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[your company name] publishes many kinds of legal content to protect ourselves and our users around the world. Most of our legal content is written by the Legal department with help from the Communications team. This section gives a general overview of the types of legal content we publish and how those documents are written.

For information about laws that apply to non-legal content, see the Copyright and Trademark section.

Basics

The way we write, review, and publish legal content is different from how we do many other kinds of writing at [your company name]. The most important difference is that all legal content either starts with or passes through the Legal team.

But that doesn't mean legal content has to be difficult to read. We try to present our legal information in the most pleasant way possible. Our goals for [your company name]'s legal content are:

• Accuracy. Our first and foremost concern is that we present the correct information in a truthful way.
• Clarity. We try to avoid legal jargon and overly formal wording. Our users need to understand the agreement they’re making with us.
• Succinctness. We want our users to read and understand our legal documents, while also respecting their time.

Types of legal content

We publish several types of legal documents, each with its own writing processes and goals.

Public legal documents

We keep these in one place on our legal page (link to your legal page if you have one):

• Terms of use (link to your company’s policy)
• Acceptable use policy (link to your company’s policy)
• Privacy policy (link to your company’s policy)
• API use policy (link to your company’s policy)
• Copyright policy (link to your company’s policy)

These policies apply to all of [your company name]’s users. The Legal and Communication teams work together to make them as transparent and easy to read as possible. When someone signs up to use [your company name], they must agree to all of those terms.