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.
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.
The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason
Explanation: At any time, your account can be terminated without explanation and without warning by the service.
The service may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users.
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 can license user content 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 data is processed and stored in a country that is less friendly to user privacy protection
Explanation: This case means that user data is not anywhere in the world, but somewhere where it is more likely to be obtained and used by government and/or possible data analysts.
Many third parties are involved in operating the service
This service keeps a license on user-generated content even after users close their accounts.
Explanation: The service may still use your content and display it after you stopped using it by closing your account. The case applies to terms requiring users to grant them a perpetual license over that content.
The service uses your personal data 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 data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
Explanation: 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.
Logs are deleted after a finite period of time
Explanation: Logs are text files containing some information about web visitors, such as user agents (showing for instance that you're connecting from Firefox for Android) and ip addresses (which reveal your approximate location). This case applies to Services that periodically delete their logs to prevent user sessions being tracked over time.
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.
You can opt out of targeted advertising if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA)
Explanation: The service employs your data to target ads to you, but you can opt-out of this interest-based advertising.
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.
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.
This service can use your content for all their existing and future services
Blocking first party cookies limits your ability to use some of 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.
This service prohibits users 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.
Users 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.
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.
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.
This service ignores the Do Not Track (DNT) header and tracks users anyway even if they set this header.
Explanation: Even though the Do Not Track (DNT) header was not implemented perfectly, services should not track users whose browsers send a DNT header.
Explanation: The service's website sets third-party cookies (cookies that do not belong to their domain) for purposes not including statistics and analytics.