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The pages nobody reads but that save you when something goes wrong
Know which legal pages your website needs before you charge a single dollar (legal notice, privacy policy, cancellation terms, and cookie notice), what to put in each one without copying a generic template, and finish the course with those pages written and published.
Your website's almost ready and you want to add the payment button, but now you're second-guessing yourself: do you need a legal notice? And if someone cancels a booking, who decides on the refund? You search for a privacy policy template online and have no idea if it fits your business, or if it'll land you in trouble the day a customer complains.
This course solves that in the order you'll actually run into it: first you decide which pages apply to you based on what you sell, then you write your legal notice with your real information, then your privacy policy with the data your site actually collects, a cookie notice if you need one, and your cancellation policy with the deposit and deadline already decided. You finish with the pages you need written and linked where your customer can find them, before you collect payment on your first booking.
This is for anyone who's already taking payments, booking appointments, or collecting information through their website and wants to be legally covered before a complaint shows up, not for someone who doesn't have anything to sell yet or a launch date in mind.
- Choose which legal pages your website needs based on what you sell and how you get paid
- Write your legal notice with your name or business name, your Social Security number or EIN, and your business address
- Write your privacy policy with the actual data your website collects, no copied clauses
- Set your deposit, cancellation deadline, and refund policy before your first booking
It helps to already know what you sell and how you'll get paid (direct sale, booking with a deposit, or subscription).
The 6 lessons
In the order it makes the most sense to read them.
- 1
The pages that apply to you, not the ones from a template
You decide which legal pages your website needs based on what you sell and how you get paid, and skip the ones that don't apply to you.
4 min - 2
Who you are when someone complains
Write your legal notice with your real name or business name, your Social Security number or EIN, and your business address, and publish it with a link from your website's footer.
4 min - 3
One piece of data, one line: that's how you write your website's policy
By the end, you'll have a privacy policy with one line for every real spot on your site where you ask for information (a form, a booking, WhatsApp, payment), with no borrowed clauses from a template.
4 min - 4
The cookie notice you don't need, and the one that doesn't do its job
You'll know whether your website sets cookies that need permission or not, and if it does, whether the notice has a button to accept and an equally easy one to decline.
4 min - 5
What happens if they cancel, already decided
Leave knowing your deposit, cancellation window, and refund are already decided and written down, without clashing with consumer protection law, ready to paste on your site before you take the first booking.
4 min - 6
Four pages, one link each, in the right place
Publish all four links where your customer needs them before paying or booking, and confirm that each page tells the truth about your business.
5 min