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Creating Legal Language For Your Online Course

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Channel: Thinkific · 2016 · Education

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A terms of use, privacy policy and other legal language is probably the last thing you are thinking about when you're putting together an online course. But at some point you need to bring this stuff into your website or into your online course site. In this episode of Teach Online TV, we explain what it's all about. Set up your own online course site with Thinkific: http://thnk.cc/1QKsxRV

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Some of the things that you're going to work into your terms of use or your privacy policy, well your terms of use, would be things like trademark and intellectual property protection, access to the course, things like limiting your liability.  

If you're promising to teach people things, you might want to promise that hey, you may not get the results that you want, there's no guarantee that you're going to achieve the results that I am sharing in this course; especially if you are teaching people how to make money or save money, or get a job. You want to be limiting that liability so you are saying, if you don't get the results that we promised in this course, that's not on us.

So it can be important to have some of this language in your online course site. That would go into  to the terms of use and then the private say policy is usually about how you are using their personal information or more likely, how you are not using it and limiting how you're going to be using it to just contacting them, and whether or not you're going to sell their information to third parties.

Now for us when we collect people's personal information, we're not selling it to third parties or sharing it with third parties, but that's up to you what you put in your terms of use and privacy policy.

Now you can find a lot of examples online for these things, but I have taken the liberty of putting together a couple for you. I am a lawyer but I am not your lawyer and I'm not giving you legal advice here, but I have pulled together a couple of examples that you might find helpful as a starting point. You may want to have your lawyer review them, or if you fancy being your own lawyer, you can just make some modifications to the examples we've provided below and do what you wish with them for your own online courses.

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