Jurisdiction for Consumer Contracts

Gillies, Lorna E.

doi:10.1016/s0267-3649(01)01108-6

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“…Hence, for example, for a U.K.-based organization targeting U.K. customers with their electronic commerce system, the Web site should conform to the U.K. Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 [15]. However, if the Web pages are being amended to include text in other European languages, or to display prices in other European currencies (for example, the retail organization's electronic commerce system was changed to show prices in Euros as well as in pounds sterling) or to display delivery details for other European countries, then conforming to advertising and consumer protection legislation and regulation becomes more complex [16,17]. Under the Rome 1980 and Lugano 1988 conventions if an electronic commerce system displays product or service details in another European language, displays prices in another European currency or delivery details for another European country then the system could be deemed to be targeting customers in that other European country.…”

Section: Changing Web Site Textmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maintaining electronic commerce systems: the legal issues

Taylor

2003

J. Softw. Maint. Evol.: Res. Pract.

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Electronic commerce over the Internet is growing at an increasing pace worldwide. Maintenance of electronic commerce systems is thus becoming an increasingly important IT activity. In this paper the legal issues concerned with the maintenance of electronic commerce systems are examined based on detailed case studies in two U.K.-based organizations, a marketing organization and a retail organization. Even seemingly trivial maintenance activities of electronic commerce systems such as changing Web site text can have legal implications due to the variety of advertising, consumer protection, data protection and other legislation and regulation that potentially applies to electronic commerce activities. In addition, the potentially global nature of electronic commerce activities implies that maintenance activities of electronic commerce systems need to comply not only with the legislation and regulation within the country of the seller, but also potentially with the legislation and regulation within the country of the consumer as well.

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Section: Changing Web Site Textmentioning

confidence: 99%