You can now add Terms of Use and Privacy Policy!

Hi, thanks for this new feature. It doesn't mention what happens to users who have already signed up, but it seems like it will only work on new users. Is that correct? If so, is there some way to be able to force all the existing, older users to agree to the same terms?

I love this! It's great! But shouldn't they have to agree on the terms of use for signing up? :)

Hey lan,

You can use wix code to show a one time popup to all users with the terms of use and privacy policy page links when they login and store their answer(yes or no ) to a database if you want. That's a solution using code I know for your question.

Maya, can you clarify how this is supposed to work once it is put in place? (Because it does not seem to be working properly from what I understand).

I just added the terms of use to my site, did a publish and then created a new Wix forum account as a test. As usual, I received a message saying that I would have to be approved to gain access. Once I approved the account in Wix Inbox, I went back as the new user and it simply took me to the forum homepage. I was not shown the terms of use, nor a link to them. Nor was I required to check a box or click okay to indicate that I agreed to them.

This is awesome but when will we be able to verify members with a check mark like Twitter and let members be able to manually display if their online?????

Ian -

Did you follow the instructions that I wrote below? you need to configure it in the Member Signup Settings.

Savanna -

There is a post regarding the verify members feature in the Wish List category. Please keep all the related conversation there. In this post you are invited to tell us what do you think about the new policies feature :)

Hi Maya, Yes I did. And afterwards I hit save and publish. Here are screenshots to show you how I set it up and still how nothing is happening.

1) setup:

2) settings

3) Hit "done", "save" and "publish". Should be working at this point. New user signs up (no TOS shown)

4) I approve them

5+ 6) they revisit page and sign in. Still no TOS shown.

The Terms of Use should appear in the signup process (not in the login process). On step 3, can you please send us the screenshot of the signup screen? it should appear there :)

Sure. Here you go. No TOS there either.

Click "google+"

see this. no TOS.

Hi,

You attached the Login screen. I need to see the Signup screen.

Maya, what I showed you is what is shown to it new user when they sign up. When a user who is new to the site, clicks on any membership protected page, wix does not allow them to actually see the page. Instead it throws up that login screen where they can choose to signup and create a new account. That is what I’m doing in the screenshots. I have never seen any other way to sign up.

Hi Ian,

What you showed me is the Login page. This screen is for existing users to login to the site. We show the terms of use only in the Signup page (because these terms should be approved only once, in the signup process).

In the image that you added, on the left side under the email and password fields, there is line says "Don't have an account? Signup". Please click on the "Signup" and you'll be taken to the Signup page.

If you are interested you can change the settings and make the signup page be shown first.

Great, you guys are awesome!

Hi Maya, thanks. Ok, I see what's going on now, and I understand how this feature is intended to work. A few problems/issues:

1) I did as you recommended and clicked on "don't have an account? Sign up". Doing that did show this:

I believe the line in yellow is the entire extent of what this new feature does. Is that correct?

If so, there's a significant problem here, because the way this has been implemented is not legally enforceable, and is the opposite of what most attorneys recommend doing. The problem with simply putting a link to the terms of use on the page, is that any user can legitimately claim that they never saw it. So no judge will enforce this. As implemented, this feature doesn't provide the site owner any real additional protection. (See "browse-wrap method" here: https://termsfeed.com/blog/add-i-agree-terms-checkbox/)

The proper way to do it, is to add a checkbox that says something like "I agree to the terms of use of this site", and require the user to click it to continue on. This is called the "click-wrap method" and ensures that the legal agreement is actually enforceable. If you take a look at some of the competing products, this is what they do.

2) It looks like I was not able to effectively communicate to you that the screenshots that I took for you did not involve an existing account. They were done with a brand-new Google account that had not yet signed up on the site.

Or to put it another way, if I am a brand-new user and come to that login screen, you guys are expecting everyone to click on the "don't have an account? Sign up" link at the bottom to create an account. However, there is a loophole. New users don't have to do that and can sign up by simply clicking on the "login with Google +" or "login with Facebook" buttons on the right to sign up/create an account. And if they do that, they never see the new terms of use notice.

Also, this isn't a totally crazy thing for users to do, because on most sites this is a legitimate way to quickly create a new account (and in fact it currently works on Wix sites as well...although perhaps not on purpose). To me, the easy way to close the loophole is to implement the terms of use on this login page as well.

How do you accomplish Step 2?