Terms and Conditions
Legal disclaimer
The information provided on this page is general and high-level guidance on how to draft your own Terms and Conditions document. It should not be considered legal advice or recommendations on what you should actually do, as we cannot know in advance the specific terms you wish to establish between your business and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to help you understand and create your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions
That said, the Terms and Conditions ("T&Cs") are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. The T&Cs establish the legal boundaries governing the activities of website visitors or your customers while visiting or interacting with this website. The T&Cs are intended to establish the legal relationship between website visitors and you as the website owner.
Terms and conditions should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers in e-commerce transactions requires different terms and conditions than a website that only provides information (such as a blog, a landing page, etc.).
The Terms and Conditions give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself from potential legal exposures, but this can differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so be sure to seek local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the Terms and Conditions document
In general terms, Terms and Conditions often address these types of issues: who can use the website; possible payment methods; a statement that the website owner may change their offer in the future; the types of guarantees the website owner offers to their customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, where applicable; the website owner's right to suspend or terminate a member's account; and much more.
For more information on this topic, please see our article "Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy".