They store data on you even if you did not interact with the service
Explanation: Some services store data on you even if you did not provide that data yourself. For example, users might provide access to their address book, after which a service might also store the phone numbers of that person's contacts.
Your personal data is used for automated decision-making, profiling or AI training
Explanation: 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.
App required for this service requires broad device permissions
Explanation: The app of the service requires more device permissions than necessary. As a consequence it can compromise your privacy by accessing many functions and information from your device, such as precise location, contacts, device identifiers etc.
This service may collect, use, and share location data
Explanation: 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
Explanation: The service collects different kinds of personal data, such as name, demographic information, postal address, biometric data, device information, IDs, contacts, call logs...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Extra data may be collected about you through promotions
Explanation: Additional personal data may be collected through contests, surveys, promotions, petitions or sweepstakes.
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.
You are being tracked via social media cookies/pixels
Explanation: These types of cookies/pixels send information to social media sites when you interact with the service.
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 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 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.
You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, and/or 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.
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.
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.
Your personal information is used for many different purposes
Explanation: Personal Data can be processed for many reasons, including non essential processing such as for advertising, marketing and analytics purposes.
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 provided identifiable information is actively checked by the service
Explanation: The service checks if the required identifiable information you've provided is correct, and may do so on a regular basis. The check measures could be analyzing your browser information and/or providing the identifiable information to a third-party or the authority, thus compromising your anonymity.
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.
This service assumes no liability for unauthorized access to your personal information
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 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.
Information is 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.
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.
Staff at this organisation receive training about handling data
Explanation: When an organisation trains its staff regarding data, this should be regarded as a positive as it shows they are careful and helps staff to understand how to handle data.
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.
Two factor authentication is provided for your account
Explanation: The service provides means of further securing your account with two factor authentification, thus greatly improving account security.
Your personal data is not sold
Explanation: This service makes the claim that your personal data is not being sold, rented or traded with third parties. This, however, may not always be an accurate statement as it may be, more often than not, based entirely on a very loose legal definition on “selling”, whereas other jurisdictions may actually constitute their sharing of your personal data as “selling”.
Information is provided about security practices
Explanation: 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 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.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service
You should revisit the terms periodically, although in case of material changes, the service will notify
Explanation: The service may update the Terms without notice, but if they significantly change the agreements in a manner that importantly and/or negatively affects the way the service is used, users will be notified.
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.
Blocking first party cookies may limit your ability to use the service
Explanation: 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.
The service provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service
Explanation: The service provider expressly does not claim to provide uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service.
Your private content may be accessed by people working for the service
Spidering, crawling, or accessing the site through any automated means is not allowed
The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at your sole risk
Explanation: This service does not provide any guarantees as to its usability or fitness for the users' purposes. Users agree to use it at their own risk, accepting any possible bugs, malfunctions or harm to their devices.
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.
Your personal data is aggregated into statistics
Explanation: 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.
First-party cookies are used
Explanation: First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
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.
Third parties are involved in operating the service
This service does not guarantee that it or the products obtained through it meet your expectations or requirements
Explanation: 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
The court of law governing the terms is in Ontario, Canada
Explanation: The Terms are governed by the applicable laws of a jurisdiction (specified in the title of each point by replacing the "X").
You agree to comply with the law of the service's country
Explanation: By using the service, you agree to comply with the applicable laws of the service's jurisdiction, regardless of your location.
The service is not responsible for linked or (clearly) quoted content from third-party content providers
Explanation: Weight used to be 50.
Explanation: Some services store data on you even if you did not provide that data yourself. For example, users might provide access to their address book, after which a service might also store the phone numbers of that person's contacts.