Terms & Conditions

A legal disclaimer

Art Week Galveston is an event website that aims to empower and promote downtown businesses and artists during the traditionally slow month of January. We will be listing various types of businesses and disciplines of artist shows, displays, or events, mapping out the details. Our terms and conditions are designed to outline the guidelines for website visitors, event participants, and business owners engaging with our platform. These terms and conditions establish the legal relationship between the site visitors, event participants, and us as the event organizers. They address issues such as participation eligibility, event guidelines, intellectual property rights, and more. However, these terms and conditions are not a substitute for legal advice, and we recommend seeking legal counsel to understand the specific legal boundaries and protections.

Terms & Conditions - the basics

Having said that, Terms and Conditions (“T&C”) are a set of legally binding terms defined by you, as the owner of this website. The T&C set forth the legal boundaries governing the activities of the website visitors, or your customers, while they visit or engage with this website. The T&C are meant to establish the legal relationship between the site visitors and you as the website owner. 

T&C should be defined according to the specific needs and nature of each website. For example, a website offering products to customers in e-commerce transactions requires T&C that are different from the T&C of a website only providing information (like a blog, a landing page, and so on).     

T&C provide you as the website owner the ability to protect yourself from potential legal exposure, but this may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so make sure to receive local legal advice if you are trying to protect yourself from legal exposure.

What to include in the T&C document

Generally speaking, T&C often address these types of issues: Who is allowed to use the website; the possible payment methods; a declaration that the website owner may change his or her offering in the future; the types of warranties the website owner gives his or her customers; a reference to issues of intellectual property or copyrights, where relevant; the website owner’s right to suspend or cancel a member’s account; and much, much more. 

To learn more about this, check out our article “Creating a Terms and Conditions Policy”.