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Legal disclaimer
The clarifications and information provided on this page are intended only for the general and somewhat vague purpose of guiding 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 actually do, as we cannot know in advance the specific terms you wish to stipulate between your company and your clients and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal guidance if you need help understanding and creating your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions - fundamental concepts
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 governing the activities of site visitors, or your customers, during their visit or interaction with this website. The purpose of the T&C is to establish the legal relationship between the site visitors and you, the website owner. The T&C should be established according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website offering 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 landing page referring to others, and so on).
T&Cs 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 may change their offerings in the future; the types of warranties that the website owner provides to their 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.To learn more about this, check out our article.