Net 2013 Online Policy

Primer

Liu Mei (17111960)

Terms of Service(Evernote logo, 2015)

“From inspiration to achievement,

Evernote is where your work takes

shape. Write, collect, find, and present,

all from one workspace.”

(Evernote, 2015)

(Image from Evernote Official site, 2015)

Evernote provided us so much, but what it requires?

(Evernote, 2015)

First of all, you need to create a Evernote Service account via providing an email address and setting a password.

And this account SHOULD NOT be shared.

Did you even read the Terms of Service and User Guidelines of Evernote before create account?https://evernote.com/legal/tos.phphttps://evernote.com/legal/user_guidelines.php

If not, let’s go through them here…

Evernote can obtain from you certain limited license rights to process your content(Evernote, 2015).

You agree that these rights and licenses of your content that is stored with Evernote are royalty free, worldwide and irrevocable(Evernote, 2015).

You allow Evernote to “make such Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom Evernote has contractual relationships related to the provision of the Evernote Service, solely for the purpose of providing such services, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose your Content to third parties if Evernote determines such access is necessary to comply with its legal obligations.”(Evernote, 2015)

You should grant Evernote as below:

(Evernote, 2015)

As a member of Evernote, you should promise that you…

Won’t Use Evernote to Back Up Your Hard Drive or Do Any Not Intended

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Won’t Use Evernote for Anything Illegal or Promote Illegal Activities.

Won’t Violate Our Users’ Rights.

Won’t Annoy or Scam Our Users.

Won’t Send Unwanted Messages.

Won’t Violate IP Rights.

Won’t Mess With Our Service. 

Won’t Attempt to Copy or Resell Our Service.

Won’t Pretend to Be Someone You’re Not.

Won’t Exceed the Scope of Your Authorized Use.

Won’t Use Shared or Public Notebooks to Post Objectionable Content.

(Evernote, 2015)

At the same time, Evernote promise that…

Your Data is Yours.Your Data is Protected.Your Data is Portable.

Evernote also specified the right of users as below:

(Evernote, 2015)

(Evernote, 2015)

In the information age, privacy threats may include:“Visits to web sites will be tracked secretly.

E-mail addresses and other personal information will be captured and used for marketing or other purposes without permission.

Personal information will be sold to third parties without permission. Credit card theft

”(Chung & Paynter, 2002)

Evernote provide Privacy Policy on https://evernote.com/legal/privacy.php

In this policy, Evernote admit that they will collect users’ data(email, telephone number, location, payment information, ect.) for providing services. And Evernote promises:

Evernote will not in the business of selling or renting users’ information and will only share the minimum necessary user information with their service providers and resellers if necessary when they have users’ explicit consent to share the information.

(Evernote, 2015)

“a broad concept that covers several types of legally recognized rights arising from some type of intellectual creativity, or that are otherwise related to ideas. IP rights are rights to intangible things—to ideas, as expressed (copyrights), or as em bodied in a practical implementation (patents). Tom Palmer puts it this way: “Intellectual property rights are rights in ideal objects, which are distinguished from the material substrata in which they are instan- tiated.” Intoday’slegalsystems,IPtypicallyincludesatleastcopy rights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.”

Intellectual property is

(Kinsella, 2001)

Evernote declared a IP Compliance Program on https://evernote.com/legal/ip_compliance.php?noredirect

It states that “Owners of intellectual property rights that have a good faith belief that Content uploaded into Evernote infringes their copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights may notify our Compliance team by delivering a completed Notice of Infringement (pdf) .” or by delivering a written notice to the appropriate address on the bottom of the IP Compliance Program web page(https://evernote.com/legal/ip_compliance.php?noredirect ).

(Evernote, 2013)

Reference List Chung, W & Paynter, J. (2002). Privacy Issues on the Internet. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2002/1435/07/14350193b.pdf .

Evernote. (2013). IP Compliance Program. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from https://evernote.com/legal/ip_compliance.php .

Evernote. (2015). Privacy Policy. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from https://evernote.com/legal/privacy.php .

Evernote. (2015). Terms of Service. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from https://evernote.com/legal/tos.php .

Evernote. (2015). User Guideline. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from https://evernote.com/legal/user_guidelines.php .

Evernote. (2015). What is Evernote. Retrieved October 20, 2015 from https://evernote.com/evernote/ .

Kinsella, S. (2001). Against Intellectual Property. Retrieved October 20 , 2015 from https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-2 .