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| Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 11-20-2009 05:13 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2008
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DNF$: 105 Location: Canada | Regarding affiliate links and liability Hypothetical situation: You own and operate a web site that contains affiliate links. If a visitor buys a product from your site through one of these links and is injured from the product, are you partly to blame? Could you be successfully sued if the visitor takes legal action? To those readers that have affiliate links on their site, are you worried about this possible scenario? |
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| CrossLogix.com Last Online: Today 09:24 PM iTrader: (65) Join Date: Mar 2006
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DNF$: 2,183 Location: Matthews, NC. U | put up TOS with mentioning of "we are not liable...".
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| Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 11-20-2009 05:13 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2008
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DNF$: 105 Location: Canada | Thanks for the reply Is a TOS good enough in all cases? Let's say you have affiliate links to a phone battery supplier. If site visitor buys a phone battery through one of these links and the battery explodes (which they're known to do) and scars the person's face, I could see them still including you in a lawsuit. Does anyone else agree? |
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| Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 11-22-2009 11:30 PM iTrader: (1) Join Date: Apr 2009
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Best way is to setup a corporate entity for liability protection at the very least. I would be interested to know what other people think as well ...
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| Name: Evan Last Online: 11-13-2009 09:02 PM iTrader: (27) Join Date: Mar 2008
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DNF$: 3,286 Location: Bay Area
Country: | most affiliate agreements indemnify the resellers/publishers from product/service liability. check them out if you are concerned. a suit would probably be for contributory actions or misrepresentation or something else- point being that it can and does happen. |
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| Platinum Lifetime Member Name: Marc J. Randazza Last Online: 11-16-2009 08:31 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: Aug 2008
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DNF$: 10 Location: San Diego | *Runs out of the room*
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