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Website terms and conditions
The rules visitors agree to when using your website.
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Software, website and data terms
The terms, policies and agreements behind a website, an app, a software product, or the data it handles.
Anyone launching or running something digital runs into the same documents in roughly the same order: terms for the site, a policy for the data, an agreement for whoever builds or licenses the software. Most people know they need them without knowing their names, and who owns the software is a separate question from who may use it.
What this can involveWhat it can involve
Does one of these sound like yours?
You don’t need to know the legal term for it. Start with what actually happened.
- Terms for a website or a platformWhat users may do on it, and what you are and are not responsible for.
- Privacy and personal dataWhat you collect, why, and what you tell people about it.
- Building or buying softwareWho builds it, who owns it, and what anyone else may do with it.
- Selling onlineThe terms customers see when they buy, return or complain.
- SecurityThe legal side of keeping a system and its data safe.
- Reviewing a digital contractReading a software or platform agreement before you sign it, including who ends up owning the work.
None of these quite right? You don’t have to pick one.
More than one area
One situation, more than one area of law.
Software, website and data terms rarely sits in a single category. These are the areas it most often reaches, and why. You don’t have to pick one — the matter decides, not you.
Each one is a real page you can read before deciding anything.
Most oftenTechnology, Privacy & DataThe product, the platform and the data it handles.
And often also
- Intellectual PropertyWho owns the software and the content is a separate question from who may use it.
- ContractsEvery one of these is an agreement or a set of terms.
- Consumer LawSelling to consumers online brings their rights into your terms.
- International & Cross-borderA website reaches users in countries whose rules differ.
Documents
You may also need a document.
Terms, policies and licences for a digital product are all in the ready-to-use catalogue, and can be read together with the questions above.
Ready-to-Use Documents
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Privacy policies
Explain how you collect and use people's personal data.
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SaaS agreements
Set the terms customers use your software service on.
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Software development agreements
Set the terms for building software for a client.
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Other situations
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