Terms of Service; Didn't Read (ToS;DR) is a community project which aims to analyze and grade the terms of service (TOS) and

privacy policies A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. Personal information can be anything that can be used to identify ...

of major Internet sites and services. Each aspect of a TOS or privacy policy is assessed as positive, negative, or neutral. Services are graded from A (best) to E (worst) once a comprehensive list of cases has been reviewed by

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s. The name of the project is a play on the phrase ''

too long; didn't read TL;DR or tl;dr, short for "too long; didn't read", is internet slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. It is also used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. The phrase dates back t ...

''. The project was founded in June 2012 by Hugo Roy, programmer Michiel de Jong and designer Jan-Christoph Borchardt. It was led by Hugo Roy, when he was a law student, from 2012 to 2015. The project offers a

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for

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and

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, which shows the grade and a short description of the privacy policy if a website is compatible.

History

Several sources of inspiration have been noted for ToS;DR, including

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' plain English summaries of licenses, EU energy efficiency ratings, and

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's Privacy Icons.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Terms of Service Didn't Read Terms of service Open content projects Internet properties established in 2012 Collaborative projects Contract law Creative Commons-licensed websites Legal websites Free Firefox WebExtensions

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