Since last decade, there has been a major shift in the mindset of entrepreneurs about making decisions for investment in a web based business.
Whereas in early 1990’s the same Internet used to be a murkier business territory, which had been brought in to life (21st century) by the discovery of Search Engines. Search Engines helped a lot in presenting huge clutter of information on internet in an organized manner to a layman.
As a direct consequence to this, a positive and more confident outlook has been observed towards the future of internet . That’s why more and more people are associating with internet for raking in some serious mullah for their illustrious future.
With number of business’s established on internet setting a new records every day, it is not surprising that majority of these business’s might get themselves in serious business and legal difficulties.
For Eg: After getting acquitted in some serious legal offense, I have personally seen many people making lame excuses like” They were” totally ignorant to website laws” further citing the fact that many webmasters are unaware of existing regulations. ”
But, i think you can’t simply ridicule your falseness by using your ignorance as a defense for flouting all the legal requirements.
Perhaps that’s why I am a here to show you a right direction which will save you and your website investment from any legal issue’s.
First of all i would strongly recommend you to follow basic practices and include legal notice in the main content of your website. These legal notices if included, will provide legal terms to outside parties looking to disputer (or validate) the credibility and legal adaptability of your website.
There are many ways of obtaining the notices and language consumer ate for these legal purposes. But , i would strongly suggest you to partake the service of a respectable legal practitioner in your area.
Without going for this expense, many web site owners are very much comfortable in canvassing the legal practices of their competitors and implying few modifications to suit their business.
of late, we have also seen abrupt mushrooming of many internet websites who provide basic wording for the legal notice for variety of business’s at nominal or even free of charge. Your idea of using free of charge service should be blown out of window, as these so called freebie’s might not understand the basic intricacies of the inherent law practices in your country, and also they hardly try to acquaint themselves with the basic nature of your business.
“These freebie’s are the simple copy-paste guy’s just like those street borne Hakim’s who used to have single cure for all remedies.”
The basic requirements for making a website adhering to existing legal regulations:
1) Crystal clear contact information: Website should contain a fully functional page which identifies various means to contact the company.
It can be in this way:
Company Name:
Owner Name:
Full Address:
Phone Numbers:
Email:
You can burro further by adding Google maps in your contact us page.
2) Full Fledged About Us Page: This page should have basic information about your website, when was it starting, the accomplishment of your company, how many people are working for your company, any certifications etc.
General Notices of Legal Nature
1)Earning Disclaimer:There are so many companies which are involved in a blind quest to show unrealistic results to their clients. These types of activities will directly bring them under the legal scanner of Federal Trade Commission (http://www.ftc.gov).
If your website refers to a sales document which contains specific claims of revenue achieved by your company, or others using your products. In such cases, your website should contain a reference to some authority web page with statements clearly soliciting the revenues of you company .
For Eg : If you have a web designing business , you must be bidding for projects in the websites like Elance.com. Elance.com has a complete performance statistics all the web designing firms. The link to your Elance profile will legally support your claims regarding revenue.
2) Disclaimer on use of data:If your website contains some information which can be downloaded by your client, disclaimer regarding limitations of your liabilities for viruses, worm’s etc.or other technical faults incurred during the download are appropriate.
3) Privacy: You website should contain a website which clearly underline the policy’s of your company for safeguarding the data received from your client. Further, you must also mention that there would not be any temptation to sell visitors information.
4) Copyright :Websites should have a page which contains the copyrights. This disclaimer is required to alert others regarding the legal bearings of your product.
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