miniterms is publicly open today. The privacy policy generator lives at miniterms.com/privacy-policy-generator — fill a short profile, get a Privacy Policy you can paste into your site. The first thing you see on the page, and the first line inside the generated document, is a banner we wrote that says the template library has not yet been independently reviewed by external counsel. That banner is the launch story.
miniterms generates legal text from a template library compiled from public EDPB, AEPD and GDPR sources. The library is structured, versioned, jurisdiction-aware, and drift-flagged. What it is not — yet — is independently sign-off-reviewed by an external lawyer. A colleague review was queued for that step. The review thread went quiet. We could have kept the surface unindexed for another week, or another month, while we waited for a green-light email. Instead we wrote the actual fact onto the surface.
The banner names three things: what the document is generated from (public regulator guidance), what review has not happened (independent external counsel), and what the reader should do (have their own counsel review before publishing). That's the protection. Not a generic "this is not legal advice" footer — every template tool already has one of those — but a specific statement of what is and isn't covered.
The disclaimer lives in two places that have to stay in sync. The first is the generator page itself — above the jurisdiction chooser, above the form. The second is prepended to every generated markdown document as a blockquote, so it travels with copy/paste and with ZIP exports. A reader who reads the doc on someone else's website still sees the warning. When the colleague review eventually lands, both banners drop in the same commit and the library version bumps. Until then, the disclaimer is a visible part of the product, not a hidden footnote.
We'd rather say exactly what's been reviewed and what hasn't than hide behind a generic "consult a lawyer" footer. Specific honesty beats vague boilerplate.
— miniterms launch principle
European freelancers and micro-SaaS who don't have a privacy lawyer on retainer. The audience is people for whom the alternative is no privacy policy at all, or a copy-pasted template from a competitor's site. A template generator with a clear review-pending banner is a better starting point than either of those — and it gives the reader's own counsel a structured document to review instead of a blank page.
Distribution starts this week. Multi-jurisdiction side-by-side preview, version-diff annotations, and drift-detection webhooks are queued for the next cycle. The provenance receipt system — every saved draft is anchored at verify.dekimu.com — soaks for 30 days before we extend it to the next app in the ecosystem. And when the colleague sign-off lands, the banner comes off in a single commit. We'll write that post too.