Do you want to start an online business but don’t know how to legally protect it? Maybe you’ve already started your online business but aren’t sure if all of your legal ducks are in a row. According to a Small Business Administration survey recently, 53% of business owners are sued each year for making legal mistakes or failing to ensure their businesses are legally established.
Amira Irfan of A Self Guru is a business lawyer, seven-figure blogger, and coach who provides simple DIY legal templates to help business owners start and scale their businesses legally. Unlike most unhappy lawyers, she enjoys working as a lawyer for more than 10 years and has helped over 35,000 entrepreneurs sleep better at night with her affordable legal services and templates.
So, if the legal aspect of your business overwhelms or scares you, check out Amira’s valuable legal tips and templates that will make your business legal in as little as 30 minutes, saving you a lot of time and money. Amira was a teacher before she became a lawyer, so she truly knows how to make complicated legal matters simple for her customers and clients. Her blog is chock-full of legal and business tips for all types of business owners.
Whether you are a blogger, freelancer, coach, social media influencer, podcaster, YouTuber, or have an ecommerce business, Amira Irfan shares 4 important legal templates that every online entrepreneur should have. Not only that, but you can easily download these legal templates from her store and start using them right away to ensure that your website is legally compliant and keep your business safe.
Every website is required by law to have a Privacy Policy. It informs your readers and customers WHAT information you are gathering from them and HOW you intend to use that information. The following are some examples of personal information collected from your website:
Your Privacy Policy must also comply with a slew of privacy laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or you will face serious monetary penalties.
Amira provides a Privacy Policy template on her website that you can instantly download to make compliance simple and painless.
Disclaimers protect you from lawsuits and allow you to “disclaim” personal liability for the content you publish. As Amira stated, “the last thing you want is for someone to rely on the information on your website and then sue you because they didn’t get the desired result.”
Disclaimers include very important legal provisions designed to shield you from legal liability, even for affiliate products you recommend on your website.
Depending on the type of content you publish, you will need different types of disclaimers. They are a necessary legal document that you must have on your website and even in your products, such as an ebook.
Terms and Conditions are important to outline your website rules – what you allow and don’t allow. They are also needed to protect your intellectual property so that others do not steal your content and to avoid customer disputes.
You’ll need them whether or not you sell products on your website. “They also outline how and where legal disputes will be resolved. Unless you have proper Terms and Conditions on your website, you are out of luck if there is a legal issue or a dispute with a reader or customer,” says Amira.
If you run an online business, you will inevitably need to hire freelancers such as virtual assistants, graphic designers, writers, social media marketers, photographers, and so on to help you grow.
Amira advises, “to protect yourself, you should have proper legal contracts in place whenever you work with someone in your business one-on-one. Don’t make the legal mistake of not using contracts because that could cost you thousands of dollars down the road.”
Amira saw her father make that legal mistake in his business, which cost them a $90,000 lawsuit. That is what motivated her to become a lawyer and create super easy legal templates for business owners to use in order to avoid such costly legal mistakes.
To hire freelancers or offer your own freelance services to clients, you’ll need a freelance contract template. Thislegal contract template is critical for any online business owner.
Start protecting your business today by downloading Amira’s free legal guide here, and purchasing these essential legal templates from her online store.
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