Terms of service

DRAFT SKELETON: NOT USABLE AS-IS. Unlike the privacy notice and cookie policy next to it, this one cannot be derived from the code. Terms are a contract, and the clauses that matter (liability, warranties, governing law, how disputes are handled) depend on your jurisdiction, your company structure and what risk you're prepared to carry. Every [BRACKET] below is a decision, not a blank to fill in mechanically. What this file is: a structure, with notes on the points specific to a writing app that keeps full edit history, so a lawyer isn't starting from nothing and doesn't have to reverse-engineer the product first.

Last updated: 20261025

Provider: Charles Dyer, Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6FA

1. Who these terms are between

[Entity] and you, the account holder. By creating an account you agree to them.

[Decide: minimum age. Under-16s bring parental-consent requirements under GDPR Art. 8 that vary by member state, and the honest options are to set a minimum age or to build for it.]

2. What the service does

wrisp stores documents and their complete editing history, and lets you share them with others or publish read-only links.

3. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you write. You grant [Entity] only the licence needed to run the service: storing it, backing it up, showing it to people you've shared it with.

Note for drafting: keep this licence as narrow as it can be. A broad "we may use your content" clause would sit badly beside a privacy notice promising the opposite, and writers are a group that reads these clauses.

4. What you may not do

[Standard acceptable-use list: unlawful content, infringing others' copyright, harassment, attacking the service, automated scraping.]

Note: public share links make this real rather than boilerplate: someone can publish through this service. Decide what happens on a complaint about published content, and who decides.

5. Availability

[Set expectations honestly. Is there an uptime commitment or not? Most small services say "no guarantee", which is fine if said plainly.]

6. Ending the arrangement

You can close your account at any time from your account page; it's immediate and irreversible.

[Set out when you may suspend or terminate an account, on what notice, and whether a user gets a chance to export first. Given the export already exists, giving people a window is cheap and reasonable.]

Note specific to this product: deleting an account also deletes projects that person owns, including for collaborators who have work in them. The app warns about this and offers ownership transfer. Terms should say the same, so it isn't a surprise.

7. Liability

[The clauses that genuinely need a lawyer. Consumer protection law limits what can be excluded, and those limits differ by jurisdiction.]

Note: the credible worst case here is data loss: someone's novel. Whatever limitation you land on, it should be one you'd be willing to say out loud to a writer who has lost a manuscript.

8. Changes to these terms

[How you'll notify, and how much notice for material changes.]

9. Governing law

[Jurisdiction. Note that consumer contracts often can't deprive a consumer of their home-country protections regardless of what's written here.]

10. Contact

[TBD](mailto:TBD)