Platform role and legal boundary

RecourseLink is an informational technology platform for source-backed claim discovery, private readiness workflows, and attorney SaaS tools. RecourseLink is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, does not represent users or attorneys, does not file claims, and does not administer settlements.

Using the site, creating an account, checking a situation, buying a flat-fee product, or requesting attorney review does not create an attorney-client relationship with RecourseLink. Attorney-client relationships, if any, can be created only by a separate agreement between a user and an attorney.

Research-backed review status

RecourseLink uses a research-backed operator legal-risk acceptance posture based on product-specific review of privacy, attorney advertising, unauthorized-practice, evidence, AI, billing, and source-publication risks. That review is not a legal opinion, not legal advice, and not bar-admitted counsel approval.

The public legal pages are designed to make the product boundaries visible while jurisdiction-specific counsel review remains a residual risk. Sources and planning records include the California Attorney General CCPA materials, FTC privacy/security and endorsement guidance, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, Federal Rules of Evidence 901/902, and ABA Model Rule materials on attorney advertising, fee sharing, unauthorized practice, and professional independence.

Source-backed information and public claims

Public claim, map, and directory pages must rely on official, primary, or reviewed source-backed information. Public pages may describe general issue patterns, source citations, and freshness status; they must not turn private user reports into public accusations, ratings, petitions, or business scores.

Source-backed does not mean a user has a valid claim, will qualify for relief, should sue, will recover money, or is within any filing deadline. Courts, agencies, counsel, settlement administrators, and applicable law control those determinations.

AI limitations

AI-assisted features must remain informational, retrieval-grounded, source-cited, logged, and subject to guardrails or human review for high-risk outputs. They may help organize public-source context, issue categories, missing information, and evidence checklists.

AI must not tell a user they have a case, should sue, missed a deadline, will win, will recover a specific amount, has legal rights, or will be accepted by an attorney. AI output is not a substitute for a lawyer, court, agency, settlement administrator, or jurisdiction-specific legal analysis.

Attorney directory, routing, and advertising disclosures

Attorney access is neutral, consent-based, and controlled by objective gates such as user selection, jurisdiction, practice area, attorney verification, terms acceptance, conflict certification, entitlement status where applicable, revocation checks, and access logging.

RecourseLink does not recommend the best attorney, rank attorneys by quality, sell preferential placement, guarantee attorney review, guarantee attorney acceptance, or share in legal fees or recoveries. Attorney listings, if shown, are not endorsements, ratings, or legal recommendations.

Class action and broader-pattern disclosures

RecourseLink may describe a public issue pattern or a private issue cohort candidate. RecourseLink does not create, certify, manage, settle, or control class actions. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 and any applicable state procedures leave class certification, class notice, class counsel, settlement approval, and attorney-fee decisions to courts and counsel.

Users do not see or contact other users through RecourseLink. Private reports, names, contact details, exact narratives, documents, and Evidence Vault materials remain private unless a separate consented workflow authorizes a specific disclosure.

Privacy, evidence, and communication boundaries

Private facts, sensitive information, evidence files, and attorney-facing disclosure require separate consent, minimum-necessary collection, security controls, deletion/export/correction workflows, revocation paths, and access logs. Evidence Vault wording must not imply admissibility, authenticity, chain-of-custody sufficiency, or attorney acceptance.

SMS/text messaging is not active. External email, receipts, alerts, attorney outreach, and private-data release must remain separately gated by consent, template review, suppression/unsubscribe controls, provider-retention review, and audit logging.

Fees and payment boundaries

RecourseLink products must be flat-fee digital products, subscriptions, or clearly disclosed SaaS/advertising tools. RecourseLink does not charge contingency fees, success fees, referral fees, recovery shares, settlement percentages, or attorney-fee percentages.

Payment does not buy legal advice, attorney acceptance, private-data access, lead delivery, ranking, recommendation, or any outcome. Refunds and cancellations are governed by the refund policy and product-specific checkout terms.

Lawsuit, class action, and claims search notice

People may search for a lawsuit, class action, or claims after seeing a public notice, recall, data breach, fee issue, product defect, or settlement reference. RecourseLink may help organize source-backed public information about those topics, but it does not file lawsuits, certify class actions, validate claims, or decide whether a person should participate in any legal process.