Delicious Social Bookmarking Terms of Service

Net 503 Policy Primer

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DELICIOUS BELONGS TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA WEB 2.0

PLATFORMS

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IT IS AN ONLINE SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITE

Assign and Use Tags to Find and Classify Information

Share Bookmarks with Others of Your Choice or Every Site User

Find Current “Hot” Bookmarks or the Most Popular Which Come Up

on the Site’s Homepage

YOU CAN DO USEFUL THINGS WITH DELICIOUS

http://www.delicious.com/

Save Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Locations on One Site Almost any

Subject

Information based on http://www.delicious.com/help/learn, Delicious (2010)

DELICIOUS HAS TERMS OF SERVICE TO KNOW ABOUT

WHAT ARE TERMS OF SERVICE?

(TOS) The rules laid down by an on-line service provider such as AOL that members must obey or risk being "TOS-sed" (disconnected)

- (The Free Dictionary, 2010)

IT IS

A LEGAL

AGREEMENT!

DELICIOUS HAS SIX TERMS OF SERVICE

• Usage Licence

• User Responsibility

• User-Posted Content

• Feeds and API

• Intellectual Property

• No Warranty and Limitation of Liability

BUT! IT IS LINKED TO YAHOO’S PRIVACY POLICY

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/delicious/ (Yahoo, 2010)

YAHOO PRIVACY LINK TO DELICIOUS MAIN POINTS

• Is upfront that they will collect data on you and use cookies to get information

• Uses web beacons to count user numbers

• But beacons do track user activity

• Delicious claims will not collect information on those under 18 years of age (worldwide)

SO YOU NOW KNOW THERE ARE MORE CONDITIONS TO

DELICIOUS TERMS OF SERVICE WITH THE YAHOO

LINK

BUT BACK TO DELICIOUS TERMS OF SERVICE

USAGE LICENCE

• You are granted a limited licence to use Delicious and it is free

• You must adhere to it as Delicious has the right to terminate your account and they may charge for the service in the future

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USER RESPONSIBILITY

• You are solely responsible for using it

• A link does not mean Delicious endorses a product or way of life

• Do not link your bookmarks to third party sites

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BUT USER RESPONSIBILITY HAS AN UNSTATED ETHICAL

SIDE!

None of the terms and conditions SPECIFICALLY state you cannot

bookmark pornography or other banned sites

USER-POSTED CONTENT

• When you post content you give Delicious and others permission to your bookmarks that are not private

• Delicious is not responsible for what third parties do with your bookmarked URL’s

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RSS FEEDS AND API

• When you use Really Simple Syndication feeds to receive updates this counts as using the Delicious site

• You cannot use this feature to display large databases of bookmarks anywhere in any form

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT)

• All trademarks of Delicious are copyright

• You cannot use the logos (barring academic attribution) for own use

• If Delicious create any content you must have written permission to reproduce it from them

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NO WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

• Delicious provides the site ‘as is’

• They are not liable for any types of damages that might happen to you

• YOU use it at your own discretion – this is clear

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TO SUMMARISE DELICIOUS TERMS OF SERVICE – WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO

YOU CAN

• Bookmark much useful information on many topics

• Share that information with everyone one

• Use RSS feeds to keep up to date with changing bookmarks and information

• Tag the bookmarks in many ways to suit your needs

• All this is free as Delicious grants you a licence to do all this

YOU CANNOT• Link your bookmarks to third

party sites

• Claim any action against Delicious for harm as there is a limitation of liability

• Violate any terms of service

• Use RSS or other features to display a database of Delicious bookmarks anywhere

• Use the Delicious trademarks and logos without permission from Delicious

References

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Delicious. (2010). Learn more about Delicious. Retrieved September 14, 2010, from http://www.delicious.com/help/learn

fredrick 2 baro. [Image] (2009). Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/fred2baro/3434484910/in/pool-90769649@N00/

I Connect 007. [Image] (2010). Retrieved September 14, 2010, from http://www.pcb007.com/page/db/pics/1213997592_13566.f_page_gr1s.jpg

Schwindt, A. [Image] (2009). Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/annetteschwindt/3466148834/

Social_icons. [Image] (2009). Retrieved September 8, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/25663068@N05/3508212179/#/

The Free Dictionary by Farlex. (2010). Terms of Service. Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Terms+Of+Service

Thomson, C. [Image] (2009). Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris24dotca/3269621835/

Wikimedia Commons. [Image] (2006). File:Spin (bookmark)2.jpg. Retrieved September 18, 2010, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spin_%28Bookmark%292.jpg

Yahoo. (2010). Delicious Privacy Policy. Retrieved September 1, 2010, from http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/delicious/

ycc2106. [Image] (2006). The internet. Retrieved September 17, 2010, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ycc2106/134414023/