The service can delete specific content without reason and may do it without prior notice
This service can delete specific content. Usually they will claim they reserve the right to do it at their sole discretion, which is legalese for saying they won't give a specific reason. If the terms say they will not notify you, it shall be included in the quote but if it does not explicitly say they will give you a notice, it can be reasonably inferred that they can do it without telling you.
This service may keep personal data after a request for erasure for business interests or legal obligations
After the end of the data retention period and/or if you request the deletion of your data, they may still keep it for business interests (fraud detection, transactions...) or legal obligations (tax, legal reporting...)
Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
The service's website sets third-party cookies (cookies that do not belong to their domain) for purposes not including statistics and analytics.
Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
The Agreements can be updated at any time, including in a way that negatively affects user rights, without notifying before or after the changes.
The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
At any time, your account can be terminated without explanation and without warning by the service.
This service forces users into binding arbitration in the case of disputes
This service forces users to use their own contracted arbitrator and forces users to waive their rights to jury trial.
The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.
Tracking technologies (such as web beacons, tracking pixels...) are employed on users and/or the service assigns a unique ID to a browser or device to track its behaviour.
The service may collect extra data about you through promotions
Additional personal data may be collected through contests, surveys, promotions, petitions or sweepstakes.
Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent merely from your usage.
The Service infers your acceptance from your continued usage, instead of prompting you to read the new Terms and asking for direct consent. This doesn’t apply to services that have no way to seek consent from users through their contact details or an account.
The service uses social media cookies/pixels
These types of cookies/pixels send information to social media sites when you interact with the service.
This service tracks which web page referred you to it
The service logs the URL of the last web page you visited before visiting the Site and may use that information to gather more data about you.
This service can license user content to third parties
By posting content through the Services, users grant them a transferable and/or sublicensable right, which allows user content to be licensed to third parties.
Users have 1 year to take legal action against the service
If you wish to bring legal action against a service about a past incident, you may not be able to do so if the Terms you agreed to implied a limited amount of time. As a result it may be worthy to carefully read that section of the Terms to know exactly how much time you might have before your right to take legal action expires.
The service can sell or otherwise transfer your personal data as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction.
If the service gets acquired or is involved in a merger, bankruptcy, reorganisation or sale, your personal data may be transferred or sold.
This service gathers information about you through third parties
This Service may employ, either identifiable or non-identifiable, data collection from third party sources about you.
This service may use your personal information for marketing purposes
The service may use your personal data for marketing, such as sending you personalised offerings.
Your profile is combined across various products
When using multiple services from one same company, they can combine these (unrelated) information sources about you to build up a single richer user profile about you.
Your personal data is given to third parties
Your personal data is or may be given to third parties essential to the service’s operation. This could be an external spam detection service for an internet forum.
The service uses your personal data for advertising
Your interaction with the service and data you have shared with them may be gathered to create an advertising ID or profile to target ads on you, either on the website you were visiting or in third party websites.
Users shall not interfere with another person's enjoyment of the service
Users are asked not to interfere with another person't enjoyment in using the service.
However, this statement is very vague and open to interpretation by the service itself.
This service retains rights to your content even after you stop using your account
The service may still use your content and display it after you stopped using it by closing your account, since you granted them a perpetual or (in some cases) an unlimited license over that content.
Any liability on behalf of the service is only limited to the fees you paid as a user
This service uses third-party cookies for statistics
For instance, Google Analytics, rather than self-hosted (first-party) statistics software.
This service employs third-party cookies, but with opt-out instructions
The service's data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes
The service will remove personal data from its systems once it is no longer required. Depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected, data retention periods will vary.
The service provides information about how they collect personal data
The service details situations in which they collect personal information or means by which they do.
The service allows you to opt out of providing personal information to third parties
The Service provides opt-out instructions to the share of (some) personal information with third parties.
The service provides a complete list of all cookies set by its website
The service provides users with a complete list of all first and third party cookies its website sets and an explanation of their uses. This information can be valuable for users to make an informed choice whether to allow those cookies.
The service informs users about the risk of publishing personal info online
This service allows you to retrieve an archive of your data
Users can request a copy of the data collected through the services and infer from it the amount of personal information that is processed and stored by the Service. This usually applies to Services GDPR compliants.
The service provides details about what kinds of personal information they collect
The Privacy Policy describes in detail the data collected through the website and through the services provided.
You can opt out of targeted advertising
The service employs your data to target ads to you, but you can opt-out of this interest-based advertising.
