Standard Terms and Conditions are a contract between two parties, and are used by companies who supply products or services. They can be used in B2B or B2C situations.
Your business’s T&Cs lay out exactly how your business operates. For instance:
- Do you deliver goods on request from a price list?
- Or perhaps you create bespoke items?
- Do you offer your customers quotes?
- What’s your timescales?
A good set of terms and conditions will deal with:
- What goods/services are to be provided
- Price and payment terms
- Delivery arrangements
- What happens if payment isn’t made
- Limitation of liability (in B2B contracts)
- Consumer rights (in B2C contracts)
- Data protection
- Termination
Your terms of business should be set out in writing, sent in advance of any work commencing and signed by both parties to confirm agreement.
Website Terms & Conditions
All websites need to include certain terms and conditions to make sure that the site is legally compliant. This minimises potential liability to third parties and to protect the intellectual property on the site. If your website is used to provide goods or services, then the site will also need terms dealing specifically with the supply of goods and/or services.
Most websites will also require:
- Terms of Use – setting out how visitors to the website can access and use the site, including setting up user accounts, profiles and managing preferences.
- Privacy Policy – detailing how data is collected and used.
- Cookies Policy – which clearly identifies what cookies are used on the site, for what purpose and how long they last.
Your Business Lawyer can draft these terms and policies specifically tailored to your website and how it operates.
Why do you need a specialist Terms and Conditions lawyer?
A specialist lawyer helps you avoid situations of not getting paid and protects your business’s legal rights. Having Your Business Lawyer draft the terms and conditions that are tailored to your company ensures that your T&Cs will be there protecting your position.
Key benefits of enlisting a specialist T&Cs lawyer include:
- Minimises the chances of legal disputes.
- Ensures your business runs smoothly.
- Enables you to protect the areas that are most critical to your business.
Many businesses who do have T&Cs of trade often fail to properly incorporate them into their contracts with their customers. The effect of failing to properly incorporate the terms and conditions into contracts is that those Terms and Conditions may not have any legal effect on the business’ contracts.
Having correctly drafted and incorporated T&Cs will save businesses considerable expenses in the long run as it is much more expensive and time consuming to take legal action against non paying customers or deal with other disputes through the courts than it is to have the correct terms and conditions prepared and incorporated at the outset of your business. Don’t forget to regularly review your Terms and Conditions to comply with latest legislation and any changes occurring within your business.
Whilst many online Terms and Conditions templates cover issues like data protection, limitation of liability, and consumer rights, is it wise to risk your business and potential claims for the sake of a few hundred pounds in getting an expert lawyer draft your terms and conditions?
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Your Business Lawyer can help you with:
- B2B Terms and Conditions
- Industry specific T&Cs
- B2C Terms and Conditions
- Offline T&Cs
- Supply of Services
- Distributor T&Cs
- Analyse existing T&Cs
- Ecommerce T&Cs
- Re-draft existing T&Cs