As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly write terms and conditions for your UK business.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open a document and gather your registered business details, what you sell, customer types, trading locations, ordering method, prices, VAT position and payment methods.
   2. Write down your actual delivery, cancellation, returns, refund, faulty-goods, subscription, complaint and support processes, including any differences between consumer and business customers.
   3. Collect existing wording from your website, checkout, invoices, privacy notice, refund policy and delivery policy, then paste it into the prompt under the relevant headings.
   4. Paste the completed prompt into a chatbot and ask it to produce the draft, assumptions table, legal-risk list and publication checklist without inventing missing information.
   5. Compare every business fact in the draft against your current website, price list, checkout and operational process, then replace each placeholder and remove any clause your business cannot follow.
   6. Send the draft and the assumptions and risk tables to a UK solicitor for review, especially the consumer, liability, cancellation, subscription, data protection and governing-law sections.
   7. After legal review, publish the approved version where customers can see it before ordering, record its version and date, and keep evidence of which version each customer accepted.

   Prompt

   Draft terms and conditions for my UK business using the information below. This is a working draft, not professional advice, and must not be presented as legally approved. Do not invent facts, policies, legal rights or business details. If information is missing, write [NEEDS CONFIRMATION] and list the question separately.
   
   Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
   Business structure and registered address: [DETAILS]
   Business type and what I sell: [DETAILS]
   Who I sell to: [CONSUMERS, BUSINESSES OR BOTH]
   Where customers are based: [UK LOCATIONS OR OTHER COUNTRIES]
   How customers place orders: [WEBSITE, EMAIL, PHONE OR OTHER]
   Prices, VAT and payment methods: [DETAILS]
   Delivery or performance process: [DETAILS]
   Returns, cancellations, refunds and faulty goods policy: [DETAILS]
   Subscriptions, renewals or minimum terms: [DETAILS]
   Customer accounts or user content: [DETAILS]
   Intellectual property and permitted use: [DETAILS]
   Warranties, support and limits of liability I want to consider: [DETAILS]
   Complaints contact and dispute process: [DETAILS]
   Any existing policies or wording to preserve: [PASTE TEXT]
   
   Produce:
   1. A clear draft suitable for the business and customer type described, using plain UK English.
   2. Separate sections for scope, ordering, prices and payment, delivery, cancellation and returns, faulty goods, customer responsibilities, intellectual property, privacy cross-references, liability, complaints, governing law and contact details where relevant.
   3. A table showing every assumption, missing fact and clause that needs a solicitor's review.
   4. A risk list explaining where consumer law, unfair contract terms, distance selling rules, subscriptions, data protection or cross-border sales may affect the draft. Do not state that the terms are compliant unless that has been confirmed by a UK solicitor.
   5. A short publication checklist covering acceptance, version control, linking the terms before purchase and keeping evidence of the version accepted.
   
   Keep factual business details separate from legal commentary. Do not make the terms more favourable to me by removing mandatory consumer rights. Ask no follow-up questions before producing the draft; use the marked placeholders instead.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.