How to Show Legal Pages

You can host your own Privacy Policy and Terms of Service on your Fider site. Once they're set up, Fider shows them at /privacy and /terms, and links to them from the sign-in and sign-up screens.

Prerequisites

You need both documents written in Markdown. They must be named privacy.md and terms.md.

How to

Fider reads both files from /app/etc inside the container. Put them in a folder on your server and mount it as a volume.

For example, if you followed Hosting on Docker, copy the files to /var/fider/etc and add a volume to the app service in your docker-compose.yml:

  app:
    volumes:
      - /var/fider/etc:/app/etc

Then restart Fider with docker compose up -d.

If you use docker run, add -v /var/fider/etc:/app/etc instead.

What users see

When both files are present:

• The sign-in page and sign-in dialog show "By signing in, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service", with links to both pages.
• When someone creates a new site on the sign-up page, they must tick a box agreeing to both documents before continuing.
• /privacy and /terms show the documents. They are visible to everyone, even on a private site.

Things to know:

• Both files are required. If only one of them exists, Fider doesn't show any links or the agreement box.
• Restart after adding or removing the files. Fider checks whether the files exist once, when it first needs to. Changes to the content of an existing file show up immediately.
• In multi-tenant mode, the same documents apply to every board.