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Best Examples of a Privacy Policies and TOS?


Sorry for the boring question.

I'm looking for any good READABLE examples of companies' PP and ToS. Have you seen any in the past that you thought were good?

Alternatively, if you know a good PP/ToS generator, that would be also very helpful.


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Here is a readable and simple Privacy Policy (PP) from a now-defunct search engine called Cuil (launched in 2008, shut down in 2010):

https://web.archive.org/web/20100830150424/http://www.cuil.c...

Remember that the length of a privacy policy is also a measure of readability. A company may aim to make their PP readable using plain language (rather than legalese jargon) but if that PP takes 20-30 mins to read (as is the case with many popular online services), can it really be called readable? The sheer length of many PPs is also a measure how much data companies collect. One of the reasons why you will never see a short PP from the likes of Facebook, Google etc.

https://www.designboom.com/readers/dima-yarovinsky-visualize...

Here are some other PP policies from search engines with a focus on privacy:

Startpage: https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy/

DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

Here is the Terms of Use (ToS) for the BBC 'RemArc' project. The ToS is a bit too long (6 A4 pages, although spaced out in large font and bullet points) but easy to read through:

https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/blob/master/doc/2016.09...