Big Tech services benefit from the opaqueness of their terms.
We make them transparent.

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight. Discover how that makes a difference →

We establish partnerships to track the terms of many industries, in several languages and jurisdictions

Generative AI

Most popular generative AI services

Services
18
Documents
52
Language
English
Jurisdictions
European Union, China

Platform Governance Archive

Major global social media services

Services
22
Documents
86
Language
English
Jurisdiction
European Union

P2B Compliance

Online intermediation services for businesses subject to the European platforms-to-businesses (“P2B” / 2019/1150) regulation

Services
208
Documents
253
Language
European Union
Jurisdiction
European Union

France Élections

Most used social media in France that could have a systemic impact on the 2022 elections

Services
5
Documents
65
Language
French
Jurisdiction
France

Dating

Online dating

Services
25
Documents
65
Language
English
Jurisdictions
European Union, Switzerland

France

Largest digital services used in France

Services
108
Documents
216
Language
French
Jurisdiction
France

Contrib

Documents added by volunteer contributors and historically imported from TOSBack.org

Services
322
Documents
683
Languages
English, French
Jurisdictions
European Union, United States
Volunteer contributors

Demo

Services needed to operate the Open Terms Archive engine

Services
4
Documents
9
Language
English
Jurisdiction
European Union

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How it works

1. Targeting

The terms of use of a service are targeted by contributors.

{
  "name": "Facebook",
  "documents": {
    "Terms of Service": {
      "fetch": "https://facebook.com/legal/terms",
      "select": "body > article > .main_content"
    },
    "Privacy Policy": {
      "fetch": "https://facebook.com/privacy",
      "select": "div > .fb_content"
    }
  }
}

2. Tracking

Several times a day, our robots download and publicly archive the targeted documents.

2024-02-22 06:31:03: Record new changes of Facebook Terms of Service with id a2f5b02
2024-01-18 08:26.12: Record new changes of Facebook Privacy Policy with id b091d16

3. Analysing

When changes are spotted, they are recorded and exposed for human analysts.

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4. Disseminating

We publish all versions in datasets enabling reuse and research.

 📂 Facebook
   📂 Privacy Policy
      📄 2024-02-20--31-15.md
      📄 2023-12-05--25-25.md
      📄 2023-10-17--18-23.md
      📄 2023-10-31--07-23.md
   📂 Terms of Service
      📄 2024-03-12--30-16.md
      📄 2024-01-20--15-42.md
      📄 2023-12-08--26-16.md
      📄 2023-12-26--01-16.md

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Contributive Digital Common

Open Terms Archive is free and open source software. Any entity can reuse and build upon it, as long as it shares its improvements with the community. The product is built collaboratively by all those who use and contribute to it.

About the project