Monitor terms of service changes across your vendors
Vendors rewrite their terms of service, privacy policies and data processing addenda on their own schedule, and most announce it with a single line in a footer. WebsiteChange lets legal and procurement teams monitor terms of service changes on every vendor page that matters, read a short summary of what moved, and keep a dated record of each version with a full-page screenshot.
Built for legal, compliance and procurement work
Contract owners rarely have time to reread forty policy pages every quarter. The usual result is that a change is found months later, during a renewal or an incident. A monitor on each page turns that into a short daily read.
- Legal counsel tracking the terms that govern tools the company depends on.
- Privacy teams watching how vendors describe personal data use.
- Procurement keeping renewal files current with the terms in force on the signing date.
- Security and vendor risk teams following subprocessor and hosting disclosures.
Pages worth a monitor
Start with the vendors that hold your data or carry your revenue, then widen.
Picture the case that most legal teams now watch for. A software vendor quietly adds a paragraph allowing it to use customer content to improve its AI features. With a monitor on that terms page, the change arrives as a summary such as "New section 7.4 permits use of customer content for model training; opt out by email" and is scored high importance.
- Terms of service and master subscription terms.
- Privacy policies and cookie policies.
- Data processing addenda published as web pages.
- Subprocessor lists, where a new entry may trigger a notice period under your contract.
- Acceptable use policies and service level pages.
- AI and data usage terms, where a vendor may add a clause about training models on customer content.
How the monitor handles long legal text
Legal pages are long and mostly stable, which makes them a good fit for change monitoring.
When a real change remains, an AI model writes a short summary of what was added, removed or reworded, and scores it low, medium or high. A fixed typo scores low. A new arbitration clause scores high.
- Pick the main content element so navigation, footers and cookie bars are not compared.
- Choose a daily schedule. Terms rarely change more than once a day, and daily checks leave your check budget for faster pages.
- Use low sensitivity, because one changed word in a liability clause matters.
- Dates such as "last updated" lines are filtered as noise on their own, while the text around them is compared word by word.
A dated record you can show later
Every check stores the text, the HTML structure and a full-page screenshot with the date and time it was captured. Versions are searchable, and the text diff and visual diff show exactly which words changed between two dates.
- Answer "what did their terms say when we signed" in seconds.
- Attach the version in force to a renewal file or vendor review.
- Export CSV of the change history, and on Growth and up produce a PDF change report for a vendor or a quarter.
History is kept for 6 months on Starter, 2 years on Growth, 5 years on Business and without a limit on Enterprise, where custom retention is also available. Read more about website archive tools.
Getting changes to the right reviewer
Most legal teams prefer a daily email digest of all policy changes, with high importance items at the top. Business plans add digests per team, so privacy and procurement can each receive their own set. Teams that run a review queue send each change as a webhook into their ticketing tool. See notify when website changes for routing patterns and the regulatory change monitoring use case for the public sector side.
What this is and is not
WebsiteChange records what a public page showed and when. It does not interpret contracts and is not legal advice; your counsel decides what a change means for your agreements. Monitoring covers public pages that robots.txt allows, and no login is ever used, so terms visible only inside a vendor's customer portal cannot be monitored.
You can show the stored version with its capture date, full-page screenshot and text. Whether that is sufficient for a given purpose is a question for your counsel.
A Starter plan holds 50 pages, Growth 250, Business 1,000 and Enterprise 5,000. Most vendors need two to five pages each.
No. Date changes alone are filtered. If the date moves and the text stays the same, nothing is reported.
Yes, on Enterprise, which keeps history without a limit and supports custom retention.
Put your vendor terms under watch
Try the demo with a vendor's terms page and see the first snapshot, then choose a plan for your full vendor list.