AI Policy Builder

A draft AI use policy for your board, in twelve questions.

You don't have to use AI. But AI is already describing you to donors and funders, and right now nobody on your board has checked what it says. Answer twelve questions and download a short draft AI use policy, built from clauses a person wrote and reviewed. The same answers always produce the same draft. Have it reviewed by a qualified legal adviser before your board adopts it.

What you get

Cover note for trustees
Half a page, with a proposed resolution to adopt the policy.
AI use policy
One to two pages, plus Appendix A, the list of approved tools.
Staff sign-off sheet
A statement and fifteen rows for name, role, signature and date.
Public AI statement
A short version for your website.
Editable Word file
Built on Word’s own heading styles, so your template can restyle it.
Wording for where you are
The data-law wording for the UK, Ireland, the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US, and neutral wording elsewhere.

Twelve questions

Nothing you enter leaves this page until you press Download. Leave a question you cannot answer and it counts as “Not sure”, which always chooses the more cautious wording.

Q1 What is your organisation called?
Q2 Who will own this policy?

A role, not a name, so the policy survives a change of staff. Write it as it reads in a sentence, for example “the Chief Executive”.

Q3 When should it be reviewed?

Twelve months from today unless you choose another date.

Q4 Where are you based?

Filled in from where you are based. Change it if yours is different. Leave it empty if you are not sure, and the policy leaves the regulator out.

Q5 Which AI tools do people use for your work?

Tick all that apply, and add any others. The names go into the list of approved tools.

General chat assistants
AI built into office software
Writing and design
Meeting notes and transcription
AI inside a CRM or fundraising platform
Q6 Which accounts do they use?
Q7 What is AI used for?

Tick all that apply.

Q8 Has personal data ever gone into an AI tool?
Q9 Do you work with children, vulnerable adults, or health or safeguarding information?
Q10 Do you publish text or images made with AI?
Q11 Who approves a new tool today?
Q12 What should AI systems be allowed to do with your website?

Download the draft

Your organisation is the one you named in question 1.

Before you download

This builder produces a draft from general template clauses. It is not legal advice and it does not know your organisation, your activities or every law that applies to you. Laws and regulators differ by country. Have the draft reviewed by a qualified legal adviser, or the person responsible for legal and data protection matters in your organisation, before your board adopts or relies on it. Socialectric accepts no responsibility for the draft or for how it is used, to the extent the law allows.

When you download, your name, organisation, email and answers are sent to Socialectric to record it. See the privacy policy.

Questions

No. It is a draft assembled from general clauses. It must be reviewed by a qualified legal adviser, or whoever handles legal and data protection matters in your organisation, before your board adopts it.

No. Every clause was written and reviewed by a person. Your answers choose which clauses appear. Nothing is generated.

It includes the points the Fundraising Regulator asks for: a person checking AI output for accuracy, fairness and legality, being transparent with donors, and not publishing AI content that donors could mistake for real situations or people.

Nothing until you press Download. Then your name, organisation, email and answers are sent to Socialectric so the download is recorded. You will only hear from us again if you ticked the box for clause updates. See the privacy policy.

Because a short policy is the right first step for any organisation whose people use AI. If you later want a full review of your website, that is what Socialectric is paid for.

Yes, as a draft. It names the law and regulator for the UK, Ireland, the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US, and uses neutral wording elsewhere, with your regulator’s name if you add it. Laws differ by country, which is one more reason to have it reviewed locally.