Creating legal terms and conditions for users of a website

Hi All,

Currently I am working on a new start up that involves people to sign up for free to a website service. However I am building a business model in which they can upgrade and pay for professional help. Now the professionals will be vetted manually but at the moment what I am struggling is the contract. I need to make sure that the contract covers me and the business from anything that may not work, for example i will be charging users for this service but i need to make sure that the professionals actually do what they are supposed to…my concern is what if they do not answer user questions, of they lose internet connection. i want to assign users to teachers who actually respond…

question is do i say this in the initial review process or do i wait for them to register then send them the terms and conditions, obviously i cannot put this on a public page as the general users may well have a look at the content…

Get an attorney to write one up. Something like this that is essential to your business’s success should be done right. You can hack something together, but it’s so easy to miss some necessary legal jargon, and create an ambiguous contract. Ambiguity in a contract will be ruled in favor of the party that didn’t draft it if there is ever a dispute.