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

Post by hugoroy » Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 1:20 PM UTC

Flimm wrote: post #88

hugoroy wrote: post #57

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Yes. Differences between legislations is one thing that's making the task harder. I think it's better to focus to what the terms actually state. But I always keep in mind the jurisdiction under which the company operates as it can influence the meaning of the terms. However I'd fear to get to the other extreme and to end up making a rating system saying which legislation is better than the other. It's not the scope.…

Shouldn't "Defending your privacy in US Congress" be out of scope as well, then? It certainly isn't part of a website's terms and conditions. Plus, it's hard to judge how well those activities are going, and how committed the company is in pursuing those activities in the future.

Post by tomrod » Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 1:44 PM UTC

Post by cabalamat » Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 2:37 PM UTC

aresant wrote: 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"

Post by bierko » Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 4:04 PM UTC

hugoroy wrote: post #104

pilif wrote: post #77

I'd be very careful counting the requirements for cookies as a bad thing (as seen in the github section): First-Party session cookies are a totally valid use of cookies and actually help improving the security in that a session-id in a cookie will never be copy & pasted by accident (it happens to URL-based session-id's at times) and cookies can be marked as both httponly and secure, making it more difficult to imposs…

Thanks for your feedback. The whole explanation can be found about cookies can be found here. Tell us what you think! http://tos-dr.info/topics.html#cookies > 5 GitHub requires cookies 5: means it's a low score. So it's considered bad, but it doesn't influence very much the whole class of GitHub. > GitHub requires cookies to work and misleads you to > believe that you remain anonymous while cookies contain > “unique…

Post by Lockyy » Wed, Aug 08, 2012, 4:13 PM UTC

gbeech wrote: post #73

rmc wrote: post #51

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Wait the US doesn't have an 'E'? (Is 'F' short for Fail? I thought it was just the continuation of the sequence). Regardless, at least A is best, B is worse than that, etc. which makes sense.

Well I think "it Depends." At my school we had E's both E's and F's where failing, but the difference was that with E's you could make up the class in summer school, with F's you had to repeat the class the next year, multiple F's would mean you had to repeat the grade.