Getting AI-drafted website terms checked

Website terms of use produced with an AI tool cover access, acceptable use, intellectual property, disclaimers and liability, and are drafted, in most tools, on US models with US assumptions about what a site owner may exclude. A UK site has statutory information to display, obligations for cookies and personal data that sit in separate documents, and, where it sells, consumer rules that the terms of use do not displace. I review the terms against the law that applies to the site and return them marked up with tracked changes, a clean copy and a written explanation of the changes, for a fixed fee of £495 in three working days.

Who this is for

Businesses in England and Wales that have drafted terms of use for a website, a web app, a marketplace listing, a members' area or a content platform using an AI tool, and want them checked and corrected before they go live. The review is of the client's own document; terms of sale, the privacy notice and the cookie policy are separate documents the review identifies where they are missing.

What the review checks in AI-drafted website terms

The information the site must display

A UK business's website must show the details required by regulation 6 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002: the name, geographic address and email address of the business, any register it is entered in, its VAT number, and details of any authorisation or professional body; a company must also show its registered name, number, place of registration and registered office under section 82 of the Companies Act 2006, and a business trading under a name that is not its own must show the details required by section 1200 of the Companies Act 2006 and the sections that follow. An AI draft may omit those or fill them with placeholders, and the review adds them.

Terms of use are not terms of sale

An AI draft may combine the rules for using the site with the terms on which goods, services or digital content are sold, and treat the whole as governed by the site owner's disclaimers. Where the site sells to consumers, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 rights cannot be excluded, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 cancellation and information rules apply, and the ordering steps must be as regulation 9 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 requires. The review separates the terms of use from the terms of sale, and where terms of sale are needed, identifies what they must contain.

User content, reviews and the defences that depend on procedure

Where the site hosts comments, reviews, listings or uploads, the operator's position depends on procedure: the defence for website operators in section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013 depends on the operator following the process for complaints about posts by identifiable users, the hosting protection in the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 depends on acting on notice, and the Online Safety Act 2023 imposes duties on services that host user-generated content or allow users to interact, with the duties depending on the service's size and functionality. The review drafts the acceptable use, takedown and complaints provisions the site needs and checks that the disclaimers do not undermine them.

Cookies, the privacy notice and the documents the terms refer to

The terms of use are not a privacy notice, and an AI draft may fold in a paragraph about cookies and data that does neither job. Consent for cookies other than those strictly necessary is required by regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and the privacy information required by Article 13 of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 has to be given in a privacy notice. The review removes the data paragraph from the terms, cross-refers to the privacy notice and cookie policy, and identifies whether those documents exist and comply.

Disclaimers, exclusions and the intellectual property clause

AI-drafted terms exclude all liability for the site's content, its availability and reliance on it, in US forms that do not work in England: a business cannot exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence under section 2 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, exclusions against business users in standard terms are subject to the reasonableness test in section 3, and exclusions against consumers must be fair under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. The review drafts exclusions that hold, and checks the intellectual property clause, which should assert the site owner's copyright under section 11 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and license user content to the operator no more widely than the service needs.

Foreign-law drafting, governing law and the terms' status

US-model terms include a governing law of a US state, a jury waiver, a class action waiver, arbitration in a US city, a DMCA notice procedure and a 'severability' and 'entire agreement' set written for US courts. The review replaces them with English law and jurisdiction in England and Wales, the copyright complaints procedure the site needs, and boilerplate that means something under English law, and checks how the terms are accepted, since terms displayed on a site bind users only so far as they were brought to their attention before they used it. Interest on sums due from business users runs under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.

What it costs

Review of an AI-drafted contract, £495. One contract, returned as a marked-up Word document with my amendments as tracked changes, a clean version with the changes accepted, and a written explanation of the changes. Three working days from payment.

Buying online forms the engagement on payment. The scope is what the review of an ai-drafted contract page describes, you accept the Terms of Service at checkout, and I email you within four working hours to get started. If you would rather ask something first, email me.

What you get

• Your own Word document returned with every amendment I consider necessary shown as a tracked change, so you can see exactly what I changed and accept or reject each one
• A clean version with every change accepted, ready to send
• Corrections to anything that is wrong as a matter of English law, unenforceable as drafted, or internally inconsistent
• Missing provisions added where the document has left a gap that matters: usually liability, termination, payment, intellectual property or data
• Comments in the margin where a clause is a commercial choice rather than a legal one, so the decision stays yours
• A written explanation of what I have changed and why, by email or as an attachment if it is lengthy, with anything you should think about before sending it out
• Follow-up questions on the mark-up answered by email, included

What is not included

• A full rewrite. This is a review and amendment of your document, not a replacement for it. If the draft is structurally unsuitable for the deal, I will say so and quote separately for drafting it properly
• A second round of amendments after you have changed the document again, which I can quote for
• Negotiating with the other side
• Advice on the law of any jurisdiction other than England and Wales
• Tax, accounting or regulatory advice
• Reviewing a document the other side drafted, which is the contract review service, at the same price

Questions I am often asked

Our AI-drafted terms disclaim all liability for anything on the site. Does that work?

Not as drafted: liability for death or personal injury from negligence cannot be excluded, exclusions against businesses must be reasonable and exclusions against consumers must be fair. The review drafts the exclusions a UK site can rely on and removes the US-form disclaimers that would not be enforced.

Do we need separate terms of sale as well as terms of use?

If the site sells goods, services or digital content, yes: terms of sale carry the consumer rights, cancellation information and ordering steps the law requires, which terms of use do not. The review separates the two and identifies what the terms of sale must contain.

The terms have a DMCA takedown procedure. Is that right for a UK site?

The DMCA is a US statute. A UK site needs a copyright complaints procedure of its own and, where it hosts user content, the complaints process that supports the defence for website operators in the Defamation Act 2013 and the duties under the Online Safety Act 2023. The review drafts those in place of the US procedure.

Related guidance and services

• Review of an AI-drafted contract, £495, the service this page describes
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This page is general guidance for businesses in England and Wales, not advice on your own circumstances. Last reviewed: September 2026. Email geoffrey@caesar.co.uk.