Terms and Conditions
Legal Disclaimer
The clarifications and information provided on this page are for general and non-specific purposes on how to draft your own Terms and Conditions documents. You should not rely on this article as legal guidance or recommendations on what you should actually do, as we cannot know in advance what specific terms you wish to establish between your company and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice if you need help understanding and creating your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions - Fundamental Concepts
That said, Terms and Conditions ("T&C") are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this site. The T&C establish the legal framework governing the activities of visitors to the site, or your customers, during their visit or interaction with this site. The intention of the T&C is to establish the legal relationship between the visitors of the site and you, the owner of the site.
The Terms and Conditions should be established according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers involving e-commerce transactions needs to have different Terms and Conditions from a website that only provides information (such as a blog, a landing page redirecting to others, and so on).
Terms and Conditions give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself against potential legal exposures. However, this may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so seek local legal guidance if you intend to shield yourself from legal exposure.
What to Include in the Terms and Conditions Document
In general terms, the Terms and Conditions typically regulate the following issues: who can use the site; possible payment methods; a statement that the website owner may change its offerings in the future; the types of warranties the website owner provides to its customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, when relevant; the website owner's right to suspend or cancel a member's account; and much more.
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