ToS
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tos"
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[edit]ToS
- Alternative letter-case form of TOS (“terms of service”).
- 2020, Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, “Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection”, in Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra González-Bailón, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 550:
- Thus, crawlers that do not obey a website’s posted robots.txt file may be breaching the site’s ToS.
- 2021, Jillian York, Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, Verso, →ISBN, page 16:
- While a company’s ToS is a legal contract that outlines the terms between a company and a user of its services, the community standards or guidelines is a more human-readable document that explains a platform’s rules and, sometimes, the consequences for violating those rules.