Tracking via third-party cookies for advertising
The service's website sets third-party cookies (cookies that do not belong to their domain) for purposes not including statistics and analytics.
The service collects many different types of personal data
The service collects different kinds of personal data, such as name, demographic information, postal address, biometric data, device information, IDs, contacts, call logs...
You waive your right to a class action.
The right to be represented in a class action (or representative action) exists in the US and some European countries. It allows people who have been similarly injured by the same accused to take legal action by a single lawsuit instead of individually. Some Terms of Service try to limit that right. By agreeing to them, you could waive (= renounce to) your right to a class action, which might reduce your chances to be successful in a case.
The service may collect extra data about you through promotions
Additional personal data may be collected through contests, surveys, promotions, petitions or sweepstakes.
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.
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.
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.
This service may use your personal information for marketing purposes unless you opt out
The service may use your personal data for marketing, such as sending you personalised offerings.
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 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.
This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation
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.
You must provide your legal name, pseudonyms are not allowed
You must provide your legal name and pseudonyms aren't allowed. This case doesn't apply to Services for which transparency regarding users identities is relevant for their purposes.
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 provides information about how they intend to use your personal data
The Privacy Policy explains the purposes for which data is collected and the way it is processed, used and shared.
Your personal data is not sold
This service makes an explicit promise not to sell "personal data" of users.
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.
The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users
The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the GDPR.
The service claims to be CCPA compliant for California users
The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act.
This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially.
Users can't use the Service for commercial purposes (unless the Service consents): it is only for personal, individual purposes.
This service requires first-party cookies
First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
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.
This service employs separate policies for different parts of the service
The user may need to read additional product-specific agreements depending on the way the service is used.
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 collects your IP address, which can be used to view your approximate location