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....)

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Hugo Roy  
Project Lead, Terms of Service; Didn't Read <www.tosdr.org>  
 
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