Moonlit MCP Server: Terms of Service

Last updated 6 May 2026.

These Terms of Service (the "MCP Terms") govern use of the Moonlit MCP Server (the "MCP Service") by Subscribers and their Authorised Users. The MCP Service is one of two access modes within Moonlit Connect; the other is the Moonlit Data API, governed by separate terms.

These MCP Terms adapt the Moonlit Legal Technologies B.V. General Terms and Conditions (Data API Services) (the "General Terms") to the seat-based MCP Service. Article numbering tracks the General Terms 1:1. Where these MCP Terms are silent, the corresponding clause of the General Terms applies mutatis mutandis.

1. Definitions

1.1 "API Key" means the Azure API Management subscription key issued by Moonlit for authentication.

1.2 "Authorised User" means a natural person assigned a seat under the Subscriber's account. Where the Subscriber is a natural person, the Subscriber may be the sole Authorised User.

1.3 "MCP Client" means an MCP-spec-compliant client application (for example, Claude.ai or Claude Code) used to connect to the MCP Server.

1.4 "MCP Server" means the Moonlit MCP Server hosted at https://mcp.moonlit.ai/ and any successor location.

1.5 "MCP Tools" means the read-only Data Layer endpoints exposed by the MCP Server, as documented at docs.moonlit.ai/mcp. Moonlit may update this set from time to time.

1.6 "Moonlit Data Layer" or "Data Layer" means Moonlit's database of publicly available European legal and regulatory sources, together with the Enrichments.

1.7 "Moonlit" means Moonlit Legal Technologies B.V., Westeinde 14, 1017 ZP Amsterdam, KvK 93559291, VAT NL866449437B01.

1.8 "Subscriber" or "you" means the person who has entered into a subscription for the MCP Service.

Capitalised terms not defined here have the meanings given in the General Terms or the Privacy Policy.

2. Applicability

2.1 These MCP Terms apply to all offers, subscriptions, and legal relations between Moonlit and the Subscriber concerning the MCP Service. Subscriber's own general terms are rejected.

2.2 In the event of conflict between these MCP Terms and a signed order form, the order form prevails. Deviations otherwise apply only if agreed in writing by Moonlit.

2.3 The MCP Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement are incorporated by reference for the processing of personal data.

3. Access and Authentication

3.1 Access to the MCP Server is exclusively through the OAuth + API-Key flow documented at docs.moonlit.ai/mcp. No other access method is permitted.

3.2 The Subscriber shall keep API Keys confidential, prevent unauthorised use, and promptly notify security@moonlit.ai of any suspected compromise. Any use of the MCP Service through an API Key issued under the Subscriber's account is deemed use by the Subscriber.

3.3 Moonlit may update the MCP Service, including the set of MCP Tools, parameter schemas, and response formats, with reasonable advance notice for changes that materially affect integrations. Moonlit does not commit to backward compatibility.

3.4 The Subscriber shall use the MCP Service solely through the documented MCP Tools and shall not circumvent technical restrictions, access controls, or rate limits.

4. The Moonlit Data Layer

4.1 The Data Layer comprises legal documents from official European public sources, together with Enrichments generated by Moonlit (such as field-of-law and document-type classifications, the reference graph, source mappings, and the inForce status indicator). Enrichments are provided for informational purposes only.

4.2 MCP Tools that use semantic ranking (including hybrid_search_reranked) route queries through Moonlit's GenAI infrastructure. AI-derived outputs are subject to the limitations inherent in generative AI and may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or hallucinations.

4.3 The Data Layer is provided "as is" and "as available" for research and informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice (see Article 12).

5. Permitted Use

5.1 The Subscriber and its Authorised Users may use the MCP Service for interactive legal research, for grounding the responses of an AI assistant operated for personal or internal business use, and for integrating MCP Tool outputs into personal or internal professional workflows.

5.2 Operational caching by an MCP Client to serve a session is permitted. The Subscriber shall not deliberately persist, aggregate, or extract MCP Tool responses to build a local replica of the Data Layer or any substantial part of it, whether for internal redistribution, downstream products, or any purpose outside §5.1.

6. Subscription, Pricing, Trial, and Refunds

6.1 Pricing. The MCP Service is billed monthly in advance, exclusive of VAT. The applicable tier is determined by MCP Tool calls per Authorised User per calendar month:

• Standard tier, 0 to 500 calls: EUR 49 per Authorised User per month.
• Pro tier, 501 to 1,000 calls: EUR 79 per Authorised User per month.
• Above 1,000 calls: contact sales@moonlit.ai for an order form.

6.2 Trial. New Subscribers receive a seven (7) day Trial Period at no cost, without payment-card details. Each Authorised User may exercise the Trial Period only once. The Subscription does not auto-convert to paid unless the Subscriber actively provides payment details.

6.3 Payment. Fees are payable in euros within thirty (30) days of invoice date.

6.4 Indexation.Prices are subject to annual indexation in line with the CBS Services Price Index (Dienstenprijsindex, "DPI"). The base date is the Subscription effective date.

