YOUR WEBSITE ISN’T LEGALLY DRESSED WITHOUT THESE TWO PAGES
You’ve scrolled past a privacy policy and terms and conditions on every website you’ve ever visited and paid zero attention to them. Same. But here’s the thing, now that you have your own business, those two pages aren’t someone else’s problem anymore. Think of it as your Elle Woods moment: walk in prepared, know your stuff, and don’t let anyone catch you off guard.
You can have the most beautiful website in your industry and still be exposed to a lawsuit you never saw coming. Two pages fix that.
The Privacy Policy
If your website collects data in any form, like a contact form, a newsletter sign-up, an inquiry, you need a Privacy Policy. Data privacy enforcement is accelerating globally, and the penalties for non-compliance are significant.
It also has practical implications beyond the law: Google, Apple, Meta, and most major ad networks contractually require a Privacy Policy. Without one, you can’t run ads, use Google Analytics, or integrate with many standard tools.
Your Privacy Policy needs to clearly cover three things: what data you collect, how you use it, and how it’s stored or shared.
The Terms and Conditions
Whilst not legally required in most places, your Terms & Conditions give your business a set of ground rules – in writing, agreed to by anyone who visits your site.
This is where you protect your intellectual property (your copy, your images, your brand, your process), limit your liability, and define the rules of any transaction. Without it, a refund dispute or a client misunderstanding turns into a he-said-she-said situation where you’re wishing you’d just sorted this out from the start.
Get them done properly
This is not where you open a new chat and type “write the legal pages for my website” into AI. Both documents need to reflect your actual business. A generic template copied from another site, or generated by AI, won’t hold up in a dispute. And borrowing someone else’s wording is itself a copyright issue, which would be an ironic problem to have.
We recommend working with a legal professional who understands online businesses:
- Based in Australia? → We recommend and use Lawpath
