Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?

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Post by Facens » Mon, Aug 22, 2011, 5:03 PM UTC

cschmidt wrote: post #51

Facens wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the mention, I'm the founder of iubenda. Any question is welcomed :)

Hmmm, I signed up for your service. At the end, it was saying there were 500+ people in line ahead of me. I could spam my social media network to get to the front of the line, for a service I had never used. That was a big turn off for me, so I went with other avenues.

The service is in private beta, we are simply not ready to welcome too many users, and I'm sorry for this. Nobody forces you to spam your social media network, you can simply wait :)

Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?

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Post by dctoedt » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:24 AM UTC

dctoedt wrote: post #21

gokhan wrote: post #5

wordpress.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/

Using WordPress.com's TOS is a really bad idea (in my view) if sections 11 and 12 are left in their present form. Those sections could get you into the same type of legal trouble as Blockbuster's TOS got them into in 2009, in the Harris v. Blockbuster case. See http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/using-wordpress-coms-terms-of... for a discussion. I've mentioned this here before, so I hate to sound like a broken record, bu…

(Edit to my comment above, two days later:)

I just remembered (smacks forehead with palm) that a couple of years ago I posted a sample privacy policy that can give you and your lawyer a head start---see http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/privacy-policy-for-web-sites-...

Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?

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Post by dctoedt » Tue, Aug 23, 2011, 10:28 AM UTC

cfield wrote: post #48

It looks like a number of folks who use lawyers said they tried to cut costs by preparing the first draft and then having their lawyer look at it. Curiously, this can actually take a lawyer more time to review (and, hence, cost more money). I'd at least consider asking the lawyer for their base form that is the closest starting point for your business and working from that to prepare your first draft for their review…

(Reprise of a comment posted above:)

I just remembered (smacks forehead with palm) that a couple of years ago I posted a sample privacy policy that can give you and your lawyer a head start---see http://www.ontechnologylaw.com/privacy-policy-for-web-sites-...

Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?

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Post by sime0n » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 5:39 PM UTC

I use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-policies/ It has privacy, terms of use, spam, DMCA, etc..

Re: Poll: Where did you get your site/app's Terms of Service & Privacy Policy?

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Post by jimbrock » Thu, Aug 25, 2011, 10:38 PM UTC

We just launched PrivacyChoice Policymaker for mobile sites and apps, which is free for early adopters:

http://www.privacychoice.org/policymaker/register

Covered in the NY Times last week: http://nyti.ms/oYCFcW

Example policy (try on your phone): http://bit.ly/privacychoice

We also have an API if you want to roll your own with our language. Just write to me jim at privacychoice.org

Looking for input to make this better and better.