Website Legal Requirements

One of the reasons to task a web design agency to create your company website is down to the legal requirements and ensuring they are correct. Further reasons can be found here: Why hire a web design company.

There are two kinds of legal liability: criminal and civil. Civil liability can lead to injunctions and payments for damages; criminal liability could mean a fine and a criminal record, and possibly worse. Unfortunately, websites can be liable for both.

Many relevant business laws apply as much online as they do in the real world for UK-based companies and websites. You have to be mindful of copying text, or images, or ensuring the domain name doesn't belong to someone's trademark. Copyright, and trademark infringement are serious, and in most cases permission and licensing is required for these things to ensure you don't get sued. Photographs are a great example, and at Ajay Solutions, all images are either produced in house, photographed by ourselves, or bought with license from stock photography sites.

You also need to be careful about what is said on websites, any content that could be deemed defamatory could lead to a libel case. There are also requirements for websites to be accessible, there's ecommerce law to consider as well as data protection if you store any information on your site.

It is YOUR responsibility to ensure your website is correct in the eyes of the law, not the web designer, or developer. At Ajay Solutions we ensure we keep abreast of all laws relating to the field of web development, so we can be certain to provide you with the correct advice. We also always ask our clients if there are any specific laws relating directly to their industry so that we are aware that we have to design the site with those laws in mind.

The types of pages we can produce to cover this, range from the basics of ensuring all business details are correctly entered on the site in appropriate places, ensuring there are ways to get in touch with the business, to Accessibility, and Privacy Policy pages which explains how the site uses any data it collects and how it strives to be accessible to everyone. Accessibility ensures that equal opportunities is taken into consideration. By designing a website with accessibility in mind, it should be easy to navigate and understand, it should be conscious of screen readers for the blind, or for non graphical browsers such that visually impaired people can view the site the best way they can perhaps using text based browsers. A website should, if designed well, fall back to an all text (with limited or no graphics) easily so that these browsers can still ensure a good experience for all people.

You have this peace of mind when hiring a professional web designer such as Ajay Solutions that all this will be taken care of as part of the service we offer.