Terms of Use

1. Who these terms are with, and how you accept them

Lemon Law Atlas (lemonlawatlas.com) is an independent reference site about state lemon laws and related vehicle warranty law, operated from Colorado, United States ("we", "us", "our"). "You" means anyone using the site. These Terms of Use govern that use, alongside our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into them and is the authority on how we handle data. You can reach us at corrections@lemonlawatlas.com or by post at Lemon Law Atlas, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118.

Today, you accept these terms by reading the site. Access to and use of these pages is subject to these terms as posted, to the fullest extent the law allows. The site currently has no forms and no accounts; there is nothing to submit. If we ever add a form, it will carry a notice at its submit control saying that submitting means you agree to these terms and the Privacy Policy, and we will record the version of these terms in effect at that moment with the submission.

The version in effect is the one dated at the top of this page (2026-08-17). We may update these terms; the effective date changes when we do, and changes apply going forward, never retroactively. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the site.

2. Who this site is for

This site is offered to people who are at least 18 years old. Its subject matter is consumer contract and warranty law: vehicle purchases, warranty disputes, and administrative and court proceedings, which are adult concerns.

The site is directed to a United States audience. Lemon law is state law; a page about one state's rules tells you nothing reliable about another state, and nothing at all about other countries. If you use the site from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for your own local law.

3. What this site is, and is not

This site is reference information. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship. We are a publisher, not a law firm. Reading these pages, emailing us, or following a link from this site makes no one your lawyer.

We are not a lawyer referral service, and we never select an attorney for you. The attorney directory lists firms; it does not rank them, match them to your situation, or evaluate your case, and no listing or advertisement here is a recommendation. Section 11 covers the directory in detail.

We never determine eligibility. Nothing on this site is a determination that any vehicle or claim qualifies under any lemon law or warranty statute. Whether yours does depends on facts and dates a reference page cannot know.

About attorney fees, because the industry's advertising is sloppy here: some lemon law and warranty statutes allow a successful consumer to recover reasonable attorney fees, and many firms offer representation with no upfront fee. Whether fees are recovered in your case depends on the statute, the forum, the outcome, and your engagement agreement with the firm. Nothing on this site means representation is free, and in the Texas administrative process you are permitted to represent yourself.

The full disclaimer forms part of these terms.

4. No warranty

The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

We check legal claims against primary sources, date them, and put them through the review process described in our editorial policy, and we still do not warrant that the site is accurate, complete, or current. Statutes are amended and relocated, agencies change forms and fees, and courts reinterpret rules. A last-verified date tells you when a fact was checked, not that it is correct today. A cell reading "Research pending" tells you we do not yet print an answer for it. Always confirm against the linked primary source before acting, especially for deadlines.

5. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, property, business or data, or for any missed filing deadline or lapsed claim, arising out of or relating to your use of, or inability to use, this site, whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the site will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100). This site is published free of charge, and that cap is a reasonable allocation of risk on both sides.

What this section does not do. It does not limit liability for fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, and it does not waive any right you have under consumer-protection law that cannot be waived by agreement. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted.

6. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any third-party claim, damage, liability, cost or reasonable attorney's fee arising out of or relating to:

• presenting this site's content as legal advice, or as your own professional opinion, to someone who then relies on you;
• republishing our content in a way that strips the dates, citations, or review status that make it honest;
• your breach of these terms, including the prohibitions in section 10;
• your use of the site to plan or further an unlawful act; or
• your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights.

This does not apply to any claim to the extent it is finally determined to have resulted from our own gross negligence or willful misconduct, and nothing in it requires you to indemnify us for anything that cannot be indemnified under the law of the state where you live. We may take over the defense of any matter covered by this section at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate if we do.

7. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for verifying anything that matters against the primary source, for meeting your own deadlines, and for obtaining professional advice before acting. Lemon law claims run on several short clocks at once: administrative deadlines, warranty periods, and statutes of limitation, each with its own trigger. Do not calculate your last filing day from this site. Confirm your dates with the agency that runs your state's program or with a licensed attorney.

