Terms and Conditions
Legal Statement
The explanations and information on this page are only general, high-level explanations of how to write your own terms and conditions document. Do not rely on this article as legal advice or as recommendations for what you should actually do, as we cannot know in advance what specific terms you will want to establish between your business and your customers and visitors. We recommend that you seek legal advice to understand and assist you in creating your own terms and conditions.
Terms and Conditions - The Basics
In this sense, Terms and Conditions (T&C) are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. Terms and Conditions establish the legal boundaries that govern the activities of your website visitors, or customers, while they visit or participate in this website. Terms and Conditions are intended to establish the legal relationship between the website visitors and you, as the website owner.
Terms and conditions should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each site. For example, a site that offers products to customers in e-commerce transactions requires different terms and conditions than a site that only offers information (such as a blog, landing page, etc.).
Terms and conditions give you, as the website owner, the ability to protect yourself from potential legal exposure, but this may vary from country to country, so make sure you get local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the terms and conditions document
In general, terms and conditions usually deal with these types of issues: who may use the site; payment options; a statement that the site owner may change its offerings in the future; the types of warranties the site owner provides to its customers; addressing intellectual property or copyright issues, where applicable; the site owner's right to suspend or terminate a member's account; and so on.
To learn more about this, check out our article "Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy."