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Deontological compliance.

CalcuLegal is an informative service designed in compliance with the Forensic Professional Law, the Forensic Deontological Code, and the European General Data Protection Regulation. This document describes how and why the service complies with each of these constraints.

Law 247/2012 Forensic Deontological Code GDPR — EU Reg. 2016/679 Updated: March 2026
Document summary
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Nature of the service
Premise

CalcuLegal is an automated informative service that provides preliminary and orientative estimates of the main items of personal injury, based on official tabular parameters and proprietary calculation algorithms.

CalcuLegal is not a law firm, a lawyer, a legal consultant, an expert, or a professional intermediary. It does not perform defensive activities, does not provide legal advice, does not draft judicial or extrajudicial documents, and does not establish any professional relationship with the user merely through the use of the service.

Operational definition CalcuLegal is a tool for orientation and awareness: it provides the user with a preliminary quantitative estimate that helps them understand whether and to what extent they might have an actionable claim, before deciding if and to whom they should turn for a professional evaluation.
Compliance confirmed — The informative nature of the service, explicitly stated at every touchpoint with the user, places it outside the scope of Law 247/2012 and the Forensic Deontological Code as recipients of professional obligations.
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Law December 31, 2012, no. 247
Forensic Professional Law

Law 247/2012 regulates the legal profession and reserves the exercise of legal professional activity to lawyers registered with the Bar, understood as "the activity, even carried out in corporate form, consisting of legal advice, assistance, and representation of clients" (Art. 2).

The law does not prohibit the dissemination of general legal information, nor the production of automated parametric estimates based on public tabular data, provided such activities do not constitute personalized advice directed at a specific subject regarding a concrete case.

Art. 2, paragraph 6 — Law 247/2012 "The provisions of this article do not apply to activities and functions exercised pursuant to law by subjects registered in rolls or lists maintained by professional orders, colleges, or associations other than those of lawyers, nor to professional activities regulated by special laws."

CalcuLegal respects the limits of the law through the following structural measures:

The estimates produced are explicitly qualified as orientative and preliminary, not as legal advice.
The service does not assess the legal merits of the user's specific case, but applies tabular parameters to data provided by the user themselves.
The service does not recommend courses of action nor does it steer the user towards specific judicial or extrajudicial strategies.
At every point in the flow, the user is informed of the need to consult a lawyer registered with the Bar for any binding evaluation.
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Forensic Deontological Code
CNF — 2014 updated 2023

The Forensic Deontological Code (CDF) regulates the duties of lawyers registered with the Bar. It does not apply directly to CalcuLegal as an entity not registered with the Bar. However, the service has chosen to comply voluntarily with the relevant deontological principles, as an expression of best practices in the digital legal services sector.

Reference principle — Art. 35 CDF (Informative advertising) The lawyer may use communication techniques provided they are truthful, not misleading, and not disparagingly comparative. CalcuLegal applies the same standard to all its communications, even if not required by law.

With reference to the professionals who join the CalcuLegal network, the service commits to operating in such a way that their participation does not constitute a violation of any deontological rule, in particular:

The partner lawyer does not appear as an entity promoting themselves through CalcuLegal, but as a professional available upon the explicit request of the user.
CalcuLegal does not receive compensation linked to the outcome of the cases handled by partner lawyers — eliminating any risk of violating the prohibition of contingency fee agreements.
The lawyer's professional independence is structurally protected: CalcuLegal does not intervene in case management nor does it access communications following the first contact.
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Advertising and communication
Art. 35 CDF — Leg. Decree 206/2005

All CalcuLegal communication respects the following principles, borrowed from Art. 35 CDF and the Consumer Code (Leg. Decree 206/2005):

Truthfulness. No quantitative claim is exaggerated or unverifiable. Estimates are based on official and public tabular parameters.
Non-deceptiveness. The orientative and non-binding quality of the estimates is communicated at every point of the user flow, including the landing page hero, the footer of each estimate card, and the FAQ page.
Non-disparagement. CalcuLegal does not make comparative references to competitors nor does it disparage professional categories.
Transparency of the economic model. The service explicitly states how it generates revenue (contracts with partner firms) and what it does not do (does not receive percentages on the outcome of cases).
Note — CalcuLegal does not use the term "lawyer" or "legal advice" to describe its own service. These terms appear exclusively in reference to third-party professionals whom the user can choose to contact independently.
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Prohibition of illicit intermediation
Art. 37 CDF — Art. 2233 Civil Code

Art. 37 CDF prohibits the lawyer from paying or receiving compensation or benefits to/from subjects who procure clients. Art. 2233 of the Civil Code prohibits contingency fee agreements (compensation parameterized to the outcome of the case).