8. Intellectual property: ours, and what is not ours

What we own. The original writing, page structure, editorial selection and arrangement, design, logomark and site code are ours, © 2026 Lemon Law Atlas, and are protected by copyright.

What we do not own, and do not claim. Statutes, session laws, regulations, court and agency decisions, official forms, and other government works are not ours. We quote them, cite them, reorganize them and link to them; we assert no copyright over any of that material, and nothing in these terms restricts your use of it. Where you want the law itself, go to the source we link. That is what the links are for.

9. What you may do with this site

You may read it, print it, save it, and share links to it. You may quote from it with attribution and a link to the page quoted. You may use it in your own research or in advising a client.

Crawlers, search engines and AI systems are welcome. This site's robots.txt permits automated access, and we mean it. Search engines, research tools and AI systems may crawl, index, quote and summarize these pages. We ask two things in return, as courtesies rather than conditions: cite the page URL so readers can verify the source, and carry the last-verified date. Legal content without a date is how people end up relying on a relocated statute or a lapsed deadline. If you quote a statute from here, quote it from the primary source we link.

What we ask you not to do is republish the site's original prose wholesale as a substitute for it. Quoting, excerpting, summarizing, indexing and linking are all fine.

10. Things you must not do

• Present this site's content as legal advice, or as your own professional opinion, to someone relying on you.
• Tell anyone that this site evaluated their claim, matched them with an attorney, or determined that their vehicle qualifies. It does none of those things.
• Misrepresent the site, or suggest that we endorse you, your firm, your products or your position.
• Suggest affiliation with any government body. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or publishing on behalf of any state DMV, attorney general, bar association, legislature, or court.
• Use the site to plan or further any unlawful act.
• Interfere with the site's operation, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or conduct security testing against it without our written permission.
• Use the site in violation of any applicable law, including rules of professional conduct that apply to you.

11. The attorney directory and sponsored placements

How listings work. The directory lists law firms that handle lemon law and vehicle warranty matters, compiled from public records and from information firms provide about themselves. A listing states the date we checked that lawyer's license status with the state bar; it does not state that anyone is competent, available, or right for your case. License status is not an endorsement, practice descriptions are self-reported by firms and labeled as such, and listings are ordered by a neutral rule (alphabetically), never by payment.

Sponsored placements are advertising. Some firms pay for placement. Paid placements are labeled "Advertisement" in words, visually separated from the roster, never sorted into it, and never presented as a match for your situation. What a firm can buy is a fixed-price advertising placement and nothing else: we do not share in any fee a firm earns, and no payment we receive is ever tied to a reader or a case. Our advertising policy is the complete statement of what is and is not for sale.

Corrections and removal. A firm can correct its listing or ask to be removed by emailing corrections@lemonlawatlas.com; our corrections policy states the timelines. Choosing a lawyer is your decision; nothing here substitutes for checking a firm's record yourself and talking with them directly.

12. Links to other sites

We link extensively to statutes, agencies, courts, and firms' own websites so you can verify what we say. We do not control those sites, are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability, and a link is not an endorsement. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

13. Dispute resolution: binding individual arbitration and class-action waiver

Read this section. It changes how disputes between us get resolved: most go to binding arbitration on an individual basis instead of court, there is no class action, and you can opt out with no penalty.

(a) Talk to us first. Before either of us starts an arbitration or a lawsuit, the one with the complaint sends the other a written notice describing the dispute and what they want. To us: corrections@lemonlawatlas.com, or by post to Lemon Law Atlas, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118. To you: any address you have given us. For 60 days after that notice we both try, in good faith, to settle it informally. To the extent the law allows, that period pauses any limitation period. If we do not respond within 30 days, this step is satisfied and you may proceed.

