Terms and Conditions
Legal notice
The explanations and information provided on this page are just general explanations and information and great features on how to write your own Terms and Conditions document. You should not consider this article as legal advice or recommendations on what you really need to do, because 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 understand and prepare your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions: fundamentals
That said, the Terms and Conditions («T&C») are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. The T&C establishes the legal limits that regulate the activities of visitors to the website, or your customers, while visiting or participating in this website. The T&C aims to establish the legal relationship between visitors to the site and you as the owner of that site.
The T&C must be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers in e-commerce operations, requires different T&Cs than the T&Cs of a website that only provides information (such as a blog, home page, etc.).
The T&C trusts you, as owner of the website, with the ability to protect you from legal liability, but this may differ from one jurisdiction to another, so you are sure to receive 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, the T&C may address these types of questions: who is authorized to use the website, the possible payment methods, a declaration that the website owner can change his offer in the future, the types of guarantees that the website owner offers to his customers, a reference to intellectual property questions or author's rights (if relevant), the right of the owner of the website to suspend or cancel the account of a member and much more.
For more information, read our article How to create a Terms and Conditions policy .