Terms of use, Rights you license[1] (emphasis mine)
"In order for us to provide you with our file transfer service we require you to grant us licences in respect of the files
you wish to transfer. Specifically, when you upload a file to our site, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive,
royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, and perform that file to enable us to
transfer and store your file; and the right to sublicense this right to third parties. We claim no ownership or
knowledge of content of your files as we only require what is necessary to facilitate your file transfer."
Thanks guys, I'm super happy to discuss the terms of use so I can work on this with the lawyer who wrote the documents.
So, the "sublicense this right to third parties" I think is because we are storing the files on S3. I see, this phrase doesn't look good .. do you think it would be better to explain sublicense to amazon for the storage, or even better get rid of this ?
About the "perpetual", if would be "10 days" , which is the expiration time for every transfer, would it better?
When you think of it, it doesn't sound that sketchy: all they need is the authorization to move files around on their storage provider servers so they can be retained for the chosen period of time and sent to the recipients. The importatn part from the ToS here is to enable us to transfer and store your file; it doesn't say it will use them for any other purpose, such as marketing, customer targeting, or anything else.
Now of course these are only words and the only way to be sure is to encrypt your files.
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Sounds sketchy to me
[1] https://poetic.io/legal/poetic_terms_of_service.pdf
So, the "sublicense this right to third parties" I think is because we are storing the files on S3. I see, this phrase doesn't look good .. do you think it would be better to explain sublicense to amazon for the storage, or even better get rid of this ?
About the "perpetual", if would be "10 days" , which is the expiration time for every transfer, would it better?
Cheers
Now of course these are only words and the only way to be sure is to encrypt your files.