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

Platform Governance Archive

Major global social media services
Services
20
Documents
80
Language
English
Jurisdiction
European Union
Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of BremenAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)

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
Open EvidenceEuropean Commission

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
Reset

Dating

Online dating
Services
25
Documents
65
Language
English
Jurisdictions
European Union, Switzerland
HestiaLabs

France

Largest digital services used in France
Services
108
Documents
216
Language
French
Jurisdiction
France
UFC Que ChoisirAmbassadeur français pour le numérique

Contrib

Documents added by volunteer contributors and historically imported from TOSBack.org
Services
299
Documents
660
Languages
English, French
Jurisdictions
European Union, United States

Demo

Services needed to operate the Open Terms Archive engine
Services
2
Documents
6
Language
English
Jurisdiction
European Union
Open Terms Archive
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How it works

1. Targeting

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

2. Tracking

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

3. Analysing

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

4. Disseminating

We publish all versions in datasets enabling reuse and research.

Built with Open Terms Archive

Tools created by the community to shift the power balance from big tech towards end users.

French Elections Memos

Tracks major platforms behaviour over the French 2022 elections.
Reset

Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

Lets users collaboratively rate how respectful terms of services are of their rights.
ToS;DR

Documents Readability

Computes the readability and necessary education level to understand a contractual document.
Office of the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs

Scripta Manent

Consolidates all changes to a document between two dates.
Office of the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs

TOSback

The ancestor of Open Terms Archive! Since October 2020, changes displayed are provided by a dedicated Open Terms Archive collection.
ToS;DR

Your Tool

If you want to build a tool with Open Terms Archive, contact us!

Follow the evolutions of Open Terms Archive

No terms changes, only news about the product and its partners! Two emails a month at most, often less than that.

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.