Contract

Website terms and conditions have 4 basic functions: (i) helping website operators to comply with the law; (ii) reducing legal risk by disclaiming or limiting responsbilities and liabilities; (iii) establishing rules relating to the use of the website; and (iv) defining the contractual obligations owed by the user to the operator and vice versa. Although we have a wide range of terms and conditions designed for particular types of website, many websites do not fit neatly into any category. Consequently, these more generic templates are among our most popular documents.

Non-disclosure agreements come in two basic flavours. First, there are unilateral or one-way agreements which protect the information of only one of the parties. Second, there are mutual or two-way agreements which protect the information of both parties. All of our non-disclosure agreements share the same core clauses, but with some extra optional provisions in the premium documents. Use these non-disclosure agreements to protection your confidential information and to facilitate open communications with business partners.

Whilst similar in content to our consultancy agreements, these consultancy terms and conditions templates take a different form. The commercial details of the contract (including the services specification and the financial provisions) are set out in a statement of work to which the terms and conditions are attached. The parties sign the statement of work, thereby agreeing to the terms and conditions. This form of contract may be more suitable where the consultancy wants to avoid or discourage the negotiation of contract terms.

These consultancy agreements can be used to regulate the relationship between a consultancy and its clients. The consultancy may be a corporate entity, a partnership or a sole trader. All the consultancy agreements include provisions covering the supply of the consulting services, the production of reports and other deliverables, the payment of charges, warranties, disclaimers of liability, the term of the agreement and the parties' rights of termination.

This document is a free-to-use software EULA or end user licence. Click-wrap and web-wrap licences can be created using this document, as well as more traditional shrink-wrap licences. The document governs the legal relationship between a licensor and its customers. Note: although this EULA can be used for B2C licences as well as B2B licences, it does not include a ...

These software support agreements cover the provision of a helpdesk or other contact mechanism, through which the customer (or the customer's users) can access help, advice and assistance in relation to the software in question, and report bugs and other issues with the software. All of the software support agreements incorporate a set of optional service level commitments relating helpdesk availability, response times and resolution times.

These software maintenance agreements are designed for use in circumstances where a software vendor will provide maintenance services with respect to its own software. Each agreement differentiates between minor updates and major software upgrades. A service level agreement attached as a schedule contains detailed provisions concerning when and how the software will be updated or upgraded.

Copyright protects software and to use software legally a person needs a licence. These software licence agreements require that the licensor deliver or make available the software to the licensee. The licence itself is flexible and may be limited in a number of different ways. The usual prohibitions on use (or misuse) of the software are included. In consideration for grant of a licence, the licensee must pay a one-off licence fee or ongoing licence fees to the licensor.

These are software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements designed to regulate the legal relationship between a provider of hosted or cloud software on one hand and its business customers on the other hand. These SaaS agreements can be used where the parties are likely to be negotiating the specific provisions of the contract. If terms will be imposed by the services provider upon the customer, and the customer will have no opportunity to suggest alternative terms, then you should consider our SaaS terms and conditions (or, for highly commodified or consumer-oriented services, cloud services terms and conditions) instead.

Under these web design and development agreements, the developer has an obligation to create a website or web application on behalf of the customer, and either assigns or licenses the copyright in that website or web application to the customer. In consideration for the provision of the services and the assignment or licence, the customer must pay the agreed charges to the developer. In addition, the customer may be obligated to provide assistance to the developer and to provide text, images and other materials to the developer for use in the project.

These distribution agreement templates set out the obligations of a supplier and a distributor in relation to a non-exclusive distributorship - that is, a distributorship granted on the basis that other distributors may be appointed with respect to the same market. All the agreements include provisions covering the scope of the appointment, the specific duties of the parties, order procedures, charges, payments, confidentiality and liability. In addition, all the agreements include a schedule containing terms and conditions of supply.

An owner of copyright may transfer that ownership to another person using one of these assignment documents. The assignment may be entered into before or after the creation of the copyright work. These documents all include a nominal consideration clause, under which the assignee agrees to pay to the assignor a nominal fee.

These terms and conditions should be used in relation to general IT support services provided to businesses. They are not suitable for use in relation to contracts with consumers. All these templates include an optional data protection clause to help services providers who are acting as processors (rather than controllers) comply with their obligations under data protection law.

These terms of sale can be used in relation to the online sale of physical products. All of these terms of sale templates have the same basic structure. They define the order process through which products may be ordered; they describe how prices are specified and how payments must be made; they detail the delivery process for products orders; they set out information about warranties given by the seller and limitations of liability; and they establish the circumstances in which orders may be cancelled. The B2C versions of the terms of sale include a set of clauses detailing consumer rights under the distance selling rules.

These terms and conditions templates are all based on the same underlying model, with provisions added or subtracted to fit the particular document in question. For example, while most of the templates include distance and doorstep selling clauses taking account of consumer protection legislation, the office cleaning terms and conditions do not. The cleaning services terms and conditions is the most comprehensive of these documents.

