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Writing a Terms of Service for my iPhone app that uses Google Analytics
I'm finding a resource for writing a TOC for my app that uses Google Analytics to analyze content traffic.
I don't hire a lawyer and just plan to copy from someone else.
Could you please point out ...
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Payment methods and conditions for fresh startup
I am an Interface designer and a startup asked me to work with them. As of now they are only two people and do not have a budget, so they would offer a share in the company.
I would be fine in ...
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B2B SAAS business. Enterprise customers keep asking to accept their terms agreements
My business is a B2B SaaS business that I've been running for the last two years. It is self-provisioning, self-service, subscription-based service charged to customers credit cards. Monthly ...
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How do I ensure any ToS dispute is handled in the country where I live?
I want any Terms of Service dispute to be handled in the country where I live, that is, in Swedish courts. Given this, which ToS snippet of the two below is the correct one? I'm guessing it's the ...
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Consequences with investors if company doesn't meet agreed milestones
I have a few questions about promised milestones to investors.
Is it common to include very specific milestones in the term sheet?
What are the consequences if you fail to meet them? Losing Board ...
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Can you be sued by a competitor simply for looking at their website?
I have been working on a SaaS product for about a year and a half (on and off, among other projects). Lately I have gotten serious about the product. While doing a routine evaluation of competitors ...
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What's the difference between customer, client, user and consumer?
My company sells fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product.
How would one call an entity subscribed for a free service and distinguishably name another that ...
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Is it legal to add content to a third party sites via a browser extension?
I want to create an extension that adds content on third party sites.
I will not show any advertising and I will not hide the site's content.
I'd like to add my related content to 5 or 6 third party ...
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Profit Share with Customers
Has anyone here ever tried giving a share of company profits to regular clients? We are thinking of allocating about 30% of after tax profits to a pool in which our regular customers share. The payout ...
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Templates for privacy policy / terms of use for a Web Application
Is there a good resource for templates for those documents?
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Terms of Use: Meaning of “If these terms … are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited …”?
I'm copy editing WordPress' Terms of Service to my own web hosting service, and I wonder what does this mean:
If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Automattic,
acceptance is ...
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Where can I find a list of pricing structure types?
Whenever people or businesses purchase services or products for a price, they do so using a pricing structure put in place by a business.
These pricing structures are really defined by the Terms Of ...
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Terms and Conditions for a Meetup.com-style network?
I am about to open up registrations to my open-source meetup.com alternative, but am worried about the legal side.
What sort of things should I put in the Terms and Conditions, and do I need them to ...
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In what language should terms and agreements be written?
I'm launching SaaS which will be accessed mainly through mobile app and web browser. Company will be located in one of the EU countries, but will offer services worldwide.
I'm wondering in what ...
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Can I use Terms of Service for my SaaS instead of regular contract?
I have a B2B SaaS web app. In most cases my clients are small or medium sized organizations and we have annual contracts. In other words, they sign the contract, according to which they are 'locked ...
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How to specify that you are not going to share information with third party in Terms of Service
I'm running a site where users generate their data and store it. I do not share it or plan to share it ever with 3rd party. How do you specify that the site is not going to share information with ...
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Disclaimer for application usage
I'm building an application that lets users upload images from their desktop. (A FTP kind of program)
Where do I find a disclaimer text for a program like that? Something that says "I'm not ...
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How to align the Terms of Service with a Social Network Providers TOS?
Hello we're trying to afford the Terms-of-Service compilation on our own taking as the base the wonderful Wordpress TOS: http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
In a great part it is absolutely OK for us. But ...
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Why is it that after removing any liability, warranties have expressions like “but in any case not more than $1.50”?
If the non-liability works – it works. If not – why would the second part work?
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Which Country is Suitable for Legal Protection in Game Automation Software Development
After reading today's Gamasutra article about Jagex vs Impulse Software, and considering my own academic activities, I suddenly became very concerned with my legal protection.
As such I would like ...
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Image uploading app - Terms of service
I'm currently working on a simple image uploading app that lets you upload images to services like Flickr and Facebook. Do I need a terms of service or some other kind of disclaimer for an app like ...
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Require attribution with a link for SaaS widget?
I'm trying out a new product where race directors put a widget on their site which gives them access to the mapping data on my site and I'm setting up my contract.
I'm considering whether the ...
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Need a terms of service generator for a web design startup
Does anybody know a good terms of service generator? I need one that, besides inserting company name and etc, will outline my and my customers' rights so I don't have to read the whole thing. I'm only ...
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Necessity of a Tag-Along Right
Can anyone point me at a true story where someone was bitten by not having a Tag-along clause? Can that really hurt startups/startup-employees on acquisition?
Definition: "The Tag Along Clause is ...
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What do “DDU Taiwan” and “L/T” mean?
I'm in the U.S. My customer in Taiwan says:
Please kindly provide the unit price (based on DDU Taiwan) and L/T.
