Reviews Website Terms of Use 
These Reviews Website Terms of Use are designed for use on websites which provide both expert and user reviews. Such websites may be broad ranging, covering a variety of products and/or services; or they may be more targeted.
This document has been recently updated and now includes a clause prohibiting scraping and text and data mining, practices commonly used in the development and training of AI models. The clause is designed to ensure that such activities are a direct breach of the website’s terms of use. It is also recommended that technical measures be taken to further protect a website’s content from scraping and text and data mining.
These website terms of use are designed for acceptance through use. Instead of being required to read them and accept them using a checkbox or similar, visitors to your site are simply deemed to have accepted the terms of use as soon as they start using the website. Provision is also made in this template for user accounts, required for the posting of user reviews. An option is therefore included should you wish to make acceptance of the terms of use a part of the account sign-up process.
Key information about the website operator is provided, including company registration details, trading address, and details of any relevant regulatory bodies or associations. It is important to note that for certain trades and professions there may be additional information that you must supply. Members of regulated professions should include professional titles, links to professional rules and other important details. Such details are not included in this template and those working in regulated professions should seek professional advice.
IP rights including, but not limited to, copyright are protected by these terms and conditions. IP protection provisions in this template also make it clear that the content of your site is not designed for commercial use but that users in a commercial environment are not prohibited from accessing it. An optional phrase is included to clarify this. Users are invited to contact the website operator if they wish to use any content featured on the website in any way that is not already permitted under the terms of use.
Users who submit reviews retain the ownership of the copyright (and any other IP) in their reviews, subject to a licence granted to the website operator allowing them to do everything necessary to operate and promote the site. An optional provision also allows Users to quote each other’s’ reviews within the site.
A number of options are included in this document that allow you to choose how much flexibility to give to your users when it comes to copying and saving material from your site, as well as establishing deep-links to pages within your site on other sites. More linking provisions included in the template may also help to prohibit users from establishing links to your site from sites publishing offensive or unlawful content.
Disclaimers and liability provisions in this document seek to protect website operators to the maximum extent deemed reasonable. In particular, and important for websites hosting reviews which by their very nature will include quite subjective content, is a disclaimer noting that opinions, views and values expressed in reviews shown on the site are those of their respective authors and not necessarily of the website operator.
Further important clauses address internet security, data protection, privacy and cookies (integrating separate policies into the terms and conditions by reference), acceptable use of the website (including the submission of reviews), and communications. All parts of this document are designed to be compatible with consumer protection legislation including, but not limited to, the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
This template is duplicated in the Website Terms & Conditions group.
Optional phrases / clauses are enclosed in square brackets. These should be read carefully and selected so as to be compatible with one another. Unused options should be removed from the document.
These Reviews Website Terms of Use contain the following clauses:
1. Definitions and Interpretation
2. Information About Us
3. Access to Our Site
4. Accounts
5. Intellectual Property Rights
6. User Reviews
7. Acceptable Usage Policy
8. No Scraping, Text or Data Mining
9. Links to Our Site
10. Links to Other Sites
11. [Advertising]
12. Disclaimers and Legal Rights
13. Our Liability
14. Viruses, Malware and Security
15. Privacy and Cookies
16. Data Protection
17. [Communications from Us]
18. Changes to these Terms and Conditions
19. Contacting Us
20. Law and Jurisdiction
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