Well, I have published an ecommerce about 4 months ago and it was filtered for many reasons. It was my first experience as a webmaster and have done too many foolish things Now I decided to move a new domain and build a site with zero fault (I've found out what should not I do). But, privacy policy and terms of service one of the most boring things to write. I'm just wondering if I use generator services I would get penalized. I really don't want to waste my time with these but I'm afraid if it hurts SEO. As you see, my English is terrible but need English policy and terms & conditions :/
I have used from here > http://www.seqlegal.com/free-legal-documents/privacy-policy with no problems affecting my SEO and as far as I remember my sites are still using their docs with links back to the legal bods that wrote them. They are clear enough and just need details adding and you are good to go.
Also, on pages like those you can do a nofollow or noindex so the search engines dont even index those pages. That may help you out.
Yes, its best to noindex those pages (better than nofollow), so search engines don't even look at it.
I forgot to tell, I'm still noob as a webmaster. You guys mean disallowing with robots.txt with noindex right?
Google is a lot smarter than most people give them credit for. They are absolutely not going to penalise your site because your privacy policy is the same as another site. When it comes to ranking your quality pages... they don't give a hoot about your privacy policy wording. Now if you don't HAVE a privacy policy on your site that's a different story. I've always used privacy policies I copied from other sites. I don't have time to write a 100% unique privacy policy and why should I anyway? It's intended to be legal terms... not a creative writing assignment. Google knows this.
Yes, use no index or no follow with robot.txt for the pages of privacy policy and terms of services..
Sure they do. Testing and tracking can tell you what they know. We might not know everything they like and dislike but to say there's no way to know anything about what google likes is just silly.
They probably hurt you when it comes to SEO because they're finding duplicate content. These spinners and generators generally give roughly the same Terms of Service and policies to each and every person, they don't change them a lot, so if you are being penalized by Google, it's most likely for duplicate content rather than using the generators themselves.