Your data may be collected even if you did not interact with the service directly
The service in question can collect your personal information without you having interacted with it at all. For example, users of this service could be able to link their contacts to their account, exposing other people’s personal information without them even knowing. Other times, the service could collect information from your social media accounts, which usually includes your followers/friends list.
Your identity is used in ads that are shown to other users
Ads shown to other users may include a reference to you as an implied endorsement.
Might give away information about your own personal lifestyle to strangers.
Your personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling or AI training
Personal data or content you share with the service may be processed to make decisions by automated means without human involvement. This includes profiling, which is any form of automated processing of your information to analyse or predict things like your economic situation, health, personal preferences or interests; as well as Artificial Intelligence training.
Your browsing history can be viewed by the service
The service can view your search history and the websites you visit, which is an extremely intrusive way of collecting information that may include personal and/or sensitive data.
You may still be tracked even after opting out from tracking
Users can’t fully opt out of tracking technologies used for non essential purposes such as advertising, marketing or analytics. The user may be asked for consent for installing some tracking technologies on the device, and even if all are rejected the service will still track its visitors and ignore the choice.This case doesn’t apply to functional cookies that are necessary to provide the services.
Location data may be collected, used and/or shared
Location-based information is collected and may be used and/or shared with third parties for purposes not directly related to the services provided (i.e. the Service doesn't rely on the use or share of location data to function properly).
Many different types of personal data are collected
The service collects different kinds of personal data, such as name, demographic information, postal address, biometric data, device information, IDs, contacts, call logs...
Some personal data may be kept 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...)
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.
You may be tracked on other websites
The service may use tracking technologies in third-party websites to track your online activity while you aren't visiting their Site.
Information is gathered about you through third parties
This Service may employ, either identifiable or non-identifiable, data collection from third party sources about you.
Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to you
If the Government governing the Terms requests personal data of a user of this service, they may not inform/notify the user while complying with the request.
Referring and/or exit pages are tracked
The service logs the URL of the last web page you visited before and/or after visiting the Site and may use that information to gather more data about you.
Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes
The service may use your personal data for marketing, such as sending you personalised offerings.
You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting
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.
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.
Voice data may be collected and shared with third parties
The service collects data and recordings of your voice when you communicate with a service verbally and may use and share them with third parties, that may use this data for marketing or advertising.
This service receives your precise location through GPS coordinates
Unless the service relies on Geo Location, this case is to be assigned to points that don't need your GPS coordinates to function properly.
Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising
Your Personal Information is traded and shared with advertising companies to target ads on you, either on the website you were visiting or in third party websites. Your interaction with the service and data you have shared with them may be gathered to create an advertising ID or profile.
A secure, anonymized record of your data may be kept for analytical purposes after the data retention period ends
The data retention period states how long a service keeps user data. In this case, the service may anonymize the personal data after its retention period is over and use it for analytical or research purposes.
Your biometric data is collected
This service can collect or use your biometric data. This includes but is not limited to facial recognition, fingerprints, and iris scans. Although this feature can sometimes be convenient to the user, providing this type of information to the service could open your personal data to being sold or stolen.
Certain features may be throttled
The service may impose limits or restrictions to the use of the service, thus negatively impacting users experience. They may do so without reason or prior notice.
Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
Your data is stored all over the world, including in countries where data protection rules may differ from the ones of the service's jurisdiction or those of your country jurisdiction.
Third-party cookies are used for statistics
For instance, Google Analytics, rather than self-hosted (first-party) statistics software.
Your information is only shared with third parties when given specific consent
The service does not share user information with any third parties unless users specifically give it permission to do so.
No need to register
This service can be used without providing a user profile.
You can 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.
If you offer suggestions to the service, they may use that without your approval or compensation, but they do not become the owner
The service may employ a broad copyright license over feedback, proposals, ideas and suggestions submitted, but they do not claim ownership on them. This means that such license does not include the right to use such contributions without restriction, compensation or obligation to the User.
You can limit how your information is used by third-parties and the service
Usually it's related to the right to object to data processing or restrict it under the GDPR. Users may be able to refuse the use of their data for marketing purposes for instance.
Archives of their agreements are provided so that changes can be viewed over time
This case applies to Services whose agreements provide previous versions, so that users can compare them and understand how the Service seems to evolve regarding user rights.
Information is provided about how your personal data is collected
The service details situations in which they collect personal information or means by which they do.
You maintain ownership of your content
This service does not claim ownership over user-generated content or materials, and the user doesn't need to waive any moral rights by posting owned content.
You can delete your content from this service
You can ask the service to remove your content at any time, and it's deleted within a reasonable time.
Promises will be kept after a merger or acquisition
If the service gets acquired or needs to transfer personal data after a merger, bankruptcy, reorganisation or sale of the services, the data will still be processed in a manner that honours the promises made in the agreements.
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.
A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data
The service provides users with contact information for an internal or external structure to lodge complaints. It also provides users with contact information for a higher data protection / privacy office in case the internal mechanism fails to satisfy the user.
The service will only respond to government requests that are reasonable
The Agreement explains they will disclose personal data about you if it is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law and government requests.
Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected
The Privacy Policy describes in detail the data collected through the website and through the services provided.
The service reviews its privacy policy on a regular basis
Users know the date the privacy policy was last updated and can thus infer the next time it will be reviewed. This gives users more certainty about how long they can trust the current policy to apply.
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.
The service claims that third parties it shares your personal information with 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.
Information is provided about security practices
It's important to know what security measures are taken to protect your data from unauthorized access. This case applies to the Agreements that precisely explain their security practices.
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 choose with whom you share content
Users can decide whether or not they want their content to be shared and they can control how and with whom it is shared.
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 first party 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.
They may stop providing the service at any time
They may discontinue the services without prior notice, at any time, for any or no reason. They usually assume no liability for losses and damages resulting from this suspension.
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.
Your private content may be accessed by people working for the service
You are prohibited from 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.
You are prohibited 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.
Spidering, crawling, or accessing the site through any automated means is only allowed if you respect machine-readable instructions set by this service like robots.txt
You 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.
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.
Instructions are provided 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.
Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics
Your personal data may be used for statistics, usually in a de-identified/aggregated form (i.e. not directly linked to a unique identity) to analyse trends, for research and/or for analytics.
The service informs you that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites
The service states that whenever it links to third party websites or applications, its privacy policy does not apply. Those third party websites or applications hosted or operated by other organizations may have their own privacy policies.
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.
Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
Third parties are involved in operating the service