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Terms of Use (social networking)

Terms of Use (social networking)


Price: £40.00 (Including VAT at 20%)

The social networking terms and conditions template is designed for free-to-use social networking websites. It includes provisions covering all the usual social networking functionality, including: profiles and profile publication, private messaging, forums and bulletin boards, audio-visual media, etc. See:

Sample Terms and Conditions for a Social Networking Website

You may also be interested in our social networking templates pack.

The social networking terms and conditions include:

(1) Introduction
(2) Licence to use website
(3) Acceptable use
(4) Registered users
(5) User generated content
(6) Limited warranties
(7) Limitations and exclusions of liability
(8) Indemnity
(9) Breaches of these terms of use
(10) Third party website
(11) Trade marks
(12) Competitions
(13) Variation
(14) Assignment
(15) Severability
(16) Exclusion of third party rights
(17) Entire agreement
(18) Law and jurisdiction
(19) Registrations and authorisations
(20) Our details

The social networking terms and conditions template is 10 pages long (including the cover sheet) and is provided in Word (.doc) format for easy editing.

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Social Networking Website T&Cs Q&A

Social Networking Website T&Cs Q&A

How does these social networking terms and conditions template deal with the legal issues relating to the use of a website by children?

Children using social networking websites present a number of distinct legal problems. To give three examples:

  • Great care needs to be taken to ensure that the processing of personal data about a child or supplied by a child is lawful. One issue here is that children may be unable to give consent to the use of their personal data, because they do not understand the meaning or implications of giving consent.

  • Explicit materials that may be lawful for adults to view may be unlawful for children to view under the indecency laws.

  • In English law, contracts are not enforceable against children, except in certain limited circumstances that are unlikely to apply in relation to website use.
Unfortunately, these are not the sort of problems that can be "dealt with" by including a particular form of words in your T&Cs. They need careful consideration in relation to each website. Very often, the best that can be done is to ameliorate the problems, rather than solve them.

This template terms of use for social networking websites does include a clause about age: "You must be at least X years of age to use our website. By using our website and by agreeing to these terms of use, you warrant and represent that you are at least X years of age". However, it should be clear from this brief account of the legal problems associated with children using social networking sites that, whatever the value of X, this does not solve very much.

If you are planning to launch a social networking website targeted at children or liable to be used by children, we strongly recommend that you take specialist legal advice.

Note: social networking sites often attempt to exclude users under the age of 13. This particular age limit features is in US legislation. For more information, see the Children Online Privacy Protection Act .

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