Contracts & Commercial Agreements

Terms & Conditions

Customer-facing terms, service conditions and website policies that hold up under Thai consumer law — not borrowed from another country’s internet.

Talk to us

Tell us the situation and we will tell you what we think you should do — and what it will cost.

Who this is for

  • Online sellers and e-commerce operators
  • Service businesses — clinics, gyms, schools, tour operators
  • Software, app and subscription businesses
  • Operators using standard forms with consumers

What we handle

Scope of work

Terms and conditions drafted for your actual product and flow

Consumer-law compliance, including unfair-contract-terms limits

Refund, cancellation and liability clauses that are actually enforceable

Privacy policies aligned with the PDPA

Thai, English or bilingual versions for the customers you serve

Updates when the law, the product or the pricing changes

How it works

How we run the matter

  1. Walk through the customer journey — order, payment, delivery, problems
  2. Identify the consumer-law rules that apply to your sector
  3. Draft the terms and the privacy policy to match reality
  4. Produce the language versions your customers read
  5. Advise how to present and obtain acceptance properly
  6. Set a review cycle and update on change

Documents to prepare

  • How you sell — website, app, storefront, chat
  • Current terms and policies, if any exist
  • Your refund, cancellation and delivery practices as actually run
  • What personal data you collect and what you do with it
  • Licences or regulator requirements that apply to your sector

Common questions

No — and clauses that try often achieve less than honest ones. Thai unfair-contract-terms rules let courts cut down abusive exclusions in consumer and standard-form contracts, and some liabilities cannot be excluded at all. A realistic, clearly-worded cap survives scrutiny; a “we are liable for nothing” clause invites it.
If you collect personal data — names, phone numbers, orders, cookies — the PDPA applies, and telling people what you collect and why is part of complying with it. The policy has to describe what you actually do; a copied one that promises practices you do not follow creates liability rather than covering it.
You copied their obligations, their gaps and possibly their copyright. Their terms describe their refund flow, their pricing and their risks — where yours differ, the borrowed text either binds you to promises you cannot keep or leaves your actual risks bare. Terms are cheap to draft properly relative to the first dispute they must survive.
For consumer-facing business in Thailand, practically yes — customers must be able to understand what they agree to, and certain regulated standard-form contracts are required to follow prescribed Thai forms. We advise which regime your business falls under and produce the versions your customer base actually reads.
Whenever the facts they describe change — new products, new prices, new data practices, new law — and reviewed on a calendar even when nothing obvious changed. Terms drift out of date silently; the update also has to be introduced properly, because changing consumer terms mid-relationship has its own rules.

Official sources

The Thai authorities and legislation this work is carried out under. Requirements change; we confirm the current position for your matter.

  • Civil and Commercial Code — obligations and contracts
  • Unfair Contract Terms Act B.E. 2540 (1997)
  • Electronic Transactions Act — electronic signatures
  • Office of the Consumer Protection Board — standard-form consumer contracts

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