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Terms and Conditions

Legal notice

The explanations and information provided on this page are general and high-level explanations and information about how to draft your own Terms and Conditions document. You should not consider 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 that you seek legal advice to understand and draft your own Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions: fundamentals

That being 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 that govern the activities of website visitors, or your customers, while they visit or interact with this website. The purpose of the T&Cs is to define the legal relationship between website visitors and you as the site owner.

The T&Cs should be tailored to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers through e-commerce transactions requires different T&Cs than a website that only provides information (such as a blog, homepage, etc.).

The T&Cs give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself from legal liability, but this may vary from one jurisdiction to another, so be sure to seek local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal liability.

What should be included in the Terms and Conditions document?

​In general, Terms and Conditions typically address these types of issues: who is authorized to use the website, available payment methods, a statement that the website owner may change their offerings in the future, the types of guarantees the website owner offers to its customers, a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues (if relevant), the website owner's right to suspend or terminate a member's account, and much more.

For more information, read our article How to Create a Terms and Conditions Policy.

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