[IMPORTANT NOTE: This article is intended to help explain the purpose of the Terms of Service Checkbox area for your products and should not be considered as legal advice.]
The Terms of Service Checkbox area provides you with an area to reference your business' terms & conditions, privacy policy and any other relevant 'legal documents' such as disclaimers, security policies, etc.
The intention is to give you an opportunity to present your users with the necessary info they need to know and acknowledge before doing business with you and for you to collect consent regarding those details.
When the subscription or purchase process happens directly in your MV account, users are presented with a statement on the opt-in/purchase form that they must check before continuing.
Because this checkbox must be checked by your user before opting into or purchasing your product, it's important that you provide them with the necessary links or written information so they know what they are acknowledging.
**Note: If your user does not check this box, they will receive an error message and be unable to purchase or sign up for your product!
In most cases, it's likely that you have these documents stored on your website - in which case, linking to those documents in the Terms of Service Checkbox Area is the easy course of action.
If you do not have these documents in place for your business yet, we highly recommend speaking with your lawyer to get them in place.
In the meantime, you can add written copy to the Terms of Service Checkbox Area for your product that outlines the various terms of your services and user acknowledgments -- keep this short, as long text will push your sign up button way down on the page.
To Customize the Terms of Service Checkbox
Locate the Terms of Service Checkbox Area for the product in question (it's located under your product's settings under the Sign Up Options section and just below the promo text field.).
Amend the default copy provided in this area to reference whatever you feel works best for your business.
If applicable, link to your legal docs on your website by inserting a hyperlink using the 'insert/edit link' button.
🔥HOT TIP: Consider using MV's Pages Feature to create an invisible page for displaying your various policies. Here's a quick step by step for how to do this:
Under "Content" > "Pages" in your admin dashboard, select "Add Page".
Give your page a name (i.e. [Your Business Name] Terms of Service, Privacy Policy).
Copy and paste your terms into Content Blocks on the page.
Customize any other part of the page you like (i.e. link, hiding the header, breadcrumbs, or footer etc.).
Copy your page link either from the Gear icon to the right of the Page on your pages list, or by copying the link in your Page Settings.
Paste this link into your Terms of Service Checkbox!
[IMPORTANT NOTE: This article is intended to help explain the purpose of the Terms of Service Checkbox area for your products and should not be considered as legal advice.]
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Questions? Reach out to us at hello@membervault.co, via chat support within your account or seek peer guidance within our FB Group, The MV Collaborative.