LegalShip
SaaS Legal Document Templates That Cover What Your Boilerplate Skipped
ShipFast ships auth and Stripe. It ships nothing for GDPR, cookie consent, or subscription cancellation clauses.
Ship with legal coverage — $79
Full refund within 30 days if the documents don't fit your data practices.
The week before launch, every SaaS boilerplate founder hits the same wall: auth is wired, Stripe is live, and the legal section of the launch checklist says "add privacy policy and terms of service" with nothing behind it. SaaS legal document templates are the dependency every boilerplate tutorial lists as a bullet point and never covers.
Founders who Google "privacy policy template for SaaS" land on generators that ask for a company name and an email address, then produce five pages written for a retail company with physical store locations. The subscription billing section is missing. Data processor language for Stripe and your analytics tools does not exist in the output. API usage clauses are absent.
The other approach is copying a competitor's policy and changing the company name. That covers you for exactly what their lawyer thought about their product — which is not your product, not your data practices, and not your Stripe configuration.
The SaaS Compliance Gap Every Boilerplate Tutorial Glosses Over
The boilerplate tutorial ends at deployment. The legal compliance section is a single bullet: "add privacy policy and terms of service," with no link, no template, and no explanation of what either document needs to cover for a SaaS.
That bullet assumes you know what "privacy policy for SaaS" means in practice: that you are a data controller under GDPR, that you need to name your data processors (Stripe, your analytics tool, your email provider), that your cookie consent banner needs to cover analytics cookies separately from functional cookies, that your Terms of Service needs a subscription cancellation clause that matches Stripe's billing cycle model, and that your acceptable use policy needs to be specific enough to support account termination if a user abuses your API.
A generic generator does not know any of that. A competitor's policy was written for their product. A lawyer knows all of it and charges $300 per hour. LegalShip closes the compliance gap every SaaS boilerplate leaves open.
Introducing LegalShip
LegalShip closes the compliance gap every SaaS boilerplate leaves open: seven documents covering subscription billing, GDPR data processor roles, cookie consent, and acceptable use — all written for recurring-billing SaaS, with SaaS boilerplate alternative legal docs that replace generic generator output. Copy and deploy in under an hour. Annual updates arrive when GDPR enforcement guidance shifts or CCPA amendments pass.
What You Get — $79
SaaS Terms of Service with Subscription Billing Clauses — Covers subscription terms, acceptable use, API access limits, service availability, intellectual property, and limitation of liability. Written for recurring-billing software with Stripe integrations.
Privacy Policy Template for SaaS — Covers account data, usage analytics, payment processor data, and third-party integrations. CCPA and GDPR-compliant language throughout, including data retention periods and data processor disclosure for Stripe, analytics tools, and email providers.
GDPR Cookie Policy and Article 7 Consent Notice — Standalone cookie policy plus a ready-to-paste consent notice covering analytics, functional, and tracking cookies. Structured to meet GDPR Article 7 consent requirements.
GDPR Data Subject Rights Notice — Covers all eight data subject rights with a sample response template for data subject requests. Written in plain language for the data subject, with operator instructions for how to handle each request type.
CCPA "Do Not Sell" Addendum for SaaS — Right to know, right to delete, right to opt out of sale, and "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" disclosure. Structured to attach to the main Privacy Policy or stand alone.
Subscription Billing and Refund Policy — Covers recurring charges, failed payment handling, plan upgrades and downgrades, cancellation timing, proration, and refund eligibility. Written to match Stripe's billing model directly.
AUP Built to Support Account Termination — Defines prohibited uses: spam, abuse, API scraping, account sharing, and other common vectors. Written to support account termination decisions without creating wrongful termination exposure.
Plain-Language Clause Guide — A walkthrough of every variable to update in each document, what each major clause covers, and which sections require a lawyer's review if your data practices fall outside standard SaaS patterns.
Why $79
A lawyer charges $300–$500 per hour. A full legal document set takes 4–8 hours of lawyer time — $1,200–$4,000 before you have launched a single user. Generic generators are free and produce documents that omit recurring billing, API usage, and data processor roles. LegalZoom's small-business packages run $200–$500 per year for documents written for general business use. LegalShip charges $79 for documents written for SaaS, covering the clauses SaaS products need, ready to deploy in under an hour. The $49/year renewal keeps documents current as regulations change — less than two minutes of billable lawyer time.
Who This Is For
You have a working SaaS MVP and a launch date inside the next 30 days with no legal documents in place.
You used a boilerplate — ShipFast, Supastarter, SaaS Pegasus, or a custom setup — and the legal section was never covered.
You Googled "terms of service template startup" and found a generator that produced output your first user would never read or rely on.
You know you need GDPR and CCPA coverage but do not know what "data controller" means for your specific product's data flow.
You are six months from the stage where a $2,000 legal retainer makes sense, and you want documents that are accurate for SaaS.
The 30-Day Fit Guarantee
If you deploy LegalShip documents and find that your specific data practices — unusual third-party integrations, on-premise options, healthcare data, or financial services — fall outside what these templates cover accurately, request a full refund within 30 days. The Plain-Language Clause Guide flags the sections where your situation may require a lawyer's review before you spend the $79.
In 60 Minutes, You'll Have:
Seven documents in your app's /legal folder, linked from the footer, ready for your first user's signup.
A subscription billing and refund policy that matches your Stripe configuration.
GDPR and CCPA coverage with your data processors named by category: payment processor, analytics, email provider.
A cookie consent notice structured to meet Article 7 requirements.
An acceptable use policy that can support account termination decisions.
A plain-language explanation of what each clause in your Terms of Service does.
A document set you own outright. Update variables yourself as your data practices change, with no generator dependency and no legal engagement required.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does LegalShip include a GDPR notice template for SaaS products with EU users?
Yes. The GDPR Data Subject Rights Notice covers all eight rights under Articles 15–22, with plain-language explanations for data subjects and operator instructions for responding to requests. The Privacy Policy also includes GDPR-compliant data processor disclosure, consent basis language, and data retention periods.
LegalShip vs a generic privacy policy generator: what is the difference?
Generic generators ask for a company name and output documents written for a business that sells physical products or professional services. LegalShip documents are written for SaaS: recurring billing disclosure, API usage terms, service availability clauses, data processor naming for Stripe and analytics tools, and cookie consent structured for GDPR. The clauses that matter for your product are already in the document.
How long does setup take?
Under an hour. Each document has three to five variables to update: your company name, your product name, your support email, and your effective date. The Plain-Language Clause Guide walks through every update point. Sections that require a lawyer's review are flagged explicitly.
Are these documents reviewed by a lawyer?
These documents were drafted with attorney input and cover standard SaaS data practices: recurring billing, API usage, analytics tracking, and standard user account management. They are not legal advice and do not create an attorney-client relationship. If your product handles healthcare data, financial services data, or data for users under 13, the Clause Guide flags those sections and recommends a licensed attorney review before deployment.
What it is: The legal document layer your SaaS boilerplate shipped without.
What you get: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, GDPR Notice, CCPA Addendum, Billing Policy, AUP, Plain-Language Clause Guide.
Price: $79 one-time. $49/year for regulation updates after year one.
Catch: Written for standard SaaS data practices. Products handling healthcare, financial, or children's data need attorney review on flagged sections.
Guarantee: Full refund within 30 days if the documents don't fit your data practices.
Ship with legal coverage — $79