Google Analytics TOS - No privacy policy on dolphin-emu.org #57

dxgldotorg · 2015-11-27T03:20:41Z

According to the Chrome extension Ghostery, your website uses a Google Analytics tracker.
According to section 7 of https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html you are supposed to have a privacy policy on your site that specifically discloses the use of Google Analytics.

cupofjoakim · 2016-01-07T16:07:46Z

This'd be great over all, not just for the Google Analytics part. There should be a simple paragraph in these terms explaining that the user is responsible for his own actions and clarifying that Dolphin does not support piracy. This is already apparent in the FAQ, but having a collected TOS/TAC sure would be nice.

It wouldn't need to be anything big, basically a new text page with our terms and a little piece of text on the download page that says something like "By downloading Dolphin you're agreeing to the terms and conditions.".

The only big part of this is figuring out exactly what points would need to be in the TOS. I'm new to this project, so I'd guess there's some higher ups that would have awesome input. @delroth, do you know anything?

delroth · 2016-01-07T16:54:13Z

There's no way we're going to have ToS for usage of Dolphin. Feel free to
write a privacy policy we can put in the footer to make people feel better
if you want.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:07 PM Joakim Wimmerstedt notifications@github.com
wrote:

This'd be great over all, not just for the Google Analytics part. There
should be a simple paragraph in these terms explaining that the user is
responsible for his own actions and clarifying that Dolphin does not
support piracy. This is already apparent in the FAQ, but having a collected
TOS/TAC sure would be nice.

It wouldn't need to be anything big, basically a new text page with our
terms and a little piece of text on the download page that says something
like "By downloading Dolphin you're agreeing to the terms and conditions.".

The only big part of this is figuring out exactly what points would need
to be in the TOS. I'm new to this project, so I'd guess there's some higher
ups that would have awesome input. @delroth https://github.com/delroth,
do you know anything?

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dxgldotorg · 2016-01-07T16:54:43Z

Actually the only T&C you can require for downloading must be compliant with the GPL license.
Piracy disclaimers are not a good idea; they can be an acknowledgement of liability.

dxgldotorg · 2016-01-07T16:55:14Z

If you don't have a privacy policy you have to remove the Google Analytics per their TOS.

dxgldotorg · 2016-01-21T02:15:46Z

Here is the privacy notice I put on my own website when I installed Google Analytics recently (UPDATE: and removed when I uninstalled it, after the data got deleted); go ahead and use it if you like: