Updated: Privacy Policy, Community Rules, and Terms of Service
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1timspalding
As mentioned in another topic ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/291767 ), LibraryThing is complying with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We have therefore added to and rewritten our Privacy and Terms of Service, now "Privacy Policy, Community Rules, and Terms of Service."
It went from 2,861 to 5,013 words. This is a lot, although much of the new material is "chunked" attractively. And it's still relatively short. A similar site to ours has a 21k-word TOS.
I'm fairly exhausted, so I'll only thumbnail the changes. Most have to do with GDPR, including sections on what data we collect, what we do with it, and your potential rights over it under the GDPR. We also consolidated and rewrote various minor sections.
Check it out. We'd love another pair of eyes. Our own have burned out.
http://www.librarything.com/privacy
It went from 2,861 to 5,013 words. This is a lot, although much of the new material is "chunked" attractively. And it's still relatively short. A similar site to ours has a 21k-word TOS.
I'm fairly exhausted, so I'll only thumbnail the changes. Most have to do with GDPR, including sections on what data we collect, what we do with it, and your potential rights over it under the GDPR. We also consolidated and rewrote various minor sections.
Check it out. We'd love another pair of eyes. Our own have burned out.
http://www.librarything.com/privacy
2MarthaJeanne
Near the bottom under Children's Privacy is a link 'See the COPPA section below.' That section is actually above.
3lilithcat
As of May 25, 2018, we have never received a National Security Letter, FISA order, or any other classified request for user information.
But you couldn't tell us if you had received a National Security Letter!
But you couldn't tell us if you had received a National Security Letter!
4MarthaJeanne
But he could start telling us the first week of every month that he hadn't.
5timspalding
>3 lilithcat:
There's a big and amusing legal question there, much discussed among librarians, in particular.
We are telling you we have not--we CAN tell you we have not. We can't tell you that we have, but, the argument goes, we can stop telling you we have not. So look for the removal of that line!
There's a big and amusing legal question there, much discussed among librarians, in particular.
We are telling you we have not--we CAN tell you we have not. We can't tell you that we have, but, the argument goes, we can stop telling you we have not. So look for the removal of that line!
6thorold
How’s the development work on the death-ray for defaulting borrowers coming along? We haven’t heard much about that for a while...
7timspalding
::bttz!::
8Foretopman
Under Terms of Service, Cookies, Domain Cookies: something bad happened in the last sentence. I can't even tell what you intended to say.
9ablachly
>8 Foretopman:
This sentence?
"These cookies are not essential to using LibraryThing overall, but are essential to LibraryThing's "logged in" site functionality. Disabling them may prevent an individual from signing into the service, from seeing the content they want to see, from changing content, etc."
This sentence?
"These cookies are not essential to using LibraryThing overall, but are essential to LibraryThing's "logged in" site functionality. Disabling them may prevent an individual from signing into the service, from seeing the content they want to see, from changing content, etc."
10anglemark
>3 lilithcat: Have they received a Scarlet Letter, though?
11gilroy
>6 thorold: I don't know. I'm waiting for the vermin shield to keep out the bugs and other book destroying entities. Or things like Bed Bugs.
12Foretopman
>9 ablachly: Yes, but it looks like it got fixed between the time I reported it and the time you looked at it. Never mind.
13elenchus
Analytics
In addition to Google Analytics (above), LibraryThing also collects and analyzes its own usage data, to track usage and police the Terms of Service.
I could not locate a verbatim reference to Google Analytics anywhere else in the TOS, "above" or "below" that line. Evidently this refers to a couple paragraphs under Third Party Cookies, perhaps "See Third Party Cookies" should be in parenthetical in place of "above".
Members can also pay for LibraryThing services with checks or money orders. We keep this information safe too.
In light of the precision of other paragraphs, this seems incongruous. Do you mean you shred checks & money orders? Or it's all held at your bank according to their policies?
As ever, I appreciate the conversational tone and amusing asides throughout, they make it interesting to read without, in my opinion, detracting from the content.
In addition to Google Analytics (above), LibraryThing also collects and analyzes its own usage data, to track usage and police the Terms of Service.
I could not locate a verbatim reference to Google Analytics anywhere else in the TOS, "above" or "below" that line. Evidently this refers to a couple paragraphs under Third Party Cookies, perhaps "See Third Party Cookies" should be in parenthetical in place of "above".
Members can also pay for LibraryThing services with checks or money orders. We keep this information safe too.
In light of the precision of other paragraphs, this seems incongruous. Do you mean you shred checks & money orders? Or it's all held at your bank according to their policies?
As ever, I appreciate the conversational tone and amusing asides throughout, they make it interesting to read without, in my opinion, detracting from the content.
14timspalding
I could not locate a verbatim reference to Google Analytics anywhere else in the TOS, "above" or "below" that line. Evidently this refers to a couple paragraphs under Third Party Cookies, perhaps "See Third Party Cookies" should be in parenthetical in place of "above".
Thank you. Yes, we refer to "Google" in the context of analytics ("LibraryThing uses third-party cookies from Google to anonymously track web usage and analytics (Google)."). I will adjust the wording to say Google Analytics.
Members can also pay for LibraryThing services with checks or money orders. We keep this information safe too.
Well, we cash both. The bank keeps them, then. We do not in any case scan customer details into any system, or type in check details or whatever.
Thank you. Yes, we refer to "Google" in the context of analytics ("LibraryThing uses third-party cookies from Google to anonymously track web usage and analytics (Google)."). I will adjust the wording to say Google Analytics.
Members can also pay for LibraryThing services with checks or money orders. We keep this information safe too.
Well, we cash both. The bank keeps them, then. We do not in any case scan customer details into any system, or type in check details or whatever.
