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<title>About - Terms of Service; Didn't Read</title>
<meta name="description" content="Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is an active project to fix the biggest lie on the web. We help you understand the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies of websites.">
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<h1 class="page-header">About</h1>
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“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a young project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.
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The rough idea behind ToS;DR emerged during the <a href="http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/ToS;DR">2011 Chaos Communication Camp</a> near Berlin, with people from <a href="http://unhosted.org">Unhosted</a> a movement to create web apps that give users control over their valuable user data and privacy. Since June 2012, <a href="http://hugoroy.eu/index.en.html">Hugo Roy</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/hugoroyd">@hugoroyd</a>) has taken the lead for the project, and started the legal analysis. Ultimately, all the work is transparent and the discussions happen in public. Our work is <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/terms-of-service-didnt-read">funded</a> by non-profits organisations and individual <a href="https://flattr.com/thing/821090/ToSDR">donations</a> and gets released as <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">free software</a> and open data.</a>
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Please bear in mind that the project is still in the early phase and that most data is subject to important changes.
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<p><strong>What does “ToS;DR” mean?</strong> the name is inspired by internet acronym TL;DR which stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read" and is often used on blogs and emails when a block of text is just really long and that people are too lazy to read the whole stuff. It was intended more as a code name than as a real name. But it seems that people like it (do you?)</p>
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<h3><a href="http://hugoroy.eu/index.en.html">Hugo Roy</a> Project Lead <small><a href="http://twitter.com/hugoroyd">@hugoroyd</a> / <i class="icon-envelope"></i> [email protected]</small></h3>
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Hugo is a Free Software hacktivist at <a href="http://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a> and a law student at <em>Sciences Po</em> university. He is currently living between Berlin and Paris, where he is often referred to as a Zappa Freak.
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<h3><a href="http://michielbdejong.com/">Michiel de Jong</a> <small><a href="http://twitter.com/michielbdejong">@michielbdejong</a></small></h3>
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Michiel de Jong is an independent freedom hacker, travelling the world while programming for the revolution from his laptop. Apart from ToS;DR he is also involved in <a href="http://2012.unhosted.org">The Unhosted Unconference</a> and he is a co-author of <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage">the remoteStorage protocol</a>.
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<h3><a href="http://jancborchardt.net">Jan-Christoph Borchardt</a> <small><a href="http://twitter.com/jancborchardt">@jancborchardt</a></small></h3>
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Jan-Christoph Borchardt is a free culture interaction designer, advisor & educator. He curates <a href="http://libreprojects.net">open source web projects</a>, designs <a href="http://unhosted.org">unhosted web apps</a> & <a href="http://ownCloud.org">ownCloud</a> and <a href="http://jancborchardt.net/usability-in-free-software">teaches better usability</a>.
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<h3><a href="https://plus.google.com/b/117929815628330307285/116657156780436848776/posts">Ian McGowan</a></h3>
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Ian received his MA in Forensic Linguistics, the study of language within a legal context, from Cardiff University, investigating consumer motivation behind reading, or not reading, online Terms & Conditions. He is currently living and teaching English in Seville, Spain in addition to contributing to ToS;DR.
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<h3><a href="https://github.com/JimmStout/">Jimm Stout</a></h3>
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Jimm is currently working on version 3 of ToSBack!
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<h3>The community</h3>
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We would also like to express our gratitude to the people who contribute actively to the working group! We especially thank:
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQeZvqXlGv2cQJNBXWGrBMNxIDY079ZLqwKDmSOlDQXrOcfo0S-lk-FzLK3PIYlp0W5WIRR8">Sebastián Waisbrot</a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQd1vCLc4PWPlL_Xz_OVyA3Wb2UUxlfnwmTzrbloOCHdHIk0oDRIaHrnGrjMLKZbN208a-4E">Logomancer</a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQeLddroVonRFda6-IAVZNy4EBOemhN7cbfgKLdCigMGOjTuxidrJ9_kKSo6GfbZbhKEcg7M">Pantsburgh</a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/p-Qq8MW7dUoJ">Duck X</a>,
<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers.en.html">Erik Albers </a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQdM90PDzv9y41Z4vawAgJNhIvp7rNZWG2hAODmgkvoNDoGBcdWu3O8Qdhlk2SzPm-rcFNJJ">Aaron Kelly </a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQdMdMlQOxfs5CRRX7ohJzQNsw1WY6IMU7_OWUdefIcen17L9pTwGdabtJkQMqqDuMKkgAlh">Philip L Marcus</a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQd__y_u9quF6b6sY0wVgNF7i54UhG84czu78w5h3tYWZOk1R_guK8aMvoQx-UL5PY2kR33q">Hannah Poteat</a>,
<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/profile/tosdr/APn2wQdi3OK4hFSpzwNWeT9uZCE1413Z_Yc9Iyq1z6rWNVF-5F9mC2CYuQRH8Z4ik4se9JHd8Bm6">Steve Kroon</a>,
and many more!
