RE: UKNM: Terms & Conditions

[Carl Harris]

Yep - many people don't read them, but they are vital. Like any product /

service sold or distributed - all come with "conditions". It does have legal

standing, because you usually can't buy or use a product until you have

checked the agreed with T's & C's box. This means that by law, you have

stated that you have understood limitations, etc to the product / service.

Any company can hold this up in court. Anyone who doesn't state "conditions"

is mad - you open yourself up to unlimited liability.


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Sent: 28 February 2000 00:45

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Subject: UKNM: Terms & Conditions



At the risk of posting the most boring message to UKNM since the last time

somebody asked for a breakdown of browser useage, what do people think of

the

Terms & Conditions that come attached to so very many Web sites?


Many Web sites that require registration make you tick a "Yes, I've read the

legalese" box, and even the ones that don't have page upon page of bollocks

that's

even more tedious than this message. Hi-Revolution, for example, has 2,500

words

of T&C to leer at before you can actually use its time-saving service.

Shurely

shome mishtake. Even www.chartsales.co.uk, a site selling nautical maps

fercrissakes, has nigh-on 3,000 words of semi-legal claptrap to acknowledge

before

you place an order. And hands up everyone who read the agreement when they

installed IE5 - there's a bit at the bottom that says you have to do karaoke

for

Bill's next birthday. Apparently.


Clearly, no bugger's going to read this stuff, so what's it all for? Does it

have

any legal standing? Any lawyers on the list? Hello? Anyone there?


Richard (busily finding something better to do)


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