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Terms and conditions generator

Draft terms and conditions for a website or shop: acceptable use, intellectual property, liability, termination, optional account, purchase and user-content clauses, and a governing law you choose. A template, not legal advice.

This is a template assembled from the answers you gave. It is information, not legal advice, and no lawyer has reviewed it. Laws differ by country, state and industry, and requirements that apply to you may be missing from it. Have it reviewed by a qualified lawyer for your own jurisdiction and circumstances before you rely on it.

Street, city, postcode, country — plus a tax number, email or phone if the document needs one.

Adds order and payment terms. Refunds stay in your refund policy rather than being duplicated here.

Adds a clause where they keep ownership and license you to host and display it.

One per line, added to the standard acceptable-use list. Reselling access, automated scraping, whatever your service actually has a problem with.

The country or state whose law governs, and where disputes are heard. Nothing is assumed here — empty prints as a visible gap.

An email or postal address.

Opens your browser’s print dialog, where Save as PDF is the destination on every desktop browser. Nothing you have typed leaves this tab.

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How to use it

  1. Fill in your business name, website and contact details.
  2. Tick the clauses your service needs: accounts, purchases, user-uploaded content.
  3. Type the governing law and where disputes are heard; left empty, it prints as a gap.
  4. Press “Save as PDF” to open your browser’s print dialog, and choose Save as PDF there or print it.

A template, not legal advice

This is a template assembled from the answers you gave. It is information, not legal advice, and no lawyer has reviewed it. Laws differ by country, state and industry, and requirements that apply to you may be missing from it. Have it reviewed by a qualified lawyer for your own jurisdiction and circumstances before you rely on it.

What terms and conditions are actually for

They are the contract between you and whoever uses your site. The parts that earn their place are the ones that decide what happens when something goes wrong: what people are not allowed to do, who owns what, how far your liability runs, how either side ends the relationship, and whose courts hear the argument. Most of the rest is padding.

Accounts, purchases and user-uploaded content are optional clauses here because plenty of sites have none of the three. Tick what your service actually does and the rest stays out.

Governing law is an empty box on purpose

Most free generators quietly write in a jurisdiction — usually an American state — and hand you a contract naming a court you have never been near. Choosing where your disputes are heard is a real decision with real consequences, so this asks, and prints a visible gap if you skip it.

It is also a decision a clause alone may not settle: where you sell to consumers, mandatory consumer-protection rules in the buyer’s own country can override parts of your terms regardless of the law you named. The document says so.

The limitation of liability

The clause here excludes indirect loss and caps total liability at what the customer paid you in the previous twelve months, which is the conventional starting point. It is followed by the sentence that makes it honest: some kinds of liability cannot be excluded by agreement at all, which kinds depends on where each party is, and this template does not decide that for you.

Questions

Do I need terms and conditions?

They are not always required by law, but they are the contract between you and the people using your site: what is not allowed, who owns what, how far your liability goes and how either side ends things.

Why do I have to type the governing law?

Because choosing where disputes are heard is a real decision. The template does not pick a jurisdiction for you.

Does my choice of law override consumer law?

Not always. Where you sell to consumers, mandatory consumer rules in the buyer’s own country can apply whatever your terms say, and the document mentions this.

What does the liability clause say?

It excludes indirect loss and caps total liability at what the customer paid in the previous twelve months, a common starting point, and notes that some liability cannot be excluded by agreement.