{"id":43,"date":"2007-09-14T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T14:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/the-us-apeals-court-rules-its-ok-to-bury-your-terms-conditions\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:30:07","slug":"the-us-apeals-court-rules-its-ok-to-bury-your-terms-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/14\/the-us-apeals-court-rules-its-ok-to-bury-your-terms-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Apeals Court Rules It’s OK to Bury Your Terms & Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. Appeals Court has ruled that a website can incorporate terms and conditions language<\/a> into the clicking of a continue button. Meaning a website no longer needs to require a person clicking a checkbox to agree to the terms and conditions of the site. <\/p>\n

The dating website True.com was sued by a male user who said he was unaware that the website’s free membership was only for women. A main part of the case was the fact the user argued he had not agreed to terms and conditions on the website’s registration form when signing up for a free trial. <\/p>\n

Now, I’m not sure about you but I have never completely read anyones’ terms and conditions however I still think this is a poor decision by the court and one that I would urge you not to listen to. <\/p>\n

It seems a little shady to try and bury your terms and conditions – and causes one to question if you have something you are trying to hide. If you have terms and conditions that will affect how a person will interact with your site provide a checkbox that must be acknowledge before they continue. Even if the person doesn’t read the terms they will be forced to at least acknowledge there are terms to the service.<\/p>\n

Terms, conditions and all that legal mumbo jumbo may not be fun to read but think about how poor of an experience it will be if the user is blind-sided by something they “should have” read but didn’t because it was “hidden”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A U.S. Appeals Court has ruled that a website can incorporate terms and conditions language into the clicking of a continue button. Meaning a website no longer needs to require a person clicking a checkbox to agree to the terms and conditions of the site. The dating website True.com was sued by a male user […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-experience","category-website-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smallfarmdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}