Additional Legal Documents for Advanced Websites
Does your website or online business include any additional features such as member subscriptions, blogs, affiliates, downloadable content, forums, or advertisements? Does your website or online business carry out transactions? If you answered yes to any of the questions above then you are exposed to the additional laws and regulations which apply to websites or online businesses providing these advanced features placing you at risk of further liability. Additional legal documents for advanced websites: • Affiliate Agreement: this Agreement covers the legal and technical matters involving income generated and royalties arising from traffic from/to your affiliated members. • Supply of Goods Terms & Conditions: this contract sets out the Terms and Conditions under which your website sells goods/services ensuring you are legally compliant with the Distance Selling Regulations set out in the UK E-commerce Regulations 2002. • Membership and Subscription Terms & Conditions: these Terms set out the contract under which you offer additional services to members and the availability of your website and is to be used in conjunction with the Forum and Social Networking Agreement. • Linking Agreement: this Agreement covers the legal and technical issues involved in linking to and from your website. • Advertising Agreement: this Agreement sets out the terms under which an advertiser may advertise on your site, liability, copyright content and legal responsibility for the advertisement content. • Earnings and Income Disclaimer: this covers any implied or expressed warranties that can be inferred from your website disclaiming liability from losses arising from reliance on website content. • Legal Disclaimer: this document disclaims liability from loss of profits, intellectual property infringements, age restrictions, losses and damages arising from reliance on website content, features and viruses. • Form of Authority to download material: this Form limits the liability of a website when users download material or website content from a third party. • Forum and Social Networking Agreement: this Agreement sets out the rules under which members may contribute to forums, what material may be uploaded and asserts your right to remove and ban any content deemed inappropriate by you. |