sqlitebrowser / dbhub.io

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Terms of service #239

Open FriedrichFroebel opened 9 months ago

FriedrichFroebel commented 9 months ago

When signing up to the service, I am accepting the terms of service and privacy policy. I could not find both of them anywhere - the corresponding footers do not have any links.

Without any terms of service and privacy policy, it is rather intransparent what rights/permissions I am transferring, which types of applications are allowed or not (including API rate limits for example or making profit etc.) or what you are doing with the registration data and datasets I enter/upload/provide.

justinclift commented 9 months ago

Yeah, this has been on our ToDo list for ages.

Rights wise, it's easily summarised to this (though we need to make it a proper document at some point):

"Term of Service" wise, it's pretty much common sense:

If someone uses these services in some way to make a profit (legally!) then good on them. That sounds like a win. No issues with that at all. :smile:

That's the gist of things. Is there any area which I've missed?

FriedrichFroebel commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the explanations. IANAL, but it does not feel right to be asked to accept some unwritten TOS/privacy policy during registration, so this probably should be improved in the short run (I stumbled upon this while looking at https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/discussions/3537).

In your above explanations, it seems like the intended process for updating the policies is missing.

justinclift commented 9 months ago

In your above explanations, it seems like the intended process for updating the policies is missing.

Good idea, hadn't thought of that. The standard approach places seem to use is just updating the document with a "Last updated" date.

We'll have that think that through properly though. Suggestions welcome of course. :smile: