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Keep Terms of Service and Privacy Notices Separate

This article examines why terms of service and privacy notices should work in conjunction with one another, but also why it is not advisable to incorporate privacy notices into online terms of service.

5 minute read April 01, 2022 at 12:07 AM
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Shawn Helms, David Saunders and David Sorenson
Keep Terms of Service and Privacy Notices Separate

There is such a thing as "over lawyering." Perhaps that is a funny thing for three lawyers to say. But, in the case of online terms of service and privacy notices, it is certainly true.

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