Resources
Guides and resources about terms of service analysis, consumer protection, and privacy policy grading.
Checklist: spot cross-border data transfers clauses before you subscribe
Every time you sign up for a SaaS tool, a cloud storage service, or an AI-powered app, your personal data may travel across continents before you even finish the onboarding wizard. Cross-border data transfer clauses buried deep inside terms of service determine which countries can access your information, under what legal framework, and with what safeguards. Missing these clauses can expose you to weaker privacy protections, government surveillance programs, or data-handling standards far below what you expect.
Checklist: spot class action waivers clauses before you subscribe
Buried deep inside the terms of service you click "I agree" on, there is often a single paragraph that strips away one of your most effective consumer rights: the ability to join a class action lawsuit. A class action waiver means that if the company overcharges thousands of users by a few dollars each, none of you can band together in court, you must fight alone, usually through private arbitration. This checklist will teach you exactly what to look for, where to look, and what to do once you find these clauses, all before you hand over your credit card.
Checklist: spot children's data collection clauses before you subscribe
You found a great new app for your kid, or maybe a SaaS tool your whole family will use. Before you tap "Subscribe," there is a question most people skip: does this service collect data from children, and what exactly does it do with that data? Children's privacy clauses are buried deep inside terms of service, wrapped in legal language that even attentive adults miss. This checklist gives you a concrete, repeatable process to spot those clauses in minutes, no law degree required.
Checklist: spot broad indemnification clauses before you subscribe
You found the perfect SaaS tool, the pricing looks fair, and the feature list checks every box. But buried deep in the terms of service is a single paragraph that could make you financially responsible for the vendor's own mistakes. That paragraph is the indemnification clause, and if it is written too broadly, you are signing up for far more than a monthly subscription fee. This checklist will help you spot those clauses, understand what they really mean, and decide whether the risk is worth it, all before you click "I agree."
Install Terms Doctor and Run Your First ToS Scan
You just signed up for a shiny new SaaS tool, and somewhere between the "Create Account" button and the dashboard tour you clicked "I agree to the Terms of Service" without reading a single line. You are not alone, most people do the same thing. The good news is that Terms Doctor, a free browser extension, can read those terms for you, run 101 consumer-protection checks in seconds, and hand you a simple A-F grade so you know exactly what you are agreeing to.
Checklist: spot auto-renewal billing clauses before you subscribe
You found the perfect SaaS tool, entered your credit card, and clicked "Start Free Trial." Six months later you discover you have been billed every month since the trial ended, and the cancellation window closed two weeks ago. Auto-renewal clauses are the silent budget killers hiding in terms of service, and most people never read them until the charge appears on their bank statement. This checklist will teach you exactly what to look for so you never get caught off guard again.
Checklist: spot AI training on user data clauses before you subscribe
You found the perfect SaaS tool, the pricing looks right, and the feature list checks every box. But buried somewhere in the terms of service is a clause that grants the company a perpetual, royalty-free license to use your data, including prompts, uploads, and outputs, to train its AI models. If you have ever wondered whether a service quietly feeds your content into a machine-learning pipeline, this checklist is for you.
Export Terms Doctor Reports for Legal Review
You just found a red flag buried in a SaaS vendor's terms of service, forced arbitration, a broad AI-training clause, or an auto-renewal trap that could lock you in for another year. Now you need to share that finding with a lawyer, a compliance team, or even your own future self. The fastest way to do that is to export the Terms Doctor report into a clean, portable file that anyone can open, search, and annotate without installing the extension themselves.
Acceptable use policy template notes for B2B SaaS founders
If you sell software to other businesses, your acceptable use policy (AUP) is the document that tells customers exactly what they can and cannot do with your product. A weak or missing AUP leaves you exposed to abuse, compliance headaches, and awkward conversations with enterprise prospects who expect one. These notes walk you through the clauses that matter most, the mistakes founders keep making, and a ready-to-use checklist so you can draft or audit your own AUP this week.
Acceptable use policy review checklist for AI tools teams
Every AI tool your team adopts comes with an acceptable use policy (AUP) that dictates what you can and cannot do with the service. Ignore it, and you risk account termination, data loss, or even legal liability. This checklist walks you through every clause you should review before rolling out a new AI tool across your organization, so you can move fast without breaking compliance.
Compare Two Versions of a Privacy Policy Side by Side
Privacy policies change all the time, often without any notification to you. A streaming service quietly adds an AI-training clause, a SaaS tool slips in forced arbitration, or a marketplace expands its data-sharing partners from five to fifty. If you are not comparing the old version against the new one, you will never know what rights you just lost. This guide walks you through exactly how to place two versions of a privacy policy side by side, spot the differences that matter, and automate the process so you never miss a critical change again.