Disclaimers are statements that can help protect you and your business. They help you limit your responsibility, define the conditions under which you may be held liable, or protect your content from misuse.
Legal disclaimers are pretty important because they, along with a solid set of terms and conditions, can act as your first layer of legal protection: if you clearly define your conditions and rules (within applicable law, of course), it may help reduce your responsibility, in case something bad would happen.
For example, if you’ve ever looked up your symptoms on the internet (yes, we know you did!), you’ve most certainly seen that every website or blog about health has a disclaimer in place where they state that the information they provide can’t be taken as a diagnosis. In this way, they are limiting their responsibility.
That’s how disclaimers work.