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Terms of Service (often abbreviated as "ToS") are rules by which one must agree to abide by in order to use a service. Usually, such terms are legally binding. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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Certain websites are noted for having carefully designed terms of service, particularly eBay and PayPal which need to maintain a high level of community trust because of transactions involving money. However, to attract new members and maintain current members, the terms must be perceived as fair and must not be needlessly bureaucratic. For the sake of good public relations and effective community building, the organization should strive to form a social contract that balances the organization's interests with a set of rights granted to the membership. A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a...
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eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ...
A community usually refers to a sociological group in a large place or collections of plant or animal organisms sharing an environment. ...
Trust is the belief in the good character of one party, presumed to seek to fulfill policies, ethical codes, law and their previous promises. ...
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Public relations (PR): Building sustainable relations with all publics in order to create a postive brand image. ...
John Lockes writings on the Social Contract were particularly influential among the American Founding Fathers. ...
In jurisprudence and law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something or to obtain or refrain from obtaining an action, thing or recognition in civil society. ...
Internet service providers Most Internet service providers have terms of service—notably AOL LLC—which many perceive to be very strict.[1] “ISP†redirects here. ...
AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc) is an American online service provider, bulletin board system, and media company operated by Time Warner. ...
Others, such as Go Daddy, may be extremely lax in enforcement of their terms of service in matters such as harassment and ToS violations of abuse of minors, while rigorously enforcing ToS violations involving spamming.[citation needed] GoDaddy's abuse hotline staff claim that only law enforcement can define harassment and will enforce harassment-related ToS violations without a contact from law enforcement.[citation needed] Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, which also sells e-business related software and services. ...
Video Games As video games move online, many of them are also adopting a terms of service, separate from the End User License Agreement required to utilize the client software. These Terms of Service generally specify behaviors that are disallowed within the video game's virtual world, generally to prevent a player from disrupting another player's game experience. For example, many online games disallow the use of racist speech through communication channels provided by the game. Many MMORPGs also disallow the trading of in-game items for "real world" money. Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a universal phenomenon. ...
Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ...
A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the...
In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. ...
For the Pet Shop Boys album of the same name see Behaviour Behavior or behaviour (see spelling differences) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ...
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. ...
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Violation A ToS violation can result in a myriad of consequences towards those who are guilty depending on the service and the severity of the violation. Most organizations reserve the right to restrict a user's access to the service if they violate the terms in the agreement.
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References - ^ Janet Kornblum (1997-7-29). AOL dumps new member policy. Retrieved on 2006-12-24.
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