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Blog Legal Pages Generator: Terms, Disclaimer and Privacy Drafts
Enter your site details and get three plain-language drafts to edit — terms of use, a disclaimer and a privacy notice. Sections appear only for the things you actually do. A starting draft, not legal advice.
Builder GEN-04 Draft for review — not legal advice
Where you actually operate from.
Every draft carries a date line that reads as the day you generate it. Update it when you change the text, because a notice dated three years before your current analytics setup undermines itself.
What each document is for
The three pages every blog eventually needs answer three different questions, and merging them into one long page is how they all end up unusable.
Terms of use set the rules for the relationship: what a visitor may do with your writing, what happens to a comment they leave, who owns what, and whose law applies if it comes to that. They are the document you point at when someone republishes an article wholesale.
A disclaimer limits what your content promises. It says the information is general, that it is not professional advice, and that outcomes vary. On a site about money, health, law or food safety this is the one that matters most.
A privacy notice describes what you collect and why. It is the only one of the three that most jurisdictions actively require, and running analytics or serving ads is enough to bring you inside that requirement.
Why the toggles change the output
A privacy notice is a factual statement about your site, so accuracy is the whole point. Claiming to use cookies you do not use is a misstatement, and omitting the analytics you do run is a bigger one.
Ticking analytics adds a paragraph on measurement data and retention. Ticking display ads adds one on advertising cookies and personalisation. Ticking affiliate links adds a material-connection disclosure to both the terms and the disclaimer. Ticking comments adds paragraphs on the data a commenter submits and on moderation. Ticking the newsletter adds consent and unsubscribe wording. Ticking embedded video adds the paragraph about third-party players setting their own cookies.
Leave a box unticked and the section is absent rather than hedged. Hedged legal wording is worse than none, because it implies you were not sure what your own site does.
What a generated draft cannot know
It does not know your data-retention periods, your processors, or whether a plugin you installed last year is sending visitor data somewhere you have forgotten about. Those are the details a regulator asks about, and they have to come from you.
It also cannot make jurisdictional choices. Whether you need a named data-protection contact, whether your local law requires a business register entry, and what your consumer-law obligations look like all depend on where you and your readers are. In Germany and Austria, for instance, an operator identification page is a separate statutory requirement with its own contents, and nothing generated here substitutes for it.
Read the draft as a checklist of things you need to say, then correct it into something true. That is a genuinely useful hour, and it is much shorter than starting from a blank page.
Where the pages belong once you have them
Link all three from the footer, on every page, with plain names. Do not put them behind a menu that collapses on mobile, and do not mark them noindex. There is no benefit, and a page nobody can find is the same as a page that does not exist.
The affiliate disclosure is the exception to the footer rule. A disclosure that only exists on a legal page is not conspicuous, and the guidance in most places is explicit about proximity: it belongs near the link, visible without scrolling. Keep the paragraph in the legal pages as well, but treat the on-page line as the one that does the work.
Then put a note in your calendar for a year out. Sites accumulate plugins, embeds and ad partners, and a notice that was accurate at launch quietly stops being accurate. Re-run this, re-tick the boxes against what the site does now, and update the date line.
Questions people ask
Can I publish this as it comes out?
It is a draft, and you should read every line before it goes live. The wording is deliberately plain and general, which means some of it will not describe your site and some of what your site does will be missing.
For a personal blog with ads and an affiliate link or two, a reviewed draft is a reasonable starting point. For anything taking payments, holding accounts, or operating in a regulated field, have it looked at by someone qualified in your jurisdiction.
Do I really need all three documents?
The privacy notice is the one with the widest legal backing: data-protection law in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, California and elsewhere requires you to say what you collect and why, and that applies to a hobby blog with analytics.
Terms and a disclaimer are not usually mandated, but they are what you point at when someone republishes your work or acts on your advice and it goes badly. They are cheap to have and awkward to be without.
Why does the privacy notice depend on which boxes I tick?
Because a notice has to be accurate to be worth anything. A page saying you use cookies when you do not is as wrong as one omitting the analytics you actually run.
The toggles change which sections appear. Untick analytics and the analytics paragraph disappears rather than staying in as hedged wording.
Is an affiliate disclosure legally required?
In the United States the Federal Trade Commission requires a clear and conspicuous disclosure of material connections, and it has enforced that. Similar rules apply in the United Kingdom through the advertising codes and across the European Union through consumer-protection law.
Practically, that means near the link and above the fold, not only in a footer page. The generator adds the paragraph to the terms and disclaimer, but the visible on-page disclosure is a separate job.
The jurisdiction list does not have my country.
The field is free text; type whatever is correct for you. The list is a set of common answers, not a limit.
Which jurisdiction you name matters mostly for the governing-law clause in the terms. Name the place you actually operate from; naming somewhere convenient does not make it true.
Is anything I type sent anywhere?
No. The tool runs in this page and there is no server behind it, so nothing you type is transmitted, logged or stored. Disconnect from the network, reload from cache, and it still works.