Specific content can be deleted without reason and may be removed without prior notice
Explanation: 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.
Sensitive data is collected and shared to target advertising
Explanation: Sensitive data refers to information requiring special protection, such as health data, political and religious beliefs, ethnic origins, sexual life and financial information. The service collects and shares this data with third parties for advertising or marketing.
This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not essential to 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.
Third-party cookies are used for advertising
Explanation: The service's website sets third-party cookies (cookies that do not belong to their domain) for purposes not including statistics and analytics.
Your account can be deleted or permanently suspended without prior notice and without a reason
Explanation: At any time, your account can be terminated without explanation and without warning by the service.
You have a reduced time period to take legal action against the service
Explanation: 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.
Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent to changes of terms 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 content can be licensed to third parties
Explanation: 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.
Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction
Explanation: If the service gets acquired or is involved in a merger, bankruptcy, reorganisation or sale, your personal data may be transferred or sold.
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.
Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to 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.
Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising
Explanation: 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.
This service assumes no liability for unauthorized access to your personal information
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.
You must provide your legal name, pseudonyms are not allowed
Explanation: 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.
Third-party cookies are used for statistics
Explanation: For instance, Google Analytics, rather than self-hosted (first-party) statistics software.
Third-party cookies are employed, but with opt out instructions
You can access most of the pages on the service's website without revealing any personal information
Explanation: The service does not require users to reveal personal information for most of its website. However, it may still collect anonymous logs.
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.
The court of law governing the terms is in a jurisdiction that is friendlier to user privacy protection (Belgium)
Explanation: The Terms are governed by the applicable laws of a jurisdiction known for protecting citizens privacy with strong data regulations. Usually contributors will need to explain in the Analysis view of each point linked to this Case why the jurisdiction is friendly to user privacy protection.
You maintain ownership of your content
Explanation: 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 are informed about the risk of publishing personal info online
You can retrieve an archive of your data
Explanation: 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
Explanation: 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.
Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected
Explanation: 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
Explanation: 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.
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.
You can opt out of targeted advertising
Explanation: The service employs your data to target ads to you, but you can opt-out of this interest-based advertising.
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 has non-exclusive use of your content
Explanation: The service can pay for your content and you are allowed to make it commercially available to other services/parties.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service
This service assumes no responsibility and liability for the contents of links to other websites
Explanation: The service rejects any responsibility for the contents of other websites to which it links.
The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs
Explanation: The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs, including tangible (e.g. profits) and intangible losses (e.g. data), resulting from the use or inability to use the service or any other matter relating to the service.
This service does not condone any ideas contained in its user-generated contents
Defend, indemnify, hold harmless; survives termination
You must create an account to use this service
Explanation: You must provide the service with your information in order to use it
You are prohibited from sending chain letters, junk mail, spam or any unsolicited messages
Explanation: 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 is only available for use individually and non-commercially
Explanation: Users can't use the Service for commercial purposes (unless the Service consents): it is only for personal, individual purposes.
Spidering, crawling, or accessing the site through any automated means is not allowed
You agree not to submit libelous, harassing or threatening content
Explanation: 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.
If you are the target of a copyright claim, your content may be removed
Explanation: The content you have published on the service may be removed if it infringes copyright.
This service is only available to users over 18 years old
Explanation: 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.
The posting of pornographic content is prohibited
Explanation: Users are not allowed to post any content of pornographic nature. This includes adult content, things that are sexually explicit, or obscene.
Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder
Explanation: 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.
First-party cookies are used
Explanation: First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
You must report to the service any unauthorized use of your account or any breach of security
Explanation: The service asks the user to notify them immediately of any unauthorized use or security breaches.
You agree not to use the service for illegal purposes
Explanation: The user agrees not to commit any unlawful acts through the use of the website, including the posting of illegal content or messaging.
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.
Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision
Explanation: 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.
Instructions are provided on how to submit a copyright claim
Explanation: 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.
This service informs you that its Terms of Service does not apply to third-party services
Explanation: The service states that whenever it links to third party websites or applications, its Terms of Service does not apply. Those third party websites or applications hosted or operated by other organizations may have their Terms of Service.
This service informs you that its Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party services
Explanation: 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.
Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
Minors must have the authorization of their legal guardians to use the service
Explanation: Minors must have the authorization of their legal guardians to use the services. The legal guardians are responsible for the use of the service by the minor.
The court of law governing the terms is in Belgium
Explanation: The Terms are governed by the applicable laws of a jurisdiction (specified in the title of each point by replacing the "X").
The service is not responsible for linked or (clearly) quoted content from third-party content providers
Explanation: Weight used to be 50.
Explanation: 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.