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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly review your UK business website terms and conditions.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
1 hourto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsNo solicitor price is supplied here; Genie AI is a UK-focused AI legal assistant for drafting and reviewing everyday contracts.
If this goes wrong: you publish terms that do not fit your business or UK consumer law, and your business carries the resulting disputes, refunds, enforcement risk or losses.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open the current terms and conditions as they appear on your website and copy the complete text, including linked sections, headings, cancellation wording and contact details.
- Gather the business facts that control the terms, including what you sell, who buys it, how orders are placed, prices, renewals, delivery, refunds, complaints and any unusual or regulated activity.
- Paste the prompt into a chatbot, attach or paste the terms, and replace every bracketed slot with your own facts without asking the model to fill gaps.
- Compare the model's factual findings with your live website, checkout journey, price list, refund process and linked privacy or cookie documents, correcting any finding based on an outdated page.
- Send the terms, the business facts and the model's prioritised questions to a UK solicitor, asking them to confirm the consumer-law, liability, subscription, cancellation and privacy points before publication.
- Apply only changes approved by the solicitor, then test the final terms, links and acceptance process from a customer's perspective before putting them live.
Prompt
Review the attached website terms and conditions for a UK business. This is a risk-spotting review, not professional advice and not a final legal sign-off. Business details: - Business name and legal structure: [insert] - What the business sells: [insert] - Customer locations: [insert] - Whether customers are consumers, businesses or both: [insert] - How customers buy, subscribe or book: [insert] - Prices, deposits, renewals and payment timing: [insert] - Delivery, access or service timing: [insert] - Cancellation, returns, refunds and complaints process: [insert] - Guarantees, warranties or support offered: [insert] - Personal data, cookies and third-party services used: [insert] - Any regulated, age-restricted, high-risk or unusual activity: [insert] - Other policies linked from the website: [insert] Review the terms against these facts. Do not invent facts, laws, cases, regulator positions or missing clauses. Separate your findings into: 1. Clear factual inconsistencies with the business details. 2. Missing information that I must answer before the terms can be assessed. 3. Clauses that may be unclear, one-sided, misleading or unsuitable for UK consumers or business customers. 4. Potential issues involving cancellations, refunds, subscriptions, delivery, liability limits, intellectual property, governing law, privacy and complaints. 5. Internal contradictions, broken links, undefined terms and drafting errors. For every finding, quote the relevant wording, explain the practical risk in plain English, state what fact or source would be needed to confirm it, and label it high, medium or low priority. Distinguish a drafting problem from a possible legal problem. Do not say that the terms are compliant. End with a short list of questions for a UK solicitor and a separate pre-publication checklist. Use British English.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot decide whether a limitation of liability, cancellation term or refund clause is legally reasonable in the context of your business.
- AI cannot reliably identify every current UK legal requirement or regulator interpretation that applies to your particular product and customer base.
- AI cannot take responsibility for publishing unlawful, misleading or unenforceable terms.
- AI cannot resolve ambiguous business facts that you have not supplied, such as whether a customer is acting as a consumer or a business.
- AI cannot provide the solicitor's final sign-off where the risk or wording needs professional judgement.
What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 2 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 0 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 7 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT review my website terms and conditions?
- Yes, it can perform a useful first-pass review for contradictions, missing information, unclear wording and possible risk areas. It is not professional advice, and a UK solicitor should check serious or business-critical terms before you publish them.
- Is AI legal review enough for my UK website terms?
- No. AI can organise the issues and reduce the reading work, but you may not be able to verify its legal conclusions without the expertise you were trying to avoid. Your business remains liable for terms that are unlawful, misleading or unsuitable.
- What should I give AI to review my terms and conditions?
- Give it the complete current terms and the facts behind them, including what you sell, who buys, pricing, renewals, delivery, cancellation, refunds, complaints and linked policies. Do not ask it to guess missing facts, and remove unnecessary personal or confidential information.
- Should a solicitor check my website terms and conditions?
- Yes, especially if you sell to UK consumers, use subscriptions, limit liability, handle deposits or refunds, collect personal data, or operate in a regulated or high-risk area. A UK solicitor can carry the professional responsibility for the final legal review, which an AI tool cannot.
Nearby answers
- Can AI check whether my privacy policy complies with UK rules?NO
- Can AI create a privacy policy for my UK business?NO
- Can AI draft a cookie policy for my UK website?PARTLY
- Can AI draft terms and conditions for my UK online shop?PARTLY
- Can AI draft a returns policy for my UK online shop?PARTLY
- Can AI draft a UK GDPR privacy notice for my business?PARTLY
Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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