{"id":51,"date":"2016-04-05T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/?p=51"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:10:14","slug":"e-commerce-clickwrap-versus-browsewrap-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/04\/05\/e-commerce-clickwrap-versus-browsewrap-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce: Clickwrap Versus Browsewrap Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal of an e-commerce contract is whether\u00a0the \u201creasonable\u201d consumer is aware of the e-commerce contract terms. A <em>browsewrap\u00a0agreement<\/em> uses hyperlinks to the contract terms and conditions. A <em>clickwrap agreement<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>requires users to scroll through the terms before they are required to agree to them. The California state appeals court recently\u00a0held that a browsewrap agreement for an online florist is not enforceable because the hyperlinks and overall design of the website would not have put a reasonably prudent Internet user on notice of the terms of use. LESSON: Design your\u00a0website to give the consumer notice of the contract terms so the terms are enforceable.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/sheilarafterywiggins.html\">Sheila Raftery Wiggins<\/a>, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/offices\/newark.html\">Newark office<\/a>, handles matters involving complex commercial disputes, insurance defense, coverage disputes, financial fraud, and attorney ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sheila Raftery Wiggins The goal of an e-commerce contract is whether\u00a0the \u201creasonable\u201d consumer is aware of the e-commerce contract terms. A browsewrap\u00a0agreement uses hyperlinks to the contract terms and conditions. A clickwrap agreement\u00a0requires users to scroll through the terms before they are required to agree to them. The California state appeals court recently\u00a0held that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/2016\/04\/05\/e-commerce-clickwrap-versus-browsewrap-agreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E-commerce: Clickwrap Versus Browsewrap Agreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,107,61,100,98,96,97,95,105,41,8,108,106,104],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-agreement","tag-browsewrap","tag-california","tag-clickwrap-agreement","tag-consumer","tag-contract","tag-e-commerce","tag-e-commerce-contract","tag-internet-user","tag-lesson","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins","tag-state-appeals","tag-terms-of-use","tag-user"],"authors":[{"term_id":191,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}