The terms of service are the legal contract sitting behind the technical one. Clear terms set the expectations between provider and consumer about acceptable use, liability, and change. I want the legal contract to be as intentional and readable as the OpenAPI is.
Terms of Service
Production
Stop 24
Policies at this stop
Consent and DPA Provided
Every API that touches personal data must provide a data processing agreement and a clear record of the consent under which that data is handled. I require that the DPA be available to consumers be...
SLA (Experience)
Require that every API published for consumers carries a clear service level agreement stating its uptime target, expected performance, support commitments, and what happens when we fall short. I p...
API Licensing
Publishing a license for the interface, client code, server code, and data to ensure consumers understand the legal implications of using the API, code, and data into their own applications and int...
Terms of Service for APIs
Requiring the info terms of service property meets the policy standards.
Path Trailing Slashes (OpenAPI)
Require that our OpenAPI paths follow one consistent rule about trailing slashes, and I strongly prefer no trailing slash so that /orders and /orders/ never become two subtly different things. I ha...
Privacy Policy
Publishing a privacy policy covering the producer and consumers of an API, as well as end-users of applications, adding to the legal resources that are available to 3rd party developers when puttin...
SLA Defined and Published
I require that every production API defines a service level agreement and publishes it where consumers can find it, stating the availability, performance, and support commitments we are willing to ...
Terms of Service
Making sure that terms of service are front and center for API consumers, ensuring that the legal side of using API resources and capabilities in applications and integrations by 3rd party consumer...
