Re:Is it OK to copy terms of service/privacy policy from ano...
by benhoyt on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:42PM
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It depends on their terms of service.
Seriously, though, we wrote ours ourselves, but we did heavily use info we gleaned from other peoples' ToS. If you're just a generic web 2.0 site you can probably get away with using someone else's generic ToS, but if you're doing anything slightly different, you'll have to tailor it anyway.
FWIW, for microPledge we ended up with http://micropledge.com/conditions -- we got a lawyer friend to look over it briefly, and he gave us a few good pointers.
Seriously, though, we wrote ours ourselves, but we did heavily use info we gleaned from other peoples' ToS. If you're just a generic web 2.0 site you can probably get away with using someone else's generic ToS, but if you're doing anything slightly different, you'll have to tailor it anyway.
FWIW, for microPledge we ended up with http://micropledge.com/conditions -- we got a lawyer friend to look over it briefly, and he gave us a few good pointers.