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This project is no longer maintained. All of our policies can be found at 37signals.com/policies now. If you’d like to be notified when policy changes happen, please join the mailing list at 37signals.com/policies/updates.

37signals Policies, Terms, and Legal Stuff

The rough print and the fine print. We try to make all our policies as clear, fair, and readable as possible.

A Note About the Email Addresses

If you try to click on any of the Support links in this repository, you'll get a 404 page. Don't despair! You can always reach us at [email protected]. Highrise customers can also email [email protected] and HEY users can reach out to [email protected]. Your emails all go to our same friendly Support team.

So how come the links don't work in this repository? The short answer is: we made a technical tradeoff. The long answer is, we copy the policies in this repository to our product marketing sites. To make it easier to transfer, we are now using relative links, this Jekyll plugin to convert Markdown links to a valid web URL, and some Liquid variables.

Public Contributions Welcome

We welcome our customers—you!—to suggest changes to our policies and to offer feedback on the changes we have planned. Please do chime in on any open pull request, or even file a pull request yourself.

Steal These Policies

You're free to use these policies in your own organization under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Edit them. Adapt them to your needs. Share them. Put them to work.

An example of a brief, unobtrusive attribution for your own policies that you've based on ours:

Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies / CC BY 4.0

Here's how you could re-share your own policies under a CC license with attribution:

MyCorp policies are open source, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies / CC BY 4.0.