Third parties used by the service are bound by confidentiality obligations
The Third Parties accessing your personal information must keep it confidential and only use it for limited purposes.
You have the right to leave this service at any time
You can stop using the service and/or cancel or delete your account at any time for any reason. Moreover, the termination is reasonably fast and simple.
The service has non-exclusive use of your content
The service can pay for your content and you are allowed to make it commercially available to other services/parties.
You can opt out of promotional communications
You can update your account preferences and/or easily unsubscribe of email/sms lists to stop receiving promotional communications.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service
Users are responsible for any risks, damages, or losses they may incur by downloading materials
Users are responsible for any harm to their computer system or loss of data they may incur through the download of materials from the service.
There is a date of the last update of the terms
The given text has a date that allows to know when it was last updated.
The service is not responsible for linked or (clearly) quoted content from third-party content providers
There is a date of the last update of the agreements
The given text has a date that allows to know when it was last updated.
Blocking cookies may limit your ability to use the service
Most browsers allow users to set preferences related to cookies storage. You may choose to block all cookies (including first-party cookies), but it may impact your use of this service and you may not be able to access some or any of the features provided.
The service can distribute your content through any media known now or in the future
This service does not condone any ideas contained in its user-generated contents
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This service prohibits users sending chain letters, junk mail, spam or any unsolicited messages
Users are not allowed to use the service for chain letters, junk mail, spamming or any other distribution of content to people who have not agreed to receiving it.
This service prohibits users from attempting to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems
The service does not allow any attempts at hacking or otherwise gaining unauthorized access to other users' computers.
Users agree not to submit libelous, harassing or threatening content
This service prohibits users from submitting content of a variety of types. This can include content that is unlawful, harassing, abusive, threatening, libelous, sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or discriminatory in any other way.
The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at the users' sole risk
This service does not provide any guarantees as to its usability or fitness for the users' purposes. Users agree to use it at their own risk, accepting any possible bugs, malfunctions or harm to their devices.
Spidering or crawling is not allowed
Prohibits the posting of pornographic content
Users are not allowed to post any content of pornographic nature. This includes adult content, things that are sexually explicit, or obscene.
This service is only available to users over a certain age
The Services are intended for users who are at least a certain age. If you are younger than the age required then you are prohibited from using the Service.
Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision
Even if the service does not or not always enforce all of the rules or provisions contained in its terms, they still apply. Users can at a later time still be held accountable for violating provisions that have not been enforced consistently.
Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder
Should any portion of the Terms of Service be unenforceable or invalid, that portion will be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law and the remainder of the TOS will remain valid and enforceable.
This service requires first-party cookies
First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
The service does not guarantee accuracy or reliability of the information provided
This service makes no warranty regarding the accuracy or reliability of any information that is given on its website or the results that may be obtained from the use of the service.
Users agree not to use the service for illegal purposes
The user agrees not to commit any unlawful acts through the use of the website, including the posting of illegal content or messaging.
You cannot distribute or disclose your account to third parties
In this context third-parties refers to anyone including friends, family, or company
Provides instructions on how to submit a copyright claim
If content that you own is copied or made accessible through the service in a way that constitutes an intellectual property right infringement, you can report it following the instructions given in the agreements.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account
You are responsible for protecting the confidentiality of your password and for maintaining the security of your account. Any activity occurring under your account is your responsibility, whether authorized by you or not.
Your personal data is aggregated into statistics
Your personal data is used for statistics in a de-identified/aggregated form (i.e. not directly linked to a unique identity) to analyse trends, for research and for analytics.
The court of law governing the terms is in California, USA.
The Terms are governed by the applicable laws of a jurisdiction (specified in the title of each point by replacing the "X").
This service ignores the Do Not Track (DNT) header and tracks users anyway even if they set this header.
Even though the Do Not Track (DNT) header was not implemented perfectly, services should not track users whose browsers send a DNT header.
This service does not guarantee that it or the products obtained through it meet the users' expectations or requirements
This service provider informs its users that the services, information, products, or other materials provided on its website may not meet the users' expectations or requirements.
This service collects your IP address for location use
The service is not transparent regarding government requests or inquiries that may involve user data.
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This service can delete specific content. Usually they will claim they reserve the right to do it at their sole discretion, which is legalese for saying they won't give a specific reason. If the terms say they will not notify you, it shall be included in the quote but if it does not explicitly say they will give you a notice, it can be reasonably inferred that they can do it without telling you.