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Clauses for Privacy Policy

Your website and mobile app requires a Privacy Policy throughout most of the world. You cannot avoid doing business in the U.S. without coming across the California Online Privacy Protection Act or the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. The U.K., Canada, and Australia laws also require Privacy Policies. As a business, you're subject...

4 Ways a Redesign Can Make You Legally Liable

Legal agreements help you maintain control over your business, protect your intellectual property, and manage the expectations of your users. Common legal agreements that can be found on most websites and mobile app include Terms & Conditions (also known as Terms of Use or Terms of Service), Privacy Policies, and End...

The 2-step "Reasonable Communicativeness" test

Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that in order for a legal agreement to be binding under Illinois law, a user of a website must be provided with reasonable notice that by using that website, and that clicking on a specific button, an...

10 Unsubscribe Best Practices

If you own an email list and send emails to your customers, you probably send out commercial messages and need to comply with CAN-SPAM. Amongst the handful of requirements of the CAN-SPAM law is the opt-out - or unsubscribe - requirement. CAN-SPAM is an American law that aims to limit spam emails...

Clauses for Terms & Conditions

Your Terms & Conditions (T&C), can be called Terms of Use or Terms of Service, but no matter the title of your agreement, this agreement contains all the rules between you and the users who are using your website or app. You want your Terms & Conditions agreement to be complete...

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Disclosures

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a government organization that works to regulate the marketplace and ensure that consumers are safe from fraudulent or deceptive business practices. The FTC requires companies that use certain business practices to maintain specific disclosures on their websites, blogs, social media posts, videos, and apps. These...