: What are some good resources for generating privacy policies and terms of use? We've determined that our website needs a privacy policy and a terms of use page to protect our interests. Are

@Shakeerah822

This free Terms and conditions generator does the job for me.

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@Sarah324

Updating with some new answers, since the law is changing fast in this area: Docracy has open sourced its own terms and various privacy policies specific to mobile apps, annotations included. We also published a drafting guide. Other companies that famously allow intelligent copying of their terms are Quora and Wordpress. There are some free and paid privacy policy assemblers available online, I personally like privacychoice.org and iubenda.com.

Disclosure: I work for Docracy

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@Gail5422790

The excellent resouce artlung provided to the BBB website link is now moved. This was the closest thing I could find: www.bbb.org/us/WWWRoot/SitePage.aspx?site=70&id=a17891ea-ce8e-48d7-a27a-e6d2e5833cea
Linked within is a set of tips on how to create your privacy policy: www.bbbonline.org/UnderstandingPrivacy/PMRC/createpolicy.asp
You may also find the Fair Information Practice Principals at the FTC interesting.

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@Murphy175

We got ours from here. It's customised and was cheap(er than getting a legal team to do it for us).

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@Dunderdale272

The Better Business Bureau Online has a Sample Privacy Notice which is as good as any in terms of a simple, but thorough policy. It has these sections:


Our Commitment To Privacy
The Information We Collect
How We Use Information
Our Commitment To Data Security
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
How To Access Or Correct Your Information
How To Contact Us


Here's another one, from a apps.gov site, with these headings:


Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If You Provide Personal Information
Cookies
Links to Other Sites
Children’s Privacy
Internet Security
Changes to this Policy


Those two together should give you a solid template. If you store and collect more data, be clear about the data retention and reselling policies and you might think about putting together something more like an End User License Agreement.

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@Nimeshi995

If you have a legal team (but you don't, or you wouldn't be asking) check with them. I have honestly just taken and modified the terms from sites that are similar to mine.

While I don't know of any automated tools, I don't think the TOS on a site varies much from one to the other unless you have some pretty unique public content. When we were deploying sites the boilerplate we used didn't change more than half the time.

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