Website Policy Australia
Website Policies that
Automatically Update
as the Laws Change
Protect your business from fines and lawsuits by creating your Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and other website policies with Termageddon.
Collecting regulated data (names, emails, etc.) may mean that you’re required to have a Privacy Policy with specific disclosures required under multiple privacy laws.
We provide a system to help identify the privacy laws that apply to you, generate the disclosures required under these laws, and receive updates whenever these laws change (or when new ones go into effect).
The most comprehensive website policies generator on the market.
We use Termageddon to help comply with privacy laws such as the CPRA, GDPR, UK DPA, CalOPPA, PIPEDA, and more. We also help you comply with consumer protection laws, provide eCommerce disclosures, and limit your liability.
Set it & Forget it
When you embed a Termageddon policy onto a website, it will automatically be updated with newly required disclosures whenever the laws change.
Simple Pricing
All the policies your website or application needs — $195 per year and a $250 set up fee
Unlimited Changes
When you add a new feature or functionality, you can make unlimited changes to your website policies for no extra fee.
Easy Setup
Answer a few questions to quickly generate any policy that is based on your specific business practices.
Alerts and Notices
Smart Robbie receives alerts whenever new privacy laws pass in Canada, United States, Europe and Australia so that you can stay up to date with compliance requirements.
Customisable
Easily customize any policy to your liking. We will not change the sections that you customise, but will notify you if new disclosures impact your customized copy.
Website Policies in 3 Simple Steps
Getting your website protected with Termageddon is simple!
1. Simple Pricing
Buy one license, which includes a set of policies to protect one website.
2. Answer Questions
Buy one license, which includes a set of policies to protect one website.
3. Copy & Paste
Copy and paste the embed code into the body of the policy page.
Serious Protection.
Termageddon is founded by a licensed attorney who also serves as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee. The company is the longest-running Privacy Policy generator listed as a vendor by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp).
Privacy Policy Generator
Terms & Conditions Generator
Cookie Policy Generator
Cookie Consent Solution
EULA Generator
Disclaimer Generator
Just $195/yr.
$250 set up fee-
What is the point of having a policy if you have to pay extra for limiting your liability? We charge one annual fee per website. The one off set up fee is for gathering the information to create a policy for your needs as well as adding them to your website.
One License includes all policies to protect one website or application!
- Privacy Policy Generator
- Terms & Conditions Generator
- Disclaimer Generator
- EULA Generator
- Cookie Consent Solution
- Cookie Consent Solution
- Automatic Updates & Email Notifications
Termageddon is currently available for businesses formed in the United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom and Australia.
The EULA and Disclaimer generator is currently only available for US businesses, and the Terms generator is only available for businesses formed in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. With our new app scheduled for release in 2024, all policies will be available to the markets we service at no additional fee. We will be releasing compatibility for businesses formed throughout the EU and South Africa for those interested in pre-registering.
The EULA and Disclaimer generator is currently only available for US businesses, and the Terms generator is only available for businesses formed in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. With our new app scheduled for release in 2024, all policies will be available to the markets we service at no additional fee. We will be releasing compatibility for businesses formed throughout the EU and South Africa for those interested in pre-registering.
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Which policy is the right policy?
As an agency, your clients may ask you which policies they actually need for their website. This page is intended to help you understand the general purposes for each policy so you can help your clients!
Privacy Policy
If your website has a contact form, it needs a privacy policy.
Terms & Conditions
If your website links to third-party websites, it should have a terms & conditions policy.
Cookie Policy
If your website uses cookies to track users, it should have a cookie policy.
Disclaimer
If a website offers any type of affiliate links, it should have a disclaimer.
Understanding Website Policies
Privacy Policy
Contact forms ask for a “name” and “email”, which are examples of “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII). Multiple countries and states have enacted privacy laws that impose heavy fines for not having an up to date compliant Privacy Policy. Also, over a dozen states are proposing laws that can apply to businesses regardless of their location. Several of these proposed laws will enable its citizens to sue businesses of any size located anywhere. It’s simple: if you ask for PII via a contact form, and you want to avoid fines and lawsuits, provide a compliant Privacy Policy.
Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions limit a company’s liability. If a user clicks a link to a 3rd party site that is hacked, and then that user gets hacked, a Terms & Conditions helps prevent that business from being sued.
Disclaimer
Websites providing information that could be considered health advice or legal advice (law firms!), are also good reasons to have a Disclaimer. A lot of affiliate programs will require you to have a disclaimer, and consumers want to know when you’re getting paid for links you put on your website.
Cookie Policy
A Cookie Policy further explains what cookies you use on your website and for what purposes. If you need to comply with privacy laws such as GDPR, UK DPA, PIPEDA and/or CCPA (while assuming your website uses cookies, as most do these days), you are required to provide these details so website visitors can understand what cookies you are placing on their browser.
Termageddon’s Privacy Policy questionnaire helps determine what privacy laws you need to make disclosures for and helps determine if you are required to provide a Cookie Policy (and consent solution) or not. This can help when you don’t know whether or not you need one!
The Importance of Website Policies
The first two pages of this document help explain what website policies are and how they help you comply with laws and also protect you by limiting your liability. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. We do, however, ask all of our clients to sign the final page of this waiver, acknowledging that we have provided you with this information.
What is a Privacy Policy
A Privacy Policy helps website owners comply with privacy laws by containing specific disclosures required by those laws, such as how their website collects, uses, and discloses personal information.
A comprehensive Privacy Policy is required to comply with privacy laws
Today’s modern websites are built to provide a great user experience and motivate prospective customers to reach out and inquire about what you have to offer. This is done through the use of tools such as contact forms, website analytics, and more.
Contact forms ask users to submit their ‘name’ and ‘email’, which are examples of personal information. When a website uses analytics, it collects each visitor’s IP address and shares that personal information with third party data analytics providers. These are just a few examples of the many ways websites collect and share personal information.
Privacy laws exist to protect the personal information of individuals online. Privacy laws can start applying as soon as a website asks for a name and an email on a contact form. The Australian Privacy Act, for example, has imposed strict requirements on certain website operators to have a Privacy Policy that contains very specific disclosures.
Do you know if you need to comply with Australia’s privacy law? Do you receive website traffic outside of Australia which may require you to comply with additional privacy laws? Do you have a strategy to keep your Privacy Policy up to date with new disclosures when new privacy laws are passed or existing privacy laws are amended? These are important questions to ask when running a modern day website.
Google requires your website to have policies
A website utilizing Google Analytics is required by Google to have a Privacy Policy. You can find this requirement within section 7 of Google’s Terms of Service: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/
Google has also recently announced that it is requiring all websites using AdSense to have a cookie consent banner since AdSense uses cookies and collects personally identifiable information, which is regulated under multiple privacy laws. Google is now required to ensure that websites using AdSense comply with those laws.
What is a Terms of Service Agreement
A Terms of Service Agreement limits the liability of businesses by stating the rules to using the website.
Example disclosures
When a website offers links to third-party websites (e.g. link to your Facebook page), a Terms of Service can help explain to users that the business is not responsible if a user clicks those links. So, if a third-party link brings a user to a hacked website, the Terms of Service disclosure can help prevent you from being sued.
A Terms of Service agreement can also provide a disclosure where people can contact you if they believe that you have infringed on their intellectual property. For example, if you accidentally use an image that you do not have permission to use, this disclosure can help reduce the likelihood of a copyright infringement lawsuit.
There are many additional disclosures that a Terms of Service can make, but these two are the most popular and are easy ways to protect your website and your business.
What is a Cookie Policy and cookie consent banner?
Cookies are little snippets of code that get inserted into the user’s browser and device when visiting a website. They can help ensure a website properly functions (aka essential and functional cookies). They can also track website visitors for analytics and advertising purposes (aka marketing cookies). Several privacy laws require users to provide consent prior to implementing non-essential cookies on their browsers. This is commonly done through a cookie consent banner, which will ask your website visitors to choose what cookies they want to allow to track them. It is important to identify what privacy laws apply to you, and determine if you are required to provide a cookie consent solution on your website along with a Cookie Policy further describing the purpose of each cookie.
