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Terms and Conditions Prompt: Draft Checklist From Practices
Prepare terms and conditions for lawyer review: ChatGPT maps clauses to how your site works, drafts plain sections, flags conflicts, and lists lawyer questions.
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Prompt
Act as a legal operations specialist who prepares website and app terms and conditions drafts for a lawyer to review. You are not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. You draft only from the business's real practices, you never copy another site's terms, and you mark every point that needs a lawyer's decision. Inputs: - The business and product (what it sells, to whom, where it is based): [BusinessAndProduct] - How it actually works (accounts, payments, free trials, subscriptions, refunds, user content, age limits): [HowItWorks] - What other pages already promise (pricing page, checkout, help center, emails): [CurrentPromises] - Where users are located and where the business is registered: [Jurisdictions] - Existing legal documents (privacy policy, old terms), pasted or summarized: [ExistingDocs] Generate: 1. Clause map: a table of the clauses these terms need, each tied to a specific practice in HowItWorks, with columns Clause, Practice it covers, Draft status, Lawyer decision needed. 2. Plain-language draft sections for accounts, subscriptions and renewal, refunds, user content, acceptable use, and termination, written only from my facts, with [LAWYER: question] markers where a choice is legal. 3. Conflict list: every place where CurrentPromises and HowItWorks disagree, with the exact wording from each and which one must change. 4. Subscription disclosure checklist: what to show before purchase and in the terms for renewal, price, trial end, and cancellation, noting that federal law (ROSCA) and state automatic renewal laws such as California's apply to online subscriptions. 5. Privacy policy consistency: anything in the terms that the privacy policy must match. 6. Questions for my lawyer: a short, numbered list I can send before our call. Rules: - Not legal advice. Every section is a draft for a licensed lawyer in my jurisdictions to review. - Do not invent laws, case names, or deadlines. Name a law only if it clearly applies, and say the lawyer must confirm. - Arbitration, liability caps, warranties, and governing law are always lawyer decisions.
Instructions
Fix every item on the conflict list first, then send the draft sections and lawyer questions to a licensed lawyer before publishing anything.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
BusinessAndProduct: a small online yoga class app run by a Delaware LLC, selling live and recorded classes to adults. HowItWorks: accounts with email login; monthly subscription at $15 with a 7-day free trial that converts to paid; cancel anytime in account settings; no refunds for partial months; members can post comments in a community feed; 18+ only. CurrentPromises: pricing page says "30-day money-back guarantee"; checkout says "cancel anytime"; welcome email says comments are moderated within 24 hours. Jurisdictions: users in the US and Canada; company registered in Delaware. ExistingDocs: privacy policy says we use comments to improve classes; no current terms.
Example Output
1. CLAUSE MAP | Clause | Practice it covers | Draft status | Lawyer decision | | Eligibility | 18+ only | drafted | how to verify age | | Accounts | email login | drafted | none | | Subscription and renewal | $15 monthly, 7-day trial converts to paid | drafted | renewal disclosures for US states and Canada | | Refunds | no refunds for partial months | conflict, see 3 | which policy to keep | | User content | community comments | drafted | license scope | | Moderation | 24-hour moderation promise | conflict, see 3 | whether to promise a time | | Termination | cancel in settings | drafted | none | | Liability, governing law | all | not drafted | always lawyer | 2. DRAFT SECTIONS (excerpt) Subscription and renewal: Your membership starts with a 7-day free trial. When the trial ends, your membership renews automatically at $15 per month until you cancel. You can cancel anytime in Account Settings, and you keep access until the end of the paid month. [LAWYER: confirm renewal reminder and cancellation wording for US states and Canadian provinces.] Refunds: [LAWYER: choose between "no refunds for partial months" and the 30-day money-back guarantee, see conflict list.] User content: You keep ownership of comments you post. You give us permission to show them in the community feed. [LAWYER: set the license scope, given the privacy policy says comments are used to improve classes.] 3. CONFLICT LIST - Refunds: pricing page says "30-day money-back guarantee"; practice is no refunds for partial months. One must change before the terms go live. - Moderation: welcome email promises moderation "within 24 hours"; the terms should not promise a time unless you can meet it. 4. SUBSCRIPTION DISCLOSURE CHECKLIST - Before purchase, show that the trial converts to $15 per month, when the first charge happens, and how to cancel, near the sign-up button. - Get clear consent to the renewal terms. - Send a confirmation that repeats the terms and the cancel path. - Keep cancellation as easy as sign-up (in Account Settings). - Federal law (ROSCA) and state automatic renewal laws, such as California's, cover these points. Ask your lawyer which apply and about Canada. 5. PRIVACY POLICY CONSISTENCY The terms and privacy policy must describe comment use the same way. 6. QUESTIONS FOR MY LAWYER 1. Which refund policy should we keep? 2. Which renewal reminder rules apply to our US and Canadian users? 3. Do we need arbitration or a liability cap? 4. What license do we need for comments? 5. Which governing law should we choose?