Terms of Service
The baseline agreement between you and Bloc Claims LLC for using Breached, including informational-use limits, no legal advice, no attorney-client relationship, acceptable behavior, disclaimers, indemnification, Texas governing law, and a mandatory individual arbitration agreement with a class-action waiver venued in Harris County, Texas.
What Breached does
These Terms form a binding legal agreement between you and Bloc Claims LLC, a Texas limited liability company headquartered in Harris County, Texas, doing business as 'Breached' (referred to in these Terms as 'Bloc Claims,' 'Breached,' 'we,' 'our,' or 'us'). Breached publishes summaries of reported data breaches and may offer an intake workflow that lets affected people ask to be contacted about potential class-action evaluation. Breached is an information and intake service, not a law firm. Some intake pages have no attorney or law firm currently investigating through Breached; in that state, your submission is an interest and notification request. If an attorney or law firm is currently listed for a case, the intake page and policy review identify that case team before you submit. By accessing the site, submitting an intake form, or otherwise using any Breached service, you accept these Terms in full and agree that they are enforceable against you to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
No legal advice
The site is for general information only. Breached does not provide legal advice, does not evaluate your specific rights, and does not tell you whether you should bring or join a claim. You should speak with licensed counsel before relying on any information from the site.
Agreement to linked policies
These Terms incorporate the Privacy Policy, State Privacy Rights Notice, Consumer Health Data Notice, Data Processing Policy, Intake Consent Terms, Communications Policy, Attorney Advertising Disclaimer, and any other policy presented to you before submission. If you submit an intake form, you agree to the then-current intake policy bundle shown in that flow.
No attorney-client relationship
Using the site, reading a breach page, or submitting an intake form does not create an attorney-client relationship. An attorney-client relationship forms only if a licensed attorney or law firm agrees to represent you in a written engagement agreement.
Breach information
- Breach pages are based on public reports, company notices, regulator postings, court records, security research, and other cited sources.
- Breached may summarize, classify, or explain those sources in plain English.
- Breached does not guarantee that a source is complete, current, or error-free.
- If a source changes or a correction is needed, use the corrections process in the Source and Corrections Policy.
Class-action intake limits
- Submitting an intake form expresses interest in follow-up. It does not mean you are eligible for compensation.
- If no attorney or law firm using Breached is currently investigating the matter, your submission asks Breached to notify you if that changes.
- If an attorney or law firm is listed on the intake page, that case team may receive your submission for evaluation when you consent.
- Breached does not promise that a case will be filed, certified as a class action, settled, or won.
- Any case evaluation is performed by licensed counsel, not by Breached.
- A court, settlement administrator, or retained counsel may later determine eligibility.
Your responsibilities
- Provide accurate information if you submit a form.
- Do not submit another person's personal information unless you are authorized to do so.
- Do not use Breached to harass breach victims, companies, attorneys, or other users.
- Do not attempt to bypass rate limits, scrape at abusive volume, probe systems, or upload malicious content.
Intellectual property
Breached owns or licenses the site design, summaries, source organization, and original content. You may link to public pages and quote short portions with attribution, but you may not copy the service wholesale or imply sponsorship by Breached.
Disclaimers and liability limits
Breached is provided as-is and as available. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Breached disclaims warranties and limits liability for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limits, so those limits apply only where permitted.
Indemnification
You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Bloc Claims LLC, its officers, directors, members, managers, employees, agents, contractors, partner law firms, vendors, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or related in any way to your access to or use of the service, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any law, regulation, or third-party right, or your submission of inaccurate, unauthorized, or misleading information. Bloc Claims may, at its sole election and at your expense, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you owe indemnification, and you will cooperate fully in connection with that defense. You will not settle any matter without Bloc Claims' prior written consent.
Governing law and venue
These Terms and any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating in any way to these Terms, the service, the data on the service, your use of the service, or your relationship with Bloc Claims (each a 'Dispute') are governed exclusively by the substantive laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles and without application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Subject to the binding arbitration provision below, you and Bloc Claims irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Harris County, Texas, and you absolutely waive any objection based on inconvenient forum, lack of personal jurisdiction, or improper venue.
Mandatory binding arbitration
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES YOU TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH BLOC CLAIMS THROUGH FINAL AND BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION INSTEAD OF IN COURT, AND IT LIMITS THE WAYS YOU MAY SEEK RELIEF FROM US.
- You and Bloc Claims agree that any and all Disputes will be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration, and not in court, regardless of legal theory and regardless of whether the Dispute arises in contract, tort, statute, regulation, common law, fraud, misrepresentation, equity, or any other doctrine, and regardless of the relief sought.
- The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ('AAA') under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect, modified as necessary by these Terms. The seat and exclusive venue of the arbitration is Harris County, Texas, and any in-person hearing will take place in Harris County, Texas, unless the arbitrator orders a recorded telephonic or video hearing.
- The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., governs the interpretation, validity, and enforcement of this arbitration agreement. The arbitrator, and not any court or agency, has exclusive authority to resolve any threshold issues of arbitrability, including all questions concerning the formation, scope, validity, enforceability, conscionability, severability, and interpretation of this arbitration agreement, and any claim that all or part of this arbitration agreement is void or voidable.
- You and Bloc Claims each knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally waive any right to a trial by jury and any right to have a Dispute decided by a judge. Each party will bear its own attorneys' fees and costs except where shifting is required by the AAA rules or non-waivable applicable statute.
- The arbitrator's award is final, binding, and enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction. Information about an arbitration, including the existence of any award and the contents of any submission, is confidential between the parties and may not be disclosed except as necessary to enforce the award or as required by law.
- This arbitration agreement survives termination of these Terms, deletion of your account, and the end of your use of the service.
Class action and representative action waiver
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AND BLOC CLAIMS EACH KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY, AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, COORDINATED, MASS, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE-ATTORNEY-GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER PARTY, WHETHER IN COURT, IN ARBITRATION, OR IN ANY OTHER FORUM.
- You may bring a Dispute against Bloc Claims only in your individual capacity, and only for relief sought on your own behalf. You may not act, and will not act, as a class representative, class member, named plaintiff, lead plaintiff, putative class member, or private attorney general in any proceeding against Bloc Claims.
- The arbitrator has no authority to consolidate or join the claims of more than one person, to preside over any form of class, collective, mass, multi-claimant, or representative proceeding, or to award class-wide, collective, multi-claimant, or representative relief. The arbitrator may award individual relief only to you, and only to the extent necessary to remedy your own individual claim.
- This waiver applies regardless of the legal theory advanced and regardless of the relief sought, including damages, restitution, statutory penalties, declaratory relief, and injunctive relief, except that public injunctive relief may be sought only to the limited extent (if any) it cannot lawfully be waived.
- If, despite this provision, a court or arbitrator finds the class, collective, mass, or representative-action waiver in this section unenforceable or invalid as to a particular Dispute, then the entire arbitration provision is null and void as to that Dispute only, and that Dispute must be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Harris County, Texas, on an individual basis only — never on a class, collective, mass, or representative basis. The class action and representative action waiver in this section is non-severable from the arbitration agreement above for that purpose.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect, and the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its original intent. The class action and representative action waiver above is expressly non-severable from the arbitration agreement to the extent and for the purpose set forth in that section.
Changes
Breached may update these terms when the service, legal requirements, or partner workflows change. The effective version is the version posted in this policy center at the time you use the service or submit an intake form.