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Follow the changes to the terms of service

Services have terms that can change over time. Open Terms Archive
enables users rights advocates, regulatory bodies and any interested
citizen to follow the changes to these terms.

Be informed by email of the changes on the documents of your choice.

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    digital services change their documents approximately once every
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How does OTA work?

Every online service provider has terms of use defined in a set of
contractual documents that govern the terms of interaction with its
users, such as content moderation policies, publisher liability, and
jurisdiction in the event of a dispute.

The platform undertakes to aggregate, in a centralised manner, as
many contractual documents in as many languages as possible.

In order to track their changes, documents are periodically obtained
via a URL and a snapshot is recorded every time a change is made. The
meaningful part of the document (without the noise: ads, navigation
menu, login fields...) is extracted to be recorded separately.

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227 services

Google, Amazon, Apple, AirBnB, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Bing,
Microsoft, Reddit, Youtube, TikTok...

483 documents

Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Trackers Policy, Developer Terms,
Community Guidelines...

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What we believe in

Large digital companies today occupy a central position which,
through the ToS, allows them to transform their practices and values
  into de facto which are at the heart of many aspects of our
existence and our economies.

However, they communicate in an insufficiently clear, readable and
continuous manner on these ToS, whereas rigorously understanding the
ToS and how they have evolved over time has become essential to
appreciate the practices and loyalty of these digital players.

This understanding is also necessary to:

  * each user so that he can identify precisely what he has agreed
    upon, the data he has shared, the rights he has yielded to the
    services and the rights he has retained;
  * the authorities in order to verify the compatibility of these
    contractual frameworks with national and supranational law, in
    particular when the latter evolve;
  * regulators so that they can assess the efforts of the platforms,
    but also to make sure that they say what they do and that they do
    what they say. It creates transparency in the practices of
    digital players, in line with the first recommendations discussed
    within the framework of the DSA and the DMA.

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Explore the contractual documents of the main online service
providers and compare their evolution through time.

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