252 - Let someone else take care of your website policies

Interview with Hans Skillrud and Nathan Wrigley

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So… you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don’t love? Policies. Admit it, you don’t do you? The last thing that you want to be spending your time on is ensuring that you’ve got all your websites, and those of your clients, up-to-date with the latest policies.

The reason for this is pretty obvious. You’re the website building expert, but you’re not a legal expert… well, you’re not likely to be.

Step up Termageddon to make all this go away!

We start the conversation talking about how Termageddon got started; it’s a partnership between Hans and his wife, Donata. She’s the legal brains behind it all!

We then get into what are the policies that you really ought to have on your websites, and your client’s websites for that matter, and there’s a lot more to this than meets the eye, like who is responsible and are you liable as the website builder if things go out of date. In other words, if you own an agency, are you legally responsible for making sure that your clients have got the correct policies or are you best just pointing them in the right direction?

We also get into the subject of how Termageddon actually creates the policies. There’s a wizard that you have to talk through. Sometimes you’ll fail that wizard and their service won’t be applicable to you because they don’t deal with a whole swathe of different legal areas. Sometimes it will be applicable, and you’ll be able to embed with Javascript a policy on your webpage. Termageddon will make sure that this is a set-it-and-forget-it affair; they will keep the policies up to date and you don’t have to think about it too much from then on! Nice, right?

We also talk about the fact that they are able to be used in different parts of the world. The USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, and now in Australia too. What’s good to now is that they update their policies with experts in the appropriate countries.

Here’s some more of the questions which are covered:

• What is the difference between a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service?
• When does a website actually need a Privacy Policy and/or a Terms of Service?
• Are web designers responsible for ensuring their clients get website policies?
• What can web designers do to protect their business when buildings websites for clients that require website policies?
• Attorneys vs generators vs free templates online – can we do this on the cheap?

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