Termly

Small business owners who run a blog, online shop or app often face privacy law without a legal team. Termly is a compliance suite for that situation, aimed at laws including the GDPR, the CCPA and CPRA, PIPEDA and the ePrivacy Directive. Termly states that it was built so owners need not spend thousands on legal fees, and that more than two million businesses use it.

Cookie consent management

Termly starts with a scan that identifies and categorizes the cookies on a site. It then produces a cookie policy, a customized consent banner and a preference center. The consent manager is a Google certified CMP partner with gold status, and Termly describes full Google Consent Mode and IAB TCF 2.3 solutions.

Attorney-crafted policy generators

Generators produce a privacy policy, terms and conditions, a legal disclaimer, a return policy, a shipping policy, an acceptable use policy and an impressum. Termly says its attorneys wrote them, that the results are tailored to each business and that policies are updated automatically when laws change. A finished policy is added to a site with a link or code snippet.

Data subject requests

Termly also offers a free way to create a legal disclaimer that protects a blog, website or app against legal liability. The company says the free policy tools spare owners the cost of hiring a lawyer for each document. A form for data subject access requests helps businesses handle people's requests about their data.

Coverage by region

For the EU and EEA, Termly supports the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, and it stores European users' data in the EU and EEA. For the United States it covers state laws including the CCPA, VCDPA and UCPA, as well as CalOPPA. Globally it names PIPEDA, Quebec's Law 25 and POPIA. The products can be used as one suite or separately.