So you probably have heard a few webinars about software that can 100% protect you from a FTC investigation. No attorney or Legal Software Form can 100 percent guarantee your safety while shopping or doing business. Even if you have their very professional looking logo on your site, you will not be anymore protected than the next online business. Most of these sites are memberships sites and add very little value for your money. It is unfortunate, but I see a lot of people spending a lot of money on a membership that gives them nothing more than just a logo and updates to legal forms. I don’t see the value.

If you have made an effort to buy software to help you get into compliance, then you are better protected than the next site that has done nothing. It is those that do nothing which should really worry about being fined or their accounts frozen. Making the effort to have bought the software and implemented the software is enough. Nothing more is needed. You should not need to pay monthly to get an update to a simple form change.

The companies that should be concerned are those owners that snub their noses at the FTC and do not listen to their requests. Keep in mind that you cannot fight the FTC, IRS or FDA. Unless you have a huge budget and millions of dollars to represent your company, it is best to just make the changes that have been requested of you. In this way you can continue on with your business and avoid the courts or heavy fines.

There is one thing I do not recommend doing. Do not pay for a monthly membership fee to keep your site in compliance. The software we sell here can keep help you get your site in compliance for just a one time fee. That fee will give you a lifetime of upgrades for free. Those sites that are charging you a monthly fee are not providing enough of a value to justify the cost.

A monthly fee should include some kind of representation or access to their attorneys for questions. Just providing you updates to their forms in my book is not considered a value added feature. For the same thing these other guys are charging as a monthly fee, you are getting it all free with Auto Web Law Pro.

Give it a try for yourself and see what you think. I personally use this software for all my websites and love it. In 10 minutes I can have a website up and running with all the necessary legal forms represented on my site. The great thing about this software is it leaves nothing up to chance. You enter a bit of information that the form will request and in less than a minute you have a complete legal form that can be copied and pasted right into your site. I am a very satisfied, long term user of the software. Feel free to ask me any questions about this software. I will be happy to answer your questions.

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Buying or creating your own legal software forms is not for everyone. For a large company that already has a brick and mortar in place, buying online legal software forms to ensure their site compliance is not necessary. The existing legal representation that these larger companies already get is enough. Their attorneys know what is needed to keep their business in compliance.

Yet, if the company is:

1)      A start up

2)      Mom or dad starting up their own online business

3)      An affiliate marketer

4)      Bloggers

5)      Or anyone else who does not have around the clock legal representation

These are the kind of online contributors who should consider buying some kind of professional software to keep their business from being sued, fined by the FTC, shut down completely or put in jail.

Now this might sound comical to the stay at home mom/dad, but if you are affiliated to another company, selling something online on your website or stating your own opinion on your blog about a product or service, you could be held liable. All it takes is one solid compliant to the FTC for them to come knocking on your website door. New laws have made it easier for them to act on suspicious non compliant websites.

Websites that do not have a “privacy policies”, “disclosures” or “terms of use” are their main targets. If you have a website up, you must have some kind of legal documentation that sets the rules for children looking at your site, money being generated and a whole lot of other stuff that is too detailed to get into right now.

Why Is The little Guy Doing Business On The Web Targeted?

It is not really the little guy that is being targeted. It is everyone on the web being targeted. It is years of fraud, unethical practices and consumer fear that has led to where we are now. The FTC wants to ensure that people feel as comfortable viewing, communicating and shopping online as they would out in the regular world.

What does this mean for the little guy? It means a whole lot. It means that if you are doing business in an ethical way, you have no reason to fear the FTC. If they see your business spelled out properly in the correct legal fashion, then you won’t be a target. They will simply pass you by for the next site.

A while back there was an affiliate marketer, who I will not name that was making a whole lot of money in a very unethical way. The FTC got a few complains and start to investigate. This person’s website was shut down, his bank accounts frozen and he is now currently looking at doing some jail time. Although this is an extreme example of what can happen. It is still relevant to the kind of online business that is being targeted on a daily basis by the FTC. Don’t be their next victim. Do something to protect yourself.

