Legal services

A confidentiality contract, non disclosure agreement or NDA is a legal agreement, entered into by two or more individuals or companies, designed to protect information from unwanted disclosure or misuse. Non disclosure agreements are sometimes called confidentiality agreements, confidentiality contracts, confidential disclosure agreements, CDAs and secrecy agreements.

Contract law is concerned with the creation, variation, interpretation, enforcement and termination of contractual relationships between individuals and/or legal persons.

A distribution agreement is a legal agreement between a supplier of goods and a distributor of goods. The supplier may be a manufactuer, or may itself be a distributor reselling another's goods. Distribution agreements may be categorised as either exclusive or non-exclusive.

There are many different kinds of domain name dispute. For example, domain name disputes may involve those who: find that a stranger has registered a domain name incorporating their trade mark or trade name; lose their domain name to another person, for example because they accidentally fail to renew the domain name; or discover that an ex-employee or business partner has improper control of a domain.

Employment law is concerned with the relationship between employers and employees: the formation of that relationship, its conduct, its dissolution.

A hosting agreement is a legal agreement between a web host and its customer, specifying the mutual rights and obligations of the web host and the customer. A hosting agreement should cover not just hosting services, but all the ancillary services that a web host provides.

There are many different intellectual property rights in English law. Some are well known, such as copyright, patents and trade marks; others are less well known, such as moral rights and rights in designs; and some are almost unknown outside specialist circles, such as rights in typographical arrangements and plant variety rights.

Internet law is an area of practice rather than an area of law. Whilst there are a handful of legal instruments that are largely or wholly concerned with the internet – notably the Ecommerce Directive and its implementing legislation – the law of the internet mostly derives from other areas of law.

A returns policy is a legal document setting out the rights a customer has to return products purchased from a supplier. In most jurisdictions, there are certain statutory rights for customers to return products to suppliers, and usually the supplier will not be permitted to abridge (or at least fully abridge) those rights by means of a return policy or other contractual document.

A sponsorship agreement or contract governs the legal relationship between a sponsor and the person entitled to enforce the sponsorship obligation. That person may, for example, be an individual who is being sponsored, a company that organises and event that is being sponsored, or the owner of a location that is being sponsored.