Investigative Services
Disclaimer

1. Missouri Licensure and Required Business Information

Lexvico provides private investigative and criminal justice consulting services subject to applicable Missouri licensing laws, Board regulations, jurisdictional restrictions, professional standards, and the written terms of each accepted engagement.

Missouri prohibits a person from conducting private-investigator business in the state without the required individual license. Missouri also separately prohibits a person or business from operating as a private-investigator agency without an agency license unless an exemption applies.

Missouri requires advertisements soliciting private-investigative business to include the licensee’s name, city, and state as they appear in Board records, together with the applicable individual or agency license number. The completed licensure statement should appear in the global website footer.

Lexvico should be described as Missouri Licensed and Insured. The term “bonded” should not be used unless Lexvico maintains a current bond and can substantiate that representation.

2. Licensed Business Name

Lexvico conducts private-investigative business only under names lawfully registered and recognized by the appropriate authorities. Before publication, Lexvico should confirm that the business name used on the website, contracts, invoices, reports, email signatures, advertisements, and social-media profiles is consistent with Missouri Secretary of State records, Board licensing records, insurance records, tax records, and all written client agreements.

3. No Government or Law-Enforcement Affiliation

Lexvico is a private business. It is not a law-enforcement agency, prosecutor’s office, court, correctional agency, federal agency, state agency, or political subdivision.

Lexvico and its personnel will not use titles, uniforms, insignia, identification cards, statements, marketing, or other representations intended to create the impression that they are affiliated with the federal government, the State of Missouri, a law-enforcement agency, or another governmental entity.

4. Geographic and Jurisdictional Limitations

Lexvico is based in Missouri and may accept inquiries from clients, attorneys, families, businesses, or organizations located throughout the United States or internationally. Acceptance of an inquiry does not mean Lexvico may lawfully perform every requested service in every jurisdiction.

Remote consultation, research, records review, case-file organization, and public-record analysis may be available where legally permitted. Physical fieldwork outside Missouri may require an appropriately licensed local investigator. Surveillance, witness contact, recording, service of process, database access, and in-person investigative work may be governed by the law of the jurisdiction where the activity occurs.

5. Licensed Personnel, Subcontractors, and Assistants

Lexvico will not knowingly permit an unauthorized person to conduct work requiring a private-investigator license. Administrative personnel, records researchers, students, consultants, vendors, and subcontractors may assist only within the limits of applicable law and under appropriate supervision.

Tasks requiring licensure will be performed by a properly licensed or otherwise legally authorized person. Independent subcontractors may be responsible for their own licensure, insurance, methods, professional obligations, schedules, expenses, and compliance with the law of the jurisdiction where they work.

6. Lexvico Is Not a Law Firm

Lexvico is not a law firm and does not provide legal representation or legal advice.

Nothing on this website, in a case evaluation, consultation, investigative report, chronology, records package, witness summary, memorandum, email, text message, telephone conversation, or other communication should be interpreted as legal advice, an attorney’s opinion, legal representation, litigation strategy, a legal determination of guilt or innocence, advice concerning an appeal or post-conviction motion, calculation of a filing deadline, advice concerning privilege or admissibility, or a substitute for consultation with a licensed attorney.

7. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Communicating with Lexvico does not create an attorney-client relationship. Information provided to Lexvico is not automatically protected by attorney-client privilege.

When Lexvico is retained by an attorney, some communications or investigative materials may potentially fall within protections associated with that attorney’s representation. The existence, ownership, scope, and waiver of any privilege or work-product protection are legal questions that must be addressed by counsel.

8. No Investigator-Client Relationship Before Written Acceptance

Submitting a contact form, requesting a case evaluation, sending an email, leaving a voicemail, providing documents, or participating in an initial consultation does not create an investigator-client relationship.

An investigator-client relationship begins only after Lexvico completes any required identity verification, conflict screening, jurisdictional review, and permissible-purpose analysis; agrees to accept the matter; defines scope, fees, limitations, and deliverables; receives any required payment or authorization; and the parties execute a written service agreement.

