How to Generate Terms & Conditions for Your Website

This guide explains how to generate and add a terms and conditions page to your website. Terms and conditions set out the rules governing how visitors use your website and the services offered through it, covering areas such as pricing, support, liability, and dispute resolution. CookieYes generates the document from a guided form that adapts to your business type and the terms you select.

To begin with, sign up on CookieYes and try it for free.

1. Log in to your CookieYes account.
2. From the top navigation bar, select Legal Policies.
3. From the Terms & Conditions section, click + Generate.

Select the type of business you run. Your selection determines the clauses included in your terms. You can click Preview terms at any stage of the flow to check your progress.

Provide your company's full legal name, along with any brand or trade name you operate under, your registered address, your VAT or equivalent tax identification number, and the URL of the website these terms apply to. Then select the title for the document.

The fields on this page depend on the business type you selected in Step 2.

Provide details of the services offered on your website, including whether any part of the service is paid, the pricing page URL, whether a free trial is available, the support channels you offer, whether a defined response time or SLA applies, whether the services are subject to export control laws, and the URL of your privacy policy.

Specify when customer orders are accepted, whether the prices shown on your website include taxes, and how payments are processed. Then indicate whether you have a shipping and delivery policy, and whether you maintain a separate returns, refunds, and cancellations policy.

This page has two parts: Details of service and User accounts.

Under Details of service, describe the services, products, or features your website offers, indicate whether any part of the service is paid, select the countries where you offer your services or products, and specify whether you allow bots, scrapers, or other automated access to your website.

Under User accounts, indicate whether users can create an account on your website, and whether they can link or sign in with their social media accounts.

The fields on this page depend on the business type you selected in Step 2. The page is titled Basic terms information for SaaS and Basic terms for E-commerce and Generic.

Choose how the maximum liability under the agreement is calculated: based on the amount paid by the user, a fixed amount, the higher of fees paid or a fixed amount, or no cap. If the cap is based on fees paid, select the period it applies over, which can be 3, 6, or 12 months, or a custom period. If a fixed amount applies, enter the maximum total liability amount.

Indicate whether you have a privacy policy for your website and, if so, provide the URL.

Under Legal and Platform Information, specify how long confidentiality obligations remain in effect, indicate whether you have a privacy policy for your website, and whether your platform uses or integrates any third-party services.

Under Limitation of Liability, indicate whether to include a limitation of liability clause and, if so, enter the maximum liability amount and the period the cap applies over.

Under Indemnity, select whether the UK or EU legal framework applies to your indemnification clause.

Specify the process for resolving disputes under the agreement, whether through the courts alone or through mediation or arbitration before proceeding to court. Nominate the country whose courts will hear disputes and the governing law of the terms, then select the state. Finally, indicate whether the waiver clause applies mutually to both parties or only to the customer.

This page has two parts: Termination and Dispute Resolution.

Under Termination, choose how to structure your termination clause: for cause only, for cause with customer convenience, for cause with mutual convenience, or special terms for a free, beta, or experimental service.

Under Dispute Resolution, specify how disputes are resolved, whether through the courts alone or through mediation or arbitration before proceeding to court, then nominate the jurisdiction whose courts will hear disputes and the governing law of the terms.

Indicate whether any additional documents should be incorporated into these terms and add them if so. Specify the number of days after which a notice is deemed received, select how formal notices should be delivered, and provide the corresponding contact details.

Click Generate Terms & Conditions to generate the terms and conditions for your website.

You can now preview your terms and conditions. Click Add policy to site to add the terms and conditions to your website.

After clicking Add policy to site, a modal window will appear prompting you to choose a method to embed the policy.

You have two options:

Automatically keeps your policy updated whenever changes are made in the CookieYes platform.

1. Click Copy code to copy the JavaScript snippet provided.
2. Paste the code into your website's HTML at the location where the terms and conditions should appear.

Use this option if you prefer to manually update the website every time you modify the policy.

1. Click Copy code to copy the generated HTML code.
2. Paste the code into your website's HTML at the location where the terms and conditions should appear.

Return to CookieYes and click Complete generation. In the popup that opens, click Yes, I have installed.

Your terms and conditions are now published on your website and visible to your visitors.