Terms and Conditions

A legal notice

The explanations and information provided on this page are only general, high-level explanations and information on how to write your own Terms and Conditions document. You should not rely on this article as 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 seeking legal advice to help you understand and assist you in creating your Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions - the basics

That said, the Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”) are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, the owner of this website. The T&Cs establish the legal limits that govern the activities of site visitors or your customers while visiting or interacting with this website. The T&Cs are intended to establish the legal relationship between site visitors and you, the website owner.

T&Cs should be defined based on the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers in e-commerce transactions requires different T&Cs than a website that only provides information (such as a blog, landing page, and so on).

The T&Cs allow you, as a website owner, the ability to protect yourself from potential legal exposure, but this may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so be sure to seek local legal advice if you are seeking to protect yourself from legal exposure.

What to include in the T&C document

Generally, the T&Cs often address these types of issues: Who is authorized to use the website; available payment methods; a statement that the website owner may change its offerings in the future; the types of guarantees the website owner offers its customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, if applicable; the website owner's right to suspend or cancel a member's account; and much, much more.

To learn more, see our article “Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy.”