Find out what you are agreeing to, in about ten seconds.
Paste the link to any terms of service or privacy policy. Get back the clauses that actually affect you, instead of eleven thousand words you were never going to read.
Nobody reads these, and everybody agrees to them
The average terms of service runs longer than a novella and is written to be technically complete rather than readable. Studies that measured it put honest compliance at something like a full working week per year, which is why essentially nobody does it. The agreement gets clicked either way.
A brief will not make you informed in the way a lawyer would. It will tell you, in five sentences, whether this particular document contains the clauses people usually care about.
What to look for in the result
- Arbitration and class action waivers. Often the single most consequential clause in the document, and the one most reliably skipped.
- Licence to your content. What rights you hand over by uploading, and whether they survive you deleting the account.
- Data sharing. Who else receives your information, and whether "partners" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
- Unilateral changes. Whether they can rewrite the terms without telling you, which quietly weakens everything above.
- Termination. What happens to your data and anything you paid for.
Use the ten-point setting on a long policy. Five points on an eleven-thousand-word document will find the themes and miss the specific clause you were worried about.
This is not legal advice
It is a reading aid. It compresses a document and can drop a qualifier that changes the meaning of the sentence it came from. If the answer matters, and for an employment contract or anything you are signing rather than clicking it usually does, read the clause itself and ask someone qualified.
Questions
Is this legal advice?
No. It is a reading aid that compresses a document, and compression can drop the qualifier that changes a clause's meaning. For anything consequential, read the clause and consult a professional.
Which setting should I use?
Ten points for a full terms of service or privacy policy. Five is too few for a document that long and will find themes rather than specific clauses.
Can I check a contract someone sent me?
You can paste the text rather than a URL, and nothing pasted is stored or published. But a contract you are signing deserves a professional's eyes, not a summary's.