If you have a website these days, there are a few files that you MUST have to protect yourself. These files are ones that you can create once and then maybe review or refresh once a year. But without them, you could be leaving yourself or your organization open to legal issues.
To make sure that our customers are informed of these risks and are provided easy ways to stay legal, Booster Web Solutions has teamed up with Chip Cooper and DigiContracts.com. We feel that these documents provide an excellent solutions for any website.
The first 2 pages that are a must for every site are a Legal Notice page and Terms of Use page. These will help to protect your property rights and limit your liability. Property Rights protection would include copyrights, trademarks and patents. The Terms of Use page will provide information and define relationships between you, any advertisers and visitors of your website. This would include any marketing related activities.
The 3rd key page is a Privacy Policy. This page is required if you collect any personal information from your visitors. Personal information can include but is not limited to name, address or email. A good privacy policy will disclose what is done with any information collected and if this is shared with any 3rd parties.
A Customer Agreement is needed if you are asking your visitors to create a account to join, buy, or gain access to services (free or paid). This can become legally binding when a visitor clicks to accept your terms.
There are many other documents that you may needed depending on any relationships or features you may have on your website. Digicontracts.com has a very easy to use Document Determinator that can help you determine what you need. The system is easy to use and provides the cost effective way to produce documents that can keep you legal.
Whether you write them yourself, hire an Internet Lawyer to write the, or use digicontracts.com, we strongly suggest that you have some or all of these pages installed on your website.
We will be glad to work with you to make sure the links show up in your footer of your website.
