Our solution is simple (and affordable). We make a personalized Terms Of Use .com webpage that is specific to each client's industry and place of business. The page will contain the client's logo at the top, and the remainder of the page will contain current legal statements, disclaimers and copyright statements specific to that industry and state... on behalf of our client. The only link leading off this page will be back to the client's website.

The client need only to link to their Terms Of Us e.com webpage from their company website, and the client will know that they have complied with the displaying of all required notices & conditions to visitors of their website.

Terms Of Use .com will enlist experienced attorneys who are familiar with all state laws and regulations, to ensure that your website is both in compliance with applicable laws, and contains disclaimers and terms of usage that can protect you from liability. While your attorney may have expertise in some fields, we contract with attorneys who specialize in all fields. Because laws and regulations can change from year to year, your "TOU" page will automatically be updated as these requirements change. Talk about having an attorney on retainer! Your "Terms Of Use" page will reside on our servers so you don't even have to update your website in order to remain protected. No need to pay your attorney again, no need to pay your webmaster again.

What's more, we can require your users (if applicable) to digitally sign and accept your company's Terms Of Use before they gain access to secure areas of your website. This is especially important for professionals like Realtors who need Mandatory Disclosure Statements to be accepted, and for web designers & artists who do not want their artwork to be copied, mortgage lenders who are allowing borrowers to "lock-in" to a specified interest rate, etc.. We can record these visits, these specific terms, dates and times, and make them available to you.

Industry Example: Real Estate Brokerage.
There are 1 million Realtors in the NAR. Most fail to place Fair Housing & Disclosure notices on their web sites.
The liability caused by the failure of those agents web sites to conform to these legal requirements falls to the principal broker as well as the owner of the brokerage. This might also place a brokers franchise relationship in jeopardy. Yet it is almost universally ignored by all of the above. A typical brokerage might have $25,000 in yearly legal fees, but how much do they invest in legal protection for their web site, or their agents web sites? Nothing. Hundreds of thousands of agent and office web sites being viewed by millions of consumers, and even the most basic tenant of license law is being ignored. Fair Housing and Agency Disclosure.

The solution?
#1. Have your company attorney review your entire web site, and your agents web sites, making sure that all applicable disclosures are both up to day and properly posted. Cost? $750.00, $1,000.00+ per web site might be a typical fee for this service. Is your attorney going to remember your website as laws change? We will! Is there a commercial entity left that does not also have a web presence? Then why is "email" a struggle for my attorney?

#2. TermsOfUse.com - The Terms Of Use .com system will automatically amend that branded web page if and when changes in that states law takes effect... providing ongoing conformity with the requirements of licensed real estate professionals. The agent places the Terms Of Us e.com button on their site which will lead to the agents branded page, which is maintained by Terms Of Use .com - on our secure server. Cost? $99 a year. A fraction of the cost they would otherwise pay for similar legal services. For the cost of lunch the broker will know that all state and federal disclosures are posted on their web site.

Mortgage, Stock, Credit Card, and Financial Services.
The mortgage web site offers a 6.5% - 30 year loan to the borrower on Friday. The borrower prints out the rate offer, and calls the mortgage lender on Monday, but rates have gone up. But the borrower has a printed offer quoting Fridays lower rates.

Millions of small business owners are making the transition to the internet while many legal and liability issues relating to internet content are yet to be defined by law. Most business sites contain information, images, or proprietary content that should be protected. , Mortgage Companies have no idea to whom they are quoting rates, under what conditions those rates were offered, and when they expire. TermsOfUse.com will offer a service whereby working with the client, we define potential liability concerns, identify areas within the site that may contain trade secrets or confidential information. There may be images that the site owner does not want to be copied, or legal declarations that are required by law due to the nature of the business. We record and collect a "paper trail" on visitor activity on the site so the client will be able to document exactly what conditions each visitor agreed to, and when. Preemtive Legal Protections and Solutions.

Terms Of Use .com reduces client legal liabilities by requiring the visitor to digitally confirm acceptance of your conditions for their use and activities on your web site, providing  *CarbonCopies of the transaction terms and conditions. Protect proprietary or confidential information, copywrites, files and images, legal notices and disclaimers on commercial sites by requiring visitors to digitally accept your Terms Of Use prior to entering key areas of the site. Record whom you give quotes to and when, confirm that your customers read your disclaimers or mandatory legal notices.

There is often a valid reason to identify & record (with the visitors consent) where a particular visitor travels within a web site, which images they copy, what information they access or have been given. Attorneys for TermsOfUse.com can draw up documents that will address each of these issues as they relate to each client. When the visitor chooses to enter a "protected" or "visitor specific" area of the client's web site, the Terms Of Use Banner will appear and the visitor will be required to click on the banner (if they care to proceed) where they will read and accept the Terms Of Use for that particular area of the web site as it specifically pertains to that user, or they will not be granted entry. The client's Terms Of Use document will be hosted on the Terms Of Use .com server where we will record the digitally signed acceptance of terms by each visitor and log their activity on the client's web site. This "log" will be delivered to the client on a regular basis or upon request should any issue arrise with a visitor. The result will be greater protection for the client, reduced liability, better control of content, and reduced legal expenses.

Terms Of Use .com "Licenses" will be granted to participating attorneys who practice internet law. These attorneys will be able to offer this service to their clients as an "add-on" service. We may offer certain "exclusivity agreements" to attorneys demonstrating an ability to perform in volume. ISPs will also be offered a fee for delivering clients to us as they are on the front line of commercial web site development. Attorneys and ISPs will do much of the marketing to their clients on our behalf. The real estate industry is one example of where our service can be most effective. Fair Housing information is required on all advertising, mandatory brokerage disclosure is also a legal requirement in nearly every state. Our service will allow millions of real estate brokerages to display and confirm that the visitors have indeed been informed of these mandatory disclousures.

One of the few options available to the small business owners up to this point has been to pay an attorney to protect them after the fact. The typical small business person, when building a web site, doesn't even think about an attorney as being part of the web site development process. Visit 1,000 small business web sites, 99% of them will consider "copyright 2000" their sole legal declaration. The attorneys licensed to offer the TermsOfUse.com services will be selling their clients preemptive legal protection. No competing venue currently offers this service in this fashion on a wide scale basis, though such a need clearly exists.

There will be several revenue sources. "Member" attorneys will pay Terms Of Use .com a License Fee as well as 30% Gross for each client they sign up. The "Terms Of Use" client document will be hosted on our server, so we will be able to verify each sale. There will also be substantial fees collected from clients signed up directly by the TermsOfUse.com sales department. The initial fee will vary depending on the complexity of the client's needs, and an annual "site retainer" fee of 25% of that amount - which will pay for monitoring, recording and maintaining of visitors records on behalf of the client. The TermsOfUse.com Web Site may also accept advertising from those in the legal profession who want to market their legal services to the high volume of visitors that we receive who have expressed a clear interest in securing legal assistance. Should a service like ours be First To Market, we may be able to build confidence and develop brand awareness among the public and small business alike, filling an underserved need.