Are you looking for free legal documents to protect your online business? Here are free legal document templates for your blog / website.
Many website owners struggle with coming up with legal pages for their websites.
Here are free legal document templates that you can modify to protect your blog or website.
When I just started out with making money online blogging, I found a hard time writing up my website’s legal documents.
I had to seek the help of my lawyer friends to get the job done and protect my online business from any law suits in the future.
If you are serious about making money online with your blog, then you will have to take legalizing your business as a serious issue.
Why should I legalize my online business using free legal documents?
Legal documents such as about us, contact us, privacy policy, disclaimer, terms & conditions pages are crucial to monetize your site with any advertising platform.
Please make changes on each of the BOLD & ITALIC places covered with brackets from the free legal documents included below.
I believe you will find my contributions helpful.
Privacy Policy
(This is one of the most important free legal documents for any money making blog or website out there.)
Privacy Policy for (YOUR WEBSITE NAME)!
Who we are:
Our website address is (YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS)
What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
1. Comments:
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. Media:
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. Contact Forms & Cookies:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies.
These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. And if you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
4. Embedded Content From Other Websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
5. Analytics- How long we retain your data:
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
6. What rights you have over your data:
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Where we send your data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
8. Compliance With Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
9. Your Acceptance Of These Terms:
By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy and terms of service. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contact information:
If you face any problem with the contents or the site, feel free to write us at (YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS)
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Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions of (YOUR WEBSITE NAME)
Below are the Terms and Conditions for use of (YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS).
Please read these carefully. If you need to contact us regarding any aspect of the following terms of use of our website, please contact us at (YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS)
By accessing the content of (YOUR WEBSITE NAME) (hereafter referred to as a website) you agree to the terms and conditions set out herein and also accept our privacy policy. If you do not agree to any of the terms and conditions you should not continue to use the website and leave immediately.
You agree that you shall not use the website for any illegal purposes and that you will respect all applicable laws and regulations.
You agree not to use (YOUR WEBSITE NAME)! Website in a way that may impair the performance, corrupt or manipulate the content or information available on the website or reduce the overall functionality of the website.
You agree not to compromise the security of the website or attempt to gain access to secured areas of the website or attempt to access any sensitive information you may believe exist on the website or server where it is hosted.
You agree to be fully responsible for any claim, expense, losses, liability, and costs including legal fees incurred by us arising from any infringement of the terms and conditions in this agreement and to which you will have agreed if you continue to use the website.
The reproduction, distribution in any method whether online or offline is strictly not prohibited. The work on the website and the images, logos, text and other such information is not the property of (YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS) (unless otherwise stated).
Disclaimer
Though we strive to be completely accurate in the information that is presented on our site and attempt to keep it as up to date as possible, in some cases, some of the information you find on the website may be slightly outdated.
(YOUR WEBSITE NAME) reserves the right to make any modifications or corrections to the information you find on the website at any time without notice.
Change to the Terms and Conditions of Use
We reserve the right to make changes and to revise the above-mentioned Terms and Conditions of use.
Last Revised: 14-03-2020
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Disclaimer
Disclaimer for (YOUR WEBSITE NAME):
If you are looking for any more information or have any questions about (YOUR WEBSITE NAME)‘s disclaimer, please feel free to contact us by email at (YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS)
All the information on this website is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. (YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS) does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of this information.
Any action you take – the information you find on this website (YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS), is strictly at your own risk. (YOUR WEBSITE NAME) will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.
From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites.
These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone ‘bad’.
Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control. Please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites as well as their “Terms of Service” before engaging in any business or uploading any information.
Consent:
By using our website, you hereby consent to our disclaimer and agree to its terms.
Update:
This site disclaimer was last updated on 14th MAR 2020. Should we update, amend or make any changes to this document, those changes will be prominently posted here.
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Conclusion
Legal pages are very critical to keeping your website safe from any legal repercussions that may arise in the future.
They also help to build confidence among your visitors and audience since they are more likely to buy from a website that is in good legal standing as per the requirements and laws that have been put in place by governments around the world.
These free legal documents will help you achieve just that.
I hope you have set up these legal pages on your website or blog using the above free legal document templates.
If you haven’t, I suggest you do so as soon as possible.
If you have any inquiry or question relating to the free legal documents above feel to drop me a comment below.
I will be happy to help.
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