Show HN: Termly – Free Policy Generators for Websites and Mobile Apps
termly.io
termly.io
"Disclaimer: Termly LLC is not a lawyer or a law firm and does not engage in the practice of law or provide legal advice or legal representation."
And yet the homepage says:
- Save Thousands on Costly Legal Fees - Create Customized Legal Documents - Customize one of our attorney-crafted policies for FREE
I can imagine a court being asked to determine whether or not Termly is actually providing legal support and advice for its businesses customers.
What about their own privacy policy?
> Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. See our Cookie Policy for further information.
> Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
> Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
Maybe these clauses are very standard, but you would hope that a company peddling privacy policies wouldn't have one that's as user-hostile as most. Maybe I'm not understanding it properly?
I contacted support and they advised them embed is the only option which makes it a non starter for me now, otherwise I would have happily paid the subscription as I do think the documents could be quite useful as a starting point.
Cookies, for example, may track identifying information. Thus, websites are compelled under the law to inform you of their practices actively and directly. Even requesting one page.
That's totally wrong, please don't spread falsehoods like this. Consent is merely one of several possible bases for processing.
There is no functional reason for a content-only website to require cookies.
To display you a webpage I need to process your IP address, this doesn't require any consent as it is necessary to operate the webpage at all.
Similarly a cookie that tracks the contents of a shopping bag does not immediately require consent.
If you ask a customer for a physical address during the checkout you don't need consent either.
You need consent if you want to process this data for anything but the immediately necessary purposes, ie analyzing unanonymized IPs or the contents of shopping bags or using shopping bag cookies to track visitors.