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You may find a Terms of Service document on a website (we show you an example in Figure 2-2), with a product or as part of the legal documentation you receive as part of a service you’ve signed up for. Most likely, you have paid scant attention to a Terms of Service document or web page because you consider it flotsam and mentally toss it aside.

If you’re running a business, however, a Terms of Service web page or document is essential if you want to protect your product, service, or web content from copyright infringements as well as from legal liabilities.

FIGURE 2-2: A Terms and Conditions page on the Butow Communications Group website.

You may see the label Terms and Conditions referred to instead as Terms of Service (or ToS), Terms of Use, General Conditions, Legal, Notes, or the standard software document EULA (short for End User License Agreement). What’s the difference between the titles Terms and Conditions, Terms of Service, and Terms of Use? Nothing. It’s just a matter of preference about what you want to use. For example, if you have a product, you may want to use the title Terms of Use because the document is about the terms of using the product.