What does "DDU Taiwan" and "L/T" mean? My company has not shipped anything ...
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Why can't a startup “own” its employees when sport clubs can?
Soccer clubs (at least in Europe) "own" their players for the duration of the contracts. These players are working for their clubs in a very similar way to employees working for startups. My question, ...
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Niche News / Forum Aggregation Service Legality / ToS Violation?
I'm operating in a nice profitable niche right now. There are a lot of news and blog sites within the industry and a few very popular forums. My question is would either of the following services be ...
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How to find a technical co-founder without compromising our company's plans?
We are a team of 2 and we hit an idea about a social media startup some time back.
Everything said and done we know that we don't have a tech cofounder.
while we look for one we don't want to discuss ...
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Defining your website terms and condiitions
I assume that some people on here have defined terms and conditions on their websites. How did you come to define it? Did you hire a lawyer to help draft one up or go online and find a template that ...
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When should I register as an agent to receive copyright infringement notices?
I am developing a user generated content site right now and its almost finished so I have been researching a bit on what I need to do legally. I know its going to take a lot of hard work and time to ...
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Plain english translation of these finance terms
What does these mean in plain English, guessing the best way to describe it is by giving theoretical numbers for best worst case instances, though that's just my thought - I'll leave it up to you to ...
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Equity and compensation for boot strapped venture
I have been approached by a friend to help with the business side of a venture that he has developed/bootstrapped. No external funding until now. He has developed a working product with outsourced and ...
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What happens if you write a “bad invalid EULA”?
From this answer someone wrote
In my EULA I also include that the
maximum liability shall not exceed the
purchase price of the software
and a comment saying
also a good example of a bad ...
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Saas - Terms of use, privacy policy
We're getting closer to launching our e-commerce platform, that will be hosted on our dedicated servers, provided by a well known hosting company.
I suppose it's a good idea to have us covered with a ...
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How do I put my conditions for repairing a computer into writing?
I have been a fulltime student recently working on graduate work to complete a graduate degree. While continuing my studies I have maintained my computer hobby. However, recently my computer hobby has ...
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Is “Public Offer” synonym of ToS?
My company provides fee-based online services in addition to a free basic online service and product.
We have not bothered until now much with ToS before but with increase of fee-based clients ...
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What is the difference between ToS and terms-and-conditions?
I see in this board the two tags:
ToS (which I understood as "The Terms of Service")
terms-and-conditions
The same I see for on-line services. Some companies, providing on-line services, ...
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Facebook API policy about storing user data
recently more and more apps appear that retrieve data from Facebook and store it in some form for further processing purposes.
Examples:
www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/18.html
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Acceptable Incubator Terms
I have seen the various documents the incubators (like Techstars Seed Funding Documents) have posted. These all represent follow on investments after their program.
What kind of terms can you expect ...
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Are there free “terms and conditions” templates available?
I'm about to release my web app, and want a basic document that says "hey, when you pay us you're getting access to the app for a year. We reserve the right to change the app in ways that we think ...
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Do terms of service and privacy policy need to be drafted by a lawyer?
I am trying to do a startup web app and I need a terms of service and privacy policy. Is there any way to do it without a lawyer? Why I ask is because I don't have that much money.
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Is there a Terms of Service (TOS) template that I can use for my SaaS product? Please help, I am a geek and this is new to me
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 ...
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How to determine interest on overdue payment, based on terms of the contract
So, like most of the people starting out with own business, I picked a boiler plate contract and made minor modifications and used for a client project.
You might already be familiar with this ...
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Does plagiarism apply to legal documents?
I want to copy a Terms & Conditions agreement from a competitors site & swap out their name for mine. A few entrepreneurs I know have also done it but I wanted to make sure there aren't any ...
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Is it okay to plagiarize another website's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy?
Let's say you find another website with very similar content and operations. Is it okay to copy their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, tweaking it to fit your needs?
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When do I need to register a company for my start up
I have an idea for a start up but would like to get a POC solution developed for feedback purposes before I spend time and money on the full product development.
Since I cannot develop the POC myself ...
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Licensing. How to for a SaaS
We are currently developing a SaaS based software service and offer it to our customers as a monthly/yearly contract basis.
So in essence, they will pay us to host/maintain their stuff on our ...
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What's the process around transferring the cash upon a VC funding round?
Let's assume a startup and a VC agree to $X of funding in a Series A. What typically is the process (the mechanics) around transfer of funds from the VC to the startup? (A) Do the funds typically ...
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What are examples of terms on the far end of a funding round?
By "far end" I mean after the round is executed and some time has passed.
Do term sheets typically state what happens if agreed upon milestones are not met?
are there ever claw back provisions on ...
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Got an offer to white label one of my products. What do I do?
I got an offer to white label one of my products.
They want to determine pricing/conditions, etc.
I would appreciate any advice/references on how to best deal with this situation.
Thanks in advance.
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