What Can You Do To Ensure Compliance With The FTC?

Below are a few simple things you can do to keep your site in top notch condition against lawsuits or FTC investigations. You can create these web pages yourself or simply buy them for little money online.

1)      Have a disclosure page on your website. Let your readers and customers know what you are doing on your site. Don’t hide it. Open up to your visitors so they have a complete understanding what you are all about.

2)      Terms of Use – Have you ever wondered how certain websites control their viewers and are not held liable if a child by chance views the site without the permission of a parent? It is through the “terms of use” web page. Here you specify in legal jargon, who and what can interact with your site. It has to be specific, but not too specific to leave out a certain group or affiliation. This is probably one of the most important pages you can have on your site. Especially if your site may have children reading it. You could be easily sued if a child were to view or read something that is inappropriate for their age. Take for instance, one day your site is hacked. You don’t realize it for a few days, but for those few days’ inappropriate material was being displayed on your website. You can and would be held liable for this material. Since you are the administrator of your site, you are solely responsible for the material. It is best to have a “Terms of Use” page to protect yourself.

3)      Lastly you need a good “Privacy Page”. A good privacy page is worth its weight in gold. It protects you from others suing you for collecting their data. This holds true even if you are not aware your site is collecting their data. This page will contain the right kind of legal wording to protect you. For example, many of use that use a hosting site for our websites do not know that the hosting site is collecting a ton of information from your reader. They collect IP addresses, locations, time on your site and a jumble of other information you have no control over. Yet if you do not disclose this information to your reader, you could be sued. You are affiliated with the hosting site, which makes you liable.

As you can tell from this article, the information is not fun stuff. Yet it is a necessary part of blogging or doing business in today’s internet. So what do you do now? Now you go take a look at your site and figure out what needs to be changed before the FTC tells you what needs to be changed. You ensure you are doing business legally and ethically as laid out by the FTC. Once you have that all sorted out. You need to keep yourself abreast of all the changes that take effect throughout the year. A lot of those laws will impact your business.

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Creating the perfect Internet Privacy Policy Page is not all that hard if you know the areas that need to be addressed. These areas are discussed below.

1. First thing to note. Your privacy page should be updated once a year or more if regulations and FTC policies change.
2. What does your website do with the data does it collect? How is it gathered? You must explain what happens to any data that might be captured on your site or host. Even if you don’t capture data on your website, your host may capture IP address, time spent on your site, browser type, etc.
3. Affiliates and linked sites – What kind of sites link to your website? What rule must they follow when a guest enters your site and interacts with a third party link? These must be addressed.
4. Children that come to your site must be of a certain age to view. If your site is something to do with Disney or other kid related sites, then you might want to address that here. If this site is not related to children, then what is the appropriate age for a child to view the site. What conditions need to be met?
5. Finally you are going to want to address the governing body that will control any litigation or complaints against your website or company. What must be presented or met before litigation can begin. Who is responsible for mandating jurisdiction?  This area of interest must be addressed or you could find yourself being sued by anyone and everyone from any part of the world. Setting boundaries is important.

Now I am going to show you how I create a Privacy Policy Page. First I am going to show you my personal page with all the fine points described above and then I am going to show you an easy way to create your own Internet Privacy Policy page in five minutes or less.

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If you have not done it already, it is time to review your online business legal forms. It is now December 1st and the new FTC regulations and policies are now in full swing. The FTC will first be looking at websites that already have complaints against them and then secondly website that have caught their attention.

If you have not addressed your websites, then now is the best time to do it. Waiting will only subject yourself or your company to fines or website shutdowns. While you may be able to fight the original actions of the FTC in court, it will take months before you are back in business. Those are months that you are losing money and valuable time.