Under each of these commission agreement templates, one party will pay the other party commission in relation to a particular event or type of event. For example, commission may be paid in relation to the introduction of a customer by one party to the other. The longer versions of the template also include clauses covering the confidentiality of information and/or the non-solicitation of connected persons.

These agreements provide a framework within which a manufacturer and a customer may contract for the manufacturing and supply of products. The agreements assume that the products will be specified by the customer. All versions of the manufacturing agreement include, as schedule, a set of terms and conditions governing the specific legal basis upon which products are supplied. These terms and conditions cover, for example, the passage of title and risk to the customer.

Under these software development agreements, the developer agrees to create software on behalf of the customer and to transfer to the customer its intellectual property rights in that software. Rights in any third party programs or libraries incorporated into the software will be licensed to the customer, either directly from the vendor of the third party software or through the developer. Charges may be fixed or time based. A standard set of software warranties is included with all versions of the software development agreement.

As video games add features and grow more complex, so the legal issues affecting them and their licence agreements grow more complex. These end user licence agreements (EULAS) have been especially created for video games. The longer versions of the EULA include ecommerce provisions alongside the core licence and usage rules.

Data processing agreements between controllers of personal data and their processors, and between processors and sub-processors, have long been a requirement of EU and UK data protection law. With the coming of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) they have become much more common. GDPR-friendly data processing agreements tend to be longer and more complex than pre-GDPR agreements. These template data processing agreements are designed to help you produce a compliant document with the minimum of fuss. They track the specific requirements of the GDPR closely, supplementing those requirements in a few important areas.

These contracts regulate the provision of ongoing software development and support services, where those services are provided in whole or part on a time-and-materials basis.

Under these template sponsorship agreements, an organisation may sponsor a person, team, event or other thing in exchange for the provision of sponsorship benefits: access, promotional activities, advertising opportunities and so on. A licence of the sponsor's trade marks is included in both documents, but only the premium version includes a licence of the other party's trade marks.

Contractual documentation for the provision of cloud or hosted software-based services by means of an application programming interface (API) without individual human users.

Formal agreements to regulate the provision of search engine optimisation (SEO) services by an SEO professional or business, including both advisory and implementation services.

These licence documents are designed to cover the provision of software to a customer or prospective customer for the purposes of a trial or evaluation.

These letters are, in substance, identical to our unilateral non-disclosure agreements. The differences are purely of form. The letter templates provide that the letter recipient must protect the confidential information of the letter sender, and are flexible enough to be used in a wide range of circumstances.

This is a unilateral non-solicitation agreement: all the non-solicitation obligations restrict the freedom of one party for the benefit of the other. The specific non-solicitation restrictions in the document include: (i) a prohibition on entering into contracts or other business dealings with relevant persons; (ii) a prohibition on employing or becoming the employee of relevant persons; (iii) a prohibition on forming a ...

This simple template agreement may be used to amend an existing two party contract in circumstances where the amendment will take place with the written agreement of each of the parties. The types of amendment anticipated in this amendment agreement include: (i) the deletion of provisions from the original contract; (ii) the addition of provisions into the original contract; and (iii) the substitution of provisions ...

This online non-disclosure agreement is intended to be published on a website. It is a unilateral agreement, protecting the confidential information disclosed by publishing organisation - but not the confidential information of other party. The other party can accept the agreement by completing and submitting an acceptance form published on the website, or you can define some alternative acceptance method. In editing this non-disclosure ...

These templates have been created from our general non-disclosure agreements, with adaptations designed for the particular purposes of the documents - namely, the protection of information disclosed in the context of: (a) discussions regarding an invention; (b) a proposed business venture; (c) pitching of a media concept discussion; and (d) the appointment of a web designer.

This is a straightforward non-solicitation agreement template. The template is designed to help businesses to protect their legitimate interests through contractual prohibitions restricting dealings with third parties. The restraints of trade doctrine can affect the enforceability of a non-solicitation agreement. Contractual provisions that amount to covenants in restraint of trade are prima facie unenforceable. They will usually only be enforced by the courts ...

A business's confidential information may include information enabling others to solicit the business's customers, suppliers, contractor or employees, and thereby cause damage to the business. For this reason, you should consider including specific non-solicitation provisions in your non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement. This is a unilateral (or one-way) template, and so it will only serve to protect the information and business ...

This agreement template has been designed for the situation where two parties wish to impose both confidentiality and non-solicitation obligations upon each other. In other words, the confidentiality and non-solicitation obligations will be mutual. The confidentiality provisions may restrict not just the disclosure of confidential information, but also the manner of its use. Flexible definitions of "confidential information" are included, allowing for both ...

