

The person must agree to abide by the terms of service in order to use the offered service.” 2 1 Wikipedia says terms of use, terms of service and terms and conditions are all the same thing (they are) and defines the phrase as “the legal agreements between a service provider and a person who wants to use that service. This isn’t copyright law it’s contract law - we and whoever owns the thing we want to use reach a deal: a website lets us access the site and its information and we agree to use it only in the ways the website says we can. Terms of service (or terms of use), remember, are the limits somebody who owns something we want to use (like a website) puts on whether or not he’ll let us use it.
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UPDATE : Ancestry has amended its terms, again, to say it didn’t exactly mean it… See here.Īncestry has just updated its terms of service and privacy statement - again - and this time there is a change buried deep in its language that is of significance to users.Īs of the change, effective yesterday (3 August 2021), a user can’t change his or her mind about any content uploaded to Ancestry: as of yesterday, you’ve just gifted the rights to that content to Ancestry, forever.
