Terms of Use
Frontmatter
kind: agreement
title: Terms of Use
code: business__terms_of_use
jurisdiction: US
respondent_type: person_and_entity
confidential: false
origin_url: https://github.com/General-Legal/legal-templates/tree/main/templates/terms-of-use
prompts:
business_services: "Identify the website, app, and covered services."
company: "What is the company’s full legal name and entity type?"
effective_date: "What is the {{for_label}}?"
contacts: "Who are the primary and alternate contacts? Include name, title, email, and postal address."
business_acceptance: "Describe the actual notice and assent mechanism, including how changes are accepted."
business_eligibility: "State the audience, age limits, and organizational authority requirements."
business_permitted_use: "Describe permitted personal or business use."
business_content_license: >-
Define content processing, sharing settings, and the license needed to operate the service.
business_privacy: "Give the privacy and cookie notice URLs."
business_charges: >-
State fees, renewals, cancellation, refunds, and support, or clearly state that the service is free.
business_exit: "Give the account closure and data export procedure."
business_liability: >-
State a reasonable cap, measurement period, and exceptions appropriate to the service and applicable law.
law: "Which state’s law governs?"
business_local_notices: "Provide applicable state and consumer notices and current official complaint contacts."
business_accessibility: "Provide an accessibility help channel and available accommodations."
business_forum: "Which courts have jurisdiction, subject to mandatory law?"
audiences:
business_services: lawyer
company: lawyer
effective_date: lawyer
contacts: lawyer
business_acceptance: lawyer
business_eligibility: lawyer
business_permitted_use: lawyer
business_content_license: lawyer
business_privacy: lawyer
business_charges: lawyer
business_exit: lawyer
business_liability: lawyer
law: lawyer
business_forum: lawyer
business_local_notices: lawyer
business_accessibility: lawyer
questionnaire:
BEGIN:
_: custom_text__business_services
custom_text__business_services:
_: entity__company
entity__company:
_: custom_datetime__effective_date
custom_datetime__effective_date:
_: people__contacts
people__contacts:
_: custom_text__business_acceptance
custom_text__business_acceptance:
_: custom_text__business_eligibility
custom_text__business_eligibility:
_: custom_text__business_permitted_use
custom_text__business_permitted_use:
_: custom_text__business_content_license
custom_text__business_content_license:
_: custom_text__business_privacy
custom_text__business_privacy:
_: custom_text__business_charges
custom_text__business_charges:
_: custom_text__business_exit
custom_text__business_exit:
_: custom_text__business_liability
custom_text__business_liability:
_: jurisdiction__law
jurisdiction__law:
_: custom_text__business_forum
custom_text__business_forum:
_: custom_text__business_local_notices
custom_text__business_local_notices:
_: custom_text__business_accessibility
custom_text__business_accessibility:
_: END
END: {}
workflow:
BEGIN:
_: lawyer_review
lawyer_review:
approved: END
changes_requested: reask__draft
reask__draft:
resubmitted: lawyer_review
END: {}
Body
Terms of Use
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Terms of Use
These terms govern Identify the website, app, and covered services., operated by . Effective date: What is the effective date?. Company contact and notice details:
Agreement and eligibility
The service presents these terms for acceptance through Describe the actual notice and assent mechanism, including how changes are accepted.. Eligibility, age limits, and any authority needed to act for an organization are State the audience, age limits, and organizational authority requirements.. If you do not accept, do not use the features that require acceptance. Separate signed service or purchase agreements control their specific subject matter.
Accounts and permitted use
Give accurate registration information, keep credentials secure, and promptly report unauthorized access. You receive a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the service for Describe permitted personal or business use. while complying with these terms. You may not break the law, interfere with security, access another person’s account, introduce harmful code, or infringe others’ rights. Restrictions do not override rights applicable law or an express open-source license gives you.
Content and ownership
Company and its licensors retain the service and its intellectual property. You retain your submitted content. You grant Company only the rights needed to host, process, and display that content to provide the service as described in Define content processing, sharing settings, and the license needed to operate the service.. You must hold the necessary rights. Do not submit another person’s confidential material without authority. Voluntary feedback may be used to improve the service without payment; that permission does not authorize use of your confidential information.
Privacy and third parties
Our privacy and cookie notices are Give the privacy and cookie notice URLs.. They explain actual data practices and choices; accepting these terms does not replace a consent separately required by law. Third-party links and integrations are subject to their own terms. Company is responsible for its own conduct and makes no endorsement merely by linking to a third party.
Charges and changes
Any fees, renewal, cancellation, refund, and support terms are State fees, renewals, cancellation, refunds, and support, or clearly state that the service is free.. Required purchase and renewal disclosures are provided before payment. Company may improve or change the service with reasonable notice of material adverse changes where practical and any notice law requires. Changes to these terms take effect through the notice and assent process identified above. They do not retroactively remove accrued rights.
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the service and close your account through Give the account closure and data export procedure.. Company may suspend or end access for a material breach, unlawful use, or a material security threat, with notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure where appropriate. Export, retention, and deletion follow the privacy notice and any service agreement. Earned payment rights and provisions that by nature survive remain effective.
Warranties and liability
Except for express promises and rights law cannot exclude, the service is provided as is and as available, without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness, or noninfringement. Company does not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation.
The agreed liability limit and exceptions are State a reasonable cap, measurement period, and exceptions appropriate to the service and applicable law.. To the extent law permits and subject to those exceptions, neither party is liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages arising from the service. No term excludes liability or consumer rights that applicable law makes nonwaivable. These provisions apply only to the extent enforceable for the user and transaction.
