Jocelyn Mackie - Page 11

Former civil litigation attorney. Content legal strategist at TermsFeed.

Sweepstakes

If your promotions fall under the sweepstakes category, you will need to draft a specialized Terms and Conditions agreement. Here is how to know whether your promotion is a sweepstakes and whether it is subject to FTC scrutiny. Running sweepstakes creates an exciting promotion effort but you need to proceed with...

Privacy by Design

Your privacy protection practices go beyond having a good Privacy Policy. That's just one tool to protecting your company from liability and communicating expectations with users, but it's not effective if you do not have the business policies to back it up. That is where Privacy by Design (PbD) enters the picture....

Disclaimer Template

A Disclaimer on your app or website is often the best way to address specific points of liability that could fall outside a Terms and Conditions or a Privacy Policy agreement. This article will discuss some of the most common and important disclaimers and what purposes they serve while showing examples...

How to Comply With CAN-SPAM

Email marketing has been embraced by many industries - yours likely included. While this is often a good way to nurture leads, you need to be careful when distributing these message throughout the U.S. This caution was created by the enactment of CAN-SPAM. Here's an overview of the CAN-SPAM act that also...

Effective Date in Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

If you subscribe to apps, it's not uncommon to receive emails regarding updated Privacy Policies or Terms & Conditions (T&C). Most agreements contain a date of when the revised terms became effective or finalized. Often generally referred to as the effective date, this is traditionally the date contract terms become enforceable. While...

Class Action Waivers in Terms & Conditions

If you're in mobile apps and/or software development, you must consider potential liability. You will find it difficult to limit consumer claims based on a cause of action and still have those limits remain enforceable. That is why there's a better alternative. Class action waivers act to limit the means of dispute resolution...