So you’re looking for a solution to help you with your website policies? Well done! Acknowledging the need to comply with privacy laws and respect the data of your website users is the first big step a website/business owner needs to take. Now that you’ve taken that step, what’s next?
Well, all that’s left to do is find a provider that can scan privacy laws around the globe, identify which ones apply to your website, generate policies with all the required disclosures, and update each of your policies accordingly as laws change or are created.
There’s one clear winner for this undertaking, and that is *drumroll*… a privacy attorney.
HOLD ON, DON’T LEAVE!
Privacy attorneys are ideal because they’re the only ones who can offer legal advice in addition to website policies. Unfortunately, the fees associated with that legal advice can be hard to swallow if your name doesn’t rhyme with Beff Jezos.
That’s why so many people turn to Privacy Policy Generators as a more affordable way to comply with privacy laws.
So, without further adieu let’s compare two of the most popular Privacy Policy Generators: Termageddon and Termsfeed.
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Pricing
For many, the decision comes down to pricing. So let’s cover that first; starting with Termageddon.
Termageddon
Price:
$12/month or $119/year for one license.
Includes:
- Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Disclaimer, Cookie Policy, End User License Agreement for one website or application
- Cookie consent banner for up to 50,000 users sessions per month
- All privacy laws and all clauses
- Automatic updates
- Unlimited edits to your policies
- Policies with no Termageddon logo/branding
Termsfeed
Free plan:
- Privacy Policy (does not cover any privacy laws, does not cover analytics, does not cover email marketing, does not cover ads, does not cover payments, does not cover remarketing);
- Terms and Conditions (does not cover user accounts, subscription plans, intellectual property provisions);
- Cookie Policy (does not include information about cookie categories)
- Disclaimer (does not cover affiliate links, medical and fitness disclaimers, nor reviews);
- EULA (does not cover licensing, app store provisions, user-generated content, app updates and maintenance nor intellectual property);
- Return and Refund Policy (does not cover store returns conditions, provisions for items on sale, nor provisions for store exchanges conditions)
- Does not include an ability to live edit text but can “update anytime” – not sure what this means;
- Requires you to credit Termsfeed in your policies.
Premium Plan – no set price and you pay the following as needed:
- Privacy Policy
- Provisions for GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, CalOPPA and more – $82
- Provisions for COPPA – $34
- Provisions for analytics – $24
- Provisions for ads – $24
- Provisions for payments – $14
- Provisions for remarketing – $34
- Terms and Conditions
- Provisions for user accounts $24
- Provisions for user-generated content $24
- Provisions for subscription plans $24
- Provisions for intellectual property $14
- Cookie Policy
- Provisions for cookie categories $14
- Disclaimer
- Provisions for affiliate links $14
- Provisions for medical and fitness $14
- Provisions for user reviews $14
- EULA
- Provisions for licensing $30
- Provisions for app store $24
- Provisions for user-generated content $24
- Provisions for app updates and maintenance $24
- Provisions for intellectual property $14
- Refund and Return Policy
- Provisions for store returns conditions $10
- Provisions for items on sale $24
- Provisions for store exchanges conditions $24
- Can update anytime, including edit text
- Does not need to credit Termsfeed on the policies
Cookie consent solution billed separately at $10.00 per month or $100/year – includes unlimited website visitors
Policies Offered
Termageddon
- Privacy Policy
- Cookie Policy
- Disclaimer
- End User License Agreement
- Terms of Service (includes Cancellation Policy, Shipping Policy, Refund and Return Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy)
Termsfeed
- Privacy Policy
- Terms and Conditions
- Cookie Policy
- EULA
- Disclaimer
- Return and Refund Policy
Cookie Consent Banner Offered and Features
Termageddon (in partnership with Usercentrics)
- Covers the following privacy laws: GDPR, UK DPA, ePrivacy Directive, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA
- Includes: website scanner for cookies
- Automatically blocks certain cookies until a user accepts those cookies
- Includes: consent and preference tracking
- Includes: Do not sell my personal information banner
- Includes: option to change the default text in the cookie consent banner
- Includes feature for changing consent settings or withdrawing consent
- Termageddon’s Privacy Policy generator informs you whether you need to have a cookie consent banner
- Geolocation detection
- Consent log
Termsfeed:
- Covers: GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, ePrivacy Directive
- Unlimited website visitors (up to 1 million plugin loads)
- Geolocation detection
- Consent log
- Automatic updates
- Customizable appearance
Support
Termageddon
- Phone
- Support portal where you can send a message
- Support portal where you can read support articles
Termsfeed:
- Support portal where you can read support articles
Privacy laws covered
Termageddon
- Australia Privacy Act 1988
- CalOPPA
- CPRA
- DOPPA
- GDPR
- UK DPA 2018
- Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A
- PIPEDA
- VCDPA
- Colorado Privacy Act (will cover once it goes into effect)
- Connecticut SB6 (will cover once it goes into effect)
- Quebec Law 25 (will cover once it goes into effect)
- UCPA (will cover once it goes into effect)
Termsfeed
- CCPA/CPRA
- GDPR
- CalOPPA
- COPPA
- PIPEDA
- UK DPA 2018
- Australia Privacy Act 1988
Automatic updates
Termageddon
- Automatic updates offered on all policies
- Updates have been made on time for every new privacy law and regulations.
