Your company might not be acquired by Facebook anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn some lessons from Instagram and their terms of service nightmare.
If your company has an online presence, then you have (or certainly should have) a privacy policy. If you also do business on your website, you should have terms of service as well. Those are legal documents and need attention regardless of your business’ size.
A lawyer can help you figure out the legal language that you need for your TOS and privacy policy, but to avoid customer panic there are other things to consider as well. Here are the Top 3 lessons to learn from the uproar over Instagram:
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Related Resources:
- No, Instagram can’t sell your photos: what the new terms of service really mean (The Verge)
- What Do Instagram’s New Terms of Service Mean? (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)
- 3 Ways to Lawsuit-Proof Your Business (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
- 7 E-Commerce Errors to Correct by Cyber Monday (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
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