Two legally useful email disclaimers: "this is not legal advice" and "this is not an offer to buy or sell securities".
These are both legally binding, because they merely remove potential ambiguity from an email and explicitly state the absence of a contract. Without the disclaimer, the text of an email might otherwise be interpreted to mean that a contract was present.
Like, I wouldn't imagine you could send an email along the lines of, "Hey, I'm looking to buy some securities. You in, bro? DISCLAIMER: This is not an offer to buy or sell securities."
Zouf wrote:
While you are mostly correct, there is one good legal use of an email footer:
to declare the data above it as confidential, and therefore comply with
confidentiality agreements that protect only data that has been explicitly
declared as confidential.
I found this one particularly funny: stewsnooze wrote:
Practice what you preach.......
This e-mail may contain confidential material. If you are not an intended
recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. It may also contain
personal views which are not the views of The Economist Group. We may
monitor e-mail to and from our network...
http://www.economist.com/comment/886653#comment-886653I wouldn't start leaving them out just yet.
> Many firms—The Economist included—automatically append these sorts of disclaimers to every message sent from their e-mail servers, no matter how brief and trivial the message itself might be.
We hope a lot more people will find the privacy policy, NDA and the coming terms of use more helpful...and we hope to have some other documents up soon, too...so, don't forget to bookmark it! :)
PearWords does not...
Place "cookies" (small text files) on your system for any reason.
I would beg to differ, it may be Google Analytics dropping the cookies on pearwords' behalf, but they're still there. (http://d.pr/D3oy)That said, we've not had these certified by a practicing lawyer simply because even if we do most people would still rather have a lawyer they know and trust do it for them before signing a contract, especially considering the variety of territories that PearWord's audience is located. It should be a fair bit cheaper to have a lawyer look over and change where appropriate any details than have them write an original document for you.
PearWords strongly advise that any person have a lawyer vet and modify where necessary any legal documents before signing them, no matter the situation.
Thanks for your comment! :)
On a side note - It's very strange that there's no email address, no name of the person/persons behind this, no twitter account etc. Just the contact form.
I mean, I'd like to follow whoever did this on twitter.
I'm working on getting us a "Team" page to showcase all our talent with pictures, Twitter links, etc...