, home page Get the app

Trust

How Lawki handles your data: what it keeps, who can read it, how its AI is kept in check, and where its court records come from.

Draft, not yet reviewed by a lawyer

This page is a working draft and will change before Lawki’s public release.

What Lawki keeps, and who can read it

You can search and read case pages in the app without an account. If you create one, Lawki keeps:

  • your email address, and your Apple account ID if you use Sign in with Apple (see the privacy policy);
  • the cases you save and the private notes you write;
  • the cases you follow, the alerts about them, and your device’s notification token, so we can send alerts;
  • your AI permission choices.

This data is private to your account. Our database enforces this with row-level security: each account can read and change only its own rows, and automated tests check that one account cannot read another’s. Anyone who is not signed in cannot reach it. Lawki’s own server can, for example to send your alerts or to delete an account, and so can the Lawki team that runs the database.

  • Your notes are never sent to our AI provider.
  • Lawki’s own logs never contain your search words, notes, email address or IP address. Our server provider’s request logs can, for a limited time; the privacy policy explains them. Cached searches: [CONFIRM: whether cached search results are stored with the search words].
  • Our sign-in service records each sign-in with your IP address; the privacy policy says how long.
  • Lawki does not store your age or birth date.
  • This website sets no cookies, has no analytics and loads nothing from other companies.

The privacy policy lists everything Lawki collects, who receives it and how long it is kept.

What Lawki never does

Lawki is built around court cases. It does not search for people or build profiles of them. It is not a background check.

  • Lawki does not sell your information or use it for advertising.
  • Lawki does not train AI models on your data.

Lawki is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. It does not predict how a case will end or work out deadlines for you. For help with your situation, talk to a licensed lawyer.

Limits on Lawki’s AI

Lawki is testing two optional AI features: smart search and a short summary of a case. They need an account, and the app asks for your permission before anything is sent to Anthropic, our AI provider. What Anthropic does with the data it receives: [CONFIRM: how Anthropic handles and keeps data sent through its API, from Lawki’s agreement with Anthropic].

  • Every AI request goes through Lawki’s server. The app never talks to the AI provider directly, and the server checks your permission before it sends anything.
  • Smart search sends the words you type. A case summary is made only from that case’s public records, never from your notes or saved cases.
  • A spending limit. All AI use together has a daily spending limit, enforced by our server. When it is reached, AI features pause until there is room again. Each account also has a daily limit on AI requests.
  • An off switch. Each AI feature has its own switch on our server. We can turn a feature off at any time, without an app update, and the app then hides it.
  • We keep a record of AI requests to enforce our spending limits. [CONFIRM: what the AI request record (ai_events) contains and how long it is kept]. If you report a summary, your report is kept with your account, the case and your comment, so a person can review it.
  • AI output is labeled as AI, and summaries quote the documents they are based on. AI can make mistakes, so check the quoted documents. Lawki’s checks are built to give no summary to sealed and juvenile cases, cases with anonymous parties and criminal cases against individuals. Summaries are made only for civil cases in federal district courts between organizations or governments. This website never shows AI summaries.

Keyword search and case pages do not use AI, so they keep working when an AI feature is paused or off.

Sources and coverage

Lawki’s court records come from CourtListener (another website), a project of Free Law Project (another website), and every case page in the app names it. Lawki is an independent app and is not run by Free Law Project or any court. Searches and case pages reach CourtListener only through Lawki’s server, which keeps copies for a short time to stay within CourtListener’s request limits. When you open a free document, your phone downloads it directly from CourtListener. When CourtListener answers that a case was removed, Lawki deletes its cached copies and clears the case’s name and entry text from saved cases and alerts.

Lawki searches federal court dockets, opinions from federal and state appeals courts, and US Supreme Court cases, as far as CourtListener has them. Other courts may be missing. Many federal trial court documents reach CourtListener through RECAP, Free Law Project’s tool that shares documents people have bought on PACER, so a docket can list a filing without its document, or miss recent filings. The data sources page has the details.

Alerts: Lawki is not a docketing system

Lawki helps you find, read and follow public court records. It is not a docketing system, and its alerts are no substitute for the court’s own notices. CourtListener does not receive every filing, new filings can take time to reach it, and Lawki checks followed cases only so often, so a case page or an alert can be late, incomplete or missing. Notifications can also be delayed or dropped on the way to your phone; the Alerts list in the app keeps the alerts Lawki recorded.

If you are a party to a case or need its exact record, check with the court: its own notices and records, such as the court’s website or PACER.

An alert on your lock screen says only that a case you follow has new activity. It never names the case or anyone in it.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app, in Settings. This deletes the account and everything it owns: your saved cases, notes, follows, alerts, devices, AI permission records and any AI reports you sent. If you use Sign in with Apple, the app asks Apple to confirm once more so Lawki can also end its Sign in with Apple access; if you skip that step, the account is still deleted, and you can remove Lawki in your Apple account settings. Copies in our backups are removed after [CONFIRM: backup retention period]. Sign-in records and our server provider’s request logs are not part of your account; they are kept for the periods in the privacy policy.

If you signed up for the beta on this website, you can ask us to delete your signup by emailing [CONFIRM: support email address].

Security

Connections to Lawki are encrypted (HTTPS), and service keys stay on our servers, never in the app or on this website. Lawki is run by a small team. It does not have a SOC 2 report or any other independent security audit. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise that information will never be exposed.

Contact

Questions about your data, or a security problem to report: email [CONFIRM: support email address]. The support page answers common questions.