Contract

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

These terms and conditions are designed to be used in relation to an online table reservation system for a restaurant or similar establishment. The terms and conditions may also be used with respect to bookings made over the telephone or in person – but in these cases, if you want the terms and conditions to be enforceable, you will need to ensure that the person making ...

These heads of agreement documents should be used to record preliminary agreements, made before a full and comprehensive contract for the deal is signed. Typically, the heads of agreement will include a mixture of binding and non-binding terms. These documents may also referred to as "heads of terms", "term sheets" or "memoranda of understanding".

This document can be used in connection with blogs and blog-based websites, providing that the blog or website is free to use. Most blogs allow for the publication of user content, typically in the form of comments attached to blog posts. The publication of user content creates legal risks for the website operator. For instance, user content many infringe copyright or contain defamatory material. ...

This document has been created for business brochure websites, and is suitable for the websites of both small and large businesses. It includes all the standard provisions in our generic website T&Cs documents, which cover such matters as acceptable use, user content, disclaimers of liability and disclosures mandated by statute. In addition, a set of special provisions are included, which relate specifically to business ...

These terms and conditions can be used to regulate the relationship between a web store operator and users of that web store. They should be used in combination with terms and conditions governing the sale of products, and a website privacy policy. This document is an adapted version of our standard website terms and conditions document. It includes all the main provisions of that standard ...

Most schools now have a website, but many do not have adequate legal documentation. This template has been designed to make the creation of terms and conditions for a school website easy. The template includes provisions dealing with copyright in the website, acceptable use of the website and liability in relation to the use of the website. The template assumes that the website does not ...

A website can be a great asset for a membership-based club; and all club websites should incorporate appropriate terms and conditions of use. Club websites may serve a range of functions: promoting the club to potential members; encouraging and facilitating new membership applications; helping with club administration; and allowing club management to communicate with the membership. More sophisticated club websites will also allow members ...

These terms and conditions are designed to cover the use of a digital store - that is, the use of a website that sells downloadable digital products. To be clear, this document does not cover the sale and licensing of digital products, as to which see our range of download terms and conditions. This document is suitable for use in relation to digital stores selling a ...

These graphic design terms and conditions have has been drafted to take particular account of the interests of the graphic designer, and accordingly may be a good basis for preparing the standard terms of trading of a graphic design business. The terms and conditions may be used in relation to contracts with a specific scope or in relation to ongoing contracts where the scope of ...

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.

These terms and conditions cover the sale and supply of physical products by one business to another. The core obligations in the agreement cover the manner of supply or collection, responsibility for transportation and insurance, the passage of title and risk, customer obligations in relation to onward sales, and charges. These terms and conditions should not be used in relation to B2C contracts.

Many businesses engage external agencies to produce written works. For instance, web content and informational copy may be produced by such agencies. This terms and conditions template is designed to cover the provision of writing services by one business to another. (It is unsuitable for use in relation to B2C contracts.) One of the key issues with this sort of contract is the treatment of ...

Contracts between photographers and their clients should define the scope of the photographer's obligations and provide for the ownership - and in appropriate cases licensing - of the copyright and other intellectual property rights in the photographs produced in the course of the contract. Each of these templates is designed to help a photographer or photography services business to create standard terms and conditions covering these core issues. Each also includes a range of optional provisions, which may be adapted or excluded as necessary for the particular circumstances in which the template is used.

This tutoring agreement template has been designed for businesses that provide training and tutoring to individuals at home or other consumers. If you will be supplying tutoring services to businesses rather than consumers, you should consider our B2B tutoring contract document. The terms of business include a provision allowing the service provider to cancel a teaching session where "personnel illness or shortage" makes the running ...

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.