Legal Policies and Terms Index (Basecamp)
Updated 17 October 2025
This document serves as an index to 37signals' collection of legal policies and terms, such as their Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Service Level Agreements. It notes that the project is no longer maintained and directs users to their official website for the most current versions.
[name of company] Policies, Terms, and Legal Stuff
The rough print and the fine print. We try to make all our policies as clear, fair, and readable as possible.
List policies and links to policies if able.
A Note About the Email Addresses
You can always reach us at [support email]. [name of product/service] customers can also email [support email for product]. Your emails all go to our same friendly Support team.
So how come the links don't work in this repository? The short answer is: we made a technical tradeoff. The long answer is, we copy the policies in this repository to our product marketing sites. To make it easier to transfer, we are now using relative links, this Jekyll plugin to convert Markdown links to a valid web URL, and some Liquid variables.
Public Contributions Welcome
We welcome our customers—you!—to suggest changes to our policies and to offer feedback on the changes we have planned. Please do chime in on any open pull request, or even file a pull request yourself.
Steal These Policies
You're free to use these policies in your own organization under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Edit them. Adapt them to your needs. Share them. Put them to work.
An example of a brief, unobtrusive attribution for your own policies that you've based on ours:
Adapted from the [name of company] open-source policies / CC BY 4.0
Here's how you could re-share your own policies under a CC license with attribution:
MyCorp policies are open source, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Adapted from the [name of company] open-source policies / CC BY 4.0.
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