Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 26 October 2026

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of Alinea, operated by House of Kokila (BRN I26009581) ("Alinea", "we", "us"). By creating an account, you agree to these terms.

1. What Alinea is

Alinea is a document drafting and automation tool for legal practice in Mauritius. It helps you generate affidavits, plaints, divorce petitions, court letters, and VAT invoices from information you provide.

Alinea is a drafting tool, not a source of legal advice. It does not review the legal correctness, completeness, or suitability of any document for your specific matter. You (or your firm) are solely responsible for reviewing every document Alinea generates before filing, sending, or relying on it in any way. Using Alinea does not create a solicitor-client or attorney-client relationship between you and Alinea.

2. Accounts and eligibility

Alinea is intended for use by legal practitioners and law firms. You must provide accurate information when creating an account and are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity that happens under your firm's account, including actions taken by other users you've added.

3. Subscriptions and billing

Alinea is billed per seat in Mauritian rupees, currently at Rs 1,000 per seat per month. You may pay for one, six or twelve months at a time; longer periods are discounted, and the rates for each are shown when you sign up and in Firm Settings.

Payment is made by Juice or bank transfer. Your access runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Nothing renews automatically. Before a period ends you decide whether to renew, and access continues once we have confirmed your payment. If you choose not to renew, document generation stops at the end of the paid period; what happens to your data after that is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Pupil plan. Pupil barristers and pupil attorneys may use one seat at Rs 500 a month, at that flat rate whatever the period, for twelve months from signing up. To join, write to us with proof that you are in pupillage; we look at it, do not keep a copy, and send you a pupil code to use when you sign up. The pupil price applies to periods paid for while the plan runs, and a period may run at most one month past its end. After that the standard prices apply; Firm Settings shows the date. The plan is personal to you and cannot be transferred.

Some accounts may be granted complimentary access at our discretion, for a limited or unlimited period, including free months under an offer we have announced (for example for recommending Alinea, or for contributing precedents under section 4). Free months are added to your account by hand once the offer's conditions are met.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of the documents you generate and the information you enter into Alinea. We do not claim any ownership over your client data or the documents you produce. You grant us only the limited right to store and process this data as needed to provide the service, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Precedents you share with us. From 15 October 2026 you may send us precedents (drafts or templates of documents) at precedents@alinea.mu, to help us add documents to Alinea or improve the ones it drafts. Send only precedents with every client detail removed: names, national identity card numbers, addresses, case numbers and anything else that could identify a client or anyone else, replaced by placeholders such as [CLIENT NAME]. If something we receive still identifies a person, we delete it and ask you to send it again anonymised. By sending a precedent you confirm that you are entitled to share it, and you allow us to use its structure and wording to build and improve Alinea's documents. You keep your own rights in it, and we will not publish it as it stands. We will thank you by name on alinea.mu only with your written agreement. Free months for a contribution are added when we use it, as set out in the offer at the time, up to eighteen months in total for a firm.

5. Data protection: our role and yours

This section is the written agreement the Data Protection Act 2017 expects where one party processes personal data on another's behalf. It applies whenever your firm uses Alinea to handle personal data about your clients or about anyone named in your matters.

Who decides what. For the client and matter data your firm enters (the contents of document forms, your address book, your matters and your VAT register), your firm is the controller and Alinea is the processor. You decide what to enter and why; we store it and turn it into documents on your instruction. For your own account data (user names, email addresses, your firm profile and bank details, and payment records) we are the controller, and our Privacy Policy governs it.

What we process, and for how long. The subject matter is the drafting of legal documents and the tracking of court listings. The data includes names, addresses, national identity card numbers, contact details and case details, and, in succession and divorce documents, information about family relationships, deaths and marital breakdown. The data subjects are your clients and the other people named in your matters. Processing lasts as long as your account holds the data.

Your instructions. We process this data only to provide the service to you, and on your instructions. In ordinary use, that means the actions you take in the application. We will not use it for any purpose of our own, and we will not sell it or share it. If the law ever requires us to process it otherwise, we will tell you before doing so, unless the law forbids us from telling you.

Confidentiality. Alinea is operated by one person, who is bound to keep your data confidential. We do not read the contents of your documents except where you ask us for support and it is necessary to answer you, or where the law requires it. If anyone else is ever given access to the systems holding your data, they will be bound by the same duty of confidentiality before that access is granted.

Security. We hold the application and its database in Frankfurt, in the European Union. Each firm's data is separated so that one firm cannot read another's; passwords are stored hashed; traffic is encrypted in transit; administrative access sits behind a second credential; and backups are encrypted, taken nightly, and test-restored automatically. Our Privacy Policy describes where data goes in more detail.

Others who help us run Alinea. We use Render (hosting, in the European Union), GitHub (backups and scheduled jobs), Resend (account email), Cloudflare (our domain name) and, from 15 October 2026, Teal Host (the mailbox for our addresses, kept on Namecheap's servers in the United States). Until that date, Cloudflare forwarded mail sent to our contact address to a Google mailbox. Each may process your data only as needed to provide its service to us. If we add or change one of them, we will tell registered users by email before it starts, and if you object you may end your subscription and ask us to delete your data.

Helping you meet your own duties. If one of your clients asks you for access to their data, or for it to be corrected or deleted, we will help you answer within a reasonable time. If we become aware of a breach affecting your data, we will tell you without undue delay, with what we know and what we are doing about it, so that you can meet your own notification duties. We will also answer, in writing, reasonable questions about how we handle your data, including those you need answered for your own regulatory filings.

Getting your data back, or deleted. Every document you generate is downloaded to your own computer as you create it, and any document in your history can be reopened with its saved details and generated again. Deletion is currently handled by hand: write to contact@alinea.mu and we will delete your firm's data within 30 days and confirm when it is done, except for records we must keep by law, such as billing records. Copies inside our routine backups expire on their own within 90 days.

If your subscription lapses. We delete your firm's data three months after the end of the period you last paid for, having emailed you 30 days beforehand. Renewing before that date keeps everything, and we delete nothing while a payment of yours is waiting to be approved.

Nothing in section 8 below limits the duties this section places on us under the Data Protection Act 2017.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Alinea to generate fraudulent or deliberately misleading documents, to attempt to circumvent billing or seat limits, or to interfere with the operation of the service (including attempting to bypass rate limits or access other firms' data).

Court listing information. The cause lists Alinea holds name people who are not our users and did not choose to be there. You agree to use this information only for the conduct of your practice: checking your own matters, conflicts, and cases you are instructed or considering being instructed in. You agree not to extract the lists in bulk, to build a separate record of them, or to use them to contact anyone named. Criminal listings, which name people facing charges, are restricted in the service itself: you will see them for cases you are acting in, or when you search for a specific name or reference, and you agree not to attempt to work around that restriction.

7. Availability and changes

We aim to keep Alinea available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access, and the service may occasionally be unavailable for maintenance or due to circumstances outside our control. We may update or change features of the service over time.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Alinea and House of Kokila are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the service, including but not limited to errors in generated documents, missed deadlines, or consequences of relying on a document without independent review. Your use of Alinea's output remains your professional responsibility at all times.

Acts. The copies of Acts that Alinea holds are provided for convenience. Each shows the date of the latest amendment it includes, and the law may have changed since. We do our utmost to keep them up to date, but we are not liable for any reliance on an outdated or incomplete copy: the official text prevails. Copyright in these texts belongs to the Government of Mauritius.

9. Termination

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, engage in fraudulent use, or fail to pay for the service after reasonable notice.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Mauritius, and any disputes will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Mauritius.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to contact@alinea.mu.