When the services we use every day change their rules, we should be the first ones to know.

Open Terms Archive records every change to the terms of digital services. Our community analyses these changes, shifting the power balance against big tech.

How it works

1. Identification

The contractual documents of an online service are listed for tracking by volunteer contributors.

2. Archival

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

3. Detection

When changes are spotted, they are recorded and exposed.

4. Publishing

All recorded versions are published in an easy-to-analyse dataset.

Make use of the Open Terms Archive data

Discover interesting changes

or read our case studies

Follow the changes of a specific document

or over RSS

Explore the history of any document

or download the dataset

Reuses

The Open Terms Archive community builds tools to shift the power balance against big tech.

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 instance.
ToS;DR

Your Tool

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

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.