Writing Disclaimers

[Floris]

Got any experience with this?

There are email disclaimers, site terms of services, privacy policies, forum rules, and so much more.

It might not 100% cover your butt, but it should get one started.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/rzakj/rzakjcodedisclaimer.htm
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/documents/disclaimer/
http://wiki.answers.com/about/disclaimer-examples.html
http://www.emaildisclaimers.com/

How important are disclaimers to you?

XenForo by default gives you two options. One: The default phrase "terms_rules_text" you can edit this - and users see the terms of services during registration and in the footer. Two: You make your own url/page/thread and you can go into the admin.php > options > and point it to that thread. The terms of services will then link to that page and load it, instead of the phrase.

 

[melbo]

I have stickies in my Announcements Forum that list my:

• DMCA Compliance Policy
• Site Rules (TOS)
• Privacy Statement (Adsense Compliant)
• Amazon Affiliate Notice

I also link to the Site Rules, Privacy Statement and DMCA Policy next to Contact Us in my Footer.

I was just thinking about re-doing my TOS since we last updated it a few years ago. I'd like to see some examples of other peoples custom TOS.

 

[iTuN3R]

It's important for me and my community we don't want trouble after us due to some random tom,dick & harry posting information,pirated stuffs,copyright informations that Violates any Laws.

Thank for sharing the link i was thinking about adding it .

 

[Floris]

And do you guys put them all in one page, or spread over individual pages? I am still undecided what I would like to do.

 

[iTuN3R]

And do you guys put them all in one page, or spread over individual pages? I am still undecided what I would like to do.

Make Seperate Page and list them there.

 

[melbo]

Mine are separate Threads although they would be great to make as Pages

 

[Floris]

We have an unpublished Docs section, I think one will just be a parent for these sorts of documentation and we just point to docs as url

 

[Mikey]

I always find writing these in a way that doesnt sound too restrictive (you are after all telling users what they cannot do, or what you cannot do) very hard.

 

[aam]

In a progressively more litigious society, disclaimers are really essential. I think the best place to get your disclaimers and T&C's in are at sign-up. The only problem is, how many people signing-up actually read them?

 

[Dante]

Bookmarked those links as i don't have access to my notepad right now.

aam - Even if they don't read them they still agreed to them so you are technically covered, it's there own fault if they break them.

 

[trilogy33]

My PP and TnR are as Floris has done; on the same page. Best to keep it simple and all together.

 

[imported_Brian]

Its great to have a disclaimer, but as always do remember to look into terms of service so you can't get screwed by a loophole in your disclaimer. Also make the terms of serviced somehow advertised on your site so everyone can see it. Also, your disclaimer, while not wanting to bore people with pages of additional guidelines and social instruction. .There is probably one thing to remember before alfdition would experience fantastic headaches, major difficulties with visual acuity in some instances - not to say the least, if you could include a Text based Disclaimer with an addon clip.. That's really gonna be real damn awesome!