What you agreed to, and anything that has changed
Until tonight both documents were shown once, at registration. A new version reached nobody who already had an account, and nobody who had agreed could read back what they agreed to. There is now a screen in Settings for both.
The gap
Showing a document once is not showing it
Registration presents the terms and the privacy statement in full and records which version of each was accepted, which landed yesterday. It covers everybody who signs up after it and nobody who signed up before. Publish a new version in the morning and the people it applies to are precisely the ones who never see it.
The acceptance record existed and could not be read from inside the app. The question it was built to answer — what did I agree to, and when — had no screen behind it, which makes the record a thing we can consult about you and you cannot.
The screen
Anything new in full, and everything already agreed
Settings shows anything you have not yet agreed to as the whole text, rather than a summary with a link to the rest. Under it sits what you have already agreed to, each with its version and the date you agreed to it.
Where what you are being shown is a draft, it says so on its own face. That sentence comes out of the record rather than out of the page, so it stops appearing on the day it stops being true rather than on the day somebody remembers to delete it.
The terms
The placeholder is now a draft
Yesterday’s note called the terms of service an empty placeholder whose first line said there was no terms of service yet. There is now a draft on this site, linked from the privacy policy and from the About page.
It opens by saying that these are not Ridgeback’s terms of service, that no lawyer has reviewed them, that no company has adopted them and that nothing in them binds anybody. What it says about how the software behaves is true today and was checked against the boards that specify it. What is a business decision nobody has made is marked as unmade rather than filled in with a term that sounds right.
Not built
No lawyer has read either document. The terms of service is a draft that binds nobody and the privacy policy is a draft that applies to no version, and each says so in its first paragraph.
Where it runs
- Server
- Yes, 12 September
- iPhone, Android, desktop
- Yes, 12 September