Disclaimer

1. No legal advice

Everything published on notraced.com — articles, tool outputs, downloaded documents, and any response to a contact-form submission — is provided for general educational and informational purposes only. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for legal advice. Nobody writing for or operating notraced is acting as your lawyer. Reading this site does not make you a client of the site or its operators. Submitting a message through the contact page does not make you a client of the site or its operators. Using the interactive tools does not make you a client of the site or its operators.

Data protection law, the EU AI Act, US state privacy law, and the terms of the AI providers and cloud hosts discussed on this site change frequently and are interpreted differently in different places. Anything you read here may have been superseded by a new regulation, a new enforcement decision, or a contract amendment published after the article's Last reviewed date. Always verify against the current regulatory text and against up-to-date primary sources before acting.

2. No attorney-client or professional relationship

No attorney-client, solicitor-client, advocate-client, or similar relationship is formed by any of the following: visiting this site, reading an article, running an interactive tool, downloading a document generated by a tool, submitting a message through the contact page, or using the search function. A professional relationship requires an explicit written engagement, and we do not offer one.

Communications you send through the contact page are not privileged and are not confidential. Do not submit sensitive information about a live legal matter or a pending investigation.

3. The interactive tools are self-help, not legal services

notraced operates three free, browser-based tools: AI Data Flow Checker, AI Act Obligation Scanner, and Privacy Policy Generator. Each tool asks you questions and shows you a result based on simple, documented decision logic. The decision logic is visible in the site's public source code and is not a substitute for professional judgment in your specific situation.

Specifically:

• The tools do not practise law. They are not licensed to practise law in any jurisdiction. They do not apply any regulation, case, or decision to your facts. They do not review your situation for legal sufficiency, draw legal conclusions, or recommend legal strategies. They run static decision trees written in JavaScript.
• The tools do not review anything for legal sufficiency. If the Privacy Policy Generator produces a block of text, that text is a drafting aid only. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer for your specific business, your actual data flows, your actual processors, your industry-specific obligations, or the jurisdictions you operate in.
• The tools cannot cover edge cases. Real compliance situations have facts that eight or ten wizard questions cannot capture. A wizard answer that looks clean may conceal a material edge case that only a qualified practitioner will spot.
• Classifications are starting points, not conclusions.If the AI Act Obligation Scanner classifies a system as “high risk” or “unacceptable risk”, that classification is a prompt to consult a qualified AI law practitioner, not a verdict. If it classifies a system as “minimal risk”, that is also a prompt, not a verdict; the actual classification under Annex III of the EU AI Act depends on facts the wizard does not ask about.
• Generated documents are drafts, not policies. Anything the Privacy Policy Generator emits — a clause, a full policy, a block of Markdown — is a draft for a qualified person to review. You should have a lawyer or a qualified Data Protection Officer review any document you intend to publish. You are solely responsible for what you publish.

4. You are responsible for what you do with the output

You decide whether to rely on anything you read here or anything a tool produces. You are responsible for verifying the content against the current regulation, the current enforcement guidance from the relevant supervisory authority, the current terms of the AI providers and cloud hosts you use, and your own facts. You are responsible for deciding whether to publish, sign, file, or rely on any document a tool helps you produce. We accept no responsibility for any decision you take in reliance on this site, whether or not that reliance was reasonable.

5. Accuracy and currency

We date every article (Published and Last reviewed) and every legal page (Effective and Last reviewed) so you can see how recent the content is. We work from primary sources where possible. Despite that, we make no warranty, express or implied, that any of the content is accurate, complete, up-to-date, fit for a particular purpose, or applicable to your specific jurisdiction, your specific facts, or your specific use case.

If you spot an error — a misquoted regulation, a stale deadline, an outdated AI provider term, a mistranscribed enforcement decision — please tell us via the contact page (Editorial category) and we will fix it.

6. External links

Articles link to regulatory texts, court decisions, news coverage, and vendor policies hosted by third parties. We do not control third-party sites and are not responsible for their content, their privacy practices, or their availability. A link is not an endorsement.

7. Jurisdictional variation

Data protection and AI regulation vary materially between jurisdictions. A rule that holds in France may not hold in Germany. A rule that holds under GDPR may not hold under the UK GDPR after Brexit. A rule that holds in California may not hold in Texas. A rule that is settled in the European Union may be entirely absent in the United States. Unless an article is explicitly scoped to a jurisdiction, treat its conclusions as EU/EEA-focused with illustrative US references, and verify against your own jurisdiction's primary sources before acting.

8. No warranty

The site and the tools are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, non-infringement, or quiet enjoyment. This paragraph, and the parallel clause in the Terms of Service, are the maximum disclaimer permitted by the applicable law; where local law prohibits a particular exclusion, the exclusion is read down to the maximum the law allows and the rest of the disclaimer continues to apply.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by the applicable law, notraced and its operators, authors, and contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, any loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of data, loss of business, loss of goodwill, regulatory fines, or cost of substitute services, arising out of or in connection with your use of the site or the interactive tools, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. The full limitation of liability, the related indemnity, and the mandatory carve-outs (including for death, personal injury, and liability that cannot be limited by law) appear in the Terms of Service.

10. How to read an article

We use a simple rule of thumb for the articles: read them as notes from a knowledgeable colleague on a particular date, not as a substitute for your lawyer or your data protection officer. Every article is dated. Every regulatory claim is linked to primary sources where possible. Every tool output is designed to surface the question, not to answer it. If you need an answer you can rely on for a specific matter, engage a qualified professional.

11. Contact

If anything on this page is unclear, reach out via the contact page (Legal category). This page operates together with the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service; in the event of a conflict between them, the Terms of Service govern the contractual relationship between you and us.