Forced Arbitration — a service of Madgett Law, LLC, a Minnesota law firm. It is not a government agency, is not affiliated with the Minnesota Attorney General or any other government office, and is not a legal aid or public interest legal services organization.

As captured on ; terms may have changed since.

Sector
Education, health, and senior services
Source
https://www.earnest.com/terms-of-service
Captured from
the company’s own page, fetched live
Captured (UTC)
SHA-256 of the bytes as served
6ccb32188addc91450ad4af4199e282a20449074ddefa311c934239b85e4aa4e

Reviewed fields

For each field: the reviewer's category, then the words of the captured document. Where the category is silent, no provision on that field was extracted from the captured text, and nothing is quoted. Every category, with its count, is listed on the data page.

Delegation clause (who decides whether the clause is enforceable)

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Consumer’s share of arbitration fees

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Company’s fee promise

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Fee or cost shifting against the consumer

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Pre-filing requirement

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Mass-arbitration terms

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Small-claims carve-out

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Opt-out

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Unilateral modification

Reviewed category: continued-use-is-acceptance

Earnest reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy, at any time. ... You agree to check these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes.

Scope

Reviewed category: broad-reaches-affiliates-and-third-parties

Any dispute or claim relating in any way to the Site, its content or these Terms of Service (a “Claim”) will be submitted to and resolved on an individual basis by binding arbitration ... These terms include any party named as a co-defendant with Earnest in a Claim asserted by you.

Confidentiality of the arbitration

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Shortened limitations period

Reviewed category: shortened-to-1-year

You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to your use of the Site or its content must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

Severability if the class waiver is struck

Reviewed category: narrow-severance

If any provision of these Terms of Service or their application in a particular circumstance is held to be invalid or unenforceable to any extent, the remainder of these Terms of Service, or the application of such provision in other circumstances, shall not be affected thereby, and each provision hereof shall be valid and enforced to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Counsel or representation restrictions

Reviewed category: silent

No provision on this field was extracted from the captured text.

Mass-arbitration numeric trigger

Reviewed category: no-mass-filing-terms

The reviewed data records this category without a quotation.

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