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Originally Posted by Harmon
Bad advice. Get a lawyer if you are worried about repercussions. I can guarantee you that telling a judge your best legal advice came from GFY and that you you should copy somebody elses website will not help.
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Did you read my last sentence?
Reality is people write agreements themselves and 99.9% of the times it's fine. If you're not going to get an attorney, that is the second best. Sure, force majeure and other things can get you in trouble and then you can have the boilerplate statement about any provision being invalid or unenforceable does not void agreement where that sometimes doesn't matter, but we're not talking Facebook here. Obviously if it was a site making enough money and with enough traffic you'll just pay an attorney, but there are examples of high profiles start-ups doing just this and they're fine... they just eventually turned to an attorney. Sometimes you have limited dollars to allocate.
Don't fuck around with 2257, but if you want a TOS and privacy policy for your lead generation website or tiny social network, boilerplate works fine until you can allocate money.