6.5 Refunds. Outside any statutory consumer right of withdrawal, prepaid fees are non-refundable. On termination within a paid month, access continues to month-end with no pro-rata refund.

7. Tier Limits and Rate Limits

7.1 Tool calls failing with a 4xx response (other than 429) do not count toward the tier.

7.2 When an Authorised User exceeds the applicable rate limit, the MCP Server returns HTTP 429. Moonlit is not liable for any interruption resulting from rate limiting.

7.3 Where an Authorised User exceeds 1,000 calls in a calendar month, Moonlit may notify the Subscriber, apply progressively stricter rate limits, and (after a reasonable opportunity to move to an order-form plan) suspend the Authorised User's access for the remainder of the month.

7.4 On late payment and after written notice, Moonlit may suspend access. Moonlit is not liable for damage resulting from suspension.

7.5 Moonlit may adjust pricing tiers and rate limits with at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice to active Subscribers.

8. Attribution

8.1 Where MCP Tool responses are surfaced to a human reader through an MCP Client, Moonlit shall, where technically feasible, be identified as the source of search results, metadata, and Enrichments. No attribution is required for the raw text of legal documents.

8.2 The Subscriber shall not modify the content of legal documents retrieved through the MCP Service in a way that misrepresents the original source.

9. Restrictions

The Subscriber shall not, and shall ensure that its Authorised Users do not:

• (a) sublicense, resell, or redistribute the Data Layer, in whole or in substantial part, to third parties;
• (b) use the MCP Service to systematically download, extract, or replicate substantial portions of the Data Layer, including through query patterns inconsistent with interactive use by a single Authorised User;
• (c) use MCP Tool outputs to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate, or otherwise improve any machine-learning model, except under a separate written agreement with Moonlit;
• (d) build or operate a legal research platform substantially similar to the Moonlit Platform on the basis of MCP Tool outputs;
• (e) engage in automated abuse, including scraping, denial-of-service patterns, or distribution of API Keys among more users than the seats subscribed;
• (f) circumvent or interfere with technical restrictions, access controls, rate limits, or authentication mechanisms;
• (g) access the MCP Service other than through the documented OAuth + API-Key flow and the documented MCP Tools; or
• (h) reverse-engineer or attempt to reconstruct the structure or schema of the Data Layer or the Enrichments, except as strictly necessary to integrate the documented MCP Tools.

A violation of this Article may result in immediate suspension of access. Unless immediate suspension is reasonably required, Moonlit will give reasonable notice. Moonlit is not liable for damage resulting from suspension.

10. Personal Data

10.1 The processing of personal data arising from use of the MCP Service is described in the MCP Privacy Policy and, where the Subscriber acts as a controller, governed by the DPA, both incorporated under §2.3.

10.2 The Data Layer is derived from publicly available legal sources and may contain residual personal data (party or judge names) as published by official bodies. Moonlit and the Subscriber are independent controllers in respect of such personal data.

10.3 The Subscriber and its Authorised Users shall not knowingly submit through the MCP Service personal data unnecessary for the query at hand, and in any event shall not knowingly submit special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR) or criminal-conviction data (Art. 10 GDPR) without an appropriate legal basis.

11. Intellectual Property

11.1 All intellectual property rights in the Data Layer and the Enrichments, including copyright and database rights (including sui generis rights under Directive 96/9/EC), remain the exclusive property of Moonlit or its licensors.

11.2 For the duration of the Subscription, the Subscriber receives a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the MCP Service as set out in these MCP Terms. Nothing in these MCP Terms grants Moonlit any rights to the Subscriber's prompts, queries, or know-how, and Moonlit will not use Subscriber prompts or queries to train its own models.

11.3 The Subscriber shall not claim ownership of the Data Layer, remove proprietary notices or source attributions, or attempt to extract or replicate the Data Layer or any substantial part of it.

11.4 Subject to Article 14, Moonlit shall defend and indemnify the Subscriber against third-party claims that the Subscriber's permitted use of MCP Tool outputs infringes third-party copyright or database rights. This obligation does not apply to claims arising from: (a) the Subscriber's breach of these MCP Terms; (b) modification of MCP Tool outputs; (c) combination of MCP Tool outputs with materials not provided by Moonlit, where the claim would not otherwise have arisen; or (d) AI-derived outputs (including outputs of hybrid_search_rerankedand any successor semantic-ranking tool). This is the Subscriber's sole and exclusive remedy in respect of any such claim.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

12.1 Not legal advice. MCP Tool outputs do not constitute legal, tax, regulatory, or other professional advice. The Subscriber and each Authorised User remain solely responsible for any decisions taken on the basis of MCP Tool outputs.

12.2 The MCP Service and the Data Layer are provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable mandatory law, Moonlit disclaims all warranties (express, implied, statutory, or otherwise), including merchantability, fitness for purpose, accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, and non-infringement. In particular, Moonlit does not warrant that the Data Layer will be error-free or complete, that Enrichments will be correct in all instances, that AI-derived outputs will be free from inaccuracies or hallucinations, or that the MCP Service will be uninterrupted.

