The consumer's side of the contract
Read the terms you've agreed to.
Then write the ones
you'd accept.
Companies write their terms once, by themselves. Accorded is where you write yours.
Accorded is a free, open service for understanding the agreements between people and companies. Submit a site or use the browser extension, and it reads the terms of service and privacy policies you've accepted, then explains them in plain English. From there you decide what you're genuinely willing to agree to — and what you'd rather see changed.
How to read the marks
struck through- something you won't accept
- underlined
- what you'd accept instead
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- a clause, in plain English
You agree to dozens of these every year. Almost no one reads one all the way through.
Five steps, from the fine print to your own policy.
Nothing here requires an account or a payment. You can stop after step two and just read what you've signed — or carry on and publish a policy of your own.
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Register what you've accepted
Submit a website's address, or let the browser extension notice the policies on pages you already use. Accorded keeps a record of the terms of service and privacy policies you've actually agreed to — the ones you clicked past.
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Read it back in plain English
Accorded rewrites each policy in clear language. No legalese, no interpretation games — just what the document asks of you: what they can keep, what they can share, what they can change, and when.
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Write your own terms
Go clause by clause and mark what you're fine with and what you're not. Accorded turns that into your own plain-English policy — a short, public statement of what you will and won't accept from the companies you deal with.
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See the difference
Accorded lines up each company's terms against yours and shows the gap, line by line. The parts you'd strike and the parts you'd rewrite are marked, so the distance between what they ask and what you'd accept is plain to see.
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Add to the public record
Your policy joins an aggregate “Consumer's Policy” for each company — a public picture of what people are actually willing to agree to. Companies can see it. So can everyone else.
Their terms, next to yours.
Accorded doesn't grade companies or hand out scores. It does something simpler: it shows you the exact clauses, marks what you'd change, and keeps the receipt.
You grant Northwind a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocablea license to host, reproduce, modify, and sell any content you submit. We may share your personal information with selected partnersb keep your data to Northwind only. We may change these terms at any time without notice with 30 days' noticec.
As written, Northwind can keep and sell your posts forever and pass your details to advertisers, and may rewrite the rules without warning. Your policy keeps the license, drops the selling and sharing, and asks for notice before anything changes.
A profile for every company.
Every policy people register rolls up into one public profile per company: what its published terms say, set against the aggregate “Consumer's Policy” — the things people, in the open, say they'd actually accept.
Northwind Mail
1,204 consumer policies on file
9 days ago
Most-changed clauses · share who'd strike them
- Sells or shares your data with advertising partners84%
- Keeps a perpetual license to content you post77%
- Can change the terms at any time without notice71%
- Tracks your activity across other websites66%
- Keeps your data after you delete your account58%
Published vs. wanted
One column is what the company actually publishes. The other is what its users, in aggregate, have said they'd accept. The gap between them is the whole point.
Pressure in the open
A single person asking for better terms is easy to ignore. Twelve hundred of them, with the specific clauses named, is a public position a company has to answer to.
Always public, always free
Profiles are open to read with no account. The aim is a shared, honest baseline for what fair terms look like — kept by the people the terms apply to.
Nothing leaves your browser unless you say so.
The extension watches for terms and privacy policies on the sites you visit and reads them where you are. By default, that's the end of it — detections are saved to your device's local storage and nowhere else.
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Detects, on the page
When a site has a terms of service, privacy, or cookie policy, the extension flags it and reads it locally.
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Saves to your device
What it finds goes to local storage in your browser. No browser data is sent to Accorded without your explicit say-so.
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Asks before it shares
When you're ready, it prompts you to save a policy to your Accorded profile — from the extension, or next time you visit the site. Skip it and everything stays local.
3 policies detected
- Terms of Servicedetected
- Privacy Policydetected
- Cookie Policydetected
Stays on this device until you save
The remote system only ever sees what you choose to send it.