Questions tagged [terms-of-service]
A set of regulations which users must agree to follow in order to use a service.
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Betting with VPN
The Stake Online Casino is not available in the Netherlands. However, you can bypass this geoblocking with a VPN. Is this a legal thing to do? And can Stake find out in any way?
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Would it be possible for someone to modify a form on a website and then claim that they didn't have to agree to the ToS?
Let's say that there's a form on my website that lets the user create a new account. Then let's say that the form has a checkbox labelled "I agree to the Terms of Service" and it is ...
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Are (or would) Reddit's 2023 API changes considered anticompetitive?
Earlier this year, the website Reddit has announced API changes, that include making the API paid on a way that forced 3rd party clients for Reddit to shut down. More details can be seen on these news ...
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UPS UK terms of service gives them a blank check - legal?
UPS has terms and conditions (PDF) that include the following:
4. Customs Clearance
When a shipment requires customs clearance, it is the shipper’s
obligation to provide, or to ensure that the ...
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Can I set a fee for using my web site, and later collect it?
If I set terms of service for my web site, visitors to my web site agree to them when they use my web site (beyond, presumably, the usage technically required to obtain the text of the terms).
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Terms of Service and Adversarially Interoperable Apps
Applications like NewPipe and Geddit seem to be becoming more popular. These applications are "adversarially interoperable": they work with and can display content from large services such ...
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Why are private game servers illegal?
Over on Arqade we were discussing a question which was asking about private servers for a game called World of Warcraft. The discussion was about if using and/or hosting a private server is illegal ...
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Does Google routinely form contracts by accessing web sites with their crawler?
Many web sites contain terms of service, where the web site puts a link to "Terms" or similar, and anyone who accesses the web site forms a contract with the web site operator under those ...
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Software to block contracts
Many websites offer contracts to their visitors by "browse-wrap" (making an offer by notice, where not not using the site signals acceptance) or click-wrap (making an offer where clicking &...
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Accepting online contracts on behalf of a corporation
I use a computer and the Internet for work. I use a lot of software that is licensed to my employer.
Say some software licensed to my employer pops up its license on my employer's computer and demands ...
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Is it legal for a company to require you to delete your account to unsubscribe from marketing emails?
I'm subscribed to "Visual Studio Dev Essentials" (so that I can download older versions of Visual Studio from the Microsoft website), but they are sending me unwanted marketing emails ...
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Is it allowed to distribute images generated in DALL-E by OpenAI?
I was reading the TOS of OpenAI (https://openai.com/api/policies/terms/) to find out whether it's legally possible to distribute images generated in the tool via Twitter or non-public platforms like ...
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Is using hidden city ticketing a theft of service?
In some cases, A-B-C flights (from A to C with layover at B) cost less than a direct A-B flight with the same company. "Hidden city ticketing" is the practice of taking the cheaper A-B-C ...
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How is Midjourney's ToS Legal?
I feel this is fairly straightforward, but I have seen no explanation as to why Midjourney is allowed to restrict the "copyright" or commercial use rights of their users, paid or otherwise, ...
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How is internet archiving legal, when it appears to violate many websites terms of use?
Internet archiving services like the internet wayback machine work by rehosting content from other website. However, many websites in their term explicitly disallow people to frame their website or ...
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Two-Way Browse-Wrap
I often browse web sites that offer me contract terms via "browse-wrap": there is a link on the page to a "Terms of Service" or similar, and my browsing the web site, having had ...
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What does this "Forfeiture of the right of withdrawal" section mean in a Terms of Service agreement?
My client has asked me to sign up for toggl.com so they can do their taxes. However, I saw this alarming section in the Terms of Service and am now unsure as to whether it is a good idea to sign up:
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Should my hosting service return part of my annual fee if my site was hacked? [closed]
I’m an artist, and I have a website on the artist hosting service, Artspan.com. Unfortunately, recently their hosted websites were hacked and some of us lost all our uploaded images. They have said ...
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Can a computer program agree to Terms of Service?
Most service providers have Terms of Service that people or entities need to agree to before legally using their services. On another question I had, arguments were made that you needed to be a person ...
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Does there exist a rental law?
I have just rented an AirBnB apartment, where there were a broken door, that the renter hadn't informed about and also that there were some rare and hard to replace items in the apartment, that I am ...
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What are the limits of removing judicial recourse through arbitration clauses?
Suppose a FINRA-regulated financial institution is notorious for littering its service agreement with purportedly binding arbitration clauses, but then exercises a policy that amounts to depriving a ...
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Can I resell my Amazon gift card?
I bought an Amazon gift card, and I would like to sell it to my friend.
However Amazon Gift Card Terms and Conditions §2 states:
Gift Cards cannot be reloaded, resold, transferred for value or
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Can game developers legally revoke the license of use of game assets?
Large video game companies such as Blizzard, Valve, Mojang, etc. usually include a notice on their terms of use for video game assets for non-profit use, claiming that the license can be revoked at ...
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What are the trade-offs involved in accepting an offer to contract that would combine an installment payment and service fee?
Let's say someone purchased an item on an instalment payment plan from a company. They also subscribed to their services. The instalment scheme is separated from the monthly service fee. That means ...
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Conflicting published policies
In researching another question, I came across conflicting information in the published policies of a company. Their Policy FAQ article indicates the need for a phone number is strictly for verifying ...