9. Free Case Evaluations Are Preliminary

A free case evaluation is a limited preliminary screening. It is not a full investigation, legal case review, finding of guilt or innocence, verification of allegations, evidence preservation, acceptance of the matter, agreement to meet a deadline, confirmation that records exist, confirmation that a person can be located, promise to contact witnesses, or guarantee that services will be offered.

10. No Guarantee of Results

Investigative work is inherently uncertain. Lexvico does not guarantee that information exists, records are accurate or obtainable, a person can be located, a witness will respond or cooperate, an online identity can be conclusively attributed, deleted content can be recovered, a scam can be conclusively established, money or property can be recovered, surveillance will produce useful information, evidence still exists, a court will authorize testing, a conviction will be reversed, or that any specific legal, financial, personal, professional, or investigative outcome will occur.

Lexvico promises professional effort within the accepted scope, not a particular result.

11. Results Are Limited by the Agreed Scope

Lexvico’s work, findings, conclusions, and deliverables are limited by the written scope of the engagement. Budget, time, urgency, jurisdiction, client instructions, unavailable or sealed records, record-retention practices, uncooperative witnesses, inaccurate identifiers, database coverage, legal restrictions, court or agency delays, travel requirements, technological limitations, safety considerations, and circumstances beyond Lexvico’s control may affect results.

12. Client Responsibility to Define the Objective

The client or requester is responsible for clearly communicating the purpose of the investigation, relevant names and identifiers, the client’s relationship to the matter, the authority under which the investigation is requested, attorney involvement, pending litigation, deadlines, protective or no-contact orders, safety concerns, previous investigations, aliases, relevant jurisdictions, the desired deliverable, and the intended use of the information.

13. Client Responsibility for Deadlines

Lexvico does not calculate or monitor statutes of limitation, appellate deadlines, post-conviction deadlines, court filing dates, discovery deadlines, administrative deadlines, preservation deadlines, or other legal time limits unless a specific administrative deadline has been expressly accepted in writing as part of the assignment.

14. Court Orders, Injunctions, and Legal Restrictions

Clients must disclose any known orders of protection, restraining orders, no-contact orders, custody orders, sealing orders, confidentiality orders, discovery restrictions, probation or parole conditions, communication restrictions, or other judicial or administrative orders relevant to the requested work.

Lexvico will not knowingly violate, assist another person in violating, or encourage violation of a lawful court order or injunction.

15. Lawful Purpose Required

Lexvico accepts assignments only for lawful purposes. Clients may not request or use Lexvico’s services to stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate, retaliate, facilitate domestic violence or coercive control, violate a protective order, commit fraud or identity theft, unlawfully discriminate, obtain unauthorized access, intimidate a witness, interfere with a legal proceeding, conceal or destroy evidence, evade lawful process, impersonate another person, publicly shame or dox another person, or engage in other unlawful, deceptive, abusive, or unethical conduct.

16. Independent Professional Judgment

Lexvico retains independent professional judgment concerning lawful investigative methods, witness contact, recording, safety, verification, reporting, disclosure, evidence handling, database use, subcontractor selection, and whether work should continue.

Payment does not entitle a client to control findings, demand a predetermined conclusion, suppress material information, require false or misleading reporting, or direct unlawful conduct.

17. Honest Performance and Material Information

Lexvico will, to the extent of its abilities, diligently and honestly perform work it has accepted. Lexvico will not knowingly misrepresent the status of an investigation, state that a task was completed when it was not, make a material false statement to a client, conceal material investigative information merely because it is unfavorable, issue a knowingly misleading report, or represent an unverified lead as conclusively proven.

18. Information May Be Unfavorable to the Client

An investigation may uncover information that contradicts the client, supports another person’s account, undermines the client’s theory, identifies additional risk, raises legal or ethical concerns, reveals inaccuracies supplied by the client, suggests a different investigative direction, or is otherwise unfavorable.

Lexvico does not guarantee that findings will support the client’s desired conclusion.