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<p>We also express our gratitude to the <a href="thanks.html">people who funded this project</a>!</p>
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<div class="page-header"><h2>Classification <small>Making the fine print easy to understand</small></h2></div>
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ToS;DR aims at creating a transparent and peer-reviewed process to rate and analyse Terms of Service and Privacy Policies in order to create a rating from Class A to Class E. We need more <strong>legal expertise</strong>, please also join the working-group. We also need people to contribute source code. Everything is <strong>JavaScript</strong> and JSON. The data is freely available (CC-BY-SA) and ready to be used for other tools, like browser extensions.
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Terms of service are reviewed by contributors and divided into small points that we can discuss, <a href="topics.html">compare</a> and ultimately assign a score with a badge: <br /><span class="badge badge-success"><i class="icon-thumbs-up icon-white">+</i> Good</span>, <span class="badge badge-warning"><i class="icon-thumbs-down icon-white">-</i> Mediocre</span>, <span class="badge badge-important"><i class="icon-remove icon-white">×</i> Alert</span>, or <span class="badge"><i class="icon-arrow-right icon-white">→</i> Informative</span>.
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Once a service has enough badges to assess the fairness of their terms for users, a class is assigned automatically by pondering the average scores.
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<span class="label A" style="vertical-align:middle">Class A</span> are the best terms of services: they treat you fairly, respect your rights and will not abuse your data.
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<p><span class="label B">Class B</span> The terms of services are fair towards the user but they could be improved.</p>
<p><span class="label C">Class C</span> The terms of service are okay but some issues need your consideration.</p>
<p><span class="label D">Class D</span> The terms of service are very uneven or there are some important issues that need your attention.</p>
<p><span class="label E">Class E</span> The terms of service raise very serious concerns.</p>
<p><span class="label false">No Class Yet</span> We haven't sufficiently reviewed the terms yet.
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<p id="credits"><strong><a href="http://tos-dr.info">Terms of Service; Didn't Read</a></strong> is a project inspired by Aza Raskin's <a href="http://azarask.in/blog/post/privacy-icons/">Privacy Icons</a> and EFF's <a href="http://github.com/pde/tosback2">TOSBack</a>. Also related: <a href="http://www.opennotice.org/">OpenNotice</a>.</p>
<p id="legalinfo"><strong>Nothing here should be considered legal advice</strong>. We express our opinion with no guarantee and we do not endorse any service in any way. Please refer to a qualified attorney for legal advice. <strong>Reading ToS;DR is in no way a replacement for reading the full terms to which you are bound.</strong> Disclosure: a list of donors and supporters <a href="thanks.html">is published</a>. <a href="legal.html">All legal information and Imprint</a>.</p>
<p id="licensing"><a href="http://tos-dr.info">ToS;DR</a> is Free Software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0-standalone.html" rel="license">AGPL-3.0</a>). Offer for <a href="https://github.com/didnotread/didnotread.org/zipball/master">Source (zip)</a>. The <code>.json</code> data inside the <a href="https://github.com/didnotread/didnotread.org/tree/master/services"><code>services/</code></a> and <a href="https://github.com/didnotread/didnotread.org/tree/master/points"><code>points/</code></a> directories are also licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike (<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>). Icons by <a href="http://glyphicons.com/glyphicons-licenses/">Glyphicons</a> used under a CC BY <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en">3.0 Unported license</a>. Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down icons modified by Jan.</p>
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