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A way to automate all your legal & compliance issues

Hi guys, I recently joined this community and I am amazed with the quality of posts!

I recently exited my previous startup (ius.ai) & now I want to validate my idea for another one - automatic generation and updates of privacy policy & terms of use for small companies.

As a trained lawyer me and my team could deliver fully GDPR compliant privacy policies & terms of use that actually don't say "not liable" every single line - it does little to really protect founders in many jurisdictions. I guess we could run such service for around $7/month and $70/year (Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy and ToS - all updated when law changes).

Is it at all interesting for you guys?

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    Alternatively, this could be a workflow: 1) You submit your URL & basic info (e.g. how payments are processed); 2) Lawyer checks out your website & you get drafts Terms of Services, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy; 3) We do as many revisions as necessary; 4) Your legal documents are approved and delivered. It's single payment model including consultations with lawyer (no client-attorney relation established though). As an upsell, monthly compliance checks are possible ($19 per month). Pricing for that would be $179 (solo - 1 website), $1199 (business - up to 10 websites) & enterprise custom model. Standard 14 days refund available (unless the project is already approved). What do you say?

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    Great idea, for this price I would probably use such service.

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      Good to hear that! I checked your product website and apart from the fact that the product seems very helpful your ToS & PP are very well done - can I ask you how did you get it done in such a way and share if there were any costs involved?

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        Look at the very end of them, there are credits to the open source from which it is taken -
        https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic

        I worked hard to adjust them to my own service and needs, to the best of my knowledge and understanding (I'm not a lawyer)

        The text itself is hosted on docsie.io for free

        Over all it cost $0 and a day of work

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    I would go for one time pricing instead of SAAS. A better SAAS priced tool could be help me with anything legal for a set price like manypixels for legal stuff

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      Yes, that's ultimately UBER for lawyers - there is a reason why it still doesn't exist. Legal jobs are highly regulated and you cannot easily provide legal help across borders. I am looking here at something much less ambitious, providing attorney-level ToS, PP and CP without establishing client-attorney relationship.

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    Yes this would be very helpful, perhaps for a startup sum you could have an actual atterny check it for you and make sure it 100% fits your business.

    I recon some business have special needs in this

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      This is possible, thanks for the suggestion. Although no client-attorney relation would be established (still, I'm pretty sure it would be 95% better than it is now on most websites).

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    I was actually just looking into this today while working on a client project. Right now, I'm requiring clients to either have an attorney draft GDPR and CCPA compliant terms, or else have them agree to use some boilerplate. At the price point you're suggesting, I'd happily use a service like this for the peace of mind it would bring.

    Another thing that would really help me, as someone making and launching sites and web apps, is a plain English summary of my responsibilities as far as collecting, storing, and using data goes.

    As an upsell, I'd be willing to pay more for a quick consultation on the specifics of whatever I'm building to see if there are any special issues that I need to be aware of or have covered in the Terms or Privacy Policy.

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      Good to hear that, it's exactly my idea that it would just be easier for devs to outsource all legal and compliance just to forget about it. Thanks for suggestions - summary and consultations are great ideas (although no client-attorney relation would be established). I will let you know if we decide to purse this idea.

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    Hey, i'm an ex lawyer turned dev too, and yes i think this could be valuable. The only question would be how you handle claims if made against one of your clients (subscribers). what are your thoughts?

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      For this price it's beyond the scope of the service. Some sort of disclaimer would be in place (e.g. Nothing on this site shall be considered legal advice and no attorney-client relationship is established). It's still just template generation, although done by lawyers.

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          I think it's a relatively safe zone, in EU&US legaltech people do even more than generating documents without client-attorney relation.

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