(b) Agreement to arbitrate. If informal resolution fails, you and we each agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms or the site, including whether a dispute is subject to this agreement at all, will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis rather than in court, except as subsections (c), (d) and (e) provide. This is mutual: it binds us exactly as it binds you. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (including its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules where they apply) in effect when the arbitration is filed. If the AAA is unavailable or declines, we will agree on another consumer arbitration administrator; if we cannot agree, either of us may ask a court to appoint an arbitrator under 9 U.S.C. § 5. One arbitrator, in English, and at your choice by videoconference, on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live. Fees are governed by the administrator's consumer rules and fee schedule. The arbitrator may award any individual relief a court could, and the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

(c) Small claims. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, for you the small claims court where you live, as long as it stays there and stays individual.

(d) Injunctions. Either of us may go to court for injunctive or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened misuse of intellectual property without arbitrating first.

(e) Class-action waiver. You and we each give up the right to take part in a class action, class arbitration, consolidated action or representative proceeding. An arbitrator may award relief only to the individual seeking it, and only as far as needed to resolve that person's own claim. Despite subsection (b), whether this waiver is enforceable is for a court to decide, not an arbitrator. If a court finds it unenforceable for a particular claim, then this whole arbitration agreement does not apply to that claim, which goes to court under section 14 instead; this sentence is not severable from the rest of this subsection.

(f) Jury trial. There is no jury in arbitration. If this arbitration agreement does not apply to a claim, because you opted out, because the class-action waiver was found unenforceable, or for any other reason, then no jury-trial waiver applies to it either, and you keep whatever right to a jury the law gives you.

(g) Coordinated filings. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by claimants using the same or coordinated counsel, they will be administered under the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules (or the administrator's equivalent), including any batching those rules provide. That does not limit any individual claimant's right to arbitrate their own claim or the relief available to them.

(h) Your opt-out. You may reject this arbitration agreement, subsections (b) through (g), entirely, with no penalty and no effect on anything else in these terms. Email corrections@lemonlawatlas.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and your name. Because this site currently records no form submissions, we hold no record of your acceptance date, so you may opt out at any time before a dispute arises. If the site later adds forms that record acceptance, the opt-out window for people who submit them will be 30 days from first submission, and this section will say so. If you opt out, disputes go to court under section 14.

(i) Severability and survival. Except as subsection (e) says, if part of this section is unenforceable the rest still stands. This section survives any termination of these terms.

14. Governing law and venue

These terms and any dispute arising out of them or the site are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs section 13, and except that nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection law of your own state that cannot be waived by agreement.

For any claim not subject to arbitration and not brought in small claims court, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Colorado, unless the law of your state of residence guarantees you a different forum for consumer claims.

15. Termination and suspension

You may stop using the site at any time. We may, with or without notice, block or limit access to the site, refuse or ignore correspondence, remove or decline any listing or advertisement, and decline future service, if we reasonably believe you have broken these terms or the law, or to protect the site, its data, other people or ourselves.

Sections that by their nature should outlast the end of your use of the site do: sections 3 through 10, 13, 14, 16 and 19.

16. Copyright complaints

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, email corrections@lemonlawatlas.com identifying the work, the page complained of, your contact details, and a statement of your good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized. We respond to properly made complaints promptly and will remove genuinely infringing material.

17. Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us; bluntly is fine. Corrections are made on the page, the last-verified date is updated when they are, and corrections that could change a published answer suspend that answer while we re-verify it. The corrections policy states the timelines. Reporting errors is the whole premise of a reference site, and it only works if people do it.

18. Changes to the site, and to these terms

We may change, add, remove or discontinue any part of the site at any time, including taking it down entirely. It is published free and we make no commitment to keep any page available. If you rely on something here, keep your own copy of the primary source.

We may also revise these terms. When we do we post the revised version here, change the effective date, and keep prior versions available on request. Changes apply going forward only. No change to section 13 applies to a dispute that arose before the change.

19. Severability and entire agreement

Except as section 13(e) says, if any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, that provision is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the disclaimer, are the entire agreement between us about your use of this site.

These terms are ours to draft and ours to stand behind. They were not written by an attorney, and on a site about knowing exactly who reviewed what, we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

20. Contact

Email corrections@lemonlawatlas.com, or write to Lemon Law Atlas, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118. See also the editorial policy and the methodology.