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I struggle to see how this holds legality. It basically says here is what you are agreeing to but also we can change that and you still agree.

conjectures 10y ago
Who knows? It may be my ignorance, but I struggle to remember an incident when customers challenged T&Cs on some service like this in the courts. There is law in the UK against unfair terms in contracts. But like the genome there are large parts that of the statute book which lie dormant.
CamelCaseName 10y ago
I hope someone with more knowledge can come in and clarify, but I have always interpreted this as, "You agreed to X, if in the future we change our agreement to Y and you continue using our service, we will have assumed you agreed to Y". I think that's pretty fair, it would be nice if services let you know when they updated their T&C, and sometimes they do (I recall Google doing this) but honestly, if you didn't read it the first time, will you read the updated version? It would be nice if they could also provide a document with the differences, but I guess that would be a lot of work with no real benefit and still, no one would read it.
- 0xmohit 10y ago
  It would be nice if they could also provide a document with the differences, but I guess that would be a lot of work I doubt that. Legalese such as TOS are, I'm sure, prepared carefully and a diff should be readily available. and still, no one would read it. A few might want to read it and may actually do so (if they were to receive one). -- As an example, Apple prompts one to send the terms upon upgrading the OS. This is a good step. Although it'd be better if they could highlight the changed text in the terms.
- grok2 10y ago
  I think there is a requirement that the user be provided an opportunity to view and agree to the change....(unfortunately in general if someone has vested some time into something, they tend to continue to use it even at the cost of erosion of their rights).

conjectures 10y ago

Who knows? It may be my ignorance, but I struggle to remember an incident when customers challenged T&Cs on some service like this in the courts. There is law in the UK against unfair terms in contracts. But like the genome there are large parts that of the statute book which lie dormant.

CamelCaseName 10y ago

I hope someone with more knowledge can come in and clarify, but I have always interpreted this as, "You agreed to X, if in the future we change our agreement to Y and you continue using our service, we will have assumed you agreed to Y". I think that's pretty fair, it would be nice if services let you know when they updated their T&C, and sometimes they do (I recall Google doing this) but honestly, if you didn't read it the first time, will you read the updated version? It would be nice if they could also provide a document with the differences, but I guess that would be a lot of work with no real benefit and still, no one would read it.

0xmohit 10y ago
It would be nice if they could also provide a document with the differences, but I guess that would be a lot of work I doubt that. Legalese such as TOS are, I'm sure, prepared carefully and a diff should be readily available. and still, no one would read it. A few might want to read it and may actually do so (if they were to receive one). -- As an example, Apple prompts one to send the terms upon upgrading the OS. This is a good step. Although it'd be better if they could highlight the changed text in the terms.
grok2 10y ago
I think there is a requirement that the user be provided an opportunity to view and agree to the change....(unfortunately in general if someone has vested some time into something, they tend to continue to use it even at the cost of erosion of their rights).