2008 Business Advice: Start Protecting Yourself and Your Online Business

If you are an e-marketer, or owner of a web site running a business on the internet, you are in danger of losing it all if you are not using the required legal documents!

Just one single complaint from one customer and your entire business could be shut down for good! Not to mention the headache and huge costs of a possible court battle! It's happened thousands of times before, and it will happen again, you need to protect yourself against these lawsuits today and ensure it won't happen to you! But how? You can get consultation with a lawyer, which can cost anywhere up to $400 per hour! You could pay for an online service to write your legal forms, which can cost about $80 per form, and if you run more than one website, this can turn into thousands of dollars very very quickly!

Here is the legal documents you must have to start protecting yourself and your business today!

1. Privacy Policy

- This essential document indicates how you collect and use information about your visitors, without it you are opened to problems from visitors and from Federal Government Enforcement Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission.

2. Terms of Use & Disclaimer

- This document protects you in that it limits your responsibility to the users of your website. Without it, your website could be shot down in an instant! This document inclues: Licenses and Idea Submissions. Use of the Site, LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, Indemnification, Third Party Rights, Miscellaneous...

For e.g, you can inform your visitors that: The entire contents of the Site are protected by international copyright and trademark laws. The owner of the copyrights and trademarks are "your site", its affiliates or other third party licensors. They may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute, in any way, the material on your website, INCLUDING TEXT, GRAPHICS, CODE AND/OR SOFTWARE. They may print and download portions of material from the different areas of the Site solely for your own non-commercial use provided that you agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the materials....

3. Affiliate Agreement