Legal information page layout

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In many countries, printed documents must include a special page that indicates who’s responsible for the document’s contents. In addition, you need to provide contact information. Copyright notices and other legal information can also go here.

For details on the required content, see Structuring: Standard sections in software user assistance and Structuring: Standard sections in hardware user assistance.

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Design tips

Typically, the text is positioned near the bottom of an otherwise completely empty page (there’s no other text, no header, no footer, and no page number).

The text is printed in a font size that’s one or two points smaller than the body text of the document. The use of the small font signals to your readers that reading this page usually isn’t required.

If you have right pages and left pages, put the legal information onto a left page. It’s less prominent there than on a right page.

Example

Important: Always check with your legal department or with an attorney which information you need to include and where you need to make this information available. If your legal department or attorney gives you any prefabricated materials to include, don’t make any modifications to these materials without consultation. See also Standard sections in hardware user assistance.

The following picture shows a typical page with legal information.

 


Title page layout

Structuring: Standard sections in hardware user assistance