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by smt88 4106 days ago
I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to give you legal advice. Generally speaking, it's very low-risk to use a boilerplate privacy policy for an MVP.

Ideally, instead of using a service like you mentioned, you should copy and edit the privacy policy of a service that is as similar to yours as possible.

Once you make your first dollar or get your first ~10,000 users, it'll definitely be time to hire a lawyer.

Some important questions though:

1. How sensitive is your data? Is it PII (personally-identifying information)? That includes full names, addresses, phone numbers, and a complicated list of other things.

2. Are you in Europe?

3. Have you formed a limited-liability entity? In the US, that would be an LLC.

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Thank you for your reply. We indeed thought about using those materials, but not sure if it is punishable. 1. Yes, the data is sensitive: full names, emails, and phone numbers and etc. 2. We are targeting US market 3. We have a C-Corp in the US