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Policy PrimerPolicy Primer
TumblrTumblr An overview: Terms of An overview: Terms of
Service & Privacy PolicyService & Privacy Policy
NET 303Davida Aerlic
When using When using TumblrTumblr……
““you are you are consentingconsenting to to
the the collection, collection, transfer, transfer,
manipulation, manipulation, storage, storage, disclosure disclosure and other and other
uses of your uses of your information information (Tumblr, 2012).”(Tumblr, 2012).”
Tumblr Tumblr is a free platform designed to create and share text, images, audio and video material.
So So whowho ownsowns thethe contentcontent you you
create on Tumblr?create on Tumblr?
You own all You own all intellectual intellectual property rights property rights to the to the content you create and Tumblr content you create and Tumblr
and/or and/or third parties third parties retain ownership retain ownership of of all intellectual property rights in all all intellectual property rights in all material other than material other than yoursyours (Tumblr, 2012). (Tumblr, 2012).
A few A few other things to other things to consider consider when when posting to TumblrTumblr……
When you make something When you make something
publicly available publicly available on on the Internet, it becomes the Internet, it becomes
practically practically IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE to to take down take down all copies all copies of it.of it.
Therefore, when posting you Therefore, when posting you should consider that all should consider that all
publicly-postedpublicly-posted material will be available to material will be available to other Tumblr usersother Tumblr users and users of other social and users of other social media sites and this material media sites and this material can be can be distributed distributed and
analysed analysed via these sites.via these sites.(Tumblr, 2012)(Tumblr, 2012)
Your Tumblr account could be
suspended or
terminated at anytime…
Tumblr retains the right retains the right to create limits on
and related to use of the services in its sole sole discretion discretion at any time with or without notice.
With newnew products, servicesservices, and features
launching all the time, they need the flexibility flexibility
to make changeschanges, impose limits, and occasionally suspend or terminate certain
offerings offerings (like features that flop). They can also
suspendsuspend any individual account at any time (Tumblr, 2012).
Does TumblrDoes Tumblr inform inform you when it changes it’s you when it changes it’s
Terms of Service?
Tumblr can modify its Tumblr can modify its Terms Terms of Serviceof Service at any time by at any time by
posting a revisionposting a revision through the website and bythrough the website and by
providing notice providing notice to you to you usually via email.usually via email.
Registration, Tumblr Registration, Tumblr URLsURLs, and Security
““One of the great features of Tumblr's One of the great features of Tumblr's products is customizability, and bloggers products is customizability, and bloggers have a lot of flexibility in how their blogs have a lot of flexibility in how their blogs behave. When you visit a blog in our behave. When you visit a blog in our network, that blog may collect more network, that blog may collect more information than we do, and may provide information than we do, and may provide information to third parties that we have information to third parties that we have no relationship with, including to no relationship with, including to advertisers (Tumblr, 2012)”advertisers (Tumblr, 2012)”
Does Tumblr Does Tumblr collect
information from my my blog?blog?
““One of the great features of Tumblr's One of the great features of Tumblr's products is customizability, and bloggers have products is customizability, and bloggers have a lot of flexibility in how their blogs behave. a lot of flexibility in how their blogs behave. When you visit a blog in our network, that When you visit a blog in our network, that blog may collect more information than we blog may collect more information than we do, and may provide information to third do, and may provide information to third parties that we have no relationship with, parties that we have no relationship with, including to advertisers (Tumblr, 2012)”including to advertisers (Tumblr, 2012)”
What Information does
Tumblr Collect Tumblr Collect and How Do They Use It?How Do They Use It?
Who Does Who Does Tumblr Tumblr Share Share Your Your
Information Information with?with?
Tumblr never shares
information from
you unless…
they have your
permissionpermission to share that
informationinformation
Or they have given
you prior noticenotice that the information
will be sharedshared
Or that information
that does not not identify identify you
Is Your InformationInformation Secure?
Basically your informationinformation is as securesecure as you make it.
To prevent unauthorized prevent unauthorized access to
your Tumblr account selectselect and protect protect your passwordpassword appropriately and limit limit accessaccess to your computer and browser.
And don’t forget don’t forget to sign out sign out after
you’ve finished using Tumblr’sTumblr’s services.
Can the Privacy Policy be changedchanged at any time like
Terms of Service?Terms of Service?
TumblrTumblr can amend their
Privacy Policy Privacy Policy from time to time, using the process for
modificationsmodifications set forth in our Terms of Terms of Service. Service.
The use of informationinformation
they collectcollect now is
subject to the Privacy Privacy Policy Policy in effecteffect at the time such information is used (Tumblr, 2012).
Important privacy pointImportant privacy point
In some casescases Tumblr collects information about
content you provideprovide to the services.
For instance, the mobile mobile devicedevice you use and your phone number might be
collected to improve improve servicesservices. However, you will
have a choice choice as to whether this information is
collectedcollected and store (Tumblr, 2012).
