About TermsTooLong
Helping you understand the privacy and legal implications of the services you use every day.
Our Mission
To organize, analyze, and summarize Terms & Conditions at scale.
Most people never read Terms & Conditions. Modern Terms of Service often run to several thousand words, written in dense technical and legal language that’s difficult to interpret. Yet these documents determine how your data is handled, what rights you keep over your content, and how disputes are resolved.
TermsTooLong was created to make the important parts easier to navigate. The platform analyzes Terms and Privacy Policies using a consistent, transparent approach—so users can quickly understand the key points without reading the entire document.
The project currently covers more than one hundred services and will continue expanding toward thousands of analyzed services as the system grows.
How TermsTooLong Works
TermsTooLong processes dense legal documents and converts them into structured summaries and standardized evaluations. Each analysis follows a repeatable workflow designed to highlight how a service handles your data, rights, and user experience.
🤖 1. AI-Assisted Document Analysis
Terms of Service and Privacy Policies are processed using advanced large language models (LLMs) to identify important clauses, obligations, and risk areas. Multiple models are used to cross-reference findings and reduce biases, improving reliability across different industries and document styles.
📏 2. A Standard Scoring Framework
Every service is evaluated using the same rubric, covering:
- How your data is collected, used, and shared
- What rights you retain over your content
- How easy the terms are to understand
- What happens if you have a dispute
This ensures fair and consistent comparisons across all analyzed services.
🚩 3. Red Flags & Penalties
Certain clauses have a greater impact on user rights and apply heavier penalties—such as perpetual content licenses, waivers of legal recourse, strict arbitration requirements, or broad identity and publicity rights permissions.
🔍 4. Quality & Consistency Checks
AI performs the main analysis, but additional checks help detect inconsistencies, verify major findings, and reduce misinterpretations. The human-in-the-loop component is used for oversight rather than re-evaluating every document manually.
🔄 5. Always Improving
Terms and privacy policies change frequently, and our analyses evolve with them. Documents are periodically re-checked when updates occur or when new issues are identified, ensuring summaries remain current over time.
Understanding Scores & Grades
| Grade | Score Range | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| A / A- | 8.5 - 10.0 | Excellent. Industry-leading protections with minimal risks. |
| B / B- | 7.0 - 8.4 | Good. Strong protections with some standard limitations. |
| C / C- | 5.0 - 6.9 | Average. Standard boilerplate. Protects the company more than you. |
| D / D- | 3.0 - 4.9 | Poor. Significant concerns. One-sided terms or extensive data collection. |
| F | 0.0 - 2.9 | Critical. Predatory terms, rights waivers, or dangerous data practices. |
Accuracy & Corrections
We strive for the highest possible accuracy in our analysis, but we acknowledge that legal documents are complex and automated systems may occasionally miss nuance or context. Our goal is to be fair, objective, and transparent.
For Service Providers: If you represent a company listed on TermsTooLong and believe our analysis contains factual errors, misinterpretations, or references outdated policies, we want to know. We are committed to correcting any inaccuracies promptly upon verification.
Help Build a More Transparent Internet
TermsTooLong is built and maintained by a single developer. Your support directly funds the server costs and AI analysis needed to keep this project running.
Disclaimer
TermsTooLong provides analysis for educational and informational purposes only. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. While we strive for accuracy, Terms & Conditions change frequently and we may not capture every update immediately. Always read the full terms of any service before agreeing to them.