Toolbox
Negotiated Terms of Service Agreements
How to Get StartedBefore you decide to use a tool, seek the advice of your agency Terms of Service (TOS) Point of Contact (POC) to be sure your agency has already signed a federal–compatible TOS, the product supports your broader agency mission and goals, and that the TOS is legally appropriate for use by your agency. See complete implementation guidance on the main Terms of Service page. |
Here's the list of tools that have federal–compatible Terms of Service agreements. Keep in mind that even though a tool may be on the list, your agency may not have a signed TOS for that tool.
| Name of Product | Type of Tool | Amended Terms of Service (TOS) Agreement |
| 4Q Survey.com | Satisfaction measurement tool |
4Q Survey TOS
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| AddThis | Bookmarking & sharing |
AddThis TOS (PDF, 69.84 KB, 3 pages, April 2009) |
| Bing | Search |
Bing TOS (PDF, 77.17 KB, 4 pages, January 2010) |
| BlackBerry App World | Mobile app store |
BlackBerry SDK License Agreement BlackBerry App World Vendor Agreement BlackBerry App World TOS |
| Blip.tv | Video sharing |
Blip.tv TOS (PDF, 58.49 KB, 11 pages, May 2009) |
| Challenge.gov | Government challenge platform |
Challenge.gov TOS (PDF, 341.95 KB, 5 pages, August 2010) |
| ClassMarker | Online testing & training platform | ClassMarker TOS |
| CoolIris | Video & picture browsing |
CoolIris TOS (PDF, 2.62 MB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| Dialogue App | Crowdsourcing & ideation |
Dialogue App TOS (PDF, 159.91 KB, 3 pages, September 2010) |
| Dipity | Multimedia timelines |
Dipity TOS (PDF, 217.96 KB, 4 pages, July 2010) |
| Disqus | Universal commenting & social discussion |
Disqus TOS (PDF, 1.40 MB, 4 pages, July 2009) |
| Social networking |
Facebook TOS (PDF, 106.42 KB, 3 pages, August 2010) |
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| Flickr | Photo sharing |
Flickr TOS (PDF, 88.23 KB, 4 pages, July 2011) |
| Foursquare | Location-based software |
Foursquare TOS (PDF, 230.27 KB, 4 pages, February 2012) |
| GitHub | Collaborative software development |
GitHub TOS (MS Word, 38 KB, 10 pages, July 2012) |
| Google Analytics | Website analytics tool |
Google Analytics TOS (PDF, 636.99 KB, 4 pages, February 2010) |
| Google Blogger | Blogging |
Google Blogger TOS (PDF, 107.37 KB, 4 pages, April 2011) |
| Google Feedburner | RSS feed |
Feedburner TOS (PDF, 147.26 KB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| Google Moderator | Social commenting & discussion |
Google Moderator TOS (PDF, 555.23 KB, 4 pages, February 2010) |
| Google+ | Multilingual social network |
Google+ TOS (PDF, 461 KB, 7 pages, January 2013) |
| Google Visualization | Display of multimedia, data, maps |
Google Visualization TOS (PDF, 18.02 KB, 4 pages, April 2012) |
| Google Webmaster Tools | Analytics and search engine optimization |
Google Webmaster Tools TOS (PDF, 1.36 MB, 3 pages, June 2012) |
| GovLoop | Knowledge network | GovLoop TOS |
| Hackpad | Wiki and real-time collaborative documents | Hackpad TOS |
| HootSuite | Social media dashboard |
HootSuite TOS (PDF, 154.31 KB, 4 pages, August 2010) |
| Hulu | Video streaming |
Hulu TOS (PDF, 113.44 KB, 9 pages, May 2010) |
| IdeaScale | Voting & feedback |
IdeaScale TOS (PDF, 2.35 MB, 3 pages, July 2012) |
| IntenseDebate | Social commenting |
IntenseDebate TOS (PDF, 3.26 MB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| Professional networking |
LinkedIn TOS (PDF, 180.85 KB, 4 pages, October 2009) |
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| MapBox | Maps |
MapBox TOS (PDF, 63 KB, 3 pages, August 2012) |
| Measured Voice | Social media productivity tool | Measured Voice TOS |
| MeetUp Everywhere | Social networking platform |
MeetUp Everywhere TOS (PDF, 324.37 KB, 5 pages, April 2011) |
| Mendeley | Social networking platform | Mendeley TOS |
| MixedInk | Collaborative writing |
MixedInk TOS (PDF, 2.96 MB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| My.ComMetrics | Tracking & benchmarking of blogs | My.ComMetrics TOS |
| MySpace | Social networking |
MySpace TOS (PDF, 195.70 KB, 5 pages, September 2009) |
| OpenCalais | Automated metadata |
OpenCalais TOS (PDF, 2.25 MB, 3 pages, July 2012) |
| Online pinboard | Pinterest TOS | |
| Posterous | Microblogging |
Posterous TOS (PDF, 268.70 KB, 5 pages, February 2011) |
| Quora | Question and answer community website | Quora TOS |
| Scribd | Social publishing |
Scribd TOS (PDF, 2.15 MB, 3 pages, July 2012) |
| Slideshare | Presentation sharing |
Slideshare TOS (PDF, 62.70 KB, 3 pages, August 2009) |
| Socialtext | Internal social networking | Socialtext TOS |
| SocialOomph | Social media productivity tool | SocialOomph TOS |
| SocialTwist/TAF4Free | Bookmarking & sharing tool |
SocialTwist/TAF4FreeTOS
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| Socrata | Data hosting |
Socrata TOS (PDF, 5.60 MB, 5 pages, July 2012) |
| SourceForge | Open source software development & sharing |
SourceForge TOS (PDF, 154.39 KB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| STCI/VenCorps | Challenges, contests & prizes tool |
STCI/VenCorps TOS (PDF, 159.20 KB, 22 pages, March 2010) |
| Storify | Social media curation & publishing platform | Storify TOS |
| StumbleUpon | Content discovery |
StumbleUpon TOS (PDF, 674.96 KB, 6 pages, November 2011) |
| Survey Analytics | Survey software |
Survey Analytics TOS (PDF, 23.05 KB, 4 pages, June 2010) |
| SurveyMonkey | Survey software | SurveyMonkey TOS |
| TubeMogul | Video analytics & distribution |
TubeMogul TOS (PDF, 215.48 KB, 3 pages, August 2010) |
| Tumblr | Blogging |
Tumblr TOS (MS Word, 39 KB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| Social networking service | Twitter's standard Terms of Service are acceptable | |
| UserVoice | Voting, customer & constituent feedback |
UserVoice TOS (PDF, 2.82 MB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| Ustream.tv | Video broadcasting platform |
Ustream.tv TOS (PDF, 20.13 KB, 4 pages, January 2010) |
| Wikispaces | Collaboration |
Wikispaces TOS (PDF, 1.98 MB, 4 pages, July 2009) |
| WordPress | Blogging |
WordPress TOS (PDF, 142.05 KB, 4 pages, January 2011) |
| Xtranormal | Animated video hosting |
Xtranormal TOS (PDF, 172.38 KB, 5 pages, April 2011) |
| Yammer Inc. | Microblogging |
Yammer Inc. TOS (MS Word, 40 KB, 4 pages, July 2012) |
| YouTube | Video sharing |
YouTube TOS (PDF, 396.93 KB, 1 page, September 2009) |
| ZeeMaps | Map |
ZeeMaps TOS (PDF, 579.17 KB, 4 pages, September 2010) |
Content Lead:
Betsy Steele
Page Reviewed/Updated: January 15, 2013
