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Having general terms and conditions for your website drafted by a specialized SME lawyer typically costs between €250 and €750, depending on the complexity of your site. You will receive a custom-made text covering usage, intellectual property, a disclaimer, links, amendments, and a reference to your privacy statement. Below, you can read about the costs, the process, and when customization is worthwhile.
The short answer
- Costs: approximately €250 – €750 for a custom-made set of terms and conditions.
- Lead time: usually a few working days to about a week.
- Process: intake, concept, one revision round, delivery.
- Customization pays off for login, upload, sales, or international visits.
- do it yourself on a simple, informative site.
- The terms and conditions appear alongside your privacy statement and cookie statement.
Having general terms and conditions drafted for the website: what does it cost?
Anyone considering having general terms and conditions drafted for their website will first want to know the price. With a specialized SME lawyer, this usually ranges between €250 and €750. The range depends on your site: an informative site is simpler than a platform with accounts, uploads, or a webshop.
- Simple informative site: approximately €250 – €400.
- Site with login or user content: approximately €400 – €600.
- Platform or webshop: approximately €600 – €750, sometimes more for complex functions.
Please note: this concerns the terms of use. A privacy statement, cookie statement, and terms of sale are separate documents with their own price.
The process step by step
- Intake. The legal expert maps out what your site does: informative, login, upload, sales, target audience, and international reach.
- Draft. You will receive a draft containing the core components: usage, intellectual property, disclaimer and liability, links, changes, and a reference to the privacy statement.
- Proofreading round. You discuss the adjustments; the text is revised.
- Delivery. You will receive the final terms and conditions, ready for publication.
The turnaround time is usually a few working days to about a week, depending on how quickly you answer the intake questions.
What you get: the content
A good set of website terms and conditions contains the same core components if you were to draft them yourself, but tailored to your situation: permitted use, intellectual property rights to your content, a disclaimer with a limitation of liability within legal limits, a linking clause, a dated amendment clause, and a reference to your privacy statement.
The added value of having it drafted lies in the customization: the legal expert ensures that the provisions align with your roles and that the limitation of liability holds up — especially vis-à-vis consumers, where unreasonably onerous clauses can be annulled.
Relationship to privacy and cookie statement
Website terms and conditions govern use, ownership, and liability. Personal data belongs in a separate privacy statement under the GDPR, and cookies in a cookie statement. These three documents refer to each other but remain separate.
Many legal experts offer a package in which terms and conditions, a privacy statement, and a cookie statement are drafted together. This is often more cost-effective than having everything separately and prevents inconsistencies between the documents.
Do it yourself or have it drafted?
The assessment is primarily a risk assessment. A simple informative site without login, uploads, or sales can often be adequately covered by reliable standard text. As soon as visitors log in, post content, pay, or download, the risks and legal complexity increase.
Practical example: an SME entrepreneur with a booking platform used a free template text without a provision regarding user content. When a user posted unlawful content, there was no legal basis to remove it and hold the user accountable — precisely what customization would have prevented.
Honest recommendation
If you have a simple, informative site without login, uploads, or sales, you do not need a lawyer: a neat standard text with the standard components and a correct limitation of liability is often sufficient. Save the budget and invest it in a good privacy statement if you process data.
Do have the terms and conditions drafted as soon as your site has accounts, user content, paid features, downloads, or international visitors. The investment of €250 – €750 is modest compared to the risks, and a package including a privacy and cookie statement is usually the most cost-effective.
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Frequently Asked Questions
With a specialized SME lawyer, typically €250 – €750, depending on the complexity. An informative website is cheaper than a platform with login, uploads, or a webshop. Privacy and cookie statements are separate documents with their own pricing.
Usually a few working days to about a week, depending on how quickly you answer the intake questions. The process consists of intake, draft, one round of revisions, and delivery of the final text.
First, an intake to map out your site, then a draft with the core elements, followed by a revision round, and finally, delivery. You receive custom-made text that is ready to publish.
For a simple informational site without login, uploads, or sales, reliable standard text may suffice. For accounts, user content, paid features, or international visitors, customization is advisable due to the higher legal risks.
Not automatically. Website terms and conditions govern use, ownership, and liability; personal data and cookies belong in separate statements. Many legal experts offer a package, which is often more cost-effective and prevents inconsistencies.
A free template rarely fits your site perfectly. Provisions regarding user content are often missing, or the limitation of liability does not comply with the law. It might work for simple sites, but for more complex functions, it poses a risk.
Yes. If you sell products or services via the site, the terms of sale are a separate document that governs delivery, payment, warranty, and termination. Many entrepreneurs have the terms of sale, privacy and cookie statement, and terms of sale drawn up together.
