Any business presenting itself online will have to – no, want to! – make sure they have valid terms and conditions governing use of their site and apps. This nuisances of doing business online requires some effort to develop and maintain. Unfortunately, lawyers in the loop tend to increase time to market, and above all the cost of doing business.
iubenda’s Terms and Conditions Generator removes the need to have a lawyer on retainer for your terms and conditions. It is a well designed tool for businesses that need to ensure their websites and apps are governed by sound terms while meeting key statutory requirements. It allows you to easily generate and manage your terms with a straightforward interface, and keeps them up to date when the law changes.
Use Cases
- iubenda is great for small to medium-sized businesses looking for a cost-effective way to stay legally compliant. It’s also a good option for agencies managing multiple customers’ websites, as they can manage all legal documents for their customers from a single dashboard.
- Overall, iubenda is a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution for generating and maintaining legal documents. It’s highly recommended for businesses that want a reliable, automated approach to legal compliance without needing to hire expensive legal services.
Key Features
- Customization: iubenda offers over 100 customizable clauses, allowing businesses to select relevant terms tailored to their specific needs. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for businesses in e-commerce, SaaS, and app development.
- Ease of Use: The tool guides users through the process of building Terms and Conditions by selecting pre-drafted clauses. With just a few clicks, you can generate a document that fits your business without needing to start from scratch.
- Integration: iubenda integrates well with platforms like Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and WordPress, allowing you to create policies for these standard types of integrations with minimal effort.
- Compliance Updates: As laws change (such as GDPR or CCPA), iubenda updates your policies automatically without requiring manual intervention. This is a huge advantage over static document generators, which require regular and tedious reviews and edits.
- Multiple Languages: It supports document generation in up to 14 languages, which is useful for businesses with international audiences.
Supported Obligations
- Contract law
- Consumer law
- General Data Protection Regulation
- E-Privacy Directive
- E-commerce Directive
Pricing
iubenda’s pricing is tiered based on the level of service. The Terms and Conditions feature is included in their Essentials Plan, which costs around $72 per year. This plan also includes privacy and cookie policy generators, making it an all-in-one compliance solution for businesses.
Additional features are available in their Advanced and Ultimate packages. These packages expand capacity of the tool and provide things like additional output languages, the ability to minimise or reduce the company’s branding, offer API integration and geolocation of consent.
The Ultimate package (about $1200 per year) throws in the company’s tools to manage processing registers and data subject rights as well as its whistleblowing tool.