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You agree that Google may transfer and disclose to third parties personally identifiable information about You for the purpose of approving and enabling Your participation in the Program, including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws than Your own. Google disclaims all responsibility, and will not be liable to You, however, for any disclosure of that information by any such third party.
Which basically means that they have the right to get all and any information off you and pass it off to anybody they want, anywhere in the world. And that what the third party then does with that information has nothing to do with them.
Errr... Comments, people?
I've been called worse!
It is called the 'small print' for a reason. They don't want you to read it. It's really a bit shady of a practice is what I was getting at.
If a contract is going to cover large monetary inflows or outflows, I certainly read *every* word.
The ultafine print enclosed with drug prescriptions, the stuff you can't even read it the time allotted on many television commercials, the 2000 word scroll windows on software downloads, the uncommon language used by credit card companies the list goes on and on.
Really, you would have to have proper advice from an attorney before undertaking many activities you agree to in order to honestly understand the full ramifications of what you are signing.
I'm not talking about just guesses by us the consumer as to what these agreements mean, we are not qualified to give their true meaning. It takes a trained attorney in each of the respective areas of law to know what you are agreeing to.
I think we don't know what most of these agreements really are saying, in a way that would be judged by a court of law.
Parts of the AdSense policy seems very clear and parts not so. I have had agreement language that seemed abundantly clear turned completely around on me in a court of law so to make me very skeptical of the whole of agreements and fine print.
In the end, it is a legal contract with many implications. In my experience if you are concerned, consult a lawyer before signing don't interpret it yourself - many things are not as they appear. IMHO
Just out of interest... what information are you worried that they'll disclose?I don't really know. It wasn't part of the TOS when I signed up originally. I'm not even really sure what information I gave them. I did give them my tax id, which I'm not sure how that could be misused. Wouldn't some here be using their ss# instead?
It is called the 'small print' for a reason. They don't want you to read it. It's really a bit shady of a practice is what I was getting at.
We're kinda getting off topic here, but I had to reply to this one. It's called the "small print" because of the SIZE of the text, not because they don't want you to read it. Could you imagine how much paper would be wasted if the fine print on say your mortgage or an auto loan was the same size as the rest of the text on the page? It's a legal disclaimer, required by law. There is nothing "shady" about it, and it's not designed to get you to not read it. It's designed so that EVERYTHING is spelled out clearly in such a way that there is no misunderstandings about what your obligations are and what you should expect when you sign the agreement.
It's not impossible to read, heck it's not even DIFFICULT to read. <snip>. Pretty black & white. If you're too busy to read it, then perhaps you should hire a personal assistant to read and outline it all for you. If it's too confusing, go ahead and call that lawyer you were talking about. Why WOULDN'T you? If I read something I didn't understand in a contract, I CERTAINLY wouldn't say "oh what the heck it can't be that bad" and sign it anyway - I would call a lawyer and ask for clarification. You would be an idiot NOT to do that. <snip>
[edited by: Jenstar at 5:41 pm (utc) on June 12, 2004]
[edit reason] TOS #19 [/edit]
