Making legalese accessible: how to create friendlier terms of service and privacy policies

Get some simple tips on turning dense legalese into easy reading for your next terms of use and privacy policy updates.

Making legalese accessible: how to create friendlier terms of service and privacy policies

Nobody likes reading legalese. (Well, maybe a few lawyers do.) But for the rest of us, reading legal language makes for a laborious slog through tangled syntax, thorny diction, and periodic passages of rightfully maligned ALL CAPS. Which keeps the vast majority of us from reading terms and policies that are legally binding and therefore could bite us in the proverbial back ends.

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September 4, 2025
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