Terms and Conditions
Legal notice
The explanations and information provided on this page are only general and broad outlines of how to write your own Terms and Conditions document. You should not consider this article as legal advice or recommendations on what you should really do, because we cannot know in advance what are the specific terms you want to establish between your business and your clients and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to understand and draw up your own Terms and Conditions.
Terms and Conditions: basics
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 establish the legal boundaries that govern the activities of website visitors, or your customers, while they visit or interact with this website. The purpose of the T&C is to set forth the legal relationship between website visitors and you, as the owner of the website.
The T&C should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website that offers products to customers through e-commerce transactions will require different T&C than a website that solely provides information (such as a blog, landing page, etc.).
The T&C give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself from legal liability. However, this may vary from one jurisdiction to another, so be sure to seek local legal advice if you aim to protect yourself from legal risks.
What must be included in the Terms and Conditions document
In general, the T&C usually address these types of issues: who is authorized to use the website, possible payment methods, a statement that the website owner can change its offer in the future, the types of guarantees that the The website owner offers its clients a reference to intellectual property or copyright issues (if relevant), the website owner's right to suspend or cancel a member's account and much more.
To obtain more information, read our article How to create a Terms and Conditions policy .