Expert Legal Services for Website Owners
Most businesses have a website to assist with that all important online presence. However, with that comes the legal aspect and ensuring your website is legally compliant. Most websites need to have certain documents to fulfil their legal obligations.
Your legal obligations connected to your website will very much depend on your website, your business and the sector your business operates in.
K&K Legal Consulting can help all types of website owners access the legal documents they need to keep their website operating within the law including:
- Privacy Policies
- Cookie Policies
- Website Terms of Use
- Website Terms & Conditions
- Website Compliance Checks
Our Website Legal Document Services
Privacy & Cookies Policy
It is a legal requirement for all websites that collect personal information from visitors to have a Privacy Policy. This lets visitors know what type of data you are collecting, and what you are doing with it. It also provides information about how you are collecting the data, by way of a form, cookies or otherwise. Talking of cookies, if your website is tracking visitor’s movements you also need to provide certain information about these cookies and what they do.
We cannot emphasise enough how important it is that your Privacy Policy is drafted with your business in mind. It might be tempting to copy one from another site, or download a template. However, the content within the policy will depend on how your website is set up, and to what extent you are collecting and processing data. This is why it is important to seek professional advice to make sure you get it right.
We can tailor a Privacy & Cookies Policy to your website and business to ensure you are fully protected.
Website Terms of Use
Terms of Use govern what customers or users must comply with in order to access and use your website.
There’s actually no legal requirement for your website to have Terms of Use but they are advisable.
Properly drafted Terms of Use should cover the following:
- How visitors can use your site and the content on it
- Links to and from your site;
- Disclaimers & Liability;
- Acceptable usage;
- Viruses, Malware and Security;
- Contact Details.
Website Compliance Check
Did you know that you have a legal obligation to make sure your website is compliant? Sadly some people believe that their website developer or designer will take care of this. But this is not the case. They are there to design your website not to ensure it’s legally compliant.
There are obligations all businesses must follow (whether sole trader or limited company) and regulations that will differ depending on status. If you operate an e-commerce site you also need to consider whether you are selling to consumers or businesses. The rules can be very different for consumers because they are afforded a lot more protection than business customers. The consequences of not relaying certain information to consumers can turn out to be very costly.
Contrary to what some non-experts say it isn’t just about GDPR. If you are unsure whether your website is compliant drop us a message. We can check it for a small fixed fee.