Hot answers tagged terms-of-use
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You're subject to the laws of the Country where your business is legally based and/or bases the operations.
Cross-country legal enforcement (privacy in particular) lives in a grey area and - for example - big companies like Facebook or Google do not always comply with EU privacy laws.
For EU companies, servers' location only matters in case you move the data ...
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You didn't mention if you gonna have English visitors too or not, but these legal information is meant to be accessible for your visitors, what is point of having it on your website if your users can't understand it?!
Your website should provide the necessary legal information for all targeted visitors.
Since all mentioned targets are EU members, your ...
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If you use Adsense ads on your site, you are required by Google to have a privacy policy per the Adsense terms of service. From http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182:
AdSense publishers must have and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users' browsers, or ...
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Depends entirely on your content. From the Terms:
Encouraging users to click your Google ads is strictly prohibited - whether directly or indirectly, on your own site, on third-party sites or via email.
In order to ensure a good experience for users and advertisers,
publishers participating in the AdSense programme may not:
... Encourage ...
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I'm not a lawyer but I think "points 8/9/14 section II - Prohibitions" of YouTube TOS suggest you are violating them.
8.separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;
9.promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made ...
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I haven't pored over their terms of service to see if it would violate them, but I know that it has been done in the past. Here is a site that describes how to modify their embed code to only show the audio controls: http://rcdewebmasters.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/embed-audio-only-youtube-video/ To make it happen you just need to set the height of the ...
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It depends totally on your bussiness and the actual need of terms etc.
If what you offer ( information, services or products ) can harm you or your bussiness in any way by misuse of anything you provide, or a human error by yourself make sure you have terms etc.
Again depending on what you offer on your website you could write it yourself , if you feel ...
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If you are going to copy someone's terms and conditions, you should be sure they have not copyrighted those terms. Most companies pay lawyers to draw up their terms, so would not like to be paying for their competitors to be using those terms as well! However, try looking at terms for similar services that may be open source. Maybe someone in the Diaspora ...
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On the one hand, Google probably doesn't want to index these pages on your site. Most of the words in these pages aren't going to be relevant to the rest of your site. If somebody searches for these words, your site will not make a great landing page.
On the other hand, so many sites have these types of pages, that it isn't going to cause a problem for ...
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That depends on the country you live in. The country the server is in which hosts your site. If your country doesn't have strict privacy policy laws you don't need them. It's your server and anyone accessing it does at their own risk that you being the owner can do whatever you want with the data. The EFF has a good article on how bloggers (forums) are safe ...
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