Use case — Policy & legal monitoring

Know when a vendor changes their Terms of Service.

Platforms update their ToS, Privacy Policies, and API Terms with little fanfare. Watchobots monitors these pages daily and sends an AI summary of exactly what changed — so you can act before it affects your product or compliance posture.

For founders, legal teams, compliance officers, and anyone whose product is built on third-party platforms.

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What Watchobots catches for you

Paste a URL. Watchobots checks it every day and sends an AI summary of anything that changed.

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Terms of Service and API Terms

If your product is built on a platform's API, their ToS changes directly affect you. A new clause restricting data use or automated access could require product changes or legal review. Watchobots catches it the day it goes live.

02

Privacy Policy updates

Any vendor that handles your customer data can affect your own privacy obligations when they update their policy. Track Privacy Policies of tools that touch PII — CRMs, analytics platforms, email tools — and know when data handling practices change.

03

Data Processing Agreements and GDPR documents

DPAs, cookie policies, and sub-processor lists change without notification. For businesses with GDPR or CCPA obligations, staying on top of these documents is a compliance requirement, not a nice-to-have.

This is what an alert looks like

Every detected change gets an AI summary, a category, and an importance score. No raw diffs to decipher.

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Platform API Terms
platform.com/terms/api
Today, 06:00
ContentHigh importance
A new section "Restrictions on Automated Access" was added. It limits API calls to 10,000 per day on free plans (previously no stated limit) and prohibits training AI models on API responses. Review recommended before next deployment.

How it works

01

Add the policy page URL

Paste the URL of any Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, or API Terms page. Works on any publicly accessible legal document page.

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We check it every day

Watchobots visits the page daily. Most policy pages are quiet for months — but when they change, you'll know within 24 hours.

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Get an AI summary of what changed

You receive a plain-English explanation of the change — which clause was updated, what was added or removed, and whether it warrants immediate review.

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Common questions

Can Watchobots monitor Terms of Service pages?
Yes. Paste the URL of any publicly accessible Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, or legal document. When content changes, you get an AI summary explaining what was added, removed, or reworded — without reading the entire document.
Which legal documents should I monitor?
The highest priority: Terms of Service and API Terms for platforms your product is built on, Privacy Policies for tools that handle your customer data, and Data Processing Agreements for vendors under GDPR or CCPA obligations.
How will I know what specifically changed?
Watchobots uses AI to read the change in context and write a plain-English summary — "A new clause restricting commercial use of scraped data was added" or "The data retention period changed from 2 years to 90 days." You get the substance without reading the full document.
Are policy page changes high or low importance?
The AI scores each change. A reworded section in the intro might score Low; a new restriction on API usage or a data retention change will score High. The importance score helps you prioritise which alerts need legal review immediately.
Can I share alerts with my legal or compliance team?
You can forward the email alert or post to a shared Slack/Discord channel. Paid plans include Slack and Discord integration — route policy change alerts to a #legal or #compliance channel so the right team sees them immediately.