CalcuLegal is structured to be compatible with both prohibitions:

Element CalcuLegal Structure Compliance
Compensation for client procurement Partner firms pay a fixed contractual fee (beta subscription), not linked to the number of cases generated or their outcome. ✓ Compliant
Contingency fee agreement CalcuLegal does not participate in the lawyer's fee, does not receive percentages on the compensated amount, and has no access to the case files. ✓ Compliant
Influence on the choice of professional The user is always informed of the possibility to independently choose a lawyer through the CNF register. Contact with a partner firm occurs only upon explicit consent. ✓ Compliant
Access to case data After the first contact, CalcuLegal has no technical or legal access to any element of the case. The encrypted vault is accessible exclusively to the receiving lawyer. ✓ Compliant
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Lawyer-client professional relationship
Art. 24 Constitution — Art. 2230 Civil Code

The professional relationship between lawyer and client is governed by Art. 2230 of the Civil Code (intellectual work contract) and constitutionally protected by Art. 24 of the Constitution (right of defense). CalcuLegal respects the exclusive and fiduciary nature of this relationship through a clear structural separation.

Principle of separation CalcuLegal's role ends the moment the lawyer contacts the user for the first time. From that moment, every legal, professional, and communicative relationship is exclusively between the user and the professional. CalcuLegal does not participate, intervene, or have access to any element of the subsequent case.

This separation is guaranteed not only contractually but also technically: the data encryption architecture (AES-GCM 256 + RSA-OAEP 4096) ensures that CalcuLegal cannot access the contents transmitted to the lawyer even if it wanted to.

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GDPR Compliance
EU Reg. 2016/679 — Art. 25

CalcuLegal is designed according to the principle of Privacy by Design (Art. 25 GDPR), which requires the integration of data protection measures into the technical structure of the system right from the design phase, not as a later addition.

Data minimization (Art. 5.1.c). The simulation phase neither requires nor collects identifying data. The data entered into the calculators is not associated with an identity.
Purpose limitation (Art. 5.1.b). Contact data, collected only upon explicit consent, is used exclusively to transmit the file to the receiving lawyer and to monitor response times (SLA).
Integrity and confidentiality (Art. 5.1.f). AES-GCM 256 encryption for data at rest; RSA-OAEP 4096 for key segregation. Exclusive access to the recipient with MFA.
Privacy by Default (Art. 25.2). By default, the service processes the absolute minimum of personal data. The user must take an explicit action to provide identifying data.
Consent (Art. 7). The transmission of the file occurs only after free, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent, given at the end of the simulation via a double opt-in checkbox with integrated privacy notice.
Anti-data-breach structure — The encryption architecture structurally prevents significant data breaches: even in the event of a database compromise, the attacker obtains encrypted blobs that are useless without the receiving lawyer's private key. Not even the platform manager can access the data in plain text.
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Declared limits of the service
Transparency

CalcuLegal's deontological compliance is also based on the explicit declaration of its limits, communicated clearly and thoroughly at every point of the service.

CalcuLegal does not produce legal advice or documents with evidentiary or defensive value.
The estimates are not binding for any of the parties and cannot be produced in court as expert reports.
The reliability of the estimate depends on the completeness and truthfulness of the data entered by the user.
CalcuLegal does not assess the merits of the user's compensation claim nor the probability of success of a potential lawsuit.
CalcuLegal does not replace in any case the evaluation of a lawyer registered with the Bar.
Warning — For any binding evaluation, for initiating judicial or extrajudicial proceedings, and for any decision with significant legal consequences, it is always necessary to consult a lawyer registered with the Bar. Official search available on the website of the National Forensic Council.