How to get a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for your website
If you have the budget, we recommend hiring a lawyer that focuses on privacy law to write your website policies, monitor privacy laws, and update your policies when the laws change or when new laws go into effect. If you do not have the budget to hire a privacy lawyer for your website policies, we recommend using Termageddon.
Termageddon is a comprehensive website policies generator and will update your website policies when privacy laws change or new laws go into effect, helping you stay compliant and avoid privacy related fines and lawsuits, and they do it at a fraction of the cost of a lawyer. Although Termageddon is a technology company (not a legal services provider), it was founded by a privacy and contracts lawyer and the tool has been recognized as a trusted tech vendor by the largest international privacy organization in the world (iapp.org).
If Termageddon sounds like a good solution for your business, the license costs $119/year USD (~$186/yr) (AUD), and we are charging a one-time setup fee of $250 AUD to create the policy pages, insert/test the code and ensure your policies stay up to date with changes to the law. You will have full access to your policies with your own Termageddon account, and you will be notified via email when new laws go into effect and when your policies are being updated or when new disclosures require additional questions that need to be answered.
Please review and sign the Website Policies Waiver, confirming that you have received our notice on the requirements of Privacy Policies and the additional protections of Terms of Service agreements and cookie consent banners.
Website Policies Waiver
By signing this waiver, you acknowledge that we informed you that applicable (province, national, or international) law may require your website to have a Privacy Policy with specific disclosures. We are not lawyers, we do not provide Privacy Policies as a service, and we are not responsible for your business complying with any applicable privacy laws.
We have a relationship with a third-party Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy (and cookie consent), and Terms of Service generator called Termageddon and we are able to assist you with linking those policies to your website. You are under no obligation to utilise Termageddon, but it is the service that we use on our own website, have a relationship with (we receive a commission fee or can resell their license to you if you decide to purchase) and recommend. Please note, should you choose to use Termageddon’s services, your relationship will be directly with them, governed solely by their Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Please select your plan for your website’s policies:
_____ I will provide you with website policies and understand it’s my sole responsibility to update the policies when the laws change and will notify you when I have an updated Privacy Policy that needs to be put on my website. I also agree to pay a $250 AUD implementation fee to incorporate the policies onto my website.
_____ Please set me up with a $190/yr AUD Termageddon license. I understand that I will have access to the license through the Termageddon dashboard, where I can generate and update my policies. I also agree to pay a one time, $250 AUD setup fee for you to implement the policy pages and Termageddon’s code onto my website.
_____ Please connect me with a Termageddon representative so that I can receive help in setting up a Termageddon license for $195AUD. I also agree to pay a one time, $250 AUD setup fee for you to implement the webpages and Termageddon’s code onto my website.
_____ I am choosing not to have any policies on my website or will research, install, and update my policies, on my own. I understand that by not having a comprehensive Privacy Policy on my website, that I may be non-compliant with multiple privacy laws.
Policy FAQ
Does my website really need a Privacy Policy?
Since you are collecting personal information (e.g. name and email on your contact form), you are required to have a Privacy Policy. Currently, the following laws require Privacy Policies for most websites:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);
- UK Data Protection Act 2018;
- California Online Privacy and Protection Act of 2003 (CalOPPA);
- California Privacy Protection Act (CCPA);
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA);
- Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (DOPPA);
- Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A;
There are also about a dozen other states that are proposing their own privacy laws that would require most businesses to have a Privacy Policy and would affect how that Privacy Policy is written, requiring you to make changes on a pretty regular basis (see article). We’ve partnered with Termageddon because we think it’s the best service to be protected from lawsuits and fines considering that you need a Privacy Policy.
Why do I need Terms of Service?
Terms of Service is a great way to answer frequently asked customer questions and protect yourself from liability. Terms of Service provides the following:
- If you sell products and services, it provides information on refunds, order cancellations and returns. This will help answer customer questions and will take them further down the path to actually buying;
- It will protect your intellectual property by making sure that everyone who goes onto your website knows that your logo, name, etc. are yours; and
- If you have links to third party sites on your website (e.g. social media links), it will help protect you in case the user gets a virus from that third party website.
Do I need a Disclaimer?
