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ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

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Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

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post #27

I love the color coding, makes it easy to see at a glance. What's the plan as terms of service change over time? Some greens might become redundant.

The plan is to work with the EFF's tosback https://github.com/pde/tosback2 (they need contributors too BTW) and track changes over time so we can notify people when something wrong is going on (they'd be able to subscribe to a list of services' ToS;DR)

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#32
post #22

Some of these are a bit too terse. e.g. 500px says "Ownership". What does that mean? And why is it less worrying than twitpic's "Takes credit for your content"? (And how does that make sense? Twitpic puts the username of the uploader on each page, no?)

Yeah "Ownership" is meant as a category rather than a title. I guess I forgot to give this one a proper title. Will fix this soon.

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#33
post #30
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you click on "Read the Details", you will see a bit of text under each point. Ownership: The copyright license you grant to 500px is transferable and sublicensable. The copyright license is limited for use “in connection with the Services” which includes promotional uses and redistribution “to other parties, web-sites, applications, and other entities” if you are credited properly. The license on your content term…

Oh, I just assumed "Read the Details" would send me to the ToS! Maybe that should be renamed too :)

I also think it's a poor choice. What do you suggest?

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#35
post #18

Great concept and smart execution. A suggestion - rather than rating "A" through "E" why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) scale of "A through F" (A/B/C/D/F) which we're all mercilessly trained to recognize through years of school grades? "E" as your worst rating confused me at first glance - could be interpreted as "Excellent"

I went to high school in Virginia where a failing grade was an E.

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#36
post #32
post #22

Some of these are a bit too terse. e.g. 500px says "Ownership". What does that mean? And why is it less worrying than twitpic's "Takes credit for your content"? (And how does that make sense? Twitpic puts the username of the uploader on each page, no?)

Yeah "Ownership" is meant as a category rather than a title. I guess I forgot to give this one a proper title. Will fix this soon.

Alright, I just think it's important not to call a copyright license "ownership".

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#37
post #8

An API and chrome addon would be very nice. I wouldn't check the site, but I would like warnings when I accessed the registration page of a bad website.

I noticed that it's under the AGPL. That might be an issue for developing a Chrome plugin.

AGPL is our JS+HTML+CSS code. The data itself (JSON) is CC-BY-SA.

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

#39
post #32
post #22

Some of these are a bit too terse. e.g. 500px says "Ownership". What does that mean? And why is it less worrying than twitpic's "Takes credit for your content"? (And how does that make sense? Twitpic puts the username of the uploader on each page, no?)

Yeah "Ownership" is meant as a category rather than a title. I guess I forgot to give this one a proper title. Will fix this soon.

The category is explained http://tos-dr.info/topics.html#ownership also, see http://tos-dr.info/topics.html#copyright-scope

Re: ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

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post #33
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I just assumed "Read the Details" would send me to the ToS! Maybe that should be renamed too :)

I also think it's a poor choice. What do you suggest?

Maybe "more details" or "expand" or just "More"?
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