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Affiliate Terms and Conditions
 The internet has undoubtedly revolutionised the way goods and services are distributed to customers by business owners. A good example of this is the advent of ‘affiliate marketing’. ‘Affiliate Marketing’ is when a company which provides a good or service (‘the Merchant’) pays other web users (the ‘Affiliate’) a commission on any customer referrals the Affiliate makes to the Merchant’s website. These referrals are done by use of links or banners on the Affiliate’s website, emails or newsletters to the Merchant’s website. Our UK Affiliate Marketing Agreement is a comprehensive agreement prepared for those websites that intend to operate their own affiliate programme. Such programmes, using custom designed software or off the shelf packages, can enable any trading website to pay commission to other websites that deliver customers or leads. In order to ensure that the process and terms are clear to the affiliate websites that will promote your website, you should ensure that you have a legal Affiliate Agreement published on your site, to which new affiliates are required to agree. This agreement includes a \\"self billing\\" option. The capability to allow self-billing (i.e. where the merchant prepares the invoices on behalf of affiliates) can ease the administration burden. This document is suitable for websites hosted in England and Wales and contains the following clauses:
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Chat Board Rules
These UK chat board rules set out the terms for use of an online noticeboard. The rules establish acceptable standards and behaviour for users posting or using the chatboard. It is important that website owners have such rules as the risk of potential misuse is high and website owners must be seen to having good management pratices in place. The Chatboard rules cover the following:
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Privacy Statement
| If you own a website and request personal information from your users then you will need to have a privacy policy to govern the use of this information, especially if you wish to commercially exploit it. The personal information you collect is very valuable to you and you need to ensure that you have a policy in place that will allow you to commercially exploit this information if you wish. Note that you do not have to have a privacy policy but then under England's data protection laws you cannot use the personal information collected for any purpose (including your own marketing purposes). Our UK \\"Privacy Policy\\" sets out clearly to users of your website how you will manage and use their personal information. Our policy allows you and other third parties to market to your users. There is an opt out clause for the user if they do not want you to do this. If a user opts out of being contacted by you and/or third parties then you may not use their personal information for this purpose. These forms have been created by UK lawyers for use in England and Wales. |
Website Development Agreement
| This UK Website Development Agreement is to be used when a customer ('the Client') wants to engage the services of a website developer ('the Designer') to develop a website. Our agreement has been drafted in favour of the Client. All intellectual property rights in the website will belong to the Client and the Client is given ample opportunity to conduct testing on the site to ensure he is happy with it. This is a comprehensive document and is designed to be a self-contained and cover most the legal, financial and technical aspects crucial in making an agreement to supply web design services. These forms have been created by UK lawyers for use in England and Wales. |
Website Hosting Agreement
| Our UK Website Hosting Agreement has been drafted principally form the perspective of the hosting company and it is intended that this would be a standard terms and conditions for that host company. Hosting services typically comprise the storage of a web site and its content on a service provider’s server. Such hosting services may be ‘dedicated’ or ‘shared’ (i.e. the client’s website is hosted on a single server which only which only contains the client’s website, or the server stores a number of different clients’ websites and their content). The services the host must provide will also alter depending on the size of the website, the proposed volume of traffic, the security required for content and the requirements for connectivity. This agreement sets out the basic provisions for a hosting agreement. These forms have been created by UK lawyers for use in England and Wales. |