Conditions may change, but your continued acceptance is not inferred from an earlier acceptance flow


Service: DuckDuckGo
Status: APPROVED
Changes: 6
Source: link
Author: Vincent (Mr. 404) (404) Staff


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I think this is the correct case: although they mark updates, they do not contact the user. (Which makes sense because they don't have contact details, but still.) Also, the changes take effect immediately.


Comments:
On 2018-08-20 08:40:54 UTC, michielbdejong (6) Staff wrote:

Ouch, that's a tricky one. I guess there's also no consent dialogue then, right? We need to formulate what we would ideally want a service to do in this case. I wouldn't want to group it into the same case as services where you agree once, and then the service (but not you) can make changes the next day. At the same time, even if the user didn't tick a checkbox, it's not reasonable to expect a user to open the hamburger menu and check the privacy policy before typing a search query. Of course, a user can trust that updates will be small, but that it would be nicer if there were some legally binding guarantee. Will discuss further.

On 2018-08-20 08:48:45 UTC, michielbdejong (6) Staff wrote:

I think also the legal status of a privacy policy is different than that of terms of service, maybe? To what extent is a service legally bound to actually live up to the policy they have published at a given time in the past?

On 2018-08-21 09:40:08 UTC, michielbdejong (6) Staff wrote:

As discussed, they didn't notify you of their privacy policy when you used their service the first time, other than having it linked in the hamburger menu. The first time you use the service after a policy change, they also don't promise to notify you outside that hamburger menu, but that does not mean that the notification after change would be less than the notification on first use.

That makes this case different than for services where you first accept some conditions of use (either through a text banner which later disappears automatically, or through a dialog you explicitly have to click on to make it disappear), and later when those conditions change, that flow would not be repeated to the same extent as on first use, but continued acceptance of the new conditions would be assumed, still partially based on your acceptance of the previous conditions, on your first use.

On 2018-08-21 09:49:12 UTC, michielbdejong (6) Staff wrote:

Vincent, if you agree, can you assign https://edit.tosdr.org/cases/277 to this quote?

On 2018-08-21 10:27:08 UTC, Vincent (Mr. 404) (404) Staff wrote:

Done :)

On 2018-08-29 09:08:02 UTC, michielbdejong (6) Staff wrote:

approved: Great, thanks!

On 2023-05-19 15:52:48 UTC, narvey (31839) wrote:

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