TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Legal disclaimer
The clarifications and information provided on this page are for general and non-specific guidance only on how to draft your own Terms and Conditions documents. You should not rely on this article as legal advice or as recommendations on what you should effectively do, as we cannot know in advance the specific terms you wish to stipulate between your company and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal counsel if you require assistance in understanding and creating your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions
That said, Terms and Conditions ("T&C") are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. The T&C establish the legal framework that governs the activities of site visitors, 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 site's visitors and you, the site owner.
The T&C must 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 T&C that are different from the T&C of a website that offers information only (such as a blog, a homepage for forwarding to others, and so on).
T&C give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself against potential legal exposure. However, this may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so seek local legal advice if you intend to protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the T&C document
In general terms, Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) typically regulate the following issues: who can use the site; the possible payment methods; a statement that the site owner may change their offers in the future; the types of guarantees the site owner provides to their customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, when relevant; the site owner's right to suspend or cancel a member's account; and much more.
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