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- 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.
- 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
Data last fetched: Friday, 13-Dec-24 15:16:24 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.