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Facebook Service Icon

Facebook

Grade E
  • blocker icon Facebook stores your data whether you have an account or not.
  • blocker icon The service can read your private messages
  • blocker icon This service can view your browser history
  • blocker icon Deleted content is not really deleted
  • bad icon This service keeps user logs for an undefined period of time
Amazon Service Icon

Amazon

Grade E
  • bad icon Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
  • bad icon Third-party cookies are used for advertising
  • bad icon This service tracks you on other websites
  • bad icon The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon The service can sell or otherwise transfer your personal data as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction.
Reddit Service Icon

Reddit

Grade E
  • blocker icon The service can read your private messages
  • blocker icon You sign away moral rights
  • blocker icon The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon This service may keep personal data after a request for erasure for business interests or legal obligations
  • bad icon Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
Wikipedia Service Icon

Wikipedia

Grade B
  • bad icon The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.
  • bad icon Users have a reduced time period to take legal action against the service
  • bad icon Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
  • good icon You publish your contributions under free licenses
DuckDuckGo Service Icon

DuckDuckGo

Grade B
  • bad icon Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent merely from your usage.
  • good icon No need to register
  • good icon You can delete your account and Duck Addresses
  • good icon This service provides an onion site accessible over Tor
  • neutral icon The service makes critical changes to its terms without user involvement
YouTube Service Icon

YouTube

Grade E
  • blocker icon This service can view your browser history
  • blocker icon Deleted videos are not really deleted
  • bad icon Third-party cookies are used for advertising
  • bad icon This service gathers information about you through third parties
  • bad icon Reduction of legal period for cause of action
  • blocker icon The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
  • bad icon The service collects many different types of personal data
  • bad icon This service may keep personal data after a request for erasure for business interests or legal obligations
  • bad icon The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
Quora Service Icon

Quora

Grade D
  • blocker icon They store data on you even if you did not interact with the service
  • bad icon This service may keep personal data after a request for erasure for business interests or legal obligations
  • bad icon Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes including advertising
  • bad icon This service tracks you on other websites
  • bad icon This service gathers information about you through third parties
Blizzard Service Icon

Blizzard

Grade E
  • blocker icon You waive your moral rights
  • blocker icon The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon Some personal data may be kept for business interests or legal obligations
  • bad icon This service tracks you on other websites
  • bad icon The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.
  • good icon You can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information
  • good icon Your personal data is not sold
  • good icon An anonymous payment method is offered
PayPal Service Icon

PayPal

Grade E
  • blocker icon You waive your moral rights
  • blocker icon This service still tracks you even if you opted out from tracking
  • blocker icon This service holds onto content that you've deleted
  • bad icon You must provide your identifiable information
  • bad icon The service collects many different types of personal data
Startpage Service Icon

Startpage

Grade A
  • good icon This service does not track you
  • good icon The service will resist legal requests for user information where reasonably possible
  • good icon The cookies used by this service do not contain information that would personally identify you
  • good icon The cookies used by this service do not contain information that would personally identify you
  • good icon IP addresses of website visitors are not tracked
WikiHow Service Icon

WikiHow

Grade E
  • blocker icon The service can read your private messages
  • bad icon This service can share your personal information to third parties
  • bad icon The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon This service tracks you on other websites
  • bad icon Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent merely from your usage.
CNN Service Icon

CNN

Grade E
  • blocker icon sign away moral rights
  • blocker icon The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
  • bad icon Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
  • bad icon The service collects many different types of personal data
  • bad icon This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation
  • blocker icon Content you post may be edited by the service for any reason
  • blocker icon The service can delete specific content without reason and may do it without prior notice
  • bad icon This service may collect, use, and share location data
  • bad icon Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
  • bad icon Many different types of personal data are collected

Data last fetched: Wednesday, 11-Dec-24 21:56:10 UTC

How it works

ToS;DR aims to provide easy-to-understand summaries of Privacy Policies and Terms of Service through a transparent and peer-reviewed process.

Terms of service are reviewed by volunteer contributors, who highlight small points that we can discuss, compare and ultimately assign a score: "good", "neutral", "bad", and scariest of all, "blocker".

Once a service has enough points to assess the fairness of their terms, we use a formula to provide ratings from Grade A to Grade E:

  • Grade A — The terms of service treat you fairly, respect your rights, and will not abuse your data.
  • Grade B — The terms of service are fair towards the user but they could be improved.
  • Grade C — The terms of service are okay but some issues need your consideration.
  • Grade D — The terms of service are very uneven, or there are some important issues that need your attention.
  • Grade E — The terms of service raise very serious concerns.
  • No Grade Yet — Not enough information exists to accurately grade this service yet.

Right now you will notice that many services do not yet have a grade assigned. This is where you come in! Help us analyse more documents so that we may increase our coverage.