We have published many versions of terms and conditions documents for use as standard “take it or leave it” documents for use on your website or sales material. This page is a guide to which document might be most suitable for your use.
The documents have been divided not according to what you sell, but according to whether your customer is a consumer or business; and whether you sell goods or services, or both. We have further provided for traders who have only a modest Internet presence and traders who take money on their website.
Start by looking at your customers. The Distance Selling Regulations and other law provide far greater protection to “consumers” than the business buyers. A consumer is anyone who is not buying in the course of a business.
The “consumer” versions provide that the consumer protection law relates only to consumers, so if you sell to both consumers and to businesses, you can use the “consumer” version for all your customers without giving anything away. Alternatively, you could use both versions and code your site so that the version which comes up before a customer is decided automatically from the data you have asked them to enter.
If you sell goods from your website, choose Website terms and conditions goods to business, payment online or Website terms and conditions goods to consumers, payment online.
If you do not use a website for actual selling, choose Website terms and conditions goods to business, no online payment or Website terms and conditions goods to consumers no online payment. If you sell services, use Website terms and conditions services to business, payment online or Website terms and conditions services to consumers, payment online.
If you sell a product which is delivered by soft copy download or email (as we do at Net Lawman) use Website terms and conditions soft copy download to businesses or Website terms and conditions soft copy downloads to consumers. If you sell soft copy download goods and also hard goods which require physical delivery, choose Website terms and conditions goods and soft copy download to consumers, payment online.
In addition to these general versions, we sell a number of industry specific versions, which you will find in our menu here.
Finally, if you would like us to draw a version especially for you, we should be delighted to do so - at a remarkably low price.
If by chance you find some error of law or fact in any Net Lawman information page, do please tell us. We should also welcome your suggestions for new subjects for information pages. These notes:
Do not provide a complete or authoritative statement of the law;
Do not constitute legal advice by Net Lawman;
Do not create a contractual relationship;
Do not form part of any other advice, whether paid or free.
