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Can You Legally Refuse a Customer's Order? Understanding Offer, Acceptance, and Contract Formation Online
Online sales move fast. In a matter of seconds, online shoppers can add items to their cart and check out. While making sales is obviously a good thing, the fast nature of ecommerce can leave businesses wondering about their rights when it comes to accepting or rejecting orders. Can you...
B2C vs B2B Sales: How Your Purchase Terms Should Change Depending on the Buyer
Getting your purchase terms right is important, as mistakes can cost you money, lead to litigation, or disrupt your business operations. Selling to customers or to other businesses has a big impact on what your terms should be, particularly in relation to legal duties, warranties, cancellations, and other clauses. Appropriate terms also...
Export Controls and Encryption: Hidden Compliance Risks in Software Licensing
If your software uses cryptographic tools such as encryption, you may be required to comply with U.S. export requirements. This article covers common cryptographic functions in software, U.S. export regulations on software that uses cryptographic tools, and potential compliance risks, and includes a step-by-step guide to managing those risks. How Software Uses...
How to Verify the Identity of a Data Subject: Balancing Access Rights and Fraud Prevention
Businesses are increasingly required to walk a fine line between two competing responsibilities: allowing data subjects to exercise their legally-granted privacy rights under laws like the GDPR, and preventing unauthorized access to personal information that could lead to identity theft, fraud, or data breaches. When someone submits a request to do...
What Should Your Purchase Conditions Include? A Legal Checklist for eCommerce Stores
Having clear Purchase Conditions is an essential part of running any successful eCommerce store. This is the case whether you're selling physical products, digital downloads, services, or a combination of things. Purchase Conditions serve as the foundation for the relationship between you and your paying customers. Having well-drafted Purchase Conditions will...
Master Service Agreement vs Terms and Conditions
When businesses provide products or services, whether to individual consumers or other companies, they need to clearly define the rules of engagement. This is where legal agreements come in. Two of the legal agreements most commonly used by businesses include a Master Service Agreement (MSA) and a Terms and Conditions...