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Legal articles in easy to understand language.
Legal Requirements for Email Marketing
Sending spam emails is illegal in almost every country. But email marketing is a crucial part of many companies' growth strategies. Getting the rules right is essential, because breaking the law on email marketing can attract regulatory action and harm your reputation. This article will explore the legal requirements for email...
What is Safe Harbor
In October of 1998, the European Commission's Directive on Data Protection went into effect and started to prohibit any transfer of personal data about any European citizen to any non-European Union countries that fail to meet the European Union's standard for what is considered to be adequate privacy protection. The approach...
How Not to Place "I Agree to" Checkboxes
The following are crucial factors when it comes to getting valid and enforceable agreement to your website or mobile app Terms and legal agreements: How enforceable your Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy agreements are Where you place the "I agree to" checkbox to obtain consent and agreement, and What language is placed...
Be specific in your Privacy Policy
The current Privacy Policy of Google allows them to combine data from their different services they currently operate. For example, data collected from YouTube could be combined with data collected from Google searches. The Article 29 Working Party, which is a group of European Data Protection regulators, advised in 2012 that...
How to Get Consent for Legal Agreements
Getting consent for your legal agreements not only helps build trust with consumers, it is also an essential step in complying with applicable laws. This article explains what consent is, why it is necessary for legal agreements, when you need to get it, and how to obtain it. What is Consent? For...
Gap vs. Tinder: A Terms of Service prevents abuses
In early 2015, Tinder shut down an ad campaign that Gap had begun running on the Tinder platform. According to Tinder, the ad campaign ran by Gap was in violation of Tinder's Terms of Service, which explicitly state that Tinder is "for personal use only" and that the app may not...