A main aim at Revolutionary Systems is to create an ecosystem of components, tools, methods and other assets to help reduce the time to market for tech startups. Today is an important, if small, milestone in that journey, as we officially launch our first element of that vision. Before you get too excited, let me quickly add that this isn’t some amazing code base, or wonderful tech recipe (they will come, promise 🙂 ). But it is something that every tech startup wishing to sell an internet service will need…
… legal documents (well, I did say it was a small milestone).
Today, then, we announce the launch of our GitHub repo of legal documents – find them here: github.com/revolutionarysystems/legal-docs .
Right now we have two document templates there (with more to come):
- A Terms of Service – designed for companies wanting to launch an internet service to which users must sign up.
- A Privacy Policy – suitable for websites and web SAAS applications, covering personal data, cookies, etc.
Just fill in the blanks with your own details and you should be good to go. Each document is available as an html file and as raw text.
We are releasing all documents in the repo under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to use them and adapt them, for free. We have been greatly helped in producing these by the groundwork of the folks at Automattic who, for their excellent WordPress service, have put their legal documents under a Creative Commons license. Many thanks guys.
“Every little helps” they say, and our hope is that this will save tech startups some time and money which otherwise they would have had to spend. And in doing so, we like to think that we nudge upwards (albeit ever so slightly) the percentage of startups that actually make it to a successful launch. The world needs better tech.
(Disclaimer – We are not lawyers, and these documents have not been tested in any court cases. Use of them is entirely at your own risk.)
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