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Add privacy policy and terms of service endpoints (#1594)

* Add privacy policy and terms of service endpoints

* Shorten the example privacy policy response
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---
title: PrivacyPolicy
description: Represents the privacy policy of the instance.
menu:
docs:
parent: entities
aliases: [
"/entities/privacypolicy",
"/entities/PrivacyPolicy",
"/api/entities/privacypolicy",
"/api/entities/PrivacyPolicy",
]
---
## Example
```json
{
"updated_at": "2022-10-07T00:00:00+00:00",
"content": "<p>This privacy policy describes how example.com (&quot;example.com&quot;, &quot;we&quot;, &quot;us&quot;) collects,\nprotects and uses the personally identifiable information you may provide\nthrough the example.com website or its API.</p>\n\n<h1>What information do we collect?</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic account information</strong>: If you register on this server, you may be\nasked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password.</li>\n<li><strong>Posts, following and other public information</strong>: The list of people you\nfollow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers.</li>\n<li><strong>Direct and followers-only posts</strong>: All posts are stored and processed on the\nserver. You may\ntoggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings.\n<strong>Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving\nserver may view such messages</strong>, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or\notherwise re-share them. <strong>Do not share any sensitive information over\nMastodon.</strong></li>\n<li><strong>IPs and other metadata</strong>: When you log in, we record the IP address you log\nin from, as well as the name of your browser application.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>This document is CC-BY-SA. Originally adapted from the <a href=\"https://github.com/discourse/discourse\">Discourse privacy\npolicy</a>.</p>\n"
}
```
## Attributes
### `updated_at` {#updated_at}
**Description:** A timestamp of when the privacy policy was last updated.\
**Type:** String ([Datetime](/api/datetime-format#datetime))\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added
### `content` {#content}
**Description:** The rendered HTML content of the privacy policy.\
**Type:** String (HTML)\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added
## See also
{{< page-relref ref="methods/instance#privacy_policy" caption="GET /api/v1/instance/privacy_policy" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/serializers/rest/privacy_policy_serializer.rb" caption="app/serializers/rest/privacy_policy_serializer.rb" >}}

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--- ---
## View privacy policy {#privacy_policy}
```http
GET /api/v1/instance/privacy_policy HTTP/1.1
```
Obtain the contents of this server's privacy policy.
**Returns:** [PrivacyPolicy]({{< relref "entities/PrivacyPolicy" >}})\
**OAuth:** Public\
**Version history:**\
4.0.0 - added
#### Response
##### 200: OK
```json
{
"updated_at": "2022-10-07T00:00:00+00:00",
"content": "<p>This privacy policy describes how example.com (&quot;example.com&quot;, &quot;we&quot;, &quot;us&quot;) collects,\nprotects and uses the personally identifiable information you may provide\nthrough the example.com website or its API.</p>\n\n<h1>What information do we collect?</h1>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic account information</strong>: If you register on this server, you may be\nasked to enter a username, an e-mail address and a password.</li>\n<li><strong>Posts, following and other public information</strong>: The list of people you\nfollow is listed publicly, the same is true for your followers.</li>\n<li><strong>Direct and followers-only posts</strong>: All posts are stored and processed on the\nserver. You may\ntoggle an option to approve and reject new followers manually in the settings.\n<strong>Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving\nserver may view such messages</strong>, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or\notherwise re-share them. <strong>Do not share any sensitive information over\nMastodon.</strong></li>\n<li><strong>IPs and other metadata</strong>: When you log in, we record the IP address you log\nin from, as well as the name of your browser application.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<p>This document is CC-BY-SA. Originally adapted from the <a href=\"https://github.com/discourse/discourse\">Discourse privacy\npolicy</a>.</p>\n"
}
```
---
## View terms of service {#terms_of_service}
```http
GET /api/v1/instance/terms_of_service HTTP/1.1
```
Obtain the contents of this server's terms of service, if configured.
**Returns:** [PrivacyPolicy]({{< relref "entities/PrivacyPolicy" >}})\
**OAuth:** Public\
**Version history:**\
4.4.0 - added
#### Response
##### 200: OK
##### 404: Not Found
No terms of service have been configured for this instance.
```json
{
"error": "Record not found"
}
```
---
## View translation languages {#translation_languages} ## View translation languages {#translation_languages}
```http ```http
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{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/peers_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/peers_controller.rb" >}} {{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/peers_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/peers_controller.rb" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/rules_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/rules_controller.rb" >}} {{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/rules_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/rules_controller.rb" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/privacy_policies_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/privacy_policies_controller.rb" >}}
{{< caption-link url="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/instances/terms_of_services_controller.rb" caption="app/controllers/api/v1/instances/terms_of_services_controller.rb" >}}