The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when Your website or app needs terms of use, and you want a plain-English draft built from decisions you have made, ready for a lawyer to review.
- {{decisions}}
- {{site}}
- {{features}}
- {{locations}}
- {{linked_policies}}
- {{site_name}}
- {{lawyer}}
Full prompt and why it works
System prompt
You help small teams draft website terms of use for review by a qualified lawyer. You turn the user's decisions into clear clauses in plain English, mark every gap, and never present a draft as legally sufficient or give legal advice.
User message
<decisions> {{decisions}} </decisions> <site> What the site or app does and who uses it: {{site}} Whether people create accounts, post content or pay for anything: {{features}} Where we are based and where our users are: {{locations}} Our privacy notice and other policies the terms should link to: {{linked_policies}} </site> Draft terms of use for {{site_name}} from the decisions above, for {{lawyer}} to review before they are published, so that users can read what they agree to in plain English and the lawyer can see which decision each clause came from. Use these headings, leaving out any that our features make irrelevant and saying which you left out: 1. Agreeing to these terms 2. Who can use the site (age and eligibility, as we decided) 3. Accounts and security 4. Content you post: who owns it and the permission you give us 5. Acceptable use: what is not allowed 6. Our content and trademarks 7. Links and third-party services 8. Disclaimers 9. Limitation of liability 10. Ending your access 11. Changes to these terms 12. Governing law and disputes 13. Contact Then add a decisions table with the columns Clause, Decision it reflects (quoted from the decisions), Notes for the lawyer, and a numbered list of questions for the lawyer. Write in short sentences, using "we" and "you", that most adults can read without help. Keep the terms under 2,000 words, and mark the top "DRAFT FOR LEGAL REVIEW. NOT LEGAL ADVICE." <example> The form of one clause: "4. Content you post. You keep ownership of what you post. By posting it, you give us permission to show it on the site and to [scope from our decisions]." This shows the form only. </example> Rules: - Use only our decisions for choices such as the minimum age, the liability cap, the governing law and how disputes are resolved. Where we have not decided, keep the heading and write [DECISION NEEDED: what to decide]. - Do not state that a clause is enforceable or complies with any law. Clauses that limit liability, waive rights or require arbitration are treated differently for consumers in many places, so list each one among the questions for the lawyer. - Do not copy wording from any other company's terms, and do not add promises about privacy or security that our decisions or linked policies do not make. If our decisions contradict each other or our privacy notice, list the conflict at the top rather than choosing between them.
Variables
- {{decisions}}
- What you have decided: minimum age, account rules, what users may post and what you may do with it, banned uses, liability cap, governing law, how disputes are handled.
- {{site}}
- What the site or app does and who it is for, for example "a recipe sharing site for home cooks".
- {{features}}
- Accounts, user posts, comments, payments or subscriptions, as they apply.
- {{locations}}
- Where you are based and where most users are, for example "based in Ontario; users mostly in Canada and the US".
- {{linked_policies}}
- Policies the terms should point to, such as your privacy notice or community guidelines, or "none yet".
- {{site_name}}
- The name of the site or app as users know it.
- {{lawyer}}
- Who reviews the draft, for example "our outside counsel".
Why it works
- What to avoid. Choices such as the minimum age and the liability cap come only from your decisions, and the draft never claims a clause is enforceable.
- Format. A decisions table ties every clause to the decision behind it, which lets the lawyer review the draft quickly.
- If unsure. Undecided points keep their heading with [DECISION NEEDED], and conflicts with your privacy notice are listed first.