Terms and Conditions
A legal notice
The explanations and information provided on this page are only general and high-level explanations on how to draft your own Terms and Conditions documents. 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 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 governing 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 different terms and conditions than 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 intend to protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the Terms and Conditions document
In general terms, T&Cs usually address these types of issues: who can use the website; the possible payment methods; a statement that the website owner may change their offering in the future; the types of guarantees the website owner provides 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 more.
To learn more about this, see our article "Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy".