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Legal articles in easy to understand language.
Privacy Policy for Squarespace
Squarespace is a really useful platform for creating a website and an e-commerce store. While you'll get a lot of useful tools, functions, and features with Squarespace, there are some technical details that you'll be responsible for on your own. One of these technicalities that's incredibly important is your Privacy Policy, which...
Clauses for Privacy Policy
Your website and mobile app requires a Privacy Policy throughout most of the world. You cannot avoid doing business in the U.S. without coming across the California Online Privacy Protection Act or the Child Online Privacy Protection Act. The U.K., Canada, and Australia laws also require Privacy Policies. As a business, you're subject...
4 Ways a Redesign Can Make You Legally Liable
Legal agreements help you maintain control over your business, protect your intellectual property, and manage the expectations of your users. Common legal agreements that can be found on most websites and mobile app include Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies, and End User License Agreements, with each agreement serving a different purpose. Consider...
The 2-step "Reasonable Communicativeness" test
Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that in order for a legal agreement to be binding under Illinois law, a user of a website must be provided with reasonable notice that by using that website, and that clicking on a specific button, an...
10 Unsubscribe Best Practices
If you own an email list and send emails to your customers, you probably send out commercial messages and need to comply with CAN-SPAM. Amongst the handful of requirements of the CAN-SPAM law is the opt-out - or unsubscribe - requirement. CAN-SPAM is an American law that aims to limit spam emails...
Clauses for Terms & Conditions
Your Terms & Conditions (T&C) can be called a "Terms of Use" or a "Terms of Service", but no matter the title of your agreement, this agreement contains all the rules between you and the users who are using your website or app. You want your Terms & Conditions agreement to...