Terms of service, privacy policies, and bears, oh my! For a bootstrapping startup such as ourselves, these can be scary. We can’t yet afford a lawyer, so how do we navigate these very important issues? Our approach has been simple – look to the leaders of the pack! Google, Yahoo, and others are way ahead of us on thinking through these issues. So we have based our policies on theirs, and built our research on top of what we’ve learned from reading and understanding their policies.
What this means to you, our users, is that our policies are modeled on best practices in the industry. We have also erred on your side in areas we weren’t certain we agreed with the leaders (for instance, we want you to know quite clearly that you own your data, and we merely hold a license to display it to you, and anyone you choose to share it with).