To access a website/webpage later from one of the online archival services, generally you would go back to the archival service website and enter the URL of the website/webpage that you initially archived. In addition, these services often give you a static URL to the archived page, which might come in handy particularly if you wanted to point to the version of the website at a specific point in time.
Do you need to archive just one page, or an entire site? What kind of content are you wanting to save? Do you want to be able to save just text, text and images, or multimedia also? Do you want to archive locally (i.e., on your own machine/storage devices), or to preserve a copy at an online archive?
So I have hired a 24/7 care company for my mother and they have not lived up to many of their advertised processes. I need to archive their website page(s) in case I need to sue them for breach of contract.
I'll preface this response with the disclaimer that I'm not a lawyer and that this isn't legal advice. Depending on your jurisdiction, the amount you'd be seeking in damages would likely determine the type of case (e.g., small claims vs. civil case) and whether it'd make sense to retain an attorney or whether to prepare/argue your own claims, filings, proceedings, etc., and how robust this type of evidence needs to be to be useful. Before it gets too far, it'd probably make sense to contact an attorney (maybe one who offers a free initial consultation) to get qualified legal advice, particularly as it relates to the specifics of your circumstances.
That said, I would think that using publicly available site archival services, including the Wayback Machine available at archive.org, in addition to the sites others are linking here, would be a good idea, as well as possibly taking a video of yourself accessing the relevant page(s). Basically, having proof that the company advertised a particular aspect to their service that it wouldn't be able to hide simply by later removing it from their website later might prove helpful. I believe I've heard that companies can request for archived pages to be removed, so having archives across multiple sites (and a video that is completely within your control) would make it more difficult for the company to pretend that they never advertised those processes, assuming they're not already written down in any other agreements between you and the company in the first place.
https://archive.is
https://archive.md
https://web.archive.org/
after saving, you are then given a link. you must do this for every page you want archived. it will not archive an entire site.
You can go to one of the archive websites and paste in the url. E.G: https://archive.md/
Thanks. How will I access it later?
To access a website/webpage later from one of the online archival services, generally you would go back to the archival service website and enter the URL of the website/webpage that you initially archived. In addition, these services often give you a static URL to the archived page, which might come in handy particularly if you wanted to point to the version of the website at a specific point in time.
Do you need to archive just one page, or an entire site? What kind of content are you wanting to save? Do you want to be able to save just text, text and images, or multimedia also? Do you want to archive locally (i.e., on your own machine/storage devices), or to preserve a copy at an online archive?
So I have hired a 24/7 care company for my mother and they have not lived up to many of their advertised processes. I need to archive their website page(s) in case I need to sue them for breach of contract.
I'll preface this response with the disclaimer that I'm not a lawyer and that this isn't legal advice. Depending on your jurisdiction, the amount you'd be seeking in damages would likely determine the type of case (e.g., small claims vs. civil case) and whether it'd make sense to retain an attorney or whether to prepare/argue your own claims, filings, proceedings, etc., and how robust this type of evidence needs to be to be useful. Before it gets too far, it'd probably make sense to contact an attorney (maybe one who offers a free initial consultation) to get qualified legal advice, particularly as it relates to the specifics of your circumstances.
That said, I would think that using publicly available site archival services, including the Wayback Machine available at archive.org, in addition to the sites others are linking here, would be a good idea, as well as possibly taking a video of yourself accessing the relevant page(s). Basically, having proof that the company advertised a particular aspect to their service that it wouldn't be able to hide simply by later removing it from their website later might prove helpful. I believe I've heard that companies can request for archived pages to be removed, so having archives across multiple sites (and a video that is completely within your control) would make it more difficult for the company to pretend that they never advertised those processes, assuming they're not already written down in any other agreements between you and the company in the first place.
Copy web address and paste at archive.today