Website legal audit or review

One of Michalsons’ dynamic services is a website legal audit. Some people call it a website legal and compliance review but we prefer just calling it a website legal audit. During a legal audit, we determine whether your website complies with applicable laws, codes, rules and standards – which differs from our reviews of particular automatic or electronic processes. However, a website legal audit and automatic or electronic processes can be related when a website has one or more automatic or electronic processes.

How you benefit from a website legal audit

• Increase investments by building confidence in investors.
• Grow your business by building visitor and customer trust.
• Manage website associated risk and avoid legal difficulties and disputes by regulating the relationship between visitors and the website.
• Ensure your contractual relationship with customers is appropriate.
• Comply with regulatory compliance obligations.
• Avoid fines and imprisonment by complying with the law.
• Follow best practice.

The legal issues we focus on

Some of the legal issues we focus on are:

1. website and development design (different issues arise when sites are developed in-house or externally);
2. copyright;
3. IT GRC through a King IV lens – including how to disclose governance practices;
4. contractual terms – terms and conditions, and privacy policies;
5. website “linking” and “framing”;
6. trademarks;
7. domain names;
8. security;
9. payment mechanisms;
10. consumer protection; and
11. the processing of personal information – privacy and data protection.

When we do a website legal audit we start off by gathering website-related questions. We’ll then review your current terms and conditions as well as your privacy policy. We’ll then move on to a GAP analysis which is an assessment of how “compliant” your organisation is with applicable law.

You’ll find that we’ll audit your website through your customer, investor, and business partners’ perspective – ultimately building strong relationships with everyone involved. When necessary, we’ll recommend solutions that will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and implement best practice where sound business practice, rather than legal requirements, dictate that risk be managed.  

A free audit of your website

We’d like to help you get started so we’re offering a free website legal audit call with one of our attorneys. In this call, we’ll review various aspects of your website and give you a free high-level view of what gaps you need to close. Sign up today and we’ll contact you to arrange a timeslot with one of our attorneys. 

A practical written report that translates into action

If you find our free audit call valuable then ask us to quote you for a written legal audit report.

Our reports detail the following information:

• the compliance or risk issue
• our observations or the current status
• whether the website is compliant or not
• whether there is a risk or not
• our suggested recommendation or control

The report also includes an action plan to ensure that the website owner knows which steps to take next.