Terms Of Service / Privacy Policy Document Generator

Posted July 10, 2007 at 9:52 AM

Tags: ColdFusion

A long time ago, someone asked me about creating a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for a web site. I don't know much of anything about that stuff so I couldn't really help. But then, a less long time ago, someone actually posted a generic Terms of Service / Privacy Policy template on the House of Fusion CF-Talk list. Now, months and months later, I have finally taken that template and wrapped it up in a little form that will generate a terms of service / privacy policy document based on your company name and residing state.

I have put the Privacy Policy / Terms of Service generator into the existing ColdFusion section of my site. I figured that the ColdFusion section was a bit more appropriate than the Utility section since it's business related (while it is technically just a utility feature). It will generate both the visual document as well as provide you with an easy to use Textarea so that you can copy-n-paste the HTML used to generate the document.

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Reader Comments

Thank you very much.

I needed to update the Privacy Policy and didn't even have a Terms page.

Michael

My pleasure.

A quick question, where it says state will that work for overseas countries or something such as "USA" (for all of america)?

@Shuns,

The State field gets used in the Privacy Policy (State of XXXX). I suppose you could later that to fit your needs. Again, I don't really know that much about this stuff, I was just working off of a generic template that someone posted.

Thx for the template I just put up my hosting site and had to have a TOS and Private Policy. I added things to the terms to fit my needs and looks great.

Thanks
www.grandhostingsolutions.com Support Team

Awesome! Glad that I could provide a nice little service here.

Thank you for this, it is very useful!
Carole.

My pleasure. It's something that I have been wanting to do for a long time.

Thank you so much...you're a hero!

Glad to help.

Awesome job. This is a REALLY nice tool. Helped me out alot.

Just used it on my site. Thanks for making it so easy!

It is very useful thanks.

It's quite difficult for newbies to write their own Terms of Service but this tool will really help them out.

Thanks buddy...

You saved me a million hours... And my sanity...

thanks! i needed some generic terms, i know that eventually i should have a lawyer go over my specific situation but in the meanwhile I HAD to put something up to be in compliance. this is excellent.

Thanks very much for this! I was wondering how I was going to do it. This is perfect!

I'm building a website for my Mom and suddenly found myself in need of these site documents - with no idea where to start.

Thanks for sharing this very nifty resource!

@Tonya,

Happy to help - glad you found it useful.

thanks ben, I'm not a big fan of contracts so to find your no no-nesense ToS generator has helped me no end.

all the best

matt

Thanks for the cool little tool. This will help the new guy, I'm going to add a link back to this generator at the bottom of my page.

@Tom,

Glad to help out my man.

thanks for that!

This was very helpful. Thank you for coming up with it.

Hi,

I been searching for TOS and I found your page. The generator is excellent! Thank you for taking the time out to make it.

I just have a quick question. If we use this TOS etc will it be valid protection for us? Does it hold any value?

Or is it meant to provide a little cover fire for a broke developer (me) haha until he/she can scrape up enough money for a lawyer etc

Thanks again for making this!

@JustLaunched,

This has not been run by any legal team. It's just to have *something* in place.

@Ben Nadel

Hey thank you for replying. Yeah I just wanted more detail on it that's all. I think I get what you are saying though :-)

You are right though... "Sade makes coding feel sexy." haha

One time I was programming and I finally solved part of an application and I cranked up the headphones with her song "Smooth Operator." You should try it... It makes you feel like a King.

King Kong ain't got sh*t on me!!! hahah - Training Day.

Alright man thanks again, and thanks for creating the generator.

- Cypherpunk

@JustLaunched,

Ha ha ha, Smoother Operator is a quality song for sure.

Hi Ben, you have really solved my problem. I will surely recommend your great tool to all my webmaster friends. !! Have a nice day.

Thanks man awesome

Thank you very much!
I was searching for this for long time.Finally i could enter correct query into g00gle search box to arrive at your page...

Thanks for a very useful resource, Ben! Any idea where one could get a boilerplate disclaimer for the new FTC rules?

:)

Erich

@Erich,

I have no idea what FTC rules are :)

Oh god thanks,
I would need this as the base so i can got mine up and running soon ;p

Thanks for providing this tool Ben. I've been trying to find a good TOS template or an example of one for quite some time. I didn't expect to find a free tool that would create a customized TOS page for me. This is very cool! I appreciate it.

Ya, it did becoming a great too for starter user to have their personal TOS on using the base template..
So yeah, good job dude

@Scott, @John,

Glad it was able to get you moving in the right direction.

Ben, thanks for the help with this terms of service generator. Great stuff. Thanks!

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