New ECF Central Account Terms

TERMS OF USE

GENERAL. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida (“FLNB”) operates ECF Central as a service to attorneys admitted to practice in federal court in the Northern District of Florida. By accessing and using ECF Central, you acknowledge reading and understanding the Terms of Use and you agree to comply with each of the terms and conditions set forth herein. FLNB reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Use of ECF Central following any such modification constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the agreement as modified. ECF Central is provided at no charge and registration is required.

DISCLAIMER. This site contains information, documents, external portals and links designed to assist attorneys who practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern district of Florida. While the Clerk’s Office makes every attempt to preserve the accuracy of the information displayed in ECF Central, the content contained herein is for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. This site is NOT a component of the CM/ECF system and does NOT constitute an official record of any judicial or administrative proceeding in the Northern District of Florida. This site is NOT intended to be used for filing documents, receiving official notice or retrieving case information. NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ARE PROVIDED FOR THE ACCURACY, RELEVANCE, TIMELINESS OR COMPLETENESS OF THE CONTENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR ANY TYPE OF LEGAL ACTION OR LEGAL ADVICE. The Clerk and staff of the Office of the Clerk, and anyone involved in storing, retrieving or displaying the information, shall not be liable for any demand or claim, regardless of form or action, arising out of or incident to the posting of information or data in ECF Central, the accessing or use of any information or content, and/or the acts or omissions of any person or entity accessing or using any information from ECF Central.

DISCLAIMER OF ENDORSEMENT. The information posted herein may include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. FLNB provides these links and pointers solely for your information and convenience and is not responsible for the availability or content of those web sites. Such links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by FLNB of the third party.

RESTRICTED ACCESS. Access to ECF Central is restricted to attorneys admitted to practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida. Registration for ECF Central and authentication will be required before a login or password to ECF Central is issued. The registered user is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their login and password. No attorney shall knowingly permit or cause to permit his or her login or password to be utilized by anyone other than an authorized employee of his or her law firm. No person shall knowingly utilize or cause another person to utilize the login or password of a registered user of ECF Central unless that person is an authorized employee of that attorney’s law firm.

USER CONDUCT. You agree to use the site only for lawful purposes. You agree not to take any action that might compromise the security of the site, render the site inaccessible to others or otherwise cause damage to the site or the content. You agree not to use the site in any manner that might violate, infringe or otherwise interfere with the rights others. You agree that you will not use this site in an attempt to, or in conjunction with, any effort that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, or invasive of another’s privacy. You agree that you will not use this site to send, receive, post or otherwise transmit any inappropriate communication including, but not limited to, any communication which may victimize, harass, degrade, intimidate or which may contain sexually graphic language, descriptions or accounts. You agree that you will not allow your login or password to be used to transmit or upload any computer code, files or programs which contains a virus or which otherwise may interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.

AVAILABILITY. Every effort is made to keep this site running and available to registered users. However, system maintenance and unavoidable circumstances may require ECF Central to become unavailable to registered users. FLNB assumes no responsibility for damages directory or indirectly arising out of the use or inability to use the site.

AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS FEATURES. ECF Central includes interactive applications that perform a variety of communications over the internet as part of the normal operation. This includes modules which create announcements, calendar data, emails, alerts, reminders, submission of proposed orders, a directory of users and instant messaging. Many of these features require the user to create filters and set user preferences in order to properly function as designed and intended. By using ECF Central, you consent to the communications features contained in ECF Central and authorize FLNB to utilize the interactive applications to send and receive communications to you and other registered users.

TIME DELAY. ECF Central includes a scheduler application for creating calendar entries, generating alerts and reminders, and sending information by email. The scheduler application for calendar entries has a time delay of approximately one hour for items to appear on the calendar module. Alerts and reminders sent to registered users are generated Monday – Friday on business days at approximately 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time. By using ECF Central, you acknowledge the time delay and consent to receive information based on the settings created therein.

TERMINATION. FLNB reserves the right to terminate and discontinue ECF Central at any time without notice. FLNB also reserves the right to terminate user accounts for failure to comply with the terms of use.