People That Have Read Terms And Conditions Reveal The Sneaky Things They Found

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Aug 24, 2019 11:00 AM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked the people that have thoroughly read through the terms and conditions, what kinds of shady stuff they discovered. You never know when you might come across Toto's "Africa" lyrics in the back half of an app's terms and conditions. 

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    terms and conditions - Text - OISticklnTheMud 3d I was stoned and downloaded a mobile game some years ago and decided to read the terms and conditions. It was like 20 pages and mostly had to do with privacy and micro transaction stuff. In the back half a paragraph was the lyrics to ToTos Africa.
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    terms and conditions - Text - SunnySamantha 3d I know at some point Comcast was not responsible if it killed you. Haven't looked at it in years though (used to work for them so you get to learn the terms pretty quickly)
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    terms and conditions - Text - TamponLoveTaps 3d I had a Victoria's Secret coupon that said Canadians are required to pass a math question or test in order to be eligible for the discount. I think I still have it at my desk - my job in part is writing terms and conditions, agreements, and disclosures for the bank I work at so I actually do read a lot of T&Cs in homage to the amount of time my colleagues in the field put into writing 18 pages of shit no one but examiners read. The Canadian math re
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    terms and conditions - Text - PhilipLiptonSchrute 3d 1 Award In the hiring contract for the last company I worked for, there was a line buried on page like 22 that said if you email a certain email address on your first day saying you saw the line, you'd get a bonus day of PTO for the year.
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    terms and conditions - Text - ewux_eva 3d S 2 Awards If you make money on tik tok , the owners can rightfully take the money
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    terms and conditions - Text - earlson 3d I don't have a story myself, but I found this article about a man who won a $1000 giveaway that was hidden in the EULA of an app. The 3000 people who installed the program before him didn't bother to read it.
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    terms and conditions - Text - ArikBloodworth 3d Back in the day when people [legally] acquired new music by buying CDs, one of the bands I listened to would hide nice little messages to fans in the copyright/legal fine print in the booklet that came with the CD. Sometimes there would be a small link to a hidden part of their website that had extra content.
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    terms and conditions - Text - sirgog 3d A while ago (-2011) there was a scam "Work from Home" service widely advertised all over Facebook and other places, promising enormous paycheques and a free trial. (It was an opt-out subscription service as you might expect) Curious as to how the scam worked, I looked at their T&Cs. There was a clause in there requiring you to pay $10000 in compensation to the company if you filed a chargeback against their fees. Whilst that would never stand up in court,
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    terms and conditions - Text - plate0221864onice 3d Gamestation once made an "Immortal Soul Clause" on April Fool's day, to prove that no-one actually reads the terms and conditions. It read By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul.
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    terms and conditions - Text - smellycattttttt 3d on amazon: anytime they want they can take away from me the books thats I've bought on kindle store
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    terms and conditions - Text - oak_sway 3d At a gun range one time I saw that if I yelled out "I love dogs!" my time and anything I buy is half price. I immediately did so, startling my best friend. That was awesome. The contract to a job I had working in the desert warned about the frequency of alien attacks. I was disappointed to go a year and a half without any, though
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    terms and conditions - Text - NovaPokeDad 3d I'm a lawyer. Whenever undergrads tell me they want to go to law school, I tell them to read the entire iTunes terms and conditions, without skipping a single sentence. If they can't get through it, they don't have the discipline and attention to detail for law school.
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    terms and conditions - Text - AmericanJesus618 3d DeviantArt's ToS is basically a contract allowing them to print, reproduce, and profit from your art (if they so choose) without needing your permission or consent. Usually this takes the form of ads or contests, where they'll be used in public displays. If you post works that show a high level of technical skill, then you need to either sign it or use a big ol' watermark.
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    terms and conditions - Text - TheDarkLord023Reborn 3d Sony can sue you for literaly not updating your console software if you're connected to internet
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    terms and conditions - Text - 69poop420 3d Idk if this is super surprising, but I read the entire lease for my first apartment and apparently, I couldn't get out of my lease even if I DIED.
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    terms and conditions - Text - Potatoe_Pikachu 3d Wanted to sign my kid up for cheerleading. Sat there and read the terms and agreement. Said something along the lines of "We are not responsible for any accidents that occur in the transportation of your child." My husband lost his brother in a school transportation accident and they initially tried to avoid the blame. So naturally that line gave us the heebie jeebies and we just left. Turns out they were just a shady company all around. She now d
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    terms and conditions - Text - Different_Good 3d Pretty sure anyone who ever played the original Diablo also agreed sold their soul to the devil in the Terms and Conditions.
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    terms and conditions - Text - thinker 3d A job schedule app my company uses requires you to login using the company email. To set this up on your phone, you have to give your company the rights to erase the contents of your phone remotely, probably in case you become a threat to the company. No thanks.
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    terms and conditions - Text - ExxInferis 3d WhatsApp, when it went full-Facebook 4 years after purchase, sent out an Android update. The update said it was just adding the ability to give group chats a sub-heading. What it was actually doing was giving Facebook permission to take information. This option was enabled by default (of course it was) and you had only 3 months to notice this had happened before the option to opt out was disabled. I was late noticing this, but when I read the terms and
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    terms and conditions - Text - other_usernames_gone 3d If you want to take Huawei to court you have to take them to court in China. What they don't tell you is that it's near impossible for a foreigner to win a court case in China
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    terms and conditions - Text - hinesy94 3d I remember a story years ago about this guy applying for a loan or credit card from his bank but asked to take the documents home and read over them and send them backa signed copy. He added clauses in the T&C's that the bank had to pay him and if they wanted out of the contract they had to pay him some huge exit fee, signed the amended one and sent it back to them and they agreed to it without reading it. Not sure how true it is though
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    terms and conditions - Text - Yulla 3d While buying a train ticket in Russia : "if the train breaks down, don't think of this as a way to get compensation. Consider it a part of the Russian experience."
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    terms and conditions - Text - dixthemean 3d I don't know if they changed it but, when you chose the "fragile" obtion in a mail system like FedEx, that didn't ment they would take special care of it but that you admitted that it was fragile and therefore it could be broken without being their fault, leaving you unable to sue them for breaking your package or to ask any reimbursement.
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    terms and conditions - Text - AnnieBannieFoFannie 3d AncestryDNA owns your DNA forever and can do what it likes with it. I forsee Jurassic park coming, but with people.
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