I'm both interested in how startup folks are doing things and doing a little market research. I occasionally see mistakes in SaaS terms or obvious evidence of copy/pasting. An attorney friend and I were discussing a service that helps build TOS/Privacy pages based on common SaaS features/properties.
Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?
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#2I've paid once and then just copied/pasted/modified ever since.
There should be a corresponding survey for where lawyers got their TOS/Privacy page text from. In my experience there are only 3 or 4 boilerplate pages and then some light customization (which I strongly suspect is done largely by interns and secretaries). That'll be a few hundred dollars, thank you.
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#3I paid a local law firm for a TOS once. It was not cheap, and after I received it, I had to manually edit out the remnants of an unfinished search/replace of another company's name.
One more anecdote: When my service went live, I put a free t-shirt offer deep in the TOS. Only had 1 person ever try to redeem the offer.
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#4I'd find such a service very interesting, particularly if you could produce minimally-offensive common-sense terms that still serve the appropriate function of avoiding liability.
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#5wordpress.com's TOS is "available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use".
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#6I'm writing a TOS at the moment.
Here's a question: has anyone ever heard of someone being sued for copyright violation for reusing parts of someone else's TOS or other posted legal document?
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#7TOS and privacy policy are on my todo list this week. I'd love input on what options exist to make my life easier.
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#8wordpress.com's TOS is "available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use" . http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
Ditto.
Used this as well. Just needs a bit of tweaking to fit your need.
Privacy policy is also available:
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#9I recently went through this process and paid a law firm to do this. I saved a fair bit of cost by writing the terms and privacy policy myself first (based on other examples around on the web) and then getting them to adjust it rather than start from scratch.
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#10I'd find such a service very interesting, particularly if you could produce minimally-offensive common-sense terms that still serve the appropriate function of avoiding liability.
That would be a great service. Bonus points for it being relevant beyond the United States.