Your personal information may be collected, regardless of whether you interacted directly with the service or not
Explanation: The service in question can collect your personal information without you having interacted with it at all. For example, users of this service could be able to link their contacts to their account, exposing other people’s personal information without them even knowing. Other times, the service could collect information from your social media accounts, which usually includes your followers/friends list.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The service will resist legal requests for your information where reasonably possible
Explanation: The service will attempt to protect user information to a great extent, even so far as stating that they will only follow legal requirements to disclose user information in circumstances where this cannot be reasonably resisted.
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.
Promises will be kept after a merger or acquisition
Explanation: If the service gets acquired or needs to transfer personal data after a merger, bankruptcy, reorganisation or sale of the services, the data will still be processed in a manner that honours the promises made in the agreements.
Information is provided about how your personal data is collected
Explanation: The service details situations in which they collect personal information or means by which they do.
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 will only respond to government requests that are reasonable
Explanation: The Agreement explains they will disclose personal data about you if it is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law and government requests.
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.
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.
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 CCPA compliant for California users
Explanation: The service has a different behavior towards users protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act.
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 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.
You authorise the service to charge a credit card supplied on re-occurring basis
Explanation: You card will be billed on recurring basis unless cancelled. For instance, monthly or annual subscriptions.
The service can stop being provided at any time
Explanation: They may discontinue the services without prior notice, at any time, for any or no reason. They usually assume no liability for losses and damages resulting from this suspension.
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 private content may be accessed by people working for the service
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.
Prices and fees may be changed at any time, but you will be notified beforehand
Explanation: The service reserves the right to modify prices at any time, but you will recieve a notice of such changes.
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.
First-party cookies are used
Explanation: First-party cookies only belong to the domain of the service and not a third party.
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.
Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics
Explanation: Your personal data may be used for statistics, usually in a de-identified/aggregated form (i.e. not directly linked to a unique identity) to analyse trends, for research and/or for analytics.
Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location
Third parties are involved in operating the service
Explanation: The service in question can collect your personal information without you having interacted with it at all. For example, users of this service could be able to link their contacts to their account, exposing other people’s personal information without them even knowing. Other times, the service could collect information from your social media accounts, which usually includes your followers/friends list.