You need a Disclaimer if you do any of the following on your website:
- Display advertisements;
- Display or sell health products (e.g. vitamins and supplements);
- Participate in affiliate programs (e.g. Amazon Affiliates);
- Provide health and fitness advice or tips; or
- Provide any information or tips that could be seen as legal advice.
If you do any of the above, the Disclaimer will help you provide required disclosures, participate in affiliate programs (some programs require you to have a Disclaimer to participate) and will reduce your liability in case something goes wrong.
Do I need an End User License Agreement?
You need an End User License Agreement if you are licensing software that a user can download. An End User License Agreement will help you with the following:
- Limit your liability in case a user gets a virus or is otherwise injured by using your software;
- Help protect your income stream by making it clear that the software license may not be shared with others; and
- Protect your intellectual property by making sure that the user knows that he or she is not allowed to reverse engineer or otherwise copy your software.
Can I write these policies myself?
While technically you could write these policies yourself, we do not recommend that you do so. There are a lot of laws, cases and legal opinions on how to write these policies correctly. If you have not spent years studying law and cases, it is very likely that the policy you write would be incomplete, incorrect and non-compliant. Also, there are currently a lot of new privacy laws that are being proposed and passed, meaning that you’d have to constantly stay up to date with these laws and amend your Privacy Policy yourself every time. This would take a lot of time and effort on your part and would take you away from your actual business. That’s why we recommend Termageddon - they take care of all of this for you and automatically update your policies so that you do not have to worry about it.
Can I ask my attorney to write these policies for me?
If you have a privacy attorney, you should definitely ask him or her to write this up for you. If you want to ask your outside attorney to draft these for you, that’s a great idea but it may be a bit pricey. Also, lawyers that do not work in the privacy field often use Termageddon as the solution for their Privacy Policies so that’s something to think about as well.
Is my business too small for anyone to care about this?
Some of the laws that are being proposed or passed do not limit enforcement and liability to large companies only so your small business could be liable as well. Also, consumers do not distinguish between small and large businesses when it comes to protecting their privacy and are less likely to buy from companies that do not respect their privacy.
Why is the Termageddon service a recurring fee?
Termageddon charges a yearly fee for its service because it automatically updates your policies whenever the law changes. Over the last year, two new privacy laws went into effect in the US - California and Nevada and we have seen some changes in the United Kingdom as well. Also, there are about a dozen other states that are proposing new privacy laws as well. Termageddon charges a yearly fee because that’s a lot of research, studying and changes to your Privacy Policy that they undertake for you.
Can I just copy and paste someone else’s Privacy Policy?
You could try and copy and paste someone else’s Privacy Policy, rewrite it to fit your website and then paste it onto your website. However, by doing so, you’d be committing copyright infringement, which could get you sued. Also, you don’t know whether that policy is compliant with the current laws and it won’t auto-update for you, meaning that you’ll have to keep track of the changes to the law which are increasing. Having Termageddon generate a policy for you is much easier, less time consuming and safer.
Can I use a template?
Using a template that you found online is definitely tempting, especially since there are so many free ones out there. However, when you use a template, you can’t be sure who wrote it so you don’t know whether it’s correct or even compliant with the legal requirements. Also, a template does not automatically update, meaning that you’ll have to keep track of all of the constantly changing laws, which I’m going to guess is something that you don’t have time for. It’s best to use a proven policy generator such as Termageddon because their work is great and they automatically update the policies for you.
How do I know if I’m collecting personal information on my website?
You are collecting personal information on your website if you have a contact form that asks for the user’s name, email, or phone number. Also, you’re collecting personal information if you ask for the user’s email to sign them up for an email newsletter.
My site is pretty secure, does that mean that I don’t need to have a Privacy Policy?
While having a secure site is awesome, it’s not related to the need to have a Privacy Policy. You need to have a Privacy Policy if you collect personal information on your website, regardless of how secure that personal information is once it’s given to you.
There’s currently no privacy laws in my state, does that mean that I don’t need a Privacy Policy?
The laws that are in place and that are proposed protect the residents of that state, not the businesses. As you know, people from California aren’t just going to websites of businesses located in California, they go to websites all over the United States. This means that you need a Privacy Policy if you collect personal information on your website, regardless of where you are physically located.
