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E-commerce solicitors

Online advertising and trading is subject to extensive e-commerce rules and regulations governing the terms within which websites should operate. Our specialist e-commerce solicitors have significant experience of auditing websites, drafting website terms and conditions and advising on the legal and practical commercial issues of running a website within the e-commerce rules and regulations.

Whether you are seeking legal advice for the initial stages of acquiring domain names and appointing website designers or require later stage advice in the form of a website audit, terms and conditions of trading or e-commerce law compliance, our solicitors will give you proactive, commercial and cost effective advice.

Our expertise includes:

  • Website terms and conditions
  • Privacy policies
  • Website user agreements
  • Website design agreements
  • Website hosting agreements
  • Website linking agreements
  • Domain Name acquisitions / assignments
  • Compliance with consumer protection legislation
  • Compliance with e-commerce legislation
  • Internet and e-business disputes
  • Cybersquatting
  • Domain name disputes
  • Online defamation claims
  • Data protection and privacy issues
  • Trade mark registrations

Whilst not exhaustive, the following examples provide a broad context to the scope of our e-commerce work:

  • Supply of all terms and conditions required for websites, including website privacy policies, user agreements and terms and conditions of trading
  • Advising on e-commerce rules and regulations governing website advertising and trading
  • Advising on the protection of brands online
  • Advising on internet advertising compliance
  • Advising retailers in respect of consumer rights in e-commerce transactions
  • Providing master service agreements for internet service providers
  • Providing web designers with a standard set of documents for use on clients' websites
  • Acting in respect of domain name disputes and cybersquatting
  • Advising on the unauthorised copying of text, images and trade marks
  • Advising on defamatory statements in blogs, internet chat rooms and discussion forums
  • Disputes between website owners and designers

To contact Samantha Livesey, Head of the Intellectual property, IT and E-commerce department, please call 0844 980 1444 or send an email. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.