Business Legal & Compliance

Terms of Service and Privacy Policies

Draft clearer platform terms, privacy notices, and consent flows with Professor David Grant

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Quick Course Facts
18
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
18
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.3
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies Course

Terms of Service and Privacy Policies is a practical Business course for founders, operators, product teams, and legal-adjacent professionals who need to understand the policies that govern online products. You will learn how to draft clearer platform terms, privacy notices, and consent flows with Professor David Grant while building confidence around the legal, product, and customer trust issues behind online disclosures.

Build Stronger Business Policies For Digital Products

  • Learn the core structure and purpose of Terms of Service and Privacy Policies for online platforms.
  • Map product features, data flows, accounts, payments, content, and consent requirements before drafting.
  • Improve policy clarity around privacy notices, user rights, cookies, vendors, analytics, and advertising disclosures.
  • Create better governance practices for launches, version control, change notices, and ongoing policy maintenance.

A practical overview of drafting, reviewing, and maintaining online legal policies for a Business platform.

This course explains why online legal policies matter and how they support both compliance and customer trust. You will examine the different roles of Terms of Service, privacy notices, cookie disclosures, consent banners, and related documents so you can understand what each policy should cover and how they work together.

Through focused lessons on Terms of Service and Privacy Policies, you will learn how to address accounts, eligibility, acceptable use, user content, licenses, payments, subscriptions, refunds, trials, disclaimers, liability limits, termination, governing law, and dispute resolution. The course also covers privacy policy essentials, including personal data categories, collection points, legal bases, data use, sharing, vendors, retention, security, international transfers, children’s data, opt-outs, user rights, and consent management.

Professor David Grant guides you through drafting quality, showing how to make policies readable, specific, and consistent with the actual product experience. You will also learn how to evaluate templates, competitor policies, and counsel drafts without treating them as one-size-fits-all solutions.

By the end of the course, you will be better prepared to draft clearer platform terms, privacy notices, and consent flows, collaborate more effectively with counsel, and maintain Business policies that are easier for users to understand and easier for teams to manage over time.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations

3 lessons

Online legal policies are not decorative documents. They define the relationship between a platform and its users, explain how personal data is handled, set expectations for acceptable use, and reduce…

Lesson 2: The Roles of Terms, Privacy Notices, and Related Disclosures

19 min
This lesson distinguishes the core documents and disclosures that govern a digital product: terms of service, privacy notices, cookie notices, consent prompts, community rules, acceptable use policies…

Lesson 3: Mapping the Product Before Drafting Policies

20 min
Before drafting terms of service or a privacy policy, counsel needs a working map of what the product actually does. This lesson shows how to inventory users, features, data flows, third parties, deci…

Terms of Service

6 lessons

Lesson 4: Core Structure of a Terms of Service Agreement

21 min
This lesson maps the core architecture of a Terms of Service agreement: how the document is organized, what each major clause is meant to accomplish, and how to make the structure readable without wea…

Lesson 5: Accounts, Eligibility, User Responsibilities, and Acceptable Use

20 min
This lesson explains how the Terms of Service should define who may use a platform, how accounts are created and protected, what users are responsible for, and what conduct is prohibited. These clause…

Lesson 6: Content Ownership, Licences, Feedback, and User Submissions

22 min
This lesson explains how platform Terms of Service should handle user content, ownership, licences, feedback, and submissions. Learners will distinguish between who owns content and what rights the pl…

Lesson 7: Payments, Subscriptions, Refunds, Trials, and Cancellation Terms

21 min
This lesson teaches how to draft payment, subscription, refund, trial, and cancellation terms that customers can understand before they buy. It focuses on clear price disclosures, recurring billing co…

Lesson 8: Disclaimers, Liability Limits, Indemnity, and Risk Allocation

23 min
This lesson explains how online platform terms allocate risk through disclaimers, limits of liability, indemnity, and related exceptions. Learners will see how these clauses work together, why courts …

Lesson 9: Termination, Suspension, Governing Law, and Dispute Resolution

22 min
This lesson explains how termination, suspension, governing law, and dispute resolution clauses shape the end of a user relationship and the handling of conflicts. Students learn how to draft these pr…

Privacy Policies

5 lessons

Lesson 10: Core Structure of a Privacy Policy

20 min
This lesson breaks down the standard architecture of a privacy policy: what information the organization collects, where it comes from, why it is used, who receives it, how long it is kept, what choic…

Lesson 11: Personal Data Categories, Collection Points, and Legal Bases

23 min
This lesson teaches a practical method for turning raw product behavior into a privacy-policy-ready data map. Learners identify personal data categories, locate the exact collection points where data …

Lesson 12: Data Use, Sharing, Vendors, Analytics, and Advertising Disclosures

24 min
This lesson shows how to draft the data use and sharing sections of a privacy policy without hiding the practical realities of a modern platform. Students learn to map each use of personal information…

Lesson 13: Retention, Security, International Transfers, and Children’s Data

22 min
This lesson shows how to write the operational parts of a privacy policy that users and regulators actually look for: retention periods, security safeguards, cross-border transfers, and children’s dat…

Lesson 14: User Rights, Requests, Opt-Outs, and Consent Management

23 min
This lesson shows how to turn privacy rights into usable policy language and operational request flows. It focuses on access, deletion, correction, portability, objection, opt-outs, consent withdrawal…

Implementation

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Cookies, Tracking Technologies, and Consent Banners

20 min
This implementation lesson shows how to turn cookie and tracking requirements into working consent experiences. Learners will distinguish necessary cookies from analytics, advertising, personalization…

Drafting Quality

2 lessons

Lesson 16: Making Policies Readable, Specific, and Consistent with the Product

21 min
This lesson teaches a practical drafting standard for terms and privacy notices: readable enough for real users, specific enough to match the product, and consistent across screens, policies, support …

Lesson 17: Reviewing Templates, Competitor Policies, and Counsel Drafts

19 min
This lesson teaches a disciplined review process for turning templates, competitor policies, and counsel drafts into documents that fit the actual platform. Students learn how to identify unusable boi…

Governance

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Policy Launch, Version Control, Change Notices, and Maintenance

21 min
This lesson covers the operational work that turns approved terms and privacy policies into reliable public commitments: launch readiness, version control, change notices, consent handling, and ongoin…
About Your Instructor
Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.