Terms & Conditions
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What are Terms & Conditions?
Terms and Conditions (“T&C”) are a set of legally binding terms defined by the owner of the Preventing Catastrophic Bushfires website. The T&C set forth the legal boundaries governing the activities of the website visitors, or customers, while they visit or engage with this website. T&C are meant to establish the legal relationship between the site visitors and the owner of the Preventing Catastrophic Bushfires website.
T&C should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of the website. For example, a website offering environmental protection services requires T&C that are different from the T&C of a website only providing information (like a blog, a landing page, and so on).
T&C provide the owner of the website the ability to protect themselves from potential legal exposure, but this may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so make sure to receive local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal exposure.
What to include in the T&C document
Generally speaking, T&C often address these types of issues: Who is allowed to use the website; the possible payment methods; a declaration that the website owner may change his or her offering in the future; the types of warranties the website owner gives his or her customers; a reference to issues of environmental protection or copyrights, where relevant; the website owner’s right to suspend or cancel a member’s account; and much much more.
To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy”.