19. No False Evidence or False Reports

Lexvico will not manufacture false evidence, knowingly falsify a report, alter evidence to create a misleading impression, or knowingly cause a false report to be submitted.

Clients may not ask Lexvico to create or alter evidence, stage an event, fabricate a lead, mischaracterize a statement, omit material context, prepare a false affidavit, induce false testimony, modify conclusions to fit a preferred outcome, or suppress material findings.

20. Written Reports and Professional Review

Lexvico distinguishes among independently verified facts, client-supplied information, information reported by witnesses, agency or database information, preliminary leads, conflicting information, unverified information, professional observations, and reasonable investigative conclusions.

A report may include information obtained from sources beyond Lexvico’s control. Inclusion does not mean Lexvico guarantees that every source is complete, current, credible, or truthful.

21. Records and Database Limitations

Lexvico may rely on public records, court records, law-enforcement records, correctional records, government and commercial databases, property and business records, licensing records, social-media content, archived websites, third-party vendors, client-supplied records, witness accounts, and other lawful sources.

These sources may contain errors, aliases, misspellings, outdated information, incomplete dispositions, duplicate records, delayed updates, missing records, records belonging to someone with a similar name, sealed information, or conflicting information. A database result may be an investigative lead rather than independently verified fact.

22. Criminal Record Search Limitations

A criminal-record search may not reveal every arrest, charge, conviction, dismissal, expungement, sealed case, municipal matter, juvenile matter, federal matter, military matter, or case in every jurisdiction. Unless expressly agreed in writing, Lexvico’s criminal-record research is not represented as a fingerprint-based national criminal-history check.

23. Consumer-Reporting Restrictions

Unless Lexvico expressly agrees otherwise in writing, public-record research, relationship checks, online-dating investigations, locate reports, criminal-record searches, and similar services are not intended to be consumer reports for employment, tenant screening, lending, credit, insurance, professional licensing, benefits eligibility, or another regulated decision.

24. Locate and Skip-Trace Limitations

Locate results may include possible addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, relatives, associates, employers, businesses, or other potential contact information. Such information may be outdated, incomplete, inaccurate, or associated with another person.

Lexvico may withhold an address or contact method when disclosure could create a foreseeable safety, stalking, harassment, abuse, retaliation, privacy, or legal concern.

25. Witness Location and Interview Limitations

Locating a witness does not guarantee access or cooperation. A witness may decline contact, refuse an interview, terminate an interview, refuse recording, request counsel, provide incomplete information, have limited memory, contradict an earlier statement, recant, change an account, decline to sign a statement, refuse to testify, or provide information unfavorable to the client.

26. Audio and Video Recording

Recording laws vary by jurisdiction. Lexvico will record an interview, telephone call, meeting, or conversation only when Lexvico determines that recording is lawful and appropriate. Clients may not instruct Lexvico to secretly record a communication in violation of applicable law.

27. Video Recording Inside a Residence

Lexvico will not create a video recording of an individual inside that individual’s home or domicile without the individual’s permission. This prohibition applies even when a client requests the recording.

28. Social Media and Online Investigation Limitations

Lexvico does not guarantee that a profile is authentic, a username belongs to a particular person, a photograph is current or genuine, content was created by the named user, a location tag is accurate, deleted information can be recovered, a screenshot conclusively establishes authorship, public content will remain available, or online activity conclusively proves identity, location, intent, or conduct.

Lexvico will not obtain information through hacking, credential theft, unauthorized account access, malware, or unlawful impersonation.

29. Catfish, Romance Scam, and Online Dating Investigations

Lexvico may investigate public profiles, photographs, aliases, communication patterns, records, usernames, and other lawful information relevant to a suspected catfish or romance scam.

The absence of negative information does not establish that a person is honest, safe, financially stable, unmarried, free of criminal history, or using a genuine identity. Lexvico does not provide personal-safety guarantees.

30. Relationship Investigation Limitations

Relationship investigations provide lawful factual information. They are not personal counseling, mental-health treatment, relationship advice, financial advice, or a guarantee of another person’s character or intentions.