Also in some cases Tumblr
may choose to buy buy or sell sell business assetsbusiness assets. .
In these transactions, user user informationinformation is typically one of the
transferred business business assetsassets (Tumblr, 2012).
FurthermoreFurthermore, if Tumblr’s assets, were
acquiredacquired, or if they were to go out of
businessbusiness or enter
bankruptcy, user informationinformation would be one of the assets that is
transferred or acquired by a
third third party(Tumblr, 2012).
It is importantimportant for users to know that such
transferstransfers may occur, and that any acquirer of
us or our assets assets may continue to use your
Personal Personal Information Information as set forth in this policy (Tumblr, 2012).
A company A company you may not know
could end up with your TumblrTumblr information.
How does that make you feel?make you feel?
“The real privacy real privacy concerns arise when users allow people they do not know and normally
would not trust would not trust to have access to the personally identifiable information they have
made availableavailable. (Goettke and Christiana, 2007). “
HowHow youngyoung is too is too
young for young for Tumblr?Tumblr?
You have to be at least
13 years old 13 years old to use Tumblr as
TumblrTumblr is based on U.S. federal and state state legislation.legislation.
Deleted Deleted your your TumblrTumblr account…. But what happens to the account…. But what happens to the
information shared information shared across across Tumblr blogs?Tumblr blogs?
“Deleting your Account your Account may not fully remove the content you have
publishedpublished from our systems, as cachingcaching of, backups of, copies copies of, or references to your Account information may not be
immediately removed immediately removed (Tumblr, 2012).”
“In addition, given the nature of sharing nature of sharing on the ServicesServices, some of the public activity on your Account prior to deletion (such as such as Re-blogs of your blog postsRe-blogs of your blog posts) may remain stored on our servers and
accessible to the public accessible to the public (Tumblr, 2012).”
A few more more interesting facts facts
aboutabout Tumblr…
Community Guidelines
As a global platform for creativity and self-creativity and self-expressionexpression, Tumblr is deeply committed to supporting
and protecting freedom of speechfreedom of speech.
Tumblr also celebrates creativity so FEEL FREE FEEL FREE to express yourself freely and to reflect who you are, and what you
lovelove, think, witnesswitness, and believe (Tumblr, 2012).
“Unlike democracies, which enable citizens to express political opposition through the voting booth, non-democratic regimes provide little or no formal outlets for political dissent. In the absence of these formal outlets, actors that oppose specific policies or entire regimes must express their opposition via extra-legal means directed at state authority (Mclaughlin, 2003).”
Malicious bigotry, harm to minors,
promotion and glorification of self-harm, gore and mutilation content, sexually
explicit videos, non-genuine social
gesture schemes, username and URL abuse, spam
HoweverHowever Tumblr is not for…
Mass registration and automation, unauthorized contests,
sweepstakes, or giveaways, third-party
theme distribution, copyright and trademark infringement
or…
impersonation, stalking, or
harassment, privacy violations, and resource abuse,
unlawful uses and content
or…
“Though they are intendedintended to
positivelypositively contribute to
society, negativenegative aspects
invariably invariably surface as by-products of the development of
new technologies new technologies such as these (Patchin and Hinduja, 2006).”
Termination and Termination and Deletion
On terminationtermination of your Account
or upon your deletion of deletion of particular particular pieces of Subscriber Content from the Services, Tumblr shall make reasonable efforts to make such
Subscriber Content inaccessible inaccessible and cease use of itand cease use of it; however, you acknowledge and agree that:
caching ofcaching of, copies of, or
references to the users users content content may not be
immediately removedremoved;
such removed removed content
may persist in backupsbackups (not available to others) for a
reasonable period reasonable period of time; and
such removed content content may
be availableavailable (and stored on our servers) through the
accounts accounts of other users
because of re-bloggingre-blogging (Tumblr, 2012).
“Censorship is the moral or moral or legislative process legislative process by which society “agrees” to limit what an individual can do, say,
think, or see. All societies All societies have forms of censorship, effective only with sufficient
threat and severity threat and severity of punishment for violating the censorship rule (Depken, 2006).”
Patchin, J., & Hinduja, S. (2006). Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 4(2). Retrieved from: Curtin Library Database
Depken, C. (2006). Who Supports Internet Censorship? First Monday, 11(9).Retrieved from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1390/1308
Tumblr. 2012. Terms of Service. Retrieved from: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/terms_of_service
Tumblr. 2012. Privacy Policy. Retrieved from: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy
Tumblr. 2012. Community Guidelines. Retrieved from: http://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community
Goettke, R., & Christiana, J. (2007). Privacy and Online Social Networking Websites. Computer Science 199r: Special Topics in Computer Science Computation and Society: Privacy and Technology. Retrieved from: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs199r/fp/RichJoe.pdf
Laughlin, S. (2003). The use of Internet for political action by non-state dissident actors in Middle East. Retrieved from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1096/1016
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