Ask HN: How can I make legally valid Terms and Conditions and a Privacy Policy

1 pointsparker_at_large2y ago4 comments

I have a web app that I've created and published to the internet.

I've made a short Terms & Conditions document, along with a Privacy Policy. New users are obliged to agree to both when creating an account. I question whether these documents are legally valid, since I wrote them myself without following any specific structure.

Is there a way to make legally valid versions of these documents? What is the best way to approach this in order to ensure I am not legally liable for anything innapropriate that users publish to my site?

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stop502y ago· 1 in thread

Find a lawyer. Its literally in their job description.

brudgers2y ago

This. And without a paying lawyers, they don't matter anyway because paying a lawyer is the only way to enforce them.

omidontop2y ago

I've used https://www.termsfeed.com/ but there are many such generators available which cost very little.

brudgers2y ago

[I am not a lawyer]

Your terms and conditions don't side-step liability to third parties. At best they might allow your lawyer to toss out lawsuits by people who agreed to them.

If your servers host problematic bits, you're going to need lawyers.

Good luck.

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