Terms and conditions: IT consultancy: for placement on a website
Comprehensive terms and conditions suitable for any IT
consultant who requires terms and conditions to post on a
website
About this document
This document is suitable for any IT consultant who requires terms and conditions to put on their website. If you require a negotiable document (where you sit down with your client and discuss what is to be achieved), there are links to other documents for IT consultants at the right of this page. For any business using self employed people this document provides the essential starting point for the relationship.
It is essential that you set out your terms and conditions when you sell via the Internet. You have an additional duty to sell your services in line with the Distance Selling Regulations. This document aids compliance in this important area.
Although the agreement clothes the transaction with all the characteristics of self employment, simply using one of these contracts will not necessarily avoid the relationship of employer and employed. Both the Inland Revenue and any industrial tribunal will be entitled to look behind the agreement at the reality of the contract. Some of the questions they might ask are
• Is this the contractors only work or does he work for others too?
• Does the client control how the work is done?
• Are the hours fixed by the client or can the contractor choose when he works?
• Does the contractor work on the clients premises, using the client's equipment?
• To what extent is the contractor at risk as a self employed person?
• Is self employment normal for this kind of work?
Application
and features
All inclusive terms and conditions to protect your interests
For the provision of nay type of IT services
Provides a complete framework
Comprehensive clauses to protect intellectual property
Protects both sides
Reduces the chances for employer obligations to arise
Contents
When and how payment is made
Protection of intellectual property (so far as possible in a document of this nature)
Aids protection from hackers
Comprehensive limitation of host liability
Customer's indemnity for any unlawful posting
Extensive prohibitions against customer misdeeds
Provision for host's Acceptable Use Policy
Host's disclaimers
Appropriate legal provisions to protect your interests
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Draftsman
This document is drawn and maintained by Net Lawman. It is real law in plain English.
