Website Terms and Conditions Archive

How to attract customers has to be one of the hardest issues facing new online businesses. In your search for the perfect online business model, don’t overlook your humble Terms and Conditions notice. Yours might be too “strict” and scaring off potential customers – and ultimately holding back the growth of your business. On the […]

More and more online businesses are marketing to overseas customers. With an online business you have access to a larger potential customer base – it’s an easy and low cost way to sell more goods and services. So what do businesses do about Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”) for their customers in other countries? Can they […]

Many website designers and developers are suggesting to their customers that they should copy Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy statements from other websites. Don’t, this is illegal! There are a lot of risks when you copy another business’ website material but particularly if you copy their website Terms and Conditions or their Privacy Policy. […]

Did you know, as a website owner, you are liable for things people post on your website? By letting others post content, comments or contribute to your website, you may be opening yourself up to claims or headaches from issues you are not even aware of. When you permit website visitors to freely post comments, […]

It is a common misconception that if something has been posted online, it is in the public domain and may be copied, reposted, extracted, commented on and used freely. No! This is not the case. In fact, this is wrong. If you copy material off the internet without permission, you are very likely infringing the […]

Last week (18 September 2012) the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) commenced reviewing websites to catch sites that are not complying with the Australian Consumer and Privacy legislation. Any websites selling goods and services to Australian consumers that do not have Terms and Conditions that make it clear to consumers the terms upon which […]

From a risk management perspective it is essential that all websites include a disclaimer on their site. Including a Website Disclaimer aims to protect a website owner from foreseeable and unforeseeable claims that a user of the website claims to suffer as a result of their reliance on the information on the site. Although most […]

Websites that give some type of advice or provide goods or services should have both a Website Terms and Conditions and Disclaimer on their site. A website disclaimer is necessary to ensure a site’s information is not improperly relied upon and can protect the owner from various claims by visitors and customers to the website. […]

Every site should have some type of Website Terms and Conditions, even if they are not very extensive. This is an approach that should be taken to limit the liability of the website owner. As a website owner cannot control who accesses their site, they cannot control how the information on the site may be […]

Generally all sites should have Website Terms and Conditions. This will decrease the risk of the owner of the website’s liability for damage claimed to have been suffered by a visitor to their site, in a number of ways. With a website being accessible to anyone, a website owner has no control over who accesses […]