The software that I recommend on my website protects against a lot of common and not so common legal issues that you may run into. It actively addresses the FTC new regulations and will update itself if those regulations change. I can’t say enough about how pleased I am with this software. Read the rest of this entry

On December 1, 2009, the internet marketing world will change. It will change for the better for some and for others, it will change for the worst. The new FTC laws will take effect. This is the first time in the history of the internet that the FTC has taken such a heavy hand in regulating what is said, sold and conduct online.

These laws will put many out of business, put in jail, fined thousands of dollars and bank assets frozen. What can you do now to avoid being prosecuted? It is simple; get your entire websites in compliance now. Get your business plans in order. Get your documentation to back up your claims and endorsements in order.

It only takes one compliant for the FTC to come knocking. If you aren’t prepared, it can go badly for you. Getting in compliance is easy, staying there is hard. Laws will change and become more defined. Court findings that did not affect you December 1^st, may affect you in the future. It is going to be a very tough year to do business, but if you are ethical in your business dealings and have adequate documentation to back up every single word on your blog or website, then you will have nothing to worry about. Read the rest of this entry

Legal Document Software has been helping internet marketers and online business alike stay in compliance with the FTC. What exactly is it that needs to stay in compliance and how do you go about keeping your site up to date?

For the longest time the federal government did not pay a lot of attention to the internet. It was new to them and the federal government really did not know much about it or its potential. Fast forward twenty years and now they see how good and how bad the internet has become. To combat the bad side of the internet, the FTC was tasks to combat those that wanted to do business in an unethical fashion.

The FTC enacted laws that would allow them to not only shut down a website or blog, but to also freeze assets, shut down bank accounts and levy some very large fines. These laws were enough to not only put people out of business, but also put them into jail. Read the rest of this entry

Blog Disclaimers come on all shapes and sizes. You may see a huge ten page long disclaimer on one site and then on another site you may see a very short one page disclaimer. Which one do you think is the better, the website with the long disclaimer or website with the short disclaimer? Actually they might both be OK. It all depends on the kind of internet business you are conducting and that is what dictates the appropriate disclaimers.

Some sites are only for personal information. They use their blog like a diary. They are not selling anything, but their words could potentially endorse something they used or referred to a friend. Now in most cases that would not get someone in trouble, but if your blog has a lot of traffic, you could potentially run into legal problems. In this case a short version of a blog disclaimer is appropriate.

Most bloggers that don’t sell anything usually find a good disclaimer on someone’s site and grab it for their own. They are content with the wording and really have no need to monitor the changes in the law. Read the rest of this entry

Is using legal forms online the same as using an attorney? It is good question and in most situations one will work better versus the other. But which one do you start with?

When you are first starting out in your own business or even in a partnership you start to wonder when it is the best time to start using attorneys? It is a wonderful question to ask, because you are going to get a different answer from everyone you ask. Some are going to answer the question with the mindset of liability. Others will answer the question with the mindset of taxation and still others will have their own ideas of why and when to use an attorney versus legal software forms.

That leaves you with very little to go forward with and not much to support any conclusions on when to start. I came through this same ordeal myself. I asked my accountant who gave me one answer and then a friend who was a successful in real-estate who answered the question differently; that left me still guessing. I did not have attorney friends at the time, so asking anyone I could trust in that field of expertise was definitely out of the question. Read the rest of this entry

Get the software that I use and a lot of other blogger and website owners are using to get their sites FTC compliant. In less than an hour, you can have your website compliant and safe from those that are looking for an easy target.

For less than it would cost to have an attorney set you up, you can do it yourself and save yourself tons of money. See the software in action now on this website. Click on the Disclosure and Privacy tab and you will see what the software can do for you. Believe it or not, that whole page only took me ten minutes to generate.

One more great feature about this product, is it is always up to date. You never have to worry about outdated material. The software updates itself.

When you are finished reviewing my Disclosure and Privacy page, come on back here and get your self FTC compliant. Your existence as an Internet marketer depends on it, Auto Web Law Pro

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