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Facebook

Grade E

Facebook stores your data whether you have an account or not.
The service can read your private messages
This service can view your browser history
Deleted content is not really deleted
This service keeps user logs for an undefined period of time

Amazon

Grade E

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

Grade E

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

Wikipedia

Grade B

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

DuckDuckGo

Grade B

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

YouTube

Grade E

This service can view your browser history
Deleted videos are not really deleted
Third-party cookies are used for advertising
This service gathers information about you through third parties
Reduction of legal period for cause of action

Khan Academy

Grade D

The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
The service collects many different types of personal data
This service may keep personal data after a request for erasure for business interests or legal obligations
The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason

Quora

Grade D

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

Blizzard

Grade E

You waive your moral rights
The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
Some personal data may be kept for business interests or legal obligations
This service tracks you on other websites
The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.

Tor Browser

Grade C

You can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information
Your personal data is not sold
An anonymous payment method is offered

PayPal

Grade E

You waive your moral rights
This service still tracks you even if you opted out from tracking
This service holds onto content that you've deleted
You must provide your identifiable information
The service collects many different types of personal data

Startpage

Grade A

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

WikiHow

Grade E

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

CNN

Grade E

sign away moral rights
The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason
Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
The service collects many different types of personal data
This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation

Apple Services

Grade D

Content you post may be edited by the service for any reason
The service can delete specific content without reason and may do it without prior notice
This service may collect, use, and share location data
Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
Many different types of personal data are collected

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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.