Private messages can be read
Explanation: The Service is able to access, scan, review or read all user communications, including private messages, which may contain personal or sensitive data.
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.
Location data may be collected, used and/or shared
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).
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.
Some personal data may be kept for business interests or legal obligations
Explanation: 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...)
If you offer suggestions to the service, they become the owner of the ideas that you give them
Explanation: The service can claim ownership on feedback, proposals, ideas and suggestions submitted by the users, who may waive their "moral rights" on that feedback.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of asking directly, this Service will assume your consent to changes of terms merely from your usage after 30 days of any changes
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.
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 is given to third parties
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.
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 use is throttled
Explanation: 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.
This service assumes no liability for unauthorized access to your personal information
The service uses your personal data 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
The service is only available in some countries approved by its government
Explanation: Countries under embargo or banned by the government of the country in question cannot use the service.
Any liability on behalf of the service is only limited to the fees you paid as a user
Tracking pixels are used in service-to-user communication
Explanation: The service tracks the user count or some actions of the user; this is usually used for statistics. For example, emails sent by a service can contain a pixel tag, which is a small, clear image that can tell them whether or not you have opened an email and what your IP address is.
Personal information that is shared outside its jurisdiction is processed according to the original jurisdiction’s data protection standards
Explanation: The service has arrangements in place to ensure that users' personal information, if shared with an entity outside of the service's jurisdiction, is processed to the same standards that apply to the processing of personal data in the service's jurisdiction.
You can delete your content from this service
Explanation: You can ask the service to remove your content at any time, and it's deleted within a reasonable time.
The service's data retention period is kept to the minimum necessary for fulfilling its purposes
Explanation: The service will remove personal data from its systems once it is no longer required. Depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected, data retention periods will vary.
User accounts can be terminated after having been in breach of the terms of service repeatedly
Explanation: User accounts can be terminated for having been in breach of the terms of service repeatedly, meaning they cannot be terminated without a reason, but only for a limited number of reasons. Additionally, user accounts will not be deleted after a first infringement.
You are informed about the risk of publishing personal info online
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.
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”.
The service allows you to use pseudonyms
Explanation: You don't need to provide your full name to use the Service and you are allowed to use a pseudonym instead.
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.
You have the right to leave this service at any time
Explanation: 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.
A free help desk is provided
Explanation: The service can be easily contacted for questions or provides a support center at no extra cost.
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.
Harming minors in any ways is prohibited
Explanation: This service prohibits harming minor in any ways. Since both “minor” and “in any ways” are vague and can be cited to restrict possibly any actions, the case is not classified as “good”.
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.
The service has a no refund policy
Explanation: Payments are final and can't be refunded unless required by law.
Defend, indemnify, hold harmless; survives termination
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes you cannot delete your contributions, but it makes sense for this service
Explanation: For services that are under an open license where your contributions are for public knowledge (such as Wikipedia and ToS;DR).
The service is provided 'as is' and to be used at the users' 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.
This service is only available to users over 13 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.
You cannot distribute or disclose your account to third parties
Explanation: In this context third-parties refers to anyone including friends, family, or company
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.
This service requires first-party cookies
Explanation: First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
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.
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 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.
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.
You cannot distribute or disclose your account to third parties
Explanation: In this context third-parties refers to anyone including friends, family, or company
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.
The court of law governing the terms is in Washington, U.S.A.
Explanation: The Terms are governed by the applicable laws of a jurisdiction (specified in the title of each point by replacing the "X").
Third parties are involved in operating the service
The service is not responsible for linked or (clearly) quoted content from third-party content providers
Explanation: Weight used to be 50.
Other applicable rules, terms, conditions or guidelines
Explanation: Use of the service is subject also to an exhaustive list of other documents containing rules, guidelines, terms or policies (in addition to the obvious Terms of Service/Terms of Use and Privacy Policy/Data Use Policy)
Explanation: The Service is able to access, scan, review or read all user communications, including private messages, which may contain personal or sensitive data.