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I am at a point where I need to have a Terms of Service (TOS) page ready before I launch my SaaS product. Is there a template somewhere that I can use, or is this something that only a lawyer can help me with?

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Good question - need one myself. All I know at this point is any contract you're expecting your clients to agree to has to be a two way thing and give them some security as well as you the vendor. – benmcfc Oct 17 '10 at 17:53

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I don't have much experience with this myself, but I've looked into it, and I found the following questions helpful (although you may have already seen them):

  1. Putting Together a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service

  2. Is it okay to plagiarize another website's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy?

  3. Does plagiarism apply to legal documents?

You can try the free privacy policy generator at http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com and customize it for your needs.

Also the Wordpress TOS is licensed under Creative Commons and seems to be a popular one to use as a template/base for your own.

I don't see anything wrong with using one of these templates to start off with. However, once your product starts getting some traction I would definitely have one drawn up for me by an attorney.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks for all the great links, I'll try the free privacy generator to see what it generates, I am up for an hour of boring reading... Thanks! – Ricardo Oct 17 '10 at 21:25

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