For several years, alpine.io had a set of free tools: policy and agreement generators, a tracked-link builder for Google Analytics, and two interviews that helped you write a professional bio or an organization's history. We're retiring all of them. The tools pages and the forms behind them are closing, and the old addresses now bring you to this post.
Why we're closing them
We built the tools when good free options were hard to find. That's no longer true. Several well-known companies now offer generators that are kept up to date with privacy laws in more states and countries than we could track. A policy generator is only as good as its last legal review, and we'd rather point you to people who do that full time than keep a tool that might fall behind.
Retiring the tools also lets our team spend its time on client sites and apps, which is the work we do best.
Where to go instead
Each of these is free or low cost and is widely used and trusted.
Privacy policies, terms and conditions, and return policies
- Termly: free generators for a privacy policy, terms and conditions and a return and refund policy, with paid plans that keep your policies updated as laws change and add a cookie consent banner.
- Shopify's policy generator: free privacy, refund and terms of service templates. You don't need a Shopify store to use it, and it's a good fit for a small online shop.
- iubenda: low-cost plans for privacy and cookie policies, terms and conditions, and consent banners, with strong coverage of European privacy law (GDPR).
Professional services and independent contractor agreements
- Rocket Lawyer: contract templates, including service agreements and independent contractor agreements, with optional review by an attorney.
- LawDepot: step-by-step builders for service and contractor agreements, by state.
- The U.S. Small Business Administration's business guide is a free place to learn what your business needs before you sign or send a contract.
A template is a starting point. For an agreement that matters to your business, have a local attorney read it before you use it.
Google Analytics tracked links
- Google's own Campaign URL Builder is free and does exactly what our link builder did: add UTM tags to a link so you can see which campaigns bring visitors to your site. Google's help article on URL builders and campaign data explains how the tags show up in Google Analytics.
Professional bios and organizational histories
Our interviews asked you questions and turned your answers into a draft. To write your own:
- Start with the same questions. For a bio: what you do, who you do it for, how long you've done it, and one thing you're proud of. For a history: when and why the organization started, the turning points since, and what it does today.
- Hemingway Editor (free on the web) flags long sentences and hard-to-read passages.
- Grammarly (free plan) catches spelling, grammar and tone.
If you used our tools
Nothing you made with the tools is affected. Policies and agreements you generated are yours, and links you built keep working. If your site's privacy policy or terms came from one of our generators, it's a good time to review them, since laws have changed since many of them were written.
If you'd rather not do it yourself, we're happy to help. Writing a bio, putting together a company history, or setting up policies and tracking on a new site is all part of what we do. Let's talk, or email support@alpine.io.
Thanks to everyone who used the tools over the years.