Hello Anna, sorry for getting back at you so late after you sent this... ↪ 2014-02-25 Tue 12:59, Anna Morris <[email protected]>: > > Hi, I have been looking through this as we are building a new WP site. > We have taken steps to integrate social media without giving access by > facebook for tracking etc but are concerned about gravatar (which is now > a really core feature of WP). Gravatar seems to be all over the web, it > gets blocked as if it were tracking by services like ghostry. > > In the TOS here: https://en.gravatar.com/site/terms-of-service I see: > > "Automattic may update the Gravatar Terms from time to time. Your > continued use of the Services following notification of such updates > constitutes your acceptance of those changes." > > "More specifically, you hereby do and shall grant to Automattic a > worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully-paid, > transferable (including rights to sublicense) right to perform the > Services (e.g., to use, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare > derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exercise and > exploit all intellectual property, publicity, and moral rights with > respect to any User Submissions, and to allow others to do so)." > > which horrible. The TOS are really short becuase they supplement the > wordpress.com ones (which don't look atrocious on TOS:DR) > > I am not sure how to proceed. How do I find out if Gravatar is being > used to gather and sell data? Also, I would like to help update the > TOS:DR gravatar entry if needed. I think the first point gets an orange > thumb, not sure about point two - might already be on there. > > Anna > X
Am I right that in Gravatar’s ToS, “User Submissions” is *only* an avatar? (However I agree that it’s quite a large copyright license, that does not look necessary....) -- Hugo Roy Project Lead, Terms of Service; Didn't Read <www.tosdr.org> Please use cryptography for email: see https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Merci d’utiliser la cryptographie pour l’email : voir https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/fr/
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