terms & conditions you should read before accepting
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Do you read the 30-page terms and conditions before using a new app? You may be surprised at what you're agreeing to when you click the "accept" button for some popular apps. Don't click "accept" again without seeing these terms of use.TRANSCRIPT
SNEAKIEST TERMS AND CONDITIONS !
YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE ACCEPTING 6
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There are thousands of cloud apps
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When was the last time you read the terms & conditions when you signed up for one?
The problem is they’re really long and written in legalese
36,275 words long
user agreement is a hefty
By contrast, Hamlet is only 30,066 words long
Mostly they’re used to protect the company and
its users from legal trouble
Mostly they’re used to protect the company and
its users from legal trouble
But a handful hide clauses that take advantage of users
Here are the
SNEAKIEST
that could be used to claim ownership
of you or your company’s data
1. WE CAN USE YOUR CONTENT
With respect to Private User Content, you hereby do and shall grant to Prezi (and its successors, assigns, and third party service providers) a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual , i r revocable, royal ty- f ree, fu l ly paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit the content solely for purposes of providing you with the Service”!
2. EVERYTHING YOU UPLOAD BECOMES OPEN SOURCE
Except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms, any Code submitted to SourceForge.net must be licensed to Slashdot Media and other licensees under a license that is: compliant with the Open Source Initiative ( “ O S I ” ) ’ s O p e n S o u r c e D e fi n i t i o n ( h t t p : / /www.opensource.org/docs/osd) or certified as an “OSI-Approved License” (http://opensource.org/licenses).”!
3. YOUR NAME AND LIKENESS CAN APPEAR IN OUR ADS
Our goal is to deliver ads and commercial content that are valuable to our users and advertisers. In order to help us do that, you agree to the following:!!1. You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name
and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us. You give us permission to use your name and profile picture in connection with that content, subject to the limits you place.”!
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4. YOU PAY OUR LEGAL COSTS TO RECOVER LATE PAYMENTS
11. If at any time you do not make a payment to us when you are supposed to (including on termination), we can (and this doesn't affect any other rights we may have against you)...!!11.1 ...make you pay, on demand, default interest on any amount you owe us at 10% per annum calculated on a daily basis, from the date when payment was due until the date when payment is actually made by you. You will also need to pay all expenses and costs (including our legal costs) in connection with us trying to recover any unpaid amount from you”!!
5. WE AREN’T RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA LOSS
As part of using Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances, you agree that Dedicated Instances are subject to reboot Maintenance at most once every three months... We have no liability whatsoever for any damages, liabilities, losses (including any corruption, deletion, or destruction or loss of data, applications or profits), or any other consequences resulting from rebooting Dedicated Instances.”!
And the worst terms & conditions for evil maniacs
6. DON’T USE OUR APP TO BUILD NUCLEAR WEAPONS
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”! !
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