The site keeps every text of your legal documents that went live, with its dates. This article shows you how to read the history of a document, compare two editions and find the text that a person read or accepted.
Before you start
- An edition is the text of a legal document as it was live, with its dates. It is created in Production, never when you save in the editor.
- The site keeps editions for as long as it exists, even for a document that has been removed. An edition is never erased.
- Your visitors see only the text currently in force and its date. Past editions stay on your side.
Understand when an edition is created
Each time Production puts a different text live for a document, the site keeps it as a new edition. The edition records its date and the person who put it live. When another text replaces it, the end date is added.
| Situation | Result |
|---|---|
| Three corrections saved during the day, then the site published in the evening | A single edition. |
| A site publication that does not touch the document | No edition. |
| A color or a font changed | No edition: the site keeps only the words. |
| A typo corrected then published | A new edition, since visitors read the corrected text. |
| An earlier version of the site restored | The edition from that time comes back into force, with its number. No edition is created. |
| A new cookie added to the cookie table by Lovely Render | A new edition, in the name of Lovely Render. |
| A document removed from the site | Its editions stay. |
Open the history of a document
- In the administration menu, open Legal documents.
- Click the title of the document, or History when you hover its row. The history opens in place of the editor.
- On a translated document, choose the language in the tabs above the history. Each language has its own editions.
The Editions column lists the texts that Production has shown, the most recent at the top. On the right, you read the chosen edition as your visitors read it, without the header, the footer or the formatting.
| Information | Example |
|---|---|
| Its number and its badge | Edition 5 and In force for the one your visitors read. |
| Its dates | Since October 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM, or From Sep 12, 2026 at 6:40 AM to Oct 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM for a replaced edition. |
| Its cause | Published by followed by the person’s name. The other causes are in the table of causes of an edition. |
| Its changed lines | The lines added and removed compared with the previous edition, or First text. |
| Its requests | 214 submissions sent under this edition: the requests received by your forms while it was in force. |
| Its acceptances | The number of acceptances of this edition, ticked with an Acceptance checkbox. |
| Put online by | Text of the edition |
|---|---|
| A site publication | Published by followed by the name, or Put online by followed by the name for the first edition. |
| The restoration of a site version | The name of the person and the date of the restored version, for example “Claire Roussel restored the site version of August 28, 2026”. |
| A scheduled publication | Put online at its scheduled date. |
| A change by Lovely Render | Lovely Render updated how the text displays. |
A text put back online by a restoration keeps its number and carries the Back online badge. A removed document shows at the top of the column Withdrawn from the site, the date of the removal and the person who removed it.
Compare two editions
- In the Editions column, click the edition to read.
- Above the text, click Compare. The text is compared with the previous edition.
- Optional: in the compared to list, choose another edition.
- To go back to the full text, click Read.
Added lines are in green, removed lines in red and struck through. Identical lines are collapsed, for example 5 identical lines.
Print prints only the text. Each reading and each comparison has its own address: copy it to show it to a member of the site.
Read the next edition
When a new text is waiting for the site to be published, the Next edition card appears at the top of the history, with the Not online yet badge. It shows the number of the edition that the publication will create, the lines that change, the person who edited the document and the date. If the text stays the same, it says so.
See the comparison compares the new text with the edition in force. Open in the editor opens the document so you can correct it before publishing.
Find the text a person read
Each request received by a form that links a document keeps the edition in force at the time of sending.
- Open the Forms screen, then the requests of the form.
- In the Legal documents column of the request, click the document and its edition, for example “Privacy policy (edition 2)”.
- The history of the document opens on that text, as the person read it. Click Print if needed.
Find an acceptance
On the history of a document that visitors accepted, the Find an acceptance card searches for a person’s acceptances.
- In the Email or phone field, enter the person’s email address or phone number.
- Click Search. Each acceptance appears with its date, its edition, its form and its page. The edition link opens its text.
Proofs are kept for 10 years. The search never reads the stored addresses: it compares a fingerprint of what you type with the one kept with each proof. With no result, the card shows No acceptance of this document for this email or phone.
Take your editions with you
The archive of your site contains a legal folder. It gathers every text of your legal documents that went live, its dates and the proofs of acceptance. Take your site with you describes the archive.