I’ve been adding a terms of service page to every one of my websites recently. The primary reason for this was to adhere to the updated Google Adsense terms and conditions. They are one of my highest earning advertisers and I wouldent want to lose them by breaking a simple rule like this. I would strongly recommend you add this to all of your Adsense using sites incase they decide to clamp down on this issue. It gives them a solid case for removing your account at any time.
It is important to have a terms of service of some sort on your sites. It is beneficial to show your visitors that you are aware of and appreciate their right to privacy. As a proxy owner you sometimes work in a rather grey legal area so you should set out how your system works and what data is collected. It is also helpful to law enforcement who could seize your server in an investigation; if you specify that you dont hold logs for more than 7 days there may be less incentive for them to bother.
I looked around the web at a variety of different terms of use, they range from the incredibly basic to complex legal jargon. In an offshoot of this and to provide a free resource I decided to create my own one-page terms of service page especially for proxies. You can either link directly to our new Proxy TOS or copy the HTML to create your own proxy privacy policy.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Good call! Doing this right now.