Add the legal links every site needs
Privacy, terms, cookie settings and contact details in the footer, on every page, plus the business details some countries require.
Skip to the promptWho needs this
- You run any website or web app that collects personal data, uses cookies or sells anything.
Why it matters
- Most privacy laws require your privacy notice to be easy to find. California's CalOPPA, for example, expects a conspicuous link on the home page that includes the word 'Privacy'.
- Cookie laws expect a way to change cookie choices later, and a footer link is the standard place for it.
- EU law requires online services to show the provider's name, address, email, company register and VAT number (e-Commerce Directive Art. 5), and businesses in Germany need an Impressum with these details (§5 DDG).
Before you paste
- Your business's legal name, address, contact email and company registration and VAT numbers if you have them.
- Your existing privacy notice and terms, or a note that they still need writing.
The prompt
Copy it into your AI builder. Fill in anything in [brackets] first, and review every change before you ship it.
Add a legal section to the footer of every page in this app, including signed-out pages, sign-up, checkout and error pages. 1. LINKS (in this order) - Privacy notice - Terms of service - Cookie settings (reopens the cookie banner) - Contact - Refunds or Returns, if the app sells to consumers - Accessibility, if there is an accessibility statement - Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information (or Your Privacy Choices), if the business sells or shares personal data under US state laws - Impressum, if the business is based in Germany or targets German users 2. BUSINESS DETAILS - Show the legal name of the business that runs the app and a contact email in the footer. - Create a Legal notice or Impressum page with: legal name and legal form, postal address (not a PO box), email and a second quick contact method, company register and number, VAT number, and the authorised representative. Use [brackets] for anything I need to fill in; don't invent details. 3. LEGAL PAGES - Make sure the privacy notice and terms pages exist, load without signing in, aren't blocked by the cookie banner, and show a "Last updated" date. - Link the privacy notice wherever personal data is collected (under sign-up and contact forms). 4. DESIGN - Readable text size and contrast, works on mobile, and the links are real links (not buttons that need JavaScript). When you're done: list every file you changed, explain each change in one line, and give me a step-by-step test for each numbered item above. Don't change anything unrelated.
Builder tips
Lovable
Ask Lovable to put the footer in the shared layout component so new pages get it automatically.
Cursor
Ask it to list every route and confirm each renders the footer, including 404 and checkout pages that often use a different layout.
Claude Code
Start in plan mode (Shift+Tab) so you approve the plan before any file changes, then let it run the checks it lists.
Common mistakes
- Footer only on the marketing pages, missing from the app, checkout and sign-up.
- Legal pages behind the sign-in wall.
- A cookie banner that covers the privacy link.
- Placeholder business details left in production.
Check it worked
- 1Open the home page, sign-up, checkout and a 404 page while signed out: the footer links are on all of them.
- 2Click each link: every page loads without signing in and shows a last-updated date.
- 3Cookie settings reopens the banner.
- 4Search the site for [ and 'Lorem': no placeholders left.
What a SafeLaunch scan adds
SafeLaunch checks that your legal pages exist, are linked where each market expects, and say what each market's notice rules require.
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Questions
Sources
General guidance for common problems, not legal advice. Whether a rule applies depends on where you operate, who your users are and the size of your business.