This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation
Explanation: Your personal data is or may be given to third parties nonessential to the service’s operation. This could be a business partner that receives your data to provide targeted advertisements.
Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to you
Explanation: The Agreements can be updated at any time, including in a way that negatively affects user rights, without notifying before or after the changes.
This service tracks you on other websites
Explanation: The service may use tracking technologies in third-party websites to track your online activity while you aren't visiting their Site.
Your Personal data may be sold unless you opt out
Explanation: There is a form to opt-out (typically California's CCPA) of the selling of your personal data. This is a bad a point because there are many services that don't have this form due to not selling your data in the first place.
You waive your right to a class action.
Explanation: 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.
You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels and device fingerprinting
Explanation: 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.
Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent merely from your usage.
Explanation: 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.
Your profile is combined across various products
Explanation: 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.
Information is gathered about you through third parties
Explanation: This Service may employ, either identifiable or non-identifiable, data collection from third party sources about you.
Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes
Explanation: The service may use your personal data for marketing, such as sending you personalised offerings.
This service reserves the right to disclose your personal information without notifying you
Explanation: 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.
This service receives your precise location through GPS coordinates
Explanation: 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.
This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation
Explanation: 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 biometric data is collected
Explanation: 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.
Your personal data is used for advertising
Explanation: 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.
Archives of their agreements are provided so that changes can be viewed over time
Explanation: 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.
You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data
Explanation: Users have the right to access personal data hold by the Service, correct it and/or permanently delete it. This usually applies to Services GDPR compliants.
Details are provided about what kind of information they collect
Explanation: The Privacy Policy describes in detail the data collected through the website and through the services provided.
Information is provided about how your personal data is used
Explanation: The Privacy Policy explains the purposes for which data is collected and the way it is processed, used and shared.
The service claims to be CCPA compliant for California users
Explanation: The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act.
The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users
Explanation: The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the GDPR.
The service claims to be LGPD compliant for Brazilian users
Explanation: The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais.
You can opt out of promotional communications
Explanation: You can update your account preferences and/or easily unsubscribe of email/sms lists to stop receiving promotional communications.
There is a date of the last update of the agreements (February 2021)
Explanation: The given text has a date that allows to know when it was last updated.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account
Explanation: 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 IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
Explanation: Your personal data is or may be given to third parties nonessential to the service’s operation. This could be a business partner that receives your data to provide targeted advertisements.