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Terms of service of a website

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Developing a beautiful website is an exciting experience. When thinking about patting yourself on the back just after pouring out all your creativity on a beautiful landing page, halt! Have you thought about a tea table discussion with your boring legal team to frame the website's Terms of service ? Why? No one reads the Terms of service! We agree that when you are crazy about driving visitors to the website , how can you risk losing them with a puzzling pop-up showing an irritating message, “do you agree?” We are sure you would also dislike receiving legal notices for compensation claims from visitors to your website . Similarly, won’t you like to sue the infringers? Is Terms of service a legal requirement? Terms of service ( TOS ), also called Terms of use or Terms and conditions, are not mandated by law. According to Section 43(A) of the Information Technology Act 2000 and IT Rules 2011, if a business in India possesses, deals with, or handles any sensitive personal