# German "About, FAQ, TOS, Privacy"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [2017年十一月29日 16:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026 "2017-11-29T16:20:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Roland\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roland_W)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 16:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/1 "2017-11-29T16:20:06Z")
Hello,
we just set up a new Discourse-Instance. Though we chose “German” as language for the Installation, the “FAQ”-section is in English. In the following topic is a discussion about the German translation:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-translation/18151](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-translation/18151)
Maybe I´m too stupid, but I can´t figure out
a. whether there is a way to switch the FAQ to German or
b. whether there is a Site, where I can download the German translation or
c. whether there is no translation at all.
Thx for your hints.
Roland
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### Author:  [@Osama](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Osama)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 17:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/2 "2017-11-29T17:41:21Z")
There are German translations for those topics at
>
Not sure if there is a smoother way to convert those pages into the language you want, but you could manually copy the translations from Github and paste them into the topics that hold the content of the FAQ, ToS etc. pages (by default those topics are in the staff category).
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### Author:  [@Roland\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roland_W)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/3 "2017-11-29T19:03:28Z")
THX.
Copy paste did the job,though I still have an issue with some variables in the TOS-Section
> Die Webseite gehört und wird betrieben von %{company\_full\_name} („%{company\_name}“).
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### Author:  [@Osama](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Osama)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 19:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/4 "2017-11-29T19:45:58Z")
Those are placeholders to be replaced with your company/forums name.
FYI Discourse uses the values of the `company_full_name` and `company_short_name` site settings when seeding those topics, so you can use what you used for those settings. 🙂
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 19:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/5 "2017-11-29T19:56:06Z")
Those topics are created when you bootstrap the Docker container for the first time. You can choose the initial default locale by setting the value of `DISCOURSE_DEFAULT_LOCALE` in `app.yml` to the required language. For German that value would be `de`.
Currently it’s not possible to switch the language of the FAQ to German after the bootstrap. The only solutions right now are the ones suggested by @Osama.
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### Author:  [@Roland\_W](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roland_W)
#### Post date: [2017年十一月29日 21:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/6 "2017-11-29T21:14:32Z")
I just copy-pasted the translation from github. Wondering if the variables are correct, I’ll have to change those values manually.
Thank you anyway.
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### Author:  [@sebastianh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sebastianh)
#### Post date: [2018年五月24日 16:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/german-about-faq-tos-privacy/75026/7 "2018-05-24T16:24:57Z")
Has anyone translated the updated Privacy Text that Discourse just put up by now?