12.3 The MCP Service grounds an MCP Client's outputs in verified Moonlit documents; final responses produced by the MCP Client (including any LLM connected through it) remain the responsibility of the MCP Client and its operator.

12.4 Moonlit may take the MCP Service temporarily offline for maintenance or improvements and will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide advance notice of planned unavailability.

13. Confidentiality

13.1 Each Party shall treat the other's Confidential Information (including business plans, pricing, technical specifications, API Keys, and usage data) as strictly confidential and shall not disclose it to third parties, except: to employees and contractors bound by equivalent confidentiality obligations on a need-to-know basis; where required by law (with prompt notice where possible); or with the prior written consent of the other Party.

13.2 Moonlit shall not use or disclose Subscriber usage data (queries, request metadata, access patterns) except as necessary to perform the MCP Service, to maintain security, or in anonymised and aggregated form for operational monitoring and product improvement. Moonlit logs MCP requests at the request level (tool name, timestamp, response status, latency, MCP Client identifier, IP address) but does not store the substantive content of query payloads or document bodies returned in response.

13.3 This Article survives termination for five (5) years.

14. Limitation of Liability

14.1 A Party's liability is limited to direct damages. Neither Party is liable for indirect or consequential damages, including loss of profit, business interruption, loss of data, reputational damage, or third-party claims (other than as expressly contemplated in §11.4).

14.2 Each Party's total aggregate liability under these MCP Terms shall not exceed the amount the Subscriber has paid or is obligated to pay to Moonlit for the MCP Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the act or omission giving rise to liability. This cap applies to all heads of liability, including any indemnity under §11.4.

14.3 §§14.1 to 14.2 do not apply in the case of intent (opzet) or deliberate recklessness (bewuste roekeloosheid).

14.4 Any claim must be brought within twelve (12) months of the day on which the Party became aware, or reasonably could have become aware, of the damage and of the other Party as the liable party. After this period, claims are time-barred to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

15. Force Majeure

Neither Party is liable for any failure or delay in performance (other than payment) to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, epidemics, war, terrorism, cyberattacks, government actions, labour disputes, or failure of third-party services or infrastructure.

16. Term, Termination, and Changes

16.1 Term. Unless an order form provides otherwise, the Subscription is a rolling monthly Subscription that renews automatically until terminated.

16.2 Termination for convenience. Either Party may terminate with effect at the end of the then-current paid month by written notice; for the Subscriber, this may be the in-product cancellation flow.

16.3 Termination for cause. Either Party may terminate with immediate effect for: (a) material breach not cured within thirty (30) days of written notice; (b) proven misuse of the MCP Service; or (c) insolvency or bankruptcy of the other Party.

16.4 Effect of termination. Access ceases at the end of the then-current paid month. The Subscriber shall not retain or further use MCP Tool responses other than as already integrated into prior work product, and shall not aggregate, redistribute, or otherwise exploit them. Moonlit shall delete or anonymise the Subscriber's personal data in accordance with the MCP Privacy Policy.

16.5 Data export. Within thirty (30) days of termination, the Subscriber may request a copy of its account metadata, usage telemetry, and persistent configuration data in a commonly used machine-readable format by emailing privacy@moonlit.ai. The Data Layer is not Subscriber data and is not exportable.

16.6 Changes to these Terms. Moonlit may amend these MCP Terms. Material changes will be communicated to active Subscribers at least thirty (30) days before they take effect. If the Subscriber does not agree, it may terminate under §16.2 with effect at the end of the then-current paid month, and the amended terms will not be enforced against it for that period.

16.7 Survival. Articles 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 17 survive termination.

17. Support, Governing Law, and Disputes

17.1 Support. Moonlit provides support at support@moonlit.ai and through the documentation portal. No service-level commitments are made unless expressly agreed in an order form.

17.2 Governing law. These MCP Terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands.

17.3 Disputes. Disputes shall be resolved by the competent courts of Amsterdam. Where both Parties agree in writing, or where so provided in an order form, a dispute may instead be referred to binding arbitration under the NAI Rules, seated in Amsterdam, in English.

18. Miscellaneous

18.1 No amendment is valid unless made in accordance with §16.6 or in writing signed by both Parties.

18.2 If any provision is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect, and the invalid provision is deemed replaced by a valid one differing as little as possible from the original.

18.3 These MCP Terms, together with the documents incorporated under §2.3, constitute the entire agreement between the Parties on the subject matter and supersede all prior agreements.

18.4 The Subscriber may not assign without Moonlit's prior written consent, except to a group company. Moonlit may assign to a successor entity. This provision has effect under property law as intended in Article 3:83(2) of the Dutch Civil Code.

18.5 Failure to insist on performance does not waive any rights.

18.6 Moonlit may engage third parties in the performance of the MCP Service and remains liable for those it engages.