[thelist] liability and the web

[Erik Mattheis]

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>  >8. WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY.  Gozz does not warrant that the
>  >functions of the web site will meet the client's expectations of site

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>This is a genuine clause?? And it's legal (like being upheld in court)??
>NO WAY will that fly in the UK. Lucky you.

Yeah, that's what I use, and it was written by an attorney that I 
gave two or three contracts to model from. But, no, it's never been 
tested in court ... if I find out that I did something wrong I 
correct it without putting up a fuss (best way to deal with my 
shame). I guess I have been lucky enough to have had only one client 
that gives me any kind of woe ... everybody else has been grateful 
and gracious.

I'm pretty much a one man shop, and could see how that would look odd 
to a legal department ... but for cases when my client even has a 
legal dept, I've just signed their contracts.

Why wouldn't it be OK in the UK? It puts a qualification on the 
services provided and nobody's forcing anyone to sign anything ... I 
just need to CMA and I guess I have a knack for making clients feel 
like I'm not scamming them ... not hard to do, just being honest 
about potential problems/limitations from the get go is approximately 
110% of it.
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- Erik Mattheis

Apparently a Triple Scorpio.

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