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I think it's well-understood from the start that website terms of service hidden away in a tiny, low contrast font link in the footer have no teeth, and would b
by freen 8y ago
I think it's well-understood from the start that website terms of service hidden away in a tiny, low contrast font link in the footer have no teeth, and would be generally ridiculed and ignored by the vast majority of users.
- excalibur 8y agoCorrect for the vast majority of users, but the lawyers have been known to disagree on the lack of teeth.
- mpweiher 8y agoDepends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, for example, such terms of service have little to no teeth. We have pretty strict laws about what can be in ToS and what cannot. For example, pretty much anything that's "surprising" is out. This used to be the AGB-Gesetz (ToS-Law), but it was transformed into a more general framework but largely identical rules: https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=BGB&a=305-310 https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=BGB&a=305-310