s health.

Who may use it, and on whose authority

You must be able to enter a contract where you are. The service is built for professional use — firms, their attorneys, paralegals, staff, and the consultants and experts they bring in. The imaging in a matter is almost never your data, so this term does the load-bearing work: you are responsible for having the right to hold and share what you upload — the client authorization, the discovery obligation, the court order, whatever your jurisdiction requires — and for staying within any protective order that governs it. We provide the protective-order envelope; complying with the order is yours.

A person who opens a share link agrees to use it only for the matter it was created for, within the role and scope the link carries, and not to pass it on. Access through a link is recorded, with time and IP address, on the matter’s ledger — firms should tell their recipients so.

Your content, our narrow permission

Everything you upload stays yours, and everything your experts write through your links is part of your matter. We take only the permission needed to operate: to store the files, convert them for the viewer, generate previews, show them to you, and deliver them to the people you share them with. That permission ends when you delete the material. We do not read case files, we never use them to train machine-learning models, and we never share them with anyone except on your instruction or as the law compels — see the legal-process term below. Studies are immutable once ingested and the original bytes are kept as received; annotations live in their own layer and never touch the pixels.

The ledger nobody can edit — including you, including us

Every matter keeps an append-only audit ledger with a closed vocabulary of events. No one can alter or delete its entries: not you, not your recipients, and not us. That is not a support limitation, it is the product — a custody record you can edit is not a custody record. Asking us to remove a ledger line is asking us to break the thing you are paying for, and we will decline. An expert’s submitted report freezes the same way: readable and printable ever after, editable never. A changed opinion is a new submission beside the old one.

Plans, and what free means

The free tier is a working product: one free matter with up to three live share links, one new study a day, a 32 GB library, and everything already opened stays at full quality. $79 unlocks a matter outright, once, for as long as the matter runs. The firm plan is a subscription — unlimited matters, people and links, nothing metered — that renews until cancelled; cancelling is one step on the account page and takes effect at the period’s end, deleting nothing. Prices can change, never for a period already paid, and never without notice before a renewal. Payments are processed by Stripe; the seller is Oran Dynamics Ltd. Refunds, including the 14-day money-back guarantee, are in the refund policy.

Legal holds, and legal process served on us

When you place a matter under a legal hold, deletion stops meaning anything until the hold lifts — your own delete actions are refused with an explanation, close-out is blocked, and automated cleanup skips the matter. Both ends of a hold are ledger events.

If legal process naming your matter is served on us, we commit to notifying you promptly unless the law forbids it, so you can raise objections in the forum they belong in, and to producing no more than the narrowest lawful scope. Your notes and annotations are treated as attorney work product and are not produced without a specific, contested court order naming them. Where notice is prohibited, we still test the prohibition rather than assume it.

Acceptable use

Do not upload imaging you have no right to hold; do not try to reach another firm’s matters or defeat a link’s scope; do not probe, overload or attack the service; do not upload malware; do not resell the service as your own. We may suspend an account doing these things, and where we lawfully can, we will say why and give you the chance to put it right — and we will not delete a held matter’s data even while its account is suspended.

Availability, and the copy that is yours to keep

We aim to keep the service running and do not promise it will never be interrupted. The imaging in your cases exists because you received it from somewhere — a disc, a vendor, a production — and Slicefield is not your only copy: keep your originals as your practice rules require. We keep nightly encrypted backups against our own hardware failing. If we ever discontinue the service we will give reasonable notice and a way to export your matters first — including, for held matters, enough to meet your preservation obligations.

Liability

The service is provided as is. To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. And a boundary that follows from the first term on this page: the conduct of your case, the opinions of your experts, and the decisions of courts are not things we control or answer for.

Changes, law, and talking first

We may update these terms; the date above will change, and material changes will be announced to account holders before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means accepting the new version — if you do not, cancel and export. These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland and disputes belong to the Irish courts, except that anyone entitled to mandatory local protections keeps them. Before any of that: email support@slicefield.com — most things are easier to fix than to argue about.

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