Privacy Policy and Terms of services discussion

[QuackieMackie]

I'm curious as to how other forum owners handled privacy policies, and terms of service, did you just use the default polict and terms? Or did you find this didn't cover everything you needed?

I'm leaning towards writing one myself, just so I'd have researched the laws that could affect me, but as I know very little about law, this is slow going.

 

[StarArmy]

I purchased mine from a business that has lawyers write updated terms based on the latest laws. They way it worked was you tell them about what your site has (e.g. What Jurisdiction, Do you accept payments?) and it creates a terms of service based on the responses. I had previously written my own based on examples I saw on major websites but I decided it was safer to have lawyer-written ones after an incident happened where some ex-members were sending legal threats to me.

 

[bzcomputers]

I'm leaning towards writing one myself, just so I'd have researched the laws that could affect me, but as I know very little about law, this is slow going.

Most sites write their own based off of what other sites have done and tweak it for their specific needs. With AI available to everyone now, it makes it even easier. Find a sample you like give it to AI with additional details about your sites topic, including any laws unique to you and it'll likely give you something nearly as good as a lawyer at the cost of just a few minutes of your time. Currently I believe grok.com is the best at this (for free).

 

[QuackieMackie]

I purchased mine from a business that has lawyers write updated terms based on the latest laws. They way it worked was you tell them about what your site has (e.g. What Jurisdiction, Do you accept payments?) and it creates a terms of service based on the responses. I had previously written my own based on examples I saw on major websites but I decided it was safer to have lawyer-written ones after an incident happened where some ex-members were sending legal threats to me.

Ah I see, yeah if people do start sending legal threats an actual lawyer is probably the best way to go.
But for such a small site I plan on starting I think I can get away with writing my own for now.

Currently I believe grok.com is the best at this (for free).

Thank you for this, I'll take a look at this. The problem with AI for me is I don't trust it with important details like this. I'm probably overthinking it massively, but that little message they add saying AI can be wrong just pops up in my thoughts after I've drafted something with AI.

 

[bzcomputers]

The problem with AI for me is I don't trust it with important details like this. I'm probably overthinking it massively, but that little message they add saying AI can be wrong just pops up in my thoughts after I've drafted something with AI.

This is moving slightly off topic ...but your concerns with AI are legitimate. You should always check its output for accuracy, but the great thing about AI is there are plenty of other AI platforms around to do the checking for you. You send the output of one to another than back to another, until they all agree the final product is solid. The results you can receive doing this in just a few minutes will typically be much better than what you or many of you could do over a much longer time frame, if ever, because humans just don't have the knowledge base nor capabilities AI does.

Simple things like Privacy Policies and Terms Of Service are well within the scope of capabilities for any current AI system.