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Writing/using a self-made API for DeepL
I just learned that scraping the web is not always as legal as I thought it was. Apparently a website can prohibit the use of web scrapers for their website in its Terms Of Service.
The translator ...
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How to prohibit "Discussion of Illegal Activity" -- but only the bad kind?
Online forums often have rules that say "Discussion of illegal activity" is prohibited. By this, they want to prevent users from using the forum from doing things like planning crimes, or (...
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Is it rightly understood that any termination without just cause are unjust practices
Let's assume a Telco has terminated a consumer's lines without just cause. The disconnection is due to their failure of rectifying a billing issue. They didn't provide any customer support during the ...
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What's the consumer's rights in a Telco billing dispute?
My aunt has a billing dispute with a Telco. Telco apologises and promises to resolve the billing issues but nothing has been done.
Her lines are disconnected twice in a month because of the ...
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Is there any law that Windows 10 "spying" might violate?
Windows 10 terms of service document includes Microsoft privacy statement which contains the following excerpt (as cited on http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/)
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Ambiguous(?) meaning
Disputes handled by TeamX can only address the hours, not the quality.
What does it mean:
TeamX can only address hours in handling the dispute, not the quality
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What does it mean when an obligation is 'waived'?
A while ago, I received a LOD (Letter of Demand) for an amount of $380 with ABC-CO. I signed up for a service with ABC-CO 10 years ago and terminated the service 5 years ago. I have not received any ...
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Refurbishment service by post, can the vendor disclaim responsibility for return shipping?
There is a vendor offering a service to refurbish and paint brake calipers. These items can sometimes have high value, several thousand pounds on the second-hand market.
The vendor's terms and ...
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Is this telephone company's terms of usage common or unfair?
Though many think the price is good, their policy does mean your telephone service is subject to change.
Is this even legal to enforce per FCC?
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Can written notices such as company terms and conditions be rejected on grounds of being too long
Sometimes companies post 30 page terms and conditions notices that an end user must accept by clicking in a box. Can such agreements be rejected well after the fact (after clicking) on grounds like:
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Is it legal to force users to accept new terms of service by threatening financial loss?
Why isn't it illegal, (extortion or duress), to force users to accept new Terms of Service by threatening financial loss, (like denying access to purchased content, or inhibiting or prohibiting the ...
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Is it legal to create a website acting as middleman for transactions between game items and real life cash?
Knowing the ToS and EULA of the game prohibit one of selling his game items for real life money transactions, my question is, is it legal to create a website to act as the middleman for these ...
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Vietnamese were chosen as applicable law, should the CISG govern contract ? May the parties choose laws of Indonesia to be applicable of the contract?
The contract is signed between the company, which is located in Vietnam, and company in France / Germany / Australia / Korea.
From the Contracting States of CISG between Vietnam and U.S. activated, ...
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Contesting a surprise bill from Amazon
Today I got an email from Amazon asking me to pay a large amount of money for their services. I signed up on AWS two weeks ago to discover their platform, and tried following one of their tutorials. ...
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Why aren't software companies required to make good faith efforts to enforce age restrictions?
There are a lot of products and technologies available that support children asking for parental consent before purchases, etc. (Amazon, Microsoft, etc...)
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What is the timeframe for Mastercard's "zero-liability" policy?
Other types of transaction disputes such as "product not received" has a clear reporting timeframe of 120 days or 540 days. That is, the consumer is usually protected only if the report is ...
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How often can a paid service be unavailable without breaching contract?
I'm curious about the theory and practice behind paying for a monthly subscription and not being able to use it for no fault of your own. I had purchased a 4 month gym pass. The gym is part of a ...
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What does Firebase "use exclusively for purposes related to my trade, business, craft or profession" mean?
I'm creating a project in Firebase and it's asking me to confirm this statement:
☐ I confirm that I will use Firebase exclusively for purposes relating
to my trade, business, craft, or profession
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Does the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act confer a right to unlock a phone one owns, or merely limit the scope of the DMCA?
Smart phones come in two different kinds: locked, and unlocked. A locked phone has been modified from its original design, in its software, hardware, or firmware, to only accept cell service from a ...
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Is it legal to install Google apps unofficially? [closed]
May Google sue me if I install Google apps unofficially on my device (from The Open GApps Project for example) and sign in with my account? or will Google delete my account instead?
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is it legal to read the code of github copilot?
I have already downloaded the extension from the Visual Studio Market place in the .VSIX file. and unzipped it ,Now I'm confused. What are these .wasm files and I tried to open the extension.js but it ...
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Are Discord bots allowed to store deleted messages and let people view them?
There are many Discord bots around which look at messages sent by users, but are they legally allowed to store messages in files, and even store messages which were since deleted by the users who sent ...
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Are terms of use considered a contract from GDPR point of view?
If service terms of use doesn’t talk about setting up a contract between the company and the user, can you use «execution of contract» as the lawfulness for GDPR processing ?
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I disagreed to IOS 15 ToS, Apple has blocked all access to my phone until I agree. Can I “agree under duress”?
I inadvertently updated my new iPhone to IOS 15 (store personnel had set up auto-update w/out asking, update occurred when my wireless charger failed so I used a wired charging device). I do not use ...
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Does use of a dictionary count as commercial use
Does use of a dictionary on a website count as commercial use if I use its translations manually when writing some document that is used in business? Moreover, if there is a note in the website's ...
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