Index of articles related to terms of service and privacy policies
This is a list of articles AbOUT terms of service and privacy policies. These are also called terms of use, and are rules one must agree to, in order to use a service. The articles fall in two main categories: descriptions of terms used for specific companies or products, and descriptions of different kinds of terms in general. Articles on companies vary widely in the amount of detail they give on terms of service. Annotations show what is available in the article on each company, and need to be updated as those articles are improved.
Terms of service are regularly the subject of news articles throughout the English-language press, such as in the US, UK, Africa, India, Singapore, and Australia. Terms of service are also addressed in a widely-reviewed documentary, academic research, and legal research.
Articles which describe specific companies' terms of service
Social media
- Comparison:Privacy concerns with social networking services – Partially compares privacy policies, data retention, geo-tagging, data releases
- Comparison:Comparison of Q&A sites – Compares topics allowed, copyright, and licensing of user contributions
- Comparison:Death and the Internet - Compares rules on access after death
- Facebook Addresses privacy settings and enforcement
- Instagram Partly addresses commercial re-use of members' posts, and geo-tagging
- Pinterest Addresses sales of user data and tracking of users on other websites which have a Pinterest button
- Tencent Partly addresses user security
- Twitter Addresses privacy, data dissemination, security breaches, legal jurisdiction, deletion to comply with national laws and survivors' requests
Search engines
- Comparison:Privacy-focused search engines/browsers – Partially compares location of servers and hiding IP addresses
- DuckDuckGo Addresses lack of tracking
- Google Addresses privacy and indemnification
Browsers
- Comodo Dragon Addresses arbitration, tracking, disclosures, liability, and use of the information for advertising
- Google Chrome Addresses tracking of users, and insecurity with VPNs
- Safari Addresses tracking, disclaimers, and disclosing unique device identifiers "for any purpose"
Transport
- Comparison:Credit card damage waivers – Compares credit cards' limits on rental car damages
- Comparison:Diminution in value – Compares rental car companies' terms about charging for diminution in value
- European trains Partly addresses guarantee of arrival and connections, baggage, compensation
- Lyft Addresses indemnification (user payment of company's legal bills)
- National Rail Conditions of Travel Addresses compensation for delays; links to other issues
- Southwest Partly addresses difficulties beyond the airline's control
- Uber Addresses indemnification (user payment of company's legal bills)
Credit cards
- American Express Addresses limits on rental car damages
- Discover Addresses limits on rental car damages
- Mastercard Addresses limits on rental car damages
- Visa Partly addresses terms imposed on merchants, and limits on rental car damages
- Comparison:Death and the Internet - Compares rules on access after death
Utility software
- CCleaner Addresses tracking of users and their software, matching with outside sources of information, use of the information for advertising, data retention, liability
- GeForce (graphics processing units from Nvidia) Addresses liability, and user data provided to Nvidia, to social media and to advertisers
- Malwarebytes Addresses arbitration, tracking of users and all software they run, their clickstreams, locations, data retention, and use of the information for advertising
- Microsoft account (formerly Passport or Live ID) Partly addresses privacy and allegations of deceptive practices
Other software
- Comparison:List of commercial software with available source code – Compares copyright, open source, copyright licensing
- Comparison:List of commercial video games with available source code – Compares copyright licensing
Online file storage and hosting
- Comparison:Comparison of file hosting services – Compares limits on size, bandwidth, expiration
- Comparison:Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
- Comparison:Death and the Internet - Compares rules on access after death
- Amazon Drive Addresses file sizes and commercial use
- Baidu Wangpan Partly addresses country of storage
- Dropbox Partly addresses privacy, ownership of data and deletion
- Google Drive Partly addresses privacy and intellectual property
- ICloud Partly addresses encryption
- OneDrive Partly addresses privacy and usage prohibitions
- SpiderOak Partly addresses encryption
- SecureSafe Addresses digital inheritance
- Sync Addresses encryption
- Tresorit Addresses encryption
Website hosts
- Comparison:Comparison of free blog hosting services – Compares limits on size, bandwidth, e-commerce
- Comparison:Comparison of free web hosting services – Compares use of ads, archiving, and limits on size, bandwidth, e-commerce, scripting
- Google Sites Addresses limits on file sizes, e-commerce, scripting, countries
- Jimdo Addresses limits on e-commerce, languages, location of data storage
- Tripod Addresses storage, e-commerce, scripting
- Weebly Partly addresses storage, e-commerce
- Wix.com Partly addressed e-commerce
- WordPress.com Partly addresses ads, paid upgrades
- Yola Partly addresses limits on storage, web pages
Broad comparisons across categories
- Death and the Internet – Compares terms on retention and access after an account holder dies
- Indemnity – requirements that users pay companies' legal bills
Articles which discuss terms of service in general
- Acceptable use policy
- Click wrap
- Contract of carriage
- Community standards
- Disclaimer
- Email privacy
- End-user license agreement
- Free license
- Free software license
- Free web hosting service
- Internet privacy
- License compatibility
- Multi-licensing
- Open-source license
- Privacy concerns with social networking services
- Privacy policy
- Proprietary software
- Public domain equivalent license
- Service-level agreement
- Shrink wrap contract
- Site license
- Software license
- Standard form contract
- Terms and Conditions May Apply
- Terms of service
- Terms of Service; Didn't Read
- Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977