Cross-Border SaaS Data Transfers: EU Standard Contractual Clauses and What Your Privacy Policy Must Include
Your SaaS platform collects data from users in the EU. Your servers are in the US. On its face, that sounds like a basic hosting decision. Under GDPR, it is a regulated cross-border data transfer that requires a specific legal mechanism before you move a single byte. Most SaaS founders…
Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA): What Website and App Operators Must Know About Compliance in 2026
If your website or app serves users under 17, or if minors could reasonably access your platform, you have a compliance challenge that goes beyond COPPA. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), reintroduced in the 119th Congress as S.1748, represents a significant expansion of federal obligations for digital platforms that…
Standard Contractual Clauses for US SaaS Companies: What You Need When Transferring Data to EU Customers
If your SaaS company has customers in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you are almost certainly transferring personal data from Europe to the United States. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that transfer is not automatically lawful. You need a legal mechanism to authorize it, and…
SaaS Free Trial Terms of Service: What Every Clause Must Cover
Most SaaS companies launch free trials with little more than a checkbox and a credit card field. The legal framework governing that trial is an afterthought — if it exists at all. That is a serious mistake. A free trial that converts to a paid subscription without proper disclosures, clearly…
Terms of Service for Mobile Apps: What Every App Founder Needs Before You Hit Publish
Your app gets rejected from the App Store. Or worse, it goes live, gets traction, and then a user dispute strips you of your intellectual property because your terms never established who owns user-generated content. Both scenarios happen to founders who treated their terms of service as an afterthought. Apple…
Agentic AI Liability in Contracts: What Businesses Must Cover in 2026
Businesses across every industry are racing to deploy AI agents that negotiate vendor terms, process invoices, screen job applicants, and manage customer interactions without human involvement. The appeal is obvious: faster execution, lower overhead, and round-the-clock operations. But when one of those AI agents misprices a purchase order by six…
COPPA Compliance in 2026: What Your Children’s Privacy Policy Must Include
The FTC’s updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule went into effect on April 22, 2025, and the COPPA compliance 2026 requirements demand more from website and app operators than any prior version of the rule. The amendments add biometric data to the definition of personal information, require written security programs…
What Makes an EULA Enforceable? Legal Requirements Every Business Needs in 2026
Your software is live, users are signing up, and somewhere in the onboarding flow sits a license agreement you drafted two years ago. Then a dispute arises. A user redistributes your code, scrapes your database, or files a class action claiming your liability cap is void. You pull up your…