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Web App Compliance Guide

Your Compliance Dashboard

Your web app has multiple layers that require specific legal and policy documentation. This guide breaks down what you need for each component. Navigate through the sections to understand your requirements.

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Core Documents

The foundational policies every web app needs: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.
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Feature-Specific Policies

Special rules for your Marketplace, Virtual Currency, Raffles, and Subscription services.
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Google Compliance

Ensuring you meet the requirements for Google API, AdSense, and Analytics.
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Interactive Checklist

Answer questions about your app to generate a personalized list of required policy clauses.

Core Legal Documents

This is the legal agreement between you and your users. It sets the rules for using your service.

  • User Accounts: Rules for account creation, responsibilities, and termination.
  • User Conduct: Prohibited activities (e.g., harassment, illegal activities).
  • Intellectual Property: Who owns the content on your platform (both yours and user-generated).
  • Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability: Protecting your business from legal claims.
  • Governing Law: Which country/state's laws apply to the agreement.

This document explains how you collect, use, and protect your users' personal data. This is legally required by regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

  • Data Collection: What data you collect (e.g., email, IP address, usage data).
  • Data Usage: How you use this data (e.g., to improve service, for marketing).
  • Data Sharing: If you share data with third parties (like Google Analytics).
  • User Rights: How users can access, modify, or delete their data.
  • Data Security: Measures you take to protect user information.

Explains the types of cookies your site uses and why. Often part of the Privacy Policy but can be separate, especially for users in the EU.

  • What Cookies Are: A simple explanation for non-technical users.
  • Types of Cookies Used: (e.g., essential, performance, advertising).
  • Purpose of Cookies: Why you use them (e.g., to remember login, analyze traffic).
  • User Consent: How users can manage their cookie preferences.

Policies for Your Specific Features

💰Virtual Currency & Marketplace

  • Terms of Sale: Rules for purchasing and using your internal currency.
  • No Cash Value: Explicitly state that the currency has no real-world monetary value.
  • Trading Policy: Rules for user-to-user trades, your role as an intermediary, and dispute resolution.
  • Refund/Return Policy: Clear conditions for refunds on virtual currency or marketplace items. Given the digital nature, this is often a "no refund" policy, which must be stated clearly.
  • Fees: Disclose any transaction fees for using the marketplace.

🎟ī¸Raffle & Reward System

  • Official Rules: Define entry methods, eligibility, prize details, winner selection, and notification.
  • No Purchase Necessary: Depending on your jurisdiction, you may need a free method of entry to avoid being classified as an illegal lottery.
  • Odds of Winning: Be transparent about the chances of winning.
  • Void Where Prohibited: A clause stating the raffle is not valid in jurisdictions where it is illegal.

🚀Subscription Service

  • Billing Policy: How and when users are charged (e.g., recurring monthly).
  • Cancellation Policy: How users can cancel and what happens to their access post-cancellation.
  • Refund Policy: Specify conditions for full, partial, or no refunds on subscription fees.
  • Feature Availability: Clearly define what features are included in the subscription.

🕹ī¸Game-Related Community Guide

  • Community Guidelines: A user-friendly version of your ToS's conduct rules.
  • Moderation Policy: How you handle rule-breaking, warnings, and bans.
  • Content Usage: Rules about sharing guides, strategies, or game-related content.
  • Relationship to Game Developer: Clarify that you are a third-party community and not affiliated with the official 'Rise of Castles' developers.

Google Service Compliance

Using Google's services requires you to adhere to their policies, especially regarding user data and advertising. This must be reflected in your own policies.

Google Analytics

You must disclose your use of Analytics in your Privacy Policy. Inform users that you collect traffic data and explain how they can opt out (e.g., via Google's browser add-on).

Google AdSense

Your Privacy Policy must mention that third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads. You need to provide information on how users can opt out of personalized advertising.

Google APIs

If you use Google APIs (e.g., for login), your Privacy Policy must be accessible from your app and clearly state what user data you access, why, and how you use it, consistent with Google's API Services User Data Policy.

Interactive Compliance Checklist

Answer the following questions about your app. A personalized list of required policy clauses will be generated for you. This is a guide, not legal advice.

Your Required Policy Clauses:

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