Can someone copy the privacy policy etc from other site

copying privacy policy or terms of use from other site

[phparion]

Hi

i want to ask a general question. If there are two sites A and B... Site A has a very lawful and well written privacy policy and terms of use docs on it.. can owner of Site B copy that text and make changes wherever needed to make the text to work with site B?

can Site A sue site B owner for copying text from their privacy policy and terms of use etc?

thanks

[hunderdown]

The short answer is "yes, they can."

The best approach in this case would be to contact Site A and ask for permission first.

[axgrindr]

Yes... unless Site A's privacy policy was created using one of the privay policy generators out there where you can simply put in your information and it spits out a professional looking privacy policy.
That's how we made ours.
Privacy policies have a fairly standard format these days I think. There are a lists of P3P privacy policy guidelines on the w3.org website.

[phparion]

is there any free online tool where i can write my text and it could generate professionally looking privacy policy as you talked about?

[axgrindr]

sure, google 'privacy policy generator'.