Terms and Conditions – also known as Terms of Service (ToS), Terms of Use, or End User License Agreement (EULA) – allow you to set the way in which your product, service or content may be used, in a legally binding way.
They govern the contractual relationship between you, the provider of a service and your users – essentially, a contract in which you, the owner, clarifies the conditions for using your service or accessing your products.
This article will help you write a basic Terms and Conditions document for a website. If you’d rather let us create a document tailored to your business for you, use our Terms and Conditions Generator.
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For your Terms and Conditions to be effective, they have have to:
While the full content may vary based on the particulars of your business, Terms and Conditions should at least include these elements:
Remember that Terms and Conditions are legally binding documents and should always be prepared in accordance with any applicable legal guidelines.
The best idea is to add them to your site’s footer, so that they are always visible and accessible.
Here’s a working example (created with our solution). Click on the button to open the Terms and Conditions:
Anyway, please note that in certain cases (an eCommerce, for example), a link in the footer is not enough: to maximize legality, ask your users to agree to your Terms and Conditions.
After reading the steps above, you might be asking yourself how to put this information together.
Given that Terms and Conditions are essentially the only legally binding agreement between yourself and your users that allow you to set rules specific to your business and protect it from liabilities – we strongly suggest that you don’t attempt to write them yourself.
Instead, we suggest that you either seek the services of a legal professional or use a quality Terms and Conditions Generator – “quality”, meaning one that allows you to fully customize and output clauses based on your businesses’ individual needs.
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