Website Terms and Conditions for Technology Businesses
Why do you need a Website Terms and Conditions?
The internet is amazing, but there are always parties looking to steal or take advantage of your work. If you have a website, you should protect it by laying out the Terms and Conditions for your website users.
The Terms and Conditions state your (and your users) obligations, rights and responsibilities when they use your website. You also have a cacophony of intellectual property (ideas, designs, content) in your website that needs to be protected.
1. Who we are and how to contact us. 2. By using our site you accept these terms. 3. There are other terms that may apply to you. 4. We may make changes to these terms. 5. We may make changes to our site. 6. We may suspend or withdraw our site. 7. We may transfer this agreement to someone else. 8. Our site is only for users in the UK. 9. You must keep your account details safe. 10. How you may use material on our site. 11. Do not rely on information on our site. 12. We are not responsible for websites we link to. 13. User-generated content is not approved by us. 14. How to complain about content uploaded by other users. 15. Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you. 16. Exclusion of liability for digital content. 17. How we may use your personal information. 18. Uploading content to our site. 19. Rights you are giving us to use material you upload. 20. We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them. 21. Rules about linking to our site. 22. Which country's laws apply to any disputes? 23. Our trade marks are registered.
Key facts
Get the key facts for a Website Terms and Conditions
They can be… if they hit the right criteria to be accepted as a contract. This can be difficult to do. It’s all about how you gain and prove acceptance from the user. Two options are Clickwrap (where the user must click ‘Accept’ before browsing) and Browsewrap (where a user accepts the Terms and Conditions simply by browsing).
In theory, there is nothing stopping you copying Terms and Conditions from another website, but it would be next to useless. A website Terms and Conditions should be specifically tailored to your needs.
Your website “content” means all the video, audio, pictures, design, blogs and information you have on your website.
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