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We are a user rights initiative to rate and label website terms & privacy policies, from very good Class A to very bad Class E. Learn more…
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Ratings
Facebook
- - Very broad copyright license on your content
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - Facebook automatically shares your data with many other services
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- + You can give your feedback before changes
- - No pseudonym allowed
- → (more info on the forum)
Google
- - Google can use your content for all their existing and future services
- + Limited copyright license to operate and improve all Google Services
- + Inform about data requests
- + Google posts notice of changes, with a 14-day ultimatum.
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- → Partial archives of their terms are available
- → Jurisdiction in California
- → (more info on the forum)
Yahoo!
- + Yahoo's copyright license for groups limited for purpose
- + Yahoo's copyright license for photos, graphics, audio and video limited for purpose
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
- → Your account can be suspended for several reasons
- → You must provide your legal name upon registration
Wikipedia
- + You publish your contributions under free licenses
- + You can give comments before changes
- + Wikipedia uses temporary session cookies
- → (more info on the forum)
twitter
- + Twitter deletes tracking data in 10 days and offers an opt-out
- - Very broad copyright license on your content
- + Promise to inform about data requests
- - Critical changes to the terms with little users' involvement
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- → Twitter provide archives of their terms
- - Third party cookies
- → Twitter does not require cookies to function
- - Twitter deletes your account after 30 days. It keeps the rights on your content.
Flickr
- + Yahoo's copyright license for photos, graphics, audio and video limited for purpose
- × Pro accounts cannot be canceled
- + Flickr lets you choose a copyright license
- → Users are subject to Yahoo!'s terms
- + You can chose with whom you share your photo
Skype
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
- × You cannot delete your account
SoundCloud
- + You stay in control of your copyright
- + Collected personal data used for limited purposes
- + 6 weeks to review changes
- - Indemnification from claims related to your content or your account
- + Pseudonyms allowed
- + You can terminate your account
- + The terms are easy to read
- - Use of cookies and third-party cookies (opt-out)
- - Personal information can be disclosed in case of business transfer or insolvency
- → Jurisdiction in Germany
XING
- - No pseudonym allowed
GitHub
- + You don't grant any copyright license to github
- - Changes can happen any time, sometimes without notice
- - You shall defend and indemnify GitHub
- + Your personal information is used for limited purposes
- - Your account can be suspended and your data deleted any time for any reason
- + Transparent security practices
- → You must provide your legal name upon registration
- → GitHub requires cookies
- + GitHub will notifiy you before transfering your information in event of merger or acquisition
- → Choice of law: California
Twitpic
- × Twitpic takes credit for your content
- - Your content is for Twitpic and their partners
- - Reduction of legal period for cause of action
- - You indemnify Twitpic from any claim related to your content
- × Deleted images are not really deleted
- → Jurisdiction in Delaware
Delicious
- - Very broad copyright license on your content, includes right for Delicious to distribute through any media
- - Delicious can license your content to third-parties
- × No Right to leave the service
- - Only for personal and non-commercial use
- - Non-transparent use of cookies and third party ads
- - Your personal information are an asset for business transfers
500px
- - The terms can change at any time, sometimes with notice
- - Waiver of legal actions
- × 500px Store: Authorship
- - You are responsible for any claim and agree to indemnify them
- - Broad copyright license
- × 500px Store: your account can be terminated at any time
- + Pseudonyms allowed
- → Open only to individual photographers and graphic artists
- + The terms are easy to read
DuckDuckGo
- + No Tracking
App.net
- - You defend, indemnify, and hold app.net harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service
- - Changes can happen at any time and sometimes without notice.
- + The copyright license you give them is "limited"
- + You can delete your content
- + Pseudonyms allowed
- - You may not scrape the site
- → App.net request feedback from users
- + App.net provide archives of their terms
- → App.net's terms are simple and easy to follow
- → You are responsible for what you upload
- → Court of law is California
- → App.net does not take responsibility for what its users post
Steam
- - Defend and indemnify Valve. Survives termination of the agreement.
- → No refund policy
- - Valve can cancel your account at any time.
- + Can request review and/or removal of personally identifiable info.
- + Notifications 30 days before changes.
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
- - Trial and class action waiver
- + Pseudonyms allowed
- + A user can voluntarily cancel their account at any time.
- + Your personal information is not shared with third parties for marketing purposes
- - May share aggregate and individual user information with other parties without restriction
- → Jurisdiction: Washington (for non-EU) and Luxembourg.
SeenThis
- + You are free to choose your copyright license
- + You can get your data back
- + Right to leave the service
OwnCube
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- + user data is not sold
- - they can remove your account after complaints
Microsoft
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
myspace
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
netflix
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- + Users can request access and deletion of personal info.
- - Netflix reserve the right to disclose personal info, no notification.
- - Netflix uses 3rd party advertisers that use tracking cookies to target ads.
- - Lawsuit and class action waiver. Arbitration agreement. Survives termination of ToU agreement.
- - Netflix can terminate your account for any reason without notice.
- + You can cancel at any time.
- - No liability is accepted for improper access to your personal information.
- → Cookies are required.
- → Personal info is used for advertising.
- → Non-personal info can be disclosed in any way.
- → Terms and privacy policy pages are organized and formatted well.
Verizon
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
couchsurfing
- - The copyright license on user data is broader than necessary
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- - Couchsurfing keeps the license on your content, even after you close your account
- - Couchsurfing may retain your data after deactivation for legitimate business purposes
- - Couchsurfing becomes the owner of ideas you give them
- + Couchsurfing informs you about the fact that you can disable cookies
- → Couchsurfing track you
- → Couchsurfing will pass your data on to the new company if they enter in a merger
- → Couchsurfing may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you.
- → Promotional communications are opt-out
- → You are not allowed to use a nick name
- → Couchsurfing clearly invite you to contact their volunteer help desk
- → You should follow the community guidelines
- → Couchsurfing cannot blame them for disputes you have with other users
- → Couchsurfing may close your account at their sole discretion
- → Couchsurfing will censor the content you upload at their sole discretion
Amazon
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
- → (more info on the forum)
Apple
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
AT&T
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
Dropbox
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- + Promise to inform about data requests
- → (more info on the forum)
Sonic.net
- + Delete user logs after 2 weeks
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- + Promise to inform about data requests
Comcast
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
Freeforums
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
Wordpress.com
- + Limited copyright license to Wordpress.com including for promotion
- - Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user
- × You cannot delete your account
Spideroak
- + Promise to inform about data requests
- + Transparency on law enforcement requests
- → (more info on the forum)
Foursquare
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
Loopt
- → No promise to inform about government requests
- - No transparency on law enforcement requests
World of Warcraft
- × You cannot delete your account
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