Terms Of Service Template
Use this as the preferred structure for TERMS.md. Preserve accurate existing policy text when updating, but remove contradictions and unsupported promises.
# Terms Of Service
Effective date: TODO(confirm): YYYY-MM-DD
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of TODO(confirm): [product/service] provided by TODO(confirm): [legal entity/owner].
This draft is provided for review and is not legal advice.
## 1. The Service
Describe the product plainly using repo evidence: website, SaaS app, API, CLI, mobile app, developer tool, marketplace, content service, or other surface.
## 2. Eligibility And Authority
Cover minimum age, account eligibility, and organization/workspace authority if applicable.
## 3. Accounts
Cover registration, truthful information, credential security, account responsibility, OAuth/session use, and suspension for misuse.
## 4. Acceptable Use
Include clauses relevant to the product:
- Illegal, harmful, abusive, deceptive, or rights-infringing activity.
- Attempts to disrupt, overload, scrape, reverse engineer, or bypass access controls.
- Spam, malware, credential theft, harassment, or unauthorized access.
- Uploading content without rights or in violation of laws.
Avoid overbroad enterprise clauses if the product is consumer/simple.
## 5. User Content And Data
State that users retain ownership of their content. Grant the service only the license needed to host, process, transmit, display, back up, and operate the service. Explain user responsibility for content and removal rights.
## 6. Plans, Payments, Trials, And Refunds
Include only if billing evidence exists. Cover pricing, subscriptions, renewal, cancellation, failed payments, taxes, invoices, plan changes, free trials, and refunds. Use `TODO(confirm):` where business rules are unknown.
## 7. Third-Party Services
Describe integrations, hosting, payment processors, AI providers, analytics, app stores, or external services. Note that third-party services may be governed by separate terms.
## 8. Service Changes, Availability, And Support
Use reasonable-efforts language unless uptime/SLA/support commitments are verified. Do not invent support response times.
## 9. Intellectual Property
Cover service ownership, trademarks, docs/API/client code if applicable, and feedback license if desired.
## 10. Privacy
Reference `PRIVACY.md` or the hosted privacy policy URL.
## 11. Termination
Cover user cancellation, service suspension/termination, effect of termination, and post-termination data handling with `TODO(confirm):` where retention/deletion is unknown.
## 12. Disclaimers
Use balanced "as is" and "as available" language where enforceable. Keep jurisdiction-sensitive claims for review.
## 13. Limitation Of Liability
Use balanced limitation language and mark jurisdiction-specific caps with `TODO(confirm):`.
## 14. Indemnity
Include only if suitable for the product audience, especially developer tools, marketplaces, user-generated content, APIs, or business SaaS.
## 15. Governing Law And Disputes
Ask the owner or use `TODO(confirm):`. Do not invent governing law, venue, arbitration, or class action waiver.
## 16. Changes To These Terms
Explain how updates are posted and when continued use means acceptance.
## 17. Contact
Provide support/legal contact details or `TODO(confirm):`.