These terms and conditions for the provision of gardening services are primarily intended to act as "standard terms of business". In other words, they may form the basis of all (or most) legal relationships between a gardening services business and its customers. With this goal in mind, the document is relatively flexible, and may cover one-off services contracts as well as ongoing relationships. The ...

This document is designed to govern the legal relationship between a handyman (or, more likely, a company providing handyman services) and customers, including both business customers and domestic customers. A range of optional clauses are included in the document, covering such matters as services appointments, the supply of materials, the state of the customer's premises and the storage of supplier equipment. Accordingly, the template ...

This is a set of standard terms and conditions for a carpet fitting business. The T&Cs are drafted on the assumption that the carpet fitter will not be supplying the carpets to be fitted, although the carpet fitter may be supplying other materials, such as tacks, gripper sticks, door rods and underlay. The template may be used by businesses that serve the consumer market, ...

This documents contains standard T&Cs for the provision of electrical services. In particular, it may be suitable for an electrician business. The document incorporates special provisions dealing with the services to be provided, the making and cancellation of appointments, requirements imposed on the service provider with respect to personnel, materials supplied by the service provider, the premises of the customer, obligations of the customer ...

This document is designed to be used by a painting and decorating business, as its standard terms and conditions for customers. It is suitable for use in relation to both business customers and consumers. It includes provisions covering the supply of paints, primers, wall coverings, treatments and other decorating materials by the supplier to the customer. This decorator terms and conditions documents is designed to ...

This is our standard plasterer's T&Cs document. It is designed to cover indoor and outdoor plastering and rendering services, whether supplied to business customers, consumers or both. The plastering contract can easily be adapted to suit the particular circumstances of your business. Accompanying the plastering terms and conditions is a skeleton statement of work. This may be used to specify the particular details ...

These plumbers' terms and conditions are suitable for use in relation to a wide range of plumbing services, and can be used with business customers, consumers or both. They are designed to be flexible enough to cover one-off jobs or ongoing engagements. The plumbing contract terms include a wide range of protections for the service provider. For example, there are optional provisions to deal ...

This document is a set of standard T&Cs of business for a tiler or tiling services business. It can be used in relation to business customers, both large and small, as well as domestic customers. A wide range of optional provisions are included in the document, allowing for easy adaptation. For example, the T&Cs include optional clauses in respect of the making and ...

The function of a novation agreement is to substitute one of the parties to a contract, so that a new person takes on the rights and obligations of that party under the contract, while the other party to the contract remains in place. Accordingly, these novation agreements assume that there will be three parties signing: the transferor, the transferee and the counterparty. Novation agreements such as these are widely used in the context of business sales.

This document is designed for use in respect of the maintenance of tangible items, such as equipment and hardware. It should not be used in respect of intangibles, such as software and data. With this document, you can create standard terms of business for a company (or sole trader) providing equipment or hardware maintenance services. The document is flexible, allowing for both B2B and B2C ...

This document has been designed to govern and regulate the use of a website that publishes information for users. An optional provision relating to the publication of an RSS feed is included. These T&Cs do not include provisions covering user accounts or user content. If your website will include either, you should consider our standard or premium website T&Cs documents. Moreover, these T& ...

This document can be used to assign intellectual property rights - in other words, to transfer ownership of the intellectual property rights from one person to another. Those rights may be registered and/or unregistered rights. Registered rights include trade marks, patents and registered design rights. Unregistered rights include copyright and database rights. The rights may be assigned with or without a title guarantee. The default ...

This is an assignment of trade marks. The purpose of this document is to transfer the rights in trade marks from one person to another. The transfer may relate to both registered and, subject to the comments below, unregistered trade mark rights. In respect of UK registered trade marks, you must, in addition to executing a written assignment, register that assignment with the UK Intellectual ...

If you need to assign the copyright and other unregistered intellectual property rights in a website from one person (or company) to another person (or company) you should consider this document. Based on our standard copyright assignment, the subject matter of the transfer is designated using two key definitions: "Excluded IP" refers to the intellectual property rights that are reserved; and "Assignment IP" refers to ...

Using this assignment document, you can transfer the copyright in a computer program or piece of software from the existing owner to a new owner. In addition, the document can also be used to transfer other unregistered intellectual property rights subsisting in the computer program (for example, database rights) alongside the copyright. Although software itself is not usually protected by moral rights, other works incorporated ...

These template distribution agreements can be used by a supplier granting exclusive rights to a product distributor. Typically, the exclusivity will relate to a particular geographic marketplace. Both versions of the agreement include a schedule containing terms and conditions governing product supply (including transfer of title, transfer of risk and supplier warranties).

Each of these terms and conditions templates comes in two main parts. First, a statement of work, which can be used by the parties to the contract to specify the technical and commercial deal: what is being produced and what is being paid? Second, a set of legal terms and conditions that define the parties' core obligations and allocate responsibilities and liabilities as appropriate.