These terms are an agreement between Credit Card Art LLC, a Texas limited liability company doing business as Case Intercept ("Case Intercept," "we," "us"), and the law firm that creates an account with us ("you," "the firm"). They govern your use of the Case Intercept website, dashboard, and related services.
These terms govern law firms. They do not govern people who receive a postcard. Our Privacy Policy explains how we treat both groups.
By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms on behalf of your firm. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
What Case Intercept is
Case Intercept is a direct-mail service for traffic and criminal-defense lawyers. We collect public court records, score them, and print a postcard under your firm's name and brand. Each postcard carries the word ADVERTISEMENT and a unique QR code. When a recipient scans the code, they reach a page branded for your firm where they can review your offer, pay you directly, and sign an engagement agreement electronically. You see all of it in your dashboard.
We contact recipients by mail only. The service has no function for cold calls or cold texts, and none will be added.
What Case Intercept is not
Case Intercept is not a law firm. We do not practice law and we do not give legal advice, to you or to anyone else. No attorney-client relationship is formed between Case Intercept and any person who receives a postcard, scans a code, or pays through a checkout page. The only lawyer in the picture is you.
Eligibility
To use the service, you must be an attorney licensed and in good standing with the State Bar of Texas, or a firm whose attorneys are. You must be authorized to bind your firm to these terms. We may ask for your bar number and verify it. If you lose your license, are suspended, or leave good standing, you must tell us and stop using the service.
Your responsibilities
You practice law. We print and mail. That split puts several things on your side of the line.
- Bar obligations. You are responsible for complying with the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct and every other rule that governs lawyer advertising and solicitation, including the rules on written solicitation of prospective clients. Using our service does not shift that responsibility to us.
- Reviewing and approving creatives. Every postcard design, offer, and checkout page runs under your name. You must review and approve each one before it mails. We will not mail a creative you have not approved.
- Advertising Review filing. Texas requires certain lawyer advertisements to be filed with the State Bar of Texas Advertising Review Committee. We prepare the filing packet for each creative. You sign it and submit it. The filing is yours, and its accuracy is your responsibility.
- Accurate information. The firm name, bar number, address, offer terms, and pricing you give us must be accurate and kept current.
- Your clients. Any person who hires you through a Case Intercept checkout page is your client, not ours. Your engagement agreement, your fee arrangement, your trust-account handling, and your representation are entirely yours.
- Account security. Keep your sign-in credentials private. You are responsible for everything done under your account.
No guarantee of results
We do not guarantee that any postcard will be delivered, opened, scanned, or acted on. We do not guarantee that any recipient will hire you. We do not quote, estimate, or promise response rates, and you should not rely on any figure you hear from anyone as a promise from us. Advertising results depend on your offer, your market, and factors outside our control.
Fees and billing
We charge you for two things: data and mail. Data means the scored court records made available to your campaigns. Mail means the postcards printed and sent on your behalf. The rates that apply to your firm, and any monthly minimum, are the ones set out in the order or pricing page you accepted when you signed up, and they are shown in your dashboard.
We never charge a fee per signed client, per lead who hires you, or as a percentage of any legal fee you collect. Our fee is the same whether a postcard produces a client or not. We also take no application fee on payments your clients make to you. This is deliberate. It is what keeps the arrangement on the right side of the rules against sharing fees with non-lawyers and paying for referrals.
Fees are billed through Stripe to the payment method on your account. Charges for mail are incurred when you approve a campaign for printing. Once a print run has started, that run cannot be recalled and the charge for it is not refundable.
Payments from your clients
When a recipient pays through a checkout page, the payment goes to you. We use Stripe Connect, and your firm is the merchant of record. The charge appears on the recipient's statement under your firm's name. Funds settle to your Stripe account and your bank, not to ours. We take no application fee and no cut of the payment.
You are responsible for your Stripe account, for handling refunds and disputes with your clients, and for treating any money you receive in accordance with the rules that govern client funds. Case Intercept does not hold client money.
Territory exclusivity
Exclusivity is granted per court. When you hold a court, no other firm using Case Intercept receives postcards for new cases filed in that court while your exclusivity is active. The courts you hold, and the term of each, are recorded in your order and shown in your dashboard. If your account closes or is terminated, the courts you held are released and may be offered to another firm.
Exclusivity limits what we will do for other firms. It does not limit what other firms or other vendors may do on their own.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the service in violation of any law or any rule of professional conduct.
- Use any court record, name, or address obtained through the service for any purpose other than the postcard campaign it was scored for.
- Attempt to contact a recipient by phone, text, or email using information obtained through the service.
- Export, scrape, resell, or share defendant data with anyone outside your firm.
- Alter an approved creative after approval, or remove the word ADVERTISEMENT from anything we print.
- Interfere with the service, probe its security, or access another firm's account or data.
If you break these rules we may suspend or close your account at once.
Confidentiality
Information we share with you about how the service works, including pricing, scoring methods, and campaign performance, is confidential. Information you share with us about your firm and your campaigns is confidential. Neither of us will disclose the other's confidential information except as needed to run the service, as required by law, or with the other's consent.
Defendant information is not your confidential information or ours. It comes from public court records, and it is governed by our Privacy Policy and by the acceptable-use rules above.
Term and termination
These terms apply from the day you create an account until the account closes. You may close your account at any time from the dashboard or by emailing us. We may close or suspend your account without notice if you break these terms or if your bar status changes. If we decide to discontinue the service or close your account for any other reason, we will give you at least thirty days' notice.
When an account closes, campaigns stop, held courts are released, and any fees already incurred remain due. Postcards already sent to print will be mailed.
Sections on fees, payments, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law survive termination.
Disclaimer of warranties
The service is provided as is and as available. We make no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that court records will be complete or timely, that postal delivery will occur, or that any recipient will respond.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, Case Intercept will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost clients, or lost fees, arising out of the service or these terms, however caused. Our total liability to you for all claims will not exceed the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.
Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited under Texas law.
Indemnity
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Case Intercept and its members, managers, and employees from any claim, loss, or expense, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of your use of the service, your advertising, your Advertising Review filing, your representation of any client, or your breach of these terms or of any rule of professional conduct.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Harris County, Texas, and both of us consent to their jurisdiction.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page and, for material changes, notify you by email or in the dashboard before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the updated terms.
General
These terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. You may not assign these terms without our consent. Our failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it.
Contact
Credit Card Art LLC d/b/a Case Intercept
Email: hello@caseintercept.com
This document is provided by Credit Card Art LLC. A firm relying on it should have its own counsel review it first.