Disputes and local rights
Governing law is Which state’s law governs?. Competent courts are Which courts have jurisdiction, subject to mandatory law?, subject to mandatory consumer protections and forum rights. The parties will first try to resolve a dispute by contacting the notice addresses, without delaying emergency relief or mandatory filing deadlines. These terms do not require arbitration or waive a jury, class, or representative action.
Required local disclosures and consumer complaint contacts are Provide applicable state and consumer notices and current official complaint contacts.. Accessibility assistance is available through Provide an accessibility help channel and available accommodations.. These terms do not represent certification to a technical standard.
General
These terms and any expressly incorporated agreement state the complete agreement on their subject. A waiver requires writing and applies only to the stated instance. Invalid provisions are severed only as necessary. Neither party may assign obligations without consent, except Company to a successor that assumes them without reducing mandatory user rights. Electronic communications may satisfy writing requirements where law permits. Export and sanctions rules apply to use of the service.
Questionnaire
Try answering this
Sample matter: Acme LLC — nothing you type below is saved anywhere.
- 1Identify the website, app, and covered services.
- 2What is the company’s full legal name and entity type?
- 3What is the effective date?
- 4Who are the primary and alternate contacts? Include name, title, email, and postal address.
- 5Describe the actual notice and assent mechanism, including how changes are accepted.
- 6State the audience, age limits, and organizational authority requirements.
- 7Describe permitted personal or business use.
- 8Define content processing, sharing settings, and the license needed to operate the service.
- 9Give the privacy and cookie notice URLs.
- 10State fees, renewals, cancellation, refunds, and support, or clearly state that the service is free.
- 11Give the account closure and data export procedure.
- 12State a reasonable cap, measurement period, and exceptions appropriate to the service and applicable law.
- 13Which state’s law governs?
- 14Which courts have jurisdiction, subject to mandatory law?
- 15Provide applicable state and consumer notices and current official complaint contacts.
- 16Provide an accessibility help channel and available accommodations.
Step 1 of 16
Terms of Use
Arrow keys or Space step through the document. Click a paragraph to highlight it.
Terms of Use
These terms govern Identify the website, app, and covered services., operated by . Effective date: What is the effective date?. Company contact and notice details:
Agreement and eligibility
The service presents these terms for acceptance through Describe the actual notice and assent mechanism, including how changes are accepted.. Eligibility, age limits, and any authority needed to act for an organization are State the audience, age limits, and organizational authority requirements.. If you do not accept, do not use the features that require acceptance. Separate signed service or purchase agreements control their specific subject matter.
Accounts and permitted use
Give accurate registration information, keep credentials secure, and promptly report unauthorized access. You receive a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the service for Describe permitted personal or business use. while complying with these terms. You may not break the law, interfere with security, access another person’s account, introduce harmful code, or infringe others’ rights. Restrictions do not override rights applicable law or an express open-source license gives you.
Content and ownership
Company and its licensors retain the service and its intellectual property. You retain your submitted content. You grant Company only the rights needed to host, process, and display that content to provide the service as described in Define content processing, sharing settings, and the license needed to operate the service.. You must hold the necessary rights. Do not submit another person’s confidential material without authority. Voluntary feedback may be used to improve the service without payment; that permission does not authorize use of your confidential information.
Privacy and third parties
Our privacy and cookie notices are Give the privacy and cookie notice URLs.. They explain actual data practices and choices; accepting these terms does not replace a consent separately required by law. Third-party links and integrations are subject to their own terms. Company is responsible for its own conduct and makes no endorsement merely by linking to a third party.
Charges and changes
Any fees, renewal, cancellation, refund, and support terms are State fees, renewals, cancellation, refunds, and support, or clearly state that the service is free.. Required purchase and renewal disclosures are provided before payment. Company may improve or change the service with reasonable notice of material adverse changes where practical and any notice law requires. Changes to these terms take effect through the notice and assent process identified above. They do not retroactively remove accrued rights.
Suspension and termination
You may stop using the service and close your account through Give the account closure and data export procedure.. Company may suspend or end access for a material breach, unlawful use, or a material security threat, with notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure where appropriate. Export, retention, and deletion follow the privacy notice and any service agreement. Earned payment rights and provisions that by nature survive remain effective.
Warranties and liability
Except for express promises and rights law cannot exclude, the service is provided as is and as available, without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness, or noninfringement. Company does not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation.
The agreed liability limit and exceptions are State a reasonable cap, measurement period, and exceptions appropriate to the service and applicable law.. To the extent law permits and subject to those exceptions, neither party is liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages arising from the service. No term excludes liability or consumer rights that applicable law makes nonwaivable. These provisions apply only to the extent enforceable for the user and transaction.
Disputes and local rights
Governing law is Which state’s law governs?. Competent courts are Which courts have jurisdiction, subject to mandatory law?, subject to mandatory consumer protections and forum rights. The parties will first try to resolve a dispute by contacting the notice addresses, without delaying emergency relief or mandatory filing deadlines. These terms do not require arbitration or waive a jury, class, or representative action.
Required local disclosures and consumer complaint contacts are Provide applicable state and consumer notices and current official complaint contacts.. Accessibility assistance is available through Provide an accessibility help channel and available accommodations.. These terms do not represent certification to a technical standard.
General
These terms and any expressly incorporated agreement state the complete agreement on their subject. A waiver requires writing and applies only to the stated instance. Invalid provisions are severed only as necessary. Neither party may assign obligations without consent, except Company to a successor that assumes them without reducing mandatory user rights. Electronic communications may satisfy writing requirements where law permits. Export and sanctions rules apply to use of the service.
Workflow
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