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Do you need a privacy policy for your website?
Short answer: almost certainly yes. When it's legally required, and what has to be in one.
Read →The SaaS agreement checklist
12 clauses to get right before your first paying customer signs.
Read →What is a DPA, and when do you need one?
The first enterprise DPA request is a test of documentation you were supposed to have already.
Read →EU AI Act compliance for startups
Which obligations attach to what you're building, and which ones don't apply to you at all.
Read →Who owns the code your freelance developer wrote?
Payment is not assignment. The default answer surprises most founders.
Read →GDPR vs CCPA: what founders need to know
They're not the same law with different names. Where they actually diverge.
Read →Terms of use vs terms of service
Founders hear four names and assume they need four documents. Here's the difference.
Read →App Store privacy label rejected? Fix it fast
What usually causes it, and how to get your next submission approved.
Read →Cookie consent banner requirements
What a banner legally has to do — and the common designs that don't count as valid consent.
Read →NDAs for startups
What to include, what to cut, and when you genuinely don't need one.
Read →Checklists & libraries
Founder resources.
SaaS founder legal launch checklist
Everything that has to exist before your first paid customer.
AI startup legal checklist
Disclosure, training data, model terms and governance basics.
Privacy readiness checklist
What to fix before a buyer's security review finds it.
Contract clause library
Clause-by-clause breakdowns in plain language.
Founder legal glossary
DPA, SCC, MSA, EULA, sub-processor. Defined once, properly.
Ask Adam archive
Past founder questions and the answers to them.
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