Terms and Conditions
Legal notice
The explanations and information provided on this page are only general, high-level explanations and information on how to draft 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 what specific terms you want to establish between your business and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to help you understand and assist you in creating your own 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, as the owner of this website. The T&Cs establish the legal boundaries that govern 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 terms and conditions that are different from the terms and conditions of 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 exposure, but this may 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
Generally speaking, T&Cs often address these types of issues: who can use the website; possible payment methods; a statement that the website owner may change their offering in the future; the types of guarantees the website owner gives to their customers; a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues, where relevant; the website owner's right to suspend or terminate a member's account; and much, much more.
For more information, see our article “Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy.”