Legal
Notices
If you have a web
site you might wish to have a number of legal notices to stipulate terms
of use of the site, (with relevant disclaimers) and a privacy policy.
In particular you
may wish to stipulate that children or nationals of a particular country
are not allowed to use the site. Some specialist sites (eg: gambling
or financial services) may have content that is not legal to broadcast
or be used in certain countries. Bigger sites that catch more attention
can make use of specialist internet mapping software to filter out users
from specific locations
If you provide
advice (eg health or financial advice) you may wish to stipulate the
terms under which this is given to avoid being seen to give bad or negligent
advice. You may be subject to government regulation in any case.
You would be wise
to consult a lawyer who is familiar with web related legal issues. You
could base your terms on those used by other websites, but you should
ensure that the terms are relevant to your particular situation.
Your privacy policy
should be clear and be as generous to the users as possible to encourage
confidence, with due regard to the Data
Protection Act. You can also consult the Which Webtrader guide from
the Consumers Association.
A lawyer might advise
that you should make access to the site conditional on acceptance of
your terms of use. This may be unpopular with users, at the very least
you can display a link to the terms from each page. As we have done
below.
In due course we
will prepare some standard notices that will be available to download
from here.
