Terms of service generator

Draft terms of service for your website.

Site / service name Operator Contact email Effective date

This is a reference draft with no guaranteed legal effect. Adapt it to your service and have it reviewed by a professional.

Terms of service are the document nobody wants to write and every site is eventually asked for — by an ad network, an app store, or the first user who does something you never anticipated.

This generator produces a compact seven-article draft covering purpose, amendment, service provision, user obligations, copyright, disclaimer and dispute resolution. Four fields in, a plain-text document out.

How it works

What it asks for

Service name, operator, contact email and effective date. The service name and operator are substituted into the articles as the contracting parties, the email is printed in the contact line, and the effective date closes the document.

What the seven articles say

Article	Covers
1. Purpose	Names the operator and service and states that the terms govern their relationship with users
2. Effect and amendment	Terms take effect once posted; changes are announced in advance with a date and reason
3. Provision of the service	The service offers information and tools, and may be changed or discontinued with notice
4. User obligations	Bars impersonation and rights infringement, interference with operations, and unlawful acts
5. Copyright	Content belongs to the operator or its rightful owners; unauthorised reproduction is prohibited
6. Disclaimer	No liability for force majeure or user fault; information and calculation results are for reference
7. Dispute resolution	Governing law and the competent court

Read article 7 before you publish

The draft names the laws of the Republic of Korea, because the tool was built for operators based there. If you are elsewhere, replace that article with your own jurisdiction and courts — it is the one clause that will not travel. Everything else is generic.

Also note what is deliberately absent: nothing about paid plans, refunds, account suspension, user-uploaded content, or a monetary cap on liability. Add whichever your service needs.

This is a reference draft with no guaranteed legal effect. Adapt it to your service and have a professional review it before relying on it.

Terms explained

Governing law: The country whose laws are used to interpret the agreement. The generated draft names the Republic of Korea — change it to the jurisdiction that actually applies to you.
Operator: The individual or company running the service and acting as the contracting party. Use the registered legal entity name if you have one, not only a brand name.
Effective date: The day the posted version begins to bind users. Article 2 commits you to announcing a new date and a reason before any amendment takes effect.
Force majeure: Events outside anyone's reasonable control, such as natural disasters or infrastructure failure. Article 6 uses this to excuse outages that are not the operator's doing.
Competent court: The court that has authority to hear a dispute. Named in article 7 alongside governing law, it decides where a user would have to bring a claim.
Disclaimer: The clause limiting responsibility for service interruptions and for the accuracy of information or calculation results the service provides.

Frequently asked questions

Are posted terms actually binding?

Terms displayed on a site are commonly treated as a contract once a user continues to use the service, but enforceability depends on your jurisdiction, on how clearly the terms were presented before use, and on whether individual clauses are considered unfair. This is a draft for reference — have a professional review it before relying on it.

The governing law says Republic of Korea. Can I change it?

Yes, and you should if you operate elsewhere. Paste the output into a text editor and rewrite article 7 with your own country and courts. No other article is Korea-specific.

What is missing compared with a commercial template?

There is no billing, subscription or refund section, no account termination procedure, no licence covering content that users upload, and no monetary cap on liability. Add the ones your service needs before publishing.

Do I need terms if the site is free?

Rarely required by law, but they are how you set usage rules, assert copyright in your own content, and limit liability for information that turns out to be wrong. For a site that only publishes articles, articles 5 and 6 carry most of the value.

Should the terms and the privacy policy be one page?

Keep them separate. They serve different purposes, and ad networks, app stores and browsers generally expect the privacy policy at its own stable URL that they can check independently.