Jurisdiction: Occasionally a company will dictate the jurisdiction in which legal
encounters will occur. This is usually a state or town.
Linking: Many companies explicitly state a linking policy, which can often get quite
ridiculous. Some companies try to dictate the anchor text (the Olympic committee
did this on its site), or only want links that reference the company in a positive light
(the old Cingular wireless website demanded this, and it was carried over by AT&T
when Cingular was purchased), or restrict linking only to the homepage (Verizon is
guilty), or require written permission (FOX News and many other sites7). The issue
of linking to only the website??™s homepage makes particularly little sense, since the
nature of the Web is to link documents, not just entire domains??”which is why
search engines index every page on a website, not just what the company wants the
public to see first.
Termination: This is another blanket statement that states the company can revoke
access at any time or change the website without notifying its users.
This is only a small slice of the content commonly found squirreled away in corporate
Terms of Use pages.
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