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Does my site need terms of service

Without published terms you have no stated limitation of liability, no refund policy and no basis to suspend an abusive account. It is also a checkout requirement for most payment providers.

What 13x checks

This is rule compliance.terms in the public registry: Terms are linked. It runs on every audit, against the pages we actually fetched, and its result is derived from the response rather than estimated.

Surface
Compliance
Score weight
5 of the readiness score
Scope
Runs on every audited page
Applies
To every site

Registry version 2026-07-30. Every rule is published, and the audit is deterministic — the same page produces the same finding every time.

The fix

The same text the audit hands you when this check fails on your own site.

Publish terms of service and link them from the footer, and from your signup form if you take payment.

Cover at least: what the service does, acceptable use, payment and refund terms, liability limits, and termination. Most payment providers require this to be live before they will approve an account.

13x does not generate legal text — this check verifies the page exists and is reachable.

Does your site have this problem?

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