> do you guys think it's worth to spend up to 3000€ on our terms of use? Or do you feel it'd be a waste?

Yes, it is since Tatoeba is becoming "more important" and relevant to other projects (now Mozilla is our partner). Also, Tatoeba aims to collect sentences and translations in any sentences **to be//that can be used in other projects.** As far as we want to get more consolidated as a Foundation and have more partners, it'd be great.

> Do you have ideas on how we can consolidate the legal aspect of Tatoeba without having to spend that much?

Facebook is the best way to **try** to arrange some people that **maybe** would help us... However, it would spend time - we'd have to "catch their attention", explain how the website works and its goals and effort (how many of us can do all that?)

I don't really know whether rewriting Terms of Use is that important.

If you think about using a big portion of your grant money on that, I'd say use it on your development team instead, it seems like a better investment. I might be wrong though.

Can you probably ask Mozilla whether they are happy with tatoeba's terms of use? This might be a way to get a free consultation and introduce some changes.

That depends on your concerns and on your vision for the future.
First of all, it might be a good idea to have a clear idea of what subjects need to be treated in the "Terms of Use". In the following, I will mix everything up, but it is generally a good deal to separate Terms of Use from Privacy Policy from etc. (depending on what you need to include) .

For Tatoeba, mainly it would be about Data and Privacy policy, and Intellectual Property protection. Beside intellectual property, Terms of Use should -at least- cover :
- How the site can be used and how it cannot be used (permissions and limits on uses).
- Limits on liability (like tommy_san seemed to suggest in the link your provided).
- How conflicts will be resolved.

Privacy policy should cover:
- What information is collected, how it is collected, how it might be shared (state that they are not if that is the case).
- The way the site protect confidentiality and security of the information collected (most important).
- How cookies and other technologies (if relevant) are used.
- If relevant, how the website allow user to access the site through third party services (I think there is no such possibility on Tatoeba, right?).
- Finally, how the privacy policy may be changed, and how the user will be notified of such changes (most important as well, but easy to write.)
- There is also this thing about the information of children under 13 years old. I don't remember the details exactly, but maybe it was about sites that uses real personal information (name, etc.). That would to be confirmed. For safety purpose, writing something like "Le site ne prévoit aucunement la collecte ou le stockage de renseignement relatifs à toute personne âgée de 13 ans ou moins." would not hurt and probably put us in the safezone for this point. (Again, to be confirmed)

There would be other small things to add, like the interruption of service for maintenance (doesn't really matter for Tatoeba since we do not deliver goods or paid services), the "Ces CGU sont soumises à la loi française. etc.". But that would be secondary, I think (except the last part about which entity is competent in case of legal issue).


As to how to do that, now, that is the part that depends on the concerns and vision.
Although Privacy Policies should NOT be blindly copied from other website, it is possible to write almost all parts of Terms of Use (and privacy policy) by doing some research online, looking at French (since French law will prevail) websites providing or not delivery of goods and services, and studying how to do that a little bit. That would probably tedious and time-consuming.
If you're highly concerned about the potential for legal liability, it might be prudent to consult an attorney in drafting the terms of use.