31. Wrongful Conviction and Post-Conviction Matters

Wrongful-conviction and post-conviction investigations are fact-development services. Lexvico may assist with case-file reconstruction, chronology development, records retrieval, witness location, interviews and re-interviews, statement comparison, evidence tracking, identification of investigative gaps, factual summaries, and lead development.

Lexvico does not determine legal innocence, provide legal representation, file motions or appeals, calculate legal deadlines, guarantee forensic testing, compel evidence production, compel witness cooperation, guarantee acceptance by counsel or an innocence organization, guarantee a hearing, new trial, release, pardon, or exoneration.

32. Evidence and Chain-of-Custody Limitations

Lexvico may photograph, document, collect, receive, organize, transfer, or preserve material only when lawful and within the agreed scope. Lexvico does not guarantee the condition of evidence before receipt, proper preservation by previous custodians, acceptance of a chain of custody, authorization for testing, acceptance by a laboratory, sufficient material for testing, or results favorable to the client.

33. Valuable Property and Evidence in Lexvico’s Possession

Lexvico will safeguard property of value that lawfully comes into its possession. Lexvico may require a written receipt, proof of ownership, proof of authority, chain-of-custody documentation, attorney direction, a court order, or another legally appropriate transfer process before accepting, releasing, or transferring valuable property or evidence.

34. Public Records Requests

Lexvico may prepare, submit, track, or retrieve public-record requests when included in the written scope. Lexvico does not control agency processing times, fees, search procedures, statutory exemptions, redactions, denials, appeal procedures, record destruction, retention schedules, office closures, or the completeness of an agency response.

35. Litigation Support

Litigation support may include factual investigation, records organization, chronologies, witness work, exhibit support, factual summaries, or report preparation. Attorneys remain responsible for all legal judgments and professional obligations.

36. Reports and Work Product

Investigative reports are prepared for the specific client, purpose, scope, date, jurisdiction, and circumstances identified in the engagement. A report may not be complete for another purpose, current after the report date, suitable for another client, suitable for public distribution, suitable for a regulated eligibility decision, admissible in court, legally privileged, appropriate for republication, or relied on outside the agreed scope unless Lexvico authorizes that use in writing.

37. Courtroom and Deposition Testimony

When testimony is requested, Lexvico’s availability, preparation, scheduling, fees, travel, and scope must be separately confirmed. Lexvico will testify truthfully and will not alter facts, findings, or opinions to favor a client.

38. Missouri Confidentiality and Disclosure Restrictions

Lexvico handles client-directed investigative information discreetly and in accordance with Missouri law. Information may be disclosed when the client authorizes disclosure, disclosure is reasonably necessary to perform the agreed work, disclosure is made to an authorized investigator, attorney, expert, vendor, or service provider, disclosure is required by subpoena, court order, warrant, law, licensing authority, or other lawful process, disclosure is reasonably necessary to defend Lexvico or enforce an agreement, or disclosure is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or the written agreement.

39. Missouri Recordkeeping Requirements

Lexvico maintains business and professional-service records as required by Missouri law and Board rules. Missouri requires complete records of business transactions to be retained for seven years. Records may include client information, agreements, authorizations, conflicts and screening records, investigative notes, reports, records requests, correspondence, recordings, billing records, receipts, expense records, subcontractor records, court orders, retention restrictions, and other required documentation.

40. Fees, Receipts, and Financial Integrity

Investigative estimates are based on the known scope and assumptions existing when the estimate is prepared. Actual costs may be affected by additional records, unexpected complexity, witness availability, travel, agency fees, database charges, subcontractor fees, rush requests, technical difficulties, expanded scope, or client-requested revisions.

Unless expressly designated as fixed in writing, an estimate is not a guarantee of total cost.

41. Cancellation and Incomplete Assignments

If an engagement is cancelled, suspended, terminated, or cannot be completed, the client remains responsible, subject to the written agreement and applicable law, for work already performed, earned fees, authorized records charges, travel, database charges, subcontractor expenses, administrative closeout work, and other authorized nonrefundable expenses.

