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Old February 13th, 2003, 10:56 AM
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Disclaimers, Terms and Conditions, Privacy policies
Anyone know a good source for generic versions of these texts that can be freely copied without copyright problems...

Spose I'm looking for 'open-source' legal documents. Most websites doing or selling something have these but I can't really just copy them...because for large firms they may have been drawn up by a lawyer and then copying would be infringement...and if they are a small company I can't trust that it is properly worded.

I'm really just looking for Disclaimers, Terms and Conditions, Privacy policies. When I type these in Google I tend to get a link to the website's own version...not a template for making more.

The site I want this for is a community (PHPNuke based) site which has software to download and libraries for this software a forum (which has it's own T&C page) and newsletter.

I just wouldn't like this to happen to us.
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Old February 13th, 2003, 12:50 PM
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Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions are pretty much self explanitory and not overly complicated to do. Now, if this is for a respected corporation, a final approval on the T & C should come from an attorney, but not needed in most cases.

Privacy Policy on the other hand takes a bit to do to do it right. IBM's P3P Policy Editor is a good tool to do this with.
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Old February 13th, 2003, 01:37 PM
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Thanks for the reply.

> Disclaimers and Terms & Conditions are pretty much self
> explanitory and not overly complicated to do

I have been reading through a few and they do seem to follow a pattern. I was rather hoping there might be some guidelines to help me suss what the ingredients are and why.

> IBM's P3P Policy Editor is a good tool to do this with.

Thanks...I'll download it and see. Funnily, I thought this would be the easy one.
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Most legal language these days is boilerplate that is just copied and pasted from other docs. Then if special things are needed an attorney drafts in the changes.

That's why things seem pretty much the same. I've written lots of contracts for my companies, but I don't think I ever really wrote anything.
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Looks like I'll have to do a bit of plagiarising.
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