Terms and Conditions
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The clarifications and information provided on this page are for general and unspecific purposes on how to draft your own Terms and Conditions documents. You should not rely on this article as legal advice or recommendations on what you should effectively do, as we cannot know in advance what specific terms you wish to establish between your company and your customers and visitors. We recommend seeking legal guidance if you need assistance in understanding and creating your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions - Fundamental Notions
Having said that, 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 governing the activities of visitors to the site, or your customers, during their visit or interaction with this website. 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 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 T&C that are different from the T&C of a website that only provides information (such as a blog, a home page redirecting to others, and so on).
T&C give you, as the site 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 protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the T&C document
In general terms, the T&C usually regulate the following issues: who can use the website; the possible payment methods; a statement that the website owner can change its offers in the future; the types of warranty that the website owner provides to its customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, when relevant; the right of the website owner to suspend or cancel a member's account; and much more.
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