- Has a state privacy bill tracker
Termsfeed
- does not appear to automatically update policies as the laws change. The generator is a one time fee and, while they do talk about new privacy laws on their blog such as the VCDPA, the blog makes no mention of policies being updated for new or changing legislation.
Expertise
Termageddon
- President – Donata – Donata is a licensed attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional, as well as the Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Committee. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the American Bar Association’s Science and Technology Council, and a member of the ABA’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.
Termsfeed
Termsfeed: LinkedIn shows:
- Max S as a Managing Partner/CEO of Termsfeed – is currently the CEO/Managing Partner of 2 other companies at the same time. Located in Romania. No actual privacy experience.
- Stephen Titcombe as a legal and data privacy writer. No actual privacy experience.
Does it help you figure out what privacy laws apply to you?
Termageddon
- Yes. The first page of the Privacy Policy questionnaire helps determine what privacy laws apply to you. The rest of the questionnaire is based upon the disclosures required by those laws.
Termsfeed
When you start generating your Privacy Policy, you are not asked about privacy laws. However, once you answer some basic questions, you are asked whether you’d like to upgrade to the professional Privacy Policy. You are then asked the following questions about privacy laws:
Do you want your Privacy Policy to include GDPR wording?
Do you want your Privacy Policy to include CalOPPA wording?
Do you want your Privacy Policy to include CCPA + CPRA wording?
There’s a couple of issues with these questions:
- Their explanations for who the laws apply to make no sense – for example, CCPA/CPRA does not apply to you if you just do business with the US or with customers in California – you have to meet additional factors too.
- The fact of whether I want to include this wording doesn’t really help me figure out whether these privacy laws actually apply to me.
- So they do not actually have a privacy law identifier as part of their generator.
Privacy Policy generation process
Termageddon
- First page of the questionnaire actually helps determine what privacy laws apply to you;
- The questionnaire includes all of the questions needed to create the disclosures required by the privacy laws that apply to you;
- We don’t make assumptions nor insert generic information for these disclosures;
- Privacy Policy combines all privacy laws that apply to you and does not include separate sections for each privacy law because that practice makes no sense.
Termsfeed
I selected that I want my Privacy Policy to include CalOPPA and GDPR wording. I was not asked any questions that were relevant to either privacy laws (e.g. I was not asked how my website responds to do not track signals (CalOPPA), nor the legal basis of processing personal information (GDPR). What’s interesting here is that I was not even asked how I use the personal information that I collect, whether I share it and with whom, whether I sell it, none of it. This means that the policies generated by Termsfeed either:
- Input completely random text for these disclosures; or
- Do not comply with any privacy laws (neither the ones that I selected nor the ones that I did not select).
I’d have to pay $48 to get the policy emailed to me so I didn’t want to do that but they do include a preview.
What’s also interesting is that the preview has a section for use of your personal data. I can’t see it too well since it’s so small but it says that I will use data to provide and maintain my service and to manage the consumer’s account (which would make no sense if I don’t allow people to create accounts on my website).
What’s interesting is that my policy refers to the CCPA, even though I selected that I do not want CCPA disclosures. This makes me think that the preview feature is not working or they give you one template regardless of whatever you’re selecting on the generator (and just inserting company information).
The policy also has a big list of who I share personal information with – service providers, affiliates, business partners, other users, etc. First, I was not even asked whether I share personal information so I may not be sharing it at all, making this policy incorrect. Second, multiple privacy laws (including the ones I selected), require me to disclose the categories of third parties with whom I share personal information. The third party “categories” disclosed in this Privacy Policy are way too broad to satisfy any privacy law.
Lastly, on the second page of my Privacy Policy, it says that I use necessary, functionality, and tracking and performance cookies even though I did not have a scan done of my website, nor answer any questions about cookies on my website.
