Auto Web Law Pro In The UK?

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Hey guys...

I was teaching some coaching clients about putting legal docs on their squeeze pages. I use Auto Web Law Pro to generate the documents.

One guy is in the UK and he asked how this would differ for him since he;s in the UK.

Any of you guys in the UK know what legal docs. are supposed to be on your sites?

Thanks for any info!

Liz
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  • Hi Liz

    Usual disclaimer. I'm not a lawyer.

    As a Scottish registered company, I have a terms of use (based on Scottish law) and a privacy policy that details my company's registration under the Data Protection Act (UK law).

    Be aware that different parts of the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) have different legal systems and different laws.

    It's a minefield. Get a lawyer.

    Cheers,

    Neil
  • Hmmm... Sounds like there is a product to be had. You could niche the heck out of this.

    Web Law for each country. Geeze that would take forever.

    Thanks!

    Liz
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  • Despite being in the UK don't you also have to cover your ass if you're marketing to (say) the US?

    A good example will be Amazon affiliates using amazon.com instead of amazon.co.uk
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      It's not about where you're marketing to, Al.

      It's about where your domains are hosted and registered. If your hosting or your domain registrations are held in the US, it may be advisable to be fully FTC compliant, because your host's and registrar's TOS will typically require it anyway.

      It's just like needing to be Can-Spam compliant even if you're not in the US yourself, because your autoresponder's TOS may require it.

      US legal and regulatory considerations impact all of us, because people's TOS tend to be based around them.



      I must say this is a new one to me. I've heard of needing legal documents on affiliate sites, sales sites, and sales pages ... not so much squeeze pages. What's this all about?
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  • Liz was right with this question (problem) of turning this in to a product - but hard legal work I'm sure!

    I'm going though the same process of putting together the right legal docs for one of my sites. The problem most of us have is serving customers (or potential customers) from more than one country.

    There are SO many different laws and rules in different countries as well as different laws in different parts of each country. An example would be California, which is a law to it's self.

    Privacy Policy.
    As far as a privacy policy is concerned, I used Free Privacy Policy (Free Privacy Policy Generator - Template)

    These guys are used by most of the bigwigs in the IM world so they know their stuff.

    There is an OTO route you go though once you generate your free privacy policy, but its simple to bypass and you don't need what they are offering.

    I hope that helps,
    John
  • Hi guy's this may be a bit late... but I'll just add it anyway for those that may look for this information later... Here's a link where you can download a free disclaimer for UK websites Disclaimer | Free templates by SEQ Legal (You will need to add a link back to them but that shouldn't be a problem)
    Hope this helps...
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