Terms & Conditions/Privacy Policy: Legal pages on your site

Legalese
Written By Tori Cox

You probably know you need them — you just might not know which ones or where to get them.

I’m not a lawyer, but if you’re in the U.S. and your site has a contact form, you should have a Privacy Policy. Terms of Use are also strongly recommended. It’s mildly annoying, but this is a ~30-minute task you can knock out once and move on.

Here are the two ways I usually handle it:

→ Free (no auto-updates, a bit more manual)

Most generators will give you one free policy. To avoid paying, I use two different tools and generate one policy from each. You’ll have to enter your info twice, which is tedious — but if you want to save money, it works.
I usually use these two:

  • Terms & Conditions: termly.io

  • Privacy Policy: termsfeed.com

→ Paid (~$119/year, automatically updated)

If you’d rather set it up once and never think about it again, this is the easiest option.

Tori Cox
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