Legal Protection, Disclaimers, FTC crackdown

Warning!! Is Your Website Violating the Law?

Two reputed internet marketers selling digital products were on the receiving end of a recent FTC crack down on "Bogus Business Opportunities." 

Here's an article that recently appeared in USA Today:

Officials escalate spam crackdown
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY

Here's what Stephen Pierce, author of "The Whole Truth," and one of the victims of the FTC crackdown told us.

"By not knowing our websites needed to have a required CFTC disclaimer it cost us $25,000.00 in fines to the Government and another $25,000.00 in legal fees. We didn't even know we needed this on our website. But ignorance was not a good enough excuse."

Yes, ignorance is NOT an excuse. I myself was guilty of such ignorance - especially with respect to health claims on my website - but I was lucky that my company's lawyer put me on the right track and made me make the changes I needed before I got into trouble.

Since then I decided that the first thing I must do is educate myself about legal issues. And you need to do that too, if you want to protect yourself and your business.

If your website makes any claims related to income generation (and many MLM websites do!!) the lack of disclaimers in your purchase agreements, and on your site can leave you open to legal action.

According to the FTC, the deceptive schemes and illegal scams include auction fraud, the illegal sale of controlled substances, bogus business opportunities, deceptive money-making scams, illegal advance-fee credit card offers, and identity theft.

 If your website promotes any of these - even has links to any of these, you should remove them immediately - or add the appropriate disclaimers.

On this global village called the internet, you can no longer choose to remain ignorant of the laws, not even if you are from a country where laws are not well enforced.

You need to have the proper disclaimers posted on your site if you are involved in ANY kind of business opportunity online.

 Here are just a few of the things you need:
 1. A Privacy Policy
 2. A Children's Use Policy
 3. A Terms of Use Policy
 4. A Purchasers Agreement

And, if you sell dietary supplements, you MUST have following health disclaimer, in one form or another, on your website as well.

"These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is a dietary supplement and is not intended to diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any diseases. The information here is not provided by medical professionals and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Please consult your physician before beginning any course of treatment."

According to the FTC, by not having these risk disclosure statements statements on your website, you may be committing Internet fraud.

So now how do you get all these statements written WITHOUT spending hundreds of dollars on a high priced lawyer?

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