How to use our Acceptable use policy generator
- Create an account
- Answer a few simple questions
- Get your generated AUP instantly
- Upload it to your website or app using one of the four methods we offer:
- Embed it with a live code snippet
- Add it using our WordPress plugin
- Use our free hosted version with a direct link
- Copy and paste it as html directly into your content editor
“Quick, painless and economical way for our little enterprise to be compliant!”
What will your generated AUP include?
Our AUP generator creates a comprehensive Acceptable Use Policy that includes the essential clauses required to protect a business from common liabilities.
Fair use
Defines normal business usage expectations and establishes your business’s position on abuse, discrimination, and rights infringement.
Customer accountability
Makes customer accountable for the actions of anyone using your digital services under their account, authorized or not.
Consequences for violation
States your rights to terminate any products or services associated with an account that breaches your acceptable use policy.
Prohibited activities
Introduces common activities that are prohibited in such as copyright infringement, spam, unethical activity and unauthorized use of property.
Trusted by over 500k online businesses
Available in 7 languages
Your acceptable use policy should be easy to understand, and that starts with using the right language for your readers. In addition to both UK English and US English, we've translated our policies into Español, Français, Italiano, Deutsch and Hindi.
Simple Installation
Download the GetTerms WordPress plugin to get access to all of your policies as handy short codes. Alternatively, you can paste a code snippet directly onto your website.
Why use GetTerms?
It’s simple, we’re the easiest to use tool on the market. We created GetTerms in an effort to make compliance effortless. Our policy generator is easy to use, reliable and comes with all of our other great products, including a privacy policy, cookie consent banner and consent management platform!
FAQs
An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) – sometimes called an acceptable usage policy or fair use policy (FUP) – is a legal document used by organisations to define how they intend for their digital services, websites, or networks to be used. It defines both acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, as well as any consequences for misuse.
An AUP protects you from liability if your digital product, services or networks are used in a way that is unethical, irresponsible or illegal.
We recommend implementing an AUP if your business is responsible for an app, digital service, digital product or network that could cause harm if misused by your customers or employees. An AUP is a critical part of your framework of information security policies, which is why the largest digital services on the planet all have one, for example, Reddit, Cloudflare and Wikipedia.
There are a few great reasons to use an AUP generator over a template.
- Generating a policy takes less time than editing a template
- Generators come with a dashboard that allow you to update all your policies from one place
- Generators will host your policy which means you wont need a website to display it to your customers
- Generators like GetTerms monitor changes in laws and will notify you if you need to update your Acceptable Use Policy
- Generators will ask you clear questions that you can easily understand so that your policy can be tailored to your business, keeping you more protected from liability.
Not exactly. While terms and conditions and acceptable use policy are similar and can serve the same function, they differ in scope. An acceptable use policy typically governs the rules when using an organization’s digital products and I.T. services, where a terms and conditions agreement is usually more relevant to a business’s website and the general contractual relationship between a business and its customers. In many cases, an AUP is also used internally as one of the documents employees and contractors are required to sign before gaining access to a business’s digital infrastructure.