42. Safety and Contact Restrictions

Lexvico may decline to contact a person or disclose location information when doing so may create a risk of stalking, harassment, retaliation, domestic violence, witness intimidation, child endangerment, elder abuse, self-harm, unlawful confrontation, violation of a protective order, or other foreseeable harm.

43. No Emergency or Security Services

Lexvico does not provide emergency response through its website, email, voicemail, or ordinary case-evaluation process. If anyone is in immediate danger, contact 911 or the appropriate emergency authority.

44. Third-Party Professionals and Vendors

Lexvico may use or recommend licensed investigators, process servers, records researchers, forensic specialists, laboratories, translators, consultants, attorneys, technology providers, database providers, or other professionals. Independent providers may be responsible for their own conduct, licensure, methods, scheduling, fees, conclusions, and professional obligations.

45. Artificial Intelligence and Technology-Assisted Tools

Lexvico may use technology-assisted tools for administration, document organization, transcription, chronology development, research support, drafting, data review, quality control, or information security. Technology-assisted output may contain errors and may require human review.

46. Changes in Law, Technology, or Availability

Investigative methods, database access, privacy laws, recording laws, consumer-reporting requirements, public-record procedures, court access, and technology may change. Lexvico may modify its methods, providers, scope, delivery format, or service availability when reasonably necessary.

47. Client Use of Findings

The client is responsible for deciding how to use investigative information. Clients should consult qualified counsel before using investigative information in litigation or any regulated decision.

48. No Defamation, Harassment, Retaliation, or Public Shaming

Lexvico’s reports and findings may not be altered, selectively quoted, distributed, or publicly posted for the purpose of defaming, threatening, intimidating, humiliating, harassing, retaliating against, doxing, or publicly shaming another person.

49. Website Content Is Not a Service Agreement

Website descriptions are general. They do not establish a fixed scope, fixed price, guaranteed availability, required methodology, delivery date, duty to act, confidentiality agreement, acceptance of a matter, or availability of a service in every jurisdiction. Only a signed written agreement defines an accepted assignment.

50. Testimonials and Examples

Testimonials, reviews, examples, hypothetical scenarios, prior matters, and general descriptions are not guarantees that another client will obtain similar results. Every investigation depends on its own facts, evidence, records, witnesses, jurisdiction, timing, scope, and budget.

51. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lexvico and its owner, agents, contractors, subcontractors, licensors, vendors, and representatives are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages arising from incomplete or inaccurate third-party records, unavailable records, uncooperative witnesses, database errors, mistaken identity caused by inaccurate information, third-party delays, loss of evidence before Lexvico’s involvement, court or agency decisions, client misuse of findings, electronic transmission risks, deadlines not expressly accepted in writing, vendor or platform failures, inability to locate a person, inability to confirm an identity, or failure to achieve a desired outcome.

52. Client Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the written service agreement may require a client to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Lexvico from claims, losses, liabilities, penalties, costs, and reasonable attorney fees arising from inaccurate client information, unlawful instructions, lack of authority, misuse of findings, violation of a protective order, unlawful dissemination, unlawful consumer-reporting use, harassment or retaliation, materials unlawfully obtained by the client, client misrepresentation, or third-party claims resulting from the client’s conduct.

53. Governing Documents

This Disclaimer supplements Lexvico’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, written service agreement, statement of work, authorization, fee schedule, invoice, client-portal terms, and other written engagement documents. If this Disclaimer conflicts with a signed service agreement, the signed agreement controls for that engagement unless applicable law requires otherwise.

54. Changes to This Disclaimer

Lexvico may revise this Disclaimer to reflect changes in law, licensing requirements, Board regulations, services, technology, vendors, investigative practices, jurisdiction, insurance, risk management, or business operations. The revised Disclaimer will be posted with an updated “Last Updated” date.

55. Contact Information

Questions about this Disclaimer may be directed to:

Do not include Social Security numbers, financial credentials, passwords, complete medical records, privileged legal materials, or complete case files in a general disclaimer inquiry.